Devilfish

Well, it's been another week. I was unable to get to the gym last week. Unfortunately, my daughter had a tooth coming through and was simultaneously learning to process solids so she wasn't sleeping. Combined with my wife's Rheumatoid Arthritis returning there was just no way I could justify going to the gym. Hopefully I'll get there tonight and I can try the deadlifting mini challenge. On the upside, I maintained my daily bodyweight workout so that's good. The results are apparently starting to show. My pants are looser and I'm seeing more definition in my muscles. I'm planning my planning for the next 4 week challenge so I'll probably take a before picture just for comparison during that week. A lot of take-away food last week. But we also ate all the prepared lunch meat. Could do better. Less snacking on junkfood though, so there are upsides.

I'm going to attempt this challenge, but I'm going to do it next week rather than right now, I need to confirm how much weight I can deadlift first. I think I should have no problems doing 5 sets of 5 @ 70KGs but I don't want to go in all guns blazing and f myself over. I'm definitely aiming at the beginner level here.

Well, it's been a week so here's a rundown of how I've been doing: Gym Workout: Went last week, tonight still up in the air. low on sleep so may hold off until tomorrow. Daily workout: Pushups and Tricep Dips every day. Baby Kettlebell swing, Baby Goblet Squat and Baby Torso Twists 3 days. (She's been fussy and sleepy this week.) Diet: Went great until yesterday. 2 take-away lunches in a row. Outside of that, no take-away dinners and we used all of last weeks batch of sandwich meat. Management: I've been lurking and posting occasionally. I'm posting less than I'm lurking because I came in late so most topics are 6 pages deep.

Gotta second what RedStone said, if you don't like it, do something else. Swimming, Fencing, Cycling, Vigorous Tree Climbing, there are so many options for exercise that there really is no reason to be miserable when you're doing it.

Hugging Machine is just so very perfect. I love it. The meal prep looks awesome.

Wow, seems like you're beset on all sides by problems but still going strong. That's awesome. Your adventure sounds great.

Thanks guys. Redstone, that looks amazingly creepy. So, an update. Last night I went to the gym for the first time in almost 2 years. Forgot the code to open the box to put in my code so that was fun. Fortunately there was a coolguy there who let me in and told me the code I needed so this won't happen next time. Being the first workout in so long I made sure I took it fairly easy. Low weights just getting my form back and starting the process of getting my body used to lifting heavy things again. My workout went thusly: 5min Run to warm up, just shy of 1km. Barbell squats: 2 sets, 15 reps, just the 20kg bar. Incline Dumbbell Press: 2 sets, 15 reps, 5kg dumbbells. Deadlift: 2 sets, 10 reps, just the 20kg bar. Lat Pulldown: 2 sets, 15 reps, 25kg. Lunges: 2 sets, 10 reps, 9kg dumbbells. Farmers Walk: 2 sets, 5 circuits of the gym, 9kg dumbbells. Dumbbell Front Raise: 2 sets, 15 reps, 3kg dumbbells. Barbell Row: 2 sets, 10 reps, just the 20kg bar. Dumbbell Curl: 2 sets, 15 reps, 5kg dumbbells. Cooldown on the punching bag followed by stretches. I'm a bit sore today, but pretty good. Next week I'll add some actual weight and see how I go. The bodyweight workout today will be interesting. Additional note: I ate an apple after my workout last night. Haven't done that in longer than I can remember. I went off fruit when I hit my late teens since prior to that my parents had me eating 4 pieces of fruit a day.

Hello Everyone, I'm new here and I'm working on getting back into my fitness routine. I used to workout regularly doing martial arts and power lifting but the past 2 years I got a new job with longer hours, and my wife got pregnant and needed my help as much as possible. Now I'm becoming unsatisfied with the shape I'm in and so I'm going to do something about it. This time I want to work up gradually to a more sustainable fitness routine since in the past I've gone hammer and tongs from the start and crashed out after a couple of months. To work towards that my challenge this month is: Fitness: 1 Gym workout per week. Big weightlifting workout. Daily bodyweight workouts. Push-ups, Tricep dips + baby assisted Kettlebell Swing, Goblet Squat and Torso Rotation. (She LOVES working out with me btw, it's awesome.) I've chosen this routine since I can schedule one weekly workout without damaging my family life and I can do the daily bodyweight exercises in a small amount of time while looking after the baby. Diet: Avoid take-away food. This is a regular struggle in my house, we make an effort to plan 14 meals in advance but last fortnight we had 5 meals remaining which means we ate too much take-away. Management: I'm going to try to make an effort to post on here so that I can maintain my motivation and culpability for my goals. I look forward to being part of this great community.