If you had one workout...

[rtalencar]

If you had one workout to do before your wedding day, what would it be? Looks like I'm going to be able to hit the gym the morning of my wedding and I'm starting to put together the routine I want to do.

At the moment it's looking like a full body hypertrophy regime (mid rep range, with additional supplemental focus on vanity body parts) followed by some moderate intensity, low impact cardio for jitters.

What would yours be?

[Bean]

Nothing that would make me sore for the wedding night ...

[NukeTheUnicorns]

Heavy squats, weighted pull-ups, handstands, and sprinting. Dat testosterone, it make-a me feel so nice.

[Guest Gemeaux]

Sexy time

[Susie_Derkins]

Congratulations on your marriage!

I've actually been thinking about this a lot, as I'm getting married in early June. I'm planning to do a 75 minute ashtanga ("power") yoga session. For me -

• Yoga, moreso than anything else, alleviates my self-esteem/body-image issues, at least temporarily.
  
• It'll leave me sore, but not debilitatingly sore, so I can still dance and such.
  
• The shivasana (lying down meditation part) may ease my nerves a little <-- though, to be honest, I'm not expecting anything short of a tranquilizer to calm me down.
  

I've mulled over this a lot. Contemplating my morning workout keeps me from freaking out over canapes. PRIORITIES.

[rtalencar]

Heavy squats, weighted pull-ups, handstands, and sprinting. Dat testosterone, it make-a me feel so nice.

You. I like your style =)

Sexy time

Unfortunately the fiancee had this whole pesky no sexy time before the ceremony rule. Some garbage about having to get her hair, makeup, and nails done and all her bridesmaids following her around and that making it a bit awkward. Believe me I TRIED to find a work-around but no dice =)

Congratulations on your marriage!

I've actually been thinking about this a lot, as I'm getting married in early June. I'm planning to do a 75 minute ashtanga ("power") yoga session. For me -

• Yoga, moreso than anything else, alleviates my self-esteem/body-image issues, at least temporarily.
  
• It'll leave me sore, but not debilitatingly sore, so I can still dance and such.
  
• The shivasana (lying down meditation part) may ease my nerves a little <-- though, to be honest, I'm not expecting anything short of a tranquilizer to calm me down.
  

I've mulled over this a lot. Contemplating my morning workout keeps me from freaking out over canapes. PRIORITIES.

Congratz on the pending wedding to you as well! I had actually considered yoga, but then I remembered that all that bendy stuff would make me curl up into a ball and sob hopelessly since it hurts so bad! I think that's mostly because I have the flexibility of a baseball bat though, if I weren't so bad at it I'd definitely have yoga as part of my routine.

[This is Seth]

Lifting... a glass of scotch.

If there is any time that you should rest, it's around your wedding day. Though, I suppose you're just trying to "get outside your head" and pumping ze irons helps that. I'd do something that requires a lot of attention to detail, so that I could stop thinking about the fact that I'm joining my life to someone else tomorrow... and her father giving me the stink-eye the whole time.

Do some cleans.

[Susie_Derkins]

An added bonus of planning a morning workout is that it'll keep you from drinking too much the night before.

[Guest Snake McClain]

DON'T. DO. ANYTHING!!!!!

SERIOUSLY. workout like two days before. get your workout in then. so you'll be recovered the next day but looking pumped for the weeding. this is what i would do on that prior to the day before wedding workout. scale weight as needed.

bench 135lbs, deadlift 225lbs, push ups, pullups a set of 21 reps, then 15. then 9. again scale weight as needed. Then go hit the rower for a 2k. Ive done this a couple times when i wanted a death workout. it's hard to finish at those weights but a great way to feel awesome. again. be sure to have a rest day between this and the wedding. you'll need it.

also Scotch. as seth said.

congratulations bud.

[161803398874989]

Do high-rep chins and pushups. Supplement with heavy squats and deads, L-sit and HS work and maybe some high-rep rowing (front lever rows, inverted body rows, you know).

[airen123]

Work out two days before the wedding and get a massage the day before.

[Maggie May]

Work out two days before the wedding and get a massage the day before.

this. it's pretty much what i did.

[airen123]

this. it's pretty much what i did.

Me too

[Sloth the Enduring]

Running, really, really far away.

I'm kidding, congratulations.

If you're like me, you'll be a bit nauseous from nerves already, so no cross fit. I'd do body weight, not too taxing and it keeps you busy.

[yadz]

I agree that you don't want to do anything strenuous. if there's even a teeny, tiny chance you might pull a muscle or over-exert yourself so that you're busted up for the wedding it's not worth it. if you MUST do something, go for a nice, long walk or a leisurely swim.

[Susie_Derkins]

Update! We got married on Saturday and this is what I managed that morning: 15 minutes of subpar yoga (barely made it through my warmup). I was too tired to be disappointed.

I was unprepared for how exhausted I would be from spending so much time with out-of-town family and friends. Love them bunches, but I was exhausted and tried to save energy for the festivities.

My new suggestion for the morning of your wedding: SLEEP IN!

[morethanjustamom]

Update! We got married on Saturday and this is what I managed that morning: 15 minutes of subpar yoga (barely made it through my warmup). I was too tired to be disappointed.

I was unprepared for how exhausted I would be from spending so much time with out-of-town family and friends. Love them bunches, but I was exhausted and tried to save energy for the festivities.

My new suggestion for the morning of your wedding: SLEEP IN!

Congrats on the wedding!

[rtalencar]

Update! We got married on Saturday and this is what I managed that morning: 15 minutes of subpar yoga (barely made it through my warmup). I was too tired to be disappointed.

I was unprepared for how exhausted I would be from spending so much time with out-of-town family and friends. Love them bunches, but I was exhausted and tried to save energy for the festivities.

My new suggestion for the morning of your wedding: SLEEP IN!

Congratz!

Fortunately for me I don't need to be ready to go until 145PM. It won't take me more than 45 minutes to get ready and I don't have anything I need to do that morning, so I've reasonably got a 2 hour window to workout. I'm hoping I'm able to do it.

And to close, congratulations once again!

[Corbab]

Nothing that would make me sore for the wedding night ...

What workout are you doing?

[Bunk]

Am I really going to have to be the one to make the joke about running an ultra marathon away from the church? I kid, I kid. Congratulations. Do what the majority said, workout hard the day before. It's going to be a long day.

Edit: Obviously I missed a few posts above

[rtalencar]

What workout are you doing?

My plan at this point is:

Squats for endurance (10-20 reps per set, 5-10 sets depending on how I feel)

Leg Press (8-15 reps per set, 5-10 sets depending on how I feel)

Superset

Bench Press (8-15 reps per set, 5-8 sets)

Seated Row or Pendlay Row (8-15 reps per set, 5-8 sets)

Superset

Overhead Press (8-15 reps per set, 4-8 sets)

Shrugs (8-15 reps per set, 4-8 sets)

Superset

Cable Curls (10-30 reps per set, 4-8 sets)

Cable Pulldowns (10-30 reps per set, 4-8 sets)

Pushups 3 sets to failure

Hyperextensions 3 sets to failure

Boxer Leglifts 3 sets to failure

Easy cardio with whatever time I have remaining.

[jdanger]

Snatch to max

C&J to max

Back squat to max

Aka "old trusty"

[Waldo]

Hmmm, the guys and I went golfing that morning. None of us could actually golf which made it that much more entertaining.

[rtalencar]

Hmmm, the guys and I went golfing that morning. None of us could actually golf which made it that much more entertaining.

I suck at golf too. I'm phenomenal at driving the little cart for buddies who can golf and drinking all the beers in the cooler though. I'm all pro in that particular sport.

[morethanjustamom]

I suck at golf too. I'm phenomenal at driving the little cart for buddies who can golf and drinking all the beers in the cooler though. I'm all pro in that particular sport.

Sounds like you've found your workout!