3 x sets deads 3 x sets dumb bell press 3 x sets lat pull down 3 x sets clean & press 3 x sets seated rows All to failure between 8-12 reps 90-120 seconds rest 1 x drop set dumb bell shrugs Killer back and shoulder workout
I just find the gym boring mate. I'd much rather be outside doing something active, but the pool is handy this time of year. It's not a hard effort tbh, 50 lengths of a 15m pool. Then I treat myself to 20 mins in the sauna afterwards.
Well no, not literally! I can do that distance fairly easily though, yeah. Would need to be breast mainly if pounding out the lengths, interspersed with front crawl. 70/30 split on stroke.
I do it all front crawl in about 20-25 mins. I used to swim for my borough when I was a lad. And did lifeguard training down here in my 30's
That's a great session. The issue I'd have here is that if I did the shoulder press, I'd probably not find a free machine for the lat pull down etc. I've got to wing it. I like to occupy a cable crossover type thing if i can. I can spend a good hour on one of those doing a variety of stuff. They've only got one where you can do flies, press etc. and it's always bloody occupied. There's loads of single cable ones though. (tri pull down etc., you know what I mean)
As it's a fitness thread, i am much more impressed with that, a piskies swimming, than tarts lifting a few weights and eating loads of vitamins etc. that's not fitness...
That’s because nobody wants to use that crap bro. Isolation kit like wires are good for the end of a sesh but lat pulls need attention, they’re a big lift until you can do 3 sets of pull-ups.
You seem more impressed with endurance than intensity. It’s understandable given you’re an ex Marine, but there’s no way you appreciate how hard a good gym session can hurt. You’re opinion of the gym describes the average gym rat/bro lifter, but there’s people who you’ll find in many a gym who are putting their bodies through hell, and would laugh at somebody complaining about a bit of lactic burn from a long jog or paddle in a pool.
Mate i hoy 18kg boxes around for 8 hours. I weigh 11.5st. I work with big blokes everyday, allday. They lift 2 at a time, i lift 1...But still end up most days on twice their totals. You are correct, i'm not impressed with people that can hoy massive weights, means nowt to me.. I'll stick to my hash browns, beer, and still outdo the big bastards.
That’s endurance though mate, each to their own. The people in the gym who are curling 15’s in front of a mirror is what you seem to describe but that’s not the gym for me. If I’m German Volume Training it means @ 90kg deadlifts I’ll lift up from the floor and move 9 tonnes of weight In 12 minutes. I’ll then squat 7.5 tonnes in 12 minutes. I’m not sure if I’ve got my maths right here but at 18kg per box, I think that’s over 900 boxes and I do it in a 30 minute session (maybe 40 mins once I’ve got set up etc). Granted you walk from A-B with the box and I’m just lifting it up and down but hopefully that gives you some idea of how compact the intensity is.
Being a short arse, i lift it from above head height, which puts massive strain on my shoulders etc.... It's kind of mad, that **** i lift, i should be cut to ****....But it don't work that way. Strange as it seems, i don't think i eat enuff..... I've always been around ****s who are gym freaks, and you are correct, it don't impress me....It's nothing more than vanity.
I certainly don’t do it for vanity, I do it for sanity actually. When I don’t train I go off the rails. I hate running, I can do it but I just get bored after a few KM.
I don't train now mate....But i've never found going to a gym and lifting weights classed a fitness... I agree it is though to an extent, But it's a pretty excuse for it really. @PESKIE swimming 18 mile a day is fitness. @Chief finishing his grunt session with a run is fitness. Going into a gym and working on certain body parts, just smirks of vanity to me....
That’s fair enough, you’re entitled to your opinion like any of us. You think the gym is something completely different to what I use it for mind. Piskie doesn’t swim 18 miles per day btw.
I'm watching SAS who dares wins mate, not the film, but a bunch of people trying a few of thier ****ty tests.... OK, they are ****, but thats life, fitness to me is about cardio and endurance, and not going to to a gym to lift for 30 mins, whilst eating loads of supplements.. Like that ****ty song 'it don't impress me much'..... I've done years in gyms, and hated every moment, it's boring.
You clearly think every body in a gym goes to stare into the mirror and pose. You get gym goers confused with bodybuilders. Do you think the AJ’s, Anderson Silvas, Jon Jones and Brock Lesnar’s of this world prepare for fights by doing their best Forest Gump impressions?
Do they not all use steroid? The average gym goer probably spends between 45/.60 mins....that includes changing.. The likes of @PESKIE will spend hours on a bike.
