Granted, I'm certainly not setting any land speed records.
Get up on the Lakeshore Drive levee, especially in the spring or fall when the weather is gorgeous, and go 2.5 miles. Stop, turn around, and walk/jog/run/walk back to the starting point. Won't seem like 5 miles.
Uhhhhh, OK.
I know you, Trin.
Your body habitus is unlike the
THICK CAJUNS AROUND HERE, "YAHRE".
You are more like the
San Diego fifty something.
Heres what I would suggest:
1) Try and hit THREE bodyparts....in ONE HOUR OR LESS at the gym.
pair working muscles that don't interfere with each other...
here's my last gym visit:
Chest, Back, Calves.....one after the other, which brings an AEROBIC component to the iron:
THREE sets in a row, separate body parts.
One after the other.
SUPERSET ONE:
1)Incline dumbells: 70lb dumbells X 10 reps.
2)Cable lat-pull: 140 lbs X 10 reps.
3)Calf raises: 90 lbs X 15 reps.
OK.....WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED....
SUPERSET TWO:
1)Incline dumbells: 90lb X 10 reps.
2)Cable lat pull: 180 lbs X 10 reps.
3)Calf raises: 90 lbs X 15 reps.
SUPERSET THREE:
1)Incline dumbells: 110lb X 8 reps
2)Cable lat pull: 250 lbs X 8 reps
3)Calf raises: 90 lbs X 15 reps
SUPERSET FOUR:
1)Incline dumbells:
50 lbs AS MUCH AS I CAN GET....I'M GOIN' F UKKIN ANIMAL HERE.....PUSHING MYSELF....THIRTY REPS? HUH? FORTY? Whatever I can get here with the light weight to total exhaustion.
PUMPS THE MUSCLE, WHICH IS, UHHHHH, WHY WE'RE ALL HERE. TO PUMP THE MUSCLE. BLOOD IN THE MUSCLE. DA "PUMP".
2)Cable lat pull: 120 lbs for
as many as I can get....FIFTY? FIFTY EIGHT?
3)Calf raises: 90 lbs X 15 reps.
After this, I change the exercises for
four more sets for each body part.
The message is the same.
You can train three bodyparts at the same time, and exhaust those bodyparts....IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.
Which tells you
two days a week of weights, maybe three,
and
a cuppla days of cardio each week.....cardio meaning
jogging thirty minutes per session, minimum
twice a week, favorably more.....
AND not eating like a dumb a ss....
EQUALS:
an
IN SHAPE dude.
Regardless of age.
The weight you train with in each exercise is less important than the
strictness you adhere to in the exercise.
My biceps suck, Trin.
Doesnt mean I don't train them.
Yeah, I can get the 55lb dumbells for 4-5 on the 5th set.
More often than not though you'll see me,
THE OLD DUDE doing
rep after rep after rep with the 25lb dumbells.
I'm convinced that its all about
CONTRACTION OF THE MUSCLE.
Kinda thinking....during my..uhhh....
AMPED DAYS where lifting superhuman pounds was "cool"
mighta been a wasta time.
Lemme give you a current day example:
My legs, back in the "amped" days, we're, uhhhhhh,
HUGE.
The "amped" days are a good
eight years in the rear view mirror.
And yet with proper (hardcore) resistance training, watching my diet mosta-the-time, and the twice-a-week jogging I described,
DA WHEELS ARE PRETTY THICK AND CUT.
I've always believed in leg training.....no
LIGHT BULB physique in my book....
I'LL MEET YOU AT THE HACK SQUAT MACHINE FOR SOME REPS AT 405.
BRING IT.
I'M LOCKED AND LOADED.
