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2011 TypeC Exercise Challenge & Soirée

redcheerio

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I'm still in it (to win it)!!!! :biggrin:

I just haven't been posting lately, sorry. (I've been super busy trying to switch careers. Networking is a very slow and time-consuming process when you don't know anyone in the field you're trying to switch to. LinkedIn is useful, though.)

I've been keeping track offline, though, and will post a super mega update soon! I used a couple of cheat days over the holidays, then got sick, which I don't think should count as cheating. And up until just before Christmas, I was still keeping up... So I request my green name back please!
 

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I've been terrible! School has started and I got behind! :sadbanana:

However, our membership to the YMCA shall be renewed soon, and I too shall begin anew! Now I just have to find my goddamn ipod.

On the bright side- I have discovered push ups are an excellent way to let out my anger. That's all.
 

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I did 12 bicep curls and 12 rotator cuffs, 20 wrist curls and 20 arm swirls - all with 8 pound weights.
I did 20 leg lifts.
 

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So there I am at the gym for some 3 months. I finally have an appraisal to figure out what routine I should be doing.

I do the appraisal in 30 mins. that's 10x3 of 9 different kinds of training and find myself putting up the weights from abs 30 to 70kg, arms 70 to 110kg and legs 140 to 210kg respectively. then I get bored and do the whole gym for fun. and the cardio for 40 mins.
 

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I guess I'm still "in this" whatever this is. Don't really care about winning anything so I just started to not bother, since Zoom seemed MIA.

However, my goals have switched seeing how my initial quest of simply "weight gain" is nebulous a huge pain in the ass to monitor, so now I've just sort of moved on to max goals in putting up weight. 315lbs in all complex lifts [bench/squat/deadlift] in 6 months, reps of 8-10 in a year. I'm told that's doable.

Right now my maxes are 245/285/285 respectively, so with squat and deadlift I should hit that soon, bench is another matter entirely. I FINALLY don't have to use grandma weights when doing shoulder work and so far that has really helped.
 

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3/3 last week. 1/3 this week. Retrying attempts to get diet on schedule...as I want to at least have a nice finish to this. This Challenge has at least proven to me that indeed I can workout regularly, but that I suck at diets and eating more.
 

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Hi everyone! Sorry I haven't been around much, super busy these days! I'm also studying for the GMAT, and have only allowed myself 3 weeks to prepare with possibly unrealistic hopes of a high score <bites nails>....

OK, as promised, below is my mega-update. (I knew it would be difficult to get back into it after Christmas, but holy sh* wow, my times were super slow first week back, just getting back into the swing of it now. Although I also got sick at Christmas and spent a couple of days in bed, so that probably made it worse.)

Last time I posted was for the week ending 11/13. Since then, I've been keeping track on my laptop, but not updating here, so here goes:

CF = CrossFit workout at the gym, timed
rds = number of rounds in workout of the day
wod = workout of the day
steps = number of stair steps, running up and back down counts as 1
amrap = as many rounds as possible in given time limit
c2b = chest to bar pull-ups (as opposed to the usual chin above bar)
kb = kettle bell
DL = dead lifts
HSPU = hand stand pushups (I usually do tripod pushups with my feet elevated)

Week of 11/14 – 11/20:
Mon home: 1000 stair steps; 5 rds (15 pushups, 20 backups, 20 situps, 5 dips); 9:22
Tues CrossFit: 5rds (10 deficit DLs, 20 GHD situps, 30 double-unders); 17:25
Wed home: 1500 steps (stairs)
Thurs CF: requ same weight for ea, 5 rds (12 deadlifts, 9 hang power cleans, 6 push jerks (55lb)); 10:20
Fri home: 1000 steps, 20 stair lifts ea leg, 20 wall squats
Sat CF from home: 3rds (800m w 2 min rest); 16:46 incl rests, 800 m times: 4:12, 4:32, 4:02

Week of 11/21 – 11/27:
Mon home: 1000 steps (stairs)
Tues home: 1000 steps
Wed home: 1000 steps, 5 rds (5 pushups, 20 backups, 20 situps, 6 dips); 9:40
Thurs home: 1000 steps
Fri home: 2000 steps, 5 rds (5 pushups, 20 backups, 20 situps, 6 dips); 9:39
Sat CF: 7 rds (4 dl burpees, 3 pwr cln bp, 2 pwr cln bp, 1 cln/jerk bp 55lb ea); 12:34
Sun home: 2000 steps

Week of 11/28 – 12/4:
Tues CF: 3 rds (400m run, 15 snatch squats (35lb OH), 9 tripod pushups); 18:02
Wed home: 1000 steps
Thurs CF: back squats 5/95, 3/95, 1/115, 12 min amrap: (5 c2b pullups (org band), 10 plyo pushups fr 20” box, 15 wall balls (10lb)); 4 rounds + pullups + pushups + 7 wall balls
Sat CF: 20 min amrap (250m row, 25 pushups); 6 rounds + row + 19 pushups

Week of 12/5 – 12/11:
Mon home: 1000 steps (stairs)
Tues CF: 3 rds (10 overhead squats (35lb), 50 double unders); 7:19
Wed home: 1000 steps
Thurs CF: 5 rds (20m bear crawl, 5 DL (145lb), 10 HSPU fr bench), 11:59
Sat CF: w partner: 500m row 1:56, 68 situps in 1:56, 250m row, 20 pullups in 0:43, 86 squats in 2:20, 400m run 2:14, 31 pushups in 1:13, 200m run 0:48

Week of 12/12 – 12/18:
Tues CF: 5K row; 22:17, push press 5@75lb, 3@85(fail), 1@80
Thurs CF: back squats: 5@85lb, 3@105, 1@115 (worked on form), wod: 4 min row, 61 cal; 3min pull-ups, 31; 2min back squats, 18@75lb; 1min push press, 12@55lb
Sat CF: front squats 5@85, 3@95, 1@105; 21-15-9 reps each (one arm kb swing (15lb), pull-ups); 7:47

Week of 12/19 – 12/25:
Tues CF: back squat 120lb, shoulder press 65lb, deadlift 220lb, crossfit total 405lb
2 cheat days

Week of 12/26 – 1/1:
Tues parents’ house: 1 hr treadmill 10% slope, 4.1 mi/hr fast walking
Wed sick with strep throat

Week of 1/2 – 1/8:
Still recovering
Sat – first CrossFit workout since 12/20! 1 mi run (9:14), 225# DL PR, 5 min amrap (10 box jumps, 10 k2e); 3 rd + 6 jumps

Week of 1/9 – 1/15:
Tues CF: 3 rds (10 hs pushups, 20 pullups org band, 30 kb swings (35lb), 40 d-unders); 32:17, SLOW!!! struggled getting my pull-ups high enough, took lots of breaks, also couldn't get my rhythm with the double-unders, took forEVER
Thurs CF: back squats 3-3-3-3-3, 95-4@100, wod: 21-15-9 reps each (pike pushups, ring dips w orange band, pushups fr knees); 21:21 (slow!!! again lots of breaks, especially w the pike pushups)
Sat gym closed, home: 30 min rebounder jumping (mini trampoline)

Week of 1/16 – 1/22:
Tues CF: fr squat 5-3-1 @ 85lb-95-105; 15-12-9 reps ea (kb swings (35lb) lateral burpees); 2m rest, 12-9-6 reps each (kb swings, lat burpees), 10min max (incl rest); 5:06 first meta-set, second meta-set: completed 12 rep set, 9 kb swings, 8/9 lat burpees
Thurs CF: 85lb behind neck jerk, max reps/cal in 2 min intervals: 33 cal row, 48 kb swings (35lb), 20 burpees, 57 situps, 29 cal row
Sat CF: 20 min amrap (5 clean & jerk 70lb, 10 knees to chest, 15 wall balls 10lb) 6 rd + 5cj +3 k2c

Week of 1/23 – 1/29:
Tues CF: 85lb 1 rep max clean, 10 min amrap (1 clean (70#), 1 pull-up; 2 cleans 2 pull-ups; 3c 3p, etc); 6 rd + 7 pull-ups + 6 cleans
Thurs CF: shoulder press 5-4-3-2-1: 45-55-55-55-60; 4 rds (50 double unders, 15 wall balls, 10 knees to chest); 14:48
Sat CF: 3 rds (5 rep snatch complex) 40lb-40lb-45lb; 3 rds (50 double unders, 20 ghd situps); 8:14

Week of 1/30 – 2/5:
Mon home: 1000 steps (stairs)
Tues CF: 3 rd 15-10-5 deadlifts (145 lb), max pushups w/o rest 18-16-11; 3 rd (10 clean & jerk (55 lb), 15 pull-ups, 400m run); 18:52
Wed home: 1000 steps
Thurs CF: 3 pull-ups w/o band, bit of help fr Sarah; 3 rd w 6 min rest between rounds (1000m row, 25 pull-ups w orange band, 15 sit-ups); time for each round: 9:12, 9:52, 10:49
Sat CF: 12 min amrap (400m run, 40 squats, 30 situps, 20 pushups, 10 pullups); 1rd + 16 pushups

So over the holidays, I used up 2 more cheat days. I don't remember whether I had used 1 or 2 prior to that, but we can say I used 2, so I believe that puts me at 4 total cheat days used so far, 6 remaining. (My stated goal was 3 CrossFit workouts per week, and I'm allowing myself to substitute home workouts instead when there are scheduling problems.)

I can't believe how hard it was to get back into it after the holidays, but it was worth the struggle the first week back, I'm pretty much back to where I was. I also got some new personal records, including 225 lb one-rep max dead lift. I'm still using the band for pull-ups and still can't quite even do one pull-up without the band, but I'm almost there. I tried it with the trainer's help, and she said she hardly helped me at all. I'll make it my goal to get one pull-up with no assistance before March.
 

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just to check in a bit..

I've reached my goal of 140 lbs, up from 135. :smile:

Here in Africa, we have a wicked sweet work out facility -- a gym with all kinds of equipment, a huuuge running trail we can listen to music on, and I have some work out DVD's with me that I'm going to start implementing into my routine.

Currently, I work out once a day for 5 days. I'll go to twice a days after I get settled into my permanent residence, but I dont have the clothing nor can I settle down completely yet for all of that. I hope I don't lose weight here.
 

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Last week as predicted 4/3.
This week so far 1/3. And like Kyuuei, I am, for certain, gaining weight again (slowly). :) Glad to see more workouts being posted.


I'm still in it (to win it)!!!! :biggrin:
redcherrio seems to be the one with the least amount of cheat days used. Nice job. :dry: This competition is not over yet!

I will win.
 

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I have a membership to the YMCA. And I want to drink smoothies, damn it, but the type c search fails me. Or I fail it.
 

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Last week: 3/3 (2/13 - 2/19)
This past week: 4/3 (2/20-2/26)
One more week left. 7 out of 13 cheats used.
 

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Congrats to anyone who was able to make it all the way.

It was a real bad 6 months for me with two family deaths, tons of stress, and unexpected travel. Nonetheless, I'm looking to try again for the next 6 months.

I don't know about actually having another contest, but if anyone is interested in Setting another 6 month goal period and continuing to maintain diet and exercise blogs it would be awesome if we could do it together.
 

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Congrats to anyone who was able to make it all the way.

It was a real bad 6 months for me with two family deaths, tons of stress, and unexpected travel. Nonetheless, I'm looking to try again for the next 6 months.

I don't know about actually having another contest, but if anyone is interested in Setting another 6 month goal period and continuing to maintain diet and exercise blogs it would be awesome if we could do it together.
That does sound awful. I hope the next six months are much better. Quite truthfully, I didn't think of this actually being contest....I had messaged Zoom saying that I didn't care about the contest and just wanted to keep the green username...WHICH I DID! :D I'm willing to try another six months....although I would probably have to quit in May.
 

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Last week as predicted 4/3.
This week so far 1/3. And like Kyuuei, I am, for certain, gaining weight again (slowly). :) Glad to see more workouts being posted.

redcherrio seems to be the one with the least amount of cheat days used. Nice job. :dry: This competition is not over yet!

I will win.

:laugh: Thanks! Congrats on meeting your goals and keeping your green username!



From a goals perspective, I should still have my green username, but I didn't keep up with posting updates, so....

([MENTION=6276]Zoom[/MENTION] you can PM me, I'll give you my real name and FB page for my current gym so you can see pictures of the board that shows the workout for the day and people's names with their results, including mine.)

Anyway, here's my final update for the 6 month period:

Week of 2/6 - 2/12:
Mon home - 500 stair steps (ran up & down), 20 stair lifts ea leg, 20 wall squats, 5 rounds: (10 pushups, 20 backups, 20 sit-ups, 10 chair dips); 9:54
Tues CrossFit - 5x5 shoulder press 45lb-50-55-55-55(F), 5x3 push press 50-55-60-65-70lb, 5x1 push jerk 70-75-80F-80F-80F, 12 min amrap: (400m run, 3 pull-ups w skinny band, 3 ring dips w med band, 10KB swings 35lb); 3 rounds w 30 sec spare
Wed home - 20 wall squats, 5 rounds: (10 pushups, 20 backups, 20 sit-ups, 10 chair dips); 9:46
Thurs CrossFit - 1K row, dead lift 5x5 145-165-165-175-180lb, 1 rep clean & jerk 80lb, 3 min amrap ground to overhead 65lb - 18 reps
Sat CrossFit - 1K run, 4 sets snatch balance + 2 overhead squats, 5 rounds: (3 wall walks, 10 pull-ups w skinny band, 15 box jumps 20"); 16:23

Week of 2/13 - 2/19:
Tues - missed CrossFit for a morning interview, but made up for it with a home workout
Wed - 500 stair steps, 5 rounds: (10 pushups, 20 backups, 20 sit-ups, 10 chair dips); 9:15
Thurs CrossFit - 1K row, 6 sets: (snatch + hang snatch, rest 2 min), 5 rounds (10 hang power snatch, 50 double-unders); 9:45
Sat CrossFit - overhead squat 35-45-55-60-60-60lb, 3 rounds: (15 chest-to-bar pull-ups w med band, 15 burpees, 15 overhead squats, 3 min rest); 5:15 w 55lb, 4:23 w 45lb, 4:40 w 45lb
Sun home - 500 stair steps, 5 rounds (10 pushups, 20 backups, 20 sit-ups, 10 chair dips); 9:00

Week of 2/20 - 2/26:
Mon home - 500 stair steps, 5 rounds (10 pushups, 20 backups, 20 sit-ups, 10 chair dips); 8:39
Tues CrossFit - 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 reps: (bench press 65lb, dead lift 140lb)
Wed home - 500 stair steps, 5 rounds (10 pushups, 20 backups, 20 sit-ups, 10 chair dips); 8:24
Thurs CrossFit - amrap 7 min burpees - 78 reps
Sat CrossFit - thrusters 1-1-1-1-1 rep 55-65-75-80-85lb, 3 rounds: (500m row, 20 consec thrusters 55lb, 4 min rest); 4:18, 4:51, 5:28

Partial Week of 2/27 - 3/1:
Mon home - 1000 stair steps
Tues CrossFit - 5-4-3-2-1 reps back squats 95-105-115-120lb, 12 min amrap: (12 KB one-arm snatches 13lb, 12 chest-to-bar pull-ups w med band); 5 rounds + 12 KB snatches; 50 hollow rocks
Wed home - 500 stair steps
Thurs CrossFit - amrap 10 min: 30 snatches 35lb, 20 snatches 40lb

So I finished the 6 months with a total of 4 cheat days used. :yesss:

:pumpyouup:
 

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Good month of increases. Maxes are now 255/305/305 for bench/squat/deadlift. I've noticed bench presses progress a lot slower than my other lifts and the "weakness" during the lift is not typically chest weakness, but the supporting muscles give out. Shoulder gets weak, triceps get weak, elbows CRACK [wtf? Hate my joints] and while my chest is always sore it never feels like it takes the full brunt of the workout. While with squat and deadlift, always feel it in the right places and the lift never feels stressful on joints, just difficult in the muscle groups. I've had my form looked at by others and they tell me I'm good, I just have "long arms." So I've been focusing on endurance and strength a bit more with bench presses, more reps with lighter weights, in between my days when I try to progress. Did 100 @ 135 in just over 10 minutes, trying to speed that up a bit. Not sure if that's going to help but we'll see.
 
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