The Amazing Race: Fitness Thread / Work-Out Thread

[Average_Jerk]

were you happy with the gains on your 6 weeks or so of that program?

i have one week left at my gym membership, so i'm focusing on my training during that time, but don't want to renew for the 3 weeks that i will be here considering most of the time will be spent doing tourist shit and packing, so i will start lifting during that time.

Im just starting week 6 now and my gains at the end of the week will be

squat +45
bench +35
row +25
overhead press +15
deadlift +35

Kinda thought that the squat and deadlift would progress faster. Its not a steady increase every week though. its like 5 10 5 10 10 5 5 10 or something like that. Very happy with my bench progress though. thats always been a weak lift for me. after I run this program for the remaining weeks I'm going to check out some others and compare them to this and see how it all looks

[Average_Jerk]

Dave is that a workout you do by yourself or do you normally have someone with you?

nope, i do it all on my own. people at the gym are always willing to spot a heavy lift if you just ask. I do it all the time for people

[Dudermagee]

you are sooooo tough with that keyboard, oh man you punch those keys like a BOSS.
seriously, you sir, are very wrong.

anyway, you tools get back to doing what ever weird homo-erotic shit you were doing...

You want to get banned off this forum too?

[JLowery28]

ill contribute. i've been working out a while now to get to this point. the before i was ~130lbs. the after im ~165lbs (this was over the course of around 3 years of working out on and off, not really taking it seriously until recently). ive done typical eat everything bodybuilding diets, low carb, paleo, & keto diets and all of them suck. ive been doing intermittent fasting for over 3 months now and its easily the best thing ive ever done. all my lifts have been going up, ive slowly been gaining weight, and ive been pretty shredded throughout the process. im getting pretty damn close to the 1000lbs club (added weight of bench, deadlifts, and squat) which is pretty good for a guy around 160-165lbs. i try not to gain too much weight because i compete in bjj tournaments (youtube james lowery, i have a couple of matches on there. one in particular i tapped a guy with a leg lock in 8 seconds) and i regularly cut down to 149 to fit in the 140-149lbs bracket so i have a huge strength advantage over people. but enough about me and on to the before and after picture.


this ones before picture was after i had quit working out for around 6 months or so and i lost all my weight, then i started working out again and i put all the weight back on and then some. these pictures were 1 year apart. but the after picture up top is the more recent picture of me currently. my sexy ass girlfriend in these pictures with me.

[JLowery28]

sorry about the pictures being so damn big, and dont judge me by my shorts in the first after picture, i was at the alpha psi rodeo, and they were a joke.

[Average_Jerk]

Nice man. my goal is 1300+ total. after 6 months Im still making steady progress towards that

according to my bad math, Im at like 975 total right now

[JLowery28]

Nice man. my goal is 1300+ total. after 6 months Im still making steady progress towards that

according to my bad math, Im at like 975 total right now

If my estimation is correct, I'm actually at 1,050 lbs. but I need to get the squat in because I'm kind of guesstimating my max on that. I haven't maxed on squat in a couple months.

[Francois Dillinger]

I've never maxed my deadlift, and it's been years since I've done ny squat. Definitely nowhere near that though lol.

[Francois Dillinger]

Oh, and what bjj gym do you train at? I rolled a few times at a charles gracie affiliate, and have been training at sim go's place for the last few months.

[MommysLittleMonster]

This thread is a giant kick in the balls. I really need to get into shape.

[Average_Jerk]

If my estimation is correct, I'm actually at 1,050 lbs. but I need to get the squat in because I'm kind of guesstimating my max on that. I haven't maxed on squat in a couple months.

I havent maxed in a while either. that was all just based on some lame calculator hahahaha

[JLowery28]

Oh, and what bjj gym do you train at? I rolled a few times at a charles gracie affiliate, and have been training at sim go's place for the last few months.

i train at 10th Planet Decatur. its pretty much all no gi, but a couple of the guys wear their gi's every now and then. im not against the gi, i just dont enjoy it as much as no gi.

[Han]

Weeeeeeeee hit my bulk target weight of 145. Cutting for the past week or so. Gonna probably end up 138-140 lean. Let's see what I can do before SoWo.

[SeanDub]

Bulking... 145...

What.

[Han]

Bulking... 145...

What.

I'm 5'6 on a good day...

With shoes.