Lol. I had no idea this thread had diverted into a workout thread. I was checking to see if his treadmill had turned into a coat rack like other said early on
In the last couple years I've gotten more into Obstacle Course Racing and trail running. I usually do 1 Tough Mudder a year, 2-3 Spartan races, 2-3 trail 10Ks, and maybe a couple 5Ks. I've been on a solid workout regimen for about 10-11 months now. And a better diet for about 6-7 months.
I've always been kind of "skinny fat". Not really overweight, but not in shape with a small beer gut. I'm 6'0", When I started working out last March, I was around 190lbs, 10min track mile, 12min trail mile, poor endurance, and poor strength overall. My biggest wake up call was when I did the Spartan PA Super race last July. 8-9mile course that absolutely destroyed me. Took me 4hr:20min (the hills are no joke) to complete, and I was in "ok" shape at that point. It was good enough for top 20% of finishers, but to put it into perspective, the guy who won... Did it in 1hr:38min...
From then on, I got a lot more serious with my training and started slowly cutting crap out of my diet. I cut out alcohol a lot and started eating more straight up meat and a lot of veggies. I'm not perfect, I don't count calories or do macros or any of that shit, I just try to make better food decisions with a cheat every now and then.
My workouts are mostly HIIT type. With some running speed work and strength-endurance and endurance built in. Lots of heart rate based stuff. I mainly follow the Spartan Race WOD that they post on their website every week. I'd say I workout maybe 4-5x/week. Signed up for a cheap $10/mo gym so I don't be lazy over the winter, and usually workout outside, track, trails when it's nice out. Running, pull ups, some variation of body weight squats, and burpees are probably 95% of what I do lol. I've recently added workouts from a OCR athlete trainer, and I go rock climbing with my friend every couple weeks to work on grip strength/endurance.
Currently I'm down to about 170-172lbs, lost 2-3" off my waist, noticeable muscle increase, noticeable endurance increase (I've had several 10+ mile runs), fat % down around ~15% (guessing really, I can see my top 4 ab muscles, couldn't before) trail mile down to about 7:30-8min, track mile down to about 6-6:30min. I pulled out a 24min trail 5K last October that I felt really good about.
My goals are different than a lot of you guys. I don't really care about how much I can lift. I just want to be able to run for a long time and run up a lot of hills.
Glad to see you guys all working hard. It bothers the hell out of me seeing 75% of the people in the gym just lazily doing whatever, not even breaking a sweat, hogging equipment, talking on the phone, reading a book, etc.
In the last couple years I've gotten more into Obstacle Course Racing and trail running. I usually do 1 Tough Mudder a year, 2-3 Spartan races, 2-3 trail 10Ks, and maybe a couple 5Ks. I've been on a solid workout regimen for about 10-11 months now. And a better diet for about 6-7 months.
I've always been kind of "skinny fat". Not really overweight, but not in shape with a small beer gut. I'm 6'0", When I started working out last March, I was around 190lbs, 10min track mile, 12min trail mile, poor endurance, and poor strength overall. My biggest wake up call was when I did the Spartan PA Super race last July. 8-9mile course that absolutely destroyed me. Took me 4hr:20min (the hills are no joke) to complete, and I was in "ok" shape at that point. It was good enough for top 20% of finishers, but to put it into perspective, the guy who won... Did it in 1hr:38min...
From then on, I got a lot more serious with my training and started slowly cutting crap out of my diet. I cut out alcohol a lot and started eating more straight up meat and a lot of veggies. I'm not perfect, I don't count calories or do macros or any of that shit, I just try to make better food decisions with a cheat every now and then.
My workouts are mostly HIIT type. With some running speed work and strength-endurance and endurance built in. Lots of heart rate based stuff. I mainly follow the Spartan Race WOD that they post on their website every week. I'd say I workout maybe 4-5x/week. Signed up for a cheap $10/mo gym so I don't be lazy over the winter, and usually workout outside, track, trails when it's nice out. Running, pull ups, some variation of body weight squats, and burpees are probably 95% of what I do lol. I've recently added workouts from a OCR athlete trainer, and I go rock climbing with my friend every couple weeks to work on grip strength/endurance.
Currently I'm down to about 170-172lbs, lost 2-3" off my waist, noticeable muscle increase, noticeable endurance increase (I've had several 10+ mile runs), fat % down around ~15% (guessing really, I can see my top 4 ab muscles, couldn't before) trail mile down to about 7:30-8min, track mile down to about 6-6:30min. I pulled out a 24min trail 5K last October that I felt really good about.
My goals are different than a lot of you guys. I don't really care about how much I can lift. I just want to be able to run for a long time and run up a lot of hills.
Glad to see you guys all working hard. It bothers the hell out of me seeing 75% of the people in the gym just lazily doing whatever, not even breaking a sweat, hogging equipment, talking on the phone, reading a book, etc.
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