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wallwalker) wrote2012-10-19 01:20 pm
wallwalker) wrote2012-10-19 01:20 pm
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Overall state of exercise
Making a quick post in my small slice of free time today. Then it's back to paying bills around town.
It's been about... six or eight months since i started trying to work out again, and I'm kind of failing at consistency. Part of it is work throwing me various hours-related curveballs; I'm still waiting for something like a consistent schedule, or even a schedule that I know a week or more in advance, which is what we're supposed to have.
I'm generally doing more weight lifting than I am cardio. Cardio takes time, and it's not something I can do at all hours; I can do most of the weight training I want to do at home, and in order to do any amount of decent cardiovascular exercise I need to stick to what I can do during the day outside, since we have neither the money nor the room for a machine. I'm trying to do small amount of weightlifting every day for six days out of the week; I have three different routines that I do, and each one is three days apart. (When I do cardio, it's generally walking; I can do four miles an hour now. I still want to start jogging, but if I don't have time to try it every single day, I do so poorly every time I try that I can't stand it. I've discovered over the last few months that I have to do something at least every other day, if not more, to actually get any better at it.)
That's a fairly new plan. I'm not sure if it's going to work; it's been three days since I've done anything with my legs, and they're still sore enough that exercising them is going to be unpleasant. I still want to try, though, because I really feel like weightlifting helps me more than most anything I've tried when it comes to being healthy. Besides, I want to be stronger, darn it.
I think the part that's tripping me up the most is my core. I have a day devoted to abs and back, but I really don't have much for it. Here are the exercises I logged for it last time:
- Weighted crunches (regular and oblique, both with 15 lbs.)
- Plank (I can hold one over a minute now!)
- Dumbbell deadlifts (one-armed, with a 15-lb dumbbell. Want to try a barbell when I have more room.)
- Dumbbell shrugs (which I might move to my upper body workout from now on.)
- Leg lifts and regular crunches.
Not a huge variety, and I need more for an area that's always given me trouble, especially my back. Anyone know any good exercises for someone who mostly has access to dumbbells?
And that's about it. I'm not mentioning diet so much, just because the extent of what I want to do with my diet is to not eat out so much, and that's as much for my budget's sake as it is for my health.
It's been about... six or eight months since i started trying to work out again, and I'm kind of failing at consistency. Part of it is work throwing me various hours-related curveballs; I'm still waiting for something like a consistent schedule, or even a schedule that I know a week or more in advance, which is what we're supposed to have.
I'm generally doing more weight lifting than I am cardio. Cardio takes time, and it's not something I can do at all hours; I can do most of the weight training I want to do at home, and in order to do any amount of decent cardiovascular exercise I need to stick to what I can do during the day outside, since we have neither the money nor the room for a machine. I'm trying to do small amount of weightlifting every day for six days out of the week; I have three different routines that I do, and each one is three days apart. (When I do cardio, it's generally walking; I can do four miles an hour now. I still want to start jogging, but if I don't have time to try it every single day, I do so poorly every time I try that I can't stand it. I've discovered over the last few months that I have to do something at least every other day, if not more, to actually get any better at it.)
That's a fairly new plan. I'm not sure if it's going to work; it's been three days since I've done anything with my legs, and they're still sore enough that exercising them is going to be unpleasant. I still want to try, though, because I really feel like weightlifting helps me more than most anything I've tried when it comes to being healthy. Besides, I want to be stronger, darn it.
I think the part that's tripping me up the most is my core. I have a day devoted to abs and back, but I really don't have much for it. Here are the exercises I logged for it last time:
- Weighted crunches (regular and oblique, both with 15 lbs.)
- Plank (I can hold one over a minute now!)
- Dumbbell deadlifts (one-armed, with a 15-lb dumbbell. Want to try a barbell when I have more room.)
- Dumbbell shrugs (which I might move to my upper body workout from now on.)
- Leg lifts and regular crunches.
Not a huge variety, and I need more for an area that's always given me trouble, especially my back. Anyone know any good exercises for someone who mostly has access to dumbbells?
And that's about it. I'm not mentioning diet so much, just because the extent of what I want to do with my diet is to not eat out so much, and that's as much for my budget's sake as it is for my health.
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