The "Look! Look at my cool workout!" thread

[HighKick]

SW USA desert. Average July daily high last year was 111 F, but it's a dry heat .

Southeast US for me.

All the heat and humidity of the Panhandle States but zero breeze.
The ‘dog days’ of summer are Very real here.
We were in New Mexico June 2024 and I was surprised how tolerable it was.
I did mission trips for several years, some to the tribal areas outside of Phoenix. I did see 112 degrees one day.

 

[isshinryuronin]

I live in the Sacramento, California area where summer temperatures are routinely around 105 F, and can exceed 115 F. It is a dry heat and feels like being in an oven. If we had high humidity I believe the entire region would be unlivable. So far the heat is holding off, we only briefly touched 100, and it’s been holding in the 80s and 90s, and even 70s. Feels good.

I lived in Sacramento too (2000-2003), before moving to SC. I really liked it there - Old Town, the rivers, restaurants, lots of stuff to do, but the weather stunk. Cold and wet in the winter and HOT in the summer, big swing. Spring and fall were short.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Add some methamphetamine to that and you end up in the OR for foreign body removal.

I don't like to add meth all the time, it just makes everything taste the same. There are other condiments, like parsley and lemon juice

 

[Wing Woo Gar]

I don't like to add meth all the time, it just makes everything taste the same. There are other condiments, like parsley and lemon juice

Add enough meth and the you will be saying lemon juice and parsley with no teeth.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Add enough meth and the you will be saying lemon juice and parsley with no teeth.

It's a powerful flavour and it needs to be balanced with other ingredients like spices and PCP

 

[Prince_Alarming]

First workout after shingles. Not much- a few simple floor and dumbbell exercises, kata, some stretching. Feels good.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

You know the most valuable piece of equipment I have in my home gym? My phone! Not for texting though, I'm certainly not capable of doing that in my rest periods, for timing sets. Me and my even madder friends have a 'thing' about timed sets. You set it for a minute and do as many reps as possible within that time. It's also good for stretching videos, learning new kata and generally plugging yourself into a planetwide support system.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

3 miles with my full hiking load (about20kg). The plan is to extend it by half a mile each week until I reach 8 miles, then the weight goes up by 5 kg, and I start again at 3 miles. The great thing about ruck marching is you only have to do it once a week.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Oh and an embarrassingly small number of pushups on dumbbells to failure. I badly need to lose weight. After hitting my target for this plan I will start dieting

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Quick 30 minute recovery workout. ASMRed my arms, they feel great, ran through all my kata once and did some yoga, to whit:
prayer squat
pigeon pose
upward facing dog
hero pose
forward fold
back bridge
happy baby (I find this easier to attain at my size than the usual 'hug your legs' one)
corpse pose
All for 6-10 breaths
couch stretch
Finished with a good 5 minutes' meditation on the nature of god in bound angle pose
Then I followed it up with 90 seconds/side couch stretch for my aching quads, in future I will add some foam rolling at the start too.

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Developed something I call 'reading yoga'. Get into yoga poses, but rather than reaching forward, bending over and intensifying the stretch, you sit upright and read your book. It's very gentle, very slow, very long yoga. Your best bets are the hurdler's stretch (not a yoga pose but hey), the leg bit from bound angle pose with hands holding book, criss-cross-apple-sauce (again, not yoga, but beneficial and adrienne uses it so neeeeeh), candle pose and lying twists. I've yet to work out how to read a book while doing the leg bit from pigeon pose, but I will some day

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Cobra, child's pose and the third world squat work well too

 

[_Simon_]

Developed something I call 'reading yoga'. Get into yoga poses, but rather than reaching forward, bending over and intensifying the stretch, you sit upright and read your book. It's very gentle, very slow, very long yoga. Your best bets are the hurdler's stretch (not a yoga pose but hey), the leg bit from bound angle pose with hands holding book, criss-cross-apple-sauce (again, not yoga, but beneficial and adrienne uses it so neeeeeh), candle pose and lying twists. I've yet to work out how to read a book while doing the leg bit from pigeon pose, but I will some day

The only times I really check MT are whilst I'm doing my daily stretching haha, but proper book reading would be cool!

 

[Prince_Alarming]

Today's workout: the dumbbells of doom
2 mins swaying motion to warm up
25kg single arm presses, 14/ side
25 ab wheel rollouts from standing
29 pushups
Sandwich:
40kg dumbbell swings
1 Kata (passai, chinto, naihanchi, seishan
Performed sandwich 4 times

 

[skribs]

My Muay Thai coach is absolutely jacked, so I've been following his guidelines for lifting. He trains martial arts Monday through Thursday, so he lifts Thursday and Friday (so he's not sore for sparring and rolls). He has a physical job, so he only does legs once a month.

I train 6-7 days per week, so I just try to lift Monday-Wednesday for push/pull/legs. That way I'm less sore on weekends, which is usually when things like tests, competitions, seminars, or other classes happen. Or I just want to relax and not be sore.

I use a smart gym, and I've found the "Fixed Speed" mode, which allows me to set the speed I want the machine to allow me to move the cables, and it resists enough to slow me to that speed. This means a few things:

• I don't need to fumble around with finding the right weight for each exercise.
• I can put in 100% effort through the full concentric range of motion. Some exercises there's a range where you're weaker, and you either skip that range or you lower the entire lift to make it work.
• I can last more reps because if I don't have the energy to push as hard, the machine resists less.
• There is very little eccentric resistance, which may affect the workout, but also makes it easier to stabilize between reps.

My coach's plan is around 10 different exercises for each workout, 2 sets of 15 for each exercise.

Push Days

1. Incline press with bench at 30 degrees
2. Place cables so I'm doing decline with bench at 30 degrees
3. Incline press at 45
4. Decline press at 45
5. Incline press at 60
6. Decline press at 60
7. Incline press at 75
8. Standing dips
9. Standing press
10. Tricep press

Pull Days

1. Deadlift
2. Romanian deadlift
3. Upright row
4. Underhand row
5. Vertical grip row
6. Overhand pull
7. Vertical grip pull
8. Underhand pull
9. Lat flies
10. Bicep curls

Leg Days
This is where it gets fun. I put on a weight vest and do bodyweight exercises. This doesn't follow the same plan as my push/pull days. I do reps based on the workout. Workouts include:

• Squats (warmup)
• Jump squats
• Side squats
• Lunges
• Jump rope

Core
We cover core every cardio kickboxing class, which I'm in 4-5 days per week. Core is the last 5-10 minutes of class. We'll go around the group each suggesting a core exercise, and we'll do that exercise usually for 30-45 seconds before moving onto the next. Common ones include:

• Crunches
• Bicycles
• Reverse crunches
• Flutter kicks/scissor kicks
• Leg raises
• Brazilian butt lifts or candlesticks (if it's all jiu-jitsu guys we do triangles)
• Heels-to-butt or suitcases
• Rainbows or windshield wipers
• Plank
• Shoelaces (side-to-side movement, hands out and rotate touch your insteps)
• Russian twists

 

[Prince_Alarming]

My Muay Thai coach is absolutely jacked, so I've been following his guidelines for lifting. He trains martial arts Monday through Thursday, so he lifts Thursday and Friday (so he's not sore for sparring and rolls). He has a physical job, so he only does legs once a month.

I train 6-7 days per week, so I just try to lift Monday-Wednesday for push/pull/legs. That way I'm less sore on weekends, which is usually when things like tests, competitions, seminars, or other classes happen. Or I just want to relax and not be sore.

I use a smart gym, and I've found the "Fixed Speed" mode, which allows me to set the speed I want the machine to allow me to move the cables, and it resists enough to slow me to that speed. This means a few things:

• I don't need to fumble around with finding the right weight for each exercise.
• I can put in 100% effort through the full concentric range of motion. Some exercises there's a range where you're weaker, and you either skip that range or you lower the entire lift to make it work.
• I can last more reps because if I don't have the energy to push as hard, the machine resists less.
• There is very little eccentric resistance, which may affect the workout, but also makes it easier to stabilize between reps.

My coach's plan is around 10 different exercises for each workout, 2 sets of 15 for each exercise.

Push Days

1. Incline press with bench at 30 degrees
2. Place cables so I'm doing decline with bench at 30 degrees
3. Incline press at 45
4. Decline press at 45
5. Incline press at 60
6. Decline press at 60
7. Incline press at 75
8. Standing dips
9. Standing press
10. Tricep press

Pull Days

1. Deadlift
2. Romanian deadlift
3. Upright row
4. Underhand row
5. Vertical grip row
6. Overhand pull
7. Vertical grip pull
8. Underhand pull
9. Lat flies
10. Bicep curls

Leg Days
This is where it gets fun. I put on a weight vest and do bodyweight exercises. This doesn't follow the same plan as my push/pull days. I do reps based on the workout. Workouts include:

• Squats (warmup)
• Jump squats
• Side squats
• Lunges
• Jump rope

Core
We cover core every cardio kickboxing class, which I'm in 4-5 days per week. Core is the last 5-10 minutes of class. We'll go around the group each suggesting a core exercise, and we'll do that exercise usually for 30-45 seconds before moving onto the next. Common ones include:

• Crunches
• Bicycles
• Reverse crunches
• Flutter kicks/scissor kicks
• Leg raises
• Brazilian butt lifts or candlesticks (if it's all jiu-jitsu guys we do triangles)
• Heels-to-butt or suitcases
• Rainbows or windshield wipers
• Plank
• Shoelaces (side-to-side movement, hands out and rotate touch your insteps)
• Russian twists

Awesome, you're obviously more committed than I am

Southern style fried dumbbells:
pyramid up to failure (6,embarassingly) and down again:
Pushups on hex dumbbells, naihanchi
then performed seishan

A bit *too* easy. I'll go all in for renegade row pushups next time

 

[HighKick]

My Muay Thai coach is absolutely jacked, so I've been following his guidelines for lifting. He trains martial arts Monday through Thursday, so he lifts Thursday and Friday (so he's not sore for sparring and rolls). He has a physical job, so he only does legs once a month.

I train 6-7 days per week, so I just try to lift Monday-Wednesday for push/pull/legs. That way I'm less sore on weekends, which is usually when things like tests, competitions, seminars, or other classes happen. Or I just want to relax and not be sore.

I use a smart gym, and I've found the "Fixed Speed" mode, which allows me to set the speed I want the machine to allow me to move the cables, and it resists enough to slow me to that speed. This means a few things:

• I don't need to fumble around with finding the right weight for each exercise.
• I can put in 100% effort through the full concentric range of motion. Some exercises there's a range where you're weaker, and you either skip that range or you lower the entire lift to make it work.
• I can last more reps because if I don't have the energy to push as hard, the machine resists less.
• There is very little eccentric resistance, which may affect the workout, but also makes it easier to stabilize between reps.

My coach's plan is around 10 different exercises for each workout, 2 sets of 15 for each exercise.

Push Days

1. Incline press with bench at 30 degrees
2. Place cables so I'm doing decline with bench at 30 degrees
3. Incline press at 45
4. Decline press at 45
5. Incline press at 60
6. Decline press at 60
7. Incline press at 75
8. Standing dips
9. Standing press
10. Tricep press

Pull Days

1. Deadlift
2. Romanian deadlift
3. Upright row
4. Underhand row
5. Vertical grip row
6. Overhand pull
7. Vertical grip pull
8. Underhand pull
9. Lat flies
10. Bicep curls

Leg Days
This is where it gets fun. I put on a weight vest and do bodyweight exercises. This doesn't follow the same plan as my push/pull days. I do reps based on the workout. Workouts include:

• Squats (warmup)
• Jump squats
• Side squats
• Lunges
• Jump rope

Core
We cover core every cardio kickboxing class, which I'm in 4-5 days per week. Core is the last 5-10 minutes of class. We'll go around the group each suggesting a core exercise, and we'll do that exercise usually for 30-45 seconds before moving onto the next. Common ones include:

• Crunches
• Bicycles
• Reverse crunches
• Flutter kicks/scissor kicks
• Leg raises
• Brazilian butt lifts or candlesticks (if it's all jiu-jitsu guys we do triangles)
• Heels-to-butt or suitcases
• Rainbows or windshield wipers
• Plank
• Shoelaces (side-to-side movement, hands out and rotate touch your insteps)
• Russian twists

The looks like a good workout plan.
The only comments I have are frequency and possibly a lack of burners to increase cardio level and improve oxygen intake. That may be more specific than what you are looking for but for upper level competition they are things that are usually worked up to in levels.
Frequency really comes down to what your end game is.