Do You Go To The Gym/workout

[ManiacCop2]

If this topic has been done before I couldn't give a shit so don't bother pointing it out.
I've just got back from the Gym and I was wondering does anyone else here go to the Gym, lift weights or workout in any sort of way and if so do you follow a set programme or do you just do whatever comes to mind.

Me, I go twice a week since the Junior gym sessions at my Gym only take place on Saturdays, Mondays and Wednesdays, I generally only go on Saturday and Wednesday. Recently I've come up with a set plan (up until now I tended to do what ever came to mind)

Here it is
5 minutes on the running machine
4 sets of Deadlifts
4 sets of Leg Press
4 sets of Incline Dumbell Chest Press
4 sets of Millitary Presses
3 sets of Ab Crunches
4 Sets of Close Grip Bench
4 Sets of Incline Dumbell Curls

At this point, If it's saturday and I still have time (I catch the bus on Wednesday), I pretty much spend the rest of the time arsing around doing whatever comes to mind. Oh yeah and I also do Kettlebells during Aikido. Anyway enough of my dribbling what about you guys?.

[Ericho]

I write a bike or work at a dishwashing place everyday, but not going to the gym.

[Conspiracy3]

I run a lot. I try to get about 10 miles a day (on a good day when I have time) I also do some light muscular work and ab work. (either with dumbells or without weights at all)

Gym memberships are a waste of money

[EdgeSniped]

The only excercise work that I intentionally do is crunches. I'm trying to do 200 a day.

[GoryBlizzard]

I should go to the gym more often. I really should.

One of my older buildings had a gym on the 2nd floor and I used to go there almost every night for a year and half. Then I moved out, but over time I sort of lost my exercise routine, and now it's just a matter of whether I feel like working out or not.

[SessileNomad]

yeah i used to

here was my workout

1 hour of karate

1 hour of kickboxing

1 hour of jiu jitsu

its nearly impossible for me to gain or lose weight, so i decided to stop and learn a new art form

[HotHoboSex]

Like most people there is exercise equipment in my house that nobody uses. So I sometimes work out lift weights etc... But not as much anymore. I'm trying to gain weight so I've been a lazy bum lately....

[ELITE-101]

ask this guy

[GetYiffy]

I don't go to the gym, I run instead.

[aSquared94]

I don't go to a gym but I jog, do push ups and curls almost everyday

[EdgeSniped]

At 8/29/09 12:42 PM, aSquared94 wrote: I don't go to a gym but I jog, do push ups and curls almost everyday

This is the better thing to do. Gym memberships are overrated and expensive.

[CloudConnected]

At 8/29/09 12:43 PM, EdgeSniped wrote:

At 8/29/09 12:42 PM, aSquared94 wrote: I don't go to a gym but I jog, do push ups and curls almost everyday

This is the better thing to do. Gym memberships are overrated and expensive.

Keep running, tubby.

[Farafor]

I'm too lazy for exercise, I never gain weight anyway.

[JKMonkey]

I usually go jogging around my local park every day instead of going to a gym, theyre expensive.

[Peaceblossom]

I used to do a 4 day program when I was trying to bulk up and get ready for rugby.

It consisted of Legs, Chest, Shoulders/Back, and Core/Cardio.

Day 1:
15 minute spin on bike.
5x5 Clean and Jerk
5x5 Squats (bar)
5x5 Weighted Walking Lunges
Then if I still wasn't tired I'd flip a bosu ball upside down, grab a medicine ball, and do front squats on the bosu ball with the medicine ball in front of me until I couldn't do anymore.

Day 2:
10 minute spin on bike.
5x5 Decline bench
5x5 Dumbbell bench
5x5 Incline bench
5x5 Dumbbell pec-fly
4 Sets of push-ups to failure

Day 3 really varied. It usually had super-sets of rows, upright rows, pullups, lat-pulldowns, shoulder-press and military press. Sometimes I did some extra chest and core on day 3 but I'd really just sort of wing it.

Day 4:
1 hour run, with a break after 15 minutes to stretch.
30 minutes of very tough abs and core workout. We did as a group some days, so everyone would try to act all tough by pitching hard core-workouts to the whole group. We'd all be sore as hell by the end of it.

No rest days. Just straight back to day 1 after day 4 was finished. I managed to gain 15 pounds of muscle through this method, but I was taking in like 6000-8500 calories a day through 9 meals.

Now I just bike hard for an hour every day and work. I kinda wanna cut some fat and get a 6-pack to show through. It's not as cool as being huge, but I'll work out seriously again once school starts back up.

[yurgenburgen]

Nah. People have tried getting me to go to the gym with them before but I have no interest in that sort of thing. I just watch what I eat and work hard, and it seems to be working for me.

[Mismo]

I've been thinking on going to a gym for working out but at the moment I work out home,

100 reps of jumprope, will soon escalde to 200 cause I just started working again after a long break.
30 reps of push-ups
50 reps of sit-ups
as many reps of pull-ups I can do,
30 reps with a dumbelt (each arm)

And sometimes I run some distant ( don't know how long I run).

And I'm also thinking of taking boxing lessons.

[generalwinter]

You guys should all remeber to stretch before you work out, otherwise you could get injured more easily.

[Mismo]

At 8/29/09 02:04 PM, generalwinter wrote: You guys should all remeber to stretch before you work out, otherwise you could get injured more easily.

Yay, but since that's basic no one carees to mention it.

[Obvious-M]

At 8/29/09 12:35 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: Gym memberships are a waste of money

Yeah, couldn't agree more.

It's so ridiculous, I mean when I'm training, the group I'm with do a lot of conditioning outside a gym, and you see these people paying 30 quid a month to be made to do sit-ups.

[Strength]

working out and shit used to be my life. however after i got the results i wanted and became completely and utterly satisfied with my body i started doing everything bad to my health and quit exercising.

[rome-lherison]

At 8/29/09 12:35 PM, Conspiracy3 wrote: Gym memberships are a waste of money

So true, you can do the same shit at home with something like a boflex gym or something similar to that.

[Jeffaro]

I don't lift weights, I do basic calisthenics.

Pushups - Regular,Wide and Closed grip.
Crunches - Regular / Reverse.
Jumping jacks.
Running.

That's all I need.

[blokeice]

I both go to the gym for an hour every week and am a member of a cross country running team.

[Zack]

the responses in this thread just make me go

ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffff ff

[Peaceblossom]

At 8/29/09 02:04 PM, generalwinter wrote: You guys should all remeber to stretch before you work out, otherwise you could get injured more easily.

Well actually, no. It doesn't work that way. When your muscles are cold, stretching stretches the muscle too far, and actually makes it loose. It takes away power from your lifts and increases the risk of injury. It's better for you to simply get the blood flowing. Stretch after each set to prevent lactic acid build-up, and stretch dynamically as a cooldown at the end of your workout.

[X-Gary-Gigax-X]

Never, and I do not intend to.

[Lunaful]

I'm a lifeguard so I swim a lot.

Btw don't do a Dick Neck. XD

[ArmouredGRIFFON]

At 8/29/09 12:43 PM, EdgeSniped wrote:

At 8/29/09 12:42 PM, aSquared94 wrote: I don't go to a gym but I jog, do push ups and curls almost everyday

This is the better thing to do. Gym memberships are overrated and expensive.

There really not. Just people have no idea how to use them.

[ArmouredGRIFFON]

I usually do. Every Tuesday and Saturday training days.

10 minutes on the treadmill, my freind does an hour. No idea how.

Anyway at the gym. Around 5 sets of each.

Crunches
Flys
Incline Bench/Dumbell Press
Decline Bench/Dumbell Press
Press ups. Pull ups.

Then I come home and 40 minutes on my rowing machine. Then I go on my xbox.