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Post by pierinifitness on Jan 18, 2020 21:32:38 GMT
So today I visited a 24 Hour Fitness using a free 3-day guest pass that I downloaded from the internet. I went to the downtown location because it's closest to my office and a super gym, loaded with every fitness gadget under the sun, more than I would ever need or use. I'm considering this location to cash in on my free Medicare Man gym membership that I'll be entitled to starting next month.
I've always been a gym rat but quit belonging to a gym about 5 years ago, don't know the exact year. Since then, and now, I train at various parks and in a spare room at my office where I have a bar dip unit, pull-up unit that you attach to a door frame, a small KB collection, a 12" step box, The Hook, a pair of 5-lb. dumbbells if and when I do a Heavy Hands workout and my Tommy Kono autographed wooden pole that I call my Louisville Slugger, used for shoulder dislocates warmups.
My stay at this 24 Hour Fitness was probably less than one hour. Man was it crowded!
I did some barbell overhead press work from the rack. It had been a long time since I've done barbell work. I did the following in lbs. - 45x5 - 65x3 - 95x 3 - 115x1 - 125 FAIL - 115X1 - 95X5X5. Can't believe that about 7 years ago I was doing 135x10 and 175 for a single. Also can't believe that this summer I was doing 3-5 reps with a pair of 24kg KB for 10 rounds. Can't do that now. Strength is very specific and has a short shelf life.
I also did 3 sets of pull-ups. No crowds at the pull-up bar. Finally, spent a few minutes at the TRX suspension area playing around with assisted pistols. I think with some practice I could bang one out unassisted but I don't know how important that is at this chapter of my life.
They had an awesome KB collection there including some competition looking KBs. Maybe I'll play around with them. Didn't see anyone doing burpees.
Anyway, after doing the above, I left and went to one of my favorite parks and did a burpees workout realizing that at this training chapter in my life, I'm a reclusive fitness training dude. I like my company when training. No music just the melody of my huffing and puffing and sweating like a pig.
I'm sure I'll visit this 24 Hour Fitness maybe once a week because I'd like to do some barbell OHP work. I don't know that I have much of an interest doing any other barbell work but we'll see.
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Post by Michael on Jan 18, 2020 21:58:03 GMT
Pierini, just something of note for me on pistols. I can still do them but I agree with Anthony in the "Homemade Muscle" book. They put most people in bad posture which can cause bad situations for the lower back. They have destroyed my lower back in the past. I prefer Goblet/Racked squats, Reverse Lunges, or Bulgarian Split Squats for legs. I think they are much more beneficial. I've always worked out at home. I went to a gym one time because a cousin had a free pass for me. It wasn't an old school gym, which I probably may have liked. I didn't really like the atmosphere. , little guys acting tough and walking around swelled up. I couldn't train because all I wanted to do is laugh. I love my sessions at home, can't beat them with a stick.
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Post by Bruce Tackett on Jan 18, 2020 23:21:57 GMT
I much prefer working out by myself at home in my basement. I have everything I need, and my personal gym is open 24/7. I love going down there in the mornings, after my morning coffee and energy drink, putting on some old-time rock & roll, and going at it.
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Post by trog on Jan 20, 2020 10:08:00 GMT
I also did 3 sets of pull-ups. No crowds at the pull-up bar.
I have yet to see a crowd at the pull-up bar.
Great workout in any case. I like the idea of 24 hour gyms. My friend (a bus driver) likes to work the late shift. He can hit the gym straight after work, when it is empty, go home, have a light meal and crash into bed. He is a bit like me, anti-social in the gym - I don't want to talk, just get on with it and go home. I finish work at 16:30 and the gym is across the road from work. It is fairly quiet when I go and it is starting to get busy when I am ready to leave.
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Post by chanduthemagician on Jan 21, 2020 4:29:56 GMT
pierinifitness this post resonates I find my strength fairly stable. It's gone down because I've lost a significant amount of weight, but it seems relatively easy to reclaim. Though some lifts will now never come back due to injuries/arthritis. My OHP almost mirrors yours. I like the gym because it's not my house and mentally I can get into the workout better there and I don't have a dedicated setup at home. My high school weight room was the best gym I was ever in. No nonsense, only what was really needed. I now lift out a community center fitness thing. It's pretty good. I just realized I've influenced others. I do a lot of work in the squat rack. I bench in there, do isometrics and so on. Others used to only bench. The other day there was a guy doing incline press in the rack. He figured out if he set the pins right, he couldn't kill himself no matter how hard he tried as opposed to the incline bench station. (dude is the opposite me of me, short ass thick arms, can incline 315 without much trouble, one of those natural press types. Can't pull shit though. I'm happy the influence I've had on getting folks that would bench and incline by themselves with no spotter to use the rack, but dammit, now I have to wait for the rack sometimes! The only thing I cannot tolerate at the commercial gyms - those fuckers that went to 12 sided plates. Hate those fuckin' plates. The gyms are crowded now because it's the beginning of resolution season. Try to find a treadmill at peak times. Another month or so, they will give up.
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Post by fredhutch on Jan 21, 2020 17:41:19 GMT
I'm with Clubber Lang: I live alone. I train alone.
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Post by mr potatohead on Jan 21, 2020 21:34:53 GMT
I live alone. I train alone. Henry, m8, please stop stalking me.
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Post by chanduthemagician on Jan 22, 2020 14:39:50 GMT
I'm with Clubber Lang: I live alone. I train alone. But if Talia Shire swings by you'll show her a real man.
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Post by stuke on Jan 22, 2020 15:08:44 GMT
Pierini, just something of note for me on pistols. I can still do them but I agree with Anthony in the "Homemade Muscle" book. They put most people in bad posture which can cause bad situations for the lower back. They have destroyed my lower back in the past. I prefer Goblet/Racked squats, Reverse Lunges, or Bulgarian Split Squats for legs. I think they are much more beneficial. I've always worked out at home. I went to a gym one time because a cousin had a free pass for me. It wasn't an old school gym, which I probably may have liked. I didn't really like the atmosphere. , little guys acting tough and walking around swelled up. I couldn't train because all I wanted to do is laugh. I love my sessions at home, can't beat them with a stick. I found the same with pistols and soon wised up after a few repeated issues of lower back pain. For years now I have done them by lightly holding a handle on a chain anchired at the other end at about midriff height. I like to lean back sometimes but either way, I go ass to ankles and no worries about posture. I often hold a dumbell in the same side hand as leg I am working, opposing hand to leg being worked always holds the handle. Just hold with as little tension as you can to keep posture good, you should not haul yourself up. I swear by this exercise and rate it as the best leg exercise I have ever done.
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Post by stuke on Jan 22, 2020 15:09:35 GMT
I can do more pull-ups if girls are watching. I rather go to the Yoga studio than do it at home alone, I liked the vibe of Cross-Fit, pushing yourself to power. Speaking of pull-ups and Cross-Fit, an exercise I do on the Hoist V1-Select top pulley attachment, instead of the usual pull-down bar I attach a single handle. grab with one arm (right) and get into a lunge position to the side (left), do a pull-down like a normal Hawaiian, then continue like doing a muscle-up, do same other side.
I prefer single arm pull-downs, the long bar gives issue with my right shoulder movement.
Henry, are you pull ups of the Cross Fit variety or regular?
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Post by stuke on Jan 22, 2020 15:15:05 GMT
I have trained alone at home for maybe 15 years now. Before that it was gyms, hone and my friend's house. I miss the variety and being able to move to different equipment quickly, but I do good at home and have a huge range of exercises I can choose from now. Usually use the basics though. I don't really like how the gyms are full of fitness equipment and classes. Nothing wrong with it as such, just nit the kind of environment I like to train in. Prefer old school.
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Post by stuke on Jan 22, 2020 22:19:01 GMT
Might not be old school but tried this place for 3 weeks for free . . . There's a room with a calves machine with a stack of 600lbs, did 440lbs for 10 reps. At 7am I had the place to meself.
Nice pull up rig there. I like stuff like that. That gym reminds me of one I used to go to here in Leeds.
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Post by pierinifitness on Jan 23, 2020 15:50:29 GMT
Postscript on my 3-day pass with 24 Hour Fitness - I only visited once, on Saturday, that I shared in my original post. I had planned on going on Monday but didn't make it. So, I only used it once. Comparing to other gym memberships available to me free using my Medicare coverage, I think I'll chose 24 Hour Fitness. Interesting is that it's not open 24 hours a day; this doesn't matter to me. I will continue training as I have - several local parks depending on what I'm doing and a spare room in my office which has become a de facto workout "gym" for me - because it's working for me and is efficient. I don't do good working out at home within auditory striking distance of my chief critic, Mrs. Pierini Fitness. I will join 24 Hour Fitness, however, on February 1st and use it to supplement my training, doing a little barbell work here and there and perhaps using some of the other fitness gadgets they have. Maybe I'll use it once a week; we'll see. This is the one I'll be joining; it's downtown about 1.5 miles from my office and 5 to 6 miles from where I live: www.24hourfitness.com/gyms/sacramento-ca/downtown-sacramento-supersportAgain, it'll be "free" - I wouldn't join it if I had to pay.
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