What training are you doing/have you done today? (Vol.3)

[272BHP]

axel1990chp said:

Few of the older lads on a Stagdo ive just come back from are swearing blind for TRT. Apparently 35 is the age to start checking it out, which squares me off about next year, though i'm fairly confident my test is more than adequate to start messing around just yet!

You don't check it out at a certain age. It should be purely down to medical need. No one should want to go on TRT as it is an utter ball ache and something that you will need for the rest of your life, with all the financial costs and inevitable ups and downs.

Just swapping the sharps bin is something that will illicit a groan from me. You either get in the queue with the heroin addicts or get the council guy to cheerfully replace it in full site of the neighbours - take your pick.

[horsemeatscandal]

Big chunk of sandstone found in my new garden. Extensive and very complex mathematics estimates it to be around 90kg-100kg. I shall be trying to lift it at some point.

[mcelliott]

Today, crammed 600m of climbing into 25km, 28kph avg, very pleased with that, felt st most of the day but legs felt incredible on the bike, 2 swims in huge swell, good fun.

[biggbn]

Productive chest workout

Incline dumbell
50kg x 9
45kg x 7
40kg x 8
35kg x 8
30kg x 8

Shrugs 50kg dumbells x 30
Single arm rows 50kg dumbell x 25,
Clasp grip 40kg dumbell frobt raise x 10

Above three superset with flat bench close grip 60kg x 10

'Hand clap' grip dumbell front raises, 25kg, 27.5kg, 32.5kg all x 10

Done..

Edited by biggbn on Friday 5th July 23:02

[MaxFromage]

Continuing to PB each week on the weights, so happy with that.

A great Zwift race earlier. Fourth race in the new category. Pretty easy at the front in the main pack, but lost concentration for a moment and got dropped. I managed to sprint like mad to get back with the front pack. Held on to the end and sprinted for the line slightly too early. But stubbornly held on and took 15 places in the last 400m. Wouldn't have believed I could achieve that 6 months ago.

[popeyewhite]

272BHP said:

You don't check it out at a certain age. It should be purely down to medical need. No one should want to go on TRT as it is an utter ball ache and something that you will need for the rest of your life, with all the financial costs and inevitable ups and downs.

This in spades.

I know a few male friends who've been on TRT for a number of years and after exploring the training benefits have concluded that actually they are no happier in real life terms than they were before they started TRT.

[Kerniki]

popeyewhite said:

272BHP said:

You don't check it out at a certain age. It should be purely down to medical need. No one should want to go on TRT as it is an utter ball ache and something that you will need for the rest of your life, with all the financial costs and inevitable ups and downs.

This in spades.

I know a few male friends who've been on TRT for a number of years and after exploring the training benefits have concluded that actually they are no happier in real life terms than they were before they started TRT.

So, A few friends that are no happier.. mm.. conclusive evidence that

I don’t remember happiness ever being on my radar tbh but then I was happy anyway.. doesn’t mean you can’t be happier though I guess, am I? Duno, probably, I have more energy so I can do more, I can think clearer and have better memory, unless you used all that (which I do) then I guess it could actually make you less content (which some might say is happiness)

Anyway, I wouldn’t be looking at TRT to correct ones happiness, if you were then there’s something not quite right elsewhere imo

I would say that the increase in cognitive ability has lead me to controlling my diet more, much more will power and using early days pre contest diet for most of the week, very few carbs and zero processed foods, this has lead to me feeling healthier still now my body has unhooked / relearned to now use fat and protein as an energy source

Always have biltong beef (Netherlands variety) with me for when out n about, much easier then boiled eggs of old days.. get some nuts and dried fruit absolutely anywhere in the world and it’s easy eating this way.

Properly crave steak now, before I could take or leave it.

I think between the 3 (diet, try and TUT training) I feel healthier than ever, which has always been my main goal, the bf transformation is a nice bonus but not that bothered tbh, though lighter weight is even better for energy, obviously

Edited by Kerniki on Sunday 7th July 15:28

[biggbn]

I'm off Internet for at least the holidays but will continue to use this as a training log. Anyone wanna try an awful, horrible workout?

Deadlifts supersetted with burpees from
1x dl and 1x burpee all the way up to 10 and 10, deadlift weight 140kg. Just finished and it was awful, horrible, never wanna do it again...but I will.

Works out at 55 reps of each exercise getting progressively more taxing as you add a rep per set.