Originally Posted by
Hondo Gravel
Interesting thread since I enjoy weight trying but got a bit lazy in this summer heat. My gym is in the garage and I’m refocusing my workouts. Starting to get the middle age gut that I hate but I have gain muscle but along came the gut. Not some basketball pooch
but more than I like. Summer been lifting twice a week and nothing this 4th of July week. I have a Titan safety bar for front squats with the pads and it works great then I let my ego get the best of me going too heavy and got burned out. I also use a hex bar for deadlifts and that is a full body killer again got too frisky doing 5 sets of 10-12 and again got burned out. Swiss bar for bench pressing and back rows works great recovery is good. Then I use dumbbells for incline pressing so I can get some shoulder work since my right shoulder won’t let me overhead lift. I use specialty bars so I can workout with old fashion weights. Only my second week off in 32 weeks so I’m not losing much. But I realize I need to ease things up a bit like more frequent workouts but only one main compound lift per session then accessory lifts like lat work and curls for girls where I use a curl bar and tricep bar for hammer curls you know the vanity lifts. Refocusing starting tomorrow adding in more condition and getting my butt back on my bikes! I miss riding and have been only focusing on weights. And my atrocious diet needs to be changed so that is in the new refocused scheme. Anyways this is a great thread and reading everyone’s thoughts have given me the motivation I had been lacking as of late
If one's focus is cycling and one is only lifting to improve one's road or MTB cycling, it doesn't take a lot of work in the gym. In summer, I do 2 sets of 5, second set as much weight as I can use and get 5 reps out. In Fall, I reboot and do the usual 3 sets of 12 until Dec. 1, then taper gradually down to my summer reps. This is something that I gradually adopted over the years and has given me the best cycling results. Body weight is strictly a matter of food intake, nothing to do with lifting. You want to get big, eat more, and the converse. I've lost weight at the same time as I was getting gains in the gym, just fiber recruitment.