What is your fitness regimen ?

I was good at track in high school, but I could have done a lot more (like run every weekend and lift). My HS coach was a boss (pronounced BOU-WS). He grew up in ‘Nowhere’, Maine but ran for the U.S. in the Olympics, so he always made fun of us if we acted like “candyasses.” Freshman year I attended a fairly well-known university in Boston. The coach there and I talked my senior year of HS—he didn’t seem to expect much out of me but at least I wasn’t a walk-on (probably thanks to my HS coach being such a boss). I was there for school, not to major in The Mile…

Started off freshman year redshirting XC. I worked out and ran more miles that fall than I had my entire life. Peaked at 75 miles/week. Us distance guys would also usually do 5 mile workouts and hit the weightroom twice a week. Through Dec.-Feb. I clocked decent times in the 800m-1000m on the track, initially surprising but then ticking off my coach when I plateau’d (in retrospect I understand his frustration but I don’t think he quite understood mine).

Near the end of indoor track, Coach had me try a 8x400m workout with the Sprint coach’s guys, and wouldn’t ya know it, they shifted me to that group. Entirely different approach to training. Now my ‘long’ runs were just 5-6 miles opposed to 16-19; the track workouts were short but wicked intense, speed-wise. Bumped up the weight in the WR, and put on more muscle. Went from 5’9”, 144 lbs. in sodden shoes to 156 lbs. in 8 weeks. It took some adjusting, but I made it to Conference Champs down in Richmond that May, and helped our 4x800m set a new NEICAA Meet record. If I’d gone back and ran that fall, I could have kicked some butt.

I had such a great time that year thanks to good friends on the team and in the classroom. Incidentally one of my classes sparked my interest in LEDs. Things can and do happen, though. There’s no use dwelling on what could have been! Now I’m just glad I can walk and run for fun.

The aftermath of some post-finals-week shenanigans cooked up by upperclassmen:

One brisk December evening we ran out to the middle of nowhere, hand-selected a Christmas tree Clark Griswold-style, and ran it the whole way back to the fieldhouse. People on Huntington Ave shot us a few funny looks :~ , but we ran by like nothing was out of the ordinary 8)

How do you think I feel? Laughing

My exercise amounts to working in the garage or sitting. I used to walk about an hour a day, but since my wife is home bound, I don't go out any more. That doesn't bother me, as I was always totally lazy when it came to exercise anyhow.

A few 12 ounce curls… followed by 6 mile round trip walk to the ice cream store for a chocolate cone. :party:

Ok Slim, I need a break after reading that! lol

I’ve shot (pics, photographer) at some of my cousin’s track meets and it can be fairly brutal just carrying camera gear around all day. All the standing, squatting (for angles) and hustling from one event to another. If I did that more often it would be a help. My cousin is a track star. Just turned 18 and has 3 Gold Medals in the National Junior Olympics Decathlon, starting when he was 14. This weekend in a High School Regional track meet, he had 11 more points by himself than one of the other High School TEAMS! The only event he was in that he didn’t win outright was the discus. He won the 110M Hurdles after connecting solidly with hurdle no. 8 and going to a knee….he fell and still won! He anchored the 4x400 (1600m Relays) and the team won by 3 seconds with a 3:18:95. They have a 400 runner that is about his equal, Wolf leaned at the line and beat him by .03 seconds at 48.29…then crashed! He told the paper that it was “beautiful! That’s what it’s all about in team sports, being able to push each other to get your best possible permormances.” This kid is not only fast, he’s tough. Last summer in the National Junior Olympics he was pole vaulting and his pole broke about 14” off the ground. That piece snapped up out of the chute and crashed him right in the crotch so viciously he was throwing up for 20 minutes! He finished the pole vault with a 2nd place, threw the javelin for 1st then ran the 1500m with a 230m lead at the end.

If I could just stay in camera range of this kid I’d be in good enough shape! :slight_smile:

I doesn’t count, you’re a machine, metal will fatigue before the human lathe does.

Body by BUDWISER ! ! !

I go to work, Im a floor/wall tiler thats plenty of exercise for me. :slight_smile:

Thanks for reading! Appreciate it, as it took me a while to type it :smiley:

What a tough guy! And he has the perfect attitude for the sport. He ought to have a blast in college—on and off the track. I didn’t have time for frats and partying like the other college kids, but I didn’t mind because A: there was a ton of work to do for classes, and B: when I wasn’t doing school work I would hang out with my T&F buds (on the track, in the WR, fieldhouse, cafeterias, shenanigans around Beantown, you name it). After Outdoor was over in June, we even got around to a little partying! We were truly blessed to live a life of schoolwork, working out, eating, sleeping and competing :party: 0:)

I, uh, get up, let the cats, out feed, them, scratch my backside, have a wash, feed mysels, put a finger up to the wind, determine if it’s going to rain or be howling wet, and dress accordingly. If it’s howling wet I dress appropriately for breakfast, and have a workout consistiing of fried bread, beans, eggs not over-easy, black pudding, chips, beans, more chips, more beans an chips an beans.
If it’s a decent day I’ll pull on my cycling gear and take a wander off out.
That’s it for the day - such a day happens every so often.
I’m fit as a flea, me.

Bicycling to and from work, daily year ’round; except maybe 10 days a year, when it’s just too rainy/windy. And 75+ push ups a day. That’s about it; should be more of a regimen though…

Great thread ....

I think I'll subscribe and get some ice cream and read...

Do video games count ?

Beans beans they're good for your heart ......

I hope so cuz i'm stating to really get into lentils :P

“Walking is man’s best medicine.”

“If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.”

Hippocrates

i usually grab a random training routine from youtube to try out…could be with or without weights…cuz its kind of boring to keep following the same old thing….other than that is mostly cycling for me

4 times a week ‘bodybuilding’ + abs = 8 hours
3-7 times a week cardio (15-60 minutes each session: biking/crosstrainer)

Push-ups, sit-ups, and a timed two-mile run. Throw in 5-6 heaves/pull ups. (ala APFT).

I go to the climbing gym several times a week, climb outside weather permitting (which is very seasonal around here) otherwise it’s hiking (in the mountains) and walking around a nearby in town lake.

“Of all the causes which conspire to render the life of a man short and miserable, none have greater influence than the want of proper exercise.”

British poet John Gay “Exercise thy lasting youth defends

Hippocrates 2,400 years ago

“That which is used develops; that which is not wastes away”

Cicero

“Exercise and temperance will preserve something of our youthful vigor, even into old age.”

I wrote up my program wrong.

Training weight is 80% of max.

Day 1: Chest. Overhead press a few sets, no warm up weights or ramping. Switch to bench, work up to training weight, then do sets of 8 over and over again until I feel like stopping. Do front, lateral and rear raise drop sets.

Day 2: Pulls. Pull ups, sometimes with extra weight, and keep doing sets until my injured elbow starts to hurt. Switch to single arm barbell rows. Work up to training weight and keep doing sets at that weight until I feel like stopping. Do shrugs with whatever weight my elbow feels okay with. Switch to curls. Once a week I'll do drop sets, and the other workout that week will just be a couple sets at training weight. Switch to forearm work using weighted engineers hammer, super gripper and a dumbbell.

Day 3: Leg curls, extensions and calf raises.


Most days I'll do a couple sets of curls, HIIT and a couple sets of overhead press. A couple times a week I'll do ab work and spend the time between sets using a foam roller and tennis ball.



This program is geared towards putting on muscle mass and keeping my metabolism high. The tape measure says it's working incredibly well.

before moving in with toni and having the kids, I had a rigorous training regime that resulted in an impressive right arm…… now I keep fit by dint of not being able to afford fatty food and chasing a pair of insane toddlers.

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seen here plotting their next mischief.