Fit by 60! - TomO's Pledge

Blancita said:
My knees pop and hurt for a few days after doing lunges and squats too. That sucks as my ass gets mighty sore from those exercises so I know it works so much better than the "safer" machines, which dont bother my knees but dont get me at all sore and consequently dont seem to do "squat" (to use a pun). I'm thinking I need to work on warming my legs up before doing heavy exercises (I got that from you TomO).
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Yeah, I have to do quite a bit of warming up before I do my working sets. I do a set of 5 or 10 squats with just body weight, and then another set with the bar, another set with 50 lbs., etc., until I reach my working set. If I don't do that, it's a bad sight to see!

I don't buy for a minute that the machines are safer. They keep you in a single plane of motion, which your body doesn't naturally follow. I also like the idea of having functional strength outside the gym, and the squat machines don't really give you that.
 
TomO said:
I don't buy for a minute that the machines are safer. They keep you in a single plane of motion, which your body doesn't naturally follow. I also like the idea of having functional strength outside the gym, and the squat machines don't really give you that.
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Well, as a special exception, consider this: this older man (probably a few years older than Tom, but not as cutthroat buff as Tom) told me he uses the Smith Machine for his dumbell squats because free-style makes him dizzy and light-headed. So theoretically, it is safer for him personally to use a machine. I admit, I do get slightly light-headed sometimes, but in between sets I walk it off--it works for me. :)
 
Curvie Girlie said:
Well, as a special exception, consider this: this older man (probably a few years older than Tom, but not as cutthroat buff as Tom) told me he uses the Smith Machine for his dumbell squats because free-style makes him dizzy and light-headed. So theoretically, it is safer for him personally to use a machine. I admit, I do get slightly light-headed sometimes, but in between sets I walk it off--it works for me. :)
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If you are using DBs for squats, how can you also use the smith machine.

And if he is using the smith machine, you have to consider the cost. Yea, he doesn't get light headed, which doesn't make much sense to me, but he is also giving up the functionality of free weights and the training of stabilizers.
 
Curvie Girlie said:
Well, as a special exception, consider this: this older man (probably a few years older than Tom, but not as cutthroat buff as Tom) told me he uses the Smith Machine for his dumbell squats because free-style makes him dizzy and light-headed. So theoretically, it is safer for him personally to use a machine. I admit, I do get slightly light-headed sometimes, but in between sets I walk it off--it works for me. :)
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Well, yeah, in that sense, he probably is safer with a machine.

How do you use a Smith machine for dumbbell squats, though? :)
 
Well my bad! Either way, this old dude said when he does a squat with a barebell and weights, he needed to use the Smith or he'd pass out. Poor sap.
 
LOL, I was also wondering how you could use DBs with the Smith. I used to do my squats on there as I could obviously go heavy for me (about double my body weight). I got pretty good results on it, maybe not in the stomach but in the legs and buttox (LOL). Now my knees pop so I cant go heavy anymore. Once I get back to the weights, I'll ditch the Smith and start light doing regular squats.
 
Thanks guys! I wasn't sure, but honestly on this exercise my weights would be higher or the same as the men so I did think it was pretty good (probably because men often seem to be more into the upper body). But that was all before I got preggers. Its been about 2 1/2 years now so it really doesn't count anymore :).
 
Sure it counts. It means you have a lot of good muscle fiber in your legs -- which you can get back over time. :)
 
Wednesday, June 13, 2007

pinkydolly said:
*sees lots of greek terms*
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:confused:

Weight 233.4 - Round 5, Day 22. Even though my quads were aching from DOMS, I pushed myself into the gym for 64 minutes of steady state cardio. I had some trouble keeping up my usual pace, so it took slightly longer than an hour to grind out the thousand calorie goal. Max HR was 142 (84% of max), and average HR was 132 (70% of max).

Food yesterday was pretty good at 2,737 calories:
Fat: 113 gm, 37%; 25 gm saturated, 8%
Carbs: 329 gm, 45%; 47 gm fiber
Protein: 116 gm, 17%
Alcohol: 3 gm, 1%

I had white rice (ran out of brown :( ) for lunch and whole wheat spaghetti for dinner, contributing to the unusually high carb intake.

With my NARM of 2,388 calories, plus 1,000 calories from cardio, I ended the day with a 651 calorie deficit, giving me 5,153 calories accumulated deficit in this Round, and 974 calories deficit in this month.

Today is Weights Day 3, with some more brand new exercises. One of them is the push press, which I used to do 10 years ago, and really enjoy. After that, I'm going to the bloodmobile for my regular blood donation.

Tomorrow, I should be down a pound, guaranteed. A pint a pound, right?
 
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