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15 hours ago, troph said:

Came here to say lunges, squats and core exercises can fuck off. 

10 weeks back at it with weights and resistance training, weight room and HIIT with a trainer 2x a week to go with tennis 2x a week.

yesterday was the first work out where I felt like crap the whole time, no endorphins, honeymoon phase over. 

fuck lunges, squats and core exercises. Hate with the heat of a thousand suns.

 

This made me laugh because I can do lunges, squats and core exercises all day without issue but I've been playing tennis with the girlfriend and I say fuck tennis.

Tennis fucks with my knees. Well, that and I am terrible at tennis.

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5 hours ago, F250 said:

This made me laugh because I can do lunges, squats and core exercises all day without issue but I've been playing tennis with the girlfriend and I say fuck tennis.

Tennis fucks with my knees. Well, that and I am terrible at tennis.

Wait, wait . . . “girlfriend?”  Don’t you mean “sugarbaby?” What’s happening?

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16 hours ago, South Austin said:

Wait, wait . . . “girlfriend?”  Don’t you mean “sugarbaby?” What’s happening?

Yeah, it's been about 6 months and slowly evolving. Apparently we both have attachment issues so we are comfortable with things progressing at a snails pace.

 

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6 hours ago, F250 said:

Yeah, it's been about 6 months and slowly evolving. Apparently we both have attachment issues so we are comfortable with things progressing at a snails pace.

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Yeah, it's been about 6 months and slowly evolving. Apparently we both have attachment issues so we are comfortable with things progressing at a snails pace.
 

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On 4/8/2025 at 11:31 PM, F250 said:

This made me laugh because I can do lunges, squats and core exercises all day without issue but I've been playing tennis with the girlfriend and I say fuck tennis.

Tennis fucks with my knees. Well, that and I am terrible at tennis.

1v1 pickleball is a lot more fun and less intensive, but still provides a good workout. I’d give it a shot.

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On 4/8/2025 at 12:07 AM, destroya said:

Muscles get stronger faster than ligaments. And since you’re new(ish) to working out, your muscles are building strength that your tendons and ligaments may not be ready for, which could increase the risk of injury. 

It wouldn’t be a bad idea to add some variety to your workouts. Isometrics and static holds, work your muscles in a different way and build your ligaments and tendons. Bodyweight exercises and  calisthenics develop balance, body control and overall proprioception (awareness of your body in space) This will keep you in the gym while letting the rest of your body adapt and catch up to the gains your muscles are making. 

As middle aged men there’s a lot more facets to strength than lifting weights in the gym. Building balance, body control and proprioception allows our bodies to incorporate our strength and muscular gains into a literal armor that will protect us as we age. 

Good luck and keep on keeping on! 

Yep, biggest reason that I work in one session of yoga during my week, I've found it's been pretty good for keeping/improving my flexibility while hitting the weights the other 3-4 days a week I'm in there.

 

Also as a single guy I can't say it hurts that there's about a 4 to 1 ratio or better most classes.

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HALP!

okay 12 weeks in, bad ass, HIIT/weights/hard tennis x2 a week, going up one more weights session that will end up 5 days a week and then I’m back to my early 40s with a flex day where I’m active but not working out, and only one day where I blah out. 3 sets of everything, personal trainer etc (she will help with my next question). 
 

so it’s all great right?

UGH, I cannot stop eating, I’m fucking ravenous, like stuffing my face and still hungry.

i gotta get a hold of this - what’s the deal? What’s the plan? What’s the way to not gain 20 fucking pounds here?

last time around I was 10 years younger so it wasn’t as big of a deal weight wise. This time I’m in trouble. 

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Posted
6 hours ago, Parliament said:

How much weight you gaining?  Are you sure you're gaining weight at all?

muscle weight don't care about and I'm not sure how much is that. weight gain is 10 lbs though, and my waist is definitely noticing as certain active skirts/skorts i wear are getting a tad tight.

trainer said some protein before a work out - like 1 hour before - then protein (example she gave was apple and peanut butter) right after a work out to stave off the ravenous hunger that comes.  basically eat right before and right after a work out.  she also thinks my appetite will calm down in a few weeks. she's less nutrition than work out though, but she's so effing fit, she knows something.

I do this spinach, banana, peanut butter, fig, vanilla, oat milk smoothie and I think I'm going to cut the peanut butter and add peanut butter flavored protein powder. I think I'm going to just ramp up protein consumption.

really am open to thoughts. i'm feeling as good as I've felt in 7-8 years now 12 weeks in. it's amazing. i feel strong, confident, capable, my energy level has sky rocketed and I"m happy. but damn my appetite is like either a pregnant woman or a teenage boy or both right now.

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