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- Sun Aug 16, 2020 2:23 pm
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I am impressed! And feeling a bit sedentary...
- Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:34 pm
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- Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:24 pm
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- Thu Jun 18, 2020 10:30 am
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You masochists have a team name? I can at least offer moral support.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 1:17 pm
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I set up a daily Google Alert to search for it along with my other saved alerts. I missed a pennies-on-the-dollar firness center sale once before, and I'd like at least the chance to score some good equipment at an even better price. They gotta do something with all that stuff if the doors are closing permanently, right? Probably an institutional auction first; I'd think the main targets would be hotels and resorts...but they ain't exactly flush with cash flow right now, either. So maybe consignment to several local auction houses for public bidding could happen.KC5AV wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:25 amGood find...wife really wants a treadmill.Rafe wrote: ↑Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:54 pmOn only a semi-related note: "COVID-19 has impacted national chain 24-Hour Fitness, which has filed for bankruptcy and will close hundreds of gyms, including those in Texas."
https://abc13.com/business/24-hour-fitn ... s/6248740/
Hm... Just dawned on me. Possibly watch for fire-sale liquidations on potential additions to the home gym...
I've got a treadmill on my wishlist, too. Have one, but it's a cheapo model and pretty flimsy. My wife uses it, but I won't dare try to run on it, only walk...gently. Another really good stationary bike would be primo, too. If there's a great deal on a stepper, that would be under consideration.
The home gym inside the house is maxed out for space, more than maxed out, really: I have a Roman Chair that stays tucked into a bedroom until I haul it out and use it. An industrial size treadmill would have to go into the garage, with one of the cars relegated to the driveway. But if I'm going to start using the garage anyway, what I'd really like is a decent leg press unit. Squats are just too hard on the aging back, and otherwise I have really nothing for quads. A second Olympic bar and more plates would be nice, as would a dedicated incline bench with rack. And a gym-quality sit-up board with "ladder"; I could also use that for decline and cable stuff. And the dumbbells only go up to 65 lbs.; would be good to have 70, 75 & 80, but probably won't find that at a 24-Hour Fitness. (BTW, don't let my wife see any of this...she doesn't even think we need a new treadmill...)
P.S. After I started recording my poundages as if it were a challenge like I outlined, I recognized several flaws in my oversimplified approach. Can't get too wacky-complex, but needs work.
- Mon Jun 15, 2020 2:54 pm
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On only a semi-related note: "COVID-19 has impacted national chain 24-Hour Fitness, which has filed for bankruptcy and will close hundreds of gyms, including those in Texas."
https://abc13.com/business/24-hour-fitn ... s/6248740/
Hm... Just dawned on me. Possibly watch for fire-sale liquidations on potential additions to the home gym...
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:08 am
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Thanks, Syntyr. But having me on a team involved in long-distance aerobic work would be like tying a 20-pound dumbbell to each ankle before you start the swim portion of a triathlon.
If there's anyone interested in doing something with lifting rather than aerobics, I'll put some thought as to how we could track that. I think I've kinda convinced myself to track my stuff just for my own self. I use Google Sheets to record my workouts, so really it would only be a matter of including cells that total up the weight multiplied by the reps. Every incremental weight increase and every extra rep gets you to a goal faster. But I don't have any plans for bling like a cast medal shaped like an M1A1 Abrams or a Black Hawk helicopter.
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 7:19 pm
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Had an idea and looked at the website, as well as the "parent" site, https://www.myvirtualmission.com/, and everything available, including the "custom" challenges, are all distance based: walking, running, cycling, swimming, rowing, etc. Makes sense, since then you can hook a FitBit or other tracker into it.
But I've never been a distance kinda guy. I'm on the stationary bike 2 to 3 hours a week because I need the aerobics, not because I or my backside likes it. I do a little running, but only 40s, 100s, and occasionally 220s; wind sprints, what my dear wife lovingly calls "Centrum Silver Shuffles." Easier on the knees and, mentally, I can concentrate that long. I'm wired for anaerobic bursts.
What we need is a similar type of virtual challenge thingy, but for folks who prefer slingin' iron to cross-country runs. Unfortunately, no way to really quantify stuff like bodyweight calisthenics (push-ups, sit-ups, unweighted pull-ups or dips, elastic resistance bands, etc.), but with any implement of a known weight, you could simply record the weight and the number of reps performed, multiply the weight times the reps, and there's your output; total the results for all sets in the workout.
I did a little quick math, and my "moderate" back workout today (right now I'm doing a periodized schedule with light, moderate, and heavy poundage microcycles alternating among five bodypart areas through a 15-day cycle, 5 days on, 1 off) and it came in right at 40,000 pounds calculated that way. And I ain't that studly. Again, just ask my dear wife...who pulls no punches and never asks me to open a jar.
If you pick up a pair of 20 lb. dumbbells and do, say, a set of 20 curls, that's 40x20=800 lbs. Do a set of 10 deadlifts with 315 and you've notched 3,150 lbs. Adds up really quick! And looks a lot more impressive written down than it really is. I had no idea I lifted a total of 40,000 pounds this afternoon.
But that could lead to some pretty cool challenges. Like, say, the M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Battalion Challenge. The M1A1 weighs 67.6 tons. A battalion usually has 4 companies of 14 tanks, plus 2 more tanks for Headquarters Company, for a total of 58. Call it 3,921 tons, or 7.842 million pounds. At a 40,000 lb. clip 5 days a week, that would take about 39 weeks.
Could have longer and shorter goals, keeping it heavy metal military focused for the coolness factor. "What's an M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Battalion Challenge?" "It means I lifted the equivalent weight of a full battalion of 58 M1A1 tanks."
A longer one could be the USS Winston S. Churchill Challenge. She's an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer displacing 9,200 tons fully loaded, so 18.4 million pounds. At 40,000 lbs. per workout, you'd need 460 workouts to get there. If you do five a week, it's a 92-week affair. A shorter could be the Black Hawk Assault Helicopter Battalion Challenge. There are 30 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks in a CAB assault helicopter battalion, and max take-off weight is 23,500 pounds, for a total of 705,000 pounds. That would need only about 18 workouts; at four per week that's only a little over one month.
Okay. Back to real-world stuff...
But I've never been a distance kinda guy. I'm on the stationary bike 2 to 3 hours a week because I need the aerobics, not because I or my backside likes it. I do a little running, but only 40s, 100s, and occasionally 220s; wind sprints, what my dear wife lovingly calls "Centrum Silver Shuffles." Easier on the knees and, mentally, I can concentrate that long. I'm wired for anaerobic bursts.
What we need is a similar type of virtual challenge thingy, but for folks who prefer slingin' iron to cross-country runs. Unfortunately, no way to really quantify stuff like bodyweight calisthenics (push-ups, sit-ups, unweighted pull-ups or dips, elastic resistance bands, etc.), but with any implement of a known weight, you could simply record the weight and the number of reps performed, multiply the weight times the reps, and there's your output; total the results for all sets in the workout.
I did a little quick math, and my "moderate" back workout today (right now I'm doing a periodized schedule with light, moderate, and heavy poundage microcycles alternating among five bodypart areas through a 15-day cycle, 5 days on, 1 off) and it came in right at 40,000 pounds calculated that way. And I ain't that studly. Again, just ask my dear wife...who pulls no punches and never asks me to open a jar.
If you pick up a pair of 20 lb. dumbbells and do, say, a set of 20 curls, that's 40x20=800 lbs. Do a set of 10 deadlifts with 315 and you've notched 3,150 lbs. Adds up really quick! And looks a lot more impressive written down than it really is. I had no idea I lifted a total of 40,000 pounds this afternoon.
But that could lead to some pretty cool challenges. Like, say, the M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Battalion Challenge. The M1A1 weighs 67.6 tons. A battalion usually has 4 companies of 14 tanks, plus 2 more tanks for Headquarters Company, for a total of 58. Call it 3,921 tons, or 7.842 million pounds. At a 40,000 lb. clip 5 days a week, that would take about 39 weeks.
Could have longer and shorter goals, keeping it heavy metal military focused for the coolness factor. "What's an M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank Battalion Challenge?" "It means I lifted the equivalent weight of a full battalion of 58 M1A1 tanks."
A longer one could be the USS Winston S. Churchill Challenge. She's an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer displacing 9,200 tons fully loaded, so 18.4 million pounds. At 40,000 lbs. per workout, you'd need 460 workouts to get there. If you do five a week, it's a 92-week affair. A shorter could be the Black Hawk Assault Helicopter Battalion Challenge. There are 30 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawks in a CAB assault helicopter battalion, and max take-off weight is 23,500 pounds, for a total of 705,000 pounds. That would need only about 18 workouts; at four per week that's only a little over one month.
Okay. Back to real-world stuff...
- Fri Jun 12, 2020 11:21 am
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My brain almost had a sympathetic aneurysm just reading the topic title. But it isn't an actual all-at-one-time combo ultra-marathon/Trojan race kind of thing. Whew.