Been meaning to post here for a while but too lazy... I've got a basic set up on my garage, power tower, incline decline bench with cables... Flat bench stationary bike... I forget he names most of the exercises I do, dips and leg & knee raises on the tower.... Lat pull downs as well as traps and tris on the high cable though they say shrugs are better for traps as the upright row can pinch the shoulders, it is a bit uncomfortable... Incline and decline bench press with dumbbell flies for pecs as well as the forward facing dips for pecs and tris.
Got a curl bar for bis as well as preacher attachment for bi curls
Leg extensions and curls, dumbbell lunges and goblet squats as well as deadlifts t hough I think. I got a effn heamaroid from the dead lift so gave that away for a while.... Thought the doctor was gunna finger me but thankfully the proctosedyl he prescribed did the trick.
I Do 30kg backpack calf raises also for the legs.. Dumbbell side raises.. Push-ups... Crunches etc etc..
Been working out since 2011....ive made some bad bad choices in the past re drugs and alcohol... All the crap tha goes with that but is now in the past but I've a chronic liver condition that really makes it difficult to build muscle plus a metabolism similar to hodgo I'm wht they call. I think a lean gainer.
I'm 56 now and clean living very important to me... One positive thing I managed to pass onto my son... He's into good eating and fitness too.
I think of my diet 10 or 12 years back it wasn't that bad but not good either... Lots of soft drink, sugar... White bread and junk food.... Now no sugar bar the odd Choc or ice cream... Little bread at all, brown rice, lots of veges, quinoa etc.. My lovely partner makes us smoothies every day chia seeds yoghurt and different fruits celery & spinach every day... Yellow red green... Very filling and very healthy and tasty.
I walka lot at work and start early so workouts are arvos.. Sometimes I'm too buggered or it's too hot... Sometimes I never to walk 20km at work so I don't give a stuff my excuses are good enough for me but it's rare when I do pike out... Sometime will wake early like 4am and do a bit before work but no often.
Had to go for a colonoscopy last week at West mead in hospital for the day hanks to my dicky liver... It's all.ongoing these tests blood tests ultrasounds colonoscopy etc tho it's all my own fault... Doctor asked me if I was a marathon runner or triathlete 🤣 as my heart rate is quite low (50bpm) apparently fit people have low heart rate... BP and cholesterol is all fine.. Doctors comment made me laugh though they were concerned with the anaesthesia and my low heart rate.
As we age we gotta prepare for older.... My old neighbour was an ex postie.. Racked with arthritis poor bloke... Had to put his bins out for him sometimes... Need to try and prepare for older and be as healthy as possible... The bursitis in my shoulder and tendinitis in both elbows really hold me back... Bike accident years back resulted in fracture neck an collarbone dislocated shoulder still gives me grief... Voltarens help though not good for the bloody liver.
It would be great to go back. In ime and do things differently but that's a dream we can only go from today... Boys as we get older keep the body AND brain moving or else it will fail us... Use it or lose it - sorry had to toss a cliche in ☺️