Anyone here on WP workout?

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Wow, a lot of you are super hard core with your training plans, I'm impressed. I guess exercise isn't particularly a special interest, so I don't obsess over it, I go to the gym three or four times a week because I'm 42, and there comes an age, apparently, when you have to choose between chub and exercise. The chub began to creep in, so I chose exercise.

The gym was very overwhelming at first, I made my teenager accompany me the first few times. Then I discovered classes! I love school! The classes have a schedule, a precise start and finish time, a somewhat predictable routine, and, at my gym, intelligent instructors who enjoy teaching a bit of fitness physiology along with the class.

I position myself in the very back row, and I'm quite uncoordinated, and I get giggled at sometimes. I have found a couple of buddies who also stick to the back row who are also less coordinated. Some of them just sort of do their own thing for the whole class, they just seem to like to be in the class. We are not alone....

Currently I'm at 185 lbs, and I don't know what my body fat percentage is though. I used to be at 200 lbs, but because I started drinking water and less soda. As well as eating a little better than my usual diet. I've been able to keep myself under 200 for the time being. I've also started jogging everyday in the morning to help out a bit.

I do... Been into lifting & bodybuilding for almost 30 years (I'm 45 now). I eat right, and that means a lot of good proteins and no fats, and very little carbs. That works best for me because I'm not as active as I used to be, so I don't need as much in carbs.

As far as the gym, I have a 3-way split routine: Day A; delts, traps. Day B; pecs, lats. Day C; Bi's, tri's, and legs. I do abs 7 days, and I alternate between long light and short heavy for the abs (light=350 basic crunches, and heavy = 8 or 9 sets of machine crunches and/or weighted leg raises at 200-245lbs). I've been at the size I want for several years, so I don't usually push all the way to fail on the last set of anything, but sometimes I do.

I'm standing in my avatar with a 590-lb siren head, which I'm holding with wrist hooks. I cheated; I didn't deadlift it, but I picked it up from a truck bed, and took 2 steps back for the photo.

Charles

My abs:

I started working out when I started ice skating, initially just messing around in hockey skates, then eventually moving to figure skating. Skating got me from high blood pressure/bad health at 210-215lbs, to good blood pressure at 180lbs, with skating, some dieting and a few days a week doing punching bag work.

I started lifting weights just to help skate better, initially with the leg press, then I became a man and started squatting, haha. Because of skating and naturally having tree trunk legs, I could squat a decent amount without much trying. Then I did deadlifts, then clean and jerks, standing overhead presses, and snatches, and occasionally incline bench.

For me, I love lower body exercises, it's great being able to surprise people being able to pick up heavy stuff off the ground, and I see a huge improvement in daily activities, being able to, say, jump on top of picnic tables like a kid. But again, they help skating exponentially, so yeah.

For skating, there's a few sorta specialized things I do, I do weighted slideboard slides, usually with 15s in each hand. Another thing I gotta work on but suck at is pistols, or single leg squats, my main issue with that is balance.

As far as diet, my main problem is eating clean, I hover at like 195lbs, now I'm hopefully temporarily at 200, due to being on vacation and not working out or being able to skate, and eating out most meals. Bleh. I'm like 18-20% bodyfat now, I'd like to get down to 10 or so, or maybe get to 175-180lbs again, but this time be ripped at 180 instead of my old flabbyish 180.

Lower weight is ideal for me, I so wish I was an ectomorph, but I'm meso/endo. For skating, you need power to weight ratio, so for me, I only wish to gain strength, any added muscles is sorta coincidental for me working out. I don't take much of a bodybuilder perspective when working out, just wanna gain strength.

But yeah, that's what I do, I guess I do like it a lot. Skating, and then basically doing mostly lower body compounds and Olympic lifts. I'd say snatches are my favorite lift, very hard techniquewise, but fun. If you do them for reps, it's excellent cardio. Clean and jerks/presses are fun, too.

I used to work out obsessively at the gym when I was in my early twenties, I'm female so back then I copped many a raised eyebrow at my physique. I was not delicate flower to say the least but never gave a sh!t.

Years later, that phase passed and I found with simply working with horses and running a large property on a daily basis, that my muscle memory was always enough to keep me more then just 'toned', but none of us are getting any younger and after three years of treating my body like a night club (life got in the way), I finally had enough of myself and turned a corner.

My motto now is 'strong is the new skinny' because lets face it, I like to eat! Skinny was never going to be part of my equation and I would never ever starve myself to be that way.

I now treat my body like a temple. I still do lots of core exercises because I lift weight repetitively as part of my work and need to keep my back protected, I supplement my fitness with cardio now so I don't bulk up too much. Twice a week I do 10kms of steep hill work and run 5kms three to four days a week and I eat a healthy low fat,low carb, lean protein diet (I do, on occasion spoil myself).
I'm 171cm and weight 64kg. (What's that, five seven-ish and 140lbs?) and feel great!

I workout 4 times a week, currently on a 4-split program (Chest/Biceps - Quads/Hamstring - Shoulders/Triceps - Back/Calves/Abs). Each session often last around 2 hours, which makes it roughly 6 hours a week + I go for a jog occasionally, endurance isn't my main priority at the moment... Currently working towards putting on some weight, managed to put on a decent amount during a couple of months and I'm now at 80kg. Confidence is the key for me working out, as I struggle with low-selfesteem and other AS traits. If I weren't working out I could see myself being bullied physically , as I'm a pretty shy and quite guy.

Pros and cons with having AS for me has to be:
Pros:
- I'm good at organizing and keeping track of my workouts.
- I'm determined.

Cons:
- I eat far to little and I'm picky when it comes to food, although this is something that I've been trying to improve lately.
- Sleeping problems.
- Social phobia, resulting in me only working out at home, and not in a gym.

I can't post my stats - I don't weigh myself (and I'm not willing to, I'm a recovered anorexic and it's still pretty painful for me to step on the scales, although I'm healthy and happy now!).

I'm currently completing the 'Insanity' workout. My favourite exercises are running, skipping (sounds silly, but you'd be surprised how good skipping is for your cardio!), boxing, belly & burlesque dancing and badminton.