Mine is going to be laid back if all goes according to plan. I’m going to do some birding with a friend tomorrow morning, then I’m headed to a used bookstore to buy a copy of “the pricess bride” that I talked myself out of the other day (I’ve never read it). Then I’m hitting the farmers market and then relaxing at home for the foreseeable future. Enjoy your weekend!
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Old friends and their kids are coming to visit for about half a week. Haven’t seen them for a few years. No big plans: just hang out and catch up.
Birthday celly tomorrow! Rooftop pool in the afternoon, whisky bar in the evening. Gonna be the BEES knees baby
Happy Birthday!
Bringing a thermos of soju and dancing at all the free music booths from Pride Toronto! I really needed this.
Man, you are all such nerds, and that’s why I feel at home here. :)
I’m going to continue playing Tears of the Kingdom and hopefully crush pull day at the gym tomorrow.
I’ve never heard of a “pull day” at the gym before, what’s that mean?
Oh, don’t get me started talking about lifting! You’ll never get me to shut up. :-)
It’s a way to describe the “split” that a person does at the gym. I do the so-called PPL (“push, pull, legs”), split, meaning that on some workouts I’m focusing on the muscles that generally push things away from you (like the muscles of the chest, the shoulders, and the triceps), and on others, I train the “pulling” muscles (the lats, traps, and biceps). Then of course there’s leg day!
All it is is a shorthand to structure your workouts so that you don’t fatigue the same muscle on subsequent days. Hope that helps!
Do you know of any ressources for anyone looking for a new workout plan?
Sure, can you tell me what your goals are? If you can, I might be able to point you in the right direction.
I tried gym subscriptions but I always end up not going. Now I’m doing cardio at home but I would like to lift again. I don’t have equipment yet, but I am contemplating buying a bench and dumbbells. I don’t really want to bulk up, I just want to stay in shape.
I saw Jeff Nippard on YT recently discussing minimalist training (and his The Essentials Program) and it sounds right up my alley, because I don’t want maximum gains (nor maximum time training). But it looks like I would need to go to the gym for a lot of the exercises he suggests.
As I am a newbie for all of this, I would love to know where to look for more info on this. Anything I can do at home a few times a week without it being a major time investment. Thanks for any help :)
Sure, happy to help!
If you’re willing to work out three times a week, I’d say that you could also do the push-pull-legs routine. It’s super simple. On push day, pick one chest exercise, one triceps exercise, and one shoulder exercise. On pull day, do one lower-back or lat exercise, one trap exercise, and one biceps exercise. On leg day, do hamstrings, quads, and glutes. If you structure it like that—just three exercises, three times a week—it should put you ahead of almost everyone. Because most people don’t lift. :)
So here’s a sample schedule. Do 3x 8–12 of each:
Monday (push): Push-ups or bench press; tricep dips or skullcrushers; overhead press
Wednesday (pull): Chin-ups or pull-downs; shrugs; bicep curls or hammer curls
Friday (legs): Dumbbell, bodyweight, or sumo squats; dumbbell deadlifts; dumbbell hip thrusts
The beauty of a routine like that is that you can vary it as you like—there are dozens of available exercises as replacements for the above—and you can make it as intense as you want as well by doing heavier weights, more reps, etc. If you get close to failure at the end of your sets, that’s good enough. And you can completely do it with just a set of dumbbells. It might be handy to have a bench for doing bench press as opposed to push-ups or for tricep dips, but it’s not necessary.
I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.
Edited to add: And don’t feel like there’s a bar to jump over before you can start something like this, either. If you can’t do push-ups, there’s no reason that you can’t do them on a wall or on your knees. That’s just as good!
Thank you for the wealth of information! I will for sure adopt this regimen. Looks like I only need to reinstall my pull up bar and I am golden! :) Thanks again!
Planting grapes and irises, then going to the local Italian restaurant for dinner. Tomorrow, picking up hay for the donkeys. Playing Valheim between all that. 😆
Sound engineering at the music venue I work at!
That sounds like a rad job!
Visiting my Dad in Toronto. Seeing the sights with my family for the first time. Just wrapping it all up and loving the overall pride vibe. Happy Pride to everyone! Spread love… I’m sending it right now!
It’s my birthday on Sunday but due to my previous landlord fucking me over I am very broke this paycheck so no real plans other than stay home and be with my wife.
Happy birthday! Enjoy spending time with your loved one, that’s a present in and of itself! Also, fuck landlords
Happy bday. Enjoy your day and many fucks to your landlord!
The Princess Bride is as wonderful a book as it is a movie! You’re gonna love it 😊
I’m gonna be cleaning my apartment because we’re finally getting a couch!! And I need to get the place in order so it’s easy to maneuver it in. We’ve lived in our place for a few months already but still in box city… so it’s nice to have something to force me to unpack and make it look presentable.
I think it was nearly 3 years in our new house before we finally opened the last box and sorted it all so don’t feel to bad!
Thank you!! That’s very validating to hear 😊
I still have things in boxes from 2 moves ago, maybe I don’t need them…
Ha! That really is the other side of it. Done a ton of spring cleaning this year, which is just code for garbage, garbage, garbage.
Finally clean my space because it is a complete mess
Well, for me the weekend is the start of my (very weird) weekly work schedule so my weekend is pretty much just ending.
However, thanks to a recommendation at the Star Trek community I picked up one of the Star Trek books for my Kindle since they’re on sale so I’ll definitely be reading that!
Additionally, I updated my Minecraft server to 1.20.1 and nuked the world since I hadn’t really progressed at all (the TL;DR of that situation is that I’ve been “working” on that server since 2021 - it was intended to be a new public server that my ex and I were going to create, but I just haven’t had a lot of time or motivation to do so after we split up) so I’ll probably be giving that a go!
I finally got a refill for an important medication I’m on, it was three weeks late and has been stressing me out so I’m relieved over that. There are plenty of other stressors going on as of lately, but that was a pretty big one.
Other than that, for better or for worse I’ll just be going wherever the days take me!
I’ve had a very tiring past 3 weeks so I’m taking it easy this weekend. So far today I’ve done my first decent calisthenics workout in a long time, and geeked around some with my Emacs org mode GTD setup.
I’m sick. So I’m just passing time on my bed, setting up a new laptop I just got. Not super exciting, but it’s always fun getting a new toy.
Racing a sailboat from San Francisco to Half Moon Bay, spending the night there and motoring back on Sunday. We’ve been doing well in the ocean races so far this year, so I’m hoping for a good result tomorrow.
Enjoy the book! I’ve not read it yet either, though I plan to some day. :)
Greetings from Oakland! Hope you kick ass!
What am I doing? Anything but pooping. But seriously, apparently I’m going to be eating a lot of protein and minimal fiber…
