20 lbs is terrible when you're not used to walking around with it on you (even worse when you go to run with that extra weight on your joints.) I try to keep up a cycle for about two month or so. That's the point I start to peak and/or get bored with a routine, so I switch it up. I've figured in my go-to's over the last 20 years or so, so I rotate through about 4-6 a year. I've built out a full gym at home over the years so my only excuse for letting myself slip on a workout is laziness. The diet is a whole different can of worms. I like cheese. I like bread. I like meats. But worse, I like beer, which leads to those other things in droves after enough of them. I can keep up the workouts, but the diet is killing me. My goal now is just to maintain that looks to be in pretty good shape now, but was probably a beast earlier on look. I'm fine with that at this point. My son is slowly becoming an animal, so I may have to step up my game soon though....
The dang jiggling drives me crazy. My wife yells at me when I say I need to lose the extra weight (to be fair, I'm still in all the same clothes and it doesn't LOOK like it when I say I'm getting fat, but I feel it all. Hell, I'm almost 40 (you've got some years on me) but I still have a few shirts from high school that I still wear. It's not how it looks, but how it feels on you. I'm a physical person, and still need to be for work, and I feel every extra pound I put on - muscle and fat. They both get painful when I gain too much, but at least lean muscle doesn't jiggle. It's just getting harder and harder to reverse those poor choices. My joints, diet, and energy level are about to have a summit here soon and I'll find out who wins.Tell me about it! I feel jiggly and gross. I have had arthritis since my 20's but it is so much worse now....edging into knee replacement time.
The thing that kicked me back into gear was really my health. My blood pressure was going up as was my resting heart rate. I'm a cardiac (used to be critical care) nurse, I simply refuse to go down that road. Since I've started working out more -inaddition to short runs and yoga, I ride and elliptical - my heart rate is down as is my bp.
The jiggling hasn't gone away though
. Got up into the 300s in bench and squat,, and 400s in deadlift go real excited until I had a mild tear in my pec muscle lol. But I'm anxious to get back into lifting. My body aches for it as weird as that sounds
Nice!I just go to the gym 4 days a week (before corona) and do the basics. I feel strong for a 200lb short guy
