Weights

[rowyn]

Fitocracy did indeed prove to be the straw that finally broke my refusal to lift weights.  Possibly in part by ridiculously overvaluing weight-lifting relative to cardio (maybe that's just me.)

 

Last night, I dusted off my weights (well, swept the spiderwebs off and then cleaned them. The spiders of my basement are Not Amused, I'm sure), cleaned the weight bench, unearthed my Weightlifting For Dummies book, found my gardening gloves because my fingerless weight lifting gloves were eeyugh, and an old sheet from back when I was lifting weights regularly. I went through about 2/3rds of my previous routine, using weights at 50-60% of my former amount. Because ... yeah, haven't lifted in five or so years.

 

It took approximately forever, in part because I needed to clean everything first and in part because I barely remembered the exercises, so I had to reference form and position a lot. And look everything up. Not wanting to look things up was a major factor in not doing the last third of the exercises.

 

Putting everything into Fitocracy took way too long too.  In the long run, I need to update Fitocracy from my phone while I work out or I'll probably quit doing it. It'll be faster now that I've got the routine entered in Fitocracy, but even just filling in weights and reps is kind of annoying when you've got so many different exercises to include. And I still need to enter the remaining third of the upper body regimen that I skipped. Plus lower body and core exercises, which I didn't do at all.  x.x

 

The actual lift-weights part was tiring but not unpleasant. I even did kneeling push-ups so I wouldn't hate them.  Weight lifting would be way better if someone else would follow me around and keep records and tell me what to do next. Not that I can afford a  personal trainer. :)

Comments

[terrycloth.livejournal.com]

I've been thinking about weightlifting under the general premise that it might not be as awful as most cardio stuff is (usually, to my joints). When I tried it ten years ago, it wasn't awful... but then ten years ago running and push ups weren't as awful either.

OTOH I have some spring-based resistance things laying around the apartment that I could be using and I'm not. I think I even have dumb bells in one of the millions of boxes.

[tuftears.livejournal.com]

Clearly you need a fitness droid! Like C-3PO. Droids don't care what you look like or what time you want to drag them out on your routine; their master is always The Bestest In The Universe.

[alltoseek.livejournal.com]

Yes, Fitocracy ridiculously overvalues weight-lifting relative to everything else. It is not just you. Lots of people have noticed ;-)

The whole points system needs a serious overhaul. Lots of bits of it are messed up.

[detroitfather.livejournal.com]

If there is anything I can do to help or encourage you with the weight lifting, please let me know.

I actually am certified as a Personal Trainer now, FWIW.

[rowyn]

I will take you up on that! Maybe I can get Lut to record me doing some of the exercises that I'm never sure if I'm doing right, and you can tell me what you think. :)

[detroitfather.livejournal.com]

Absolutely! Whatever would be helpful to you.