Chin-Up Check-In Fri 5.12

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Soosan

Cathlete
It's official chin-up check-in day so I thought I'd take away (add to?) some of the confusion and start a new thread.

I did S&H B/C yesterday so I won't do any chins until tomorrow, and then I'll be all over that assisted machine, sisters! Today I'm going to play tennis, do 1/2 of an Imax plus some yoga and then ballroom dance lessons with DH tonight. The way I play tennis, I still need to add cardio - my partners and I are S-L-O-W movin'.

Briee, I'm glad you decided to listen to your body and not work out. No sense in pushing yourself and getting injured. Re HB's body weight exercise DVD, I can just see us now! You, HB and Catherine will be in the front doing reg chin-ups, Kathryn and Janie will be in the middle almost getting there and Melody, Joanne and I will be in the back in yellow modification t-shirts just hanging there grunting. I bet Cathe wouldn't mind if we sold it on her website.:p
 
I'm having my tea and then off to work on those chiny's. And then, Circuit Max (I do leg work during the weight sections). Circuit Max is one of my favorites.

Sooooosan-I ordered Power Yoga with Eion Finn - all levels. I found it one Ebay. Do you have that one?

Joanne
 
Hi Chiny's,

I don't have the DOMS today. Is that a good thing? UUMMM. If I don't have DOMS tomorrow, then I'll do (of course, on my chair) 3 sets each of 8 Chin ups and Pull ups the next time. So far I do them 2 times per week, later I'll do them more often. Today is my ab and stretch yoga day, and looking forward to that.

Joanne, you might want to try Yoga Shakti with Shiva Rea. It is a complete transformational vinyasa yoga practice. You can build a customized home practice using the interactive yoga matrix, you can make it as hard or easy as you like, and Shiva is great. It's UNREAL!

Janie

"If you can't say anything nice about someone, then don't say anything at all."
-My mother, Mary Cooper-
 
>Sooooosan-I ordered Power Yoga with Eion Finn - all levels. I
>found it one Ebay. Do you have that one?
>
>Joanne

I do have that one and like it very much. It's not as versatile as PY4H and I don't remember if he shows different levels, but it is definitely an excellent DVD and worth owning.

I like Yoga Shakti okay, but don't use it as much as the others I mentioned when you first asked for recommendations. I guess I need to start using the matrix more, because I've mostly done her pre-mixes and find them either too easy or too hard. Her form is exquisite, though, and the production is beautiful.

Janie and Joanne, I'm looking forward to hearing your chin reports!:)
 
Janie, doms is not necessarily an indication of a good work out and the opposite is also true- lack of doms doesn't mean the workout was a waste. I rarely get doms in my back and trust me it is not from lack of working. I find that I get less doms when my eating is clean, I stretch well and I am drinking my h2o.

Briee, I think you asked me once if I have any children (been meaning to answer-just keep forgetting). I have 2 four-legged children. Muffie a 10 year old silky terrior and Bisquit a 5 year old yorkie. And believe me they act like children. Sibling rivalry and all LOL!!!

Report for me today. I finally did Legs and Back- I am only 2 days latex( (better late than never) I still feel like I am off schedule after my trip. At first I was physically fatigued and now it's more of a mental thing. I really think I need a planned rotation. Anyway for chinups I did:
3 unassisted followed by 4 negatives with 3 sec holds top 1/3 and midway- this was hard!!

3 unassisted followed by 3 neg wide grip pull ups

2 unassisted followed by 3 neg close grip pull ups

2 uassisted and then after that I did 6 sets of 1 rep unassisted

So my total chinup count for today is 16. My personal best for a day. But I still want to increase to 4 in one set. I am not sure if this not going to failure thing is gonna help me get there. But I will keep plugging along.


Catherine
 
Good day fellow chinnies.

Happy to hear you all are alive and working out, of course.

I am suppose to do GS BSB for the last time in my 4-week rotation today and the negatives and inverted rows; however, it may not happen due to mega pain flare up with cervical arthritis (neck) last night. Had to resort to pain medication in the middle of the night and now I am a mere slug.

If not today I'll have to end up my rotation tomorrow and Sunday with BSB and Legs - as I refuse to give it up.x(

I hope everyone has a lovely weekend and I wish a relaxing Mother's Day to all you mommies.:)
 
Melody, sorry to hear about your neck trouble. Be sure to rest appropriately and ease back into things. You know it's not worth pushing yourself just for the sake of doing it. You'll pay in the long run.

I am off to do lowmax step only. Need some steady state cardio :p

Catherine
 
Just posting to bump this up. Seems we like to have at least two threads going at one time :+ :+

Catherine
 
>Just posting to bump this up. Seems we like to have at least
>two threads going at one time :+ :+
>
>Catherine


This is getting confusing!

What about one thread a week? Started on Monday? And until the next one, let's stick with this one?
 
We have at least two threads going at one time - we must be very important:p :p , or maybe we just talk alot, or maybe we like donuts a lot. :7 :7 :7

I just did one hour of all favorite Cathe intervals, then S&H shoulders and chest. I want to finish up the last set of chest tonight along with back. I did a set of 10 chins this morning and after I was finished I noticed that "sore" spot in my back AGAIN. This was the reason that I said "I'd NEVER do weight work in the morning. I figured all that cardio would loosen me up....BUT IT DIDN'T. I'm still continuing, but I hate that "spot". Oh well, such is life. I probably should have begun with more donuts.

I'm catching up on S&H today and tomorrow and then a full body correct Soosan? Better look at the schedule!. I hope to keep approximately on target.

My Tuesday night class...a group of women get together prior to my TaeKwonDo class and do a weight/or cardio workout - usually Cathe's. I hope to develop my own, but I'm just too busy right now. We have a blast and push each other. Most of them are beginners, but I have one 20 year old girl who is pretty advanced. And last week I had a personal trainer from Alaska (a sister of someone). That was so fun. She did well!! Cathe's even tough for PT's!!

Catherine...your children sound DARLING!! We love our four legged ones too. We have the cutest little rat terrier and 5 old english mastiff's in addition to the two legged ones. Give yours a big hug!!

Melody...I hope you feel better. Don't ya just HATE anything that gets in the way of a good workout! Neck problems are particularly crummy.

Briee
 
I forgot to add. Catherine way to go on your mega chins!!

Soosan....your line up for the new DVD is a riot. I will do chins in back though...I'm just not a front row person...and where would I hide all those donuts?? I'd also have much more fun throwing them from behind as well. :p :p :p
 
Hi there!

I'm off for that BSB workout now and the you know whats.

I wish all the moms a Happy Mother's Day weekend.:)
 
Hey all!! Hope you all are having a good weekend.

Briee, funny, I just did S&H chest and shoulders this morning. Those bench presses and pec flys eeeeoowww!! I actually skipped doing the pushups- saw no need for them. Or maybe I am just a woosie!!

I just wonder if doing chinups and pushups regularly is enough upper body work. They are compound exercises and work lots of muscle groups at once. HB, how much isolation work do you do? Is it really necessary at all if you do chinups and pushups enough? I would be guessing twice-three x a week would be enough?? I am sure that depends on goals.

I have recently noticed some sharp pain/discomfort in the medial aspect of my left knee (right in the joint where the femur and tibia come together). Noticed it initally when hiking in Arizona. Mostly coming down the trails. Now I am noticing it when getting up from a sitting position, if I put pressure on the left leg. x( x( It's not bad but definately there. I think it's a meniscal injury. Now, what to do about it. I hate to give up lower body work. I think I will try doing leg extentions and leg curls with floor work and see what happens. What is it with us and injury????

Catherine
 
Catherine, so sorry about your knee - proceed with caution.

I'm running out but wanted to report I did my GS BSB, but before, I did 3 sets of chinup negatives each with a slow 10 ct down. OK - this is the first time I've been able to do all 3 sets with a 10 ct down...tah dum!!!! Then I did 2 sets of wide overhand grip inverted rows, 12 reps. I'm not doing negatives or inverted rows to failure, but will try these same sets and reps next week, and if I can do them, I'll figure out how to change it up.

Bye bye.
 
I do NO isolation work. I do two or three upper body exercises - chin-ups, push-ups and sometimes dips on a dip/chin-ups station, always unassisted.

It's hard to convince yourself that this is enough, especially if you're used to doing umpteen exercises with all sorts of equipment, but believe me, it IS. I am very strong and am very much more defined than I ever was. Isolation exercises like bicep curls and such are a waste of time. And it's not just my opinion - I'd been reading it for a long time in my Men's Health magazines and books.
My dumbbells and barbell and weight plates are collecting dust, and I couldn't be happier!

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain ;-)
 
I was thinking this all along today when doing my shoulder workout. Do I really need this??? I totally believe in what you are saying. I think that's why I like P90X so much. Although he still does bicep curls ??? I guess I am in an in between stage. Doing some body wt exercises and still holding on to the wt workouts too. Waiting for your video to come out HB;)

I am off to do Kick Max minus the blast and maybe minus the leg drills- we'll see. My tushie is sore from Legs & Back yesterday

Catherine
 
You know I'm a strong believer in body weight exercises, but I can't agree that they are all that's needed. I believe they are primarily what is needed. Maybe some of this is the boredom factor and "changing things up" factor. I used to do all pushups for chest work. I noticed during the P90X that I lost, actually NO not lost, "changed" in my chest definition. I needed to add in heavy flies to get back some of my chest "depth", so to speak. Don't know how to quite describe it. There is a point to changing up and adding various sets of this and that, but I believe most of your advances will be made with chins, pushups, and dips - call them the core so to speak.

I strongly feel that there is a reason for high reps-low weight, lo reps-high weight, slow, fast, and everything in between and changing things as you go, in order to break plateaus. And if you want to call it a "mental factor", then do so. If I was to do chins, pushups and dips my whole life...I may go crazy. But using them as your primary or part of your program is always a good thing. Just Briee's opinion.
 
I again point out that body weight exercise is primarily what they use to train the military. Ain't nobody more in shape than those dudes and dudesses! You can do umpteen variations of push-ups, chin-ups and pull-ups if you're looking for ways to "change it up."

Here are some push-up Matrix's for variety:

http://www.ronjones.org/Coach&Train/ExercisePhotos/MatrixWorkouts/Matrix-PushUp1.html

http://www.ronjones.org/Coach&Train/ExercisePhotos/MatrixWorkouts/Matrix-PushUp2.html

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." Mark Twain ;-)
 
Hey Chins! Here's my Saturday report: S&H B/T. Didn't get to the Y to do assisted chins so did a little work on my home chin-up bar. I did 2 sets of pulling myself up from a 90 degree angle, hanging there for a slow 10-ct, then lowering myself for a slow 10-ct. I wanted to do a third but felt that would be pushing it. (I'm still a bit afraid of injuring myself again.) DH and I are off to a margarita party in a few minutes.

Happy Mother's Day all you buff moms!:)
 
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