>pic related. My treadmill comes with dumbbell holders so I can put them down while I take a drink and wipe off sweat...how convenient
Driving to gym...I had a brain spark.....
My biggest limiter of gains right now is time.
Go to bed at midnight. Sleep until 8 (need it for body and brain health). Go to work at 9 Drive 30min-1hr Get there at 9:30-10am Get out of work at 4-6pm If I get out at 4-4:30pm, only 30min drive. If later 1hr drive. Get home Change (5 min) 15min drive Gym for 1-1.5hr 15min drive back home Eat Dumbbell work at home 15-40lb DBs (anything I can do at home I do...saves time and I can do while watching TV and other things). ~2-3hrs Sleep
Was watching Netflix last night with wife for a good 3hrs watching stranger things. Made me remember how I used to do the same watching gundam wing, outlaw star, dbz, and yu yu hakusho when it was airing.
Made me really question....why the fuck dont I combine upper body with cardio to save time at the gym? Home gym is awesome because you can experiment and push your body to limits without having to maintain poise/front for other people.
So I said fuck it...dont care how it looks. Did a 12mph sprint for 2min with 3lb weights in hands. Switched them out with 15lbs for my 30min 4mph walk at incline.
My forearms are on fire. And upper body is feeling it (this is supposed to be leg day).
This could be the exercise modification I needed to up my forearm strength.
Grip strength is main limiter for my back/lat development as grip wears out faster than back.
I've tried using thick grip for about 2 months now with mild success (it boosted it, but not much).
Holding these 15lbs while I walk for 30mins should be interesting, cant wait for next progress pic to see difference. After i can hold these for the entire walk...I'll up the weight add/or thick grip to make it harder.
Theres something primal about walking fast carrying weight in hands...just my muscles activate in this strange way that optimizes the movement and I feel my entire core strengthen/tighten up Back and front delts are also firing to assist each swing.
It's not just a forearm workout.
Is this a ticket to the gainz train?
Dylan Garcia
>weighted running on a treadmill Did they change the laws of physics recently or something?
People come to Jow Forums to be entertained. I like text dumping my thoughts to provoke discussion. Better than the generic meme shit that you've seen a million times already.
The goal here is for people who have actually run/walked carrying weights exist on this board. And if so, what do they look like now? Do they still do it? Why/why not?
Sounds like it would hurt my rotator cuffs. Have bad ones
Cooper Smith
tl;dr.
Skimmed some of it. All I am going to say is that the only people I’ve seen do curls while on the treadmill are 60+ year old Asian women curling 5 lbs while walking at a 2 mph pace.
Carson Hughes
nigger, nobody wants to read your blog post, you could've summed this up in 2 sentences.
Mason Stewart
>Made me really question....why the fuck dont I combine upper body with cardio to save time at the gym? You can do it, but you're putting more weight on your joints when you run or walk, which ain't good in the long run.
That being said there was a guy at my gym who used to do it. He was on roids and would watch the game as he ran on the treadmill. When his team lost he'd start screaming "COME ON COME ON COME ON" still swinging around 50 pound dumbbells and sprinting on the treadmill.
Ultra mega time saving tips- 1. Live as close as possible to your work place and gym. Seriously. When you're picking out a place to live you should Google maps everything in terms of proximity to those two places, since you're going those places most days of the week. Shouldn't be much more than 10 minutes to either, ideally.
2. Pick a fairly small place. This makes shit cheaper two ways- you spend less on rent but also will simply buy less shit because you don't have space for it. This offsets the increased cost of rent, along with the savings in fuel, depreciation and repair costs
I find it stupid when I visit friends who have 2500, 3000, 4000 square foot houses because their utilization of the space is so poor- they'll have rooms with pool tables they probably spend an hour a week in, if that, outdoor BBQs they use twice a year. I get having a larger kitchen and shit, but this can happen in reasonably sized well-appointed apartments.
3. Automate most purchases. Spend a little time doing some research and then automate most of your purchases or buy in bulk. Don't be some cuck who has to run to the store every few days because you ran out of some normal item. Most of your shit comes from Amazon,Ebay, Costco or walmart. Remember just driving the car a mile costs over $0.50, so buying online is often the better choice for anything not fresh or bulky but cheap. Only thing you buy on a regular basis now is perishable food, which you still buy once a week tops. (Frozen food is goat)
4. Pay for maids. Unless you're scrappy poor, a weekly or biweekly cleaning service does wonders. They'll clean better than you can faster than you could. Ladies will love your not stinky apartment. Wives will like you not being a pig.
5. Laundry and dishes once a week. Choose plates which fit efficiently in your dishwasher. If 8 dinner plates basically fill your dishwasher you're stupid. M
Elijah Jenkins
>treadmill Stopped reading there.
Nathan Sullivan
You had me until you said dishes once a week.
Leaving dirty dishes in the sink, or all over the house, is how you get a fuck ton of bugs and spiders.
Isaiah Clark
I live in Texas. Every major city is like over 120miles away from each other. And traveling within city also takes a while due to urban sprawl.
House is a single story 2.5k sq/ft and cost 280k when we bought it, now sells for ~320k according to Zillow. Mortgage is like $1800/month. However, downside is obviously that it's in a developing area. When we first got here road was single lane each direction and freeway didnt even join to main road yet. The longer we sit on property the more stuff builds around us and the value goes up. Basically trading travel time for home value.
We use grocery delivery service and order for groceries on ipad most times. My gym is next to grocery store, so getting fresh food/perishables takes no really added time.
Definitively want a maid/cleaning service
Typically do dishes once a week (weekend). Usually eat out ~3x a week takeout/ubereats 2-3 times, cook maybe 1-2x. Wife and I took busy to cook on regular basis. She hates eating same thing more than once...so cant really cook in bulk/meal prep.
Justin Robinson
You put dishes in the dishwasher. What fucking bugs do you get you filthy person?
Jaxson Myers
>Basically trading travel time for home value
Yeah exactly. Which I'm saying is a bad idea. Your time is extremely valuable and having time to rest, be fit and spend with your family is worth way more than some home value you'll only actually be able to realize when you're old as shit.
As you really both need to sell the property AND be ready to move somewhere cheaper and smaller to realize any appreciation- presumably all the houses in your area go up in value so just buying a different home will consume all the money you get from selling the other.
And having a house in the middle of nowhere also hurts your job prospects and opportunities too.
End of the day no one gives a shit you had a slightly larger or nicer house. It's going to be a matter of what you did, how you took care of yourself and the strength of your relationships. Focus on those things, not getting a house
Gavin Roberts
>driving the car a mile costs over $0.50 negro, that math works out to getting 5.6 mpg (using today's average gas price in burgerland at $2.79/gal). Not even H2 Hummers are that atrocious on gas.
For better numbers, at 15mpg (average pickemup truck), you get 5.4 miles/$, or $0.18/mile. At 20mpg (fullsize sedan), 7.2 mi/$ or $0.14/mi. At 25mpg, $8.96/mi, or $0.11/mi.
regardless, 1/2/5 are good points. fuck paying for a maid, wtf
Evan Scott
Have to budget for wear and tear.
Luis Brooks
Also just for shits, my motorcycle gets 51.5mpg even when i'm heavy on the throttle. It takes 93 octane, which lately has been ~$3.50/gal. $0.068/mi. 6 point 8 fuggin cents kek
Nicholas Walker
pretty nebulous task, and damn near impossible to itemize before repairs are needed. you may go two years without need anything more than oil changes and maybe brake pads once, or all of your shocks simultaneously fail (being facetious) in one year
John Thompson
>people come to Jow Forums to be entertained No one watches a 6hr documentary >I like posting long things to provoke discussion Yeah it just makes you sound conceited about your life. How about just say, “why don’t people combine upperbody work while running to save time?”
Camden Morales
>I'm so retarded that I can't account for car value depreciation, maintenance, or insurance
IRS standard mileage cost for 2019 is 58 cents per mile
Benjamin Long
did you get owned so hard you have no response?
Ryder Stewart
>The only cost of owning and operating a vehicle is gas
Jesus niggogro you done goofed. Maintenance and depreciation is far more than the cost of gas.
As posts the IRS had calculated this at an average of 58 cents a mile. That's an average. For new luxury vehicles the price can be more like $1-3 a mile. For exotics it can be $20-$100+/mile.
