Sounds like you're putting on some good quality muscle mass. That's good to see. 191 lb of solid considering how lean you are. @EMW14
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Hockey game last night. The league I play in is varied in skill level. There are some guys who played at a high level in college and are still at least minor league pro level. Others, like me, never played anywhere special (though I've been playing hockey for 52 years) and are pretty fast and skilled, but not quite on the same level as the guys I mentioned above. There are some lower skilled players as well. Then there are the high schoolers. These kids are EXTREMELY fast. Several of them embarrassed me several times last night. Needless to say, I was 100% effort 100% of the time trying (unsuccessfully) to keep up with these kids. My whole body is sore today! As it always is after a night of hockey. We were shorthanded, too, so lots of ice time.
I'm about to leave the house for my regular weekly coaching session. I train with a couple of goalies; each of us gets a 30 minute session, so we're on the ice for 1-1/2 hours with a coach. So it's a pretty intense hour and a half.
Usually, the day after a hockey game I'm a couple of pounds lighter than every other morning from water loss through sweating intensely. Not so this morning. 191 even. I'll probably need a rest day tomorrow before I hit the weights again, which I plan to do Saturday.
I'm about to leave the house for my regular weekly coaching session. I train with a couple of goalies; each of us gets a 30 minute session, so we're on the ice for 1-1/2 hours with a coach. So it's a pretty intense hour and a half.
Usually, the day after a hockey game I'm a couple of pounds lighter than every other morning from water loss through sweating intensely. Not so this morning. 191 even. I'll probably need a rest day tomorrow before I hit the weights again, which I plan to do Saturday.
I have to keep messing with my macros as well due to diabetes
Mismatched hockey is sort of fun to watch, especially when people have various different speeds.
Bros, nice, you should post the videos of you playing. That would be fun to see.
Hockey is a great workout, I'm sure. I tried ice skating before and it's quite a tough thing to do.
If I dig deep, I might be able to find a couple hockey pix. Am I any good: I've been playing for 52 years (since I was 4 years old). I tried out for a minor league pro team last year and did well, though I was by far the oldest and slowest. I did, however, get an assist in one game and I scored the game winning goal in the shootout in the second game. The coach was impressed. I thought I'd have a chance to fill in as a substitute whenever they were shorthanded this season, but I had surgery, so that killed that.
I'm currently training for the tryouts again this season. So yeah, I'm pretty good. Definitely not the best in my league, there are probably 6 or 8 guys in the league that are better than me, definitely. But I'm pretty good.
I'm currently training for the tryouts again this season. So yeah, I'm pretty good. Definitely not the best in my league, there are probably 6 or 8 guys in the league that are better than me, definitely. But I'm pretty good.
Yesterday was hickey training/coaching. I train with a couple of goalies and another player; we all have the same coach. One of the goalies I train with regularly does "EBUG" (Emergency Back Up Goalie) duty for the pro team I'm trying out for. The coach was the goalie for the team. The captain of that same team works for the coach during the off season and helped me prep for the tryout last year. I expect he'll be involved in that again this year.
When I play, Imamped up for hours after, so that I can't settle down to sleep until the wee hours. I went to bed shortly after 1am Wednesday night; then up at 6 yesterday and on the ice at noon. Training is a pretty intense hour and a half.
The team I'm trying out for is in the playoffs and we went to their game last night (which they won - awesome, hard hitting game!), so we were out late last night. I am beyond tired today. Rest day today, no training of any kind.
Yesterday's macros. Scale showed 190.6 this morning. Probably reflects loss of water weight through sweat!
When I play, Imamped up for hours after, so that I can't settle down to sleep until the wee hours. I went to bed shortly after 1am Wednesday night; then up at 6 yesterday and on the ice at noon. Training is a pretty intense hour and a half.
The team I'm trying out for is in the playoffs and we went to their game last night (which they won - awesome, hard hitting game!), so we were out late last night. I am beyond tired today. Rest day today, no training of any kind.
Yesterday's macros. Scale showed 190.6 this morning. Probably reflects loss of water weight through sweat!
So you play goalie or do you play all kinds of positions? I know you guys sweat a lot. How much would you say you sweat?
I should clarify that while I am "trying out" for this pro team, I have zero expectation of being selected. I did it last year primarily to prove to myself that if things had gone differently earlier in life, I COULD have played pro hockey. I did well enough and had such a good time doing it that I'm doing it again and trying to do better. I badly want to get called to substitute at least once and based on the coach's remarks last year as well as reassurances from the captain, I think that's a real possibility.
I'm a defenseman. So lots of skating and lots of ice time.
I have no idea how to quantify how much I sweat, but I'm often a couple pounds lighter the morning after playing.
Sounds like you had a great workout. Hockey looks really tough. I've done it before. I used to play some ice hockey back in the day.
Oh wow that is a tough job for sure. Plus you get a lot of heat when a goal is scored.
Yesterday was a rest day. I didn't even work very hard. Here are macros from yesterday:
FYI, "Jean's whipped cream" is fresh, homemade whipped cream (from heavy whipping cream) with coconut sugar for sweetener.
I was 189.6 lbs this morning. I had a bowel movement before I weighed myself; that doesn't usually happen until after I've been up for a couple of hours. So that may account for some or all of the roughly pound and a half I'm down from the recent average of 191. But it's messing with my head. Am I not eating enough? Not training enough? Why am I losing weight instead of gaining??? Maintenance calories are - or were, anyway, around 3500. I'm shooting for around 4000 or a little over that currently.
Today is going to be leg day; my hockey game this week is Tuesday night, so I need to get it done today. This week will be a little easier as far as hockey goes since I'll have a break Wednesday before my coaching session Thursday.
I'll post up my leg workout as I do it here in a little bit. My shoulders are hurting me pretty bad this morning, so I'll be doing some lightweight shoulder work as well to alleviate that. Plus some stretching and abs/core work.
FYI, "Jean's whipped cream" is fresh, homemade whipped cream (from heavy whipping cream) with coconut sugar for sweetener.
I was 189.6 lbs this morning. I had a bowel movement before I weighed myself; that doesn't usually happen until after I've been up for a couple of hours. So that may account for some or all of the roughly pound and a half I'm down from the recent average of 191. But it's messing with my head. Am I not eating enough? Not training enough? Why am I losing weight instead of gaining??? Maintenance calories are - or were, anyway, around 3500. I'm shooting for around 4000 or a little over that currently.
Today is going to be leg day; my hockey game this week is Tuesday night, so I need to get it done today. This week will be a little easier as far as hockey goes since I'll have a break Wednesday before my coaching session Thursday.
I'll post up my leg workout as I do it here in a little bit. My shoulders are hurting me pretty bad this morning, so I'll be doing some lightweight shoulder work as well to alleviate that. Plus some stretching and abs/core work.
Leg workout:
Barbell squat:
Empty bar warmup: 1x15
135 warmup: 1x10
185: 1x10
225: 1x10 low back felt much better today at this weight than last week. Going up a little bit at a time and see how it goes. I'm also going to switch to sets of 5:
245: 1x5
265: 1x5
245: 1x5. I probably should have only dropped 10 lbs for this set instead of 20. 265 was a challenge but 245 not very much for the next set.
Between sets of squats I did a couple lightweight sets of lateral raises. Can't call these "supersets" because I rested between. Hold each rep at the top for a couple of seconds to engage the smaller muscles (not just the delts).
10 lbs: 1x20
12: 1x20
Also between squats I did incline bench hammer curls with arms externally rotated:
15 lbs: 1x10
20: 1x10
Leg press:
7 plates each side: 1x5
8 plates: 4x5
I decided to try out a change in workout structure using more sets of 5 reps. My PT-erist is well educated in exercise science and trains himself. He's a rock climber, definitely not a bodybuilder. He's skinny but strong. Very lean and wiry. He explained that by doing fewer reps I'll be able to use heavier weight with less fatigue (at least during the workout); and if I do more sets than I would if I was doing more reps the total workout volume will be the same. This, I should get the same mass building effect while increasing my strength more than I would otherwise. We'll see how this goes.
Leg extension:
110lbs: 1x10
140: 1x7. Experimenting here to find what is appropriate for 5 rep sets.
150: 1x7.
Holy crap, I'm hobbling. My quads and hams are PUMPED. I hope I can walk tomorrow... LOL!
Leg curl:
110: 1x10
140: 1x1... LOL! Too heavy...
120: 1x5. Not going to get much volume out of this today. My hams have just about had it. Any more, I think I'll hurt myself.
Abs/hip flexers (flexors?):
"In and outs:" 1x15
"Bicycles:" 1x15
Russian twists with 20lb dumbbell: 1x15
I decided to go ahead and do a couple sets of rack pulls despite my low back being very fatigued.
135: 1x5. Just to see how this feels. OK, I can go up in weight.
185: 1x5
205: 1x5
225: 1x5
245: 1x5
265: 1x5
I could have gone heavier but decided the smart thing to do is stop.
Barbell squat:
Empty bar warmup: 1x15
135 warmup: 1x10
185: 1x10
225: 1x10 low back felt much better today at this weight than last week. Going up a little bit at a time and see how it goes. I'm also going to switch to sets of 5:
245: 1x5
265: 1x5
245: 1x5. I probably should have only dropped 10 lbs for this set instead of 20. 265 was a challenge but 245 not very much for the next set.
Between sets of squats I did a couple lightweight sets of lateral raises. Can't call these "supersets" because I rested between. Hold each rep at the top for a couple of seconds to engage the smaller muscles (not just the delts).
10 lbs: 1x20
12: 1x20
Also between squats I did incline bench hammer curls with arms externally rotated:
15 lbs: 1x10
20: 1x10
Leg press:
7 plates each side: 1x5
8 plates: 4x5
I decided to try out a change in workout structure using more sets of 5 reps. My PT-erist is well educated in exercise science and trains himself. He's a rock climber, definitely not a bodybuilder. He's skinny but strong. Very lean and wiry. He explained that by doing fewer reps I'll be able to use heavier weight with less fatigue (at least during the workout); and if I do more sets than I would if I was doing more reps the total workout volume will be the same. This, I should get the same mass building effect while increasing my strength more than I would otherwise. We'll see how this goes.
Leg extension:
110lbs: 1x10
140: 1x7. Experimenting here to find what is appropriate for 5 rep sets.
150: 1x7.
Holy crap, I'm hobbling. My quads and hams are PUMPED. I hope I can walk tomorrow... LOL!
Leg curl:
110: 1x10
140: 1x1... LOL! Too heavy...
120: 1x5. Not going to get much volume out of this today. My hams have just about had it. Any more, I think I'll hurt myself.
Abs/hip flexers (flexors?):
"In and outs:" 1x15
"Bicycles:" 1x15
Russian twists with 20lb dumbbell: 1x15
I decided to go ahead and do a couple sets of rack pulls despite my low back being very fatigued.
135: 1x5. Just to see how this feels. OK, I can go up in weight.
185: 1x5
205: 1x5
225: 1x5
245: 1x5
265: 1x5
I could have gone heavier but decided the smart thing to do is stop.
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