Same with me about squats and my knees haha. I find the leg press machine is decent for training quadriceps and such, but it doesnāt train glutes as much. BUT, I get wayyy less knee pain when I use that machine compared to squats. It could just be that my form might be bad on squats though.
Iād suggest reviewing your form on squats first, if youāre doing it properly and still getting knee pains maybe the leg press machine might be good while the inflammation heals in my opinion
Iām not an exercise expert though, so take that advice with a grain of salt. Wishing you good things on your fitness journey bro
Had lowered my step count, and surpassed it today. 3 points away from my heart points, knew i shouldve kept going, but its 8:30pm, and i need to get kids settled in. Try again tomorrow. Best Iāve done in weeks though!
I did hit the leg press after some squat variations. Working on box squats with lesser weight to improve my form a bit. Also hitting a lot of goblet squats. Thankfully my gym has a pretty good assortment of machines to target all the leg muscles too.
Havenāt been keeping up with my reps but when you lifting over a hundred boxes every shift I think Iām good scheduled tonight/ Saturday and Saturday/ Sunday and with that Sunday premium pay Letās go! much respect to all keep putting in that work
How you doing? Reading your post made me do my walkā¦I really was about to say nope not today lol ..I know sometimes we need to listen your bodies but sometimes we know when we are just being lazy and have to push ourselvesā¦ Hope you got to the gym
Yee I just got back now, did a chest/back workout as promised here
About to go shower and such. I usually try to eat something after the gym since thats when oneās testosterone is most boosted from gym, but Iām gonna try to save my calories for when I go with my girlfriend for dinner, since Iām on a cut and like my calories are pretty limited since I donāt do enough cardio haha
Played two hours of ultimate frisbee with a big group of families last night. I took my son along and man did we sweat! My watch told me that I had run 4 miles but it seemed like more than that based on how exhausted we were. We went and jumped in the lake afterward to cool off. It was exactly what I needed.
After almost ruining my lower back with (wrong) kettlebell workout, a looong break and finally the Go from my orthopedic: Iām back. It wonāt be easy but itās worth it.
Iām beating alcoholism every damn day, Iāll get there with my strength again
This was peak week of my training for a triathlon next weekend. Today was āsuper bricksā. Iāve done plenty of brick workouts (bike then run off the bike), but not a super. Turns out it is 3 back to back bricks (I took 5-10 minutes between each) of a 25 minute ride and a 10 minute run, and a race-level practice for the transition from bike to run. Iām gonna go drink a hot coffee then take a hot shower. Iām spent!
Yikes!! No wonder you are spent! Just looked up āsuper bricks workoutā and yeah Iām tired for you
Hope you enjoy that coffee and showerā¦rest those muscles
In case others didnāt know what this was ..
A āsuper bricksā workout, in the context of triathlon or duathlon training, refers to a brick workout that combines cycling and running, often with multiple transitions, to simulate race conditions and improve performance. The term ābrickā comes from the heavy, wobbly feeling in the legs when transitioning from cycling to running, simulating the effect of a brick.
TBH, Iāve been leaving out abs from my gym split lately because I know at my current body fat percentage training them will just make my stomach area even bigger.
But, I think Iām gonna start training them again from now on because:
Iām cutting anyway so Iāll have definition on them eventually anyway. I probably wonāt have abs again until Iām at like 150-160lbs based on my height and muscle mass at 5"7. So far, I have slight definition on them but not like a full six pack like when I was shredded.
Good to train them for core strength and such.
My chest fat is slowly disappearing. Itās a trip I thought my chest fat was gyno for a while, since I havenāt been this fat for a long while. I was like āyo I donāt take steroids, SARMs, or any type of PED and never have, how am I getting gyno am I good lolā thank god itās just me being fat because that wouldāve been really scary otherwise cuz that could mean liver/kidney failure and such from my understanding
much respect to all keep putting in that work 
Must get my lazy ass out of bed!!!
