General Health & Fitness - Stay/Get Back in Shape

Deadlifted for the first time in 6 weeks. Pleasantly surprised to get through the same weight as the previous workout

Quads felt like they were carrying more of the load than before I started the back squats

Entire back is cooked though. I definitely wasn't working back enough without deadlifts. Bringing it back once a week
 
I've been keeping up with my cardio workouts and also have added some arm exercises with hand weights to try to tone up my arms - also been paying much better attention to my diet and trying to get a good balance of protein and carbs and fiber and I feel like it's all working - went under 270 lbs this week and I'm starting to fit in clothes that were too small a few months ago
 
I've been looking for a gym or a yoga studio, successfully, in my area. My company has a small gym, I think I'm going to start using it again as a starting point to do something.

They are building a new gym less than a mile from my house, but I doubt it opens before 2027.
 
Ddseddse said:
What app is this? Looks useful.
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Sorry I just saw this. It is a proprietary app from a remote personal trainer I use. He maps out workouts in the app. Everything has a video showing form, etc. I fill in the info as I work through and then get feedback from him through the app.
 
Just wanted to toot my own horn here - 2024 was a rough year for me - I gained a bunch of weight and just had zero motivation - when 2025 started I knew I had to make a change - at our house we have a Nordic track treadmill and a subscription to iFit which is their version of peleton - my wife actually was pretty active in 2024 even though I wasn't so in January 2025 I started a series called Road To Recovery - it's a 6 part series and each series is 20 we workouts so if you do 5 a week you can knock each series out in 4 weeks - part one is very gentle - each workout is about 10-15 minutes and the trainer is basically walking around Mexico - I remember when I first started it was a struggle - not the workouts themselves but just convincing myself to do them - but I stuck with it and as I progressed the workouts got longer and more intense - I moved on to other trainers and had workouts that included a lot of inclines and some had light jogging - I also started paying attention to what I was eating and started making better food choices - Im probably never going to be a completely healthy eater but I know now there are small changes I can make that make a big difference - later in the year I started incorporating some light weight training - I mainly want to tone up my arms and shoulders - so on December 31st I did a walk on the treadmill and 2 free weight workouts and I ended the year with 415 ifit workouts and I had lost over 60 pounds - and today I started a new series - same trainer I started with last January but this series is called The Joy of Running - I feel really good about myself - I know I still have work to do but I know I can do it too

Sorry for the long post - don't even know if anyone else will read it but I know if I can do it anyone can
 
So health changes are a must this year. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been and feel like shit. Need to lose 70 lbs to hit my goal weight (that would be my lowest weight since I was around 22.). Going to do some fasting, IF etc to kickstart things but really the IF isn’t hard for me. I can do a 20/4 pretty easy. Just need to cut out soda and eating out.
 
GoHeelsweeeehoooo said:
Just wanted to toot my own horn here - 2024 was a rough year for me - I gained a bunch of weight and just had zero motivation - when 2025 started I knew I had to make a change - at our house we have a Nordic track treadmill and a subscription to iFit which is their version of peleton - my wife actually was pretty active in 2024 even though I wasn't so in January 2025 I started a series called Road To Recovery - it's a 6 part series and each series is 20 we workouts so if you do 5 a week you can knock each series out in 4 weeks - part one is very gentle - each workout is about 10-15 minutes and the trainer is basically walking around Mexico - I remember when I first started it was a struggle - not the workouts themselves but just convincing myself to do them - but I stuck with it and as I progressed the workouts got longer and more intense - I moved on to other trainers and had workouts that included a lot of inclines and some had light jogging - I also started paying attention to what I was eating and started making better food choices - Im probably never going to be a completely healthy eater but I know now there are small changes I can make that make a big difference - later in the year I started incorporating some light weight training - I mainly want to tone up my arms and shoulders - so on December 31st I did a walk on the treadmill and 2 free weight workouts and I ended the year with 415 ifit workouts and I had lost over 60 pounds - and today I started a new series - same trainer I started with last January but this series is called The Joy of Running - I feel really good about myself - I know I still have work to do but I know I can do it too

Sorry for the long post - don't even know if anyone else will read it but I know if I can do it anyone can
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Great job!
 
HandsonFire said:
So health changes are a must this year. I’m the heaviest I’ve ever been and feel like shit. Need to lose 70 lbs to hit my goal weight (that would be my lowest weight since I was around 22.). Going to do some fasting, IF etc to kickstart things but really the IF isn’t hard for me. I can do a 20/4 pretty easy. Just need to cut out soda and eating out.
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Have you ever tried tracking what you eat every day? I resisted it for so long and HATED it and still don't like it, but it was truly a game changer.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Have you ever tried tracking what you eat every day? I resisted it for so long and HATED it and still don't like it, but it was truly a game changer.
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I have and similar to you I’ve hated it. But I need to get over that. I don’t really have an idea what healthy portions look like.
 
HandsonFire said:
I have and similar to you I’ve hated it. But I need to get over that. I don’t really have an idea what healthy portions look like.
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Most of us don't for sure. I found that setting macro goals...so many grams of protein, so many carbs, so many fats, etc was better for me than watching caloric intake. It really amounts to the same thing but it is easier for me to say I need 200 grams of protein and 60 grams of fat than it is for me to count 2100 calories.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Have you ever tried tracking what you eat every day? I resisted it for so long and HATED it and still don't like it, but it was truly a game changer.
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This is one of the things I've been working on myself and it really does help - ive found even when I'm not tracking precisely it still has me thinking about what I'm eating and it helps me make better choices
 
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