Random Fitness Questions

I'm into the second half of Warlock at the moment. For me at least despite a busy job and unpredictable schedule it's volume has been on the higher side but manageable.

That said I will occasionally skip an exercise like calf raises or pec dec flyes, but that's more to machine availability. They're definitely tough but I think manageable, slightly depending on time availability for upper body days.

Legs are only taking me roughly an hour, the upperbody sessions can easily be around 90m especially the first one on the first block. Although some of that is waiting for equipment and but I don't always do as many feeder sets as he suggests or wait as long as prescribed. I also tend to superset some of the isolation work so was usually just over an hour by the end of that block. I should mention I also didn't do the 4x10 assisted pullups for that session which from having done the full session before are a huge time sink.

You probably haven't digested much of that at all. You'll be mostly running in whatever you ate last night. If you much eat, faster carbs would be better that porridge

I'm very caffeine sensitive, but that sounds like a lot of coffee

It depends on the difficulty of the exercise. More difficulty = bigger recovery demands.

You can go for a walk and be recovered by tomorrow to do the walk again. Why? Because walking is extremely easy.

You cannot however break a heavy 3x5 deadlift workout over two days and get the same results. The reason why is because by day 2, you're still recovering from day 1, so you'd have to significantly reduce the weight.

So the real question is, where does the exercise you're doing fall within the spectrum of 'easy to hard'. I could do push-ups every day, but that's because I can do probably 50 or so in a row. 5 reps every day would be just 10% of my capacity. For someone who can barely do 5 reps, this would be a terrible idea.

To be honest, taking the approach of breaking a workout over a couple days is just a bad idea. At best, it will impede progress. At worst, you'll load things beyond what they can recover from and get hurt. Better to just plan your workouts smarter so you can get everything done.

Depends on what you want? Triceps or Pecs?

I was going to say both but pecs if I have to choose one.

A few months ago I started doing pushups in the morning & evening. worked up to 25, 2 reps each time. Stopped doing it but want to start again.

Hi all. Could I get a recommendation for a basic fitness band/wearable, please? I suppose I'm mostly interested in monitoring my sleep, but accurate step counting would be useful too. Other bells and whistles aren't needed at the moment.

Thanks!

Thanks for that, much appreciated!

There’s a rule we should all live by on the internet:

‘If it sounds too good to be true..’

Cheers. I've been drawn to the Inspire alright - seems to be exactly what I'm after!