Mine is going to be laid back if all goes according to plan. I’m going to do some birding with a friend tomorrow morning, then I’m headed to a used bookstore to buy a copy of “the pricess bride” that I talked myself out of the other day (I’ve never read it). Then I’m hitting the farmers market and then relaxing at home for the foreseeable future. Enjoy your weekend!

  • RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    3 years ago

    Man, you are all such nerds, and that’s why I feel at home here. :)

    I’m going to continue playing Tears of the Kingdom and hopefully crush pull day at the gym tomorrow.

      • RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.orgEnglish
        4·
        3 years ago

        Oh, don’t get me started talking about lifting! You’ll never get me to shut up. :-)

        It’s a way to describe the “split” that a person does at the gym. I do the so-called PPL (“push, pull, legs”), split, meaning that on some workouts I’m focusing on the muscles that generally push things away from you (like the muscles of the chest, the shoulders, and the triceps), and on others, I train the “pulling” muscles (the lats, traps, and biceps). Then of course there’s leg day!

        All it is is a shorthand to structure your workouts so that you don’t fatigue the same muscle on subsequent days. Hope that helps!

            • AbeilleVegane@beehaw.orgEnglish
              2·
              3 years ago

              I tried gym subscriptions but I always end up not going. Now I’m doing cardio at home but I would like to lift again. I don’t have equipment yet, but I am contemplating buying a bench and dumbbells. I don’t really want to bulk up, I just want to stay in shape.

              I saw Jeff Nippard on YT recently discussing minimalist training (and his The Essentials Program) and it sounds right up my alley, because I don’t want maximum gains (nor maximum time training). But it looks like I would need to go to the gym for a lot of the exercises he suggests.

              As I am a newbie for all of this, I would love to know where to look for more info on this. Anything I can do at home a few times a week without it being a major time investment. Thanks for any help :)

              • RealAccountNameHere@beehaw.orgEnglish
                2·
                3 years ago

                Sure, happy to help!

                If you’re willing to work out three times a week, I’d say that you could also do the push-pull-legs routine. It’s super simple. On push day, pick one chest exercise, one triceps exercise, and one shoulder exercise. On pull day, do one lower-back or lat exercise, one trap exercise, and one biceps exercise. On leg day, do hamstrings, quads, and glutes. If you structure it like that—just three exercises, three times a week—it should put you ahead of almost everyone. Because most people don’t lift. :)

                So here’s a sample schedule. Do 3x 8–12 of each:

                Monday (push): Push-ups or bench press; tricep dips or skullcrushers; overhead press

                Wednesday (pull): Chin-ups or pull-downs; shrugs; bicep curls or hammer curls

                Friday (legs): Dumbbell, bodyweight, or sumo squats; dumbbell deadlifts; dumbbell hip thrusts

                The beauty of a routine like that is that you can vary it as you like—there are dozens of available exercises as replacements for the above—and you can make it as intense as you want as well by doing heavier weights, more reps, etc. If you get close to failure at the end of your sets, that’s good enough. And you can completely do it with just a set of dumbbells. It might be handy to have a bench for doing bench press as opposed to push-ups or for tricep dips, but it’s not necessary.

                I hope that helps! Let me know if you have any questions.

                Edited to add: And don’t feel like there’s a bar to jump over before you can start something like this, either. If you can’t do push-ups, there’s no reason that you can’t do them on a wall or on your knees. That’s just as good!

                • AbeilleVegane@beehaw.orgEnglish
                  2·
                  3 years ago

                  Thank you for the wealth of information! I will for sure adopt this regimen. Looks like I only need to reinstall my pull up bar and I am golden! :) Thanks again!

  • Antik@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    3 years ago

    Drinking, smoking, and trying to convince myself that “ok, tomorrow is it, stop drinking and start walking”.

  • LemmyAtem@beehaw.orgEnglish
    6·
    3 years ago

    Birthday celly tomorrow! Rooftop pool in the afternoon, whisky bar in the evening. Gonna be the BEES knees baby

      • TechnicolorRex@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        3 years ago

        Eh, MRI’s aren’t bad. Just lay in a tube for 45 minutes while giant magnets whir around and take images of the brain / body.

        The prolactinoma is benign, but screws with hormones a lot. Prolactin being the inverse of dopamine and testosterone explains a lot about the last several years, so glad to be getting back to normal. Thankfully, the excess prolactin has never caused me to lactate either, which is a common symptom of high prolactin.

        Thankfully got to spice up the weekend with a guys’ night, so that was fun.

  • Bluebird@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    I just finished watching the first John wick while having a beer! Going to pour myself a glass of wine and watch the second one now

    • Rekorse@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2·
      3 years ago

      I really got the feeling when I read about this, that this is going to be a major turning point in this conflict, I just don’t know what that outcome will be unfortunately. I hope it’s things getting better rather than worse :/

  • Fox@beehaw.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 years ago

    The Princess Bride is as wonderful a book as it is a movie! You’re gonna love it 😊

    I’m gonna be cleaning my apartment because we’re finally getting a couch!! And I need to get the place in order so it’s easy to maneuver it in. We’ve lived in our place for a few months already but still in box city… so it’s nice to have something to force me to unpack and make it look presentable.

    • Rekorse@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      3 years ago

      I think it was nearly 3 years in our new house before we finally opened the last box and sorted it all so don’t feel to bad!

        • Rekorse@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          3 years ago

          Ha! That really is the other side of it. Done a ton of spring cleaning this year, which is just code for garbage, garbage, garbage.

  • shaggy@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    Visiting my Dad in Toronto. Seeing the sights with my family for the first time. Just wrapping it all up and loving the overall pride vibe. Happy Pride to everyone! Spread love… I’m sending it right now!

  • ZenGrammy@beehaw.orgEnglish
    4·
    3 years ago

    My husband and I have decided to start our own book club this weekend. We are nerds and both enjoy reading but he has limited time and I have limited patience with it because I had a stroke a few years ago and it’s not as easy as it used to be for me. We’re starting with short stories and we’ll just read one at a time ad discuss when we’re done. I’m hoping it will improve my skills over time and I know we’ll enjoy the extra bonding. We’re reading A Knight of The Seven Kingdoms by George R R Martin. He’s read all of the ASOIAF books and I’ve not read any of them. We’ve both watched both of the related TV shows.

  • The Doctor@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    3 years ago

    Recovering from work this week. Getting ready to fly cross-country. Probably going to have to spend the next day running errands and going shopping before starting it all over again on Monday.