On my bi/tri day, I start with preacher curls with 75 pound bar, 3 sets of 10, and last set standing, and alternate with crushers in between sets. After that I alternate with tri pushdowns, and dumbbell curls on preacher at 35 lbs.

I'm going to start lifting today. I'm going to ride 43 miles this sunday on the bike. I will be a fitness monster by next week.

That would be a good start. 45 minutes weights, 45 minutes spin, 15 minutes abs, 3 mile run this morning. Tomorrow 2 mile swim and 10 mile run. Pick it up a notch.

Ride 86 miles you pussy!

And get a road bike!

I want you to try riding 43 miles on a fucking full suspension mountain bike with knobby tires. It's actually not bad unless you got a head wind from hell like last sunday.

How do you get a headwind in the forest?

I kinda want to but man I can't be sportin the gear.

Oh stop. Everybody wears that crap and looks gay. You'll blend right in.

man it wasn't in the forest. We rode the entire lake front bike path all the way to the end at 71st and exchange and then back home. That was 43 miles according to my computer. Getting there was easy but coming back, you were basically fighting the entire way home. I averaged 19mph there and 13mph back. Aaron was a bit faster on the way back.

funny thing is we were doing hill drills on the sled hill at mccormick place and this fucking skinny chinamen shows up and does it with us on one of them roadbikes with knobby tires. He was in his getup and he looked so fucking gay man.

What's gay is riding mountain bikes on the pavement.

yeah but it's still better than not riding. When the hell you going to Palos?

As soon as it's dry. I need to get back to it for the next Xterra race.

I can't even do 43 miles on my Gixxer.

i'm surprised you do that sort of routine with your trigeek training.

I can't imagine the wear and tear that causes on the body. That and if he ever stops working out, he'd turn into Fish.

so after i told monster you and ray are going to lifetime, she asked if we could switch to lifetime as well. now i have to go in and take a look around lifetime.

Let me know when you want to go. If I take you in and you sign up, I get a $50 credit I can use for a PT or some other stuff. That and we can go check out the hot Asian chick with the nice rack.

I am sure she will give us some vouchers for free food as well.

That is probably why I'm mediocre at everything. I gave up weights while I was hardcore training for that Ironman, but now I'm back at it a little. I only lift maybe twice a week, and not to make gains, just to keep some strength.



Just taking the week off after the Ironman I gained over 5 pounds. If I ever stop working out I will be a little chubby I'm sure. The daily training I do is probably good, but doing Ironmans and marathons and crap like that does not seem healthy at all.

Lifetime is good, I was a member there when I lived in Bartlett. A little expensive, but you get what you pay for. They have good shop towels too I heard.