Wake County Just closed the Gyms, what are you doing for home workouts?

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With the announcment of the gyms being forced to closed, What are yall non home gym guys are doing?

Found a pull up bar close to the house so Im going to start some Murph style stuff this week, have a big murph coming later this year (11ish mile run then the Murph work, possibly another 11 mile run after) and need help on the pull up side mostly.

I do wish I had room for a home gym, though.
 
I dont know what this Murph stuff is, but considered buying some free weights and such?
Craigslist always has people who bought work out equipment and never used

With this extra time, and not having as much walking in my day as usual, Im spending more time on my stationary bike
 
Luckily my gym (in SC) is still open, but I do have a home gym when the time comes.
 
I dont know what this Murph stuff is, but considered buying some free weights and such?
Craigslist always has people who bought work out equipment and never used

With this extra time, and not having as much walking in my day as usual, Im spending more time on my stationary bike

I dont have the space for a home gym. But I do have cinder blocks for some things, but its not the same for deads or squats. I am trying to take this time to up my miles running too.

A Murph is 1 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, 1 mile run (as prescribed in a 20 lb vest).
 
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I have a stand for my bike with a variable load cell so if the weather isnā€™t conducive to biking outside I do it in the garage. I have a handlebar mount for an iPad to keep the boredom level down....



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I dont have the space for a home gym. But I do have cinder blocks for some things, but its not the same for deads or squats. I am trying to take this time to up my miles running too.

A Murph is 1 mile run, 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 squats, 1 mile run (as prescribed in a 20 lb vest).
In your OP I read it as 2, 11 mile runs with strength training in between. I thought, man this guy is a BEAST!
 
This old man dug a 130' long 6' wide x 6' deep trench through clay and roots yesterday while covered in mosquitoes so the mosquito farm would drain. Today I dug/plugged several hundred 2" Zoysia plugs.
I got my forearms and lower back nice and sore.
 
I got out of bed and took out the trash/recycling. Oohrah.

Loved the "Hans und Franz" reference.
 
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In your OP I read it as 2, 11 mile runs with strength training in between. I thought, man this guy is a BEAST!

In my F3 group we have a "Do Epic Sh*t" challenge And that is mine, the 11 mile runs. Just a long run then Murph. It's really going to suck!

Planning on doing that late summer, at least I was.
 
While it wonā€™t help you, I am doing a body weight HIIT routine, the 100 push up and 200 sit up challenges, and the Couch-to-5k. Need to find a tension or hanging bar so I can incorporate some back movements
 
Wife was one of the privileged few that got to borrow equipment from her crossfit 'box'. Rower, weights, boxjump box, etc. We already had stall mats so we just had to clean out a section of the garage.
 
In a dark corner of the basement I've got a POS squat rack with pull-up bar, a cable and pulley set-up to hang off it, a couple benchs, Oly and standard barbells and dumbbells, an axle bar, close to 700lbs of plates, and a few bands. I don't go to the gym in normal times. Also jog/running a couple miles a few times a week, and doing 100 push-ups and sit-ups on non upper body weight days. Still not jacked or strong, maybe someday I'll learn to sleep and that'll change.
 
Two 15lb hand weights and a couch. :D I know, that doesn't sound like much at all. It's not. But 15lbs is about right for a fully loaded combat rifle with optic and full magazine, which is what I'm really training to be able to effectively manipulate, so it's the benchmark I set when I bought them a few years ago. My weight amounts were a lot higher when I was going to the gym, but right now I can't due to Covid.

The couch is a great thing to slip my feet under for doing situps. I do a 10/20/10/20 rep set of four different extension exercises:

1.) Dumbbell side AND front lateral raise like this but also this: where you start with a side lateral raise, then while fully horizontally extended, you guide the weights to the position of a fully raised front lateral raise, then lower them down to the rest position of a front lateral raise. Then you go up for the front lateral raise, guide the weights back to the fully raised side lateral raise, then go back down to the rest pose of a side lateral raise. Each of this series of motions counts as one rep. I always do this one first because it's the hardest.
2.) Dumbbell military press - https://s3.amazonaws.com/prod.skimble/assets/1267601/image_iphone.jpg

*break for 20 situps to rest my arms*

3.) "Around the World" -
4.) Seated bicep curls - https://www.darkironfitness.com/wp-...68a3f19e1a4c3221812c5e11baa4e66-c-250x188.jpg

Between each of these, I also do ten reps squeezing a hand grip strength exerciser that I currently have set to about 50 pounds (goes up to 90). That's basically my "rest" moment between the other exercises, then at the end I hold it down for 10 Mississippi seconds.

That's all one "routine" for me. I do at *least* one routine every day, and whenever I get really into it I might do two or three routines in a day. This is between basic chore stuff, playing fetch with the dogs, going on hikes, etc. :)
 
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Gyms are open as of 5pm last friday at 30% capacity.
 
I heard the state might allow gyms to reopen, anyone else get that rumor?

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A friend's gym has been open a while, but not 24/7 like before, apparently.
 
With the announcment of the gyms being forced to closed, What are yall non home gym guys are doing?

Found a pull up bar close to the house so Im going to start some Murph style stuff this week, have a big murph coming later this year (11ish mile run then the Murph work, possibly another 11 mile run after) and need help on the pull up side mostly.

I do wish I had room for a home gym, though.
12 0z. curls.
 
Work keeps me in decent shape. I still shadow box at least 6, 3 minute rounds a few times a week, and once a week do the Bas Rutten Thai Boxing workout. This workout is very good, and one I always ended on when I was teaching Thai or JKD classes. At about 10 minutes left of class, we would do this and burn them down for some cardio. Everyone loved it. If anyone is interested in it, I can further explain the combo's if you don't know them.

 
Work keeps me in decent shape. I still shadow box at least 6, 3 minute rounds a few times a week, and once a week do the Bas Rutten Thai Boxing workout. This workout is very good, and one I always ended on when I was teaching Thai or JKD classes. At about 10 minutes left of class, we would do this and burn them down for some cardio. Everyone loved it. If anyone is interested in it, I can further explain the combo's if you don't know them.


I found out yesterday I need some limbering up.....glad RS didn't get video of me getting down on the tarp and back up.....dang!!
 
just ordered a rowing machine. it will probably end up as unused as the recumbent bike and treadmill...
but those are freaking boring and don't help much.
 
Wife and I decided to cancel our gym membership and just invest in our home gym. We bought an elliptical that cost more than the first two cars I had...hopefully it will be a buy once, cry once deal...definitely a happy wife, happy life deal...
 
F3 baby! 5:30 am was brisk today!

I have been hitting the F3 hard, have a "Do Epic Sh*t" challenge for next Saturday, and have just signed up for a Spartan Ultra for next year.

That ultra turns my marathon and BRR into training runs now. Fantastic.
 
Stress and grief. I am down to 140 lbs now, probably the least I ever weighed (okay, after having grown up).
 
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