What is The Escapists' Peoples' work out/exercise routine?

[Athinira]

Monday, Wednesday, Friday: Full Body workout (50-70 minutes + 2 x 10 minutes cardio each way to and from the center + Some stretching).

Friday-Sunday: Dancing at parties all night long.

Beyond that, occasional extra cardio when i feel like it.

 

[Estocavio]

Weekdays:
(All in one session)

50 Pushups
50 Situps
50 Crunches
50 Pushups
50 Star Jumps
60 Seconds Shadow Boxing
60 Seconds Shadow Sparring (Shadow Boxing albeit with all Limbs and Striking Surfaces)
Repeat Shadow Sparring until Bored.
Stretching
Calisthenics
Warm Down Shadow Boxing

 

[Athinira]

I also do about 50 pull-ups a day (not in a row, just over the course of a day).

Are you hoping to build muscle? If so, thats counter productive.

How so?

As Logicul has said, muscles getting used to it is one thing. The bigger problem is your muscles getting no rest. Muscles need a few days rest between workouts, doing pullups every day would prevent them from building. Try doing them twice a week, say Monday and Friday, or Sunday and Thursday, or whenever, as long as you give your back 3 days rest at minimum.

While i agree with the overall point, there is no set rule that the rest has to be 3 days. It depends on how much you worked out.

Full Body Workouts like I'm doing are generally less intensive, which means i only need 36-48 hours of rest before i can continue again. On the other hand, some people do intensive workout periods for several weeks, and then take a long period of restitution (like 7-10 days).

On an interesting side note, most people don't know this, but it's not the muscles that needs rest. It's actually your nervous system. Muscles recuperate quite fast actually, but your nervous system doesn't, so if you've worked out hard one day and are feeling tired 2-3 days later, it's not your muscles, it's your nerves.

 

[Slaanesh]

I also do about 50 pull-ups a day (not in a row, just over the course of a day).

Are you hoping to build muscle? If so, thats counter productive.

How so?

As Logicul has said, muscles getting used to it is one thing. The bigger problem is your muscles getting no rest. Muscles need a few days rest between workouts, doing pullups every day would prevent them from building. Try doing them twice a week, say Monday and Friday, or Sunday and Thursday, or whenever, as long as you give your back 3 days rest at minimum.

While i agree with the overall point, there is no set rule that the rest has to be 3 days. It depends on how much you worked out.

Full Body Workouts like I'm doing are generally less intensive, which means i only need 36-48 hours of rest before i can continue again. On the other hand, some people do intensive workout periods for several weeks, and then take a long period of restitution (like 7-10 days).

On an interesting side note, most people don't know this, but it's not the muscles that needs rest. It's actually your nervous system. Muscles recuperate quite fast actually, but your nervous system doesn't, so if you've worked out hard one day and are feeling tired 2-3 days later, it's not your muscles, it's your nerves.

I usually give it 3 days so I'm sure I have gotten the rest my body needed, but you are right.
And an interesting side note indeed, I have to read up on that.

 

[DiMono]

I work out regularly, almost every day. Unless I have a pulled muscle, in which case I either rest that body part or I don't work out, depending which muscle it is and how badly it's pulled. I have heart attacks on both sides of my family, so it's important to me to keep my heart healthy. I try not to do the same workout twice, and I always push myself as hard as I can.

I started going to the gym almost 3 months ago, and on December 6 my membership will expire and not be renewed; I only wanted a one month membership in the first place, but there was a deal online for 3 that cost less than I was willing to pay for the one, so I took it. Most of what I want to do in the gym I can do at home, so why pay for it?

 

[Athinira]

I usually give it 3 days so I'm sure I have gotten the rest my body needed, but you are right.
And an interesting side note indeed, I have to read up on that.

If you rest too much the processes for building muscles (that begun when you worked out) starts coming to a halt. 72 hours of rest is fine if it was really intensive workout (or if you have done some additional light exercise in between workouts), but most workouts aren't that intensive.

If you work out each muscle group 3 times per week, it's better to keep rests down to 2 days, and then have a 3 day rest for every third workout (like working out Monday, Wednesday and Friday like i do, and then rest Saturday and Sunday).

If you work out 5-6 times per week, but focus a muscles group for each week, then 3 days rest is fine since those workouts are usually more intensive for the muscles involved.

Edit: Cardio training doesn't need as much rest as muscle training btw, just wanted to throw it out for people out there. You can do cardio several times per week if you like.

 

[spartan231490]

As in, something like this:

Sunday: run 8 miles
Monday: work out 90 minutes
Tuesday run 7 miles
Wensday: work out 90 minutes
Thursday: run 10 miles
Friday: work out 60 minutes
Saturday: run 9 miles

That's just an example of a week I just had, but I don't know if that's for the best (wasn't really sure what I was aiming for each day, hence the irregularities), and maybe you have some other strange thing; but basically, I was in top physical condition 2 and a half months ago. Then school started, and I've been gaining weight, and I'm curious as to what others have been doing. My friends are retarded and just lift weights, so I'm here. In genuinely annoys me how useless my friends are in every single problem I ever have, but that's a rant for another day, and one that shouldn't take place online.

As of right now, I don't work out. I will start next semester, but right now I'm too busy. But I just wanted to say, if your goal is to lose weight, or just to raise your metabolism so you don't gain weight, lifting weights is the way to go. Running burns a lot of cals while you do it, but your metabolism snaps back to normal almost immediately. In contrast, when you lift weights, chemicals are released that keep you metabolism high for hours after you stop working out, meaning you burn more calories in the end.