and if so, what workouts do you do?
do you do them while gaming?
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Back when I had an income and hope.
I just slammed weights in general.
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I switch about every 6 months between push/pull/legs and PHUL routines. Elliptical for cardio.
I do not do these things while gaming.
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no, i hate moving.
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Iāve been a gym junkie for about 15 years. Iām currently stuck in a necessary rest mode after recently being hospitalised though. Itās very annoying 
My standard routine is four days a week:
Shoulder day
Leg day
Chest and Tris day
Back and Bis day
Occasionally Iāll throw in an extra workout just for arms.
Kinda sorta. I have a few weights in my study next to my desk which I picked up early in the covid times, when the gyms were all closed. Theyāre just for filling in the gaps really, rather than full on workouts.
Just writing this has me missing the gym even more. I want to get back to it!
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Have a home gym since covid closed everything. Weight trainings and bikes.
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15% body fat and never went to the gym in my life.
Used to. Iām older now so I just go for runs in the morningsā¦ /shrug
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I started hitting the weights at 12. Still going strong at 64. Never cared for gyms. Built an excellent home setup through Craigslist. Used equipment was dirt cheap before CoVid. I have over a ton of standard weights and over a ton of Olympic. So many pieces of equipment they take up an entire floor of my house. Still lift heavy, basing my routines around compound movements - bench, squat, deadlift, dips, pullups, rowing. Shoulders no longer tolerate overhead pressing or cleans. I train everything including grip and neck. Any serious āiron addictā should have a set of CoC grippers and a headstrap.
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Does physical therapy after breaking both ankles count as working out 
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Not the way I wanted to spend the summer. And yes I do work on stretching while sitting and gaming. Wow helps distract from the pain.
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Yeah, I think working out is pretty good for the mental benefits mostly. Itās odd how torturing yourself for an hour or so a few times a week can give you such a sense of personal accomplishment at times. Once youāre in the routine, it also is nice to have an excuse to leave the house for a bit if you absolutely donāt have to otherwise. Well, thatās if you go to a gym. Otherwise even if you just go outside, run around a bit and maybe mix it up with some push-ups, sit ups etc.
Personally I try to keep it simple. Monday - Friday. Off Saturday and Sunday. Monday I do upper body workouts. Tuesday, core workouts. Wednesday lower body. Then Thursday and Friday I do whole body, basically one upper body, one core, one lower.
I try to do 15 minutes of cardio, then 45 minutes of weights to maintain a balance. Has worked good for me for awhile. I started working out in 2014.
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Iām limited at my age due to arthritis but lifting ,running the house and yard work is enough to hurt for days,besides helping bro is enough to physically and psychically work you out to exhaustion.
Pull-ups.
Overhead press.
Walking - jogging - running.
Simple. Convenient. Effective ā¦ but still not done while gaming.
Iāve gotten back into running a few months ago, something I havenāt done since my high school days (Iām 37).
My oldest son ran track last spring and both my boys are doing summer conditioning for cross country this fall so Iām trying (and failing horribly) to keep up. Still, in the past 4 months my running endurance has gone up like 6382863993%.
Yup. I save 2hrs 5 times a week for workout. I would got to the gym for that
i am +40 yo dad like many of the people here . trying to do a daily work out , mainly during lunch break , as recommended by my doctor. stretch , some fast walking , some low weights, less fats , more vegetables
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Mainly cardio these days. I wanna be able to keep up with my little one as he gets older. Gotta stay in shape.
I miss lifting but I got hit by a drunk driver a few years back and the injuries never fully healed. Keep putting off the shoulder surgeryā¦
Bought an adjustable kettlebell on Amazon recently for about $85. Itās a little bulkier than conventional kettlebells but itās been serving me fine so far. I recommend anybody starting off working out do this.
And now, a little gym rant:
Gyms are a miserable experience if youāre out of shape and lazy and/or not of perfectly sound mental health (and if youāre fat and grew up enduring abuse from people about your weight, chances are thereās some trauma lurking there.) Youāre surrounded by people much hotter than you and no, theyāre not judging you but thatās not gonna stop you from wondering if youāre being judged.
You have to wipe down everything you work out on. You have to wait for people to stop using the machine or weights you want to use.
If youāre a woman, you might even deal with some creepy guys. And nowadays, with TikTok culture forced upon us, non-creepy guys minding their own business might even encounter creepy girls who fake like theyāre being hit on while they suspiciously record themselves working out. 2023, man!
Oh and you pay for it! Each month! And you canāt just cancel, no you have to give them plenty of notice as if youāre quitting your job, and then you have to submit it in writing. The internet suddenly doesnāt exist anymore when it comes to leaving your gym. Then you have gyms like PlanetFitness that straight up shames people for working out too loudly (they have a bell you can ring if somebody grunts too loudly) while simultaneously selling you pizza and milkshakes on your way out. They are counting on you staying fat. Gyms know a lot of out of shape people will shame themselves into a gym membership every year (usually around the start of the year) and many will give up within a few weeks and then just forget to cancel their membership (or cling onto it on the hopes that maybe theyāll push themselves to go back.)
Stop wasting money on a membership and gas. Get a kettlebell. Or any inexpensive home weights - anything you can put within grabbing reach so thereās no āI donāt wanna put pants on and driveā excuses holding you back. Start your transformation from home.
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I love this schedule and a guy at a BSC crappes on me for still using it. I since left that gym, but ill never forget that guy. Who tries selling a gym membership via insults.
Likeā¦while gaming? Or āthis is my gaming seasonā
What kind of split you do is less important than having clear goals, good exercise selection, proper technique, and consistency.
But yeah, thereās usually some mediocre gym bros that still get hung up on one split being better than the other.
I switch up my routine to keep things fresh.
While gaming, which is how I read the op.