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Originally Posted by Brentv
I was home last month to visit my parents. The second day, my father had gone to the library and found the NROL book, and had started reading. He said he wanted to do something more than the daily walks he and Mom do. I hope he follows through with it.
Brent
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Wow Cool Brent, have you followed up with your Father on his progress since your return?
Today my Father and I went to Gold's gym and he got a membership. It turned out that the insurance that he is on includes a gym membership to Gold's gym which is about 1.5 miles from his house. So today I got to try my hand at personal training. I learned a lot by teaching him. I learned about how it is my trainer motivates and I learned a bit about what muscles get worked in some of the exercises by watching his body do them.
I decided that if he was going to go to the gym with me that he and I would get a workout in together. That way he could watch me as well. So today was shoulders/pecs/tris/back and lat day. Tomorrow we will do legs. I was careful with him to make sure that we got weights that were appropriate and to make sure that I always explained about form. Other than that I worked my sets in between his.
He did a really good job and tonight he says he is not sore. He did a bit of sandbagging on me and just quit during sets which I did not really expect to happen. I remember then that my trainer said that happens all the time and he has to get on people. So I thought about what it is my trainer does and I think I locked onto it. I started watching my Father for distress signs during the sets and as soon as I saw there signs I told him to push it or pump it up or suck it up. And I hung in with him and gave him a bit of assist, etc. It seemed to do the trick. He made his full sets after that for almost everything. It was a fun time all in all.
As for my workout I did the following....
Warmup
5 min tready slow jog
inchworms w/ pushups (2x10)
alt toe touches (2x15) each toe
db alt standing flyes
1x15 (5) e
2x10 (10) e
SuperSet
db close grip press (incline)
1x15 (15) e
1x15 (20) e
1x15 (30) e
close grip bench push up
3x15
Wide grip lat pull down
1x15 (40)
1x10 (60)
1x8 (70)
Seated cable low row
1x15 (30)
1x10 (50)
1x10 (60)
cable ext tri
3x10 (60)
dips
2x15 (bw)
1x8 (bw)
Cardio - 3.5% incline at 5.5 for 2 miles
It is a bit hard to get to the internet here in PA (folks don't really have it setup) so I will be a bit offline until I return.