Thanks for the vids, but honestly I have over 20 years of training experience and spent a decade powerlifting, including competitions.. I already know all of this stuff, my twenties to early thirties I was sub 10% body fat and lifting 500lbs deadlifts. I know how and what to eat, how to track, etc. My issues are more about trying to manage my time with all of my work and family responsibilities. Im smack in the messy middle like Dave Ramsay likes to say.
I found some decent dumbbells already, but I was hoping maybe
@Mrb1p had some out of the box idea. The 7-52lbs have some decent deals, but they'll be outgrown in around a month or two. The 10-90lbs are hella expensive with shipping and tax, even at discounts.
I’m in my 50’s, kids still at home and I do most of the cooking while working full time. It’s hard. I never really lifted and hovered between 25% to 40% body fat most of my adult life.
Gonna guess maybe my kids are older (mine are 19 and 17) so it’s not like I need to tend to them… just feed them.
For my time management, I do a LOT of meal prep. My family doesn’t follow a meal plan like me, so I’ll prep breakfast and lunch for them for 5 days, all three main meals for me. Kills my Sundays, but I basically don’t think about cooking except their dinners on weeknights.
I go to bed early, like 8:30pm to 9pm. I wake up at 4:30am and do 60 minutes on my treadmill. It sucks, yes, but I’ve done this for almost two years straight and I’m pretty hard wired.
I have a desk job (I’m an IT manager), so I start working early, answering emails, doing paperwork. I go to the gym for one hour every day at lunch. I am a senior employee, so I have some leeway and can take 90 minutes off so this allows me to drive to the gym and back.
Last bit of exercise I do is a 45-60 min walk after dinner, outside if I can but I’ll use my treadmill otherwise.
I do a pull/legs/push Monday to Wednesday, then lower/upper Thursday and Friday. Weekends are rest days, but I do some stationary bike for 30 min on Saturday or Sunday. To the person earlier asking if we play sports, I do play golf (I’ll call that a sport lol) in the summer and badminton and basketball all year, normally Friday night when I stay up later.
Not sure if your schedule allows for something like what I do. What I like about my routine is if i need to miss a day or two during the week, ill usually still hit all body parts once, but as I guess you know, twice is better which is what I normally do.
As for dumbbells, i have 50lb adjustable also. I’m nowhere as strong as you (I can barely do two plates deadlift) but yeah, 50lbs is light. I can still get work in though, as I do really slow eccentrics. If I just do a 1:1 tempo, i can probably crank out 15 on the benchpress. If I do 2 second down, pause, then push up, my reps decrease a lot. Again, I know you’re experienced, though figured it’d be worth mentioning.
All that being said, I do work out at a gym, so I have access to everything.
