Fatbusting: MvJ's log (a blob's blog)
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Thank you for mentioning alcohol again Kirwan, just the reminder I didn't need <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Cheers MvJ.<br />
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I've had a fair old wrestle with the weight also - esp post school when sport seems to get overtaken by booze and other distractions!!<br />
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I've gotten down from 107kg (and a frontrow position) to 96.5 kg and a return to the outside backs (thank god!)<br />
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I had never enjoyed running (like many TSF'ers) and only found out a year or two ago that I had flat feet (which explained sore knees and lower back)... got some decent running shoes and concentrated on running on turf (stay away from road running if you're carrying a bit of weight - grass is far easier on the knees etc) and low and behold no pain and I actually started to enjoy it!! (Â :idiot2: sick isn't it!!?)<br />
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Given that I'm a similar body shape to Piri Weepu (ie short 175cm and broad) I've had to work hard to keep the weight down (not get too bulky via weights etc) and avoid that damn front row! -
wouldn't mind his paycheck but no...<br />
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I've been aided in my devotion to fitness by being deadset on escaping the frontrow this season!! -
Days 13 and 14:<br />
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Have been spent doing absolutely nothing. I may do a push-up shortly. <br />
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However the exercycle will be mounted by MvJ tomorrow morning. <br />
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On the weight front, 82.0kg, meaning I actually lost a few hundred grams this week. Oh the joy! -
Day 15 (I think) and MvJ has just gone for a brutal run this evening in soaring temperatures. The hill down to Rushcutters (or rather up from it) is a killer. This is not made easier by the fact that my local bottleshop sits atop it, but MvJ kept on running. <br />
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I felt like death the whole way around, and stopped looking at the watch after 8 minutes figuring that it would be an achievement just to finish. Then I get to the end and bugger MvJ if I haven't run a pb-- 20.26, knocked off a massive 31 seconds. <br />
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Bring on tomorrow. MvJ is in rare form... -
Could you believe 19.09? MvJ certainly couldn't. Am absolutely fucked, but even managed to take the stairs up to my apartment afterwards. <br />
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After the push-up session a couple of nights ago I could barely lift my hands above my head to shampoo the melon this morning <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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So that's a good day; 30 minutes on the exercycle, power walk to work, walk at lunchtime to get lunch off my chest, power walk home and a gutbusting run. The run time is more pleasing still because I didn't do all the other stuff I did today when I ran yesterday's time. <br />
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Tomorrow I'm off to referees' fitness which will consist of about 40 thin, private school rah-rah foppie twats sprinting three-quarter pace around an Aussie Rules field, followed by a fat fluffybunny letting out a tourettes-style stream of swear words. <br />
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[quote name='Miller V Jackson']<br />
Could you believe 19.09? MvJ certainly couldn't. Am absolutely fucked, but even managed to take the stairs up to my apartment afterwards. [/quote]<br />
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Good man. Go get yourself a lap dance as a reward. You live in the right part of town let's face it <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Your suggestion has been noted.
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Cheers. Without the grog I am sleeping like a lamb <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/blink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Right. gave it the full whack again today. Ran to work rather than the power walk (10 minutes to the end of the domain from MvJ's place, but up and down Woolloomooloo Bay). <br />
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Then to rugby training, where I cranked 9.1 on the beep test nearly bringing on cadiac arrest. This was followed by the see how many press-ups you can do in a minute test. MvJ managed three <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> The 39 sit-ups which followed that are going to hurt tomorrow. <br />
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I did however walk home from Aussie Stadium, which was a good 45 minutes. Already MvJ is hurting in four or five separate areas of his body. Tommorrow will be interesting... -
[quote name='Miller V Jackson']<br />
This was followed by the see how many press-ups you can do in a minute test. MvJ managed three <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> [/quote]<br />
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<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> Yeah I have a similar problem - muscle mass not proportional to body weight. What I do is when I'm going for a run and feel the need to stop and walk, I do pushups on a low fence or railing if one is available, or on an incline if no fence or railing presents itself. It teaches your body 1 of 2 things:<br />
<br />- If it wishes to avoid the torture of pushups, it must keep running<br />
OR<br /> - If it wishe to avoid the torture of running, it must do pushups<br />
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Either way its all good.
- If it wishes to avoid the torture of pushups, it must keep running<br />
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Average day today, or rather average to poor. Couldn't be fucked running tonight, and waddled to work and back at a slow pace. However did manage 30 minutes on the treddley before work. <br />
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Tomorrow, I would be stoked with getting up and going for a run but more likely will be on the bike again before work. Then was going to go to the pub and not drink, but have now decided against that theory... I'm going to beat your 13 days Kirwan, but I'm going to have to pick the timeslot very carefully <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
The going to the pub and not drinking doesn't work, having tried it <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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When (if?) you beat the 13 days, I'll go off it again for a long stretch and beat your achievement by one day to give you a new target. Deal? -
Deal. It is going to kill one of us :happy:<br />
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So far my record is 5 nights (twice). I never thought I would curse the weekend! Your're right about going to the pub and not drinking of course. Fat chance MvJ would have... -
Friday, an abomination with no exercise whatsoever. Today, bad, but did walk the 40 minutes to Aussie Stadium, and back, to do a referees course thingie. Might hit the treddley before hitting the pub again.
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Failed to hit the bike, failed to go for a run. Did manage to do the Bondi-Coogee walk thing, and then home from the bus-stop. Not exactly a fat-burning day, but hopefully it mitigated the fish and chips and other fried crap, to say nothing of the beers.