Fat busting/Ab circle
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You can roll out of bed and onto the rower in the morning, shower, head to work, come home, jump on for another half an hour, and wham, next thing you know you are rowing 12k a day without raising a sweet - effort wise to get to the gym that is!<br />
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and you don't have to be organised. I would row in my undies, as I was going through too many shirts and shorts over summer, drenched with sweat three times a day (lunch row too, I was getting very fanatical)!<br />
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But is a lot cheaper than buying one and finding you don't like it!!!!! -
yeah the initial rent then rent to buy approach worked a treat for my folks. Dad has already replaced the track as he wore it into the ground. We have a decent crosstrainer at home as well - got it in the lounge so you can watch tv or crank some music while working out.<br />
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I still enjoy going to the gym but it's cool to have something decent to workout on at home too. Esp a rowing machine - you get cardio and tone up right quick following Bartmans '3 a day' programme!! Shit 3 times a day is pretty hardcore Bartman! No wonder your times in the rowing section were pretty loco. -
mate, was competing with a couple of guys online, you log your metres in each day on the concept2 site, and then at freespiritsrowing.com they have a leaders board of all the members who row. I was just cracking the top 20, there were three of us battling like mad bastards. If you didn't top 100,000 a week you were dropping down the board so fast you looked like you were swimming with cement flippers.<br />
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I will certainly get back into that once the BB is over - probably just 2 a day though!!!<br />
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I used to watch the first half of a game of rugby in the morning, an episode of MASH on my lunch row, and the second half in evening for the rows, so would be 40 ish, 24ish and 40ish mintues. -
finally had a go on my mate jordy's rowing machine (they seem to always be taken at the gym!). 'Addictive' is exactly the first word I would associate with it Bart. Exercise heroin! I have used row machines before. Im not a complete noob. In fact I used to [I]have[/I] to do rowing as part of my training regime for rugby. But they must have been dinosaur contraptions.<br />
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Jordy is a rowing coach and lives on the thing, so no chance of borrowing his. So Im going to sweet talk the mrs into letting me rent. It may only be $25 a week but she has been hassling me about a new car for months..... -
Work hasn't really panned out as the physical work out I was hoping for. Because it hasn't really stopped raining since I started I have been playing Street fighter 4 with my cousin and doing weights most days. No much in the way of cardio. Sad to say i have been hitting the carbs something chronic. The down time is killing me. Sitting in the truck occasionally clearing some scrub but no real project work is bad for the waistline and the wallet. <br />
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Because Im doing a horticulture course I am giving all my available attention to that so Im learning fast that my organisation skills are shit house. Juggling, work full time study, family and a workout schedule is simple for some but not me.<br />
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Back to 102kg dammit! -
This last month has seen me pretty busy with work and the lbs have been falling off. 97kg!!!<br />
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I have had a long standing fight with DR PEPPER and look to have finally seen it off. I loved that drink but the sugar content is phenomenal. So Im starting to feel pretty lean. Not mean yet but lean. -
cutting sugar out or finding sugar free alternatives was super effective for me. I chop softdrink like it's going outta style, god knows how much I'd weigh if I was drinking the sugar versions!!<br />
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You must be doing something right Raz to have the weight dropping... def a good motivator to stay off the pepper! -
[quote name='Paekakboyz']cutting sugar out or finding sugar free alternatives was super effective for me. I chop softdrink like it's going outta style, god knows how much I'd weigh if I was drinking the sugar versions!!<br />
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You must be doing something right Raz to have the weight dropping... def a good motivator to stay off the pepper![/QUOTE]<br />
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Yeah good effort sir. Coke Zero and diet Ginger beer taste [I]ALMOST [/I]as good as the orginal and since I have cut way back on the booze ( see my thread ) I find these are pretty decent as a replacement. Some normal Ginger Beer has 40 carbs a serve ! fuck that, I'd rather sacrifice a tiny bit of taste than have that amount ! -
First winter in a while I can say I weigh less at the end of it than I did at the beginning. Been a while since I entered anything in. Huge losses sitting at 92kg!!!. I was happy to be 95 but the mrs reckons one size down and she'll buy me some poofter skinny jeans. Yippee!!!!<br />
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Nothing but eating at regular intervals and work. Snacking is almost a dead dog and fizzy is certainly long gone.<br />
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Haven't had a beer in....can't actually remember.<br />
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Taking some clients to the All Whites game so I guess I'll need to have one then! -
[quote name='Razbra']First winter in a while I can say I weigh less at the end of it than I did at the beginning. Been a while since I entered anything in. Huge losses sitting at 92kg!!!. I was happy to be 95 but the mrs reckons one size down and she'll buy me some poofter skinny jeans. Yippee!!!!<br />
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Nothing but eating at regular intervals and work. Snacking is almost a dead dog and fizzy is certainly long gone.<br />
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Haven't had a beer in....can't actually remember.<br />
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Taking some clients to the All Whites game so I guess I'll need to have one then![/QUOTE]<br />
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my hat goes off to you good sir for that is a marvellous effort. You must be pleased as punch with that ! As I said in my thread I'm around 95 so you've narrowly beaten me given we were both in the early hundies at the start of the year I think ? <br />
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A mate of mine ( my height but about 72kg ) has those skinny jeans as does my son ( looks odd considering he is still in nappies so he has something of a J Lo ass going on ) <br />
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Personally the boozing has been cut right down and even the odd session at a mates place, in front of a game or whatever is often curtailed at 2 or 3 as opposed to 5 or 6. I think the trick for both of us is BBQ season is nearly upon us so whilst the booze will be flowing we gots to steer clear of the white bread ! <br />
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Being off work for the last few months has enabled me to have brekky every morning but given I am starting again in a few weeks ( how tough is it to get a job at the moment ??? I feel very lucky some random experience years ago helped me get one in an industry I'm keen on ) this will be sorely tested so I've gotta make sure I have my daily Harraways rolled oats with my coffee.... -
well done chopper. That beer thing - jsut loaded my beer fridge with the last 2 boxes I bought for last Christmas (I bought 3) for the upcoming oldies tournament weekend in Whangamata. there were 6 already there from Xmas, so I reckon it would be about 10 beers for me since December /09 (one in Raro that I recall, and maybe another one or two somewhere to be polite), but don't really miss them.<br />
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Coke Zero howeever, WILL be back on the menu after the National BB champs, miss that!<br />
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and poofter skinny jeans, I hope that yippe was sarcastic, unless you want to look like a skinny poofter that is!!!!!<br />
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but enjoy an ale or two at the AW's, that is for sure, I'm looking forward to one or two over the oldies weekend here in 7 days time! -
mn5 - makes you retain fluid - so not the calories, the water retention taht is the bad thing during the lean down. Other than the water retention, any diet fizzies are A OK!!<br />
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Kea - Rice Cooker, so it is fine, just sick of it - dayinanddayoutanddayinanddayoutasnddayinanddayout.... you get the picture! Just a teaspoon of thai sweet chilli and it would be the nectar of the gods!!<br />
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and those two boxes of beer - they are from a pizza party shortly after last years nationals, so almost a year gone! -
Funny as really. I went out with the family today to the local mall and she tried to get me to buy some of those jeans. Couldn't get them over my thighs. Happy to say it was a pair of straight cuts for me. Mind you they are grey....<br />
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Cheers too guys, funny though that the ab circle just collects dust in the garage and Im just doing my damndest to get the missus to let me chuck on trade me.
