Onwards and upwards - target 2012...
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I've asked the wife for a decent set of scales for at home for my birthday Bart so I can do regular and consistent weigh-ins like you. Funny how it takes a while to come out of ya. I probably consume 2 litres or so whilst working out (maybe more?) and then at least 1 on the way home and then don't seem to need to start the relief until a good hour or 2 later and from then its every 15mins or so and I haven't even drunk a whole lot more!<br />
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Btw, fished with a guy yesterday whos big in to his power lifting. Runs Coast Barbell up on hibiscus coast. HUGE unit. Hes prob 6ft4 and about 145-150kg. Big bugger and eats like a horse. On 6000 calories a day and whilst out fishing he had 2 litres of flavoured milk, 1.5ltr coke, 3 cans of chicken, 2 protein bars, a shitload of water plus whatever else I didnt see go in. Obviously now low in the body fat but seems dam strong. Think said his combined lifts were about 700kg and I think that was in the suit so not raw. BEAST -
I am joining this group. I started exercising again, after the tummy went a little over the belt. Basically I dont want to look like a body-builder, just want to lose the excess fat, tone nicely. <br />
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I walk/jog 5km a day now. I work out with dumbbells and mix it with a bit of pilates to take some strain of my back. Exercises that I feel are working for me.<br />
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Problem comes in here: What to eat? I switched a few things, but the bad one is I still get that glass of Coke in home. Will read your stuff and check in here regularly.<br />
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Welcome Allyphint - start a thread mate as its a good way of tracking your progress.<br />
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The old glass of coke....is that the high octane stuff or diet or coke zero? I use to be a heavy coke drinker and cut back to the diet one which I hardly ever drink now anyway but find the high octance stuff (as well as coke zero) way too sweet for my liking. Coke zero could be an easy transition for ya and I understand its not quite as bad for ya. -
yeah, coke zero or diet coke, all of a sudden your cup and a half of sugar that you get with each 1.5 of coke is gone. I still drink a ton of Zero in the off bodybuilding season, love it. Used to be a coke fiend too.<br />
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Just the little things like that help a lot - drink the diet drinks, eat the low fat versions etc, and bread is your enemy!<br />
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6000 calories a day, fuck me sideways, that would be hard to eat! When I dabbled about heading in physique I was having to eat a whole chicken at lunchtime, along with a ton of rice and veg. Just couldn't do it!<br />
Today - shoulders/traps day. Loving the routine at the moment - thought I'd stop bludging on the shrugs and found that 160kg for six reps is not bludging. Bulging perhaps, eyeballs look like they'll be pinging into the mirror at any moment, but otherwise fine!! Shoulder injuries all feeling OK, just lurking under the surface though - at least it forces you to do everything with strict form! -
Hey Ally, yes, motivation is the one - but when the results start coming in that helps. And absurd as this sounds, so does this forum - is good to get the back slaps as you do good stuff!!<br />
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last piece of advice though, a visit to a decent nutritionist is a great help I reckon - then you KNOW what to eat and what not to eat. Our one tries to keep in the foods that you like, as we are all, after all human!! -
and back on the workout front - back today, fun day at the gym, everyone happy, boot campers away doing their thing and then back looking knackered afterwards, and the sad sack trainer still away, thakn fuck. You all know the one, glum face, looks like they'd rather be hanging by the neck than at the gym, but still there every day. We've got a chick like that at the gym, fucking horrible person. So she's away, and the gym just lifts!!<br />
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So backl - good workout, then shoulder re hab things, and bome for oats, protein powder, 3 egg whites and kiwifrut, how better to start your day!! -
Too dam right Bart. Awesome way to start the day and there is a great vibe around my gym now too. Everyones really positive and this cracking weather helps too.<br />
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Had a go at one of the personal trainers today - had set up a station for one of their clients doing a circuit that involved one of them half swiss ball type things being setup in the squat rack and the safety bars up at shoulder height with their towel hung over it. Fuk knows what they were doing but after waiting 15mins without it being used for it to come free I moved it all and got in to squats. Mid set the PT came over to me and asked why I had moved it all.....naturally i finished my set (had to slip that in) and then gave him a few words. Didnt ruin my positivity though! Kicked on from it. -
good on you, I hate that sort of shit - and that is the sort of shit this chick does - will be tripple setting stuff and on a piece of equipment once every five minutes. I just move in and use it now, fuck her. "Oh, I thought you were finished here FIVE FUCKING MINUTES ago you weird freak, the last time you used the bench"...!
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So the wife decided she will join me on the 5km walk at least once a week.<br />
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Food - switched to whole-grain/whole wheat low GI bread. Had the last Coke on Tuesday or Wednesday...had to finish what was in the house. lol.<br />
Switched to Coke Zero. Although trying to get as much water though.<br />
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[quote name='BartMan']good on you, I hate that sort of shit - and that is the sort of shit this chick does - will be tripple setting stuff and on a piece of equipment once every five minutes. I just move in and use it now, fuck her. "Oh, I thought you were finished here FIVE FUCKING MINUTES ago you weird freak, the last time you used the bench"...![/QUOTE]<br />
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I know how that feels, especially when there is limited equipment. I'ld much rather people hog a machine or a piece of equipment for 20mins and once they're done you know that its free for who ever to use. -
or just jump in and work in with them - most gym goers understand the etiquette of the gym!<br />
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ally - another option on the zero is watering it down! I sometimes mix third / two thirds water / zero. Still tastes good and gives you tha coke taste, just not so sweet and 'thick'!!<br />
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back on weights - arms today, into gym early, got workout almost finished by opening time (handy to have keys!), so were just finishing as the punters arrived. So no waiting for machines this morning, sweeet!! Good arm pumps too, love doing arms by themselves at the moment! -
Spent Sunday being a farmer - fencing - maybe a 100 metre sretch on the side of a hill and spraying a fuck off big paddock's prickles as we (hmmm, me) get a paddock ready for Vanessa's foal and mum. SO two hours wandering around spraying, and a good 6 hours pulling and ramming posts etc. Buggered by the end of the day!<br />
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Yesterday chest, and today a spin class for cardio, Ness took it for instructor who was away, so tomorrow becomes leg day.<br />
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Bad weekend for eating, tons of junk as I pretended to be a farmer, and Saturday at work when i pretended to not care!! Weight Monday morning 89.7, this morning 89. We visit trainer this week, will be interesting to see what my BF% is! Will weigh in every day to keep my clean eating motivation going!!<br />
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87.8 this morning.<br />
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Legs day today. Reached my limits too - 160kg squats. Was down to my 2 reps, and couldn't get too full depth squats. Only a couple of inches off, but still not full. So did an extra one to make up for it. Don't know what we'll be doing next week for legs, but know I can get 4 full squats at 150.<br />
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Theeen leg extensions, hammy curls, stiff legged deads (murder after hammering those early exercises), and to finish smith machine calf raises. <br />
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jeeezzz, my body must be a sponge! Last night had a couple of gin and Tonics, and maybe 150g of scroggin mix from pix and mix bins. Otherwise a good normal day eating clean. Weight this morning 89.7. SO 1.9 UP from yesterday, this must be what you call yoyo dieting!!<br />
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Anyway, the tale of the scale aside, great workout this morning, shoulders screwed, loving this current workout - hope our new one next week is as good!! I expect it will be, Dazza has not yet come out with a bad one! -
changed it up a little today - arms instead of back, as Ness visited the back Dr yesterday and got clunked into place, so thought we'd rest it for a day. <br />
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So top workout, felt like someone had tacked their legs onto my shoulders, but the mirrors still showed mighty mini me!<br />
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weight this morning 88.4. SO sponge had been squeezed somewhat!! So another couple of clean eating days and we'll see what happens.... -
well, trainer visit all good on Sunday, and scoff all good too for Sunday free day!!<br />
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Trainer, weight on her scales was 87.8 or something like that, and body fat percentage at 10, so all good on that front - weight where it needs to be. Better news though lean muscle mass increased by 2 kilos since end of comp season, should hope so, we have been going pretty hard at the gym, it is awesome training with a bit of meat on the bones and food in the belly!!<br />
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New eating plan too - daily calories remain the same, just different foods, so taking on board 2700 odd cals a day to fuel the machine. Plus whatever else sometimes sneaks in the side door...!!!<br />
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Ness at 17% BF and in wicked nick, only about three kilos above her competition weight, so looking strong and pretty classy at the moment! Me about 8 over comp weight.<br />
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Treat day, not too bad at all - Muesli for breakfast instead of whole grain rolled oats, so not much 'bad' there, but bloody niuce for a change that's for sure. The normal protein powder etc with it. Lunch a kebbab, and a cookie time afghan thrown in. Then a handful (good handful) of chocolate pretzels from the woolworths pick and mix bin, and for dinner eggs on toast, and 4 slices of toast with peanut butter and jam. Sin terms of treat / cheat day, it's pathetic now I look back at it. BUt was good to be able to eat 'whatever'!
