Onwards and upwards - target 2012...
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38 minutes. AFter 38 minutes of spin this morning in the real class I was ready to pull the pin! Buggered and a bit that is for sure. Think we'll try swimming next week on Wednesday and spin on Thursday. Two days of spin on the trot just too much for these tired old shanks!
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yeah, usually max out at the 27s, but was feeling big!<br />
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Today was back day again, 6 deadlifts at 165 again blowing out all the valves. Loving it. <br />
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Xmas dos coming out the kazu at the moment, so eating has not been great - thursday thai, and even had a few beers last night at the gym do. Along with about a million sausage rolls, mmmmmm, sausage rolls. -
well, I was feeling big because I am getting bigger, big time!! 90.3kg this weigh in, bodyfat still ten percent, 2 kilos of muscle added. So the last four week cycle has been a wicked growth one for me. Ness too, she's added a kilo of muscle to her frame too. Got to LOVE heavy weights eh!<br />
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Today was chest on the new ramp. Dumb-bell press today - 38kg dbs today - finally got onto the big boys rack for some exercises!! Yay. incline press, medicine ball press ups and cable flies were the order of the day on chest, followed by destruction of the triceps on the cable machines. All good, all hard, pumped up like a deformed Popeye at the end of the workout. -
SO THE NEW LEG WORKOUT. Leg Press SS with swiss ball squats. So again a 'wussy' exercise has killed me! Never done these before, they are intense. Quads just screaming at the end of the set, must be working into the tear drops just above the knees. All good. The press a variation. Basically racking the weight in the down position each time on the pins in a pause, so each up drive is from a standing start. So 1 is safer, and 2 harder than your normal press (IMHO).<br />
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then hammy curls x shit loads and calf raises.<br />
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All good at the office today! -
that's what I said!<br />
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not on top of the ball, but ball between your back and the wall. Squat down until your thigh are parallel with the floor. Dumbells in your hands. closer the feet together harder it is.<br />
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this is where you can do holds too - 15 seconds etc. all very painful, although we have not had those yet. I am sure we will at some stage!! -
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spin class today, legs TIRED. Was rooted after 27 minutes today, but managed to fight through, entertaining myself by watching in one of the mirrors the gril who looked like she was a frog that had been hooked up to the mains power supply. Knees and arms and legs all over the shop. Think she might need to increase her resistance a little!!
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Where are we up to? Hard to tell at the moment which way is up, let alone what workouts are due! So yesterday was shoulders, cable hell, preceeded by clean and press and about a trillion lat raises. Top workout, shoulders nailed.<br />
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This morning was back and biceps, and another hammering - back already shagged from yesterdays effort! But stoked, managed some weighted chins ups. saw them on the programme and thought Dazza must be dreeeaaaaaming. So avoided the first set of 8 with weights, but creamed them surprisingly enough, and then two sets of 6, with a MASSIVE 5 kilo weight dangling between my legs. And I was going to use a 20 - not a chance, the 5 felt like 50!! But first set got to four before Ness latched onto the ankles to give me a little help, and 5 on the last set of the day. Makes the expereince of chins waaay different, but cool. <br />
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Biceps on the cables, preachers and hammer curls, good pump, but need to add a bit of weight across the board for next week. Great workout though, loved it. -
chest today - 26th. Gym closed until the afternoon so had the place to ourselves. Good workout, got the weights sorted now on week 2 of this prog. DB Bench press up to 40kg. Have never really gone heavy on DB bench before so is an interesting experience. The flat cable flies that are supersetted with the presses make for a painful experience! Still doing low reps on the first half of the SS, and high on the second, just to ramp up the pain levels...!!
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Lucky legs got hammered today, got the weights right second time out on this programme, and expect to suffer tomorrow!<br />
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Leg press with a pauses at the bottom rocks. The pause on the pins, or in this case, on the board at the lowest stop as there are no removable pins. Anyway. The pause. It KILLS you. If you come down and then go straight up, easy. When I stopped on the board and took all tension off muscles, and then pressed up, KaPow, killer. Every rep is your first rep, every rep a killer. Worth an experiement with if anyone feeling a little stale on the LP...!!<br />
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Hanging leg raise things again for abs, they hurt like buggery too!<br />
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and that was the day that was, December 27, 2011! -
jumped our shoulder day forward a couple of days, so we could get a break between shoulder and back workouts. Another major demo day, shoulders whacked again, death by cable the last super set and thankfully the last, as it really roots you!!<br />
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spin class tomorrow, that'll sweat the last of the Xmas CAke out!! -
spin was good, sweated up a storm. Cramp in the middle of the night over the last two nights too, inner right quad, not good. Must need more water and salt. Think a nice <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> drink of baking soda before bed tonight to safeguard!
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jaysus, the baking soda worked, but jeez, tasted like shit (I forgot I used to mix it with Thrifty). Woke up in the night with no cramp, but my mouth dryer than a Nun's.. Well, you know the saying.<br />
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Today though, back and biceps. good day at the office, although the current bicep ramp not blasting the bis like ones in the past, still getting a pump, but not the mind numbing arm exploding one. Weighed chins ups part 2 all good, takes longer to weight up than to do the chins!! -
New Years eve been and gone, and managed to see it in, watching 'Sleepers', good movie.<br />
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Today back to the grindstone though, chest and triceps. talk about pumped up like a puffer fish in the tricep department at the end of the workout! Felt like Arnold, looked like peewee!<br />
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Good walk yesterday around farm where Ness has her horse and foal, 50 minutes of hill climbing and falling!