Training summer 2011/12
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Passed on the run on Sunday because the body was wrecked but knocked out Chest/triceps. Really good work out and with buggar all people being around was able to include plenty of supersets. 3 groups of super sets for chest, and 2 for triceps. <br />
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Monday the body was wrecked but ild booked in for RPM so went and did that. About 20mins in I was toast. The legs were heavy and tired as hell but managed to knock it out. <br />
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Tuesday was first club training of the year. 2km run warm up, some shuttle work then a game of ruck touch (where if you get touched you have to send to people in with you to blow over, and its a turn over if its to slow). Was really good and a nice way to get back into the trainings although the shuttles sucked. The turning and having to bend over to pick the balls up added quite amazingly to the hurt. Will be an interesting preseason. Got Tuesday/Thursday this week, then next week is Mon/Tues/Wed/Thurs with Thursday being live, full contact games. The following fortnight will be the same as above which leads us into the first preseason game. <br />
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Knocked out shoulders/back today. More superset goodness. And to add to it Ive been dragged into helping my parents tonight with their hay tonight for their life style block. 100+ conventional bales waiting for me. -
Had my skin folds done last night. The guy did the four point pinch test. The bicep, tricep, some where in the back, and on the side. Turned out that I was 20.2% body fat. I was a bit shocked and guttered about it, however once I worked out what my lean body weight was I was a bit happier. Weighing at 120kg means I have a lean body weight of 95.76kgs which is about what I was when I was at my peak with Waikato. The rest of it is the side effects of putting on 5kgs. <br />
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Ill get re-tested the week of our first game on March 17th. I was quite happy with how I was ticking away fitness wise until I went to club training. My endurance is there but my speed is just shit haha. Touch is not my friend. <br />
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Ill also have to tweak what days Ill be doing my training to fit it around work and the club trainings which will make it a bit harder but I need to keep the training up. -
Exactly. Ive got 8 weeks before Ill go get done again. I want to get down to about 15-17% fat next time and increase the lean mass. Loosing the fat will be easy due to training and games starting however the big challenge will be maintaining the weight, and keeping up the strength work. Has to be done. <br />
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Also I got in a conversation with the boys down Ta$man in regards to their top 5 times for 500m indoor row and how they wanted the boys under 1.30min. I decided to give it a crack as warm up for my gym session on Wednesday. I managed to knock it out in 1.27.5 min. Blew my lunges out though -
Infection in my foot. Trained on it on Thursday night and fealt like it was sprained. Got antibotics yesterday and theyve already started to kick in which is good. On an enforced weekend off of everything with my foot up to help get rid of the swelling. Already feel amping at the bit to go do something but need to behave so that Ill be good to go for training on Monday. Times like this I wish I was a patient person.
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Cheers. Infection is going. I caught it early enough and the antibotics are kicking its arse. Its been a frustrating weekend with not being able to do anything but I think Ive benefited from the rest. Back into the gym tomorrow morning then club training at night.
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tough on your limbs pounding around at your size and weight. I always used to wake up hobbling thanks to sore ankles constantly through the rugby season, fine once warmed up, but that morning hobble, how I don't miss that - thanks to (A), no longer having to run, and (<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />, no longer having to be a 105 kilo hooker! Did you ice it up as well - just makes it feel better at the very least, don't know if ice helps infection though!
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I iced it on Thursday night, but found out at the doctor that it was only an infection. Its basically all gone (thankfully) although still got a few more days antibotics to finish. Got up and went to the gym this morning before work which was an ok session. Did box squat for the first time in ages and its amazing how different it it to machine hack squat. While I couldnt push as much as I could with the Hack squats I noticed that it didnt wreck my quads as much as the Hacks do. Knocked out 4 sets of 12 at 130kg. Got team training tonight so more cardio to get under the wings. Have also signed up for the 6am spin class tomorrow morning which will make it an early one. UGGH!!
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Sweet. The physios have always told me that as long as they dont hurt then Im fine. Another positive side effect of tearing all my ligaments in my ankles to shreds haha. Training last night was good. Bit of pad work which went well. Good to get a bit of contact back into the shoulders. This morning was 6am RPM. Earliest that Ive woken up in a long time but found it really good. Got a bloody good sweet up and has got the blood pumping for the rest of the day.
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must be a fronyt row thing - my ankles and ligaments are not a love affair. can roll my ankle so the foot is damn near upside down, and ten minutes later be running on it again! Early starts - my alarm is set for 5:15, at the gym at 5:50, home ready for the day by 7! You DO get used to it, but it does suck!<br />
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I'm running tuesday trainings at the moment here in Whangamata - let me know any ugly gut busters that you might have for them...!! -
I used to struggle with the early morning workouts but reckon they are great now. You feel alive all day from it and are so much more productive.<br />
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Im up 5.30am and in the gym by 5.50am and then at work by 730am all fired up and reading to go.<br />
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Bart - do you eat pre-workout or just run on BCAAs and water til post workout? Guess you must eat since up that much earlier. -
Chest this morning. Barbell flat bench press, barbell incline bench, and DB decline bench, each super setted withDB pull over, DB flies, and cable crossovers. Aimed for 4 sets of 10-12 for each exercise however that sometime varied 1-2 reps either side depending how I was feeling for the set. Finished the session on triceps by supersetting cable rope pull downs with cable rope over head triceps extension, followed by 3 sets to failure of bench dips with my feet on a swiss ball. <br />
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have to say Ive been enjoying the supersets followed by only 30-45 secs rest. Not pushing the same weights but Im enjoying the challenge (and change). -
Had team training again last night. More of a conditioning session which was good. As usual we had our 2 km run to warm up followed by three 10min blocks of conditioning with a game to finish with. For the first block we had cones on each of the major lines (try line, 22m, 10m for each half). Stride out to each cones, then down for 15 press ups, 15 sit ups and 15 star jumps. Do that for the length of the field, then jog back to the other side then do it again with 10 of each exercise. 2nd block was jog out from the try line when the trainer blew one whistle then when there was a 2 whistle blast we had to sprint back to the start then go again. If we made it to half way we had to go down for 6 press ups, 6 sit ups and 6 burpees (as quick as we can, forgetting about form) then get up and keep running. The 3rd block was a combination of the first two where we just did as we were told. Was a good session and was happy to start to slowly test my endurance.<br />
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This morning was 6am RPM class at the gym. Fealt a lot easier to get up this morning and was a good session. It totally wrecked me but was good. <br />
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Well that fealt like I did sweet fuck all of nothing haha. Training involved some skill work for warm ups then got into a live game of 10 on 10 with rolling subs (line outs but golden oldies scrums) for 15min each way. I played the whole time and I have to say introducing tackling, rucks and mauls takes a lot more out of you. It took about 10 mins to get involved in the contact. As time went on got more and more involved and started feeling better in the last 5 minutes as my 2nd wind started to kick in. Was good to get through the session, but god I hope I get my game fitness quickly haha.
