The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge
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@MN5 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@SammyC said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@MN5 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Some bloody good advice here. All I can add is smash loads of tin then get on Facebook and tell the world how pumped you are after your workout. Add cool hashtags too like #gainz #jacked etc.
Make sure your facebook profile pic is one where you have your top off showing the world your massive muscles too.
And write paragraphs about how #awesome your #supplements are.
Don't forget to flex the #guns while holding a shaker containing the #awesome #supplements. Duck lips too.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel watching the pro ironmen race is astounding. The pace they set is unreal, 8 hour finish time? The speed they start that marathon at after getting off the bike just looks wrong.
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@Rancid-Schnitzel watching the pro ironmen race is astounding. The pace they set is unreal, 8 hour finish time? The speed they start that marathon at after getting off the bike just looks wrong.
Yeah, that's the crazy thing. Just finishing one of these mofos is amazing in itself, but to do it at such a fast pace is mindboggling.
Pretty piss poor comparison with what you're subjecting yourself to, but I did a half-marathon a couple of years back and the pros of course went off first. The course looped round so the rest of us ran parallel to the pros while they ran the final leg. The Japanese dude who won was full on sprinting. How the fark do you maintain that without dying?
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@MN5 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@SammyC said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@MN5 said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Some bloody good advice here. All I can add is smash loads of tin then get on Facebook and tell the world how pumped you are after your workout. Add cool hashtags too like #gainz #jacked etc.
Make sure your facebook profile pic is one where you have your top off showing the world your massive muscles too.
And write paragraphs about how #awesome your #supplements are.
Don't forget to flex the #guns while holding a shaker containing the #awesome #supplements. Duck lips too.
@mariner4life ( and anyone else ).
Watch this and take note. If any of us can be half as awesome as Dom Mazetti we're #winning.
@Paekakboyz and @JK will confirm how awesome he is.
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Agreed! Dom has the broscience you need! His earlier stuff is epic, and the more recent stuff is still funny as.
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ps this thread has waaaay to much cardio guff. I'm afraid it may be a gateway thread!
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@mariner4life you have been hijacked!
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Yea the lifting bros are here boring everyone
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You need to get your cardio fitness up. Do some hill running repeats (each one 2 minutes including up and down, intense, for 30 minutes no stopping. Weekly.
Keep swimming and get lessons.
Final tip, get a board and twice a week 2 kicking sessions, starting 15 minutes, then going for 30 minutes non stop and aiming to be able to race along the top of the water as fast as good swimmers.Do all that, you will be flying.
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
Hi fit people
Have stayed off this forum as it's all a bit keen, but i need a bit of help.
Call it vanity, call it turning 40 this year, call it sick of being a lazy fluffybunny, but i took a look at myself after the New Year period and was disgusted in the shape i had let myself get. Skinny white guy getting very soft around the middle. So i did something about it (helped by the missus also training for a few events this year to push me along). Back in the gym 4 times a week, and seeing a trainer for one of those. Also trying to slip in a run each weekend
5 months on and the results have been awesome. Completely re-shaped. Have only lost 1kg, but everything has moved north. Strength up, fitness up, i have abs, it's fucking great.
Anyway, i have always wanted to do the half ironman here in Cairns. So i have signed on to do it next year. Well, in a team, the missus wants to do the run, so i get the swim and the bike. It's a bit of a worry, because i am starting from a baseline of zero in these disciplines. The last time i rode a bike was on a boozy tour in Munich 10 years ago. I haven't done a lap swim since high school. I have a fair amount of work to do.
I've bought a bike, and started with some short rides (25-30kms) and they are going pretty well actually, the bike doesn't scare me at all.
But the swim, jesus. How fucking hard is swimming? I've been for two, and it's the hardest fucking thing i have ever done. Over two 40 minute sessions i have only busted out 800m each time. I spend as much time at the end of the pool sucking in big ones as actually swimming. People either side of me, no matter what their shape or age, cruising along non-stop making me feel fucking inadequate. 1.9kms may as well be 40kms for how close i am to being able to do it
So i am on the look out for training tips. I've got a full year to get myself ready, but i don't really like doing things by halves. I don't know how to build my endurance in the pool. I will go to a few squad sessions soon to get some technique tips, but any advice is greatly appreciated.
You've actually been to a gym before?
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@SammyC said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
7-10,000 calories burnt during an average ironman I think I remember reading.
Damn. No wonder the crazy buggers look like skeletons when they finish.
That is insane! Lots of that stuff is gels and bars aye? I can't imagine running or cycling at that sort of pace and eating/drinking at the same time.
I did some race marshalling as a fund raising gig for my old rugby team. I had one station on Mt Vic (Wellies) where they turned during the cycle leg. Skin, bone, tendon and a fuck load of will power.
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@Rancid-Schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@Rancid-Schnitzel watching the pro ironmen race is astounding. The pace they set is unreal, 8 hour finish time? The speed they start that marathon at after getting off the bike just looks wrong.
Yeah, that's the crazy thing. Just finishing one of these mofos is amazing in itself, but to do it at such a fast pace is mindboggling.
Pretty piss poor comparison with what you're subjecting yourself to, but I did a half-marathon a couple of years back and the pros of course went off first. The course looped round so the rest of us ran parallel to the pros while they ran the final leg. The Japanese dude who won was full on sprinting. How the fark do you maintain that without dying?
Reminds me of the last time I ran the Auckland half. I had finished my race and was walking back to the car just as the first marathon runner was coming in to finish. Amazing
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@Paekakboyz said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@Rancid-Schnitzel said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@SammyC said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
7-10,000 calories burnt during an average ironman I think I remember reading.
Damn. No wonder the crazy buggers look like skeletons when they finish.
That is insane! Lots of that stuff is gels and bars aye? I can't imagine running or cycling at that sort of pace and eating/drinking at the same time.
I did some race marshalling as a fund raising gig for my old rugby team. I had one station on Mt Vic (Wellies) where they turned during the cycle leg. Skin, bone, tendon and a fuck load of will power.
You have to be a little bit nuts to do that shit. I once ran in a team multisport event. I finished the run leg and the guys/girls who were doing the individual race were hopping on their bikes whooping up the road. Crazy
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@NTA okaaaay?
Days without being a homo: 0
See? Motivation!
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hi lifting bros. Quick update on the training.
Training after the initial post went alright. Joined a swim squad which was hugely beneficial, and saw instant and tangible improvements.
Cycling was always going to be okay, and i have embraced the MAMIL thing all-out. Lycra (you can get Star Wars shit, it's awesome), shoes, colour co-ordination, the lot. Fuck you can spend some coin though.
Even did a couple of 10km organised runs for something different, despite doing zero run training.
And still in the gym 2-3 times a week.
And then October and November happened, with visitors from NZ, my 40th, and moving house. And it all took a bit of a hit, especially the swimming. But i still fitted in at least 3 sessions a week.
Upshot is, i am now ramping up a bit. Did a 50km ride on the weekend, hungover, which proved i could. Did 1,500m in the pool last night.
Physically i am in good shape. I am the lightest i have been since 2002 when i was living in Wellington on a graduate salary, and choosing lifestyle over, you know, eating. However, despite my weight, i am lifting as much in the gym as i think i ever have. Still a little worried about the swim, as i need to get my lungs better (it's been too sporadic to get any real progress), but i have 21 weeks until my race.
Heckle away, even you fat guts
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
hi lifting bros. Quick update on the training.
Training after the initial post went alright. Joined a swim squad which was hugely beneficial, and saw instant and tangible improvements.
Cycling was always going to be okay, and i have embraced the MAMIL thing all-out. Lycra (you can get Star Wars shit, it's awesome), shoes, colour co-ordination, the lot. Fuck you can spend some coin though.
Even did a couple of 10km organised runs for something different, despite doing zero run training.
And still in the gym 2-3 times a week.
And then October and November happened, with visitors from NZ, my 40th, and moving house. And it all took a bit of a hit, especially the swimming. But i still fitted in at least 3 sessions a week.
Upshot is, i am now ramping up a bit. Did a 50km ride on the weekend, hungover, which proved i could. Did 1,500m in the pool last night.
Physically i am in good shape. I am the lightest i have been since 2002 when i was living in Wellington on a graduate salary, and choosing lifestyle over, you know, eating. However, despite my weight, i am lifting as much in the gym as i think i ever have. Still a little worried about the swim, as i need to get my lungs better (it's been too sporadic to get any real progress), but i have 21 weeks until my race.
Heckle away, even you fat guts
'Lifting as much in the gym as you ever have....'
So still fuck all by a normal blokes standards then?
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@mn5 righto you box headed fat fluffybunny. Try running a bit
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@mariner4life said in The rebuild of M4L and a new challenge:
@mn5 righto you box headed fat fluffybunny. Try running a bit
I'm 98kg. That's not fat.
I'm also quite good at running considering I despise it.
