Let's try again...
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I'll do some reading Kirwan and at least take preventative steps.<br />
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Tonight was a bit of a mongrel set - my legs are shot from the other days' squats and lunges, followed by sprints and footy kicking last night. So I changed it around a little to leave the legs alone - no squats or lunges tonight! Tried to give myself a 10-breath rest between sets to judge my recovery time.<br />
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It was still about 27C outside at 7.30pm when I started, so by the end I was sweating like crazy. Got up to 36C here today! Big bushfire season coming this summer I reckon.<br />
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Circuit 1 - 10 minutes:<br />
5 x chins<br />
5 x hammer curls into 5 x bicep curls (14kg db - I really should buy some more plates)<br />
5 x bent row into 5 x deadlift into 5 x military press into 5 x shrug (42kg bb)<br />
Some little 2kg weights, held static at shoulder level just for the extra burning<br />
5 x bent flyes ( 14kg db)<br />
Neck set as usual<br />
Myotatic crunches x 10 - thought it would be interesting to put them here instead of in a dedicated ab set. Plus I didn't do abs last night at the park with my pushups.<br />
Pull up to fail (x3) to work on those lats<br />
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Circuit 2 - 10 minutes<br />
5 x chins -struggled after only just making pull ups at the end of the previous set<br />
5 x bicep curls db into 5 x hammer curls db<br />
1 x bb curl @ 42kg - nearly broke myself attempting the second!<br />
5 x military press into 5 x deadlift into 5 x shrug into 5 x bent row (42kg db)<br />
5 x bent flyes<br />
Static shoulder weights again - noticed at this point that a little vein was popping up in the shoulder, which was the first time I've seen it. Cool!<br />
Neck<br />
Pull ups (1.5)<br />
Cat vomits x 10<br />
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Finished it just on the 20 minute mark, as I can time the cat vomits into 20 second blocks, though I kept running short off breath 8s into each hold.<br />
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Felt I hadn't really done enough, so I went for the floats again after around 2 minutes' rest.<br />
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90s hold, 60s rest<br />
60s hold, 30s rest<br />
30s hold, collapse. Really need to work on my lower back strength.<br />
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Early start at work tomorrow - gotta love running a change outside trading hours...<br /> -
The warmer weather is great, although not to that temp, was about 24 yesterday afternoon when I was out working out in the sunshine and certainly gives an extra element to the workout!<br />
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[quote name='Kirwan' timestamp='1351135270' post='320510']<br />
About your headache, I had a similar experience when I started skipping, it might be what's called an exertion headache. Have a google, but there a few ways to reduce their frequency and effect. But I still get them.<br />
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Pretty sure exertion headaches are same thing as the tension headache I was referring to as well. They sure are nasty.<br />
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Did a bit of googling on them awhile back and they also appear very common when having sex. Must be something to do with heightened blood pressure etc. -
A risk I'm willing to take <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Ahh so when they get a headache beforehand it's in anticipation of our awesome performance!!?
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no no no people!!<br />
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Sex is a way to CURE headaches!!!<br />
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[url="http://www.thatsfit.com/2007/10/09/sex-can-cure-headaches/"]http://www.thatsfit.com/2007/10/09/sex-can-cure-headaches/[/url] -
Real common eh - read this http://tnation.t-nation.com/free_online_forum/sports_body_training_performance_bodybuilding_thibaudeau/exertion_headaches_2<br />
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Can assure you its a very nasty feeling. And I only got it from lifting. Would hate to be going at it with the wife and then get the feeling my head (the one above my neck) was going to explode! -
School had a working bee on tonight, and like a sap i turned up right on time, and therefore worked the longest... <br />
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Anyway, it was a good workout, sweating outdoors and digging shit up, loading skips and such.<br />
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Time for bacon n eggs for dinner, then early bed as i started at 4am. Tomorrow morning is a run and weigh in. Hoping to crack 95... -
[quote name='NTA' timestamp='1350679859' post='318558']<br />
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Today: 95.6kg, Chest 110cm, Waist 100cm, Hips 104cm.<br />
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Decided, as I was donating plasma today, to skip the run this morning and just weigh in.<br />
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Today: 94.9kg, Chest 109cm, Waist 99cm, Hips 104cm.<br />
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Pretty fucking chuffed to finally crack 95, as well as getting the waist under the metre mark. I always measure it in relaxed mode - in normal circumstances it is a bit smaller. My Mum drilled into me as a kid to hold my gut in and now i don't even think about it - she did nothing about changing my diet of course... so there is a couple of inches difference, but that gap is closing which is good to see.<br />
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DDO today and in combination with the plasma donation it will work out nicely to keep the weight loss on track. 5kg in 5 weeks... realistically I'll probably get about half that, but some old fashioned binge or protein dieting at the end may get me closer...<br /> -
Still, despite all that, and consuming minimal carbs today, I decided to go out for a run. Conditions were near perfect - slight breeze, sun in the late afternoon to early evening and I was feeling good. <br />
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I mulled over the possibility of stretching it to more than the usual 5km early in the piece, as I was not going for anything like usual pace - just wanted a Sunday arvo cruise to burn off the remains of yesterday. <br />
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As the 2 km mark had a public bubbler handy, I decided to grab some water and go for it. Aimed to keep it at around 5:40 per klick as my 10km best (and the only one in my life) was over an hour. Another bubbler at 4km kept the fluids up, but I knew that was the last water I was going to get.<br />
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The average speed readout basically didn't get above 5:45 at any point so I knew I was on time to crack the hour mark, and got to the 10km in 56:56 which was nearly 5 mins better than the PB.<br />
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Don't really feel that drained, but last time I was about 101kg and not mentally as fit as I am now, which is just as important I think. Haven't got the cramps I experienced last time either, which is a relief. -
Lap times were:<br />
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05:20 (fastest)<br />
05:49<br />
05:48<br />
05:44<br />
05:47<br />
05:41<br />
05:21 (downhill!)<br />
05:29<br />
05:57<br />
05:59 (slowest - mostly fatigue and a bit of uphill)<br />
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Had to double back at the end to knock off the last 200m, so next time I'll have to figure something else out. -
NTA - yup, what's the thing I have seen on facebook? Until you puke or pass out, you haven't reached your limit! And to get your body theire your mind has to be strong enough to ignore all the "I'm fucked, lets stop" signals your body is urgently sending you as you get knackered.<br />
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I've never reached my limit. -
[quote name='NTA' timestamp='1351483496' post='321391']<br />
And by bringing the willpower to bear, with the diet back on the rails, and shitting out all the toxic sludge i consumed on Saturday, this morning I was back to 94.9!<br />
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Love that. Will be gunning for sub-94 this weekend.<br />
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Yep I'm back on the wagon as well after putting on a couple of kg over the weekend ( although different times weighing in and having slightly dodgy scales may have been a factor ) -
[quote name='NTA' timestamp='1351328704' post='321073']<br />
REGRET! SO MUCH REGRET!!!! Oh why did i smash it so very hard.... stomach feels like its going to explode.<br />
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What did you eat? Don't tell me you went deep fried?
