Thunderbirds are GO....
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Ouch and not ouch. Visit to nutritionist today, and my first weigh in / measure since a loooooong time ago - probably pre the June 30 Waikato show in 2012. Anyway, [b]weight was 92.5[/b], and [b]bodyfat 10.7[/b]. So weight more than I would have wanted, but thanks to the carb up for the cycle in the weekend we'd both be holding fluid at the moment (Ness's weight was up too, but this morning was down a couple of KG)! Lean body mass is 82.5 kg, so that is 2 kilos over what I need to weigh in at on competition days. So interesting facts and figures.<br />
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Where to from here? Well back on the bandwagon, no more cookie times for me! Apart from on treat days which will now be a weekly event, as opposed to whenever the hell I feel like it... So first target is to get below 90 and into the mid 80s so when the lean down comes along in few months I'm not having to do it hard! <br />
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Training today was legs, last one before we start our new programme where Ness does legs twice a week, and I crank chest / biceps through two workouts a week. Bring it on, can't wait. Over. -
spin this morning. Cracker class, legs already smashed to pieces by last nights ride and the previous days weights and probably still Sundays 42 ride. AT any rate, all systems go, and now tonight for the 2nd chest session of the week - starting the new programme's regime a week early - exciting times.<br />
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Weight this monring on scales 89.9, yay, 3 days clean eating and the scales come down. At the same time stupid scales, had my BF% at 14.9, so even when you take the 3 off, puts me at 11.9, as opposed to the calipers 10.7! But really, who cares, feeling tighter, all systems are go! -
Are those stupid scales similar to what I was using Bart? Like stand on em and it magically reads body fat %.<br />
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If theres a common discrepancy to calipers then that gives me a bit of comfort as I think I'm a couple of % lower than what it tells me. Not that those numbers mean alot to me but just out of interest -
yup thse are the ones - mine vary up to 2 or 3 percent a day (it depends how hydrated you are), when I weight myself lots I found in the past. Usually about 3 percent though above what the calipers tell me I have found. That is until I'm hitting my comp weight, then I think it's pretty sport on!
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SO THursday last was 2nd chest day - wicked, felt puffed up like a blower fish at the end. Then on Friday was back day, another good - strapped onto the rop for seated rows (using a rope at the moment instead of handles), and with the grip not giving away and fingers not killing you over the last few reps, MUCH better results and back killed.<br />
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Theeeeen, Saturday Ness did her second legs, I did a treadmill / cycle bore 40 minute gig.<br />
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Sunday, the big one, cycled to Waihi and back. Those hill are killer on the way over. 4k for the hardest climb, the other 2 'big' climbs 1.5. But they're nothing compared to the 4! Coming back, a breeze in comparison. Total ride after adding on<br />
the old pub road' at then end just over 70k in just around 3 hours. Our half of the Taupo ride should be a breeze after that....<br />
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This morning first day of the new programme, chest day, and K-Pow. Awesome 0 Dazza out done himself once again. Dumbell press drop sets. 6 reps, then 8 reps, then 12 reps, a killer, and if I thought I had been puffed up after last Thursday, this time I about 2000PSI in each pec!!<br />
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then some DB preacher curls, tough on the dodgy arm, but managing through it, followed by some cable curls. And that, was that, -
legs today, and a short attack - Ness having two leg workouts a week, this one more focussed on quads, second one more on hamstrings. Anyway, smith machine squats to start, normal stance, 8, 6,6,6. Was cool, heavy weights, and slow reps, amazing how much slower you go when the weight is guided. Then single atlernate extensions, DB hamsting curls, and seated calf raises. All hard and heavy. loverly stuff.
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a few good days training behind us since last Tuesday I Think it was. Second chest / biceps again left me puffed up like a overloaded puffer fish, love it. Gotta be growing. Weighted in aagain last week, 90.8, so up a KG and BF still the same. She's going to be a hard row to hoe when it comes to getting weight back down for comps. Or enter physique and get my arse kicked. Decisions!<br />
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Did a cycle yesterday, last big one before my half of the lake taupo ride. Went to Tairua and up PUmpkin Hill past Tairua. total of 90 odd kilometres by the end of the ride, very tired, and very hungry at the end of it!! All good though, Taupo should now not kick our arse...! -
Well, still ticking along - weights, walking, cycling...<br />
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Taupo - did the first two legs in 2:52, and then waited for Ness to arrive. She arrived, and promptly said, "shall we do another leg". Unfortunately my bike was easy to get off the racks, so the answer was OK! So we ended up doing 116k, great fun, and would have gone on and done the whole thing but ran out of food! I got some mean quad cramps going up some mother hill at 57k, but a water station at the top saved me - drunk and refilled bottles like mad, ate food, and was fine from then on in. If I get into this more in the future need to learn about fueling body more!<br />
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Weights all good, enjoying, hard work, business as usual.<br />
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Exciting news, some local NZ TV programme is needing bodybuilding extras for some episode, so Ness is going to be on stage, while I am going to be a bodybuilding muscle geek in background! I don't even know what it's called - will find out details, filming mid December, we need to be there for a couple of days, should be a bit of a giggle! I expect a spin off programme within months at the very least...<br />
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JK - weight cut offs - it's a height to weight thing. Take your height in cm, minus 100, plus 2. (or just take off 98!) so 178.5 height means I can be 80.5kg. If you were 200 you'd be 102kg etc. -
Have you read Total Recall from Arnold? Gives some good highlights (some old, some new) about his bodybuilding days in the beginning. Interesting reading his explanation of his mindset, and how he approached training.<br />
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Kind of crazy how much he was fitting into a day (real estate business, a degree spread out over multiple colleges because of his visa, training, working at the gym, mail order business, etc, etc, etc). He was a machine. -
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Have you read Total Recall from Arnold? Gives some good highlights (some old, some new) about his bodybuilding days in the beginning. Interesting reading his explanation of his mindset, and how he approached training.<br />
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[b]Kind of crazy how much he was fitting into a day[/b] (real estate business, a degree spread out over multiple colleges because of his visa, training, working at the gym, mail order business, etc, etc, etc). He was a machine.<br />
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Obviously no time for acting classes. -
Especially with this much daylight. I should be up in the mountains hiking... was picture bloody perfect at 5.30 this morning for a coffee and some oats right here:<br />
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