TR vs the future
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First of all: bloody well done.<br />
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[b]Second: race you to 90.[/b]<br />
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My advice: don't hold your breath waiting for face-to-face praise.[b] Mrs TA can't take a compliment ("oh you have to say that because you're my husband") and can't really give one either.[/b] At least, not to your face. I reckon I've gotten more compliments from her friends, and it took until the recent dog house event to actually get her to state it, and even then it was in an email!<br />
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When you point out that you needed to buy new, smaller pants or that you can finally wear that shirt that was 2 sizes too small, they'll make an offhand remark of affirmation and get back to what they were doing.<br />
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Apparently we're just expected to know how proud they are just like we're expected to pick up on what passes fit hints in the female would. In addition, I've been told that my attractiveness had more to do with my attitude than it did my physical shape, but having more energy and positivity helps. She'll still go see "Magic Mike" with her friends though...<br />
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They're weird creatures, make no mistake.<br />
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Yep, 90kg is on.<br />
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Haha, yeah I know, you always get that question from them, and there is no right answer, there is always a comeback; are you telling the truth? YOu are bias though, if you didnt like it would you tell me?<br />
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Back on track; been reading various Mens Health Mags (US, UK & Aussie ones) and you get so much conflicting info in them! Some saying dont do this, dont eat that, others say do this, eat that!<br />
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That said, some great tips in them though, especially when a consistent message comes through all 3, and interestingly, each tends ot cover off a few similar topics in the same month! -
Good work there TR, some great improvement round the middle ( won't say anymore than that without it being just a bit odd so there y'go )<br />
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Can I join the race but go to 95kg instead ? ( at my height 90 is a bit lanky ). Damn near got there but Xmas got in the way..... -
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been reading various Mens Health Mags (US, UK & Aussie ones) and you get so much conflicting info in them! Some saying dont do this, dont eat that, others say do this, eat that!<br />
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That said, some great tips in them though, especially when a consistent message comes through all 3, and interestingly, each tends ot cover off a few similar topics in the same month![/quote]<br />
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No surprise there - as with women's magazines, the primary task is to sell magazines; any help you get is purely incidental in amongst the advertisements and picture of some guy who followed a routine that worked for him (with the help of his personal trainer, a career break, and some well lit photography).<br />
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I flick through them on the news stand every now and then for exercise ideas, but for me it always comes back to basics - road work, compound weights, and diet control. I don't have time to fuck around after all
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No surprise there - as with women's magazines, the primary task is to sell magazines; any help you get is purely incidental in amongst the advertisements and picture of some guy who followed a routine that worked for him (with the help of his personal trainer, a career break, and [b]some well lit photography[/b]).<br />
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I flick through them on the news stand every now and then for exercise ideas, but for me it always comes back to basics - road work, compound weights, and diet control. I don't have time to fuck around after all :-)<br />
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Yeah dude I look much more "ripped" in certain mirrors and certain lighting than I do in others.<br />
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House sitting at a mates place at the moment and there are a fews mens health lying around and some of the articles really scream bullshit or as you say farkin tough for the average joe to try and find time to do ...... -
finished the year with a weighted walk up my favorite Mountain...<br />
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Only added 10kg this time as my knees didnt take too kindly to 20kg last time, carried the weights above my head, in extended DB press position and varied it as well.<br />
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Was pretty good walk, with a wee bit of light running as well, never on any steps, just on the up/down sections, no issues with the knees this time.<br />
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No surprise there - as with women's magazines, the primary task is to sell magazines; any help you get is purely incidental in amongst the advertisements and picture of some guy who followed a routine that worked for him (with the help of his personal trainer, a career break, and some well lit photography).<br />
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I flick through them on the news stand every now and then for exercise ideas, but for me it always comes back to basics - road work, compound weights, and diet control. I don't have time to fuck around after all :-)<br />
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I have a bunch of em on the iPad, so just browse through them, mainly for ideas like you, I dont bother with the articles about some dude that went from a big poppa to a ripped dude in 6 weeks, as there is always more to it than simply I went to the gym and ate good food. -
Arms, shoulders, abs and lats still sore today, particularly biceps (brachialis) and forearms (although these were sore last week from cleans) I guess from the pull ups I did on Sunday?<br />
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So had today off, mowed lawns, went for a swim, took the dog/cat for a walk. -
biceps and inner-forearms still a bit sore!?!?<br />
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35 min run instead! -
I'm thinking about starting a new thread to be honest, this time with a "before" photo to look back on this time next year.<br />
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Forgot to say I went to the beach on Wednesday and tried paddle boarding...harder than it looks! Not to mention good for the quads maintaining the balance. <br />
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100 lizard crawls on the incline in my backyard (about 20+/- deg slope)<br />
100 burpees (varied them by jumping left to right and forward and back)<br />
200 mountain climbers<br />
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120 squats@60kg (put back on rack at 50, 75 and 100 for about 5-10 sec)<br />
100 (each side) hammer/wood choppers<br />
planks; arms on weight bench, feet on swiss ball and moving it slowly left to right 150 times<br />
5 mins punch bag<br />
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went for a walk up the hill with additional 10kg of weight, and a 7 year old...the latter made it hard going on the way up (the usual incessant chat urned to whinging) but coming down he ran about half of it.<br />
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100 cleans @ 40kg, really struggled on the last ones<br />
5 mins skipping (was gonna do dips, but felt my forearms were hammered from the cleans)<br />
150 med ball thrusters<br />
1 min plank (feet on swiss ball) then 45 knee raises (in plank position on weight bench, feet on swiss ball)<br />
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took a fraction over 30mins, but the best bit, slipping into the kids pool after. -
Apparently was 30 deg at 4pm today....<br />
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Warm up on the punch bag<br />
100 dips<br />
200 weighted step ups (10kg plate in each hand, step is knee height - I now know I couldnt do my walk with these plates!!)<br />
200 overhand sledgehammer-tyre<br />
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you're doing really well, and I'm jealous of the warm weather-heh but here I commonly workout at 35+ degrees and humid so no complaining! Good to see you are really getting into some hikes. Anywhere you can give stair repeats (you need 150-200 stairs) a go?<br />
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Re: your dips, do you do[url="http://www.beebleblog.com/images/tricepdip.jpg"] them on a chair[/url], or with parallel bars like [url="http://www.realfitnessblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/dips.jpg"]this (which is what I do)[/url]? 100 on the parallel bars is a good effort, how do you break up the sets? -
I do them on parallel bars.<br />
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I start off and max out (20+ some days I do more, some, less) then just try to do sets of 8-12 from there on in, with a 5 sec or so break....(try to do sets of 10, easier to keep count)<br />
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Where I run/walk, there are plenty of steps, but not in one go(maybe 100 would be the most? - I'll count this weekend) and they are also inconsistent height and depth. I assume the stair repeats you do are in in your thread, back at the start?? -
impressive on the dips-well done! Try to do 20 minutes like that, it really helps build strength.<br />
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I do stair repeats-on every page of my thread I guess. Did 1 hour-2 minutes each*30, on Sunday. Legs are only just not sore today. <br />
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They are high enough that I can do 2 but not 3 at a time-and I do 2 all the way to the top-doing 1 by 1 is pretty much useless. Jog down, and repeat. -
will give it a crack this weekend...maybe a dozen (will see how long that takes, but will be good for a start - so you 'sprint' up, and then job back down.<br />
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There is a section which should do the job (probably only 100 or so steps) but that is the good and bad thing about these tracks in that the steps are tough because they are inconsistent and hard to get a rhythm going.<br />
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I really enjoy (in that they never fail to push me) the runs up these tracks, so am keen to use any variants on there.
