Now or never: Taking it to the next level
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Friday: Shoulders and triceps<br />
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Another favourite. Deadlifts coming on strong. -
Saturday: Treat Daaaaaayyyy.<br />
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Nachos, wraps, coconut ice cream, real coke, pizza, red curry, half-litre mango yoghurt, kitkat.<br />
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Was ok in the guts but didnt feel particularly well when eating it. I think the thought of treat day is much better than the actual day itself. Still it does make eating clean for 6 days much much easier.<br />
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Sunday:<br />
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Snow day. A couple of hours dragging both my boys on a sled through the snow. Its cool to be able to combine training with something thats pretty fun and something the boys love. Went out again later with eldest and his mate. This time was dragging two sleds up and down hills at the same time. Will sleep well tonight. -
Playing catchup again:<br />
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Monday- Legs. Good again<br />
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Tuesday - PT for first time in a couple of weeks which of course meant crossfit:<br />
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Some wavy rope thingy for 30 seconds. Harder than it looks<br />
6 pullups<br />
15 pushups<br />
3 military presses (heavy arse weight)<br />
15 squats<br />
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X 10!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />
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Did ok there. Am not a fan of doing crossfit with heavy weights but this was alright. Pretty chuffed with the time too.<br />
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However, I was apparently not destroyed enough so we then moved on to lat raises and front raises and flat back rows.<br />
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The diet is getting ridiculous so will now be doing carb cycling whatever the fark that is. To start I was instructed to eat heaps of fruit so I will gladly comply. -
Wednesday: Calves, obliques and delts, traps<br />
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Didnt have a PT session but her client today cancelled so sinceshe was already there and hadnt had her torture fix for the day I got a freeby. Borrowed some of those strapon things for the shrugs and they make a huge difference. Will have to invest in those. I'd imagine they make a big difference for deadlifts too. -
Thursday: Chest, arms<br />
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Wanted a big session since I won't be able to train on Friday. Slight twinge of pec pain farked things up a bit but PT managed to work around it. Will be sore tommorrow. -
Saturday: Frolicking in snow plus treat day.<br />
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Dragged boys for about 3kms in sled to shops and back. Man that stuffs you up. Certainly made be hungry for treat day. Went a bit too far but was not too stuffed.<br />
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Sunday: More snow play. Tell you what if you want to really work the arms and upper chest roll massive snow balls. God that was hard work. Will feel that on the morrow. -
Tuesday was first day of carb cycling which basically means smoothy for breakfast and pineapple for afternoon tea every third day. I can live with that. Christ pineapple is nice. I'd forgotten how nice it is!<br />
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Training on Tuesday was shoulders and calves. Good session. Tried to go really heavy in some parts. First time I've attempted 30kg on each side for shoulder press. Manged 4 without spotter which was pretty good.<br />
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Wednesday: Last PT session before Christmas. Am going to miss her. These sessions are relentless and they fark me up but in a good way and unless I find a really good training partner theres no way I'll be able to replicate them. Chest and tris got hammered. -
Home crossfit once more and this time I ramped it up a bit and used some Kirwan advice.<br />
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Box jumps x 15<br />
Burpees x 15<br />
Situps x 50<br />
Pushups x 15<br />
Tricep dips x15<br />
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x 3<br />
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I then did<br />
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30 box jumps<br />
30 burpees<br />
20 pushups<br />
20 tri dips<br />
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Those last 30 burpees were an absolute killer. Not sure how I got through them without stopping but I did. If crossfit does one thing it shows you how far you can push yourself. Really chuffed with this effort. -
Shart. Been a while since the last update.<br />
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The festive season didnt go too badly. Ate pretty clean but the training wasnt nearly as intensive. Tried to get outside at least once a day for some snow rolling or sledding. An interesting business idea would be snow bootcamp. Dragging a sled behind you in deep snow destroys you.<br />
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Was a farking marvellous feeling getting back to the gym on New Years Eve even if I kind of ruined that session by smashing the snacks later that day. Felt pretty disgusted with myself about that so I did 2 crossfit sessions on the 1st and 2nd. I've said it numerous times and I'll say it again, crossfit is the bomb negro. Drilled myself more in those 20 minutes sessions that I ever would have from long runs.<br />
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Excellent chest and biceps session again today and feel that I'm getting back to my optimum level. The extra (clean) food consumption is starting to make a real difference. Am moving to Aus in 2 weeks so hopefully the much better (and significantly cheaper) raw ingredients will help even more. Some sun on the body would be nice as well -
[quote name='Rancid Schnitzel' timestamp='1357248197' post='335411']. Am moving to Aus in 2 weeks so hopefully the much better (and significantly cheaper) raw ingredients will help even more. Some sun on the body would be nice as well[/quote]<br />
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Some people I know are surprised by the cost of food here after living overseas. To prepare yourself, go have a look at online shopping sites for<br />
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Woolworths.com.au<br />
Coles.com.au<br />
Aldi.com.au<br />
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Not quite as much snow exercise here though. Adelaide is going to hit 44C today if that is any help :-)<br /> -
Mate compared to Norway everywhere is cheap. The quality is utter crap as well.<br />
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Moving to Brisbane. Parents live there and lived there myself for years. Terrific city.
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First post since moving to stinking hot then rainy QLD. Better than freezing farking Oslo but what the hell...<br />
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Anyway has been very difficult to keep the momentum up. Diet has been most difficult first with hotel and plane food then being polite and not offending the oldies by refusing their delicious (but carby) meals. When we finally move into our own place in the next few weeks I'll be able to control that much better. One advantage is the raw ingredients. Things like oats, chicken breast, sweet potatoes etc are very good quality and quite cheap. Protein powder is also quite reasonable if you look around. Plenty of temptations though and I'm quite proud that I've resisted most of them. Incredible variety of cråp and no wonder the general population looks to have grown in size since I last lived here.<br />
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Training could also have been better but is coming good. Was going to join one of those Jetts places down the road but it was small and crowded. Took out my brothers old weights, fixed a bench and have been going old school. Bit anoying having to screw on plates and take them off all the time but better than nothing. Plenty of swimming too which is a nice touch after lifting tin. Not an ideal situation but once I'm in the new digs and have a car will sign up to the gym nearby. <br />
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Great shoulder session today. Hopefully this will be the first proper week without distractions. -
Not as bad as 2011 but still terrible for some parts of the city. I'm ok where I am but anybody close to the river or a creek must be getting anxious. No rain at the moment but concerns about high tide tonight.
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Coming up for a bit of air....<br />
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I've always been dismissive of people who say they dont have time to train and for the most part its true but fark me I've been pushed pretty close the past month. With starting a new business, renovating an entire house and looking after my sons and heirs, training has been very tough. Mostly I don't get started unitl 10pm or later. Last Thursday I didnt start until about midnight. Not ideal at all and certainly better than nothing but its a far cry from the psycho PT and that awesome training regime.<br />
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At the moment am trying to do 6 shorter sessions a week. Thats 4 with weights and 2 crossfit. Weights are pretty much all 10-12 rep supersets with 30sec/1min rest. Don't have any real equipment for doing legs so crossfit is big on stepups, box jumps and thrusters.<br />
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Diet is back on track in a big way. Awesome (and cheap) chicken breast here plus great veggies, eggs and other clean food. Diet is basically as follows.<br />
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Breakfast: Oats with protein power plus 3-4 eggs (boil six and eat as many as I can before driving spawn to school)<br />
Mid-morning: Rest of eggs and rye bread with peanut butter.<br />
Lunch: Chicken breast (cook heaps) with brocoli and rice/sweet potato/pumpkim<br />
Afternoon: Celery with peanut butter and protein shake. Maybe some more chicken<br />
Dinner: Chicken or maybe some pork, brocolli/veggies. Maybe rice or noodles if asian.<br />
Evening: Usually after late workout. Protein shake and remainder of chicken.<br />
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This allows me to hammer treat day which is pretty epic in Brisbane.<br />
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Hopefully things will calm down in the next few weeks so I can join a gym and start training properly. My new place is close to a YMCA (It's fun to say its the YMCA...) and right next to the kids' school so should be ideal.
