What are your training goals for 2013?
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I dunno, I was a real gym bunny in my early 20's, plus all the rugby (summer was 7's pre-season training) golf, indoor soccer, indoor cricket, twilight hockey and touch rugby (how the frack I managed ot fit it all in is what I wanna know!)<br />
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Try going back to being a shit kicker at work, and having no wife or kids <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
haha, yeah I know that was the main thing, but still, I had a busy life, although there was 3 other mates I had and we all did the same stuff, trained together, played summer sports, winter sports, socialised together which made it easy...I did have a girlfriend at the time who threatened (she was nuts, we've all had one of them right?) to steal my golf clubs because I cared more about them than her <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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[quote name='taniwharugby' timestamp='1359342993' post='339970']<br />
haha, yeah I know that was the main thing, but still, I had a busy life, although there was 3 other mates I had and we all did the same stuff, trained together, played summer sports, winter sports, socialised together which made it easy...I did have a girlfriend at the time who threatened (she was nuts, we've all had one of them right?) to steal my golf clubs because I cared more about them than her <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Mate, they're all fucking bonkers - its just the degree to which you'll put up with it. -
back then it came down to what they could/would do as to how much you put up with!!<br />
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frack, just found a pic of me in 2009...holy shit, new screensaver of motivation!!! -
To maintain consistency all year and be on 85kg, low fat, injury free. Need to maintain present weight, lose 2-3 kg fat, gain similar amount of muscle.<br />
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Specific goals:<br />- Pull ups.... 4 consecutive weeks of a 30 min workout with under 30 second breaks<br />
- Dips.... same<br />
- Bench... 5 reps on a 100 kg<br />
- Legs<br />
-up a specific mountain in under 32 minutes, which would knock off two from PB<br />
-twice in 3 weeks do 90 mins of repeats up my 150 steps on the hill, alternately striding 2 by 2 to the top, then running up-if I can manage this then will really be in shape. I've done 80 minutes of hill repeats on 240 step location before, so the time is doable. Just, adding hill sprints every second one, and I'm 2-3 years older-so it'll be tough.<br />
-run the hill top circuit in under 57 minutes. Present best is a few seconds under an hour. Plenty of climbing involved.<br />
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If any more interesting goals come to me I'll edit them in.
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Know what you guys mean about the mind being an odd thing. I have been recording my weight every day for 5 years 2 months and 17 days, So went initially from an 106 to 78.5. Now if I have a bad month and it goes up I feel awful. After a heavy weekend I am currently at 78.8 and feel enormous I never had this when I was at 106. Its madness and I have to keep reminding myself that.<br />
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Goals.<br />
10K PB - Currently 41:24<br />
Half Marathon PB - Currently 1:32 (But that was the first half of my marathon PB, so should be doable)<br />
Brussels Marathon again after 2 years off. Be happy with anything close to PB.<br />
A. N. Other Marathon<br />
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That is a cracking PB for 10km Mooshld!! Super impressive!<br />
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[quote name='Paekakboyz' timestamp='1359400403' post='340102']That is a cracking PB for 10km Mooshld!! Super impressive!<br />
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Is running your primary training activity or do you mix in other exercises?[/quote]I don't mean to be a fluffybunny, but I once managed to pull out a 33 minute 10km fun run - when I was 17. Now I'm not sure just how accurate the distance was and some clues to my speed may be given in the what's in a name thread but I'm still pretty proud of that. I'll never repeat it and it was thoroughly relying on genetics at the time but hey! Still pretty cool. I never trained and somehow fluked my way into the welly athletics team for 800m at the time. Then got kicked out by my school as I played club rugby. -
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I don't mean to be a fluffybunny, but I once managed to pull out a 33 minute 10km fun run - when I was 17. Now I'm not sure just how accurate the distance was and some clues to my speed may be given in the what's in a name thread but I'm still pretty proud of that. I'll never repeat it and it was thoroughly relying on genetics at the time but hey! Still pretty cool. I never trained and somehow fluked my way into the welly athletics team for 800m at the time. Then got kicked out by my school as I played club rugby.<br />
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Colour me impressed bro (no troll!)!! anything approaching 4min/Km is quick, running at 3.30min/Km is mental! even if you were a couple of minutes out that is super fast. Ahhh the joys of youth. I remember the first ever squat I did was at 19yo when a mate at the uni gym was training. Did 2*150kg without any thought to how heavy it might be, or if I should try to learn how to squat properly at a lighter weight. Ignorance can be bliss... or a slipped disk if you are unlucky! -
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can't run for shit and would have no idea bout running for good times even when I was 1.9m and about 60 odd kg at school in 6th form before "bulking up" to around 70 odd. Would have made the cops based on the 3k time trial years later though. Each to their own but I despise it to be honest and prefer short more intense stuff to keep the heart rate down in the long run. Also walking round welly definitely helps and will always choose that over driving whenever possible..... -
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•Weigh 96kg (99.8 current) bodyfat 13 -15%.<br />
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•Always be able to squat and dead twice my BW.<br />
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•Clean and Press 120kg (1RM)<br />
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•Improve my running technique.<br />
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I would like to edit my goals!<br />
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•Weigh 96-97ish<br />
•Keep Bodyfat around 14-15ish<br />
•Clean and Press 120kg<br />
•Learn to Run: Be capable of passing Police Fit Test on any given day.<br />
•Perform Pistol Squat<br />
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Was going to say the PBs are good by a social runners standard but when you look at the elites its a different world.<br />
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Marathon for instance 4 hours is a good marathon time for Joe average. I ran a 3:09 placed me 164th out of 2000 so well inside top 10 % of runners. The elites however are under 2:30 and the top pros are under 2:10. Its literraly a different sport at that level.<br />
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My training at the moment consists of<br />
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8Km Run Tuesday morning before work<br />
10Km Run Thursday morning before work<br />
Rugby on Saturday (Till April then I retire the boots)<br />
Long Run Sunday Morning At the moment about 16K but it varies. Beofe a Marathon I build this up to around the 35 - 38 k length<br />
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All training is done at about 4:45 to 5 min Ks though occassionally a bit faster. Thats just my comfortable pace.<br />
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What are the police fit test requirements? Might be a good goal to add.<br />
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EDIT: Just looked it up 2.4K in 10:50 so probably not that challanging at my current fitness level. -
moos - I was on the treadmill this morning, I usually just do a walk playing with the incline etc. This morning though got bored after 20 minutes, so started doing 5 minute run, 5 mintue walk. Got the speed up to 12.5k, which equated (the machine told me), to 4:48 minute Ks. For me, that was a fare clip! So might start extending then minutes running, and decreasing the minutes walking at that same pace. Anyway, big ups to you, as for me, that is bloody fast! And always easier to run on a treadmill too, so wonder what my pace would be in the real worlkd. Might have to do a road run with mapmyrun and find out! And rememebr a few years ago cranking a treadmill up to 2:06 marathon pace (I think the then word record), and it was for me a fast run, just under a sprint, something I could do for maybe 400 metres max!!
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unless you crank up the incline you are essentially jumping up and down, you aren't actually pushing your body forward via your legs as you would if you were running on the ground. In my experience unless you have the incline set you don't feel it as much in your calf muscles compared to running off a treadmill. At least that is my understanding of it
