Help! Get this man a motivation injection, stat!
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ha ha, welcome to the house of pain bro! at least you know you had a good workout!
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Half way through week 3, and already gains being made. Getting stronger all the time, increasing weights on most exercises. Definite trimming of the gunt. Long road ahead though. <br />
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Have found that the first thing in the morning thing isn't too bad. The only hard part is the actual getting up. Once the legs are swung over the edge of the bed, its all good. Do my waking up while i open the garage, move the car, and get the bench out, then ready to start. -
Yep, once you are up and moving it's all good. Not always as easy as it sounds though aye!<br />
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I hope you are pushing the car out with the handbrake on!! -
yes, pushing.....
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Just checking. Good man.
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Bit lazy last week, only 3 sessions.<br />
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But, starting to settle into a routine, and i actually feel guilty during the day if i skip it.<br />
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Still just doing weights, but have a few things thrown in that get the sweat on and the heart rate up.<br />
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Want to throw in a morning where i do a quick abs/cardio circuit instead of just lifting. As i am stuck at the house while Mrs Mariner is off walking up hills, looking at<br />
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1 min crunches<br />
1 min burpies<br />
1 min plank<br />
1 min short hill sprint (my driveway is short but really steep, a short step up and down that for a min burns a bit).<br />
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Repeat x 6<br />
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you blokes have anything else i can throw in to keep it interesting? -
jump squat, jumping lunges, lizard crawls up your drive sounds like they might be fun too (all as alternative to burpees probably) <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> <br />
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I've also been doing planks where you touch the wall a bit above shoulder height with each hand alternately, adds something to the exercise! -
yea, i mix my planks up. straight ones, side ones, those ones you describe, but you also lift the opposite leg up at the same time as well.<br />
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will mix my crunches up to work the sides as well.<br />
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good point throwing some other leg exercises in on the drive. all sounds like hard work aye? -
all worth it in the end...<br />
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get yourself a truck tyre and a sledgehammer, good all round exercise, bit of cardio and works loads of muscles. -
Look, i don't live in Northland. I can't just stick an old truck tyre in my yard and have it look normal
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Haha...I hide behind a row or trees on my drive <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1361755718' post='346876']<br />
Bit lazy last week, only 3 sessions.<br />
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But, starting to settle into a routine, and i actually feel guilty during the day if i skip it.<br />
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Still just doing weights, but have a few things thrown in that get the sweat on and the heart rate up.<br />
<br />
Want to throw in a morning where i do a quick abs/cardio circuit instead of just lifting. As i am stuck at the house while Mrs Mariner is off walking up hills, looking at<br />
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1 min crunches<br />
1 min burpies<br />
1 min plank<br />
1 min short hill sprint (my driveway is short but really steep, a short step up and down that for a min burns a bit).<br />
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Repeat x 6<br />
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you blokes have anything else i can throw in to keep it interesting?<br />
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Good from you Mariner. How many reps are you busting out, do you count ? ( being a fit as much action into as little time as possible this is my school of thought when it comes to getting hot and sweaty....I also apply this to exercise too )<br />
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Love a good plank, need to get a few more back into the routine me thinks. -
i will, i haven't yet. if i don't know how many i do, how will i track progess.<br />
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will i be sticking results on here as sone sort of dick-waving contest? no. Neither will i be just trying to go as fucking fast as i can to pad numbers. -
[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1361765487' post='346900']Look, i don't live in Northland. I can't just stick an old truck tyre in my yard and have it look normal[/quote]<br />
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But you DO live in QLD. Just pull one off of the rusting bombs in your front yard -
First, NTA, Western Sydney is still part of Sydney. Glass houses and such.....<br />
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Second, i did that little circuit above this morning. Fuck does that work. I only did 5 rotations<br />
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1 Min burpies<br />
1 min front plank (2nd set side plank, 3rd set other side plank, 4th and 5th front)<br />
1 min hill sprints (2nd set 2 footed jumps, 3rd set lunges, 4th and 5th sprint again)<br />
1 min full sit up (2nd set side leg-extensions, 3rd set other side, 4th and 5th full sit ups again)<br />
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2 min rest in between each rotation, no rest between each exercise in the rotation.<br />
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I was fucked. Blowing hard, sweat was just running off me. By the 5th it was all i could do to get off the ground in my burpies. great work out. -
[quote name='mariner4life' timestamp='1361755718' post='346876']<br />
you blokes have anything else i can throw in to keep it interesting?<br />
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ha, ok, I challenge you to your exercise of choice (I usually do pull ups or dips but since you don't have a few truck tyres lying around, then perhaps burpees)<br />
do 20 minutes of it<br />
first set max to failure, rest (or other exercise if you're mad) 30 seconds -not more-then repeat, again and again for 20 minutes. Let us know how many you can do in 20 minutes. Oh, and let us know how bad you feel the next day <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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[quote name='Kea' timestamp='1362010977' post='347658']<br />
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ha, ok, I challenge you to your exercise of choice (I usually do pull ups or dips but since you don't have a few truck tyres lying around, then perhaps burpees)<br />
do 20 minutes of it<br />
first set max to failure, rest (or other exercise if you're mad) 30 seconds -not more-then repeat, again and again for 20 minutes. Let us know how many you can do in 20 minutes. Oh, and let us know how bad you feel the next day <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
We could call it the M20 burpee challenge...<br />
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[quote name='Chubby13' timestamp='1362012809' post='347663']<br />
That would suck<br />
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[quote name='Kea' timestamp='1362010977' post='347658']<br />
ha, ok, I challenge you to your exercise of choice (I usually do pull ups or dips but since you don't have a few truck tyres lying around, then perhaps burpees)<br />
do 20 minutes of it<br />
first set max to failure, rest (or other exercise if you're mad) 30 seconds -not more-then repeat, again and again for 20 minutes. Let us know how many you can do in 20 minutes. [b]Oh, and let us know how bad you feel the next day[/b] <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
We could call it the M20 burpee challenge...<br />
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or the next 3 or 4!!! FFS we arent trying to kill the poor fella! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Still going well. Doing 4 mornings a week, 3 weights and one of the circuit.<br />
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Weights up on every exercise, numbers up on my circuit, and there has been a noticable weight redistribution. My abs have started to make a reappearance as well. It has only really been about a month, so i am really happy with the results to date. I think the muscle memory Bart was talking about has something to do with it. Sick vein down the outside of my bicep too.<br />
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In a show of solidarity with the wife, i have even cut out dessert, which is fucking killing me, but should trim even more fat i reckon.<br />
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Ran in a few of the attack/defense drills at training the other night, was able to get around those pretty well, and that made me happy (if a little itchy to play, which my wife, bless her, squashed HARD when i got home).
