TR vs the future
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Spent the morning moving stuff form the house into the trailer, then moving off trailer into my parents house...still struggling with time to do stuff, but once we move out into a rental over ANZAC Day - weekend, things should get back to normal, living out in the sticks for 3-4 months.<br />
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Warm up on punch bag<br />
100 dead lifts, 100 box jumps, 100 (ea side) hammer/tyre, 100 skull crushers, 100 plank/wall -
Warm up on the punch bag<br />
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100 squats standing on med ball (solid rubber, so used handles above head for balance)<br />
100 med-ball sq. thrusters with a throw of the ball at the top<br />
100 ez bar curls<br />
100 (not sure what they are called) but down on all fours, extend right arm and left leg to horizontal for reps, then left arm and right leg<br />
100 plank-wall (abs were still sore after Sunday)<br />
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Been doing light running and lotsa walking just to do something with my world in disaray at present. We start moving out in 2 weeks, so once in the temp-new house out in the sticks I'll get stuck in again (plenty of firewood to chop)<br />
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Weight sitting between 88-89kg now. -
It's been 11 days. Hope things are good for you in paradise there in the North, and you have been able to find some time to keep up some workouts. Let's see those log lifting and throwing, and chopping workouts soon....<br />
e.g. 80kg log-lift onto shoulders, walk 100m, drop, lift and return, chop into firewood in 5 minutes, repeat.<br />
also...lift log, move it 10m. drop. jump over it 10 times. repeat 10 times. chop the fecker up in 5 minutes.<br />
Heh. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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hah, yeah been for 2 runsn (new PB on one of my routes, having to push a bit harder and feel it after) and 2 workouts in that time...just more of the same so havent been posting it.<br />
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Move is this weekend, so lots of lifting and carrying, will get my gym stuff set up in the garage and have a load of firewood to cut! Although some needs a chainsaw first...<br />
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weight unchanged in last couple of week, although I have seen a few people I havent seen for ages and they all commented on the weight loss. -
workout tonight;<br />
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100 pull ups (cheats with feet on a chair just in front of me)<br />
100 push ups (feet raised a foot)<br />
120 unweighted squats (feet to floor, clap at top)<br />
100 planks - hand to wall<br />
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Just biding my time, punch bag and weights packed up or have shit stacked on it in the garage. -
still doing stuff, just only workhours access to the internet (dial up sucks arse)<br />
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HAve a big garage to workout in, burpee pull ups are able to be done now, which am pretty stoked about.<br />
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Did 10 sprints on my driveway; jog out to end, sprint last 25-30(inclined) turn around run back and sprint last 25-30 (inclined) took me 13 mins, along with burpee pull ups and some core work. -
Having a nice big yard to do stuff in must be good motivation pal, reminds me of my folks place in the Wairarapa which I don't get up to nearly as much as I'd like to. I intend to pick up one of the big boulders in their drive and run up and down a few times which while I'll look like a complete retard should at least do me some good.
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Having a nice big yard to do stuff in must be good motivation pal, reminds me of my folks place in the Wairarapa which I don't get up to nearly as much as I'd like to. I intend to pick up one of the big boulders in their drive and run up and down a few times which while I'll look like a[b] complete retard[/b] should at least do me some good.<br />
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Always get confused about the name of the exercise (snatch, clean, clean and jerk)<br />
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Monday;<br />
Anywhoo, bar on ground (only 30kg) deadlift position, straight up to shoulder height and then straight into standing press (Without the leg drive)<br />
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100 x those<br />
100 bench press<br />
100 preacher curls<br />
100 planks-hand to wall<br />
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Shoulders still farking sore today, chest a little as well.<br />
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Hovering around 89kg as well. -
Workout Saturday;<br />
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Squats - 20 @ 80kg, 12 @ 100, 12 @ 110. 12 @ 110, 15 @ 100<br />
100 Lizard crawls up a slope of about 35 degrees<br />
100 (each side) hammer/tyre<br />
100 planks - hand to wall<br />
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Chopped some fire wood for about 40 mins after...was gonna go running yesterday, but man my quads are killing me! -
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Workout Saturday;<br />
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Squats - 20 @ 80kg, 12 @ 100, 12 @ 110. 12 @ 110, 15 @ 100<br />
100 Lizard crawls up a slope of about 35 degrees<br />
100 (each side) hammer/tyre<br />
100 planks - hand to wall<br />
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Chopped some fire wood for about 40 mins after...was gonna go running yesterday, but man my quads are killing me!<br />
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Yeah I chopped some wood too over the weekend Shit it is satisfying and gotta say the old pipes feel it afterwards....something a bit different. -
Warm up was a sprint to the end of the driveway (75m or so) and jog back carrying the wheelie bin back to the house above my head...<img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Deadlifts - 20 x 80kg, 12 x 100, 10 x 110, 10 x 110, 15 x 90<br />
Skull crushers - 100 @ 12.5kg (55 reps before first rest)<br />
10kg Med ball thrusters - 100<br />
hanging knee raises 4 x 15 (not sure this was as good for abs as I hoped, but by god lats are sore today!!) probably need to get something to take the stress of the grip and lats and do more reps.<br />
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Quads still sore! -
What I do for the abs is, I think, the best. I hardly do any these days and I still have a 6 pack and strong abs. Also, I think NTA might have missed my point about my lower back-that's tight due to inflexible leg/upper back muscles, and lack of lower back stretching.<br />
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Anyway, try this for your abs: 1 pull up, hold in position, don't move your torso, then move legs as if striding-but with good form. Do 20-30 each leg, drop down and rest, repeat 3 times.<br />
The reason this is best, is that it mimics the job our abs are designed for: holding our body stable while we move around upright. After starting doing that for a month, my previously poor abs quickly were tight.<br />
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Note: I tried to do knee raises, and they hurt the lower back, and did nothing for my abs. NTA is right on that, they employ the wrong muscles. -
Knee raises work if you are in a dead straight hang and not swinging. It's fighting the swing motion you get when lifting that activates the abs. But I'd agree there are more effective ways to work the 6 pack.<br />
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I'm a fan of working the core via bigger exercises like squats etc. I don't mind the plank or some of the medicine/swiss ball workouts but sit-ups are a drag imo.<br />
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Have you got plans to work on those flexibility issues Kea? Sorting that out would open up a host of new training options. -
was more to do something a bit different...certainly not an exercise I'd do alot of, plus I found it did feel great on the lower back as well (the control required?) which is never a bad thing IMO, but the abs barely noticed it. I think my core is vastly better than it was 12 months ago (less back niggles for a start) which is due to the varied exercises I am doing.I hate sit ups, and have changed from straight out planks (which get boring after 90 seconds....) but for me it is more about doing good range of core work in other exercises too rather than alot of specific core exercise.
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well, was doing some sprints last night and I think I may have pulled (or strained) my hammy <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' /><br />
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Never pulled a muscle before so not sure if that is what I have done, maybe just a strain as the feeling was a sort of popping tearing in an area maybe the size of a 50c coin....?
