Fatbusting: True_Blue's Log
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Had a week off with the flu but hammered the machines again this morning at 5 am. Have decided to add a Saturday session as well. The only time I could get was 5:30...we''ll have to see how long that lasts.<br />
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Running is becoming embarrasing as all the Comrades Marathon (87km's) approacheth and the roads are flooded with super-fit ultramarathon runners flitting about the place at high speed from about 5am so I have called a halt temporarily.<br />
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Still unimpressed with the weightloss but definitly enjoying regaining muscle tone that I thought had gone forever. -
[quote name='BartMan']<br />
well, you probably will lose weight lifting heavy, if you still fire in piles of reps, and change your eating. But putting big reps in with heavy weights turns your weight session cardio anyway!!<br />
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I think its the pies, KFC rounders, biltong, beer, steak and all the rest of the stuff that find its way down my throat that may be the problem... -
Have managed to restrict the eating to healthy places like health bars and shit like that by convincing work colleagues that the view wrt to the opposite sex was far better in such institutions than in the local KFC (rather than admit that I was on a gay diet). And its true!<br />
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Benefits are already showing.<br />
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I addition, I have dropped my the kgs that I am trying to lift to about 75% of max and am now super-setting supplementary excercise such as leg press and leg extensions, or lat pull downs with upright rows etc.<br />
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Changes: heart rate up, weight loss up, fitness up, recovery time down.<br />
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Hate-factor up.<br />
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Weight has dropped from 114 to 112, but pants are now looser and have tightned a belt notch and have had several 'you losing weight?' comments from friends and co-workers. -
The answer is that the programme is excellent-- for your wife! It isn't for you, so change something. Actually, change a whole bunch of things. Then report back...
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[quote name='Miller V Jackson']<br />
The answer is that the programme is excellent-- [b]for your wife[/b]! It isn't for you, so change something. Actually, change a whole bunch of things. Then report back...<br />
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Which has certain benefits for me too...<br />
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I need to up the intesity to keep the heartrate up around 120 for longer periods, and by continuing the super-setting as opposed to the heavy lifting.<br />
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And less corporate entertaining. -
[quote name='BartMan']<br />
throw in a 20 minute bike / row / treadmill at the end of your weights session, that'll kick you to the next level of weight loss.<br />
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Am going to introduce a treadmill/bike/rowing machine session in the evenings in addition to morning workouts. Getting desperate. -
have read / heard / that doing that 20 minute aerobic thing after weights will force you body to use the fat as energy, as you will have used all the glycogen in the muscles already in thw weights session - something lie that anyway, sounded like it made sense to me.
