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<p>Gotta stay low on the sled... if that is what 'Giant metal fucker' is describing! </p>
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<p>Those things get real evil when you are knackered - keeping any kind of form going when fatigued is super tough.</p>
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<p>Google waiters carries - the Kettle bell version. Magic for shoulders, posture and a bit of core too. Try the variation where you balance the KB upside down on it's handle rather than in a clean grip, with the KB against your wrist/forearm.</p>
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<p>I promise once you get the hang of them you will love em. I've got shitty office monkey shoulders and doing these 1-2 a week has made a huge difference to my posture.</p>
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<p>Ugh, I am one sexy pink blowfish right now.</p>
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<p>Today started with 4.5km cycle then moved to boxing sans gloves, just those wrist/knuckle wraps. Jab/cross sets, fast crosses, jab/cross kicks. Then moved into rope squats and lunges. This was followed by a crazy game where trainer and I both batted balloons into the air and had to dash from side to side stopping either from hitting the ground. Then deadlifts and lunges using the elastic plus pole thing that you slip around your feet as resistance. So my arms are starting to cry then trainer gets all smiley and says we have to open up my shitarse weak shoulder blades, so four sets of 10 pullbacks. After this I got handed an 8kg kettlebell and learned the basic front back swing (because I am totally unco trainer said we would work our way up to waiter lift). Finished with chest stretch.</p> -
<p>ah, yeah probably a good idea to get more familiar with KB's before doing waiters carries.</p>
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<p>Can't stress enough how work on your mobility will pay off, and sooner than you think! It opens up a whole range of cool (read painful) exercises for fun times! </p>
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<p>With the KB swing it's all in the hips and glutes, fire those bad boys and you shouldn't need to use your arms at all to get the KB moving. </p> -
<p>Thrust the hips!!! channel your inner Elvis or just pretend you're doing the timewarp!!</p>
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<p>Today was all about the butt, bout the butt, no wobble. And the chest.</p>
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<p>4.6km cycle, medicine ball throwdowns, lunges and squats with sandbag weight, glute squeezes with weight, stand up cycle for 2mins, chest press and crossover pullbacks.</p>
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<p>BUT - two week measure day and good news! I've lost 600g in weight, but more importantly fat gripper says 2ml from my waist, thigh and calf (also 5cm from my chest, fuck it). I'm glad those results came up, cos I'd noticed some definition returning to my stomach, and that maybe my legs looked a bit better, so not just wishful thinking.</p>
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<p>Today I was introduced to the power plate. Holy shit. 40 mins doing a range of exercises, and my entire body felt like jelly, red cheeks, gasping. For the warmdown at the end, I actually had major trouble trying to move limbs.</p>
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<p>To add insult to injury, trainer made me have a green shake afterwards cos they are DELICIOUS. Well sure, if all you eat is dirt and liquified chunks of oasis, it probably does taste marginally better. But bacon is delicious. Icecream and fudge sauce is delicious. Green shakes are NOT FUCKING DELICIOUS.</p> -
<p>Today I did the leg workout from hell.</p>
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<p>2km cycle, alternate squats on power plate and wall sits, walking lunges, hip flexes, leg lifts, crunches on power plate and floor. This was followed by a session of trigger point rollers on my calves and quads. Yes, I turned the air blue, a really dark navy blue.</p> -
<p>Yeah, they are good. The calf one I had to flex by pointing my toes then pulling back and that hurt a lot, ditto for the quad one, but calves and quads feel ok today. Hamstrings, which didn't get the roller, are sore and tight, as are my poor triceps from the plank.</p>
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tried the dreaded roller today after some high intensity intervals on the bike. Did calves, hams, quads (quads killed me).<br><br>
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<p>tried the dreaded roller today after some high intensity intervals on the bike. Did calves, hams, quads (quads killed me).<br><br>
Be interesting to see if there is any improvement in recovery tomorrow as going out for a long ride - normally I would expect to feel quite leggy after today's session.</p>
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<p>After a once over I try and find any knots, then work them till they've loosened up. Hurts like a mofo but makes a big difference for my mobility. </p>
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<p>Cookie, did you feel any difference immediately after you used the roller?</p>
