Building myself back up
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@mn5 said in Building myself back up:
Next year they have LBWs and if youāre out youāre out ( as opposed to 4 or 5 over partnerships that they have currently )
So they encourage reckless, consequence free, batting from a young age? That explains a lot about the Black Caps batting over the years.
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@snowy said in Building myself back up:
@mn5 said in Building myself back up:
Next year they have LBWs and if youāre out youāre out ( as opposed to 4 or 5 over partnerships that they have currently )
So they encourage reckless, consequence free, batting from a young age? That explains a lot about the Black Caps batting over the years.
Well after 23 dismissals last week ( every time you get out you lose three runs ) Iām definitely focussing on forward defensive strokes at training this week.
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Psycho week work wise and bit of a twinge in the lower back have impeded training this week, although I only missed on session on Monday morning. Just been taking it a bit easier. Should perhaps be resting but I canāt. Was going spare all of Monday until swimming that night. Back in the day I wouldnāt train during a very heavy work week but that shit is non negotiable now. Letās just š that I never suffer a serious injury or else Iām furked.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
bit of a twinge in the lower back have impeded training this week, although I only missed on session on Monday morning. Just been taking it a bit easier. Should perhaps be resting but I canāt.
I hear ya!
MIne still not 100% and everytime I start feeling like its getting right I twist or bend and feel a slight twinge.
Have largely stopped any major back stuff, but doing plenty of core (did some hanging toes to hands or whatever they call it, bit unco looking) to try and fix it.
Will have 3 days off next week for a school camp so that would help, aside from having to sleep on a shitty bed for 2 nights...
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End of push/pull. That went quick š² and back to more traditional 4 day split.
Legs, shoulders, chest and biceps, back and triceps. Swimming on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Bootcamp Wednesday and long run Saturday. Jesus Iām a masochist....Legs this morning and it was a good un. Am starting each session with 8-10 mins of abs and finishing with either 10x kettlebell swings and 15 sit-ups on the minute or 100 push-ups in as few sets as possible. Good shit.
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And Thursday already. Damn the weeks go fast but unfortunately the weekends go faster ā¹ļø.
Been a really solid week. Did boot camp yesterday for the first time in a while. Didnāt quite feel mashed enough so ran 4km afterwards. Felt really good. Swimming has also been great this week. Itās weird how the best sessions are often the ones when you feel like death beforehand.
Coach Hitler back tomorrow then swim and long run Saturday. Have to feel some pain before that marathon.
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Last week very š.
Managed to bang out 16km after swimming on Saturday. Was bloody tough because coach decided to go all out on kick board. Farking hate that shit. But happy to get through the pain of the run. The area I live in is hilly as anything so that flat terrain of the marathon will be much easier. As will the temp. Spoke to a guy on Saturday who did 58 marathons in one year so quite a bit more relaxed about it now. He reckoned the fitness is there, just donāt overdo it. He also suggested trying to find someone to talk to while running. Makes the time go quicker. I guess any distraction will do.Anyway Iāll officially sign up this week. No turning back šŖ.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Last week very š.
Managed to bang out 16km after swimming on Saturday. Was bloody tough because coach decided to go all out on kick board. Farking hate that shit. But happy to get through the pain of the run. The area I live in is hilly as anything so that flat terrain of the marathon will be much easier. As will the temp. Spoke to a guy on Saturday who did 58 marathons in one year so quite a bit more relaxed about it now. He reckoned the fitness is there, just donāt overdo it. He also suggested trying to find someone to talk to while running. Makes the time go quicker. I guess any distraction will do.Anyway Iāll officially sign up this week. No turning back šŖ.
The FUCK ?????
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@mn5 said in Building myself back up:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Last week very š.
Managed to bang out 16km after swimming on Saturday. Was bloody tough because coach decided to go all out on kick board. Farking hate that shit. But happy to get through the pain of the run. The area I live in is hilly as anything so that flat terrain of the marathon will be much easier. As will the temp. Spoke to a guy on Saturday who did 58 marathons in one year so quite a bit more relaxed about it now. He reckoned the fitness is there, just donāt overdo it. He also suggested trying to find someone to talk to while running. Makes the time go quicker. I guess any distraction will do.Anyway Iāll officially sign up this week. No turning back šŖ.
The FUCK ?????
Thatās nothing. He knew a dude that did 250. They travel the world going in marathons. Itās like a light run for these nutters.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Last week very š.
Managed to bang out 16km after swimming on Saturday. Was bloody tough because coach decided to go all out on kick board. Farking hate that shit. But happy to get through the pain of the run. The area I live in is hilly as anything so that flat terrain of the marathon will be much easier. As will the temp. Spoke to a guy on Saturday who did 58 marathons in one year so quite a bit more relaxed about it now. He reckoned the fitness is there, just donāt overdo it. He also suggested trying to find someone to talk to while running. Makes the time go quicker. I guess any distraction will do.Anyway Iāll officially sign up this week. No turning back šŖ.
Talking is very much so up to you, so I wouldn't take advice on that one. I hate it. Running is about me, my times, my energy and my thoughts. Multiple people have suggested that to keep me motivated, but no interest. Which is at odds with me generally. I'm no salesman, but I love having people around.
At the risk of going all Oprah Winfrey, honestly if I can do a marathon, then anybody can.
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@majorrage said in Building myself back up:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Last week very š.
Managed to bang out 16km after swimming on Saturday. Was bloody tough because coach decided to go all out on kick board. Farking hate that shit. But happy to get through the pain of the run. The area I live in is hilly as anything so that flat terrain of the marathon will be much easier. As will the temp. Spoke to a guy on Saturday who did 58 marathons in one year so quite a bit more relaxed about it now. He reckoned the fitness is there, just donāt overdo it. He also suggested trying to find someone to talk to while running. Makes the time go quicker. I guess any distraction will do.Anyway Iāll officially sign up this week. No turning back šŖ.
Talking is very much so up to you, so I wouldn't take advice on that one. I hate it. Running is about me, my times, my energy and my thoughts. Multiple people have suggested that to keep me motivated, but no interest. Which is at odds with me generally. I'm no salesman, but I love having people around.
At the risk of going all Oprah Winfrey, honestly if I can do a marathon, then anybody can.
Yeah I can see both sides. I think for me I need that distraction. When I start thinking I tend to overthink things. Plus 4 hours is a lot of time to kill!
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And Thursday again! Bloody hell the weeks fly. Pity it means the weekends also fly just as fast.
As per the Beta alanine thread I started using preworkout on Wednesday. Took it before boot camp and it really got me going. Got the trainer to make it extra tough. Finished with 4km jog. Good shit.
Swimming later that night and I think Iāve labelled the wrong trainer Hitler. Actually this prick looks like someone out of the Hitlerjugend. BĆ„stard has been ordering extra kicking recently and went crazy last night. Was about a km of that shit. Legs were jelly by the end of it. Slept well that night.
Today: first tin lifting workout with the drugs. Oh manš¤ÆšŖ
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Friday: Swim intervals with Herr Hitler.
3x25 Max then 1 easy, followed by
10 push-ups
Bear crawls 12.5m, lunges back then 30sec static squat x 2 then back in pool.Those static squats are a cnut. Didnāt help when Hitler told me to do the max efforts with as few breaths as possible. Prick.
Saturday: Had to get up at 4:45 to get run in before swimming. Always rude when thereās a 4 in the time when getting up but son had volleyball early in bloody Ipswich. Run went well with pre workout. Swim was tough.
Interesting thing happened in sonās volleyball game. He played out of his skin but they lost a really close game. He was in tears and raging about it. First time Iāve actually seen him care about a game. Good thing he could express himself in Norwegian too otherwise he may have hurt a few feelings. So somewhat mixed feelings there. Stoked that heās taking it seriously, but a wee bit concerned as well.
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Was supposed to have a big awards evening at the school where my son was to receive an award but thatās all cancelled now because of Pallachook and Co keeping us all safe. Thanks Anna. Iām sure getting everyone to surge to the supermarkets and then leave Brisbane in record numbers will control the spread.
Anyway, gyms are closed and swimming is off this week and for who knows how long with these dickheads in charge. Got in one last session before lockdown yesterday. This morning reverted back to the lockdown routine of last year with GF and ran to park and back using gym equipment in between. Itās a decent workout. 8km run and pull-ups etc. Guess Iāll be doing that for a while.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Was supposed to have a big awards evening at the school where my son was to receive an award but thatās all cancelled now because of Pallachook and Co keeping us all safe. Thanks Anna. Iām sure getting everyone to surge to the supermarkets and then leave Brisbane in record numbers will control the spread.
Anyway, gyms are closed and swimming is off this week and for who knows how long with these dickheads in charge. Got in one last session before lockdown yesterday. This morning reverted back to the lockdown routine of last year with GF and ran to park and back using gym equipment in between. Itās a decent workout. 8km run and pull-ups etc. Guess Iāll be doing that for a while.
I did that exact workout today whilst on holiday in the Coromandel, minus the running bit which the TPFMMN5 did instead. Chins and push ups at the park really are great fun. Throughout the day did about 60 of the former and 150 of the latter ( on knuckles of course )
Old school movements are the best.
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Bit of a weird week with the mini lockdown. Made me realise how important swimming is to my week. You just canāt replicate that form of low impact training on land. Which I guess is why swimmers are able to do such insane levels of training.
Kind of overdid the interval training on Tuesday and Wednesday so when lockdown ended on Thursday alI I could really do was just train the parts of the body that didnāt hurt. Today was a good chest and tricep day but was a struggle. Didnāt use preworkout and the difference was pretty massive.
But officially doing the marathon on 4 July. Signed up with the GF. Sheās going to do even less training than me but is resolved to going very slow. Quite excited now. There are a āvirtualā half marathon and 30km in the months leading up. Plan to do those but otherwise will stick to what Iāve been doing. Will do a run, swim, run tomorrow to fark myself up a bit.
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Saturday: So ran to the pool and the farking pool was closed. Ended up doing a run, hills, intervals combo over about 15km. Did the trick but really miss the pool.
Looking to tweak the diet again. Going to add a pasta meal to Sunday nights. Last week was a struggle and I need that extra fuel.
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Will try and get the entire week logged for a change.
Monday: Am - very solid legs and abs session.
PM - Usually pool but due to Easter did a 4km fast (for me)run then 2km plus intervals (pull-ups, body weight rows and sit-ups). Did the job.
Tuesday: Shoulders - another decent session. Did front raises for the first time in a while. Felt pretty good.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Will try and get the entire week logged for a change.
Monday: Am - very solid legs and abs session.
PM - Usually pool but due to Easter did a 4km fast (for me)run then 2km plus intervals (pull-ups, body weight rows and sit-ups). Did the job.
Tuesday: Shoulders - another decent session. Did front raises for the first time in a while. Felt pretty good.
Youāre doing better than me. I still scribble down my workouts in an old diary. I donāt update my thread on here very much if at all.
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@mn5 said in Building myself back up:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Will try and get the entire week logged for a change.
Monday: Am - very solid legs and abs session.
PM - Usually pool but due to Easter did a 4km fast (for me)run then 2km plus intervals (pull-ups, body weight rows and sit-ups). Did the job.
Tuesday: Shoulders - another decent session. Did front raises for the first time in a while. Felt pretty good.
Youāre doing better than me. I still scribble down my workouts in an old diary. I donāt update my thread on here very much if at all.
Old school š
I was cleaning my office the other day and found some very old scraps of paper with my workouts copied from bodybuilding.com. Some of those werenāt bad but I was I was naive enough at the time to believe those guys werenāt smashing the roids.
