Building myself back up
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Last week very 👌.
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 don’t 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 I’ll officially sign up this week. No turning back 💪.
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 👌.
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 don’t 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 I’ll officially sign up this week. No turning back 💪.
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 I’ve labelled the wrong trainer Hitler. Actually this prick looks like someone out of the Hitlerjugend. Båstard 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 man🤯💪
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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. Didn’t 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 there’s 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 son’s 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 I’ve 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 he’s 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 that’s all cancelled now because of Pallachook and Co keeping us all safe. Thanks Anna. I’m 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. It’s a decent workout. 8km run and pull-ups etc. Guess I’ll 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 that’s all cancelled now because of Pallachook and Co keeping us all safe. Thanks Anna. I’m 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. It’s a decent workout. 8km run and pull-ups etc. Guess I’ll 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 can’t 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 didn’t hurt. Today was a good chest and tricep day but was a struggle. Didn’t use preworkout and the difference was pretty massive.
But officially doing the marathon on 4 July. Signed up with the GF. She’s going to do even less training than me but is resolved to going very slow. Quite excited now. There are a “virtual” half marathon and 30km in the months leading up. Plan to do those but otherwise will stick to what I’ve 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.
You’re doing better than me. I still scribble down my workouts in an old diary. I don’t 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.
You’re doing better than me. I still scribble down my workouts in an old diary. I don’t update my thread on here very much if at all.
Old school 👍
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 weren’t bad but I was I was naive enough at the time to believe those guys weren’t smashing the roids.
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Wednesday: Bootcamp
GF is great at putting these together. 40sec on, 10sec off. 10 different exercises. 4 rounds and 60sec plank and either 500m row, 250m elliptical or 250 step machine (that big steep mofo) in between.Hardest is going between sled and battle ropes. Or sled and anything for that matter. If anything can be said to be much harder than it looks it’s the sled.
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Chest and biceps today. Very good.
Due to school holidays have been training every morning with the gf. She likes to walk to and from gym (about 20min each way) which is a good warmup/warmdown. Don’t usually have time when kids have to get to school.Fark the GF hammers it in the gym as well. Does heaps of that Les Mills interval pump whatever training. Those ridiculous harpies who crap on about being strong and independent should take a look at what a real strong and independent woman actually looks like. I’m very lucky.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Chest and biceps today. Very good.
Due to school holidays have been training every morning with the gf. She likes to walk to and from gym (about 20min each way) which is a good warmup/warmdown. Don’t usually have time when kids have to get to school.Fark the GF hammers it in the gym as well. Does heaps of that Les Mills interval pump whatever training. Those ridiculous harpies who crap on about being strong and independent should take a look at what a real strong and independent woman actually looks like. I’m very lucky.
Good shit, do any other muscles even matter ?
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@mn5 said in Building myself back up:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Chest and biceps today. Very good.
Due to school holidays have been training every morning with the gf. She likes to walk to and from gym (about 20min each way) which is a good warmup/warmdown. Don’t usually have time when kids have to get to school.Fark the GF hammers it in the gym as well. Does heaps of that Les Mills interval pump whatever training. Those ridiculous harpies who crap on about being strong and independent should take a look at what a real strong and independent woman actually looks like. I’m very lucky.
Good shit, do any other muscles even matter ?
They’re probably also the easiest to train. Chest in particular is easy to hammer, whether through BP, dips or push-ups.
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Didn’t think I’d be swimming this week but got a text last night from Hitler asking if I wanted to go this morning. Yes please Herr Hitler.
They say when you have 1 week out of the water it takes 3 weeks to catch up. With me it takes 3 months. Hitler didn’t exactly allow me to ease into it. He gave me a set of options, all of which inflicted pain (different sets of 400m - chose one with 25max at the start of each 100. Then some land work inbetween.
Tough, but went quickly and was glad to get in the water again.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
@mn5 said in Building myself back up:
@rancid-schnitzel said in Building myself back up:
Chest and biceps today. Very good.
Due to school holidays have been training every morning with the gf. She likes to walk to and from gym (about 20min each way) which is a good warmup/warmdown. Don’t usually have time when kids have to get to school.Fark the GF hammers it in the gym as well. Does heaps of that Les Mills interval pump whatever training. Those ridiculous harpies who crap on about being strong and independent should take a look at what a real strong and independent woman actually looks like. I’m very lucky.
Good shit, do any other muscles even matter ?
They’re probably also the easiest to train. Chest in particular is easy to hammer, whether through BP, dips or push-ups.
I’m loving all sorts of chest variations at the moment, definitely good to mix things up a bit although ya gotta watch the tendons and shoulders when going heavy.
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Saturday: Not the best communication, but swimming also on on Saturday so stoked about that. Was another pretty tough session with a few max efforts.
Followed that up by running for 1h30min. Made about 16.5km. It hurt but that’s all part of it I guess. Found a route that isn’t quite as hilly, but it wasn’t exactly flat. Went to town on the eating after that. Had normal breakfast but then a pack of Mission corn chips with 2 tins of sweet chilli shredded chicken, then 2 chicken schnitzels with rice, then another 3 schnitzels with a pizza. Also had 2 slices of vegemite toast, 2 protein bars, 3 cups of berries, two muesli bars and a bowl of peanuts. I disgust myself.
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@rancid-schnitzel What size schnitzel are we talking bout here?
Belgian cafe? Frozen from supermarket? Home made?
5 in a day is quite impressive though. How you got your name has me wondering ...
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@majorrage said in Building myself back up:
@rancid-schnitzel What size schnitzel are we talking bout here?
Belgian cafe? Frozen from supermarket? Home made?
5 in a day is quite impressive though. How you got your name has me wondering ...
Frozen from supermarket. About medium sized. Not those huge ones you get from a Munich Brauhaus.
If I had to choose a last meal it would be schnitzel with Bratkartoffeln.