Hooroo quietly getting fit
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One thing I am enjoying is just training for no reason apart from me. I would have never run 10k before unless I was trying to train for a particular event/distance, now I am just going for a run because i want to. Will go and do 6k tonight and if i feel like it i will do a bit more, but I don't HAVE to do anything. It's the most I've enjoyed "training" ever
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[quote name='WillieTheWaiter']mate if your knee is still giving you grief make sure you're working your butt muscles in the gym.. most physios will get you to do quad strengthening exercises but the muscle on the outside of your butt is the most important as it keeps things straight.<br />
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Tis absolutely true. I power walked up and down Maungatautari last week and the next day I could barely walk my calf muscles were so sore, and sis (gym owner/personal trainer) scolded me for letting my calf muscles do all the work. You've got to train and strengthen those upper thigh and butt muscles to do their bit cos they are bloody lazy, otherwise all the strain goes on calves or knees or quads. -
[quote name='Hooroo']Ha ha!! Since I have lost some weight I have stopped snoring too as the new miss's says I haven't snored once and I used to be evicted to he spare room all the time with the last couple of girlfriends.<br />
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I used to wake myself up snoring sometimes, it got that bad[/quote]<br />
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Your misses lets you keep the last couple of girlfiends in the spare room.<br />
Man, she's a keeper!<br />
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I have had many changes. My two flatmates (both Female) now serve me my dinner after I cook and I am only allowed as much as them which isn't a lot at all and I'm now used to that.<br />
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Found a gym partner too but that doesn't kick off properly until next week and I have also been running.<br />
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Refusing to weigh myself as i don't want to be a slave to the scales. I know what i need to do and that is a lot of work so will just try and keep at it.<br />
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Still keen for a ride on the weekends. I'm up over you way this weekend for a wave -
yeah, just give me a tinkle, working Saturday, but open to offers outside that!!!<br />
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I weight myself every day at the moment, just because I am a number nerd - and it fluctuates around 2kg a day, but don't care about the weight - it is the notches on the belt that is the best guide I reckon, and on my 'fat black belt' I am on the last notch , comfortably, again, after it getting a bit tight over summer!!<br />
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There is a good 10 inches* flapping in the breeze now when my belt is done up, there used to be only the one notch a year or three back!<br />
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But then I will go for months without weighing myself.<br />
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*Also when I leave my fly open when going commando, but that is another story... eusa_whistle -
Your true weight is considered when you are standing first thing in the morning after a slash wearing nothing but a pair of daks isn't it ? This is when you are at your lightest and also your tallest ( your spine compresses during the day making you lose up to a centimetre or so ) <br />
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......so that might explain Conrad Smith supposedly being 95kg ( I dont actually believe he is that much, must have been weighed after a huge feed ) but doesn't explain how Daniel Braid is over 6 foot eusa_think -
I'm stuffed if I can work out who the new misses was on this thread. Can't have been that great as I'm not with her any more.<br />
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Was going to start a new thread but thought I would regurgitate an old one instead.<br />
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I no longer weigh myself. I have been watching my food input to a degree and playing a heap of golf and a bit of running and weights. <br />
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None of my belts fit any more (all too loose, before you ask)<br />
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I'm wearing a shirt that I haven't been able to fit in five years.<br />
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Funny thing is, I have absolutely no idea how much I weigh.<br />
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Don't have the sticky out thing below my chest and above my hips! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Still quietly losing weight. 9kg's in 9 weeks now (Or at least I think so as I didn't weigh myself originally but had my 115 belt notch on nine weeks ago. I was most likely a little heavier, but am being conservative)<br />
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Did a 5.3k run last night and wished I had kept going but instead got home and did weights for 40 mins. Felt amped all night as the run was pretty much 60% up hill and the rest in the forest dodging fallen trees etc.<br />
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Rotorua really is the best place in NZ for running. So many well posted tracks with distances. -
It's awesome when you get fit enough that running is truly enjoyable - that buzz when you can start to push a bit harder is primo. I much prefer offroad/track running to pounding the pavement. Much better for your knees/hips and nicer scenary too : )<br />
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No Target weight in mind. becasue I have no idea what it should be. When I finished Recruit Course in 1995, I was 87kg's of lean mean fighting machine <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> but only 20 years old. I reckon it would be very possible to be 92-95 kg's and look extrememly fit. That would be another 11kg+ to lose.<br />
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I am doing a lot of stretches to extend my golf rotation and with the weights my drive is reaching distances I hadn't dreamed of. I don't want to bulk up at all, I just want to be lean. -
Was in the hotel gym yesterday and they had a single 'spin' bike so I set up ten songs in the ipod to play as if I was doing a class and I was wrapt with the result. Alternating slower and faster rockier songs by doing standing hills or downhill sprints! Was the most knackered I could get without actually being in a spin class.<br />
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Nice to muck around with some heavier weights after too. I can only bicep curl 10kg at home as that is the max weight but I extend the reps. It was nice to be able to rock out three sets of 10 with the 15kg dumbells.
