Ripped for Raro 2016
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<p>god thing is, TR Jnr usually joins me on the HIIT workouts too, although he hates box jumps and just does jump squats</p>
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<p>have your beer as your 'powerade' after a workout.</p>
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<p>download the HIIT app...is a great app, a good workout gets the heart pumping. Is a due on FB I follow as he does some great workouts for the app, only problem is he also likes putting up pictures of himself in flexed poses...</p>
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<p>My core one is box jumps, press ups, either a shoulder press or ez bar curls and finish with mountain climbers; 20 sec workout, 10 sec rest, 6 rounds, takes about 12 mins.</p>
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<p>is just time...so you dont count reps (although you do) </p>
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<p>First set I can usually do 13/14 jumps, 16/17 push ups, 40/45 mountain climbers and about 15 reps of whatever other exercise...4th and 5th sets are usually a few less but last set you always pick it up again</p>
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Cool. How do you monitor/reset the time? Is that a bit of a pain in the butt?
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<p>it beeps for the last 3 seconds of the 20 and says rest...then beeps 3 seconds before your 20 starts again and says go.</p>
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<p>The Android app seems better than the iApp I found for the iPad (installed 3 before I foind an ok one)...plenty of different ones.</p>
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<p>Some have fixed times, sets and breaks, but this one you can change the length of workout, rest and how many sets.</p>
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<p>this is the one I use</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihunda.android.hiit'>https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ihunda.android.hiit</a></p> -
<p>One thing I'm gonna add to the workout routine, rope climbing without using legs. There's a good one round the bay in Seatoun which I'll use. Hard to beat the functional strength you get from doing that and when I'm 98-99kg I'll be scaling it like Spiderman !</p>
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<p>One thing I'm gonna add to the workout routine, rope climbing without using legs. There's a good one round the bay in Seatoun which I'll use. Hard to beat the functional strength you get from doing that and when I'm 98-99kg<strong> I'll be scaling it like Spiderman !</strong></p>
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<p>Weekend came and went, there's still the same amount of beer gathering dust in the garage. Sunday night was the toughest as other half and I settled in to watch American Horror story, a good craft beer would have gone so nicely with that show.</p>
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<p>Two massive hill walks was the only exercise I actually managed but felt pretty good, second walk was with my boys both of whom are good fit little buggers nowadays which inspires me to set a good example.</p> -
<p>Beach sprints down at the bay with the boys today despite the freezing cold. Loads of fun. Also managed a couple of muscle ups at the park, can I get a "Hell Yeah!" for that shit ?</p>
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<p>No Milfs around to see but they were pretty fucken ugly reps so maybe that was a good thing.....</p> -
<p>we did sprints at rugby training last night, and I still got it, blitzed everyone <span style="font-size:8px;">(they may have all been under 11, but they are pretty quick...)</span></p>
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<p>101.5kg this morning so whatever I am doing so far seems to be working ( not drinking, in a nutshell )</p>
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<p>Test of willpower coming up next week, will be taking the boys to the country ( Wairarapa to be precise ) for a few days for the school holidays ( the joys of only needing a laptop and cellphone to do work ) and it's going to be EXTREMELY hard not to have a wine/beer in front of the fire when they're in bed. There's always 20 odd bottles of red on a rack by the bench and there'll be no other adults there to keep tabs on me.</p>
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<p>101.5kg this morning so whatever I am doing so far seems to be working ( not drinking, in a nutshell )</p>
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<p>Test of willpower coming up next week, will be taking the boys to the country ( Wairarapa to be precise ) for a few days for the school holidays ( the joys of only needing a laptop and cellphone to do work ) and it's going to be EXTREMELY hard not to have a wine/beer in front of the fire when they're in bed. There's always 20 odd bottles of red on a rack by the bench and there'll be no other adults there to keep tabs on me.</p>
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<p>The days will consist of lots of kicking balls around, throwing rocks and <strong>chasing sheep.</strong></p>
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<p>Your missus unable to make it?</p> -
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<p>Your missus unable to make it?</p>
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<p> :mocking:</p>
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<p>She's self employed too, problem is she has to actually interact with people face to face unlike me. ( phone usually does the trick )</p> -
<p>First mission was to have no booze and pleased to say that was accomplished, temperature certainly didn't make me feel like a beer which I must say helped immensely but the Red WIne was calling me like Palpatine called Anikan, pleased to say I resisted the urge.</p>
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<p>Also took the boys to play Carterton which had a weird training circuit thing at the park, got to do some seated lat pulldowns and seated bench press. Fucken piss easy with my own bodyweight so added another 60kg or so with both boys jumping on my knee to help out.</p> -
<p>Captains log - Day 15... hands are shaking and I've gone back to burpees... I think this lack of booze is really starting to fuck with me. </p>
