Fatbusting: Kirwan's log
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<p>Sigh, have had a bit of a disaster. Have had to pull out of the competition, and end the Whole 30 a few days early. Ended up in hospital yesterday thanks to a Kidney Stone. Will spare you the gory details, but much puking and agonizing pain. Unreal.</p>
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<p>I ended on 78.3, which was 0.1kg off where I ended up last time, so that was one of my goals almost achieved. </p> -
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<p>Sigh, have had a bit of a disaster. Have had to pull out of the competition, and end the Whole 30 a few days early. Ended up in hospital yesterday thanks to a Kidney Stone. Will spare you the gory details, but much puking and agonizing pain. Unreal.</p>
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<p>I ended on 78.3, which was 0.1kg off where I ended up last time, so that was one of my goals almost achieved. </p>
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<p>That sucks mate, sorry to hear about that set back and the god awful pain. Hope the recovery is swift!</p> -
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<p>Day four, back on morphine. This is unbelievable.</p>
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<p>The pain or the buzz from the morphine!! Hope you come right soon!</p> -
Them stones are bloody awful mate! Good luck! Hang in there.......
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Its been a solid month at the gym. Finally over the health issues, and back to regular xFit and exercise. Membership has been increased to allow unlimited members to attend normal classes and the 'quickFit' classes (30 min sessions, no strength work just the WOD). <br><br>
This gives me more options to get to the gym with the variety in class times. How I've used it is to team it up with their Barbell Club, then finish with a QuickFit WOD. Works out to two hours of training in the middle of the week, but has helped get some PBs in the weight lifting. <br><br>
Recently, I've got my Snatch to 70kg, Bench to 85kg and tonight I got a goal I've been after for about 18months; 100kg Clean & Jerk. <br><br>
Bench was a lot of reps, before we dropped to the 1 rep. Think I could get 90kg if fresh. Still more than I've ever lifted, so not bad for an old fella :)<br><br>
My cardio is still shit, but improving. Couldn't make the gym yesterday so gave myself 20mins of burpees. Yeah, that sucked. <br><br>
Noticed that my push-ups have dropped a bit, so have started doing those daily, with the aim to get that to 50 per day then push on to 100. <br><br>
Weight is 81kg, so blown out 2kg. Normal aim of getting that back under 80 and try to hold that over Xmas. <br><br>
Positive month though, and the Barbell Club is a bit more similar to the workouts you guys have been listing, so fun to try that out too. -
So had a funny week. Strained my calf doing double unders, stopped before really hurting it. The next day I had some ankle and knee pain, so rested for four days and removed any aggravating movements from the WODs (like running, box jumps, etc). <br><br>
Was doing a Barbell club, first section was 30mins to hit 1RM max snatch. Was feeling really sore from the previous day's workout (Cindy) so took my time warming up, went cautiously through the weights up to 65kg. I kept missing forward, a bit on my toes, and couldn't work out how to fix it. <br><br>
Decided to have three more lifts before moving to try and get a PB and get back more on my heels, and on the next lift I tore my quad, at the bottom of the catch (so all that weight above my head. Joy). Managed to get out of the way, luckily. <br><br>
Had to get rescued from the gym from the wife, which was only slightly humiliating:)<br><br>
Looks to be a partial tear, and I'm back walking three days later. Stairs and squatting aren't much fun though. <br><br>
Basically, I think I need to reorganise my schedule to have more rest in it, and only do two nights in a row. Might have to bite the bullet and add in something like Pilates for more mobility and work on some of my inflexibility and try identify any issues before I break myself. -
Thats no good mate.........good luck with the recovery. Maybe your overall system is still down after the illness? Sometimes these things hang around much longer than we think. Just take it real slow.....
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<p>Three weeks rest to let it heal properly (and move house). So rehab was moving boxes.</p>
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<p>I got through my first workout back on Monday, predictably the lungs were in a world of hurt. I didn't do any full depth squats either, and low weight. I'll keep the weight light, but will go back to the full movement tonight and tomorrow.</p> -
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<p>Are you still in West Harbour mate or elsewhere now?</p>
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<p>Hobsonville Point, so still on the West...just.</p>
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<p>Had a short workout last night, pleasing aspect was the 15 x 70kg Clean & Jerks went fine. Still doing power cleans, but am going to test out the full squat tonight, leg is feeling good.</p> -
Over the calf strain, have the recovery from that down to a science. Workout tonight had running and 300 double unders in it to confirm that :)<br><br>
Suffering in the heat and sauna like conditions in the gym, upping my water intake appropriately. <br><br>
Have signed up for the Open again, so the clocks ticking on the cardio aspect. Strength is up there, wife bought me weight lifting shoes for Christmas so have been having fun playing with those. <br><br>
At 80.7kg, so getting closer to where I need to be. -
Ok, so this has been an interesting month. I had a wee medical episode that saw me in hospital for a few days. <br><br>
Short version is I'm now fine, but recovering from a minor operation. This week has been the first week of being allowed to exercise, so I'm three one hour walks in. <br><br>
Plan to do two more and try out a jog on Saturday. If that goes well, two more, then I'll head back to the gym. <br><br>
I'll be on a drastically scaled version of Crossfit for three more weeks, with no weights until mid June. <br><br>
Weight has crept up to 83kg, so the target there is a not too difficult 3kg loss. <br><br>
Have zero cardio fitness, the first walk was tough!<br><br>
Only made one Open workout, had to watch the rest from the sidelines. At least my last Open workout was a good performance! -
<p>Dang bro, good to hear you are working back up to fitness. Good thing about come backs is knowing where you were at and how you got there. You should have built up a good base by mid-June. You'll be amping to smash some tin!</p>
