MN5s muscle maintaining musings....
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Started the morning with some Sonny Liston kick jump squat type things.
3 x 15 of them, great to get the legs absolutely burning if you do them right. Also did sets of chins at the shitty hotel gym, 2 x 12 then 1 x 10 as it’s been a few weeks. Made sure the ROM was decent on these. Right elbow still giving me grief, not sure if the Deep Heat is genuinely helping or if it’s a placebo ?
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Pretty much ended up doing the same workout two days in a row just to give the muscles a bit of a shock. Planks in the morning ( I really must look up more variation on these ) followed up by sledgehammer smashes in the avo. These are feeling awesome now, today was about 300 swings in total and the forearm pain from the first few times is basically non existent now which is pleasing.
The initial unco ness on the right ( weaker ) side is correcting itself now too and the sledgehammer isn’t bouncing back from the tyre at awkward angles like it did a little bit at the start. Lungs and overall power just feel better and better each time I give these a hoon. Awesome fun !
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3 x 12 ninja jumps followed by Weighted planks ( 3 x 2 mins with 20kg on my back ) for this morning. Fair to say the added weight is making them much more taxing. Weather dependant will go and smash the tyre later this avo, the issue with that of course is I can’t walk there ( and get a bit of cardio ) cos strolling along with a sledgehammer looks very dodgy.
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Usual week of chins, walks, calisthenic push ups etc. managed to completely destroy myself with a tire workout yesterday avo after a couple of beers with a mate. Basically 15 on the left side, 15 on the right side, 15 double overhand repeated 4 x in a circuit for a total of 180 swings ( Resting for about 30 seconds every 15 swings I can maintain about a swing per second which obviously slowed a bit by the last round ).
Fuck, even my FEET were sore after all that. Absolutely rooted.
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Nothing particularly unusual in terms of workouts but a terrible weekend in terms of eats/drinks…..and by terrible I mean loads of awesome, fun indulgent gluttony. Heavy drinking Saturday ( mates invited us for pizza/beer/wine ) and Sunday ( the Fury/Wilder fight where as I mentioned we were too pissed to realise we were watching the old fight ) and a long walk from town to Island Bay cos I’m Scottish and I don’t like ordering ubers. Fun as all fuck but the body doesn’t appreciate this kind of punishment at 44 like it did at 24. I suppose a big long walk counts as slow burning cardio ?
Monday was an annual leave day smashing up walls in my apartment and transporting rubbish and today was a morning of planks, chins, dips and calisthenics. At least the rep numbers are still good despite the copious drinking and bad sleeping……but fuck doing things to that extent every weekend like I used to. Next session will be close to Xmas I think !
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@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Nothing particularly unusual in terms of workouts but a terrible weekend in terms of eats/drinks…..and by terrible I mean loads of awesome, fun indulgent gluttony. Heavy drinking Saturday ( mates invited us for pizza/beer/wine ) and Sunday ( the Fury/Wilder fight where as I mentioned we were too pissed to realise we were watching the old fight ) and a long walk from town to Island Bay cos I’m Scottish and I don’t like ordering ubers. Fun as all fuck but the body doesn’t appreciate this kind of punishment at 44 like it did at 24. I suppose a big long walk counts as slow burning cardio ?
Monday was an annual leave day smashing up walls in my apartment and transporting rubbish and today was a morning of planks, chins, dips and calisthenics. At least the rep numbers are still good despite the copious drinking and bad sleeping……but fuck doing things to that extent every weekend like I used to. Next session will be close to Xmas I think !
Yeah it's very hard to back that up at our age.
My youngest said something brilliant the other day. When I went to bed earlier than him yet again on a Saturday night I apologised for being such a boring dad. He replied that he'd prefer me to be boring and go to bed early rather than be completely unable to function for most of the next day. And he's right. The number of Saturdays or Sundays that were completely written off because of excess the previous evening is pretty staggering.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Nothing particularly unusual in terms of workouts but a terrible weekend in terms of eats/drinks…..and by terrible I mean loads of awesome, fun indulgent gluttony. Heavy drinking Saturday ( mates invited us for pizza/beer/wine ) and Sunday ( the Fury/Wilder fight where as I mentioned we were too pissed to realise we were watching the old fight ) and a long walk from town to Island Bay cos I’m Scottish and I don’t like ordering ubers. Fun as all fuck but the body doesn’t appreciate this kind of punishment at 44 like it did at 24. I suppose a big long walk counts as slow burning cardio ?
Monday was an annual leave day smashing up walls in my apartment and transporting rubbish and today was a morning of planks, chins, dips and calisthenics. At least the rep numbers are still good despite the copious drinking and bad sleeping……but fuck doing things to that extent every weekend like I used to. Next session will be close to Xmas I think !
Yeah it's very hard to back that up at our age.
My youngest said something brilliant the other day. When I went to bed earlier than him yet again on a Saturday night I apologised for being such a boring dad. He replied that he'd prefer me to be boring and go to bed early rather than be completely unable to function for most of the next day. And he's right. The number of Saturdays or Sundays that were completely written off because of excess the previous evening is pretty staggering.
Definitely. It’s nice to have a flare up every now and again, we are social creatures after all but like your good self I don’t ever want to be at the stage where my sons want/need me and I’m too fucked from the night before to be there for them.
But it was a fun weekend of laughs, beers, pizza, snacks, boxing and pub crawling. Great times.
Wellington is putting on a typical “Wellington” day today so loads of push up variations and ploymetric jumps inside before hitting the road for work. I may brave some sledgehammer work if the wind dies down a bit.
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@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Nothing particularly unusual in terms of workouts but a terrible weekend in terms of eats/drinks…..and by terrible I mean loads of awesome, fun indulgent gluttony. Heavy drinking Saturday ( mates invited us for pizza/beer/wine ) and Sunday ( the Fury/Wilder fight where as I mentioned we were too pissed to realise we were watching the old fight ) and a long walk from town to Island Bay cos I’m Scottish and I don’t like ordering ubers. Fun as all fuck but the body doesn’t appreciate this kind of punishment at 44 like it did at 24. I suppose a big long walk counts as slow burning cardio ?
Monday was an annual leave day smashing up walls in my apartment and transporting rubbish and today was a morning of planks, chins, dips and calisthenics. At least the rep numbers are still good despite the copious drinking and bad sleeping……but fuck doing things to that extent every weekend like I used to. Next session will be close to Xmas I think !
Yeah it's very hard to back that up at our age.
My youngest said something brilliant the other day. When I went to bed earlier than him yet again on a Saturday night I apologised for being such a boring dad. He replied that he'd prefer me to be boring and go to bed early rather than be completely unable to function for most of the next day. And he's right. The number of Saturdays or Sundays that were completely written off because of excess the previous evening is pretty staggering.
Definitely. It’s nice to have a flare up every now and again, we are social creatures after all but like your good self I don’t ever want to be at the stage where my sons want/need me and I’m too fucked from the night before to be there for them.
But it was a fun weekend of laughs, beers, pizza, snacks, boxing and pub crawling. Great times.
Wellington is putting on a typical “Wellington” day today so loads of push up variations and ploymetric jumps inside before hitting the road for work. I may brave some sledgehammer work if the wind dies down a bit.
@Rancid-Schnitzel you’ll be thrilled to know I went out for a few angry swings ( in pants, shirt and jacket haha ) on the way home. Wellington has thrown one of those stereotypically bad days that every fluffybunny thinks is typical of the capital. Wind, sleet, rain, a bit of hail and a high of 8 degrees.
Muscles ached after but too cold to build up an actual sweat.
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Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
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@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
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@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
My lower body is only explosive in the sense that my knees blow out.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
My lower body is only explosive in the sense that my knees blow out.
Haha !
Get the boy to watch some “knees over toe” guy on YouTube. As he is young and not a broken wreck like you and I he should benefit hugely.
I’m not sure my vertical leap but it was definitely more than enough to get in the NZ Police if I wanted to. The trick is to swing your arms on the way down and “explode” up.
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@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
My lower body is only explosive in the sense that my knees blow out.
Haha !
Get the boy to watch some “knees over toe” guy on YouTube. As he is young and not a broken wreck like you and I he should benefit hugely.
I’m not sure my vertical leap but it was definitely more than enough to get in the NZ Police if I wanted to. The trick is to swing your arms on the way down and “explode” up.
Yeah, fark I'm soft. Have to tell him to stop being so rough with me sometimes. It's like being attacked by a farking chimpanzee.
YouTube has its uses. He's down with all the techniques. Wants to be able to slam dunk a basketball. Hopefully his unfortunate accident hasn't traumatised him.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
My lower body is only explosive in the sense that my knees blow out.
Haha !
Get the boy to watch some “knees over toe” guy on YouTube. As he is young and not a broken wreck like you and I he should benefit hugely.
I’m not sure my vertical leap but it was definitely more than enough to get in the NZ Police if I wanted to. The trick is to swing your arms on the way down and “explode” up.
Yeah, fark I'm soft. Have to tell him to stop being so rough with me sometimes. It's like being attacked by a farking chimpanzee.
YouTube has its uses. He's down with all the techniques. Wants to be able to slam dunk a basketball. Hopefully his unfortunate accident hasn't traumatised him.
What am I missing ?
Get him doing these if he isn’t already, they’re on the menu as part of tomorrows motel morning workout. My oldest can smash these pretty well, youngest not yet given he’s carrying a little bit of extra weight and not as much muscle but he’s trying !
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@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
My lower body is only explosive in the sense that my knees blow out.
Haha !
Get the boy to watch some “knees over toe” guy on YouTube. As he is young and not a broken wreck like you and I he should benefit hugely.
I’m not sure my vertical leap but it was definitely more than enough to get in the NZ Police if I wanted to. The trick is to swing your arms on the way down and “explode” up.
Yeah, fark I'm soft. Have to tell him to stop being so rough with me sometimes. It's like being attacked by a farking chimpanzee.
YouTube has its uses. He's down with all the techniques. Wants to be able to slam dunk a basketball. Hopefully his unfortunate accident hasn't traumatised him.
What am I missing ?
Get him doing these if he isn’t already, they’re on the menu as part of tomorrows motel morning workout. My oldest can smash these pretty well, youngest not yet given he’s carrying a little bit of extra weight and not as much muscle but he’s trying !
Look back above. Poor bugger stuffed the jump and landed shin first on the edge of a besser brick.
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@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@rancid-schnitzel said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
@mn5 said in MN5s muscle maintaining musings....:
Usual bits and pieces and some good functional box carrying, turns out the potential future mrs MN5 has a lot of heavy books which she piled into a big box and made me carry up a couple of flights of stairs while we were moving.
Also tire slams in the rain and wind are pretty satisfying. Only about a five minute workout but all action and the forearm aches afterwards aren’t as bad as they used to be. Sweeeeeeeeeeet.
On the road for work this week, hope I’m on the ground floor at the motel, plyometrics probably sound a bit weird if your downstairs neighbour doesn’t know what is happening.
My youngest is obsessed with improving his vertical leap and loves box jumps. Only problem is he had a habit of using besser bricks. I say HAD because it inevitably went pearshaped yesterday and his shin hit the edge of one of the bricks. Time to invest in some proper padded plyometric boxes me thinks.
Yeah I think stretching and explosive stuff and knees over toe workouts help that quite a bit. In saying that my upper body is more explosive than the lower body overall I think.
My lower body is only explosive in the sense that my knees blow out.
Haha !
Get the boy to watch some “knees over toe” guy on YouTube. As he is young and not a broken wreck like you and I he should benefit hugely.
I’m not sure my vertical leap but it was definitely more than enough to get in the NZ Police if I wanted to. The trick is to swing your arms on the way down and “explode” up.
Yeah, fark I'm soft. Have to tell him to stop being so rough with me sometimes. It's like being attacked by a farking chimpanzee.
YouTube has its uses. He's down with all the techniques. Wants to be able to slam dunk a basketball. Hopefully his unfortunate accident hasn't traumatised him.
What am I missing ?
Get him doing these if he isn’t already, they’re on the menu as part of tomorrows motel morning workout. My oldest can smash these pretty well, youngest not yet given he’s carrying a little bit of extra weight and not as much muscle but he’s trying !
Look back above. Poor bugger stuffed the jump and landed shin first on the edge of a besser brick.
Oh yes, that. He’ll be ok.
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3 Sets of 15 flying superman push ups in the motel this morning followed by some knees over toes stuff which I’m surprisingly decent at. I think having an ex who is a Pilates instructor rubbed off on me.
Flexibility and mobility is SO important. Fuck being one of those sad old blokes who moans about aches and pains in the back and knees. I have enough other shit to gripe about so no time for that nonsense.
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A bit of an awkward couple of days of auctions, moving stuff and taking the old man out for pizza and beer. Not a lot of time for much exercise so hopefully I don’t turn to mush. I’ve also got the other half’s family thing in Hawkes Bay this weekend so that will involve a fair bit of eating and drinking to put it mildly. Will try and find somewhere to bust out a few chins at least, do a walk up the peak and hit a tire with the hammer if I get a chance.
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Trucking along, not much to write except still keeping things up as best I can. Frustratingly my right ( weaker ) elbow is still in pain despite all the Deep Heat and ice I’ve been putting on it and it makes a couple of push up variations extremely tough. I might have to take it easy on certain exercises and perhaps being 44 means it is taking longer than usual to recover.
I’ve also stopped hitting the tire and have started hitting sand at the beach instead to fuck myself up even more ! Seriously, this is an even tougher variation as you don’t get the bounce back you do when you hit the tire and you have to “muscle” the hammer back into position more ( again, this is one to do when there’s no one around as you tend to get funny looks smashing big holes in the sand ).
