Let's try again...
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ah ok....at my worst I was 103kg in the Christmas to NY period last year...
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Was probably close to 130kg on my wedding day... :|<br />
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Run tonight - 7.1km in 38:22 (11.1km/h or 5:24/km).<br />
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That officially completes marathon week, though my eating was not great this week due to snacks so the scales won't be my friend tomorrow I suspect... I'll go for a 5km in the morning before weigh-in and we'll see. -
Too tired for a run this morning, so just slept in and then weighed in.<br />
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[quote name='NTA' timestamp='1354311418' post='329575']93.0kg, Chest 107cm, Waist 97cm, Hips 103<br />
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So a new low marker for weight and waist, though the bathroom scales were a bit farken mental, varying anywhere up to 300g. I took the most consistent reading.[/quote]<br />
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Today: 94.5kg, Chest 107cm, Waist 97cm, Hips 102cm<br />
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Chances are the scales were probably lying a bit last weekend, bit I also had a poor eating effort this week in terms of snacks.<br />
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Big night Saturday - friend had her 40th so nice pub restaurant in Paddington where I had (in order around the bloody awesome food) red wine, beer, beer, white wine, white wine, white, red, red, red, red, red, coffee. After that we headed up to World Bar at the Cross where one of the lads knew the bar manager - didn't have to queue and no buying drinks! Only got in a couple of jimmy and cokes before hitting the wall and heading back to the hotel around 2.<br />
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Got to mention the food for one point in particular: corned beef prepared in a certain way that I can't describe, with watermelon. The way they did it just bloody worked, and I don't know how!<br />
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Kings Cross has changed. Lot more people than I remember just hanging out on the street because they can't get into venues. That many people and alcohol and its no wonder the place gets violent.<br />
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So Sunday was a bit dusty - no exercise all weekend in effect. Slept 12 hours last night and am pretty much recovered. Tonight I mowed the lawn and now I'm back into it - hundred pushups Week 4 Day 3 (120s rest standard)<br />
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Set 1: 29 OK<br />
Set 2: 33 OK<br />
Set 3: 29 OK, but HARD<br />
Set 4: 29 OK, had to slow right down and strain from 23 onwards<br />
Set 5: 30 OK - straining from 18, 10 on knees.<br />
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Give it two days and I'll do the 4 week end test. Can't say my form is anything spectacular, but at least I'm getting to the floor if not going all the way to the top.<br />
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Myotatics and cat vomits to finish - bit hard after a week of no dedicated abs.<br />
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Legs were feeling neglected, so did a two minute hold in shiko-dachi - need to get the legs strong as I plan to grade orange early next year, then green later in the year. The pain I had in the right knee last week is fine thank fuck.<br /> -
Karate tonight. Not much going on there physically but was good to clear the mind. Bit of sparring for a change too.<br />
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Floats when I got home:<br />
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30s hold, 30s rest<br />
60s hold, 60s rest<br />
60s hold, 60s rest<br />
60s hold, 30s rest<br />
30s hold, 30s rest<br />
Then alternating 10s hold and 10s relax for the next 2.5 minutes. Dunno why, just wanted to try it. Not hard so I tried hold 15, rest 5 for another two minutes. That was effort but after the previous floatage I'm not surprised.<br />
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I have weighed in 93.8kg the last 4 times I have weighed in...<br />
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have a few mates doing various things (funny how we have all, on our own got the fitness bug around the same time) which is motivating me to push it. -
Have been in the dog house the last three days. Suspect I know what it is for but I've asked her twice what is up, and if she doesn't want to say, and doesn't want to stop her pissed off demeanour, then it is clearly beyond my powers to resolve (or her desire to resolve it). Doesn't help that The Red Baron is due in town next week either by my estimation.<br />
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Because of the tension and attitude, my eating has gone to shit - like I used to comfort eat back in the day, but not near as bad. I've pretty much given up any weight goals for this year beyond staying under 95. As the father of a friend once said: they're strange cattle.<br />
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Anyway, just got time to do my hundred pushups end of week 4 assessment: 41 pushups. Just puts me into the "high" bracket for week 5 which sucks in a way, but jeez that is more pushups than I thought I could do two months ago...<br />
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Did some weights work too<br />
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Chins x 10<br />
Bicep curls x 10 @ 14.25 kg<br />
Military press x 5 @ 50 kg<br />
Arnies on a fitness ball x 9 @ 14.25 kg - trickier than I thought - nearly fell off going for 10, though the shoulders were a bit wrecked from previous exercises<br />
Hammer curls x 10 @ 14.25 kg<br />
Bent rows x 12 @ 50 kg<br />
Pull ups x 5<br />
Wide grip pull ups x 1.5 three times - usually I grip just outside shoulder width for pull ups (narrow for chins) but this was about 1.5 shoulder width. Hard.<br />
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I've also been doing this now for 16 months on and off. It's getting a damn sight harder to lose weight and see reward for effort. I was really motoring when I wrote this:<br />
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[quote name='NTA' timestamp='1353099911' post='325650']Boo-yah! First official weigh-in under 94kg. I feel like I'm in that zone when I was just starting, where everything just seemed to work, and the willpower on the eating was especially good.<br />
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I'm also starting to understand just how hard I can work without my old physical limitations, where I don't think I really did before.<br />
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Need to keep driving that right through to Christmas.[/quote]<br />
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But I'm just not feeling it. Hotter weather, marital issues, Christmas functions, other dipshit at work. Fucking frustrating.<br />
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Focus that shit into smashing out some workouts bro - I always feel better about keeping my training going when life is a bit shitty than the times when I'm doing it easy.
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I've also been doing this now for 16 months on and off. It's getting a damn sight harder to lose weight and see reward for effort. I was really motoring when I wrote this:<br />
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But I'm just not feeling it. Hotter weather, marital issues, Christmas functions, other dipshit at work. Fucking frustrating.<br />
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I think what I'd like to do is just throw everything in the pack and go bush for a couple of nights<br />
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Yeah I seem stuck in a loop, no matter how little or what I eat, right now, my weight isnt moving...it'll probably stick for another few weeks then all of a sudden shift.<br />
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Sure you can have a few brews and some eats, bUt I dont wanna undo all the good work of the past 12 months for a week of christmas cheer, and neither should you!<br />
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I've been thinking about the wife's little rant, and listened to some loud music, and after some consideration think I have my answer:<br />
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[b]Tin[/b]<br />
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Lots of fucking tin. Mountains of that shit. I need to stop working out at home in this heat with the same old circuits, and get me to smashing some serious weights for the legs, chest, and back. Stabilisers can take care of themselves, fuck em.<br />
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There is a gym at work, I can package the fees into my salary and it'll be like $300 a year or something.<br />
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This is the answer. I know it. The running is maintenance now - I know I can do ten km in an hour, so besides City 2 Surf next August I don't need to train more than once or twice a week on it in the meantime.<br />
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It will give me the burn I want for the fat too, in much less time than the running. And I'm going for definition so this will help. Lunchtime is MADE for this.<br />
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Changing it up is a great idea, regardless of the reason for doing. You've come to the end of a year doing one thing, it will be mentally refreshing to have a new routine.<br />
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Sorry to hear you are having a frustrating time, it certainly makes all this exercise and healthy eating lark more difficult than it needs to be. Try to find the motivation to stick with one treat day a week for the diet, you've had your blowout now so back on the wagon. I find that if my diet goes south now I feel worse, so the old comfort eating doesn't really work now that you are healthy.<br />
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Sucks with the issues but I fully agree that you should smash some tin and focus on that. I got my personal trainer plus mega intensified training and diet right in the middle of a house sale, major mother in law issues (because of move to AUS), change of job, family bs in Australia and a good friend nearly dying. It seems stupid but it helped me switch my brain off for a certain portion of the day and focus on bettering myself physically. Without that I think I would have gone farking mad.
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Sucks with the issues but I fully agree that you should smash some tin and focus on that. I got my personal trainer plus mega intensified training and diet right in the middle of a house sale, major mother in law issues (because of move to AUS), change of job, family bs in Australia and a good friend nearly dying. It seems stupid but it helped me switch my brain off for a certain portion of the day and focus on bettering myself physically. Without that I think I would have gone farking mad.<br />
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Yep, exercising is the best for stress relief. The weights don't care what your problems are, you just have to lift them, really switches your mind off I find. -
a punch bag is a great thing to relive stresses and tensions too!