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hhhmmm, Matt Dunning...<br />
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Hi Nick, maybe this is use for you, just some thoughts...if no use, sorry, no worries<br />
I think you would benefit from doing more dips and pull ups, like me. Plus with your other stuff to be more rounded.<br />
For dips, just do them once a week, do at least 5 sets, and break 5 minutes between each-do some other stuff. Just try to build up your rep #s and become comfortable. Later, shorten the breaks.<br />
For pull ups your goal is to do 510 in 10 minutes. My goal is 512 in 10 minutes. It's very hard so I'm going to push myself harder. For you, I think[size=4] something like this:[/size]<br />
once a week, 15-20 minutes, 3 perfect form pull ups, at least 12 sets. Increase to 4 after doing it successfully twice.<br />
once a week, thrice of 3 minutes of: 1 pull up, step away, back, 1 pull up, repeat.<br />
once a week after a leg workout, do my ab workout (pull up and hold, still torso, move legs like walking, repeat 20 times*3)...just to stretch out your back after compression, and also improve the abs. -
Big lunch today. Well I had a salmon baguette and salad but cleaned up some of the kids' fish and chips, along with my Asahi and some gelato. Hot day, well worth it <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Went for a run when I got home - was going to be 10km but the body wasn't willing. Lungs and legs still not right after the phlegmish week. Pulled up at 3 km, stuffed after 16:31. Walked another 3.93 in 32:33. -
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Big lunch today. Well I had a salmon baguette and salad but cleaned up some of the kids' fish and chips, along with my [b]Asahi [/b]and some gelato. Hot day, well worth it <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Went for a run when I got home - was going to be 10km but the body wasn't willing. Lungs and legs still not right after the phlegmish week. Pulled up at 3 km, stuffed after 16:31. Walked another 3.93 in 32:33.<br />
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Nom nom nom, knocked back a few of those after we stripped the gib in a room over the weekend. A lovely drop - nice and dry! -
Yeah paying for the exercise now though - antibiotics. At least there is an end in sight but I hate antibiotics. At home today, hitting the fluids hard and dosing up on drugs to let the body recover. Won't be any exercise this week until I go camping on the weekend.
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Karate last night. Felt awful going in but awesome coming out. No other exercise this week due to illness and I'm a little itchy.<br />
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Have also been eating a bit much as I'm starving in recovery mode, so the weigh in this week will probably be shit. -
Bike ride this arv - 20.68 km in 54:50. Want looking to strain too hard, just test the lungs and kegs now I'm recovered from the quest if this illness.<br />
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92.2kg, Chest 107, Waist 96, Hips 102.<br />
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92.8, Chest 107, Waist 96, Hips 102.<br />
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Least successful weight loss target period on record for me (1.2 kg lost in 10 weeks). Should have stopped when I was 90.1! Anyway, the effect of sugar on my digestive system had been most instructional these last two weeks.<br />
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Eating discipline well gone at this point, but I'll take a couple of weeks away from recording it, let this lung/nasal thing clear, and get back on the horse some time in April. -
Karate tonight. Sparring at the end which is thoroughly exhausting. I managed to get one of my kicks blocked mid-shin by someone's knee. Ouch. Throw in the wrist I banged up on a sign yesterday during the ride copping a few blows and the ice pack got good use when I got home.
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Gym for a quick session after work - easing my way back into it after the illnesses and whatnot. One minute breaks between sets<br />
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[b]Military Press[/b]<br />
6 x 25kg<br />
10 x 40kg<br />
10 x 40kg<br />
10 x 40kg<br />
Had a lot of tightness up the left side of my neck doing this - similar to last night at karate and the week before. Will book the chiro later this week...<br />
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[b]Pullups[/b] - 5, 5, 3, 4, 3, 3, 3, 4 (30 total)<br />
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[b]Bench Press[/b]<br />
10 x 60<br />
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8 x 60<br />
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Well done, Nick, those pull ups with 1 minute break is a good effort. Be consistent and they'll get easier, and you can keep going on for longer. Dips are also important for your BP-when you can do dips really well, you'll find 80-90 kg BP much more manageable. Give it a 3-6 months.
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At home doing the Kea patented pull up routine with no other exercises, one minute breaks:<br />
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7, 5, 5, 5 (cheated the last one), 3, 3, 4 (cheat last), 4 (cheat last), 3, 3, 4 - shed the pants and shirt at this point, 4 (cheat last), 3, 4, 4 (cheat last), 3, 4 (cheat last), then 30 second break to fit another 3 inside the 20 minute mark. Total was 71, of which 6 were cheats, so 65.<br />
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Had a minute rest then swapped to chin up with 30 second breaks for the next 4 minutes or so to take it through to 25 minutes:<br />
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3, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 3, 3 + 1 after the buzzer = 20.<br />
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Really weird feeling after so many pull ups - arms felt twisted and screwed on the wrong way.<br />
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Arms will be sore tomorrow -
Got upstairs and decided to crack out 4 minutes of cat voms (12 reps) and do a bit of meditating after a fairly slack well of recovering from illness. Will have to start running again but first do my civic duty and donate plasma tomorrow. Maybe get out before Mrs TA goes shopping in the morning...
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Great. I hope you are sore tomorrow-and not just in the arms! I find that chin ups twist my neck/arms, so I focus on pull ups. I also think strict pull ups are great for giving the back correct posture, which is also good since many of us sit too long.<br />
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Are you doing these on a doorway pull up attachment, or something else? I do mine on the hillside, the bar's height is at fingertip height, full stretch, feet on ground, which is perfect since I can finish with some stretches for my back. How high is your bar?
