Now or never: Taking it to the next level
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Mate compared to Norway everywhere is cheap. The quality is utter crap as well.<br />
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Moving to Brisbane. Parents live there and lived there myself for years. Terrific city.
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First post since moving to stinking hot then rainy QLD. Better than freezing farking Oslo but what the hell...<br />
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Anyway has been very difficult to keep the momentum up. Diet has been most difficult first with hotel and plane food then being polite and not offending the oldies by refusing their delicious (but carby) meals. When we finally move into our own place in the next few weeks I'll be able to control that much better. One advantage is the raw ingredients. Things like oats, chicken breast, sweet potatoes etc are very good quality and quite cheap. Protein powder is also quite reasonable if you look around. Plenty of temptations though and I'm quite proud that I've resisted most of them. Incredible variety of cråp and no wonder the general population looks to have grown in size since I last lived here.<br />
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Training could also have been better but is coming good. Was going to join one of those Jetts places down the road but it was small and crowded. Took out my brothers old weights, fixed a bench and have been going old school. Bit anoying having to screw on plates and take them off all the time but better than nothing. Plenty of swimming too which is a nice touch after lifting tin. Not an ideal situation but once I'm in the new digs and have a car will sign up to the gym nearby. <br />
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Great shoulder session today. Hopefully this will be the first proper week without distractions. -
Not as bad as 2011 but still terrible for some parts of the city. I'm ok where I am but anybody close to the river or a creek must be getting anxious. No rain at the moment but concerns about high tide tonight.
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Coming up for a bit of air....<br />
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I've always been dismissive of people who say they dont have time to train and for the most part its true but fark me I've been pushed pretty close the past month. With starting a new business, renovating an entire house and looking after my sons and heirs, training has been very tough. Mostly I don't get started unitl 10pm or later. Last Thursday I didnt start until about midnight. Not ideal at all and certainly better than nothing but its a far cry from the psycho PT and that awesome training regime.<br />
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At the moment am trying to do 6 shorter sessions a week. Thats 4 with weights and 2 crossfit. Weights are pretty much all 10-12 rep supersets with 30sec/1min rest. Don't have any real equipment for doing legs so crossfit is big on stepups, box jumps and thrusters.<br />
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Diet is back on track in a big way. Awesome (and cheap) chicken breast here plus great veggies, eggs and other clean food. Diet is basically as follows.<br />
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Breakfast: Oats with protein power plus 3-4 eggs (boil six and eat as many as I can before driving spawn to school)<br />
Mid-morning: Rest of eggs and rye bread with peanut butter.<br />
Lunch: Chicken breast (cook heaps) with brocoli and rice/sweet potato/pumpkim<br />
Afternoon: Celery with peanut butter and protein shake. Maybe some more chicken<br />
Dinner: Chicken or maybe some pork, brocolli/veggies. Maybe rice or noodles if asian.<br />
Evening: Usually after late workout. Protein shake and remainder of chicken.<br />
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This allows me to hammer treat day which is pretty epic in Brisbane.<br />
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Hopefully things will calm down in the next few weeks so I can join a gym and start training properly. My new place is close to a YMCA (It's fun to say its the YMCA...) and right next to the kids' school so should be ideal. -
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Yeah been a while but life events as big as you've just had will tend toward the disruptive. Good to see you back!<br />
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Cheers. I think this a great forum and certainly helps you keep track of training and keeps you motivated. Will hopefully have more structure in a couple of weeks.<br />
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One thing that I find astonishing here in the Sunshine State is the number of fat farkers. In Norway the health minister is bitching about people training more and eating better etc, but your average Norwegian is in far better shape than the average QLDer. Some of the women in particular are massive. Incredible paradox but it seems that the warmer the weather the fatter the population. -
Australia in general mate. <br />
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The social cycle I've noticed had changed a lot - with the housing and/or mining boom, more families have to get two incomes and work longer hours. This means less time for play as weekends are given over to work. The first thing to go is outdoor play, and now with widespread home entertainment like online movie rental and consoles, play indoors is a lot easier to accept.<br />
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The irony is they're working for the great Aussie dream - a house with a back yard - but they don't have time or energy to use that yard. -
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Australia in general mate.<br />
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The social cycle I've noticed had changed a lot - with the housing and/or mining boom, more families have to get two incomes and work longer hours. This means less time for play as weekends are given over to work. The first thing to go is outdoor play, and now with widespread home entertainment like online movie rental and consoles, play indoors is a lot easier to accept.<br />
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The irony is they're working for the great Aussie dream - a house with a back yard - but they don't have time or energy to use that yard.<br />
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Hmmm. People probably have less time but fark me if those shopping centres arent packed every weekend rain, hail or shine. Seems to me too that some of the fattest farkers are the ones with the most time on their hands. I reckon the indoor entertainment is massive factor. Before there was only crap telly to watch inside but now you have a world of entertainment literally at your fingertips, not to mention computer games that I could only dream about as a kid. Fast food is also a problem but were the diets so much better before? I recall plently of battered fish and chips on Friday evenings and plenty of pies and sausage rolls. The school tuckshop had far more cråp than what my sons are offered now. I guess the difference was that I was always on the go and my parents used to literally throw me outside. Whatever the cause its pretty bloody alarming. -
Another hectic week and 2 sessions after midnight but all good. Pretty intense programme with training 6 days a week. Amazing how much better you can feel after a good workout even if you felt like death beforehand.<br />
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Nice crossfit of: 3 x 100 step ups, 7 thrusters, 15 burpees and 30 situps. Gets up a sweat that one. -
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Hmmm. People probably have less time but fark me if those shopping centres arent packed every weekend rain, hail or shine. Seems to me too that some of the fattest farkers are the ones with the most time on their hands. [/quote]<br />
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Never learned to MAKE time for exercise, spending their youth and natural metabolic activity on drinking and posting. Then once you're a fat adult, everything takes longer to do, so making time is even harder. -
Since my training has experienced something of a recharge recently I thought I'd resuscitate this thread. Its not that I haven't been training. Ive been training regularly and the diet has been ok. But the focus just hasn't been there. The wife had the big C last year and obviously things have been incredibly stressful. It was difficult to keep my head above water, but I have to say that training was an effective way of clearing my head for about an hour a day. But, yeah, there hasn't been much structure and I did it because I felt I had to, rather than really wanting to.<br><br>Now, hopefully, we're getting a fresh start and can move on.<br><br>Anyway, I have restructured the training and am enjoying it once more. I'm done with any complicated programmes, I've decided to keep it simple. I'm also going to relax a bit on the diet, but will up the cardio.<br><br>Basically it goes:<br><br>Monday: Chest<br>Tuesday: Arms<br>Wednesday: Cardio/running<br>Thursday: Back/legs<br>Friday: Shoulders<br>Saturday: Cardio/running<br>Sunday: Cardio/boxing<br><br>Been at this for about 3 weeks and am feeling really good. Due to 24 hour gym I'm also mixing up the training times so I don't have to rip myself out of bed in the morning if I'm really not up for it. Feel I've found a good balance now.
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<p>Since my training has experienced something of a recharge recently I thought I'd resuscitate this thread. Its not that I haven't been training. Ive been training regularly and the diet has been ok. But the focus just hasn't been there. The wife had the big C last year and obviously things have been incredibly stressful. It was difficult to keep my head above water, but I have to say that training was an effective way of clearing my head for about an hour a day. But, yeah, there hasn't been much structure and I did it because I felt I had to, rather than really wanting to.<br><br>
Now, hopefully, we're getting a fresh start and can move on.<br><br>
Anyway, I have restructured the training and am enjoying it once more. I'm done with any complicated programmes, I've decided to keep it simple. I'm also going to relax a bit on the diet, but will up the cardio.<br><br>
Basically it goes:<br><br>
Monday: Chest<br>
Tuesday: Arms<br>
Wednesday: Cardio/running<br>
Thursday: Back/legs<br>
Friday: Shoulders<br>
Saturday: Cardio/running<br>
Sunday: Cardio/boxing<br><br>
Been at this for about 3 weeks and am feeling really good. Due to 24 hour gym I'm also mixing up the training times so I don't have to rip myself out of bed in the morning if I'm really not up for it. Feel I've found a good balance now.</p>
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<p>Fingers crossed your family has shaken the big C for good mate. I can see how exercise would have been really helpful in dealing with the situation.</p>
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<p>Boxing is great fun aye - primo for your back and core as well as the cardio side of things. Welcome back to the clan bro!</p> -
Cheers fellas!<br><br>
Yeah boxing ain't bad. Leaves you sore at first but after that its a great workout. Have a bag in the garage which I smash away at.
