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I think I'd have trouble doing 50 at all... In a row<br />
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Edit: maybe post this as a challenge thread?<br />
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Ok good thinkin.....

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Try this link<br />
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[url="http://artofmanliness.com/2009/06/26/a-bodyweight-workout-for-busy-men/"]http://artofmanlines...t-for-busy-men/[/url]<br />
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If your girlfriend (or another friend) is strong you can use a towel and try some resistance work, ie tug of war (seated and standing), resisted sprints, arm curls and squats<br />
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I might take a weeks leave and spend my days walking up and down lambton quay just so I can chase down a purse snatcher. Kind of worried that this is gonna happen while I'm at work and it might be hard to run in a suit.

Benched for the first time yesterday in over three months, tried the old 75kg as many times as I could ( like we had on the fern comp a while back ) and got to 20 ( bit disappointed in that, 4 below my best ) but next session i should do better I think. Dips and such have worked the muscles a bit lately but perhaps the technique was slightly iffy after such a long layoff.....

good work 80kg - fark!<br />
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as you get lighter your injuries and sore bits mysteriously vanish... So there as the load on the chassis diminishes, the better you will like exercise, even maybe including running....!!

weighted dips - and then kickbacks. That combo will [size=4]SMASH your triceps. PT just added that superset into my programme and it's mean. [/size]

[quote name='MN5' timestamp='1357609462' post='336094']<br />
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I'm taller than.......anyone who has ever played James Bond......I wear it well.<br />
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JK, no need to go on about all the weight between your legs. No one likes a show off.[/quote]"The Pack", catchy.<br />
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Oh...hang on...<br />
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For some.

so there were TONs at the gym on Friday, but managed to whack through a good chest workout despite the million at the gym. Yesterday was shoulders, and today another leg day - good day too, again, as I am not meant to be wokring out legs, i just used Ness's weights and doubled the reps. so super sets of 40 squats followed by 12 heavy leg extensions followed by 30 lighter extensions. Not feeling too bad right now, but expecting the worst...!!! Also 3 sets of 40 smith rack lunges, and stiff legged deadlifts thrown in there for shits 'n' giggles. We were out of the gym at 9, just when it was opening, and wow, people were flooding in! Good to have a set of keys!

So I've got hi rep back + shoulders Thursday, and hi rep legs Saturday.<br />
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This thread is making me twitchy. Think on Friday I'll drop into the gym and squeeze in some bear taming.<br />

must add my 'well dones' too - wicked effort.

Christ Rettalick has a neck on him!!

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Practise eating and drinking on your runs, you don't want the race to be the first time you try and gulp water or half a banana down.<br />
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There are loads of different strategies for this but a good rule of thumb is "little often"<br />
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Absolutely - I get abdominal cramps after running 10km so have to hydrate like a mofo straight afterwards. I hate carrying stuff with me when I run except for the phone for tracking and house key if no-one else is at home.

Weighed myself this morning and was happily surprised that, despite letting my diet go a bit, I'm still hovering around the 85kg mark.<br />
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I'm eyeing up another BJJ tournament in March, and so long as I'm still below 90kg after Xmas, I'm thinking of dropping down to 80kg to make the weight class below. If it make it, it'll be the lightest I've been since before University.

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I knew it looked like you MN5, how did you make your belly look so small? <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Padding bro

Awesome work pal.

Well I usually weigh in on tuesdays as opposed to weds.<br />
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Put the small biceps down to usually doing them 1 day before check in where as this week I did em on sunday so 3 days before.<br />
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Body fat though...hrrrmmmppphhh!

Goals at this stage is purely weight related - and probably not 100% specific, except I do want to get below 100kg and then perhaps to 96kg (my weight when I was at my peak fitness ... mind you that was also with a significant lack of body fat but it's a number that has pleasant connotations) - but will see how I go with the first target.<br />
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Similar to dK and Kirwan I hit 114kg and was becoming less active and not doing as much with my daughter.<br />
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114kg at 44 just smelled of heart attack too - after so many years convincing myself I was reasonably fit (even though I wasn't as fit as I'd have liked to be).<br />
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No other goal at this point in time - I don't envisage becoming an elite masters athlete or anything so as I said elsehwere I don't have the motivation to thrash myself (at the moment) and just want to feel healthier for my family and feel better about how I look (i.e., so I'm not embarrassed when I catch my reflection in a shop window!! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> ). <br />
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Whilst I really used to love doing weight training back in the day and squats in particular (I think I got up to doing 3 sets x 12 at 160-ish - have no idea what I'd have done on a single rep), and dead lifts (similar type weights) I don't enjoy how my knees feel when I'm doing them now - so I don't. (Was always hopeless at bench press).

Been meaning to comment on this for awhile. Hope the book is coming along RT, bummer dude !<br />
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Say what you like about the big man, he is one sharp cookie, nothing short of incredible to get a body like that without so much knowledge that is easily obtained today. Arnie is a legend in my eyes for a number of classic movies but also for having the most borderline ridiculous ( I mean that in a good way if that makes sense ) physique you could get. I think at his best he looked miles better than any number of todays juiced up muscleheads.......

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Had 1 low carb beer whilst driving the bbq last night and that was it. Am sure to knock a few back after my holes of golf on Friday though!<br />
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I have an ambrose golf day next Sunday...free beer carts around all day...

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maybe the way the bicep tendon is a twisting one too and 'does more'??