Chocks away - 2011 training - your time starts... now...
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the soreness spreads, calves now feel like they've been run over and abs even worse. Shoulders dusted this morning, arms now feel like two strands of spaghetti hanging from nothing. Great workout, Dazza outdone himself on this one!<br />
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So back tomorrow, and then collapse tomorrow night in front of the TV and wach the All Blacks spank the Fijians, if I can stay awake that is!! -
sooo, back and biceps today. Mmmmm, bllody outdine himself this time has out trainer, top workout. double set and then triple set, and done. Then bicep double set - biceps sgtarting to get sore now, not looking forward to tomorrow at this rate.<br />
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Weight this morning (the scales are back and batteries installed, time to keep an eye on the downward spiral) after breakfast was a 84.7, down about a kilo from Mondays weigh in with Food Boss. Scales say 9.5% fat, calipers say 6.7%, so if I take off about 3 from the scale reading it might be accurate-ish - until Monday week when the fat grabbers come out again when we visit.<br />
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shit you'll be dozing through the test match after that brutal session mate! ugh doubles followed by triples! it can suck when you feel the pain immediately after the workout - you know the next couple of days ain't gonna be pretty. That is a low bf reading, you must be stoked with how the lean down process is going. What is the best case scenario in terms of bf?
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aiming for 2 or 3%, think I've been down to about 5% on the scales a day or two before comp day, which maybe equates to that. Certainly in the best shape this far out from a comp ever.<br />
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cardio this morning, not too bad, cycled at gym for 45, was going to do the machine dance, 15 on cycle, 15 on stepper or something, and 15 on treadmill. But machines were taken, so cycled the whole thing.<br />
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2 or 3%!! fark - amazing what you can do the body. With reserves that low surely you'd feel it something awful if you missed a meal? man that must be tough to [I]just [/I]give the body enough fuel to workout without a smidge extra that the body might store.<br />
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Is it true that at that super low level of bf your body is desperate to establish some fat reserves? It sounds like putting barely enough fuel in your car for a X km journey then thrashing the tits outta the engine!! Must be a bit of a mind f*$k near the end! -
absolute mind game over the last few weeks, it's all mind game really. you're not feeding your body enough, but you want to burn the fat reserves, not the muscle. The body wants to burn the muscle and save the fat because it goes into starvation mode, so you're eating a ton of protein and sod all cards so your body has to burn fat, etc etc etc...<br />
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It is a mad science, would have to do it by myself, thats what you for sure need the PT and food guru for. -
and chest workout today after a baaaaaad nights sleep, have not had that for ages. woke at 1:39, back to sleep again at 3 something. Ness the same, we both woke up at same time and that was it! at about 2:30 turned on TV and watched the start of matrix!!<br />
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lol K!!<br />
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Weight in this monring - 83.4kg. <br />
Gym this morning legs - and surprisingly easy today - my three sets last week of squats were all at 100 (15 reps), then the lunges. Today did 100, 110, 120 - the 120 last 5 were tough, so might end at that again next week, but up the first set a touch. Although we only have two more leg workouts before comp day, and one of those will be on the carb deplete cycle, so might not have the gas left to do that!<br />
hamstring curls were killer this morning, do a 8 heavy as possible, then 20 stripping the weight down. Ended up leg curling 24kg (two or three of the plates on the machine), but it felt like trying to lift an elephant!!<br />
Thought be more tired as went to Mount M last night to watch movie - proud to say I remained awake through 'Bridesmaids'. Not a bad movie, a few laugh out loud moments, but wife enjoyed it more than me. Almost a heangover for chicks! So home late, but slept much better! Would have rather seen harry Potter!!!<br />
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Good stuff mate - you must be getting amped about the comp!! that energy will keep you humming in the gym and blasting through those last workouts!
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yeah, it has been a long time between drinks this time out - last season we seemed to be competing every 5 mintues, this year it's been about changing the body and being new on stage again - judges must get bored with the same old same old all the time - especially when there is no change in the bodies they are looking at.<br />
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Good news too - comp day breakfast, 5am (you're awake then anyway) is gluten free flapjack pancake things (from countdown), ICECREAM and MAPLE SYRUP!! then post comp ANYTHING that night and the whole day afterwards. Then back on the straight and narrow! Also the eating during the day is monitored - we used to just cut loose, but new food guru has comp day planned out even, which is great. -
walk home last night around the 'old pub road', 55 minutes, just trudged along as you do in the cold! Not too bad though, not feeling dead yet! This morning at gym was cardio morning, 45 minutes on the bike, I get bored so 45 seconds in cruise mode and 15 seconds flat out keeps me occupied.<br />
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Walk home via the short route tonight which is a 20 minute burst, and then throw some posing tonight. TIme to become a poser again. oh yay. -
bonus, Ness walked earlier, so I wandered the streets for my 45 minute cardio after work, it was horrible, zero gas in the tank, but made it!<br />
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this morning back workout, final weights session of the week, so YAY. Then a bit of posing once we got home.<br />
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Weight this morning 83.2, target 80.5 so getting closer to target, must be a good dehydrate away from goal. Vanessa the same, 2.5 kilos from goal weight and looking GOOD. She has come on in leaps and bounds, scary the amount of muscle she has packed on in the last 6 months.<br />
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So over and out, two cardio sessions and posing this weekend to come - might have to crack into practise on my routine too - going back to my original one to 'We are the Champions'', can't be arsed working on a new one this time out. You don't get judged on routines at any rate, so could just go out on stage and pop a double bicep pose and walk off if you were so inclined. But I am sure judges DO look at the physiques if the competition is a close run thing, so you get on stage and try to hide your weak points and promote your strong.
