Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log
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Did legs on Thursday and a follow up solo session on sat. Thursday was all about the machines, but sat was overhead, front and back squats. Got up to 75kg for the overheads and 120kg for back squats. Kept fronts around 60kg and was working on my rack position. Added in a bit of stretching and mobility for my upper back and shoulders. That helped a lot, but still took 2-3 sets to really warm up and get into my work.
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Chest day. Still feeling a bit tender from legs on Sat, but in a good way.
Sets of 10 at 60kg, 60kg, 80kg, 100kg. Then two sets of 120kg for 5. Pretty sure that's the best volume I've hit at 120kg. No pre or anything too!! stoked! Finished with 100kg for 10.
Incline press. 4 sets of 10. First one at 60kg then 70kg for the next three. -
Not enough love heading your way in here bro! Good job! Looks like great progress.
I'm into my 2nd bottle of wine for the night, so I'm clearly lacking your discipline - though I did run 10km today which is a decent effort at the moment for my fat ass.
Keep it up!
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ha ha nothing like a boozy hoon through the backwaters of the fern!!
If you've run 10km then you earned that vino!
Is a bit quiet in here of late - all the more reason to keep the training going and updating the thread.
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The fact that this has become a waste land might be linked to the rise and rise of the ageing thread...
TO be honest, after iron Man i just completely lost all motivation. I did a little bit up to about the start of September, and then completely stopped.
Just starting to do something again now. Couple of sessions in the gym, and i went for a 7.5km run last week. Fuck that was a wake up call!! Whereas midyear i was flying along, feeling light in the legs, and open in the lungs, last week my legs felt like cement, and my lungs like i smoked a packet of durries first.
In your 40s, it's hard to focus without a goal, even vanity is not enough to get me to train now. Which is bad considering how much i love beer and food.
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@mariner4life I have a 3 year old and a new one due in Feb. Work is pretty cool on the whole but generally pretty stressful. Training at the gym is a need not a want for me. Especially as a thicc-boi who avoids cardio and loves fried and pastry related kai!!
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@Paekakboyz said in Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log:
Especially as a thicc-boi who avoids cardio and loves fried and pastry related kai!!
I'm tall and skinny. So if i don't do anything my shoulders shrink, my chest disappears, and i get soft around the middle. The quintessential old man body. And it disgusts me.
But then, does it disgust me enough to put down the fork, not open that stubbie, or to get my ass out on the road? That's the 64 thousand dollar question
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@mariner4life Which ironman did you do? Cairns? That's impressive! I did Western Sydney 70.3 in 2014 (in 37 degrees) and it busted me - I lay in the foetal position for an hour afterwards unable to move for fear of the cramp kicking in again!
But I have a year of work starting, so am thinking that there will never be a better time to try for the full iron. I just, aside from all the training of course, need to choose one with cold weather and no hills
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@voodoo said in Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log:
@mariner4life Which ironman did you do? Cairns? That's impressive! I did Western Sydney 70.3 in 2014 (in 37 degrees) and it busted me - I lay in the foetal position for an hour afterwards unable to move for fear of the cramp kicking in again!
But I have a year of work starting, so am thinking that there will never be a better time to try for the full iron. I just, aside from all the training of course, need to choose one with cold weather and no hills
dude i only did the 70.3! @SammyC is our resident Iron Man and yes here in Cairns.
And it broke me as well, i was in a world of hurt during the run. There's a rundown of my race here https://www.forum.thesilverfern.com/post/333893
I am done with them, I'll never do another one, i just didn't enjoy it, and now that it's ticked off...
Just went to the gym though, wrecked my chest, and tomorrow my titties are going to hurt like i am pregnant.
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@mariner4life biddies, in the training forum they are called your biddies.
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@Paekakboyz said in Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log:
@mariner4life biddies, in the training forum they are called your biddies.
biddies? so you've seen the size of my chest then
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@mariner4life Mate, good read, I felt every bit of it. My swim was in the rowing lake, so cruisy by comparison - busy as always, but flat and hot (no wettie) - took 44mins still, I'm so shit at swimming. Bike super flat but hot, I went way too fast. Felt great for 4km on the run, then the cramps came, and came, and came...I shuffled and jogged and walked the "run" and only just made it. Stood in the massage queue afterwards, almost blacked out in the sun so veered off to the medical tent instead - 30 minutes of liquids and ice down my pants, then the aforementioned foetal position just outside the medical tent afterwards!
I started that race at 93kgs, and finished at 86kgs. Seems a decent net loss given the fluids I ingested!
But still, I feel like I have unfinished business - either a better effort at a 70.3 or a battling 140.6.
Now or never
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@voodoo if you do it, then start a thread and let us follow your progress.
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@mariner4life but then how will I quit mid-training when it gets too hard, and fade away quietly without anyone knowing I tried and failed???
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@voodoo said in Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log:
@mariner4life but then how will I quit mid-training when it gets too hard, and fade away quietly without anyone knowing I tried and failed???
good point! just make it up, no one will know.
i have a couple of mates who have done that Western Sydney one, they reckon the same as you, it's great that everything is flat, but it gets fucking hot, and that's the challenge.
Apparently Busselton in the 70.3 to do if you want a good time. Flat conditions without ever being too hot, and you can just fly through it. Water like a pool, dead flat bike, flat run.
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@mariner4life yeah, aside from the swim being cancelled a couple of times in the last few years due to shark sightings, Busso sounds fun...!
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@voodoo said in Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log:
@mariner4life yeah, aside from the swim being cancelled a couple of times in the last few years due to shark sightings, Busso sounds fun...!
at least you can see them coming. In cairns the water is always so churned up you wouldn't know the croc was there until it was taking your leg off...
Sorry @Paekakboyz we've hijacked your lifting thread with filthy cardio stuff.
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@mariner4life bloody gym monkey deserves it
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@voodoo @mariner4life if I could catch ya it'd be payback time lol!!
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