Pushing Tin - Paekakboyz Training Log
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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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Two more workouts plus this evening. Prior stuff was mainly legs. Quite happy to get a bit more volume in at 120kg on back squats - and fronts went well also. Even snuck in some overhead squats - up to 70kg. Chose to do less mobility and warm up with weights on the bar. I find it works ok as long as I've rolled/stretched my lats and upper back. Just need to do a bunch more reps at lower weight.
Tonight was all biddies. Flat bench and incline bench. Flat went 60kg for 6 x 2. Then 8s at 70kg and 80kg. Then 10 rep sets at 100kg, 100kg and 110kg. Last rep on that last set was a grind, but I made it without a spot
Went light on inclines. 4 sets of 60kg for 10.
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oh, and in other news. Bubs #2 is due in early Feb. But a few (serious but not super likely) issues mean momma bear is in the hospital for bedrest. She'll be there till bubs is born which will be late Jan at the earliest... like, nearly two months from now!!
Ms almost 3 is doing ok so far, hasn't quite clicked that its long term though. We've got heaps of fam support but it certainly has added some spice to things. Feeling for momma bear as she's bored shitless stuck in a hospital room! -
Legs on Friday. Awesome wee hit out on my own. Front and back squats. Some overhead pressing, strict and push pressing. Some KB shoulder work plus a few goblet squats thrown in. Got up to 120kg again for two sets of 5 on back squats. Things are feeling better all the time.
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Solid chest session with some bonus back and core stuff.
Flat bench warm up - sets of 8-10 at 60kg, 60kg, 80kg. Then 100kg for 5. Then 3 sets of 5 at 120kg. Chasing higher volume at that 80-85% range. Felt nice and strong tonight - have been mucking around with my various set up cues. Finding that setting my feet then sorting my back/shoulders is working well. The foot position totally stops any foot fidgeting once you've un-racked the barFollowed up with incline press. Sets of 10 at 70kg, 8 at 90kg and 4 at 100kg. Failed on a 5th rep, knew I wouldn't be able to press it off my chest. Still find it tough to work out if fatigue is a factor from doing flat bench beforehand. In any case its been a really good addition to our chest day.
Close grip seated row and close grip lat pull downs. Four sets on the rows, working up to 4-5 three quarter reps on the full stack. Shame ha ha. Earlier 3 sets were heavy and around 5-7 reps though. Lat pulls downs were heavy enough to make 6+ reps super hard. 3 sets of 6 with a +1 deficit rep at the end of each set.
Then we did some planks and side planks. 30 sec holds. 4 planks and 2 rounds of side planks.
