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@NTA said in Back for more!:
Skipped my run yesterday as I was a bit tired - last 2 days haven't done any exercise really except about 7km walking the last couple of days and a shitload of pressure cleaning the concrete at The Deceased Estate. Italians love them the concrete. Jeez. Must be over 100sqm of the fucking stuff. Anyway, it clean now. The contrast is amazing...
Waterblasting is such fun. Not many chores like that where you can see instant results that are so dramatic. (well maybe chainsawing down the neighbours tree)
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@Crucial said in Back for more!:
Waterblasting is such fun. Not many chores like that where you can see instant results that are so dramatic. (well maybe chainsawing down the neighbours tree)
I did some chainsaw work as well on trees that are just out of shot
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@Crucial said in Back for more!:
Waterblasting is such fun. Not many chores like that where you can see instant results that are so dramatic. (well maybe chainsawing down the neighbours tree)
I did some chainsaw work as well on trees that are just out of shot
It is kind of addictive...Ooh yeah! It's one of those things that once you start you need the wife to tell you to stop before there is a desert.
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Skipped Wednesday's run as I was probably just too lazy. Drinking a couple of litres of beer last night probably fucked up my run this morning - clocked 2km at 6:05/km then started to get vision issues and calf pain.
So I turned around and walked home using the shortcut. Not a great outcome but it has just been one of those weeks.
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
Stepped on the scales this morning for a first time in a while.
I may be slightly overdoing the beer side of things...
So easy to do.
I'm astonished and quite proud of my discipline during lockdown though, I won't crack one open before 5pm......I try to stick more to Red Wine though, less bloaty than the Craft beer I unfortunately love.
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@MN5 said in Back for more!:
So easy to do.
I'm astonished and quite proud of my discipline during lockdown though, I won't crack one open before 5pm......I try to stick more to Red Wine though, less bloaty than the Craft beer I unfortunately love.
Yeah I was farting like a demon this morning - the beer was mostly flat tho as I'd bought 5 litres at the local last week ($25) and not stored it in a decent container
But The Bourne Identity was on last night, and I was trying to dispose of flat beer, so I just kept going on the couch until I was sleepy
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
@MN5 said in Back for more!:
So easy to do.
I'm astonished and quite proud of my discipline during lockdown though, I won't crack one open before 5pm......I try to stick more to Red Wine though, less bloaty than the Craft beer I unfortunately love.
Yeah I was farting like a demon this morning - the beer was mostly flat tho as I'd bought 5 litres at the local last week ($25) and not stored it in a decent container
But The Bourne Identity was on last night, and I was trying to dispose of flat beer, so I just kept going on the couch until I was sleepy
Flat Beer is proof there is no God
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@NTA said in Back for more!:
@MN5 said in Back for more!:
So easy to do.
I'm astonished and quite proud of my discipline during lockdown though, I won't crack one open before 5pm......I try to stick more to Red Wine though, less bloaty than the Craft beer I unfortunately love.
Yeah I was farting like a demon this morning - the beer was mostly flat tho as I'd bought 5 litres at the local last week ($25) and not stored it in a decent container
But The Bourne Identity was on last night, and I was trying to dispose of flat beer, so I just kept going on the couch until I was sleepy
That shows fortitude and dedication. Now, about that running...
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@Catogrande said in Back for more!:
That shows fortitude and dedication. Now, about that running...
Flexible priorities. This week the drinking stops... Or at least, al6lows to a trickle
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@voodoo said in Back for more!:
@NTA fark!
Yeah it sucks. Can't work out if it was the exercise or something else.
I think, rather than backing off at this point, I need to start keeping notes on what I eat, how I slept, and the exercise I'm doing in order to try and boil it down to key factors.
When I was fit back in my 30s, the migraines went away. I thought they were linked to the heart surgery, but that hope has been quashed.
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HAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! I'm back.
Let's see: started going back to the gym during COVID and using my fancy watch to record stuff. Mainly my HR so I could see how close I was to collapse.
Mostly getting a few things back in order and setting goal weights on squats, deadlifts, farmer's carry, bench press, and chinup/pullup/neutral-grip-up. The idea being I'm on 92 caps for the club, and after breaking my stupid old arse in First Grade for 1 game last year after heart surgery in Feb, thought it best to at least get some muscle tone back with a bit of bulk.
There has been a little bit of road work in there but kept finding excuses to avoid it, which I really shouldn't as I'm sitting around 105kg at the moment. Little bit of migraine and a little bit of plantar fasciitis/bruised heel will curtail that...
Rugby preseason has commenced, and I've been getting into the aerobic stuff there. My last bronco is 7:33 which is the time to beat at the end of preseason. Ran that in 38C heat on Monday, so anything after that should be a doddle
Last night we did a fitness session in a trio - me with a couple of guys 10 years younger. It was a fun group exercise in that it sucked. From one in-goal:
- Player A runs to the opposite tryline and back
- While that happens, Player B is doing the exercise - pushups, situps, or squats
- Player C is in rest
- Now player B runs, Player C does reps, Player A rests
And so on...
Each group has to get to 150 reps of each exercise collectively. So reckoning on about 30-40 reps per run (diminishing) you end up covering a fair bit of shit. I ended up doing my own thing for a bit while the young fellas did contact, because fuck that when you feel like you're about to vomit.
After that I wandered over to help the women's 7s team train. They've got a couple of rookies this year learning the game and I'm not so fast I can catch them easily.
Average HR was 159bpm over half an hour, peaking 180.
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Gym this morning just doing my regular chinups, squats, bench, cable rows and a couple of others around shoulder strength. Tried deadlifts with the straight bar - I typically use the trap bar - and had a tingling sensation down the outside of my glutes and thighs when I engaged. Weird, so I stopped that.
Rugby preseason again tonight - Mondays = fitness training.
Another Bronco in 8 minutes which was after we had done a bit of warm up so I wasn't as fresh - top two inches need to be better quite frankly in terms of willpower to keep pushing through the burn once I'm into aerobic saturation.
Some wicked exercises including bear crawl pushing a tackle bag the length of the field in teams of 2. As the senior of the pair I did less of course
Tightened up on the eating today as I've been fairly lazy with it the last week. Might need to start 3km runs again to help the burn and increase the sprint type fitness for Rugby. Longer runs achieve fuck all for old props like me.
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Tuesday was recovery. Slept quite well Monday and Tuesday nights, bar getting up to piss like the old man I am
Tonight I was going to get in half an hour at rugby training BUT with the kids back at school and extracurricular activities, the evening is fucked up with both kids doing extracurricular activities right around dinner time and Mrs TA deciding I had to prep chicken schnitzel from scratch for the meal. By the time everything was cooked and consumed it was nearly 7:30 and Miss TA needs picking up at 8
Rush to rugby. Crack out a lap and some shuttles, handle some committee shit, and I'm done.FFS...
