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Bones

Sooo...rugby training. 32 max allowed at a time and broken up into groups of 6. Fuck maths.

Anyway, I survived eh! Thankfully due to the numbers and contact restrictions the sessions are limited to an hour so groups can fit in. fluffybunnies half my age are fit these days eh.

Training was broken up into four stations where you moved on after 15 minutes, each with different games/skills/passing/running drills. Luckily my group had bronco last.

Aaaaabsolutely fucken pissed it down and of course this noob put his touch shoes by the door so he'd remember them. And he did! Halfway to training. Running around in old flat sole sneakers on sopping grass sucks shit.

Thought I'd finished the bronco a stage early, so take away the shoes and that pissing about and I think I could have easily gone under 6 minutes - ended up at an unofficial 6:38.

5km this morning was hard to get moving eh, ankles, knees and back don't like me.

voodoo

@Bones reckon you could have saved some words there. "I'm an old cnt now but I went to training, it was fucking hard, and I loved it"

Bones

@voodoo said in Fit at 41:

I loved it

I'm still on the fence.

Bones

Oh and it was about halfway through the "warm up" that I thought I may have made a poor decision. I'd already run out of space on my t-shirt to wipe my sweat so was prolly lucky it started raining.

Bones

7km yesterday, 3 and a bit today. Thank fuck for baseball caps otherwise my hair wouldn't allow me to do half of that.

Seem to be pretty much sitting just under 92kg now and noticeable body changes, especially around the midriff and thighs. What used to be a good pot belly is now more like a pouch belly and looks ridiculous though.

Rugby training again tomorrow.

MN5

@Bones said in Fit at 41:

7km yesterday, 3 and a bit today. Thank fuck for baseball caps otherwise my hair wouldn't allow me to do half of that.

Seem to be pretty much sitting just under 92kg now and noticeable body changes, especially around the midriff and thighs. What used to be a good pot belly is now more like a pouch belly and looks ridiculous though.

Rugby training again tomorrow.

92kg isn’t too fat. It’s not like you’re under 5 foot....or do you pose with midgets on FB ?

Bones

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

@Bones said in Fit at 41:

7km yesterday, 3 and a bit today. Thank fuck for baseball caps otherwise my hair wouldn't allow me to do half of that.

Seem to be pretty much sitting just under 92kg now and noticeable body changes, especially around the midriff and thighs. What used to be a good pot belly is now more like a pouch belly and looks ridiculous though.

Rugby training again tomorrow.

92kg isn’t too fat. It’s not like you’re under 5 foot....or do you pose with midgets on FB ?

6'. Or about 6'6" without a baseball cap.

MN5

@Bones said in Fit at 41:

@MN5 said in Fit at 41:

@Bones said in Fit at 41:

7km yesterday, 3 and a bit today. Thank fuck for baseball caps otherwise my hair wouldn't allow me to do half of that.

Seem to be pretty much sitting just under 92kg now and noticeable body changes, especially around the midriff and thighs. What used to be a good pot belly is now more like a pouch belly and looks ridiculous though.

Rugby training again tomorrow.

92kg isn’t too fat. It’s not like you’re under 5 foot....or do you pose with midgets on FB ?

6'. Or about 6'6" without a baseball cap.

Can't ever take the fro outta the Jew bro.....

Bones

Survived rugby training number 2. Realising it's gonna be a bloody hard slog getting the rugby wits back, but ahh well might as well eh! Reactions and vision (not eyesight) just not at the level of everyone else after so many years off.

A bit frustrating but being an unco fucker that's how any sport/activity has been for me and at least I know for this one the level I can get to, so will push on.

Another 4.5km yesterday too.

Right Achilles (at the base by the heel) really starting to flare up and really stiff when not warmed up. Hopefully just getting used to movement.

Bones

Tick for training number 3.

Right calf is threatening to blow, but managing to keep it under control so far.

Last couple of trainings, instead of the bronco, the drill we've had is 15 seconds to run 50m (or 60 or 70 depending on your bronco result), 15 secs rest, then back. That 3 times is a set. 3 sets the first night, 3.5 sets the second night.

Holding my own - particularly funny running alongside the (very handy) first five that's been there the last couple of years, mouthing off at the asst coach when told to work harder, saying he's tapering and he's old. He's 33. Pulled out shortly after when his hammy blew.

5km this morning and UB workout mid morning. Been lazy on those so last one was a week ago which made it that much harder today!

Drills and exercises luckily are exactly what I need to get back into it - all about handling and space, both on defence and attack. Sloooooowly starting to come back.

Oh and my knees fucken hate me.

Wairau

@Bones for your calf, put some tiger balm on it 3 times a day for 3 days and rest it =no running. Should be much better
that's what I did after last weekend when both calves were very tight and felt like minor strain. Recovered now I think.

Bones

@Wairau chur!

Bones

Well I rested one day.....

Body did love me for it and knees felt much better, calf seems good. Have picked up a tube of deep heat and will get that in regularly, Wednesday will be the day to see how it's coming along.

7km yesterday, 3km and a bit of UB today.

Feel like a weekend of steak, biltong, bacon and good amounts of booze probably hasn't helped the weight....but it was fun.

MN5

@Bones said in Fit at 41:

Well I rested one day.....

Body did love me for it and knees felt much better, calf seems good. Have picked up a tube of deep heat and will get that in regularly, Wednesday will be the day to see how it's coming along.

7km yesterday, 3km and a bit of UB today.

Feel like a weekend of steak, biltong, bacon and good amounts of booze probably hasn't helped the weight....but it was fun.

Na you’ll be ok that’s just good quality protein.

Biltong is the greatest snack known to man

Bones

Yeah I thought this shit was supposed to get easier?

Another couple of trainings, this time had to skip brief parts of the fitness drill each time as body just said nah.

Cones at 5m, 10m, 20m. Out to 5, backwards to line, down up and out to ten, turn and back, down up and out to 20, turn and back. That's one rep.

45 seconds rest between each of:
one rep
Two reps
Two reps
Three reps
One rep
One rep

Third rep was a definite no go. After the first two rep I was pretty much just walking.

Don't feel like I'm improving much on that front but at least seem to be getting some awareness back on the attacking/defending drills (that aren't shitty made up games that I'll never understand).

Bones

Riiiiight....18 days ago? Shit it's been up and down.

Ended up pulling out on rugby training two Thursdays ago after about ten minutes, body just said no. So also decided to have the following Tuesday off, which was the right idea.

So back last Thursday and just as tough as previously, had to ditch a couple of the legs on conditioning. Bronco last night and came in at 5:33 probably at about 90% so bloody happy with that. Really good drills last night and starting to feel like I'm getting some mojo back.

Gym is open! Stoked to be getting in some decent tin throwing and the hard work during lockdown has left us a little bit stronger but wit a whole lot more endurance, it's great.

Bones

Most gutting news...had to update my weight on Strava from 96 to 92. I was killing it in the 95-104 group! Now I'm a nobody

voodoo

@Bones that kills the calories burned estimation too.

Bones

@voodoo said in Fit at 41:

@Bones that kills the calories burned estimation too.

And there I was encouraging you not to top yourself the other day.

voodoo

@Bones your bumblebrag about cracking 92 was the tipping point

The Silver Fern

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