Dissection Of The Funt
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<p>Sheesh, hug it out already!!</p>
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<p>There is <span style="color:rgb(40,40,40);font-family:helvetica, arial, sans-serif;">scissoring happening in your class!!? oh yeah!!</span></p>
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<p>I wouldn't let your weedy little Scots homo arms near me.</p>
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<p>Abs and stretch class this morning. Legs were still fucked from yesterday so any activity like bicycles or scissors was fucking hard.</p>
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<p>Weirdest thing today - went to rugby against my better judgement and my Second Grade side actually got up! Couple of blow-ins with talent, and some missing opposition.</p>
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<p>But I was standing up for nearly 5 hours straight - including running the line for First Grade - in between an hour's drive there and back. Now the very top of my quads hurt like a motherfucker. Something about stretching??? Or maybe walking around in steel caps for a few hours...</p> -
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<p>Weirdest thing today - went to rugby against my better judgement and my Second Grade side actually got up! Couple of blow-ins with talent, and some missing opposition.</p>
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<p>But I was standing up for nearly 5 hours straight - including running the line for First Grade - in between an hour's drive there and back. Now the very top of my quads hurt like a motherfucker. Something about stretching??? Or maybe walking around in steel caps for a few hours...</p>
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<p>I'm trying to decipher this post, you trained with them or actually played ?</p>
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<p>Can't recommend stretching highly enough so do it......mind you my legs and abs ( not that they're actually visible ) hurt like fuck after I have incorporated broad jumps into my workouts. I'm being dragged to Raro in a couple of months so doing my best to look the part physically even if the tan will be very "Celtic".......</p> -
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<p>Hope he was well - His Bobness showed up on the AB v Wales thread. Old skool</p>
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<p>Yeah MvJ is doing alright - still here in Sydney, still lawyering away. Still a good ref, overall.</p>
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<p>Gym this morning, short session as its a public holiday here:</p>
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<p>Chinups: 4, 3, 3, 1</p>
<p>Squats: 5 x 80kg, 5 x 100kg, 5 x 100kg, 5 x 110kg - will continue to work on the increases here but I reckon I could probably go 120 for a 1RM at this point.</p>
<p>Deadlifts: 5 x 100kg, 5 x 120kg, 5 x 100kg</p>
<p>Leg Press: 5 x 270kg, 5 x 300kg, 5 x 330kg, 2 x 350kg</p>
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<p>Fucked myself on that last set - first one I didn't think was deep enough, so I went super deep on the second one and it crept up at snail's pace.</p> -
<p>Muscle memory is great, you'll notice the old you will rear your head sooner rather than later and good on ya for starting the weights pretty modest as you get back into it. Far worse to be weak at our age and not having ever trained in the past. Speaking of which a mate of mine is in that boat, he's about 6 foot and close to 90 kg but that's mainly round the middle, he's pretty skinny elsewhere and has decided that since he became a Dad he's gonna get "jacked". Problem is he's damn near my age and his athletic "history" consists of a few games of tennis occasionally. The term "girl arms" comes to mind.</p>
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<p>Yeah I've been pretty lucky on the strength front, overall. Being a fat bastard I was always pretty husky, just because I needed to be in order to move stuff around.</p>
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<p>I hated physical work on the farm and didn't really get into any kind of strength training until I got to Uni - which was the first time I saw a weight machine up close - and started lifting.</p>
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<p>Part of getting older for me has been throwing away the bullshit lifts like benchpress and bicep curls, and trying to stick to the core stuff for muscle groups.</p>
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<p>I reckon in the next couple of weeks I'll be looking at the 120kg squat, and the 140kg deadlift if I keep hitting the 5 x 5 heavy lifts, mixing up with the abs / stretch session on Friday morning. But best to get legs out of the way early in the week!</p> -
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<p>Yeah I've been pretty lucky on the strength front, overall. Being a fat bastard I was always pretty husky, just because I needed to be in order to move stuff around.</p>
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<p>I hated physical work on the farm and didn't really get into any kind of strength training until I got to Uni - which was the first time I saw a weight machine up close - and started lifting.</p>
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<p>Part of getting older for me has been throwing away the bullshit lifts like benchpress and bicep curls, and trying to stick to the core stuff for muscle groups.</p>
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<p>I reckon in the next couple of weeks I'll be looking at the 120kg squat, and the 140kg deadlift if I keep hitting the 5 x 5 heavy lifts, mixing up with the abs / stretch session on Friday morning. But best to get legs out of the way early in the week!</p>
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<p>I chucked away the curls too but even though I haven't done them in ages I can still curl big weights on account of the chins I do, a few decent reps of a 30kg dumbbell recently.</p>
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<p>I don't mind dumbell press on an incline, because it brings the shoulders into it as well as the tris and pecs. But flat bench is something I don't enjoy because of my outside shoulder (fucked from propping) and have to do them with narrow elbows - which is actually better for you anyway.</p>
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<p>Had to drop the wife's car into the smash repairer today, and take the train back from up the road there. The nearest station is about a 6km walk so I figured I could use that instead of waiting for the bus.</p>
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<p>Even threw in half a km of light jogging (was breaking in my new hiking boots) and had no ill effects in terms of spotty vision. </p>
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<p>Total for the morning was 5.4km walking and 600m jogging, for a total of about 75 minutes.</p>
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<p>Mainly trying to get the eating under control this week to start the weight on a downward shift. Might have to start putting short runs (3km) back on the agenda this week.</p> -
<p>Up early for a bit of lifting:</p>
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<p>Chinups: 4, 3, 3, and then some hang exercises to improve grip strength</p>
<p>Squats: 5 x 80, then 4 sets of 5 x 100. Next week will move up to 110.</p>
<p>Deadlifts: 5 x 110 - I'm limiting myself to larger lifts for one set here, as I was reading subsequent sets don't do much if you lift big.</p>
<p>Bench Press: 5 x 50, 5 x 60, 5 x 60, 5 x 70, 5 x 70 - now, I know what I said about Bench, but this was just a check to see where I'm at compared to past gym attempts. Yeah, screw you.</p>
<p>Bent row: 5 x 50, then 4 sets of 5 x 70</p>
