Let's try again...
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Tonight I got back into the push-ups - back to Week 4 Day 1:<br />
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Set 1: 21 ok.<br />
Set 2: 25 ok with a rest at the top on 17<br />
Set 3: 21 ok, with rest at bottom on 12 and 17<br />
Set 4: 21 ok with rest at bottom on 12, 15, 18<br />
Set 5: 12 ok, 20 on knees.<br />
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On Wednesday I'm going to try the same day, but with 90 seconds between sets as per W4D2. Need to move forward with this thing!<br />
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Finished with myotatics and cat voms, with a bit of kata practice at the end to clear the mind.<br />
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Also, bought myself a little angle grinder at Bunnings t'other day, so I can start to think about making those dip bars in the garage with a little more panache. -
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Jesus man thats insane.  Pastries are particularly bad. Just fat and oil.<br />
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Couldnt you have just limited it to lunch and dinner?[/quote]<br />
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That was a pretty extreme day - no mystery how i got to 125kg in the first place. As I said, it gives me pause; I consider the DDO a genuine cornerstone of my weight loss, and would not be where I am today without it.<br />
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But there are long term ramifications to this sort of thing. I can well understand the shock my system was in for the next 24 hours, based on the output of my digestive tract and the sugar/carb hangover my brain was experiencing. Despite the fact I got the weight back, the implications for diabetes and cholesterol are serious.<br />
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I posit that at this stage of my weight loss cycle, I can no longer afford a Diet DAY Off, given the goal I have set (90kg by December 1).<br />
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Rather, I should aim for a Treat Meal as others do, and limit the damage to 5% of the time rather than the 14% I've been undertaking.<br /> -
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That was a pretty extreme day - no mystery how i got to 125kg in the first place. As I said, it gives me pause; I consider the DDO a genuine cornerstone of my weight loss, and would not be where I am today without it.<br />
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But there are long term ramifications to this sort of thing. I can well understand the shock my system was in for the next 24 hours, based on the output of my digestive tract and the sugar/carb hangover my brain was experiencing. Despite the fact I got the weight back, the implications for diabetes and cholesterol are serious.<br />
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I posit that at this stage of my weight loss cycle, I can no longer afford a Diet DAY Off, given the goal I have set (90kg by December 1).<br />
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Rather, I should aim for a Treat Meal as others do, and limit the damage to 5% of the time rather than the 14% I've been undertaking.<br />
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It must have been pretty funny to watch but yeah I think you took the concept of treat day a bit too far (:<br />
Still, the fact that your body reacted the way it did shows that you're doing pretty much everything else right. It can't be easy in Australia because there is heaps of tempting shit to eat over there. -
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It must have been pretty funny to watch but yeah I think you took the concept of treat day a bit too far (:<br />
Still, the fact that your body reacted the way it did shows that you're doing pretty much everything else right. [b]It can't be easy in Australia[/b] because there is heaps of tempting shit to eat over there.<br />
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Worst place to do that would be Hawaii I reckon. No wonder the shirts are so popular and come in such huge sizes cos there are heart attacks on a plate on every corner. Those Jack in the box burgers sure are good though washed down with 20 or so Budweisers. No wonder I arrived in the UK close to 110kg. -
Gave the sewer system a good working over aye!!? Goodby Mr Hanky the Xmas poo!!<br />
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ha ha saw your DDO details, I think you are definitely ready to head to a treat meal instead! -
[quote name='Paekakboyz' timestamp='1351561963' post='321642']Gave the sewer system a good working over aye!!? Goodby Mr Hanky the Xmas poo!!<br />
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ha ha saw your DDO details, I think you are definitely ready to head to a treat meal instead![/quote]<br />
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Mate i had RSI of the colon! -
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I think the weigh in for Saturday-Sunday-Monday was something like<br />
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94.9<br />
98.3<br />
94.9<br />
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I can relate to that exactly Nick!!<br />
Have my kids every second weekend and no matter how I try to monitor it by the time I drop them back on Monday the good work has been undone.<br />
Much easier now to get it back to a respectable weight after a blowout though.....<br />
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Congrats on cracking 95!! Its where I'm at as well right now.<br />
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Yeah now i want to grab 90 and kick the shit out of it. <br />
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To lean down to the level I want, i'm probably looking at the 87kg mark I reckon, which out of interest is still overweight (26.9) on the BMI scale, not that I'd pin all my hopes on that given my barrelsome shape. But under 90 is probably my comfort level before smashing the serious weights to chisel right down. -
[quote name='MN5' timestamp='1351542543' post='321557']<br />
Worst place to do that would be Hawaii I reckon. No wonder the shirts are so popular and come in such huge sizes cos there are heart attacks on a plate on every corner. Those Jack in the box burgers sure are good though washed down with 20 or so Budweisers. No wonder I arrived in the UK close to 110kg.<br />
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Its weird isnt it that in the warmest places where people are more likely to show off heaps of skin you get the fattiest food and fattest people. -
[quote name='Rancid Schnitzel' timestamp='1351585501' post='321718']<br />
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Its weird isnt it that in the warmest places where people are more likely to show off heaps of skin you get the fattiest food and fattest people.[/quote]<br />
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Easier to look good in a crowd of fatties <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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Bart - what is your non-comp body fat %? I don't have those kind of scales but reckon, based on the photo charts, that I'm probably still over 20% at my current weight and shape. -
Karate tonight, but wasn't too physically strenuous so did floats when I got home:<br />
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90s hold, 60s rest<br />
60s hold, 30s rest<br />
30s hold, 60s rest<br />
60s hold, 90s rest<br />
60s hold is where i lost it after that - combination of burning abs and lower back strain.<br />
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Still, 5 minutes of planking ain't bad.<br />
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last weigh in on my scales had it at about 12 something. Would be less now, and when I used to weight myself with those scales on the same days as nutritionist visits, where I would get the measurements and calipers done, they were usually 3% more. so would probably be about 19 or 10%, which rings about true as my Lean mass at last measure before the bicep blow out was 81 or 82 kilos. ten percent of that (ish) puts me to 90 kilos, and I think I weighed in just under 90 on my last visit to the scales!!<br />
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so lets say 10%, that sounds good enough anyway. -
Righto Bart - might get myself a set of those flash scales to get an indication of where I'm at.<br />
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Rode into work today - added a couple of km to stretch it out: 12.44km in 32:44 - realised after the GPS missed the last bit due to underground carpark.<br />
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Rode home again after: 12.49km in 27:09 - much easier downhill <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /><br />
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Had a bit of a cooldown at home then got into hundred pushups, figuring the legs were done so time for upper body.<br />
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Week 4 Day 1 with 90s breaks instead of 60s:<br />
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Set 1: 21 ok<br />
Set 2: 25 ok<br />
Set 3: 21 ok<br />
Set 4: 21 ok<br />
Set 5: 12 ok, rest at bottom, 4 more ok, then knees for 16<br />
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Not bad considering the ride beforehand. Did abs last 2 nights so will skip. <br />
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Friday night will be same program of pushups, no prior exercise, and 120s rest between sets. Feeling confident that this is the way to improve.<br /> -
[quote name='Rancid Schnitzel' timestamp='1351585501' post='321718']<br />
Its weird isnt it that in the warmest places where people are more likely to show off heaps of skin you get the fattiest food and fattest people.<br />
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Yeah pretty fucked up Rancid, obviously there was the odd hottie there but seriously, the place has gone bad since Tom Selleck strutted his stuff there. -
[quote name='Paekakboyz' timestamp='1351561963' post='321642']<br />
Gave the sewer system a good working over aye!!? Goodby Mr Hanky the Xmas poo!!<br />
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ha ha saw your DDO details, I think you are definitely ready to head to a treat meal instead!<br />
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Not meaning to HiJack this thread, but not keen to start one of it's own to ask this question.<br />
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Before I started eating well, I was SUPER regular, almost to a 5 or 10 minute mark (one reason I couldnt get up and go running in the mornings too) and a right clear out, now however I am irregular (despite eating fibres, fruits, water etc) as fark and can some days feel backed up.<br />
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No idea‚ but from a personal perspective, I'm fairly regular with my established diet. I don't eat a lot of fruit (high sugar) but the oats for breakfast and morning coffee get things going around an hour after i get to work <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Circuit work tonight - standard weights which I'm getting on top of at this point. Will go buy some plates this weekend - this is my vow!<br />
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All reps x 5 unless otherwise noted:<br />
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Circuit 1:<br />
Chins<br />
Hammer curl into bi curl<br />
Bent row into deadlift into shrug into military press (bottom to top}<br />
Neck set<br />
Lunges - 20 left then right<br />
Squats x 50<br />
Bent flyes<br />
Pullup x 3<br />
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Circuit 2:<br />
Chins<br />
Bi curl into hammer curl<br />
Military press into shrug into deadlift into bent row (top to bottom)<br />
Neck set<br />
Lunges - 20 right then left<br />
Squats x 50***<br />
Pullup x 3<br />
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Circuit 3 - decided to hammer one more out to go to the 30 minute mark:<br />
Chins x 3<br />
Hammer into bi curl<br />
Top to bottom<br />
Lunges - 10 left then right<br />
Lunges - 10 left then right (nota typo - had to start breaking them up a bit)<br />
Squats x 50 with 10 breaths every 10<br />
Pullups x 3<br />
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Took a 15 minute break, then did myotatics and cat voms x 10 to finish. Also realised I forgot my two lots of bent flyes for circuits 2 & 3 so covered those as well in a set of 10.<br />
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*** Might have been more than that - somewhere around 35 in the count Mrs TA walks into the garage and starts asking me bloody questions and I lost my place <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> I mean, they always say we're hopeless at doing more than one thing at a time, then they do everything they can to ignore their own advice. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/angry.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br />
