Let's try again...
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Ate too much Chinese last night, but you just can't reheat honey king prawns so it was a community service.<br />
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Decided a ride was in order today - been a while since I hopped on the aluminium pony so I eschewed the sleep in and banged out just over 30 km in just under 70 minutes - 25.89km/h for those keeping score. Felt pretty good overall and once the summer heat dies off a bit I'll start doing some longer distances.<br />
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Not that I should complain: Hobart recorded it's hottest temperature on record yesterday - 41.8! When you have a seas side city at that latitude you know something is up. Going to be a big bushfire season...<br /> -
Been a bit of a slob this weekend but thought I'd remedy that with some quick weights at home before putting the kids to bed. Was using a 30 second break between sets.<br />
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Chin ups: 10, 8, 5, 4, 3, 3, 3, 2, 2, 2 = 42. <br />
Arnies @ 14.25kg: 20, 10, 8, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 6, 6 = 76.<br />
Bent row @ 50 kg: 17, 10, 5, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4, 4, 5 = 62. Have to touch the chest!<br />
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Shoulders aching nicely - felt a little nauseous even. Total time was about 23 minutes -
Was planning to run 5-7 km tonight but hit 4 and just quit. 22 minutes in, I just didn't have it for some reason. I've curbed the eating back quite heavily today so maybe that's it. Or it could be the fact it's about 28 degrees and 60% humidity. Either way, felt bad.<br />
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I've decided after 5 years at Woolworths that it's time to move jobs now Miss TA is about to start school (which was always the plan). So I'm dusting off the CV and getting ready to try and snare a pay increase, in addition to getting back to a smaller company. <br />
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Corporates have a lot of benefits, but quite frankly the place is beginning to suck from an IT POV. I'm sure the other nerds on here can understand that there is nothing worse than having your opinion dismissed out out hand, especially when you're the only SME in the room, or the whole division...<br />
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If you know me on Facebook, please don't bring it up as management have NOT been informed <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /><br />
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With the confidence of the new me I reckon it's not going to be as hard as it used to be. I certainly rock a suit a lot harder. -
Subject Matter Expert. I discovered I was one by default when everyone was amazed that I did something my previous employers would have considered not far above routine. <br />
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When I started doing the amazing stuff they nearly burned me as a witch. <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' /> -
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Hundred pushups Week 5 Day 1 again - using 90s rest periods<br />
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Set 1: 36 OK<br />
Set 2: 30 OK, 10 on knees<br />
Set 3: 20 OK, 10 on knees<br />
Set 4: 18 OK, 6 on knees - reached for the extra 30s rest<br />
Set 5: 20 OK, 20 on knees<br />
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Feel like I'm not making any progress here. Bit downcast.<br />
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I haven't had time to have a look at all of your training routine. But one thing that helped me reach 200 push ups was lifting heavy weights for triceps.<br />
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you should really be doing more triceps than biceps, given the size of the muscles...although the guns are always a 'must do' exercise and the triceps are often not viewed as important in an arm workout (generalisation)<br />
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60% humidity, pfft, I went running in 26 deg and >90% humidity a few weeks back.... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> -
I too have run in the rain
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Gym this morning before work:<br />
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500m row in 1:46<br />
Shrugs on the Smith rack: warmup 6 x 40kg, 10 x 60, 10 x 70, 10 x 70<br />
Incline dbell: warmup 6 x 10kg, 10 x 20, 10 x 25, 7 x 25<br />
Hammer curl dbell: warmup 6 x 10kg, 10 x 15, 7 x 15<br />
Bicep curl dbell: 6 x 10kg, then a set where i failed hard starting 3 x 15 then dropped to 3 x 12.5 then dropped to 4 x 10<br />
Bench press dbell: warmup 6 x 20, 10 x 60, 10 x 60, 7 x 60<br />
Hanging knee raise: 3 x 10<br />
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it werent raining bud, although you'd think it if you had seen me after....<br />
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Ouch, neck injuries are never fun! -
Chiro (new girl and very tidy) managed to crack my neck both ways so it can't be that bad. Still feeling a bit stiff tho. Will give it a break for a few days and then try again. She worked my right biceps very hard so I'm icing that up now. <br />
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With the weather running over 40 degrees today the temp is likely to stay above 30 tonight with a change coming through around 2am supposedly. Try to get a good night's sleep and see if I can run in the morning without too much discomfort. -
Didn't get out on that run and after writing up a job application tonight (and reviewing the CV for the hundredth time) I decided to work abs before bed instead, starting with floats:<br />
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Hold 120s*, relax 60s<br />
Hold 60, relax 60<br />
Hold 30, relax 30<br />
Hold 60, relax 90<br />
Hold 60, relax 30<br />
Hold 30<br />
<br />- Funny how when you're just zoning out not looking at the clock, it seems to fly past, but when you look up and see 1:45 that last 15 seconds burns like hell!<br />
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After a three minute break did myotatics and cat voms. They frickin hurt after 6 minutes of float action!
- Funny how when you're just zoning out not looking at the clock, it seems to fly past, but when you look up and see 1:45 that last 15 seconds burns like hell!<br />
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5 km run this morning in 25:35 or about 11.7 km/h. Not had fit the first morning run in a wee old while. <br />
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It was bloody hard not to stay in bed, but I reckon running first thing was one of the corner stones to my initial weight loss, as opposed to running after dinner. Gets the body going.<br />
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No two ways about it though - the journey to 89.9 from here is going to be at least as hard as it was from 115 to 95... -
Gym tonight - would have stayed longer if I'd know the prick from the UK wasn't going to ring on time... or at all:<br />
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[b]Squats[/b]<br />
warmup 6 x 50kg<br />
10 x 70<br />
10 x 70<br />
10 x 80 - really concentrating on getting deep with these and getting the legs nearly parallel to the floor before my heels start to lift.<br />
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[b]Deadlifts[/b]<br />
warmup 6 x 50kg<br />
10 x 90<br />
10 x 100<br />
10 x 100<br />
Last two sets I used alternate grip (one hand then t'other) and it seemed to help, but had to take two breaks to get my grip back in the last set. I reckon you blokes are right about straps so I'll see if I can get some from Rebel.<br />
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[b]Military press[/b]<br />
warmup 6 x 40kg<br />
10 x 40 - tried 50 but didn't feel safe<br />
10 x 40<br />
10 x 40<br />
Starting to run out of energy at this stage - I tried to get in some bent row bbell but shoulders and back were goneski even for 50kg.<br />
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[b]Bench press[/b]<br />
Warmup 6 x 60kg<br />
Then tried 80 and failed, so dropped back to<br />
10 x 60<br />
9 x 60<br />
7 x 60<br />
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[b]Chinups [/b](with knee raise for abs and momentum) 5, 5, 4 <br />
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Energy levels depleted rapidly before getting to bench where I usually don't have any problems with 60kg. Maybe my mind wasn't right. I'm finding that I go big for the first few exercises then have trouble sustaining the effort. Will have to work on that. -
An all over programme I used to follow years ago you would always be doing squats, bench, deadlift and shoulder press, but each time only one would be 100% intense and heavy, the other three exercises well within yourself - 60-80 percent and higher reps. it was good fun. Would also do one extra exercise for each bodyaprt too. Was a gridiron off season programme if I recall from IRONMAN magazine (one of those BB mags from many7 years ago at any rate.
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Yeah that's the kind of all over workout I think I'd dig. Might give it a go next week.<br />
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Went for a run this morning. Was 29C atmospheric but "real feel" in the sun was more like 32C. Clocked 5km in 28:42 which is a terrible time but it was fkn hot, 70+ humidity and my legs were stuffed from squats yesterday.
