Let's try again...
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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 />
I did 3 workouts for my tris, lifting heavy weights (4 if u include close grip bench). Big arms + small body = easy push ups -
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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Popped something in my neck during the bicep exercises so I may need to see the chiropractor if it doesn't settle down -
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.
