Let's try again...
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Got upstairs and decided to crack out 4 minutes of cat voms (12 reps) and do a bit of meditating after a fairly slack well of recovering from illness. Will have to start running again but first do my civic duty and donate plasma tomorrow. Maybe get out before Mrs TA goes shopping in the morning...
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Great. I hope you are sore tomorrow-and not just in the arms! I find that chin ups twist my neck/arms, so I focus on pull ups. I also think strict pull ups are great for giving the back correct posture, which is also good since many of us sit too long.<br />
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Are you doing these on a doorway pull up attachment, or something else? I do mine on the hillside, the bar's height is at fingertip height, full stretch, feet on ground, which is perfect since I can finish with some stretches for my back. How high is your bar? -
Bar is a 50mm piece of pipe mounted on two steel brackets in the garage wall. It's probably a bit over two metres up and about three feet long. I usually use a grip just outside my shoulder width but tried a little wider for some of the early sets, then went narrow again
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Gym today as I left work - 60 second rest between sets<br />
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[b] Military press [/b]<br />
6 x 20<br />
10 x 45 x 3<br />
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[b] Bench press [/b]<br />
10 x 60 x 3<br />
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[b] Pull ups [/b] - 6,4,3,3,2,2 - 20 total using 30 second breaks<br />
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[b] Dips [/b] - 6,4,3,3,3,1 - 20 total using 30 second breaks -
Where do you get a sore back? Upper, lower, mid?<br />
There are these cheap manipulators here, I used to use them (basically chiropractors), but since I've been doing pull ups + abs on the pull up bar my back has been much better and I haven't needed to go once. Years, so happy about that, I really had years of pain before the years of absence of pain now.<br />
Still wondering if the chin ups might be twisting your back, but it's just a random guess and probably wrong.<br />
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Left over from a bad SI joint - hips mis aligned causing issues elsewhere. At the moment the back pain is lower left, right in next to the spine, but I can feel strain on the left neck and shoulder when I'm doing over head press.<br />
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Its long term from a damaged left ankle. -
Kea 20 minute pull up program - * marks a "cheat on last"<br />
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8, 6, 4, 4, 5*<br />
4*, 4, 4, 4*, 4*<br />
4*, 4*, 3, 4*, 4*<br />
4*, 4*, 3<br />
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Total: 77 with 10 cheats. 30 seconds rest<br />
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Squats x 50. Minute rest<br />
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Lunge static right x 30. Rest 30s<br />
Lunge static left x 30. Rest 30s<br />
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Arnies @ 14 kg x 15<br />
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Hiked in the Blue Mountains today - some really vertical shit going on there including passing a landslide via cable mounted in the cliff wall! About 18 km in under 5 hours - the GPS got most of it OK.<br />
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90.8 this morning without really trying. School holidays and my turn to look after the kids - mini golf, movie, lunch at Gourmet Pizza Kitchen. Tomorrow I might head up the mountains and show them some awesome lookout action<br />
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Did my cat voms routine tonight after seeing the Chiro and getting some muscle release and activation done. Jeez it tires you out!<br />
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Got my next round of arse cam on Monday so a few days of light eating and some light exercise should see me under 90 by the time I've finished the prep... -
Pull up routine tonight:<br />
9, 7, 5, 5, 4<br />
4, 5, 4, 4, 4*<br />
4, 4, 4, 4*, 4*,<br />
4, 3, 4<br />
Total 82 with 3 cheats in a tick over 20 minutes<br />
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Minute rest, 25 pushups.<br />
Minute rest, 10 pushups as Mrs TA decided to come out to the garage and break my concentration with some shite.<br />
Minute rest, 10 pushups.<br />
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Minute rest, 10 Arnies @ 14 kg.<br />
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After failing to conquer my desire to sleep in the last few weeks, I finally dragged myself out for a run this morning.<br />
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5.02 km in 24:40 - the 5 km mark was 24:28 which was a new PB by 14s. Not sure how that last 20m equates to 12 s but I'll take it.<br />
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So, sitting here just after 6PM, having fasted all day for the colonoscopy tomorrow. Quite frankly I still don't know why I agreed to go ahead with my second one in 12 months, but then I have a feeling I should trust this surgeon more than the last idiot. He's a specialist in the area rather than the general numpty I got put onto last time. If they find some cancer I'll buy him a beer... not sure I want to shake his hand though...<br />
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But that doesn't make fasting suck any less.<br />
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My advice is, don't ever get in this situation. I like food too much to do it again, and I doubt whether it will do anything meaningful for my weight loss... at least until I have to get up at 5AM tomorrow and start slurping down the colon blow...
