Now or never: Taking it to the next level
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<p>Normally I can do a lot of them, but I was as sore as a rentboy's butthole yesterday.</p>
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<p>Tuesday: Wasn't going to go to gym, but kids got me to play some Star Wars Battlefront with them just after dinner. They absolutely kicked my arse and didn't half let me know it. I was so pissed off I ended up going t the gym to let off some steam. It was a very good session actually. Back plus biceps.</p>
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<p>Wednesday: Didn't do sheet.</p>
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<p>Today: Shoulders. Didn't have much time so smashed them. Feeling the good pain.</p> -
Friday: Am enjoying hitting the legs on Saturday so Friday is cardio. Didn't really have time for a proper run so did shitloads of skipping. 150 on ground then 50 on mini trampoline, followed by pushups to failure. Did that for a good 25 minutes and was pretty smashed at the end. Skipping is most definitely not just for girls.
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<p>Saturday: Legs hit rather well. Then tickled the arms rather aggressively. Gave a really nice pump during the entire weekend. Bit gay, but I really like a good bit of pump.</p>
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<p>Saturday: No rugby so we went down the coast. Hate to admit it but Northern NSW craps on the Gold Coast. Cabarita Beach is beautiful. Plenty of walking. Always great to get away for a bit. </p>
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<p>Monday: Chest and tris. Bit of a rush job so a bit meh. Did the skipping, trampoline thing in the evening.</p>
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<p>Tuesday: Back and biceps. Bit like above. OK but not the best session.</p> -
<p>All runs on the board bro!! </p>
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<p>Shit, been a while. Had an update last week but Surface went flat and then the server has been down.</p>
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<p>Weekend:</p>
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<p>Saturday: Morning gym session now which I am seriously digging brah. Legs plus serious arm tickle. Love this day because there is no stress and I'm not looking at the clock. I get home, have breakfast, then get youngest to soccer. That's now over for the season so I'll see if I can expand the Saturday training to jogging to the gym, training, and then jogging back. Gym is about 2km away.</p>
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<p>Sunday: Ran the line at rugby again. Final game and undefeated season. Very proud of the boys. Heaps of injuries but they still won comfortably. Game was bayside, so we went for a long walk at the beach before heading home. It's funny how kids bitch and moan because they want to get back to the devices, but when you get out of the car and hit the beach they suddenly love it and don't want to leave. Was a pretty poor eating day so did a skipping, trampoline skipping, crunch circuit before staying up way too late watching Olympics.</p>
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<p>Monday: Shocking day. No time to even take a dump.</p>
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<p>Tuesday: Chest and tris. Not heaps of time but a good sessions nevertheless. Chest is just so easy to hammer. Just drop weight on the bitch.</p> -
<p>Even more training today.</p>
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<p>Took kids to this free fitness class or something at the local oval after school. They bitched and moaned the entire way there, but of course loved it and I had to drag them home. It was great. There were about 10 kids there and it was held by this lady who looks like she must have run long distances at a high level for some African country. She was lovely, and had them doing all kids of intense but really fun things. I was just sitting there looking at my mobile, but she came over to me with a skipping rope and said she liked the parents involved. So I skipped heaps and then got carried away and started doing cross training with the bars at the playground and then did multiple laps of the oval and then some more skipping. The lady then called me over and we played sock tag, which is basically running after each other with a sock hanging out of your pocket and you have to collect the most socks. All the little bastards were after me so it was a seriously intense farking workout.</p>
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<p>Unfortunately this thing is only held every month or so. Might have to try and organise something myself.</p>
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Wednesday: Back and biceps. Not bad. Bit rushed.<br><br>
Thursday: Wasn't planning to do anything but went round to the park to pick up my eldest but he was in the middle of doing his own training: Burpees, pushups (badly), situps and stepups.<br><br>
I was proud as punch. So I joined him and we did some laps and sprints together. It warmed my heart.<br><br>
Friday: Didn't even have time for lunch. Just grabbed a handful of nuts. Could have trained later that evening but was absolutely farked.<br><br>
Today: Had a decent sleep and hit the gym for some shoulders. Hammered nicely but then I did something a little daft. The gym currently has this challenge. Every letter of your name is a workout (e.g. 15 pushups, 10 burpees, plank, jumpjacks). You have to do every letter of your name including middle names. I have 4 names! Twice it went from 10 burpees to 25 burpees. Rooted me completely.<br><br>
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<p>Ha!! I KNEW you were actually Fuifui Moimoi!! </p>
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Sunday: Heap of work around the house required so didn't go for run. Was actually sore as hell after the letter exercises so was probably smart not to do anything intensive.<br><br>
Monday: Chest and triceps. Wasn't feeling the love at the start but ended well.<br><br><br>
Tuesday: Back and biceps. Was ok, but had to get up at crack of dawn for some work and hadn't eaten anything.<br><br>
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<p>Burpees sounds like a fun name. This is not the case.</p>
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<p>They should just be called fluffybunnys and be done with it. </p>
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<p>I don't think any other exercise quite drains the life out of you like they do. They don't make you burp, they make you hurl.</p>
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<p>At any rate, I pussied out last night with some sort of tennis elbow so just did lots of skipping and trampoline skipping. Not the name game, but did the job.</p>
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<p>Today: Shoulders. The tennis elbow thing caused problems today and that pisses me off. Shoulder presses, which for me are an integral part of any proper shoulder workout, were painful and had to cut them short. Rest was pretty meh. wasn't feeling the love like I normally do for shoulders. Hopefully this elbow thing goes away. Might rest arms next week if it's still bothering me.</p> -
Tennis elbow requires rest mate. I had it for about 6 or so months and it just got worse and worse before I started seeing a physio about it. Got a lot of acupuncture on it plus rest (did a squat programme!) and learnt some decent warmup exercises for it (high rep light weight single arm cable pull downs) and some stretches. Took a while but as good as gold now
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JK" data-cid="608888" data-time="1472109838"><p>
Tennis elbow requires rest mate. I had it for about 6 or so months and it just got worse and worse before I started seeing a physio about it. Got a lot of acupuncture on it plus rest (did a squat programme!) and learnt some decent warmup exercises for it (high rep light weight single arm cable pull downs) and some stretches. Took a while but as good as gold now</p></blockquote>
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Thanks for the tips mate.<br><br>
Had legs today and really wanted to tickle the arms, but thought it better to rest them. If it's still sore next week I might (very reluctantly) take the week off from lifting with the arms. -
Saturday: Had a run for the first time in a while. Wanted to combine some playground pullups and dips but have to rest the elbow. Was a bit of a struggle because I seem to have a chest infection coming on. Bloody bugger. Hopefully its better by tomorrow.
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<p>Ugh, there seems to be a bit of man-flu knocking about the forum. Update your anti-virus software lads!!</p>
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<p>Good call to take it easy on the arms mate. I've been getting a bit of elbow soreness from overhead stuff and it's hard to be disciplined and let your arms rest! </p> -
Well there was plenty of arm rest today. No way was I getting up for gym. Snot in the head and chest today. Smashing the liquids, but I reckon this one will be around for a while. I guess on the bright side it isn't the gastro shit JK has recently experienced.
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At least the gastro passes pretty dam fast though. Sure there was 6 to 8hours where I thought I may turn inside and die but otherwise not too bad!<br><br>
Worst thing was the wait loss. Back under 80kg again which is a real bugger.</p></blockquote>
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Still feeling pretty meh. Low point was Tuesday. Felt like my head was in a vice and that I had glass in my lungs. Still, it has allowed me to rest the arm and get some sleep. Will hopefully hit gym tomorrow.
