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the shizzle => diet, training and injuries => power club => Topic started by: Mike Tyson on December 28, 2015, 10:09:36 pm
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Is this going to happen Simon?
I'm in if so!
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If not it will be under another name. Official start for me will be first day back at work (5th Jan) and finish 2 Feb when I fly to the Alps for a week.
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Makes sense. Weight loss focus for me this time. Currently 11.5. Aiming for sub 11 by end of the month.
Only rule is 30 mins of any type of exercise for every day of Jamuary
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I'm definitely in.
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January ain't January without the January Sharkathon.
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Makes sense. Weight loss focus for me this time. Currently 11.5. Aiming for sub 11 by end of the month.
Only rule is 30 mins of any type of exercise for every day of Jamuary
That might be on for me then, at first I thought it was one of these no alcohol jobbies.
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No alcohol? It's just exercising every day for a month, not something stupid.
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This could be of some help.
Who needs 30 minutes when you can get more results with just 12/16?
:dance1:
:boxing:
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Will be in on this of course.
Hoping I can keep it together with a week in Hawaii in late Jan.......
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This could be of some help.
Who needs 30 minutes when you can get more results with just 12/16?
:dance1:
:boxing:
I forgot the link...
http://www.t-nation.com/workouts/fat-loss-4-workout-protocol (http://www.t-nation.com/workouts/fat-loss-4-workout-protocol)
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No
Sleep Rest til Hammersmith February
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I spent 2 hrs on the bike and 2 hrs at the wall today, can I have tomorrow off?
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No.
Shoulda thought ahead a bit more shouldn't you? :ras:
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I can feel the Eye of Habrich bearing down on already and still have 22 mins to go
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I've resisted alcohol and cake for one hour and 6 minutes.
Happy new year one and all.
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Yeah cos shaming is really fucking helpful and healthy.
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I've been awake since half ten and not had a drink or any cake.
Yet..
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Yikes 81kg this morning time to lay off the pudding and sign up for January.
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Yikes 81kg this morning time to lay off the pudding and sign up for January.
Light weight!
Appears I have gone from a "Climbing peak" of 74kg in 2010, to a seriously troubling 90kg today.
Despite training 3 days a week until taking a couple weeks off for Xmas.
This age thing sucks.
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I'm in, partly because I don't want to let today's run and pull ups go to waste and partly because I still have half a ton of sugary Christmas food which I've no intention of leaving to go off.
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Well I've had two short bouldering sessions and walked for about an hour today.. But had a massive roast dinner and lots of G&T's...
Yin
Yang.
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Just noticed the interview with Dave MacLeod is up on trainingbeta. Does listening to it count?
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First day fail. Sat in a plane. Drank a bottle of wine.
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My first day of Sharkathon was spent pottering around a rather good bouldering gym in Munich with Muenchener of this parish. It was far better than my hangover should have allowed. Here's to 2016.
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I'm +3 or 4kg so I'm "in". @76kg this morning
So far so good. An hour's walk yesterday with Mum and GF (does this count?)
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First day fail. Sat in a plane. Drank a bottle of wine.
If t took at least 30 minutes you're fine. ;D
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So far so good. An hour's walk yesterday with Mum and GF (does this count?)
No worries. Training For The New Alpinism, Zone 1.
(You are Training For The New Alpinism, right? Apparently the west face of Makalu is a worthy goal)
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Managed to scrape 30 mins of walking yesterday, and some vigorous housework. Does playing 15 minutes of fantasy football count as well?
Popped on the scales this morning, makes for bad reading. 13 stone bang on. :spank:
Time to get keen, and get lean.
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So far so good. An hour's walk yesterday with Mum and GF (does this count?)
No worries. Training For The New Alpinism, Zone 1.
(You are Training For The New Alpinism, right? Apparently the west face of Makalu is a worthy goal)
I am now :great: Is it worth a read for the all-rounder? I'll not be doing nearly so much alpine stuff for the next year or so at least.
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Depends what you want I suppose. If you want a solid introduction to the principles of training for endurance sports, combined with some cool interviews with gnarly mountaineering wads, then yes.
I found it an interesting read but not *that* relevant to what I actually want to do, since my main focus isn't long alpine stuff. Otoh I do want to be fit enough to get through the odd long mountain day in the summer, so I do try to keep up some level of aerobic base training, and reading the book led me to shift my focus to quantity over intensity for most of that.
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Walked for 2 hours yesterday about 7 miles. Did 50 minutes on the turbo and 20 minutes of Thera band and back exercises today. But the other excesses continue.
Yesterday wine, Pernod and finishing off the White Toberone, I'm just on my first glass of red while the missus is cooking tea.
Does sex count although I'm not sure how you make it last 30 mins.
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Tough day training today. 10 min walk to get a takeaway.
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What was the takeaway?? This sort of information is crucial.
I'd love to get back down to just 76kg, have gone up to nearly 80kg in the last 2 months despite putting in enough fucking hard work (including double training sessions for 4 days before Xmas and two of the better runs I've managed on Xmas eve and day).
I missed yesterday (did a bouldering session on 30th and short run on 31st), but went for a short run and then indoor bouldering session today. Felt rubbish on both of them but it was sharkathoning regardless.
I hallucinated someone's post on here that was asking if they did two good training sessions one day would that allow them to skip a day. Did someone post that or did I imagine it?? Anyway I think that should be allowed, as long as it's just an adjacent day and the surrounding day's double sharking is two proper sessions of something. It's about the spirit of it not about exact numbers.
If people can post their general dietary progress / top-tips / current successful ideas, that would be nice.
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Thai.
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I'm 2 for 2...Depot session New Year's Day, and a 5 mile run today.
Not particularly watching the weight, food or booze intake though, this is more about getting the training habit going again.
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Thai.
You could argue that you Thai-d in?
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Did you Thai really hard on your walk?
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With a long weekend trip end of Jan and a Christmas weight belt to work off this sounds like an ideal opportunity. If I fall off the wagon or end January heavier than I start please heckle me (unless I can prove the extra weight is all muscle).
Weigh in on Monday morning will determine the scale of the task ahead.
Agree with habrich that the diet is going to be key so once I'm back at work I will try to log notable failures or (rare) displays of willpower too.
1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood. Playing with axes is fun. Counterbalanced by too much eating and drinking.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits. Still too much food although less bad than yesterday. Winding down the holiday celebrations.
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1st: DWS.
2nd: Hour and a half kayak in morning followed by a boulder in early arvo.
Hardly drinking any alcohol or eating too much either.
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I think people massively over-focus on exercise for weight-loss and don't pay enough attention to the dietary input side. That is made worse by all the faddy diet books that tell you calories don't matter, etc.
It is very instructive to get on one of those exercise bikes/ treadmills/ stair climbers/ etc, set it to calorie mode and see just how gruelling and tedious it is to "burn" just 200 calories or so - which is equivalent to a small flapjack, a bag of crisps, or a couple of pints (and the couple of pints mean you will almost certainly have the crisps and flapjack too - at least that is how it works for me). Unless you exercise very hard or for a large portion of the day, you are simply not going to get ahead of undisciplined eating/ drinking.
There's always someone who comes along to piss on your chips.
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As long as it's low calorie piss you'll be alright.
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Saves on the vinegar.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-35213536
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2 days down, two ticks (1 x weights session, 1 x core and theraband), in spite of awful weather even dragged the kids out for a walk this afternoon as cabin fever was setting in. Horizontal rain and wind, neighbours were just about calling childline. 13st 9.5 this morning, was 13st 4 two weeks before Xmas.
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Bravo Chris. On the path to Sharklightenment!
I managed another measly 30-40 mins walk with kids and GF, need to climb though.
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Yes but what sort of Thai??
Mmmm Thai is awesome. I reckon Thai salads might be quite healthy particularly if they are so hot your eyes bleed before you can finish a portion.
It is very instructive to get on one of those exercise bikes/ treadmills/ stair climbers/ etc, set it to calorie mode and see just how gruelling and tedious it is to "burn" just 200 calories or so -
Gruelling and tedious, most of my gym sessions involve a couple of those plus varying amounts of weights etc. However that's why I asked for personal pro-tips on dietary stuff... Then again this is the sharkathon so exercise is the focus right? Not just about weight loss but all the other myriad benefits of moving.
Anyway, one of my recent innovations is low alcohol beer. I like beer mostly for the crisp refreshing taste and the Sainsburys 0.5% one is actually quite tolerable and clocks in at 86 calories a bottle (somewhat better than the 500 calories Spitfire that Shark was posting pictures off) so you could do 20 mins rowing, have two, and still be in credit...
Also not eating huge portions, I have a habit of cooking too much stuff and it's often too nice to want to leave, but I'm trying to force myself to more these days.
P.S. Was approaching 80kg BEFORE Xmas, this was just after a wall session then a run then a shit and before dinner :'(
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1st: the 300 (no pull ups as at wall day before)
2nd: the 300
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Pad Thai. Most of a bag of prawn crackers too. Still - no booze.
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Gonna have to do double tomorrow. All I've managed today is a small breakfast & lunch [good] but mince pie for afternoon snack [irresistibly bad], soup and 2/3s of a small homemade pizza for dinner [good]. But no exercise [ except 3 sets of rotator cuff nonsense].
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2h ish of low speed meandering around bangkok. 2 plates of rice and something. Starving.
top diet tips:-
downloads diet app - my fitness pal or suchlike
aim to eat 1800c don't even bother counting exercise
cook your own food
weigh your portions of food
don't exceed 1800c
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and 2 large beers of course.
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What's with all the diet stuff? Train every day, or don't.
Been to the wall twice: bouldering with the_dom :wave: on Friday, circuits yesterday.
Feeling rather battered now so today is a light day: mobility / stretching / pressups and a walk in the woods with the family.
My circuit project at the wall that I originally thought it was ridiculous/impossible is due to be taken down tomorrow, and I'm close on it, so I might try to fit in a quick early morning attempt on the way to work.
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Does standing shivering in the rain for an hour whilst filming for the BBC count? It over-ran considerably stopping me from visiting the new Depot.
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It must be so hard being in demand for the media.
According to the BBC Hull is the place to visit in 2016 . Will you be honouring the city of your employment with a visit. ;D
Otherwise session on the board for 90 mins,40 mins weights and 20 mins of theta and and back stretches. Food and alcohol to excess still.
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3rd: 1hr 45min at the wall
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Muechener, I asked about diet stuff because I would find it useful. Habrich put his foot down about the importance of dieting because....he makes a twiglet look obese but also thinks that lettuce in the spawn of satan?? I agree exercise is more the point, but a lot of people are concerned about weight, justifiably or otherwise. I train a fair amount (only 5 days per week before Xmas tho) and am getting heavier not lighter. P.S. Fried thanks for the tips, not the sort of regime that works for me but useful for someone no doubt.
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2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - 3 hours Ratho (easy routes, got out of breath on some, according to harness have gained 2" around waist and 1" around legs since October, I doubt this is extra muscular thighs and torso from a few 15 mins deadlifting sessions per week), 15 mins run (grim but better than previous day).
A bit depressed and frustrated with it.
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Fair enough, I'm a bit heavy at the moment too and not entirely happy about it. Otoh I think putting on a bit of insulation in the winter is probably natural/normal, and the need to do so might even be cause rather than effect of our culture having a traditional midwinter feast (subsequently borrowed/hijacked by Christianity). [/gratuitous anthropological speculation]
Also: training heavy etc. Now probably isn't the time to be worrying about peak fighting weight. I'm strong by my standards at the moment despite being heavy, and looking forward to being just as strong but 2 or 3kg lighter when Frankenjura season kicks off in earnest in May or so.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood. Playing with axes is fun. Counterbalanced by too much eating and drinking.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits. Still too much food although less bad than yesterday. Winding down the holiday celebrations.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday, I think I've maybe bruised it somehow but I'm not going to fingerboard on it just in case.
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I'm 2 for 2...Depot session New Year's Day, and a 5 mile run today.
Not particularly watching the weight, food or booze intake though, this is more about getting the training habit going again.
Day 3 done today, inspired by the Gym Jones "SMMF" (or Single Movement Mind Fucks).
500 bodyweight squats. Done in 10 sets of 50 while staring at a particularly tedious bit of my kitchen wall.
Took 28 mins so planked for remaining time.
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Done in 10 sets of 50 while staring at a particularly tedious bit of my kitchen wall.
Genuine LOL, I hope you chose the most boring bit of wall to maximise the misery.
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Managed 1 hr of cycling to town (5mins), vigorous shopping for girlfriend's bday presents and cycling home (5 mins). Also cycled 3 mins to a café to study and 3 mins home.
Those are some skinny straws I'm clutching...
Might go and do 50 balance-board squats and some theraband in penance. :spank:
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Fair enough, I'm a bit heavy at the moment too and not entirely happy about it. Otoh I think putting on a bit of insulation in the winter is probably natural/normal, and the need to do so might even be cause rather than effect of our culture having a traditional midwinter feast (subsequently borrowed/hijacked by Christianity). [/gratuitous anthropological speculation]
Also: training heavy etc. Now probably isn't the time to be worrying about peak fighting weight.
..and remember folks..
Free food has no calories!
I won't break my training/exercise down into a daily analysis, but more importantly, this little lot for 75p from my local Morribunds (unbelievably, rrp was £16.98 :o ):
(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1703/23861405360_72f6c48da6_z.jpg)
Traditionally, extra large duvets were created for that sort of "deal" 8)
:greed:
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Is the Premium Scotch Pie "local" or "lo-cal"?
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Is the Premium Scotch Pie "local" or "lo-cal"?
Very good :P
The pie was a full fat 15p, so I'm gonna count that as lo-cal! However, I cracked, and bought a Christmas pudding for 1 pound, which I shall enjoy with lashings of brandy sauce (which was 5p instead of 2.69!) as just reward for my 1 hour 15 of running and core earlier..
not to mention 3 hours of DIY tonight, removing a cracked basin for the first time, without flooding the house :icon_beerchug:
Managed 35 mins of circuit work, a trip to Broomgrove wall (fingery traversing) - 2 hours, and a fingerboard session - 35 minutes, yesterday; a hard session on the local boulder - 1 hour, and bar work in the park - 1 hour, on the 1st.
I've been feeling understandably trashed!
I like to keep the wise words of the late and great Wolfgang Gullich ringing in my ears..: "Sometimes I eat so much, I can't breathe!". That's inspiration enough for me ;D
Good luck with yours, and happy new year 8)
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3h + walking around Bangkok mostly weekend market at low speed. Good food and regular beer breaks 3 large bottles plus 2 whiskies as a nightcap.
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Day One for me today as a quick check on the scales this morning saw me at 14st 11!!!!! Aiming to get down below 14st 7 by the end of the month then below 14 by the end of March in time for 40th birthday Euro road trip in April...
Aiming for 40 minutes in the gym three days this week, walking to work every day and at least two climbing sessions this week. Bring it on!
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Still on track - managed to sneak in some quick but tough hotel gym sessions and a hangboard after getting home this morning.
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Day one for me too today, 9 lbs added over Christmas :o
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Going to pass today as travelling but 7 days of sport climbing with the unstoppable Paul Reeve will more than compensate
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I forgot the link...
http://www.t-nation.com/workouts/fat-loss-4-workout-protocol (http://www.t-nation.com/workouts/fat-loss-4-workout-protocol)
That's the sort of thing I find useful. A general regime based on comprehensible principles that can be adapated to suit.
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Yes, it's solid gold!
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Day one for me too today, 9 lbs added over Christmas :o
To your fingerboard max? That's fantastic! Have a cake :dance1:
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May as well have two cakes and add a pound.
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20 mins back stretches and theraband stuff. 40 mins turbo. No alcohol so far mind it's only 8 o'clock.
12 stone 3lb yesterday I need to,lose about a leg or twos worth of weight.
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1st day on for me, one meal and T nation's 4 thingy, thanks Nibs. Probably just as well as the elbow is properly burning after pull ups yesterday. There's not enough room on the storage on the forum to put my weight, definitely need to lose some/lots/loads.
PS not had a drink today either - despite the fridge still being full.
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3rd: DWS and boulder. Big day.
4th: Abit of stretching and theraband stuff.
So much rain now. Prob drive back to Sydney today.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood. Playing with axes is fun. Counterbalanced by too much eating and drinking.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits. Still too much food although less bad than yesterday. Winding down the holiday celebrations.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday, I think I've maybe bruised it somehow but I'm not going to fingerboard on it just in case.
4/1 - weigh in at 75kg. Oh dear. Wall is all being reset so I do some pulp sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state. I guess I'm basically doing it all with weight added compared to the last time I was on these.
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2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym. Did Nibble's T-Nation ting for 15 minutes, tiring, ended up with a stitch and smelling of wee (?). Rested and tried to do another bunch but too frustrating with busy gym and unable to time myself. Will have to adapt it though I like the core principles. 20 mins rowing and 5x10 alternating renegade rows and very light c+j+ohsquat compound, more tiring than previous stuff.
Celebrated with 2 bottles of Becks zero alcohol @ 35 calories a bottle. Bogging. Will stick to Sainsbury's 0.5 Czech.
Habrich, 20 mins rowing is 200+ calorie exercise for me according to the machine, the other stuff felt harder. What's a good measure of pushing CV?? Maintaining high heart rate continuously? If so 15 mins running for me counts for a lot as it's cracking my ribs the whole way.
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4th: 1hr 30min at wall
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1.5 have walking about. More good but pretty health Street food. 2 large changs and a couple of vodka and cokes. Sorted out bus to the south.
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Snuck under 11stn at this mornings weigh in...
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So much rain now.
You have no idea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35209630
So far still on board. 3rd - Cardio about half an hour at home. Had a beer while making lasagne though, I really struggle to do any proper cooking without having some alcohol to hand.
4th - wall bouldering session about 2 hours.
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Cycled to wall with GF (casual) realised halfway that I'd forgotten my harness so sprinted back, then back again. (good 15 minutes of full power city sprint biking. 2 hours climbing, cycle home.
One glass of wine with the lass for her birthday. 74.7kg this morning. Better.
Fiend - if you like it hoppy Brewdog Nany state is a good'un for the 0.5% team. Also, Dead Pony Club is only 3.2% 118 Kcals. Tasty as fuck too. :beer2:
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I really struggle to do any proper cooking without having some alcohol to hand.
(http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/About/General/2012/9/20/1348140109793/TV-chef-Keith-Floyd-011.jpg)
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Day 1: Depot session
Day 2: 5 mile run - 47 mins
Day 3: 500 squatsDay 4: Depot session
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Thanks for those pro-tips Fultonous.
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So much rain now.
You have no idea
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35209630
So far still on board. 3rd - Cardio about half an hour at home. Had a beer while making lasagne though, I really struggle to do any proper cooking without having some alcohol to hand.
4th - wall bouldering session about 2 hours.
Ok so maaaaayyyybe not quite *that* much..... But still alot....
5/1. Drive to sydney. Work night. Work counts as training. :whip:
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Day 1: Depot session
Day 2: 5 mile run - 47 mins
Day 3: 500 squats
Day 4: Depot session
Day 5: Gym session - row / barbell shoulder complex / pushups / bicep curls
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Joining in now I've started climbing again and the Christmas hols finished yesterday.
Weight: 85.6 kg so using MyFitnessPal to keep under 1900 Cals per day to get to 78 by the end of March and then 75 by Summertime.
Cycled to wall for my second time climbing in 2.5 years and did eight routes on the self belay up to 5+ after warming up traversing.
23 days until El Chorro so plan to climb 5 days out of 7 or more if it feels OK.
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Walked to Packstation to collect copy of Lechtal Alps sport climbing guide. Walked home, read it and thought about nice cool, breezy high altitude summer climbing.
Does this count?
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About as much as me sitting on front of the laptop all day reading about Energy Resources and Policy. Time for some theraband and
penance squats :spank: brutal T-Nation FL4 :weakbench:
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood. Playing with axes is fun. Counterbalanced by too much eating and drinking.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits. Still too much food although less bad than yesterday. Winding down the holiday celebrations.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday, I think I've maybe bruised it somehow but I'm not going to fingerboard on it just in case.
4/1 - weigh in at 75kg. Oh dear. Wall is all being reset so I do some pulp sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state. I guess I'm basically doing it all with weight added compared to the last time I was on these.
5/1 - finger completely better. :dance1:. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
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Day 5 20 mins stretching and Thera band. 45 mins climbing
Day 6 20 mins stretching etc. Weight 11 stone 10 lb 7lbs lost in 3 days.
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5th: the 300
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1: 5.5 mile muddy walk.
2: Short walk.
3: Driving in driving rain.
4: 45 mins walk, 2 hrs fingerboard/stretching. No booze.
5: 30 mins walk, 2.5 hrs at the wall. Felt fat and weak. No booze. Serious DOMS and inability to sleep well!
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1st: DWS.
2nd: Hour and a half kayak in morning followed by a boulder in early arvo.
3rd: DWS and boulder. Big day.
4th: Abit of stretching and theraband stuff.
5th: Drive to sydney. Work night. Work counts as training. :whip:
6th: Big session at indoor wall. Ticked every new problem.
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I was always in. But now I'm publicly in. Goal: get more lean.
For unrelated reasons I've temporarily adopted a vegan diet, so I imagine my daily calorie intake may have taken a hit.
1: 8 minutes of tabata timing core workout
2: bouldering indoors
3: ab ripper x
4: bouldering indoors
5: 16 minutes of tabata timing bodyweight/barebell exercises
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For unrelated reasons I've temporarily adopted a vegan diet
I was going to invite you over for dinner but now seriously reconsidering.
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For unrelated reasons I've temporarily adopted a vegan diet
I was going to invite you over for dinner but now seriously reconsidering.
I can temporarily revoke my temporary veganism if necessary :smart:
Although it'll still have to be vegetarian... :ang:
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I was always in. But now I'm publicly in. Goal: get more lean.
1: 8 minutes
5: 16 minutes
The rules say 30 minutes. Back around.
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I challenge you to do a proper Tabata workout for 30'.
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I was always in. But now I'm publicly in. Goal: get more lean.
1: 8 minutes
5: 16 minutes
The rules say 30 minutes. Back around.
I challenge you to do a proper Tabata workout for 30'.
aw shucks, I've been caught out again.
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After a slow start 170m of climbing today I reckon
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14 indoor routes on self belay. This low calorie/0.5% Erdinger is suprisingly good.
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I was always in. But now I'm publicly in. Goal: get more lean.
1: 8 minutes
5: 16 minutes
The rules say 30 minutes. Back around.
I challenge you to do a proper Tabata workout for 30'.
aw shucks, I've been caught out again.
Chambers, my comment was in fact aimed at Munch, who said/joked that the 8 and 16 minutes Tabata sessions do not cover the 30 required minutes of the Sharkathon.
I've done some Tabata and I know that just one set is more than enough for me. Four endless minutes of hell on Earth.
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2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym.
5 - 2 hours indoor bouldering with auto-belay warm-ups. Unmotivated and grumpy. Skin was appallingly weak and soft despite looking after it well (rest days, not overdoing it, bio-oil). Noticably weaker than 3 weeks ago despite lots of training then Xmas rest then decent sharking.
6 - nothing, sulking about car.
Edit: Now got some 0.5% Erdinger hype, that's cheered me up.
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
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Now got some 0.5% Erdinger hype, that's cheered me up.
Is that a new very slim rope?
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week one
At least 30 mins per day mostly bike with one run and one rowing machine session. Plus two 2 hours wall sessions. weekly average weight was 81.2kg down to 80.8Kg so a pretty slow start but at least heading in the right direction. Also all the Christmas goodies have gone from the fridge so things might pick up a bit now.
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I'm four days in and managing it so far... Feeling yesterday's first proper gym session of the year today! Climbing Hangar tonight...
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Cycled to the Westway and had a couple of hours - twelve routes including two I couldn't get near on Tuesday. The comeback is on :boxing:
My leaving drinks from work tonight so my calorie count is off for today....
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Calorie counting is bunkum anyway.
Anything interesting lined up?
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2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
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7 - 2 hours indoor bouldering, had a laugh with Tris and ended up climbing a bit better, shirt off and fan on so my skin wasn't so trashed, I did end up with chalk in my anal beard though. 20 mins run inc 30 seconds walking, felt better than recent runs, I'm counting that as 30 mins for non-crips and thus compensating for yesterday's omission.
Apparently a triple shot coffee at lunch is the key.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood. Playing with axes is fun. Counterbalanced by too much eating and drinking.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits. Still too much food although less bad than yesterday. Winding down the holiday celebrations.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday, I think I've maybe bruised it somehow but I'm not going to fingerboard on it just in case.
4/1 - weigh in at 75kg. Oh dear. Wall is all being reset so I do some pulp sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state. I guess I'm basically doing it all with weight added compared to the last time I was on these.
5/1 - finger completely better. :dance1:. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall session. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall session. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Some time on the board. Tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
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Rest day tomorrow after three full-on days.
May have to be blackballed
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might have to rename
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Aim is to complete 30 minutes of exercise every day in January.
Any exercise counts from fingerboarding to yoga - even stretching, at a stretch.
That said, I didn't do last year because I was in Arco the first week and needed a couple of complete rest days when I got back.
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Still on track - 90 min hike in the forest yesterday. Woke up early to hangboard this morning but not feeling it.. Will try again later.
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6th: fail
7th: 2 hrs at wall
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Day 1: Depot sessionDay 2: 5 mile run - 47 minsDay 3: 500 squats
Day 4: Depot sessionDay 5: Gym session - row / barbell shoulder complex / pushups / bicep curls
Day 6: 30 min "Boot Camp" at gym then brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees
Day 7: Depot session on new V5-V7 purples, flashed a few and generally felt I'd tried hard
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Day 1: Depot session
Day 2: 5 mile run - 47 mins
Day 3: 500 squats
Day 4: Depot session
Day 5: Gym session - row / barbell shoulder complex / pushups / bicep curls
Day 6: 30 min "Boot Camp" at gym then brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees
Day 7: Depot session on new V5-V7 purples, flashed a few and generally felt I'd tried hard
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1: 5.5 mile muddy walk.
2: Short walk.
3: Driving in driving rain.
4: 45 mins walk, 2 hrs fingerboard/stretching. No booze.
5: 30 mins walk, 2.5 hrs at the wall. Felt fat and weak. No booze. Serious DOMS and inability to sleep well!
6: FAIL
7: 1.5 lacklustre hours at the deserted, cold, damp wall with negative psyche levels.
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Min 1h30 walking last few days. Watched some people top-roping surrounded by tourists taking photos. swam 5 mins. Still catching up from the night bus from Bangkok.
Not too much booze. Good food.
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
Succumbed to bacon roll this morning, as of Monday going cold turkey - no more crap food. No booze since bottle of beer on Monday.
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Chris, do those T-nation 4 minute things, using some form of squats for the leg bit, then switch to deadlifts. They'll sort you out for skiing.
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Day 5 20 mins stretching and Thera band. 45 mins climbing
Day 6 20 mins stretching etc. Weight 11 stone 10 lb 7lbs lost in 3 days.
Day 6 evening 75mins climbing feel like shit due to another cold.
Day 7 20 mins theraband and stretching. weights 60 mins weight 11stone 7.6lbs. I'm not sure why my wights going up again as I have been sticking to fairly rigid diet. Still feel shit. Must be not having any alcohol for the last 4 days.
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Calorie counting is bunkum anyway.
Anything interesting lined up?
Worked for me the last time. Using MyFitnessPal app to log food and drink. Not got anything lined up yet & plan to have three months off before getting stuck back in.
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Sounds good, come visit us if you are bored!
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Chris, do those T-nation 4 minute things, using some form of squats for the leg bit, then switch to deadlifts. They'll sort you out for skiing.
I'm always cautious of squats and things, my knees don't like them much, but will give it a shot.
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1: 8 minutes of tabata timing core workout
2: bouldering indoors
3: ab ripper x
4: bouldering indoors
5: 16 minutes of tabata timing bodyweight/barebell exercises
6: Tek Noe woody session
7: Nice walk in the Chevin with the gf...
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Don't go too deep. ooeeerrrrr :-* If your knees cant deal with squats how do they deal with skiing?
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Solid gold advice from the Bible.
http://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/a-calorie-is-sometimes-not-a-calorie (http://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/a-calorie-is-sometimes-not-a-calorie)
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Don't go too deep. ooeeerrrrr :-* If your knees cant deal with squats how do they deal with skiing?
Finesse, verve and panache
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering
8 - 2 hours gym, rowing warmup then various climbing-complementary / antagonist stuff (variable grip pullups, ring pressups, ring rows, leg raises, leg presses, dips, military presses, deadlift machine) and 15 mins cv to finish plus various stretching. Despite a power lunch of muesli 4 eggs and lots of coffee AND having the gym wristband match both my vest and shorts stripes, I felt dizzy and unenergetic, but kept with it.
Nibble, what I take from that article - amongst of a lot of theory - is: eat protein, lift weights. It would be nice to feel this worked :S
P.S. Shark better bloody well be going for a run / brisk walk on his rest day. Sheesh. Lead by example.
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P.S. Shark better bloody well be going for a run / brisk walk on his rest day. Sheesh. Lead by example.
Ha. I went for a brisk walk through the Verdon Gorge for a "rest day" once. With one small water bottle. Proper restful that turned out to be.
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Motivational film for y'all Sharkathoners.
http://youtu.be/D_IaG7FiGBU
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I'm struggling a bit with this years Sharkathon, even though I instigated this thread!
I've managed to do exercise of some description on my days off, but after work I am absolutely shattered and have done nothing. But.... My work involves physically slogging my guts out for most of the day (I'm a groundsman/tree surgeon, lots of dragging branches and humping timber about etc) so I'm not too worried about it.
I haven't climbed this year :( but I hope to rectify that soon enough.
I haven't drank alcohol this year though :)
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Still onn track. Weight is moving in the right direction too (albeit slowly).
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Fiend,
I think that a crucial point in that article is the underlying reference to ELEL and EMEM principles. Eat Less Excercise Less, or Eat More Excercise More. I linked an article time ago.
ELEM , Eat Less Excercise More, that is starting a caloric deficit diet and getting more excercise, is a recipe for disaster.
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I'm going for the EMEL training programme.
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I'm going for the EMEL training programme.
Exercise More Eat Less? ;)
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood. Playing with axes is fun. Counterbalanced by too much eating and drinking.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits. Still too much food although less bad than yesterday. Winding down the holiday celebrations.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday, I think I've maybe bruised it somehow but I'm not going to fingerboard on it just in case.
4/1 - weigh in at 75kg. Oh dear. Wall is all being reset so I do some pulp sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state. I guess I'm basically doing it all with weight added compared to the last time I was on these.
5/1 - finger completely better. :dance1:. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall session. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall session. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Some time on the board. Tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall session. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. I need to find a solution to this. Worked out more problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall session. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit uncap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
Weight sitting about 74kg now - a strong start to the week but have stagnated since due to work stress - my way of dealing with work stress involves comfort eating, and unfortunately fruit just isn't as good as chocolate coated peanuts and things like that.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - 2/3 hours bouldering Ratho. Warmed up fairly efficiently and trying some harder problems - actually felt slightly less weak than before Xmas, and skin was okay. Shocking. Maybe being well primed after yesterday's gym? Maybe tweaking my diet to have one less egg, a bonus pear and better quality coffee at lunch? Or maybe just confirmation that I can only climb okay if I've had 6 days training in the last week?
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Fri - Tired and a bit hungover after works leaving drinks. Went for a walk in the afternoon.
Sat - Two hours volume bouldering.
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10/10
1. Wall: bouldering
2. Wall: circuits
3. Mobility & bodyweight exercises
4. Wall: circuits
5. Kettlebells
6. Wall: routes
7. Core, shoulders, elbows
8. Beastmaker
9. Stretching
10. Wall: bouldering
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Slightly late the party but so far (almost) so good;
1. 900m cold water outdoor swimming
2. 6km run
3. 4km run
4. 7km run
5. 0
6. 6km run
7. 5km run
8. 0
9. 4km run and 2 hours indoor bouldering
10. 16km run
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday.
4/1 - weigh in at 75kg. Oh dear. Wall is all being reset so I do some pullup sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state. I guess I'm basically doing it all with weight added compared to the last time I was on these.
5/1 - finger completely better. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Board. Then tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. Problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit ancap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
Weight sitting about 74kg now - a strong start to the week but have stagnated since due to work stress - my way of dealing with work stress involves comfort eating, and unfortunately fruit just isn't as good as chocolate coated peanuts and things like that.
10/1 - Cuttings. Some easier routes and a few goes on Hall of Mirrors. Got it in two but knee a bit sore so didn't have that extra go.
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I've managed to do exercise of some description on my days off, but after work I am absolutely shattered and have done nothing. But.... My work involves physically slogging my guts out for most of the day (I'm a groundsman/tree surgeon, lots of dragging branches and humping timber about etc) so I'm not too worried about it.
That counts for more than desk jockeying for eight hours then doing a half hour walk tbh
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1 - 5/3/1 - 5xBench
2 - 5/3/1 - 3xDL, Wtd Pullups, MED Hangs.
3 - Stretch and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
4 - 5/3/1 - 5xSquat, Max Hang, Stretching
5 - Skate Ski 1hr20
6 - Rest - Stretch and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
7 - Max Hangs-Lopez, Moonboard
8 - 5/3/1 - 3xBench, Core, 2 x 20 ARC
9 - 5/3/1 - 3xDL, Wtd Pullups, MED Hangs. Hungover, but got the workout done despite incredibly LOW motivation.
10 - Soccer game and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
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8. 20 mins stretching, theraband and a bit of walking to make up the30 mins.
9. 20 min stretching etc, 90 mins bouldering.
10. 20 mins stretching, weight 60 mins and cycling 2 hours 29 mins.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym. Rowing warm-up then vaguely similar arms core and legs as last time, just a bit less of it. Decided to punish my DOMS by working core and presses slightly harder. Tired. I think a light day of just going for a run would have been better, but it was pissing down, and the prospect of being a slacker like shark himself not even doing press-ups on his rest day was too awful so I had to do something.
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8th: 15 min run, 15 min yoga
9th: hour surfing
10th: hour and half at wall
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20 mins cycling every day. Not sleeping well despite lack of booze. 2 nights of 4 or 5 hours this weekend, bit stressed with Uni hand ins and Exams. Some yoga today (mainly for stretching and relaxation)
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1: 8 minutes of tabata timing core workout
2: bouldering indoors
3: ab ripper x
4: bouldering indoors
5: 16 minutes of tabata timing bodyweight/barebell exercises
6: Tek Noe woody session
7: Nice walk in the Chevin with the gf...
8: Lamp session
9: Long walk
10: Bouldering at Almscliff
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1st: DWS.
2nd: Hour and a half kayak in morning followed by a boulder in early arvo.
3rd: DWS and boulder. Big day.
4th: Abit of stretching and theraband stuff.
5th: Drive to sydney. Work night. Work counts as training. :whip:
6th: Big session at indoor wall. Ticked every new problem.
7th: Theraband work.
8th: Night boulder at Frontline.
9th: Theraband work.
10th: Boulder at Crumbly then 2hr train session at wall.
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Day 1: Depot session
Day 2: 5 mile run - 47 mins
Day 3: 500 squats
Day 4: Depot session
Day 5: Gym session - row / barbell shoulder complex / pushups / bicep curls
Day 6: 30 min "Boot Camp" at gym then brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees
Day 7: Depot session on new V5-V7 purples, flashed a few and generally felt I'd tried hard
Day 8: 500m row sub 2 mins then HIIT class at gym
Day 9: Fail...nothing, unless you count tidying up the bathroom floor tile sealant.
Day 10: Visit to scope out Depot Manchester. Ended up there for nearly 4 hours, most of it going at it like Richie Patterson's dog.
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
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8. 20 mins stretching, theraband and a bit of walking to make up the30 mins.
9. 20 min stretching etc, 90 mins bouldering.
10. 20 mins stretching, weight 60 mins and cycling 2 hours 29 mins.
I forgot to put on day 8 one and half hours vacuming.
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You must either have a very big or very dirty house.
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You must either have a very big or very dirty house.
Or be very very slow at hoovering...
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You must either have a very big or very dirty house.
Or be very very slow at hoovering...
Maybe it's just terrible beta. Have you tried working on your AnCap? Perhaps use a heel? Deadlifts?
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...brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees
this sounds truly awful. Good work :strongbench:
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You must either have a very big or very dirty house.
Or be very very slow at hoovering...
Maybe it's just terrible beta. Have you tried working on your AnCap? Perhaps use a heel? Deadlifts?
Or plugging it in ;)
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...brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees
this sounds truly awful. Good work :strongbench:
It is indeed. The guy that runs the class is a right sadist - he always refer to that particular protocol as "a little something different to finish off", but on this occasion I was the only person in the class who knew what was coming, so everyone else was looking at me strangely when I was saying "nooooooooooo"!
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You must either have a very big or very dirty house.
Or be very very slow at hoovering...
Maybe it's just terrible beta. Have you tried working on your AnCap? Perhaps use a heel? Deadlifts?
Or plugging it in ;)
4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, landing, stairs, hall, cloakroom, study, gym, living room, kitchen and utility room. I did think about asking my 18 month old grandson who is obsessed with vacum cleaners for help, but his vacum just makes a noise but doesn't suck.
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I'm in, partly because I don't want to let today's run and pull ups go to waste and partly because I still have half a ton of sugary Christmas food which I've no intention of leaving to go off.
I'm out, I still have an entire Christmas cake and 2x Christmas puddings to go plus the kickstart I was expecting to get by going walking in Scotland for 5 days turned into a two day return journey without even getting out of the new other than to fill up with petrol!
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Monday - 30mins Row (6350m)
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run (= 30 mins for normal cunts). Did it without any walking sections which was nice. Pace was a bit odd, possibly due to listening to Surgeon mix, thus a confusingly lower BPM than usual.
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11th: 15 min run, the 225 (5x20 crunches, 5x5 pull ups, 5x10 press ups, 5x10 leg raises (the vertical ones nibs suggested to n@w last year))
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11th 20 mins stretching, 15 mins walking round Waitrose.
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15 mins walking round Waitrose.
now there's a man with aspiration
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I wasn't sure which was being more active that or carrying my new quite heavy decanter in to the kitchen and then unscrewing the tight top off the whiskey bottle.
Maybe I should just say fail.
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Its dedication. I bet he'd only done ten min at Waitrose and then decided to do one more finisher lap to make it 15...
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The increased heart rate due to being in £Waitrose means that you did the equivalent of 30 minutes browsing at 8000m
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What's the conversion factor for laps of Lidl?
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I didn't include the distance I covered in needing to go in for a piss then back outside for a trolley.
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The increased heart rate due to being in £Waitrose means that you did the equivalent of 30 minutes browsing at 8000m
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/britains-cheapest-supermarket-waitrose-comes-top-of-which-annual-best-buy-rankings-for-own-brand-a6792856.html
Stick to their own brand stuff, pikey.
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Taken from the comments on the link above:
"study comparing 160 different own brand food, drink, cleaning products, batteries and sunscreens to see which represented the best value for money."
"despite Waitrose’s victory, Sainsbury’s and Lidl were still rated the best when it came to food, drink and household products."
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At least 1h walking plus a bit of light swimming everyday. Managed to climb nothing at Railay but my shoes in my bag made a nice pillow for the beach.
Back to realistic prices and decent Thai food.
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Some fashion tips for you Sharkathonista's...
http://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2016/jan/12/creed-rocky-spinoff-classic-workout-grey-marl-sweatshirt
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
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11th - 20 min walk
1 hour of nervously waiting to do a uni presentation, then 20 minutes of shaking like a shitting dog, 4 hours of sitting on my arse watching other presentations
20 min walk
15 min cycle to TCA
3 hours bouldering (felt heavy and weak, failing miserably to get up problems that I flashed a month ago - got a bit better at the end)
15 min cycle home
20 min cycle to friends for dinner (2 beers, one dram)
20 min home.
Weight resolutely staying above 75kg. Training More Eating Same (TMES)
Meh.
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Day 1: Depot session.
Day 2: 5 mile run - 47 mins.Day 3: 500 squats.
Day 4: Depot session.
Day 5: Gym session - row / barbell shoulder complex / pushups / bicep curls.
Day 6: 30 min "Boot Camp" at gym then brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees.
Day 7: Depot session on new V5-V7 purples, flashed a few and generally felt I'd tried hard.
Day 8: 500m row sub 2 mins then HIIT class at gym.
Day 9: Fail...nothing, unless you count tidying up the bathroom floor tile sealant.
Day 10: Visit to scope out Depot Manchester. Ended up there for nearly 4 hours, most of it going at it like Richie Patterson's dog.
Day 11: Depot session after work - despite feeling totally battered climbed OK, knocked off a couple of the V5-V7 purples.
Day 12: Feel like I've been hit by a bus. No chance I'm doing anything today!
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Keeping up so far...
First Pilates session of the year yesterday. Expecting to be fairly crippled by 2pm today :weakbench:
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I managed a 30 min run last night, legs are aching today but off to Durham wall tonight to boulder the shit out of boulder problems with other boulderists.
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Tue - Wall 2 hrs. V2 30 move circuit X 6 plus some easy warmup bouldering.
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12th: 30 min cycling, 2hrs at wall
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12th 20 mins stretching.90 mins bouldering.
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12th 20 mins stretching.90 mins bouldering.
No supermarket action? Call yourself an athlete. Pah.
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you've not seen the private bouldering and spa facility in the East Riding Waitrose, have you Tom?
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Is it over yet?!
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1st: DWS.
2nd: Hour and a half kayak in morning followed by a boulder in early arvo.
3rd: DWS and boulder. Big day.
4th: Abit of stretching and theraband stuff.
5th: Drive to sydney. Work night. Work counts as training. :whip:
6th: Big session at indoor wall. Ticked every new problem.
7th: Theraband work.
8th: Night boulder at Frontline.
9th: Theraband work.
10th: Boulder at Crumbly then 2hr train session at wall.
11th: 45min climb lapping problems.
12th: 3hr climb and training. Hard session.
13th: Theraband work.
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12th 20 mins stretching.90 mins bouldering.
No supermarket action? Call yourself an athlete. Pah.
I did light the woodburner and carry some wood in to the house. Also I had to make my own salad. Its tough being this dedicated.
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you've not seen the private bouldering and spa facility in the East Riding Waitrose, have you Tom?
I've been to the East Riding Waitrose - and the nearest thing to spa and bouldering facility looked like some staff having a fag by the bins around the back.
Though I understand that Webbo has moved south of the Humber - so possibly such things exist in plush NE Lincs.
Though frankly I'm disgusted that a loyal Waitrose customer like Webbo - who sweats - his way around a 30 min supermarket workout HAS TO MAKE HIS OWN SALAD! What kind of Dickensian workhouse style society are we living in nowadays?
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I'm afraid you are so out of date as NE Lincs is past history. I have been a resident of the East Riding since December 2015 we had to move back due to the fact the nearest Waitrose was in the East Riding.
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Day 1: Depot session.
Day 2: 5 mile run - 47 mins
Day 3: 500 squats.
Day 4: Depot session.
Day 5: Gym session - row / barbell shoulder complex / pushups / bicep curls.
Day 6: 30 min "Boot Camp" at gym then brutal finisher of 10 jumping squats, then 9 jumping squats / 1 burpee, then 8 jumping squats / 2 burpees etc until round the houses to 10 burpees.
Day 7: Depot session on new V5-V7 purples, flashed a few and generally felt I'd tried hard.
Day 8: 500m row sub 2 mins then HIIT class at gym.
Day 9: Fail...nothing, unless you count tidying up the bathroom floor tile sealant.
Day 10: Visit to scope out Depot Manchester. Ended up there for nearly 4 hours, most of it going at it like Richie Patterson's dog.
Day 11: Depot session after work - despite feeling totally battered climbed OK, knocked off a couple of the V5-V7 purples.
Day 12: Feel like I've been hit by a bus. No chance I'm doing anything today!
Day 13: 500m row, last 250m at sub 1:45 pace then 4 x 5 barbell shoulder complex (press, upright row and bent over row) @ 20kg then 3 x 8 BW DL and 2 x 85kg DL.
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Still on track, despite Cape Town being 30+ degrees celsius at the moment, which makes bouldering rather unpleasant.
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Still on track, despite Cape Town being 30+ degrees celsius at the moment, which makes bouldering rather unpleasant.
I could do with that right now, combined with a lazy summer swell and some longboarding at Muizenburg.
1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worryoing clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
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13. 20 mins stretching. 50 mins turbo average heart rate 138, max 171 calories burnt 509. Made own salad again.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - 2 hours indoor bouldering. Rubbish and depressed for half the session, couldn't even do the moves on a circuit traverse I did in overlapping halves before. Skin utterly terrible, warming up any edgy hold felt like my fingertips were trapped in an ice-cold vice and then had 80kg of obesity dragging them slowly out. Eventually did okay but felt like I'd lost the benefits of one full week's training in just one day off. 1 hour / 4 miles walk there and back, boring, maybe compensates for yesterday.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday.
4/1 - Wall is all being reset so I do some pullup sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state.
5/1 - finger completely better. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Board. Then tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. Problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit ancap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
10/1 - Cuttings. Some easier routes and a few goes on Hall of Mirrors. Got it in two but knee a bit sore so didn't have that extra go.
11/1 - went out at lunch for a walk - about an hour. Otherwise rest
12/1 - wall. Board session. Progress on projects. Rammed! Need these New Years Resolution folk to get bored of it! Wide pulls ad bottom pulls.
13/1 am - fingerboard2. Double pullups on a 19mm edge at 95.5kg. Improvement over last time. Last set tried to upgrade to 96.6kg, managed 1 pullup but not a second.
13/1 pm - wall. Tried linked boulders, managed a solid first circuit, stepped up the difficulty a bit. However, it was making my elbows sore so I went home and did rehab.
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Wed - 30 minute row this morning (6.5k) then routes at the wall this evening. My regular climbing partner Martin was down so it was nice to have a partner. Tied on to the sharp end for the first time and was pleased to find myself very relaxed leading again.
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1: 8 minutes of tabata timing core workout
2: bouldering indoors
3: ab ripper x
4: bouldering indoors
5: 16 minutes of tabata timing bodyweight/barebell exercises
6: Tek Noe woody session
7: Nice walk in the Chevin with the gf...
8: Lamp session
9: Long walk
10: Bouldering at Almscliff
11: Indoors, easy session
12: Nibile's T-nation ting. 15 minutes.
13: Indoors, playing on the 50.
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13. 20 mins stretching. 50 mins turbo average heart rate 138, max 171 calories burnt 509. Made own salad again.
By making your own salad, do you mean taking it out of the packet and putting it in a bowl?
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13th: 1hr at wall
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13. 20 mins stretching. 50 mins turbo average heart rate 138, max 171 calories burnt 509. Made own salad again.
By making your own salad, do you mean taking it out of the packet and putting it in a bowl?
No I mean opening a can of chick peas, chopping tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, onions throwing them in a bowl along with some olives, humous and then taking some lettuce out of the packet and adding it to the bowl.
Given that level of effort its probably not far off one of your major workouts :2thumbsup:
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13. 20 mins stretching. 50 mins turbo average heart rate 138, max 171 calories burnt 509. Made own salad again.
By making your own salad, do you mean taking it out of the packet and putting it in a bowl?
No I mean opening a can of chick peas, chopping tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, onions throwing them in a bowl along with some olives, humous and then taking some lettuce out of the packet and adding it to the bowl.
Given that level of effort its probably not far off one of your major workouts :2thumbsup:
You're not wrong. It takes alot of effort to press the window down button on the car when ordering my drive thru...
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So it was you getting your windows blown out while getting a burger.
http://www.mirror-co.uk/news/uk-news/hull-m
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So it was you getting your windows blown out while getting a burger.
http://www.mirror-co.uk/news/uk-news/hull-m
Naa - living in the posh bit of Hull I only use the drive thru muesli bar on Princes Ave.
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There are no posh bits of Hull.
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Still on track, despite Cape Town being 30+ degrees celsius at the moment, which makes bouldering rather unpleasant.
I could do with that right now, combined with a lazy summer swell and some longboarding at Muizenburg.
If only that were the case - the South East is howling and has reduced any chance of surf pretty much anywhere accessible to almost nothing.
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So it was you getting your windows blown out while getting a burger.
http://www.mirror-co.uk/news/uk-news/hull-m
I'd probably start shooting people if everyone knew me as "Windass"
Officers say Windass is helping them with their inquiries
must be a mate of Johnny Fartpants
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There are no posh bits of Hull.
Its all relative.. anyway, how come you're back on the North Bank? Been run out of town, tarred and feathered with all your possessions packed into a waitrose bag? ;)
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There are no posh bits of Hull.
Its all relative.. anyway, how come you're back on the North Bank? Been run out of town, tarred and feathered with all your possessions packed into a waitrose bag? ;)
The missus got fed up with drive to work and the idea of living in a 17th century cottage may seem ideal but as soon as you finish one job, you find another to do.
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:)
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Felt tired today.... Had an hour walk.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - 2 hours indoor routes. Hooked up with randoms after a mate cancelled. Did okay, kept it steady and skin felt okay. 35 mins / 2 mile walk there, slightly less boring than yesterday.
Edit: Bavaria 0,0% , it was what coop had available. A bit more taste than other 0.0s but unfortunately that taste is too sweet, maybe a bit of sugar left in as it clocks in at 24 calories / 100ml compared to Sainsbury's Czech 0.5% at 17 calories, the latter is winning on taste. Still haven't got around to Fultoniouses suggestions, they are probably only in West End hipster supermarkets.
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14. 20 mins stretching. 1 hours bouldering absolutely freezing in the garage despite 2 heaters. Deadlifts using grandson 3 or 4 times. No salad cake and single malt instead.
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Still on track, despite Cape Town being 30+ degrees celsius at the moment, which makes bouldering rather unpleasant.
I could do with that right now, combined with a lazy summer swell and some longboarding at Muizenburg.
If only that were the case - the South East is howling and has reduced any chance of surf pretty much anywhere accessible to almost nothing.
Way shlorky connies.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - 2 hours indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym. Felt weak, used light weights. 5 mins rowing warm-up, 3x10 chest raises, 3x10 tricep presses, 3x10 pullups (desperate, felt heavy), 10 mins arm cycling, 5 x 10 sit-ups including 3 sets with arse of bench, 10 mins rec cycling (desperate, right leg so sore felt like a dead leg), 10 mins arm cycling, 10 mins rec cycling (less rubbish), 3x10 bicep curls alternation with 3x10 clean and jerk compound thing (had to sit down after as usual).
Struggling in general. Bad motivation and lack of general enthusiasm in and around me. The potential for moral support on here is okay but it's not the same as local friendly psyche.
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Why do you need friendly psyche? You a pussy? :boxing:
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Slightly late the party but so far (almost) so good;
1. 900m cold water outdoor swimming
2. 6km run
3. 4km run
4. 7km run
5. 0
6. 6km run
7. 5km run
8. 0
9. 4km run and 2 hours indoor bouldering
10. 16km run
No climbing and probably a bit too much eating being on holiday but still got some fair mileage in
11. 0 (travelling to Italy)
12. 4 hours snowboarding
13. 2 hour ski lesson, 3 hours snowboarding
14. 2 hour ski lesson, 4 hours snowboarding
15. 2 hours snowboarding
16. 0 (travelling back from Italy)
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15. 20 mins stretching, 40 mins weights.
16 20 mins stretching.30 mins bouldering at a freezing Burbidge North which ended with a crack from my Achilles/ calf area and the end of my Sharkathon.
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:o Ouch! That sounds worrying. Best wishes for a speedy recovery etc.
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Made it past the halfway mark
1. Wall: bouldering
2. Wall: circuits
3. Mobility & bodyweight exercises
4. Wall: circuits
5. Kettlebells
6. Wall: routes
7. Core, shoulders, elbows
8. Beastmaker
9. Stretching
10. Wall: bouldering
11. shoulder prehab
12. Beastmaker
13. mobility/stretching
14. Beastmaker
15. Wall: bouldering
16. mobility/stretching
17. Wall: routes (planned, not yet actually happened)
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14th: feeling ill but managed 15 min run, ie fail.
15th: 1hr at new wall in swindon (rockstar) new holds hard on the skin but some fun problems. Still feeling under the weather.
16th: 35 min cycle to garage, 2hrs at TCA for comp. Missed finals by 2 points, pretty pleased though, felt like climbed ok, especially considering how I was feeling the last couple of days
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday.
4/1 - Wall is all being reset so I do some pullup sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state.
5/1 - finger completely better. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Board. Then tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. Problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit ancap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
10/1 - Cuttings. Some easier routes and a few goes on Hall of Mirrors. Got it in two but knee a bit sore so didn't have that extra go.
11/1 - went out at lunch for a walk - about an hour. Otherwise rest
12/1 - wall. Board session. Progress on projects. Rammed! Need these New Years Resolution folk to get bored of it! Wide pulls ad bottom pulls.
13/1 am - fingerboard2. Double pullups on a 19mm edge at 95.5kg. Improvement over last time. Last set tried to upgrade to 96.6kg, managed 1 pullup but not a second.
13/1 pm - wall. Tried linked boulders, managed a solid first circuit, stepped up the difficulty a bit. However, it was making my elbows sore so I went home and did rehab.
14/1 - nothing really - usual walk to/fro work
15/1 - ditto
16/1 - Cuttings boulderfield. Ticked first Fb7 of the year relatively quickly with Terminator (7A). First of many, I hope?! Lovely sunshine to start but then really cold once the cloud came in. Watched friends and others on Nightmare Scenario and Fighting Torque which have gone on the list as things to try over the next few months.
Technically maybe still on for Sharkathon completion but my performance on 14-15th was disappointing!
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Still on track despite the rather brutal heat here.
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Shit Webbo - what's happened? :(
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17th: 30 min surf. Would have been more but temperature and domestic issues cut short. Not best use of a 4 hour round trip.
Also, 70 kg this morning - pissed off with that.
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Shit Webbo - what's happened? :(
I was pulling on heel down knee bent and something went crack. I thought I'd ruptured my Achilles at first but I think I've torn something where it attaches to the calf muscle. I did something similar about 10 years ago, although this doesn't seem as bad. I can walk well limp fairly pain free and stretch it a bit, so I'm hoping that that it should clear up reasonably quickly. Last time it took about a month to get back to climbing.
Anyhow.
17. 20 mins stretching. 4,000 steps or limps round Beverley according to the wife's Fitbit.
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week one
At least 30 mins per day mostly bike with one run and one rowing machine session. Plus two 2 hours wall sessions. weekly average weight was 81.2kg down to 80.8Kg so a pretty slow start but at least heading in the right direction. Also all the Christmas goodies have gone from the fridge so things might pick up a bit now.
Week Two
At least 45 mins of cardio each day mostly bike or run and three two hour wall sessions. Weight rather variable but weeks average is 80.4kg
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - 2.5 hours indoor auto-belay laps and bouldering. Mediocre, one auto belay line was down, the other two had only one decent mileage line between them (the others being bad climbing and too fall-offable). Had a strop and did a little bit of bouldering, felt weakish but not terrible. No skin loss.
Slightly less grumpy than yesterday as I have my car back at least.
P.S. Yes dense I am a bit of a pussy, despite being somewhat arsey I do value sociable vibes sometimes.
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Have managed about an hour of light walking the last few days. Today I dragged the bags from the seedy end of Hua Hin to the hipsterish northern end, had a hand-dripped Ethiopian coffee, read the entire 'serious delirium' thread and sat by the pool.
On a better note I haven't had a drink yet, but I will when I finish this sentence.
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Had my parents visiting for the weekend so had a busy schedule and didn't want to disappear off to the wall or gym. Did a few press ups each morning. On a plus note, I'd dropped 2.4kg since 4th Jan on the weigh in Saturday morning.
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worryoing clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
13 - Meant to do wall session, but got stuck and work wading through a tide of ill thought out shit (aka proofreading and editing) so only walked 20 mins from car to work and back to car.
14 - half hour weights and CV
15 - not much, spent the evening digging out ski kit, finding stuff unused since last winter trimming touring skins, loading van etc. But didn't actually sit down all evening, so guess I was doing something.
15 - early start, drove to Ben Lawers, made it to upper car park (with snow chains) skinned up the valley and across to ridge. As we were ascending weather got worse; low cloud and snowing quite heavily (in spite of forecast). Due to deteriorating visibility we got as far as top of Beinn Ghlas (1103m - still Munro height) and decided it was pointless verging on silly to press on to the top of Lawers, so we descended the NW side down to the valley on great light snow which would have been fun if we could see anything. We dropped into the corrie with the intention of going back up Meall Corranaich, but by now vis was getting pretty poor so we skinned back up the side of Beinn Ghlas to a convenient level and then skied back down and carried on all the way to about 20 m short of the road. Horizontal distance covered - 6 miles. 5 hours on the go.
16 - feeling pretty broken, has run around in garden with kids in morning, and then to local park with kids, who had fun playing on the frozen pond.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym. Mixture of weights and CV with a fair bit of climbing related resistance and core work following Gus's advice, and some perving on gym chicks. Not an epic session but felt perkier. Still a pussy, whatever.
Cobra 0% - like Bavaria 0,0, too sweet and malty.
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18th: 2hrs 30min at wall, good session.
still 70kgs though >:(
on nights again now, going to be a tough week
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I am well and truly out as I now have a pot on my left leg. Went to the docs to get referred to the physio ended being sent to minor injuries who suspected a ruptured Achilles and potted me up.
Booked in for ultra scan tomorrow.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - 2-3 hours indoor bouldering. A bit of an odd session as the main room was closed for a bit so a long warm-up in freezing cold and a few desultory attempts on new unchalked problems before moving indoors and doing a bit better. Not great but not bad either.
WEbbo, sorry to hear, that sucks. I hope the prognosis is okay and at least the forecast is still dismal for the foreseeable future.
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I am well and truly out as I now have a pot on my left leg. Went to the docs to get referred to the physio ended being sent to minor injuries who suspected a ruptured Achilles and potted me up.
Booked in for ultra scan tomorrow.
Shit, sorry to hear Webbo, hope it heals soon
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I am well and truly out as I now have a pot on my left leg. Went to the docs to get referred to the physio ended being sent to minor injuries who suspected a ruptured Achilles and potted me up.
Booked in for ultra scan tomorrow.
Shit, sorry to hear Webbo, hope it heals soon
:( that sounds what like happened to Dolly last year
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I am well and truly out as I now have a pot on my left leg. Went to the docs to get referred to the physio ended being sent to minor injuries who suspected a ruptured Achilles and potted me up.
Booked in for ultra scan tomorrow.
Sorry to read that Webbo.... Wish you a healthy and speedy recovery. Check the Books thread for some good diversions.
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That sucks webbo.
19th: 2hrs at wall
scraped under 70kg
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1 - 5/3/1 - 5xBench
2 - 5/3/1 - 3xDL, Wtd Pullups, MED Hangs.
3 - Stretch and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
4 - 5/3/1 - 5xSquat, Max Hang, Stretching
5 - Skate Ski 1hr20
6 - Rest - Stretch and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
7 - Max Hangs-Lopez, Moonboard
8 - 5/3/1 - 3xBench, Core, 2 x 20 ARC
9 - 5/3/1 - 3xDL, Wtd Pullups, MED Hangs. Hungover, but got the workout done despite incredibly LOW motivation.
10 - Soccer game and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
11 - 5/3/1 Week 2 Squats and Max Hangs
12 - 5/3/1 Week 2 OH Press, Routes at Wall
13 - 30Min Bike
14 - Moonboard and Max Hangs(lopez)
15 - 5/3/1 Week 3 Bench, 90 min snow bike
16 - Routes at Wall, Light weights - Felt worked
17 - Soccer
18 - 5/3/1 Week 3, DL, Wtd Pu's, Max Hangs
19 - 5/3/1 Week 3, Squats, OH Press, 30 min bike
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14/1 - nowt I think
15/1 - HIIT class at gym, used heavier weights for the resistance stuff so a lot harder
16/1 - nowt much unless you include running round a soft play gym for an hour with Una
17/1 - as 16/1
18/1 - Depot session
19/1 - HIIT class at gym
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Still on track, but no idea how.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym. Warm-up then back on high weight low rep weights. Equal PBs of 80 bench, 100 squat (easily), new PBs of 160 deadlight w/out straps (just!), 20/arm military press (for shoulder impingment as per duncan's post on the subject), 20/arm bicep curls, vague pondering on flirting with the regular girl who looks like an evil russian princess, then various pull-ups dips and leg raises, stretching and CV warm-down.
Equal most fun I've had sharking along with #9, fun to be moving metal gain.
Also can predict:
21 - immobile with DOMS.
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Totally off the wagon. Exams, hand-ins etc. have given me shitty sleeps and no time for exercise.
Buuut, made up for it with Beinn Eighe winter climb on Sunday (3 hr approach etc)
M: 30 mins sycling
T: Skiing Glenshee
W: Climbing in Northern Corries (2 routes)
T: Cycling 30 mins. Going for an hour relaxing massage courtesy of the lass (for de-stressing porpoises)
Some fails, but some big days.
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18. Half hour mobility / stretching
19. Beastmaker
20. Indoor bouldering
21. Half hour shoulder mobility & forearm antagonists
Today was motivationally the hardest day so far. Which is odd given that I'm finally starting to feel healthy again after suffering from a ten day lurgy. Had good training sessions the last two days though, and a complete rest today would have been welcome.
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20th: fail
21st: 2hrs at wall with daughter (ie not too much done) 15min run.
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14/1 - nowt I think
15/1 - HIIT class at gym, used heavier weights for the resistance stuff so a lot harder
16/1 - nowt much unless you include running round a soft play gym for an hour with Una
17/1 - as 16/1
18/1 - Depot session
19/1 - HIIT class at gym
20/1 - arrival of inevitable cold so nowt
21/1 - nowt again
22/1 - nowt again
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worrying clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
13 - Meant to do wall session, but got stuck and work wading through a tide of ill thought out shit (aka proofreading and editing) so only walked 20 mins from car to work and back to car.
14 - half hour weights and CV
15 - not much, spent the evening digging out ski kit, finding stuff unused since last winter trimming touring skins, loading van etc. But didn't actually sit down all evening, so guess I was doing something.
16 - early start, drove to Ben Lawers, made it to upper car park (with snow chains) skinned up the valley and across to ridge. As we were ascending weather got worse; low cloud and snowing quite heavily (in spite of forecast). Due to deteriorating visibility we got as far as top of Beinn Ghlas (1103m - still Munro height) and decided it was pointless verging on silly to press on to the top of Lawers, so we descended the NW side down to the valley on great light snow which would have been fun if we could see anything. We dropped into the corrie with the intention of going back up Meall Corranaich, but by now vis was getting pretty poor so we skinned back up the side of Beinn Ghlas to a convenient level and then skied back down and carried on all the way to about 20 m short of the road. Horizontal distance covered - 6 miles. 5 hours on the go.
17 - feeling pretty broken, has run around in garden with kids in morning, and then to local park with kids, who had fun playing on the frozen pond.
18 - bit of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons. Some CV, weights and core in evening.
19 - short walk in morning to work, managed a bit stretching during the day, but left office at 9:45pm, so not much time to do much.
20 - 20 min walk to work and back. Bouldering session at wall. felt OK but knackered from previous day at work, and lack of sleep night before. Managed 2 productive hours, then hung about doing easy stuff and shooting the shit.
21 - 20 min walk to works and back. Some CV and core at home.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday.
4/1 - Wall is all being reset so I do some pullup sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state.
5/1 - finger completely better. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Board. Then tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. Problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit ancap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
10/1 - Cuttings. Some easier routes and a few goes on Hall of Mirrors. Got it in two but knee a bit sore so didn't have that extra go.
11/1 - went out at lunch for a walk - about an hour. Otherwise rest
12/1 - wall. Board session. Progress on projects. Rammed! Need these New Years Resolution folk to get bored of it! Wide pulls ad bottom pulls.
13/1 am - fingerboard2. Double pullups on a 19mm edge at 95.5kg. Improvement over last time. Last set tried to upgrade to 96.6kg, managed 1 pullup but not a second.
13/1 pm - wall. Tried linked boulders, managed a solid first circuit, stepped up the difficulty a bit. However, it was making my elbows sore so I went home and did rehab.
14/1 - nothing really - usual walk to/fro work
15/1 - ditto
16/1 - Cuttings boulderfield. Ticked first Fb7 of the year relatively quickly with Terminator (7A). First of many, I hope?! Lovely sunshine to start but then really cold once the cloud came in. Watched friends and others on Nightmare Scenario and Fighting Torque which have gone on the list as things to try over the next few months.
Technically maybe still on for Sharkathon completion but my performance on 14-15th was disappointing!
It got worse! No mental energy spare for anything after work this week, too busy.
17/1 - continuity training
18/1 - 20/1 - Nada. Exhausting.
21/1 - wall. Continuity. Ticked a board project. Felt strong. Progress on other things.
Weight gradually falling which I'm very pleased with given my response to stress is usually chocolate.
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week one
At least 30 mins per day mostly bike with one run and one rowing machine session. Plus two 2 hours wall sessions. weekly average weight was 81.2kg down to 80.8Kg so a pretty slow start but at least heading in the right direction. Also all the Christmas goodies have gone from the fridge so things might pick up a bit now.
Week Two
At least 45 mins of cardio each day mostly bike or run and three two hour wall sessions. Weight rather variable but weeks average is 80.4kg
Week three
5 days of 75 mins on the bike (but also 2 days of nothing over the weekend) three two hour wall sessions weight sill variable but weekly average down 80.1kg so still heading in the right direction.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - 2.5 hours indoor routes. Went for a gentle session and doubled up on routes to reintroduce stamina. Felt fine, could have done longer.
22 - 20 mins run (with 1 min walking in middle). Hard.
Doing okay this week. But still struggling to get my harness done up despite all this sharking. I think part of what keeps me going is burying my head in the sand and ignoring the fact that it seems to be doing fuck all for weight and fitness.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym. Short session but used it okay. Fair bit of CV, some core, some compound exercises, and a post-DVT/weight gain PB of 18 pull-ups (just!)
San Miguel 0,0 - not bad, a fuck of a lot better than the Bavaria / Cobra. Still haven't seen the Erdinger 0%, maybe it is a Waitrose exclusive.
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you tried Becks blue?
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Yeah had that a week or two back. Pretty bland. I've found the 0,0s tend to be on the bland side (naturally) or too malty and sickly like the Cobra / Bavaria. Sainsbury's Czech 0.5 is winning so far.
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Erdinger is the one. Although Sainsbury's Czech isn't too bad. I've found Erdinger in Sainsbury and Morrisons? £1.20 a bottle usually.
I started this thread, but haven't managed to do a dedicated 30 mins of exercise every day unfortunately. But I have kept off the drink (well technically Erdinger is less than 0.5%) and I'd say this is the longest time I've gone with out it in my whole adult life. That's scary.
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noticed any benefits from this period of abstinence ?
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noticed any benefits from this period of abstinence ?
I lost about 3 kgs when I spent a month off the wine last year. I still can't recommend it.
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The most noticeable difference has been in my facial skin, which has always been crap. It's a lot better these days, which makes me happy, but hasn't improved my climbing at all. Oh, and my bank balance is a lot better as well! I weighed 12st 13lbs on the 1st of January, I now weigh 12st 10lbs, so a little lighter too.
I'd hoped it'd be a revelation, and my climbing would shoot through the roof. But I've maybe been a little optimistic as I've only climbed once this year, and I've had a whole heap of other stuff going on like new house, new job etc. So maybe my training can start properly in February when I'm a bit more sorted.
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I'd say this is the longest time I've gone with out it in my whole adult life. That's scary.
I had a period in my student days when I would hardly drink at all most of the time, but when I went to a party I would take a bottle of tequila and drink it. Possibly scarier. Especially when I got to the point where i felt absolutely fine the next day.
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Erdinger is the one.
My experience - living just round the corner from the Erdinger brewery - is that "alcohol free" weissbier is perfectly drinkable, whereas alcohol free normal beer is just horrible.
I don't how it gets marketed in .uk, but over here some pedants are peeved that beer with 0.5% alcohol is labelled "alcohol free". But here's a report of a study (https://www.test.de/Alkoholfreies-Bier-Erfrischung-ja-Schwips-nein-4582953-0/) (in German, google translate might be of assistance) in which they found that drinking 0.5% beer had no measurable effect on blood alcohol level.
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Not sure how it works with the low alcohol ones, but Weissbier is normally very calorific - c.500 per half litre iirc.
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This reckons 125 calories per bottle. Makes sense, I suppose. A lot of the calories in alcoholic drinks are in the alcohol itself.
http://www.alcoholfree.co.uk/erdinger-alcoholfree-wheat-beer-500ml-bottles-p-118.html (http://www.alcoholfree.co.uk/erdinger-alcoholfree-wheat-beer-500ml-bottles-p-118.html)
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I bought some 0.5% Erdinger a few weeks back. It's really good and passes the taste test.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday.
4/1 - Wall is all being reset so I do some pullup sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state.
5/1 - finger completely better. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Board. Then tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. Problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit ancap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
10/1 - Cuttings. Some easier routes and a few goes on Hall of Mirrors. Got it in two but knee a bit sore so didn't have that extra go.
11/1 - went out at lunch for a walk - about an hour. Otherwise rest
12/1 - wall. Board session. Progress on projects. Rammed! Need these New Years Resolution folk to get bored of it! Wide pulls ad bottom pulls.
13/1 am - fingerboard2. Double pullups on a 19mm edge at 95.5kg. Improvement over last time. Last set tried to upgrade to 96.6kg, managed 1 pullup but not a second.
13/1 pm - wall. Tried linked boulders, managed a solid first circuit, stepped up the difficulty a bit. However, it was making my elbows sore so I went home and did rehab.
14/1 - nothing really - usual walk to/fro work
15/1 - ditto
16/1 - Cuttings boulderfield. Ticked first Fb7 of the year relatively quickly with Terminator (7A). First of many, I hope?!
17/1 - continuity training
18/1 - 20/1 - Nada. Exhausting work.
21/1 - wall. Continuity. Ticked a board project. Felt strong. Progress on other things.
22/1 - nada
23/1 - couple of hours walking out round Swanage and Studland
24/1 - wall. Ticked second board project, result! Did some continuity but it to too busy to really do a full set. Got to do a fingerboard session today too.
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I bought some 0.5% Erdinger a few weeks back. It's really good and passes the taste test.
Bizzarely on their website they describe it as an isotonic refresh!ent drink!
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym
24 - 4 hours indoor routes. Heavily condensed at Ratho but warm enough to train effectively. Did well. Flashed first 7a in months. Found myself able to contrive shake-outs quite well. Tweaked impinged shoulder taking in rope which was annoying.
BEER!!
Yes will definitely try the Erdinger - I do keep checking the supermarkets. My brother really rates Bavaria 0,0 wheat beer which I recall being pretty nice.
The low-calorie-ness is a major selling point to me, this one - http://www.sainsburys.co.uk/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/gb/groceries/sainsburys-low-alcohol-czech-lager-500ml?langId=44&storeId=10151&krypto=8yKAG96Acgxky%2Fb%2BeWdK1c5OOwomUIVhFTbRloeVceZ%2FKlA6JJOA%2FD7fz9guwWViL0Wbrrd7F0W9%0A9lSPdPIDsuSS%2FLeZHE%2Fzz8sXgfT64kFfB2o8q7gYq4nxhcgxfLmT&ddkey=http:gb/groceries/sainsburys-low-alcohol-czech-lager-500ml - clocks in at 87 calories / 500ml bottle. I've happy considering 0.5% as no / low alcohol, it really is fuck all.
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Currently enjoying a nice bottle of Giesinger, the fist new brewery to open in Munich is several hundred years and really rather good.
February Beerathon anybody?
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worrying clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
13 - Meant to do wall session, but got stuck and work wading through a tide of ill thought out shit (aka proofreading and editing) so only walked 20 mins from car to work and back to car.
14 - half hour weights and CV
15 - not much, spent the evening digging out ski kit, finding stuff unused since last winter trimming touring skins, loading van etc. But didn't actually sit down all evening, so guess I was doing something.
16 - early start, drove to Ben Lawers, made it to upper car park (with snow chains) skinned up the valley and across to ridge. As we were ascending weather got worse; low cloud and snowing quite heavily (in spite of forecast). Due to deteriorating visibility we got as far as top of Beinn Ghlas (1103m - still Munro height) and decided it was pointless verging on silly to press on to the top of Lawers, so we descended the NW side down to the valley on great light snow which would have been fun if we could see anything. We dropped into the corrie with the intention of going back up Meall Corranaich, but by now vis was getting pretty poor so we skinned back up the side of Beinn Ghlas to a convenient level and then skied back down and carried on all the way to about 20 m short of the road. Horizontal distance covered - 6 miles. 5 hours on the go.
17 - feeling pretty broken, has run around in garden with kids in morning, and then to local park with kids, who had fun playing on the frozen pond.
18 - bit of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons. Some CV, weights and core in evening.
19 - short walk in morning to work, managed a bit stretching during the day, but left office at 9:45pm, so not much time to do much.
20 - 20 min walk to work and back. Bouldering session at wall. felt OK but knackered from previous day at work, and lack of sleep night before. Managed 2 productive hours, then hung about doing easy stuff and shooting the shit.
21 - 20 min walk to works and back. Some CV and core at home.
22 - Nothing really, short walk to station. Got embroiled in photo editing in evening .
23 - swimming in morning with daughter, sat on train to Glasgow, walked around Glasgow a bit. At and drank too much.
24 - bit hungover, 30 min walk to TCA, fairly decent 2 hrs plus bouldering session with Fultonius et al. Walked half hour back to city centre. Sat on train and ate crap. Half hour core and weights in evening.
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22nd: fail (walked the dog in themud, doesn't count though). :(
23rd: 90min in pool with daughter, shes prettyy handy now so this counts.
24th: 2hrs at wall with daughter, ditto.
still hovering just under 70kg >:(
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym
24 - indoor routes
25 - 2.5 hours indoor routes. GCC so shorter and sharper, felt a bit battered after yesterday but did fine. Fingers got a good workout.
Now ruining it all with a Burn's Night haggis supper, but needs must. Diet Irn Bru and only a wee dram to finish. Went into a larger Sainsbury's, still no bloody Erdinger 0.5.
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25th: 90 min at TCA
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Took a mixed case from the place mentioned before down for my Dad at xmas who no longer drinks. Not sure about the calorie content but most were pretty nice. Not expensive. They have a warehouse in Manchester where you can collect.
http://www.alcoholfree.co.uk/mixed-case-alcoholfree-beers-various-sizes-p-213.html?cPath=2_12
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:great:
That's brill, here's for the link.
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26th: 45min run. Muddy, dark, and windy. Ugh.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym
24 - indoor routes
25 - indoor routes
26 - 2 hours gym. Felt a bit purposeless but still got on with it and did plenty of horizontal one arm rows inverted sit-ups leg raises ring pressups max weight shoulder presses bench presses and squats plus dips stretching shoulder exercises and the usual CV.
Obi-Wan alcohol free HYPE! Will definitely check that site out.
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worrying clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
13 - Meant to do wall session, but got stuck and work wading through a tide of ill thought out shit (aka proofreading and editing) so only walked 20 mins from car to work and back to car.
14 - half hour weights and CV
15 - not much, spent the evening digging out ski kit, finding stuff unused since last winter trimming touring skins, loading van etc. But didn't actually sit down all evening, so guess I was doing something.
16 - early start, drove to Ben Lawers, made it to upper car park (with snow chains) skinned up the valley and across to ridge. As we were ascending weather got worse; low cloud and snowing quite heavily (in spite of forecast). Due to deteriorating visibility we got as far as top of Beinn Ghlas (1103m - still Munro height) and decided it was pointless verging on silly to press on to the top of Lawers, so we descended the NW side down to the valley on great light snow which would have been fun if we could see anything. We dropped into the corrie with the intention of going back up Meall Corranaich, but by now vis was getting pretty poor so we skinned back up the side of Beinn Ghlas to a convenient level and then skied back down and carried on all the way to about 20 m short of the road. Horizontal distance covered - 6 miles. 5 hours on the go.
17 - feeling pretty broken, has run around in garden with kids in morning, and then to local park with kids, who had fun playing on the frozen pond.
18 - bit of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons. Some CV, weights and core in evening.
19 - short walk in morning to work, managed a bit stretching during the day, but left office at 9:45pm, so not much time to do much.
20 - 20 min walk to work and back. Bouldering session at wall. felt OK but knackered from previous day at work, and lack of sleep night before. Managed 2 productive hours, then hung about doing easy stuff and shooting the shit.
21 - 20 min walk to works and back. Some CV and core at home.
22 - Nothing really, short walk to station. Got embroiled in photo editing in evening .
23 - swimming in morning with daughter, sat on train to Glasgow, walked around Glasgow a bit. At and drank too much.
24 - bit hungover, 30 min walk to TCA, fairly decent 2 hrs plus bouldering session with Fultonius et al. Walked half hour back to city centre. Sat on train and ate crap. Half hour core and weights in evening.
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25 - lunchtime yoga - 1 hour. First time in about 2 months. It hurt but not terribly. Some weights in evening.
26 - core and weights.
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1 - 5/3/1 - 5xBench
2 - 5/3/1 - 3xDL, Wtd Pullups, MED Hangs.
3 - Stretch and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
4 - 5/3/1 - 5xSquat, Max Hang, Stretching
5 - Skate Ski 1hr20
6 - Rest - Stretch and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
7 - Max Hangs-Lopez, Moonboard
8 - 5/3/1 - 3xBench, Core, 2 x 20 ARC
9 - 5/3/1 - 3xDL, Wtd Pullups, MED Hangs. Hungover, but got the workout done despite incredibly LOW motivation.
10 - Soccer game and 3x5xpullups, atb, pressup, lunge
11 - 5/3/1 Week 2 Squats and Max Hangs
12 - 5/3/1 Week 2 OH Press, Routes at Wall
13 - 30Min Bike
14 - Moonboard and Max Hangs(lopez)
15 - 5/3/1 Week 3 Bench, 90 min snow bike
16 - Routes at Wall, Light weights - Felt worked
17 - Soccer
18 - 5/3/1 Week 3, DL, Wtd Pu's, Max Hangs
19 - 5/3/1 Week 3, Squats, OH Press, 30 min bike
20 - MAW, 4x4, Campus
21 - Ski with Daughter
22 - 2 hr touring ski, light campus session
23 - Ski with Daughter at Special Olympics
24 - Stretch and 20 min Bike
25 - Big Campus Session, 1 arm training, TRX
26 - Skate Ski - 45min
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym
24 - indoor routes
25 - indoor routes
26 - 2 hours gym
27 - 3 hours indoor routes. Cold. Did quite well, back up to my usual punting around.
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28th: 2 1/2 hrs setting at wall
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worrying clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
13 - Meant to do wall session, but got stuck and work wading through a tide of ill thought out shit (aka proofreading and editing) so only walked 20 mins from car to work and back to car.
14 - half hour weights and CV
15 - not much, spent the evening digging out ski kit, finding stuff unused since last winter trimming touring skins, loading van etc. But didn't actually sit down all evening, so guess I was doing something.
16 - early start, drove to Ben Lawers, made it to upper car park (with snow chains) skinned up the valley and across to ridge. As we were ascending weather got worse; low cloud and snowing quite heavily (in spite of forecast). Due to deteriorating visibility we got as far as top of Beinn Ghlas (1103m - still Munro height) and decided it was pointless verging on silly to press on to the top of Lawers, so we descended the NW side down to the valley on great light snow which would have been fun if we could see anything. We dropped into the corrie with the intention of going back up Meall Corranaich, but by now vis was getting pretty poor so we skinned back up the side of Beinn Ghlas to a convenient level and then skied back down and carried on all the way to about 20 m short of the road. Horizontal distance covered - 6 miles. 5 hours on the go.
17 - feeling pretty broken, has run around in garden with kids in morning, and then to local park with kids, who had fun playing on the frozen pond.
18 - bit of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons. Some CV, weights and core in evening.
19 - short walk in morning to work, managed a bit stretching during the day, but left office at 9:45pm, so not much time to do much.
20 - 20 min walk to work and back. Bouldering session at wall. felt OK but knackered from previous day at work, and lack of sleep night before. Managed 2 productive hours, then hung about doing easy stuff and shooting the shit.
21 - 20 min walk to works and back. Some CV and core at home.
22 - Nothing really, short walk to station. Got embroiled in photo editing in evening .
23 - swimming in morning with daughter, sat on train to Glasgow, walked around Glasgow a bit. At and drank too much.
24 - bit hungover, 30 min walk to TCA, fairly decent 2 hrs plus bouldering session with Fultonius et al. Walked half hour back to city centre. Sat on train and ate crap. Half hour core and weights in evening.
25 - lunchtime yoga - 1 hour. First time in about 2 months. It hurt but not terribly. Some weights in evening.
26 - core and weights.
27 - 20 min walk to work and then back. 2 hour bouldering session. Warmed up OK, ticked most of new probs on 10 deg board, an inspired flash (by the skin of my teeth) of a hardish new prob on the 45 deg, flash of new one on the 30 deg, then performance petered off a bit, so plugged away at some of the old failures and did laps on some of the easier routes. 20 min stretching before bed.
28 - 2 short ten min walks from train station to work, short walk at lunch. weight - 13st 6 3/4 (first time the right side of the comfortable 13.5 st benchmark since Xmas!).
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym
24 - indoor routes
25 - indoor routes
26 - 2 hours gym
27 - indoor routes
28 - 0
29 - 1+ hours gym. Short session, didn't want to push too hard, just a bunch of CV and a bit of core.
Finally got the Erdinger weissbier 0.5%. It is nice although maybe I wasn't blown away because it's been well hyped on here. Day 28 is forgivable as I was at Simon's funeral and then in a gridlock for too long.
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29th: 90 minutes on Devon Sent in Bovey Woods. drizzle off and on, couldn't get back to my high point, took half the session to even get to the first hard move, and only managed that once. Waste of time, money, skin, and CO2. Pissed off.
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On the home straight
1. Wall: bouldering
2. Wall: circuits
3. Mobility & bodyweight exercises
4. Wall: circuits
5. Kettlebells
6. Wall: routes
7. Core, shoulders, elbows
8. Beastmaker
9. Stretching
10. Wall: bouldering
11. shoulder prehab
12. Beastmaker
13. mobility/stretching
14. Beastmaker
15. Wall: bouldering
16. mobility/stretching
17. Wall: routes (planned, not yet actually happened)
18. mobility/shoulders
19. Beastmaker
20. Wall: bouldering
21. shoulders, forearm antagonists
22. Wall, bouldering
23. Wall, routes
24. hiking
25. Wall, bouldering
26. shoulder mobility
27. Wall, bouldering
28. Wall, routes
29. bike
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It's done!
1 Jan: really solid session at Boulderwelt Munich Wes - lots and lots and lots of problems
2 Jan: 20+ mins of treadmill sprints
3 Jan: Weights - Javorek dumbbell complex
4 Jan: Hangboard
5 Jan: Hangboard
6 Jan: Bouldering (indoors)
7 Jan: 90 min hike in the forest
8 Jan: Hangboard
9 Jan: Bouldering (outdoors)
10 Jan: Slow trail run.
11 Jan: Hangboard followed by an exceedingly sweaty hour of bouldering
12 Jan: Hike in the forest
13 Jan: Even-more-exceedingly sweaty hour of bouldering
14 Jan: Pinch block max hangs and some desultory core
15 Jan: Horrible afternoon out bouldering.
16 Jan: 38 degrees celsius and no surf. Hangboard, deadlifts and kettlebell swings.
17 Jan: Hike in the forest
18 Jan: Hangboard - 3/3/3
19 Jan: Weights - deadlifts, kettlebell swings and presses. Hike in the forest in the evening.
20 Jan: Hangboard - 5/3/1 followed by some bouldering.
21 Jan: Weights - deadlifts and kettlebell swings
22 Jan: Hangboard - 5/3/1 and then 3 hours of standup paddleboarding in canals with all-round surf wad Chris Bertish for a work do.
23 Jan: Post-work do hangover and desultory surf.
24 Jan: Not the best day of bouldering ever.
25 Jan: lunchtime deadlifts, afternoon hang board
26 Jan: bouldering - short but decent session
27 Jan: lunchtime weights, afternoon 75 min hike in the forest
28 Jan: AM surf, PM Boulder, evening hang board. Heavy day.
29 Jan: light deadlifts and KB TGUs - focus on mobility and form rather than power
30 Jan: AM surf in fun waves, followed by a one arm hangboard session
31 Jan: AM surf in even funner waves. Great session. Might go for a walk in the forest later.
That felt like solid month of activity and effort to me.
Well done to everyone else who got through it.
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1 - 0
2 - indoor bouldering + short run
3 - indoor routes + short run
4 - 1.5 hours gym
5 - indoor bouldering
6 - 0
7 - indoor bouldering + short run
8 - 2 hours gym
9 - indoor bouldering
10 - 1.5 hours gym
11 - 20 min run
12 - 0
13 - indoor bouldering + 1 hour / 4 miles walk
14 - indoor routes + 35 mins / 2 mile walk
15 - 0
16 - 1.45 hours gym
17 - indoor auto-belay and bouldering
18 - 1.45 hours gym
19 - indoor bouldering
20 - 2.5 hours gym
21 - indoor routes
22 - 20 mins run
23 - 1+ hours gym
24 - indoor routes
25 - indoor routes
26 - 2 hours gym
27 - indoor routes
28 - 0
29 - 1+ hours gym
30 - 1 hour sport climbing. Hot and rubbish but it was exercise.
31 - several hours sport climbing, 150m+, good, plus 2 x 20 mins tiring walking. Good exercise for sure. Vino roja instead of ceverza 0,0 for now.
So that's that. I did a lot of exercise and by the end I felt I was gymming, indoor bouldering, and indoor routing reasonably well. Don't dare weigh myself though...
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Struggling through 40 minutes weights and fingerboard with a crashing hangover felt like an appropriate end. Oddly pleased with myself despite only actually climbing three times in the whole month, loads of fingerboarding (for me) though. Did someone mention a February drinkathon?
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Terrible finish to a light-weight Sharkathon.
28 - In planes all day. Nothing
29 - Sick. Nothing
30 - Sick. Nothing
31 - Less sick but in a prework depression. Nothing
Good news is I lost 1.4kg in January down to 74.1kg. Can't wait to get back to climbing something.
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30th: 350 (50x PU, 100x LR, 100x SU, 100x PU)
31st: 1hr routes at UCR
Not bad - think I missed three days - all when I was on nights - otherwise didn't feel like I had to try too hard to get a bit in every day. still only just under 70kg though.
Well done all.
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1. Wall: bouldering
2. Wall: circuits
3. Mobility & bodyweight exercises
4. Wall: circuits
5. Kettlebells
6. Wall: routes
7. Core, shoulders, elbows
8. Beastmaker
9. Stretching
10. Wall: bouldering
11. shoulder prehab
12. Beastmaker
13. mobility/stretching
14. Beastmaker
15. Wall: bouldering
16. mobility/stretching
17. Wall: routes (planned, not yet actually happened)
18. mobility/shoulders
19. Beastmaker
20. Wall: bouldering
21. shoulders, forearm antagonists
22. Wall, bouldering
23. Wall, routes
24. hiking
25. Wall, bouldering
26. shoulder mobility
27. Wall, bouldering
28. Wall, routes
29. bike
30. Beastmaker max hangs; hillwalking
31. Shoulder mobility
Days trained: 31/31
Indoor climbing: 13
Fingerboarding: 5
General Strength training: 9
Mobility/stretching: 14
Cardio: 3
(couldn't do much cardio because of icy roads and having a virus for over a week)
Did a couple of wall sessions whilst ill that I wouldn't have done otherwise, probably not a good idea. But seems to be no great harm done.
I found it thoroughly worthwhile and harder than I expected. I mostly wasn't hitting it all that hard on individual training sessions, and on what would otherwise have been rest days I was doing half an hour of mobility and a couple of sets of press ups, which considered on its own isn't that taxing. But towards the end of the month I definitively was cumulatively tired, all three climbing wall sessions in the last week were pretty feeble, and an evening or two of just chilling on the sofa was becoming a very tempting prospect.
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14/1 - nowt I think
15/1 - HIIT class at gym, used heavier weights for the resistance stuff so a lot harder
16/1 - nowt much unless you include running round a soft play gym for an hour with Una
17/1 - as 16/1
18/1 - Depot session
19/1 - HIIT class at gym
20/1 - arrival of inevitable cold so nowt
21/1 - nowt again
22/1 - nowt again
23/1 - 30/1 - with the exception of one Depot session in the evening of 24/1, nowt thanks to a mad busy week at work (no lunchtimes to go to gym) and contracting another cold having only just recovered from the previous one!
An ignominious end really, was enjoying the challenge of trying to do something every day but when confronted with feeling shite and ill couldn't (and probably shouldn't) force myself into it.
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1 - weights session
2 - core and theraband
3 - CV session at home
4 - quick jog to try get some photos at breakwater in near darkness, then 2 hour session at wall. Felt OK, but heavy
5 - 20 min walk, light core session
6 - 40 min walk, 2 hour wall session. Climbed OK, but feeling jaded. Mates left early and I was 1 of 2 actually bouldering, but ended up just lapping a few easier problems - (I guess working towards 4 x 4s, but more like 3 x 3s)
7- ten minute run in pissing rain from bus stop to train station to get car after all trains cancelled due to flooding. 25 min cardio at home - realised I'm skiing in 3.5 weeks, and not done much cardio in a while.
8 - twenty min walk from car to work, and same on way back, tried doing some deadlifts and squats.
9 - morning swim with daughter, twenty min walk in pissing rain with kids. Weights.
10 - 20 min walk with kids, out on bike for an hour after dark. Cold but dressed right for it, only thing that suffered was thumbs went numb.
11 - lowest output day so far. Managed 10 mins of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons, and about 10 mins at home, spent rest of evening working. Probably mark it up as a fail.
12- Some CV, squats, deadlifts (of a sort - using 2 heaviest kettlebells) knees make worrying clicky noises though. Add a bit of core. Weight this morning 13st 8, one lb above my acceptable "top" limit. Convinced no sweets, chocolate or crisps all week is what has made the difference.
13 - Meant to do wall session, but got stuck and work wading through a tide of ill thought out shit (aka proofreading and editing) so only walked 20 mins from car to work and back to car.
14 - half hour weights and CV
15 - not much, spent the evening digging out ski kit, finding stuff unused since last winter trimming touring skins, loading van etc. But didn't actually sit down all evening, so guess I was doing something.
16 - early start, drove to Ben Lawers, made it to upper car park (with snow chains) skinned up the valley and across to ridge. As we were ascending weather got worse; low cloud and snowing quite heavily (in spite of forecast). Due to deteriorating visibility we got as far as top of Beinn Ghlas (1103m - still Munro height) and decided it was pointless verging on silly to press on to the top of Lawers, so we descended the NW side down to the valley on great light snow which would have been fun if we could see anything. We dropped into the corrie with the intention of going back up Meall Corranaich, but by now vis was getting pretty poor so we skinned back up the side of Beinn Ghlas to a convenient level and then skied back down and carried on all the way to about 20 m short of the road. Horizontal distance covered - 6 miles. 5 hours on the go.
17 - feeling pretty broken, has run around in garden with kids in morning, and then to local park with kids, who had fun playing on the frozen pond.
18 - bit of theraband while waiting at swimming lessons. Some CV, weights and core in evening.
19 - short walk in morning to work, managed a bit stretching during the day, but left office at 9:45pm, so not much time to do much.
20 - 20 min walk to work and back. Bouldering session at wall. felt OK but knackered from previous day at work, and lack of sleep night before. Managed 2 productive hours, then hung about doing easy stuff and shooting the shit.
21 - 20 min walk to works and back. Some CV and core at home.
22 - Nothing really, short walk to station. Got embroiled in photo editing in evening .
23 - swimming in morning with daughter, sat on train to Glasgow, walked around Glasgow a bit. At and drank too much.
24 - bit hungover, 30 min walk to TCA, fairly decent 2 hrs plus bouldering session with Fultonius et al. Walked half hour back to city centre. Sat on train and ate crap. Half hour core and weights in evening.
25 - lunchtime yoga - 1 hour. First time in about 2 months. It hurt but not terribly. Some weights in evening.
26 - core and weights.
27 - 20 min walk to work and then back. 2 hour bouldering session. Warmed up OK, ticked most of new probs on 10 deg board, an inspired flash (by the skin of my teeth) of a hardish new prob on the 45 deg, flash of new one on the 30 deg, then performance petered off a bit, so plugged away at some of the old failures and did laps on some of the easier routes. 20 min stretching before bed.
28 - 2 short ten min walks from train station to work, short walk at lunch. weight - 13st 6 3/4 (first time the right side of the comfortable 13.5 st benchmark since Xmas!).
29 - short walks to station and back, a bit of strenuous DIY in the evening
30 - shimming with youngest in morning. half hour walk in the woods on Saturday, was baltic cold and alternating between rain snow and sleet.
31 - Up to Ballater to snow. dragged the kids around the green on sledges, had lunch, then went up nearby hill to do some proper sledging. Runnig up a hill dragging two kids is seriously hard work.
7 days which I would chalk up as fails under the strictest Sharkathon rules, but effort on other days probably made up for them I think.
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I must say I failed miserably. I do cycle ~20 mins almost every day, but that feels like the equivalent of rolling out of bed...
Ach well.
Well done all those who managed!
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week one
At least 30 mins per day mostly bike with one run and one rowing machine session. Plus two 2 hours wall sessions. weekly average weight was 81.2kg down to 80.8Kg so a pretty slow start but at least heading in the right direction. Also all the Christmas goodies have gone from the fridge so things might pick up a bit now.
Week Two
At least 45 mins of cardio each day mostly bike or run and three two hour wall sessions. Weight rather variable but weeks average is 80.4kg
Week three
5 days of 75 mins on the bike (but also 2 days of nothing over the weekend) three two hour wall sessions weight sill variable but weekly average down 80.1kg so still heading in the right direction.
Week 4.
5 days of 60 mins cycling a couple of 50 min runs, three 90 min wall sessions, weight stubbornly 80.1 kg
So not as much weight loss as I would have liked but I do feel I have lost the Christmas lethargy and feel a bit fitter.
I plan to switch to more arm endurance activities for the next month but the bike riding has become the daliy commute so that will also continue. hey ho lets see what happens.
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Slightly late the party but so far (almost) so good;
1. 900m cold water outdoor swimming
2. 6km run
3. 4km run
4. 7km run
5. 0
6. 6km run
7. 5km run
8. 0
9. 4km run and 2 hours indoor bouldering
10. 16km run
No climbing and probably a bit too much eating being on holiday but still got some fair mileage in
11. 0 (travelling to Italy)
12. 4 hours snowboarding
13. 2 hour ski lesson, 3 hours snowboarding
14. 2 hour ski lesson, 4 hours snowboarding
15. 2 hours snowboarding
16. 0 (travelling back from Italy)
17. 2 hour run (16km)
18. 0
19. 1 hour 20 run (13km)
20. 25 min run (5.5km)
21. 0
22. 0
23. 4 hours walking round London and a night at the Brixton Academy (sort of counts)
24. 0
25. 30 min run (4.5km)
26. 0
27. 20 min run (4km)
28. 2 hour 45 run (26.5km)
29. 15 min run (3km)
30. 0
31. 3 hour 40 run (26km) tough running up and down big hills in the Peak with a rucksack on
All in all not a bad month, run just short of 150km and only 7 days of inactivity. Only managed to drop about 5lbs but feel a lot fitter for it.
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Technically, I failed to manage 30 mins of exercise every day. But, I did manage to do something on my days off, and my job is extremely physical so I don't feel too bad. Biggest achievement for me has been keeping off the booze. Managed that, which to be quite honest I'm still in shock about! Plus I lost about 5lbs in weight (purely from not drinking) and I am having my gym induction tomorrow night so maybe all is not list.
Well done to all who managed to succeed.
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1/1 - an hour or so of lugging around and chopping up wood.
2/1 - Beacon for a wall session. Got pumped on the roof circuits.
3/1 - mix of generic pushups, weights and that sort of thing. My finger feels a bit sore from yesterday.
4/1 - Wall is all being reset so I do some pullup sets and then potter home, where I have a go at a 7:3 fingerboard session, which feels very hard in my current state.
5/1 - finger completely better. Turbo trainer session - Sufferfest "The Hunted". Hard work.
6/1 - wall. Good progress on several problems. Too busy to do stamina and had forgotten good shoes for the board. Some pullups.
7/1 - wall. More problems worked out for ancap circuit. Board. Then tried some triples bit couldn't really make it work, have to try different problems. Pullups to finish.
8/1 - wall. Too busy for stamina, again. Frustrating. Problems for the AnCap circuit
9/1 - wall. Thin skin. Pushed on and did the boulder circuit ancap session - first circuit felt fairly steady but shuffled the order round a bit and felt very worked by the end of the second set. Skin too trashed to do anything else.
10/1 - Cuttings. Some easier routes and a few goes on Hall of Mirrors. Got it in two but knee a bit sore so didn't have that extra go.
11/1 - went out at lunch for a walk - about an hour. Otherwise rest
12/1 - wall. Board session. Progress on projects. Rammed! Need these New Years Resolution folk to get bored of it! Wide pulls ad bottom pulls.
13/1 am - fingerboard2. Double pullups on a 19mm edge at 95.5kg. Improvement over last time. Last set tried to upgrade to 96.6kg, managed 1 pullup but not a second.
13/1 pm - wall. Tried linked boulders, managed a solid first circuit, stepped up the difficulty a bit. However, it was making my elbows sore so I went home and did rehab.
14/1 - nothing really - usual walk to/fro work
15/1 - ditto
16/1 - Cuttings boulderfield. Ticked first Fb7 of the year relatively quickly with Terminator (7A). First of many, I hope?! Lovely sunshine to start but then really cold once the cloud came in. Watched friends and others on Nightmare Scenario and Fighting Torque which have gone on the list as things to try over the next few months.
17/1 - continuity training
18/1 - 20/1 - Nada. Exhausting.
21/1 - wall. Continuity. Ticked a board project. Felt strong. Progress on other things.
22/1 - friend visiting so nothing
23/1 - couple of hours walking round Swanage and Studland
24/1 - wall. Ticked second board project. Psyched! Did some continuity too but not a full set. Did the 7:3 half as required by the plan. Still hate them.
25/1 - rest
26/1 - wall. Had some good goes on a hard project. Another chunk of a 7:3 but it was hurting my skin a bit.
27/1 - wall but so so busy so left straight away. Short fingerboard session at home, really pulling hard. Double pullups at 95.3kg, 96.4kg (new PB), 97.6 (even newer PB), 98.7 (hell fucking yeah), and finally 100.2kg (whoop whoop!). Thats +6kg over where I started these double pullup measurements at. Base weight of 73.5kg at time of session so 136%.
28/1-29/1 - pre- Albarracin rest
30/1 - 2/2 - Albarracin. Ace little trip. Loads of cool problems done, and a whole bunch of 6Cs and 2 7As.
Late finish to Sharkathon for me. Technically maybe I could scrape success by including walking to/fro for work but thats not really success. However, it helped keep me on the slightly straighter and moderately less wide through Januarys work stress and meant I landed in Albarracin psyched, ready to go and without most of my pre-Christmas blubber.
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Only one missed day the whole month and thats because it was spent sat on a plane back from Hawaii..... Still put weight on though which isn't good. Time to ditch it.