Very good!
Chronic pain in my shoulder blades now for 6 weeks - keeps dancing from left to right, subsiding and flaring up. Looks like itās a trip to the physio as itās not going away by itself.
I noticed this morning that Lidl are selling Kettle Bells this week (14 Kg for Ā£14, 10 Kg for Ā£10)
Thatāll be quite a few unprepared folk heading down to the physio or chiropractor fairly soon.
Inadvertently caused a deer to injure itself on this mornings ride. It ran out startled from undergrowth across my path and got itself caught on a barbed wire fence. All happened at speed and I was slowing down wondering what the fuck i was supposed to do because it seemed pretty stuck (and pretty close to its femoral artery!), but it managed to free itself in the split second I checked the road in front of me, releasing a huge cloud of deer hair that I cycled through.
You donāt get that in a gym.
Did a session today after not feeling the cold for a couple of days. My nose has still been blocked and each time I got out of breath the crap that I coughed off my chest was disgusting. Good job I wasnāt in a gym and had a bucket in my garage.
Squats
10 x Bar
10 x 50kg
10 x 70kg
5 x 80kg
2 x 90kg
5 x 80kg
10 x 70kg
10 x 50kg
Good Mornings
3 x 10 x 40kg
Chins
2 x 5
The last rep was hard enough to put me off a third set.
Press-ups
1 x 10
1 x 7
Could find the best position for the handles as I couldnāt help but go a little further than I wanted.
I really need to focus on upper body more as I always talk myself out of it. I think I might use these bodyweight exercises for a few weeks as I hadnāt done them for ages and they are harder than I remember.
Ha ha itās usually the other way around! Guys tend to train on the thing theyāre good at - your squat numbers out of context of height and weight look very respectable indeed, itās what youāre good at.
Bodyweight exercises are great though for building up a good foundation for loaded push/ pull movements.
My numbers are just my numbers, as if I look around at others I will be disappointed
Iām 5ā8" I think and 10 Stone. 39 years old in April.
When I was a teenager I did Judo and my sister did Gymnastics so we always did bodyweight exercises in my house. I liked dips as I would test my pain barrier on my triceps and would do fingertip pull-ups on my bedroom door frame (always been light).
Iāve only really lifted weights for short periods and just found all out low rep lifts more enjoyable, like seeing stars from deadlifts and stuff but bench press etc just didnāt give me that.
Anyway, this time I want to stick at it mainly for health so will make sure I have a more rounded program, and hopefully I might end up looking better in a t-shirt
This is the word really!
Well I did a 6.5 mile rather brisk walkies on Saturday, my legs ache a bitā¦
good effort
The more you do it the less they ache.
Your dog will love you for it.
Having gradually increased my cycling over the last 3 weeks I am having a rest/recovery week. Iāll take the shortest route to and from work today and tomorrow, and take it as easy as possible. Iāll walk on Wed and then Thurs or Fri Iāll probably take the 1 hour route home but not thrash it. Plan is for low intensity turbo at the weekend. Then next week Iāll start with the volume I was doing on the 2nd week of the last block and on the 3rd week Iāll have worked up to doing a slightly longer ride on the Sunday (~70 miles). Hopefully at that point I should be back to being able to do the main club ride (~60 miles in summer).
I wasnāt far off the main rideās speed on Sunday, so it feels within reach (but not there yet)
I hope so, I must embarrassingly admit that I havenāt walked (at reasonable pace) that far in quite a while!
It was good, enjoyed it.
Bear in mind the bleedinā obvious that shorter walks at the same pace at higher frequency would be better than the occasional long walk
Bleedinā obvious taken on board
Haha, dog looks like heās just about ready to set off
Yeah but she slept for 4000 hours when we got back, to be fair she probably did 20 miles running about like a nutter
Our vet is great and has always given good advice and treatment to our various cats and dogs over the years. He made a point a couple of years back of having a difficult conversation with us about our dogsā weight, which despite miles of walking was still to his view, in the obese category. We changed their diet and feeding habits and then watched the weight fall off both of them, and in doing so added years to their potential life expectancy.
Works for owners and people who donāt have dogs too! Which is in part the whole point of the thread.
Thatās what this thread is good for! Writing it on here is like therapy and you can clearly see what you want to put right.
Yep, its not about what youāve done or havenāt done, its what youāre going to do next thatās most important