Onwards and upwards - target 2012...
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Yersterday chest again, with the pause at the bottom of the incline smith press. Geez that rips the guts out of you and a half. Top workout!<br />
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Then to Tauranga to see specialist for Vanessa's tennis elbow. Learned a lot about the why where etc. Basically, all about blood supply, or lack of it to the tendon it is the bottom tendom tied in from all those forearm muscles, and the one that does the most work. when it gets hurt it does not get enough blood to repair itself. And age does not help either, older you get less blood flow etc. So cortisone while effective are often effective not because of the cortisone, but because of the stabbing into the muscle and tendons, causing muscle damage, and blood flow, and healing from there! SOo not another cortisone, but an injection of painkiller, and then Doc just stabbing away like jack the ripper with his needle to cause maximum damage in minimum time. All made sense when he was explaining it at any rate. So that was yesteeday - today it feels better than it has for a long time. Oh, and that above treatment is good for 1/3 patients. Next step is under the knife....<br />
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Today was legs, we jumped ahead to our new programme so it was leg press with pause at the bottom for each rep, supersetted with lunges. It I thought Smith pause hurt, I forgot about this. Damn. basically stop the press on the pins at the bottom part of the exercise, all tension off muscles, and press. Shit a brick, every rep is killer. Thankfully was 10 then 50 lunges, 6 / 30, 6 / 20 6 / 20. SO not TOOOO bad, that first 10/50 though kocks the stuffing out of you!!<br />
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well, steep bastard was slayed twice more, my time to the top has dropped each time, however, it can't last much longer. Tired as a tired thing. SPin this morning was tough and cold. Thankfully you push yourself as hard as you can go, not as hard as the chick on the bike net to you!!<br />
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arse muscles sore, obliques and abs sore too from the new leg and ab workout. Have the pause leg press again, where you stop and rest the weight on the pins (or in our case, the 6x2 across the safety stops) for a moment before doing another rep, and yes, forgot how killer it was a day after even, not looking forward to tomorrow!! -
wimped out last night - went to the gym and did a half hour on the cycle, thought I'd rest the pins from the hill! This morning was the last of the 'old' back workouts. Ness resting her arm, so she cardio'd while I did the weights. Good workout, much quiker when not having to change weights over all the time - leg press is a killer on that one, taking all the plates on and off for each other - that's the hardest part of the workout!<br />
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Did some posing afterwards too, starting to look bodybuilder again. WHITE though! -
A walk home from the horse paddock last night was cardio. Across the golf course at dusk, it wa a pleasant stroll.<br />
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This mornign cardio back to the hill. Much slower in the morning, was before breakfast too, so I think an empty body certainly showed up. First trip up the hill slowest since I have started timing, second trip up almost a minute faster once warm. -
Watched the Auckland NABBA Championships at Glenfield College at the weekend, another cool show, and certainly ready to hit the stage now. 4 weeks from INBA champs.<br />
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Visited our boss again on Sunday, and 86.6kg abd BF% down to 7. Lost some muscle too this time out, but that is inevitable from now on in, and with my lean muscle mass getting above my competition max weight at any rate, it's not all bad!<br />
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So all systems are go.<br />
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Shoulders today, first day of a new workout, so into the super sets now. Slammed nicely with clean and press, upright rows, lat raises and front plate raises. Then time for some posing before breakfast.<br />
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It's a one format show, so you don't have the morning judging than the evening 'show' and trophy give out/ overall judging. So in and out much quicker, better for the athletes, maybe not so good for the punters!<br />
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Sooo, today was chest, new workout, way cool. Heavy Smith press, 6 reps, SS with cable flies. Then incline bench SS with flat DB flies with a pause at the bottom of the range. Again low reps forst set, high second. Then biceps and we were done like a dogs dinner. Barbell preacher curls SS with rope cable curls.<br />
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And again some posing to finish, we're going to get enough posing down this time around, we've been far too slack the last few comps. <br />
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Last night stationary cycle for cardio at gym, again followed by some posing. Getting used to stripping down and feeling like a plonker in front of the mirrors again! -
Righto, another cycle overnight, running out of light at night at the moment - might have to borrow one of those headlamp things so I can keep doing my Pa Road forestry gravel road track - I think that's the best cardio I can do at the moment - although the extra bits of posing have got to be helping too at the end of the cardio.<br />
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Weights this morning - the leg press with the pause, the 2 million lunges workout. Again legs tired as a tired thing right now, top stuff, gotta love it.<br />
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sOOO, YESterday was spin class in the morning and at lunchtime did Pa Road - just walked up and along for 25 minutes and then returned quicker by about 5 minutes. Downhill. Lunch cardio was good, going to be regular now, gives us the evening free for Ness and her horses and me to sloth and do wahtevr I like!<br />
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Today was back day, and cool workout - first of the new programme. First up, deadlifts back on the menu, only 6 reps, supersetted with behind the neck pulldowns - 15, then i think it was 10, 8. DL's were 6 each time. So went 140, 150, 160 and felt bloody good, might ramp it up a little next week, but with less food and leaning down might be hard to increase weights! finished with BB shrugs supersetted with DB shrugs. got up to 160 on the BB shrugs too, heaviest I have shrugged.<br />
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Lunch time cardio was stairs. 108 up. Did 23 'reps'' in 40 minutes. Loved it. -
First day of another week, competition sneaking closer while we're not looking... Shoudlers today, a real wrecking ball workout, smashes you, super sets with low reps in the first set, so you can go heavy and then your heart is racing, followed by higer reps in the second set, so it carries on, just K-nackered now!<br />
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Weekend was full of cardio, the Pa Road foresrty jaunt a couple of times on Saturday, and gym cardio Sunday. plenty of posing in between too, we're certainly doing more than we normally would, but then it is the first contest of the year and we're all excited!! Went in with the gym closed yesterday and pulled the mirrors around so could see my back in poses. Was certainly a good boost, as the last time i saw my back it was just a back - now all the muscles are coming out to boogie. A good mind boost - especially as i get to see Ness's back all the time, and when she's working out it looks like there are a bunch of Aliens under the skin traying to break out and scrapping with each other!!!<br />
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Off to Tarren (nutritionist) as I type (who says men can't multitask) to get the dreaded measures and calipers. Expect there'll be a bit of tucker coming off the menu this time out. Three Sundays before we (as Madonna says), strike a pose!! -
Yeah. all good. Me tracking well, Ness awesome, Tarren almost wants to take her into the comp as she is - just water deplete. She's a kilo and a half over weight target, which is basically a dehydrate away from stage, and she is looking a thousand percent up on last year, and two thousand on the year before. She was down another half kilo on last measure, muscle up a little and BF down to 13 or just under. <br />
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Me am not doing as awesome as Mrs, but still on track and doing as i should. Weight down to 86.1, and bf% 6.7. Muscle was up on last week. But themuscle readings rely a lot on the water content in the body etc, so the timy ups and downs at this time of the Bb season is pretty much just the margin for error I would say. And at the end of the day, what the readings are matter diddly squat - the judgges don't know if you're 1,2, or 20%. They just know if you look wicked or not!!<br />
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Anyway, so three weeks to go, or just under, three more percentage points for me. Carb deplete will start ten days out for me, five for Ness, I lost my bananas today (there goes 300calories), and egg whites instead of shakes, but hey, it's what we do!<br />
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Great stuff! Excellent work by Ness too - she must be stoked! Sounds like you'll be on the money come comp time as well. THis is the one that you guys are running locally aye? Not far off now bro : )
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nah, we not competing in the one we running - too hard, maybe next year for that once we have systems in place. This a different federation from our normal, so will be interesting. NO athletic class, just height classes, so will be up against all comers. However, winners are all drug tested, so the drug freaks will not be there. So that's good, won't be against blokes that are TOOO big!
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Does that fella Nathan OHern (think thats his name) still compete down your way Bart?<br />
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Saw him with a mate of my Milan on a fishing programme on TV the other day. He looks a [b]SOLID [/b]unit.<br />
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Te Aroha or Morrinsville I think? Heard the name but never seen or heard of him competing in the 3 years I have been on the scene. Think I scared him away..... (There's a TUi billboard waiting to happen) Nah, he's a physique monster, he certainly would not be doing an INBA show - the 'N' standing for NATURAL...
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not that I would accuse ANYONE of being on the juice, it's preety obvious, both amle and female who is using illegal help. As opposed to those who use everything possible on the legal side of the supplement range. But that is all for another day!<br />
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Speaking of another day - today, legs, yesterday, chest. So today, chest sore, tomorrow, legs sore. Althhgouh thanks to the stair climbing, my legs are pretty rooted already. Going to be interesting to see if all this stair and hill work makes any difference to my pins once they are lean.<br />
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Added in the final punishment last night too the start of the 20 minute cardio before bed. Oh the joys of being a bodybuilder...
