Hubris
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<p>Progress has stalled this week. If I'm honest that's not surprising.</p>
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<p>Well that will teach me, it's becoming harder now. Might do some swimming. That should burn some extra calories, particularly with my shithouse technique.</p>
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<p>Played in a carnival on Saturday and I currently feel like I've been in a car accident. Had to drink a million beers because carrying around your own morphine is frowned upon. Still wandering around like a cripple today.</p>
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Slow progress, yet progress none the less. Weight down to 91 even.
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105 weeks on and after bacon and eggs this morning, I weighed in @ 90.6 kg
Now a concerted effort to get down to 85 which will be a more manageable weight to do the http://www.coasttocoast.co.nz/
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Bump. Never got to 85, bulked up instead for the Masters Games. Now trying to get fit for Japan's Parliamentary Rugby World Cup and repairing a troublesome adductor tendinopathy.
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
Bump. Never got to 85, bulked up instead for the Masters Games. Now trying to get fit for Japan's Parliamentary Rugby World Cup and repairing a troublesome adductor tendinopathy.
Masters Games is a harder level than Parliamentary RWC in my experience.
PRWC involves less playing and more drinking. MG tends to involve being roped in as a sub for as many games going.
My only claim to fame rugby story is the one where I kicked the winning conversion against the Houses of Lords and Commons in 2003 -
My only claim to fame rugby story is the one where I kicked the winning conversion against the Houses of Lords and Commons in 2003
I was robbed of a hat-trick against them at Rugby School in 2015.
Finally decided to actually do all the physio I was instructed to do and my abductor is a million times better. Some genuine strength coming back into the leg and ability to accelerate is slowly improving.
Started general running again for the first time in over a decade and 5km time is now not humiliating. Weight is back down to 91kg, waist 92cm and decreasing. Starting to actually look like I exercise.
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961 days and two injuries later combined with covid; sitting at 94kg and a waist that is now a legal standard measure. Investment in a home gym and a preference for a programme that addresses tendinopathy has lead me to knees over toes guy. Here's Joe talking about him:
So having always struggled with flexibility I thought it was time to address that given "lengthening is strengthening".
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Decided to walk backwards up the local hill while taking the dog for a walk. Haven't had a burn in the VMO like that for a long time.
ATG bodyweight squats only present mild discomfort rather than debilitating sharp pain, so that's good progress.
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
Decided to walk backwards up the local hill while taking the dog for a walk. Haven't had a burn in the VMO like that for a long time.
ATG bodyweight squats only present mild discomfort rather than debilitating sharp pain, so that's good progress.
that must have looked fairly amusing
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
Decided to walk backwards up the local hill while taking the dog for a walk. Haven't had a burn in the VMO like that for a long time.
ATG bodyweight squats only present mild discomfort rather than debilitating sharp pain, so that's good progress.
that must have looked fairly amusing
It did get some strange looks, including the dog.
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@antipodean yeah I see a few guys at the gym do this on the treadmill and another guy does it often on the bike...keep thinking I should try it!
On my list for when I'm allowed back at the gym!
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
@antipodean said in Hubris:
Decided to walk backwards up the local hill while taking the dog for a walk. Haven't had a burn in the VMO like that for a long time.
ATG bodyweight squats only present mild discomfort rather than debilitating sharp pain, so that's good progress.
that must have looked fairly amusing
It did get some strange looks, including the dog.
"He's not with me", woofed Rover...
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isn't there a joke about a dog walking backwards?
But slightly more seriously, I am not surprised the backwards hill was a burner!
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
961 days and two injuries later combined with covid; sitting at 94kg and a waist that is now a legal standard measure. Investment in a home gym and a preference for a programme that addresses tendinopathy has lead me to knees over toes guy. Here's Joe talking about him:
So having always struggled with flexibility I thought it was time to address that given "lengthening is strengthening".
I'm a fan of knees over toes guy but no fan of Joe Rogan. Does Joe rate or not rate him?>
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
961 days and two injuries later combined with covid; sitting at 94kg and a waist that is now a legal standard measure. Investment in a home gym and a preference for a programme that addresses tendinopathy has lead me to knees over toes guy. Here's Joe talking about him:
So having always struggled with flexibility I thought it was time to address that given "lengthening is strengthening".
I'm a fan of knees over toes guy but no fan of Joe Rogan. Does Joe rate or not rate him?>
I do a bit of knees over toe type stuff. Definitely a fan of it. I can do what he does 32 seconds into the vid. I think it’s VERY important for blokes particularly people like me who spend a lot of time sitting in a car.
Joe is good but he talks shit, I’m a massive Deontay Wilder fan but Joe said no one in boxing has ever punched harder. Bullshit.
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
@antipodean said in Hubris:
Decided to walk backwards up the local hill while taking the dog for a walk. Haven't had a burn in the VMO like that for a long time.
ATG bodyweight squats only present mild discomfort rather than debilitating sharp pain, so that's good progress.
that must have looked fairly amusing
It did get some strange looks, including the dog.
"He's not with me", woofed Rover...
He did look confused. Probably embarrassed too. "My owner is now too dumb to walk properly".
@paekakboyz said in Hubris:
isn't there a joke about a dog walking backwards?
But slightly more seriously, I am not surprised the backwards hill was a burner!
Yeah, the only real surprise was how quickly the burn set in.
@JK - he rates him, but was talking more about the monkeyfoot device.
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Decided to check muscle imbalance by doing sissy squats (easy) and nordic curls (hard). This is unsurprising to me given how inflexible my hamstrings have always been, but the difference was stark. So I've decided to concentrate two days per week on increasing mobility and strengthening through the ankles, knees and hips.
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@antipodean said in Hubris:
Decided to check muscle imbalance by doing sissy squats (easy) and nordic curls (hard). This is unsurprising to me given how inflexible my hamstrings have always been, but the difference was stark. So I've decided to concentrate two days per week on increasing mobility and strengthening through the ankles, knees and hips.
I agree. I've never been able to touch my toes with locked knees up until my trainer started me doing exercises that helped this. I keep touching my toes now for the novelty factor! Hip flexibility has improved my golf driving power untold as well.
