The Silver Fern

xzxshok Jeepers.

[quote name='BartMan']Mrs Bartman got second over 35 womens figure to a chick that has been competing for 2 years - judge came down and said to us only because she did not show her 'V' properly - inexperience[/quote]<br />
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I'm sure there's a completely inappropriate joke in there somewhere eusa_think <br />
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...Seriously though bloody inspirational effort, congrats to the pair of ya!<br />
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Did you go mental on the KFC or do you still need to keep in comp mode?

[quote name='BartMan']i have NO flat bench in my programme at the moment - might ask my PT to add this into the programme once I gave done those comps in October![/quote]<br />
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Why's that out of interest Bart? Something to do with maximising shape/definition in right areas?

I've been concentrating on these a lot more over the last year or 2 as I took up Dragonboating and was looking to up the lat strength. Pretty much exclusively doing the wide grip, palm away variety. Have always found with chin-ups that I hit the wall pretty bady, ie. I can do 15 first set, then 9-10 for next one then decreasing from 8-5 over next 4-5 sets (I try to get to 50 total).<br />
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I'm finding it hard to break a plateau I've hit now too, so might have to look at a weight belt eusa_think

Cheers for the sympathetic ear Redbeard xzxblum1 <br />
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Good call Mariner, I've got a 200M decent gradient asphalt hill strip across the road and have started smashing out 30-45 minute sets. Can see why you hate them, but already starting to see some early benefits.

Righto fellas, thought this was as good a place to post this as any....Was hoping for some training advice.<br />
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A mate of mine started playing a bit of subbies rugby this season in Oz and I tagged along and as I am now the ripe old age of 35, I ended up signing up with the idea of trying to keep my general fitness up.<br />
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Unfortunately I haven't played in about 13-14 years and it has dawned on me very quickly that I am, in fact, a dilapidated old fart. Now they've gone and thrown me into the firsts in the centres, and I'm going to struggle if I don't get up to speed PDQ.<br />
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Our footy training all-round fitness drills are generally pretty rigourous but not really enough on their own and I have a least another night a week (outside work and between other sports) that I have spare and was hoping for some advice on proven methods anyone might be able to offer for speed/acceleration.<br />
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I'm happy enough with my strength and am confident I can get endurance base up to scratch but I was hoping for some details on any proven training drills specifically for working on speed off the mark/explosiveness, as the sluggishness of old age is starting to take hold!<br />
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I realize google can probably sort most of this out but thought I'd maybe get a bit first hand input (preferably from any like-minded old bastards). Not hoping for miracles, more looking for survival at this point!<br />
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PS - My injury rehab post will probably follow shortly.