Fitness Thread

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That's not a bad idea.
I think there might be one knocking about at my parents' house that I'll have to try and dig out. I found today, stepping up the intensity, my breath felt quite short, like my lungs weren't expanding to their full potential.

6 days cold turkey on the smoking now, which is annoying considering they reckon it takes 9 months to a year for your lung capacity to fully recover.  

2 weeks later and 20 days cold Turkey on the smoking now (3 weeks tomorrow).  

Making quality progress with the running, too. Another 4 weeks today and if all goes to plan, I will be able to run 30 minutes without stopping and then I'll move on to a training regime for a 10k race for charity.

Fantastic effort today. Couple miles running into a 4 mile ish walk followed by a 1 mile sprint. Butterless mash potato, roast beef, runner beans, carrots and gravy for tea. Gonna hit the weights tomorrow before my football match. Feeling better each day to be honest.

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Fantastic effort today. Couple miles running into a 4 mile ish walk followed by a 1 mile sprint. Butterless mash potato, roast beef, runner beans, carrots and gravy for tea. Gonna hit the weights tomorrow before my football match. Feeling better each day to be honest.

Sh*t hot form. You're doing quality, nice one mate. I didn't do much at the gym today; I didn't have my gloves and I didn't have much time; but tomorrow I'll be giving it a proper session, and on Weds, Thurs, Fri and Sat, Sarah is in Ireland, so most of my spare time will be in the gym. I'm expecting 2 hours + each day on the weights. I'm going to hit the cardio regularly after the weekend as well; starting a week today. I'll be doing 30 minutes of weights and 30 minutes of cardio (mix of the rowing machine and the stepper, probably.)

I'll also be taking notes of what weights I'm lifting each day for each exercise and then making sure I add to it each week.

Slow and steady progress currently; it's definition that needs the most work.

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Fantastic effort today. Couple miles running into a 4 mile ish walk followed by a 1 mile sprint. Butterless mash potato, roast beef, runner beans, carrots and gravy for tea. Gonna hit the weights tomorrow before my football match. Feeling better each day to be honest.

Sh*t hot form. You're doing quality, nice one mate. I didn't do much at the gym today; I didn't have my gloves and I didn't have much time; but tomorrow I'll be giving it a proper session, and on Weds, Thurs, Fri and Sat, Sarah is in Ireland, so most of my spare time will be in the gym. I'm expecting 2 hours + each day on the weights. I'm going to hit the cardio regularly after the weekend as well; starting a week today. I'll be doing 30 minutes of weights and 30 minutes of cardio (mix of the rowing machine and the stepper, probably.)

I'll also be taking notes of what weights I'm lifting each day for each exercise and then making sure I add to it each week.

Slow and steady progress currently; it's definition that needs the most work.

Adding some decent cardio sessions to your exercise regime, quality.

I think if I was doing this running programme in a gym, I would've packed it in by now. Even after just 3 weeks. Outside of the gym though, it's f*cking fantastic. I worked out the distance I covered today, despite a good 4 miles of walking was just under 13k.

If this is useful to anyone else, you can use google earth to calculate run/walking distances. Click on the measure tool, select measure as a path and then careful map your route.

Turns out the mile sprint at the end was over a mile

Trained a lot better today, although I could have carried on another 45 minutes but I had to get back.

The photo thing begins again. Once a month I'll take a new snap and see if I'm working towards my goals.

Key areas for the next month will be burning fat all over, and working hard on my stomach and chest. I'd also like to see some proper separation with my triceps; no doubt that's a while off though.

Plenty of gains to be made but I reckon I can stick at it, all being well.

September 16th:


And now it really begins.

um chap, honest question here, why are your shoulders so sloping?

The wife doesn't like the incredible hulk shoulders ! They are sloping because you have a big bulging muscle in the middle! STOP WORKING ON THE SHOULDERS!!

Sarah xx

Skipped the gym entirely today. Regretting it now, but this morning I was pretty sore and thought a day off would be useful. Bored sh*tless now instead.

Only 2 more weights-only sessions at the gym until I start cardio as well :-?

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It is hard going, eating all the protein. To build muscle you should aim to eat around 1.8g of protein per 1lb of bodyweight. For me that equates to over 320g of protein per day. That's a sh*t load, given that my main source is probably tuna which is only 30g per tin. Protein shakes come in handy but I'm having to force feed them to myself, and I'm certainly not hitting 300g+. More like 200g maximum; I really need to address this by eating less carbs, same as yourself.

What about tuna omelettes? Or steak and eggs? Combining the protein of both might be good in that respect. A fella in knew in my time in the U.S. had a beef brisket with 2 poached eggs for breakfast everyday and he was ripped.

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Unfortunately, I can't stomach eggs. I really miss out there.

Not even in omelette form?

What about the dock workers breakfast on The Wire? Crack an egg into a pint of beer and down in one.

Good stuff. I don't know how i'd function without my morning eggs on toast. Stops me from eating crap later on in the day too.

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I suddenly stopped being able to stomach eggs a couple of weeks back, found out on a friday night just before I went out an all  

BLACK RAGE! BLACK RAGE!

Everytime i see that scene i think of you

I'm hungry. Whattoeat. ;o

All the above speculation is true.

Only did 50 minutes today; but absolutely every repetition was perfect form, so I'm happy enough. Plus I'm back tomorrow morning so I didn't want to overdo it.

And nice one Phil, lets hope they hurt like hell tomorrow What exercises did you do on your shoulders?

It's pretty dear for decent protein powders, in my opinion. I tend to stick to Promax, but I've had a number of different brands in the past.



Creatine probably gives me the best gains but you have to be careful not to overdo it with that.