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Mikey:
This will be my new journal now!
Basically for the last 2 years I've been slack and let the 9-5 life take over. I've gotten fat and lazy and want to get back to living a healthy lifestyle again. I'm still not going to go back to the gym because I don't enjoy it and life is too short to waste time doing stuff you don't want to do. However, I will be doing body weight exercises, playing basketball, and doing cardio through tempos/sprints. Most importantly I am modifying my diet by not overeating and limiting the amount of fast food I eat.
Current Weight- 96KG
Waist- 43 inches above the belly button/40 inches below the belly button.
Goals-
Lose weight & have a healthier lifestyle.
Lifetime PRs
60m- 7.46
100m- 11.37
SVJ- 27 inches
RVJ- 36 inches
adarqui:
--- Quote from: Mutumbo000 on October 26, 2015, 10:21:56 pm ---This will be my new journal now!
Basically for the last 2 years I've been slack and let the 9-5 life take over. I've gotten fat and lazy and want to get back to living a healthy lifestyle again. I'm still not going to go back to the gym because I don't enjoy it and life is too short to waste time doing stuff you don't want to do. However, I will be doing body weight exercises, playing basketball, and doing cardio through tempos/sprints. Most importantly I am modifying my diet by not overeating and limiting the amount of fast food I eat.
Current Weight- 96KG
Waist- 43 inches above the belly button/40 inches below the belly button.
Goals-
Lose weight & have a healthier lifestyle.
--- End quote ---
nice man, sounds like you're about to get really serious & keep things simple. good combo.
looking forward to the progress.
pC!
LBSS:
man, you did get big. good luck bringing back the healthy! :highfive:
you got some steady work, though? that was one of your main stressors back in the day, if you got something good going then that's great.
Mikey:
I've just got big bones :trollface:
On a serious note I actually put on about 20kg of fat from drinking copious amounts of beer and lots of fast food. I knew I was getting heavier but because I wasn't playing sport anymore I didn't care. The realization that I was getting fat came around a month ago when I had to buy a complete new wardrobe of t-shirts for work. I was wearing Large shirts but I was being strangled so I had to upgrade to XL. After I bought the new shirts I felt alright but than last week I noticed a lot of my trousers weren't fitting anymore. I was sucking in my gut and the buttons popped so that's when I made a decision that I've got to change. When I measured my waist I was horrified. Type II Diabetes, cardiovascular issues, sleep apnea, osteoarthritis and joint/tendon issues are all stuff that I'm exposing myself to by being this heavy. That and the fact that I feel embarrassed to take my shirt off these days as well :-[
On the job front it's going great. I love my job and I'm working in an office now, which has always been the goal. I know some people complain about 9-5 life being boring but compared to labouring or waking up at 3am each morning to work in a meat factory this is like winning the lottery. I've been working in the same job ever since I moved back to my home state in March 2014. That's one huge positive in my life and given me a lot of self-esteem as well as some financial security.
I finish work in a couple of hours and than I'm off to train. It's a beautiful afternoon here so I'm going to go down to the track and do some tempo runs. I was planning on doing some sets of 200m in 30 seconds with 10 minute rest between each set. However, I'm thinking that might be a bit too ambitious since I haven't been to the track at all for yonks. I'll do some tempo 100s instead.
Mikey:
TRACK-
Stretch/Warmup
100m- 15 seconds
9 minute rest
100m- 14 seconds
7 minute rest
100m- 14 seconds
7 minute rest
100m- 14 seconds
7 minute rest
100m- 14 seconds
7 minute rest
By this stage I was feeling like it was too easy so I decided to step it up a notch by lowering the rest down to 4 minutes.
100m- 14 seconds 4 minute rest
100m- 14 seconds 4 minute rest
100m- 14 seconds
It definitely lifted my heart rate taking the rest periods down to 4 minutes.
Stretch/Cool down
This felt really good. The usual suspect (Achilles tendon) started feeling sensitive as soon as I rocked up to the track. However, my Achilles tendon plays up just sitting at work and getting off my chair in the office. I think it’s just something that I’m going to live with. I’m a real tight ass with my $$$ so I don’t really want to go and see Specialists or physios etc. but my self-diagnosis is that it’s just early arthritis or something because my ankles always crack whenever I’ve been sitting down for a while. Having a BMI of 30 also doesn't help so hopefully once I lose some weight it will take some of the stress of my tendons.
PARK-
Pullups- 3x2
Chin ups- 4x2
Sit ups- 10x2
Dips- 10x2
Bodyweight- 96KG
Waist- 40 inches
SORENESS-
Hamstrings
Calves/Achilles Tendon
Abs
I'll probably be sore tomorrow and I might've been a little overzealous jumping straight back into it but god damn I've missed running.
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