Blonde will make thin ....Here we go again !

[Woodsey]

Decided to do this as well as I've given myself 2 months to lose 7 kilos and thought I'd do this alongside. Haven't trained in the gym for a few months now - my wrist still dodgy but just about good enough to get back into it I think.

I did pressups today and stopped on 42. I used to be able to do 60 odd without too much difficulty. Bad times.

42's pretty awesome if you've not done any for ages.

What you weighing in at now? You lost a fair bit in Thailand didn't you? No training since then?

Been playing football twice a week but no training since Thailand.

Hate injuries, never had a single serious one before I was 24.

I weigh 87kgs atm. Was 103kgs when I first got to thailand.

Jesus I never really thought of you as fat. 103kg is a fair old lump at your age and good effort to lose it.

[Girgy85]

Propper bossed the treadmill today. Did 6.4km(4 miles) in under 55 minutes. Felt in pretty good form today after a little binge yesterday watching the footy.

[Patonius2000]

Propper bossed the treadmill today. Did 6.4km(4 miles) in under 55 minutes. Felt in pretty good form today after a little binge yesterday watching the footy.

You are 22st down from 24st since when you started 6 months ago right? That's a good start. What is your target weight and what are your short term/medium term/long term goals? As an example, a short term goal might be, "follow a calorie deficient diet for 6 weeks" and a long term goal might be "run a marathon in under x time, get to x% body fat, get money f*ck bitches etc". Try and be as specific as you can.

[outragous76]

Propper bossed the treadmill today. Did 6.4km(4 miles) in under 55 minutes. Felt in pretty good form today after a little binge yesterday watching the footy.

You are 22st down from 24st since when you started 6 months ago right? That's a good start. What is your target weight and what are your short term/medium term/long term goals? As an example, a short term goal might be, "follow a calorie deficient diet for 6 weeks" and a long term goal might be "run a marathon, get to x% body fat, get money f*ck bitches etc". Try and be as specific as you can.

Rob

GL with this! Girgy is a slow burner with taking thinigs on board and chaning lifestyle. Thats not too much of a criticism, Im sure everyone on here would agree that he has def changed some terrible habits he had for teh better, and exercises more than me thats for sure!

TBF - he has a long term goal which is a weight goal (20st?) when he goes to vegas in December!

I argree thou, lots of short term reachable goals is the way forward, especially for Girgy.

Come on Girgy - set yourself some sensible targets - (isnt your half marathon soon?)

Lets see 3no 2 monthly goals between now and December, and lets go for your weight starting with a 19 when you get on that plane! No crash losses - lets see it slow and steady between now and then!
 

gogogogogogoo

[paulhouk03]

Me and girgles are running 10k in July sometime 10 th I think

[smashedagain]

Me and girgles are running 10k in July sometime 10 th I think

This is awesome guys. Just come back from the park having played footy with the kids and there was this old dear late 60's early 70's playing cricket with her great grand kids. Proper put me to shame

[millidonk]

Arms felt relatively normal today, so carried on with the programme, today was 10,12,7,7,9 with 60 sec breaks, got to the 26th press up then was in agony, had to do girl press ups on my knees for the majority of the middle then powered out half of the last lot of 9 normal before having to drop back to my knees. Feel like my elbows are going to burst out of my skin. Probs not supposed to feel like that, but I imagine not too many 23st geezers try and bosh out press ups too often.

Even with all the pain feeling really good which is weird for me. Fingers crossed the pain subsides by Friday, I don't think its normal to be hurting for 3 days just after doing a few press ups. It's weird as on fixed weights I can bench press 120kg like 5 days a week without it hurting at all. It must be because of all the 'stabilising' muscles that this uses.

Onwards and upwards.

[leethefish]

Not doing any press ups until my back feels better.....I need an dogsbody apprentice to help me at work I think !
Must be getting old!

[EvilPie]

Arms felt relatively normal today, so carried on with the programme, today was 10,12,7,7,9 with 60 sec breaks, got to the 26th press up then was in agony, had to do girl press ups on my knees for the majority of the middle then powered out half of the last lot of 9 normal before having to drop back to my knees. Feel like my elbows are going to burst out of my skin. Probs not supposed to feel like that, but I imagine not too many 23st geezers try and bosh out press ups too often.

Even with all the pain feeling really good which is weird for me. Fingers crossed the pain subsides by Friday, I don't think its normal to be hurting for 3 days just after doing a few press ups. It's weird as on fixed weights I can bench press 120kg like 5 days a week without it hurting at all. It must be because of all the 'stabilising' muscles that this uses.

Onwards and upwards.

There's a huge difference between bench press and press ups mate. Benching 120kg takes pretty much zero cardio effort and that's probably where you're struggling.

Do you think you could do 50 reps at 60kg? I'd guess not because you'd just burn out. I'm pretty certain I couldn't do it and I bench only slightly less.

It'll be worth changing your gym routine if you really want to do this. I've changed my chest routine today. Instead of going for low reps heavy weights I've been targeting minimum of 12 reps for every set then a light 'burn out' set to finish. It means I can only go up to 100kg max but it's going to help when it comes to trying to push out 100 push ups.

I'm going to be changing it even more as I go along. I'm planning on making weights sessions more cardio based so it will be 20+ reps for everything and they'll be fast sets so as to get me used to what I need to do.

Today's press up effort which was after a chest session was 20, 20, 16, 12 with a short rest in between. I'm going to try a single set over the weekend when I'm fully rested just as a guide to see where I need to aim. I'm expecting around 35 or so with a bit of luck.

Keep up the efforts mate. I'm pretty sure that after a couple of weeks you'll be finding them loads easier.

[EvilPie]

Also as you correctly say the stabilising muscles are also causing you a major problem.

Might be worth doing a few planks on your days off to improve your core. That would really help and shouldn't affect your arms at all.

4 sets of as long as you can handle should really help with your press ups.

100 press ups is going to take about 3 minutes. Try holding the press up starting position on it's own for that long. It won't be easy.

[millidonk]

Alright Matt, on my phone so apologies for the shit reply.

I have been doing 5 reps max weight but really really slowly both up and down. Like 90 seconds per rep. I read about this way of training on a forum called Mark's daily apple. (worth a google)

Love the idea of just seeing how long I can hold a pressup position doubt it would be anywhere near 3 mins. Have a very weak core, physios been telling me for yrs, my core along with tight leg muscles is the source of
The my back problems which has worsened with gaining the excessive weights. I find doing planks very tough. After about 15 seconds my whole body starts to convulse. Will defo start throwing it in my routine.

Was actually speaking to a guy earlier today about high rep, low weight to make it more of a cardio workout. 4 x 15 reps, lowering the weight every time. This would probs be good for me as I love doing weights but hate majority of cardio stuff unless it's sports based.

Trying to get out of the habit of weighing myself all the time so I concentrate more on just getting fitter as opposed to losing x amount of lbs then Obv the weight will come hand in hand.

Fun times ahead. Lee, hope that back gets sorted soon mate.

[leethefish]

This is gonna be an interesting challenge... Bit disappointed on numbers but hey ....we already know blondes are wimps cos they all bottled the paintballing!!

Millidonk, thanks me too but I've had my nephew to help me for te last 6 years now I am on my own! (he got himself a job)
Don't help lugging kitchen work tops around.

[DaveShoelace]

I'm glad we have Cos and Matt on board. Have the goals and forfeits been set out yet for everyone else?

[DaveShoelace]

Once again, I concentrated on my form rather than trying to bang out loads of them, had a good first set but couldnt manage to better it after that.

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Felt a bit easier getting my chest to hit the 'tin of beans' in the gym this time, but still tough. Also threw in some deadlifts, lat pulldowns, kettlebell swings, and 20 minutes of interval training on the treadmill.

I'll be happy to repeat that for my session on Saturday, then I'll probably film myself next week and start the programme proper from there.

[EvilPie]

I'm glad we have Cos and Matt on board. Have the goals and forfeits been set out yet for everyone else?

I won't be having any kind of forfeit.

If anybody wants a friendly wager I'll set the line at 85 and go £1 per push up with me having the overs.

My target will be 100 but if I can do more I won't stop.