Spliced and diced - perhaps one day, a little shredded!

Welcome to my blog :biggrin:

:biggrin:

This is quite possible the most convoluted blog on TSR. It started off nearly a year ago with me being a gym bro, doing one body part a day and making precisely nought progress. This changed in the spring with me deciding to run a marathon with two flatmates. So I spent the spring and summer running and running some more! When it came to the marathon in September, heat and drinking Lucosade sport almost killed me; but I got there, with an awesome sprint finish. Time was 3 hours 59mins 30 seconds. I planned to run it in under 4 hours so I got there just :biggrin:

:biggrin:

I might have been able to run it faster if it was cooler and I just drank water and ate jelly babies like I did in training :tongue:

:tongue:

Anyway, returned to lifting and some cycling after a few days of not being able to walk. Was a bit of a gym bro again, not much in the way of routine. Realising that I was wasting my time, I'm now doing a bastardised SS, with pullups/chins and Tbars/pendlay/cable rows/ inverted rows instead of power cleans. I progressed was going well, however a prior back injury flared badly which led to me stopping squatting and deadlifting

I then tore my meniscus and I had surgery for that 8 months later, which meant lower body work. I stopped lifting for a while as an attempt to heal it. I also started swimming.

My knee still isn't sorted but I'm back in the gym having had another 2 months off training post knee operation. Hopefully 2015 will be the year I can train properly!

Any questions, feel free to quote or PM

Never forget - "Push yourself, push yourself until you can think there is no more you can do, then take another step and another. One foot infront of the other; there is always more in your tank, you just have to believe.
Reach your potential - you can conquer any challenge, great or small. You know it. I know it. Now do it."

AC

Current PBs as of 05/3/14

Squat 1rm 125kg
3 x 3 120kg

Deadlift 155kg 1 x 5

Pause Bench 107.5kg

Pendlay rows 87.5kg x 3

Lifting bro style from first session

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(edited 10 years ago)

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Reply 60

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:tumble:

The reason that my blog is so quite is due to me lambing. I'm living away from home and working 15+ hour days!

Full body workout!

When I come back from lambing, it shall be back to running! :smile:

:smile:

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I've applied to do the London Marathon :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Running for The Anthony Nolan Trust - to find out about them - look in my sig :smile:

:smile:

Learnt a valuable lesson today - dont run with an upset stomach - consequences are horrific.

Splits were 7:20, 6:56, 8:41, 9:18 then last bit was 8:53. Horrendous!

4.1 miles done

Time - 37:58

Man I feel ill.... :s-smilie:

:s-smilie:

Reply 62

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Had a few days off

4.7 miles in 37min 8 secs

Reply 63

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3.2 miles in 23 mins 17 secs

Much better!

Went to the gym afterwards

Deadlift (first proper time doing it - excuse the lack of weight!)
1 x 10 30kg
1 x 10 40kg
1 x 5 50 kg
1 x 6 50kg
1 x 7 50kg

Romanian Deadlift (again excuse lack of weight - trying to get good form)
3 x 5 40kg

Then did a lot of ab work

Not quite sure what was happening in the gym today - one guy was doing tricep dips, but at best doing half the range of motion

One guy was getting spotted doing hammer curls..

And another guy was doing pullups - but rather than doing the full ROM - he was going as far down as having the pull up bar in line with the top of head, then pulling himself back up :lolwut:

:lolwut:

Then the same guy was doing over head tricep extensions.... and doing little more than 10 cm of a push...
Bizarre Saturday afternoon!

(edited 12 years ago)

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Sunday - 6.7 miles in 52:30 or 53:30

Today - 3.1 miles 23:50
Difference in time compared to the other day for the 3 miler is due to having to run on the verge in places.

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3.2 miles in 23:00

PB I believe!

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Yesterday 5.2 miles in 37:43
Absoluley bossed it

Today 7.1 miles in 54:39 My longest ever run!

I'm tired now :tongue:

:tongue:

Reply 67

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Yesterday 3.2 miles in 24:36

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Monday - 19.6 mile bike ride with a friend - first time on a road bike and lots of teething problems! Took 1hr 17 mins

Tuesday 4.4 miles fartlek 34.49 absolutley destroyed :redface:

:redface:

Today havent been feeling great I ran 2 miles in 16 ish mins on the treadmill then played an hour 45 of frisbee

Might have a few days off as I feel rough :frown:

:frown:

Reply 69

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Thurs 4 miles on the treadmill as it was raining damn heavy 39 mins - just chilled

Sat 8.83 miles in about 1 hour 13

Sunday - 2 hours of frisbee training

Reply 70

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Got bored of work last night so did some weights

Did several sets x5 of pull ups and 2 sets of x 5 of chin ups

BW Dips 1 x 10
1 x 20
+ 12.5 1 x 8
+ 25 1 x 6

Flat bench 17.5kg x 2 DB 1 x 10
20kg x 2 DB 1 x 10
22.5kg x 2 DB 1 x 5
My body was cba at this stage

Some DB curling with the 12.5kg 3 x 8

Lateral raises Palms forward 1 x 10 15kg
3 x 10 20kg

Palms rear 1 x 10 15kg
2 x 10 20kg
1 x 5 20kg

Did a fair bit of ab and core stuff aswell

Would have done some deadlifts or similar - but there was no weight or barbells free in the gym :frown:

:frown:

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4.5 mile fartlek 33:59 with stops for traffic

Several Pb's - 1k, 1 mile, 5 k and 2 miles :biggrin:

:biggrin:

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Wed 2.7 miles in 24:44 - run with running club - very slow! Painfully slow in fact

Then did some weights

Deadlift 4 x 6 50kg + 20kg long bar
1 x 5 60kg + 20kg long bar

BW innerveted rows - 3 x 10

Then played 3 hours of frisbee

My god I was sore yesterday morning :lol:

:lol:

Yesterday 4.4 miles in 34:36 I was too tired really - wasnt overally good!

Reply 73

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1hr 29 mins for 9.7 miles

Poor effort due to not feeling great and being too tired - my GI tract tried to take me out as well... 3 times I had to go for a poo... classy times

Reply 74

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Hill training day - 5 repeats of a hill near uni - killer

Not helped that its a strava running segment... I went for it :tongue:

:tongue:

2.8 miles 20:41

Reply 75

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Wed - 1.5 hours of frisbee training

Thurs - 4 mile run on treadmill - about 30 mins, probs nearer 31

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Sat - 13.1 miles in 1 hour 50 min 9 secs
Halfie done :biggrin:

:biggrin:

Some hellish hills on the run a 300ft climb to start off... :lol:

:lol:

Sun - 3.4 miles in 24:18

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Wed - 3.1 miles in 22:07

Reply 78

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2.8 miles in 20:21 - started to rain - so I turned back after 1.4 miles..
Did a further 3.2 in 23:40

Hate treadmills

Reply 79

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5.05 miles in 39:19 :smile:

:smile:

Ran it pretty well for once, no stops apart from one at about 4m for a quick calf stretch as they were really tight!

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