acemuzzy wrote:

Well I've definitely got to an age where no exercise for a few weeks -> utterly fucked trying to get it going again

Managed to add about two minutes to my ParkRun time in a matter of weeks

The Daddy wrote:

I feel your pain. Two weeks in France seems to have allowed my bad foot to get better whilst simultaneously giving me a bad Achilles, dodgy knees, and resetting my fitness level to that of a smoking geriatric.

Lads I have started my fitness kick. Building cardio etc by doing stair exercises. 10 reps of up and down at pace every half hour til I've done 80 total. Gonna bump to 100 next week. 120 week after etc. Need to take additional rest due to my knees.

But it's actually working. Feel fitter already, can feel the burn in legs. I started off an absolute sweaty mess the first day but now done 40 so far today, fourth day, and not a drop of sweat.

Its 13 stairs so 26 up/down. Over 2k stairs per day. Then gonna move onto push-ups, sit-ups then eventually weight training. Kinda tired of being an overweight mess.

Not on any of your levels but feel absolutely committed to this. Need to lose at least 3 stone then tone.

That's Asda price

Nice one DS

Ive been on a bit of health kick recently as well. Starting reading Fat Chance by Dr Robert Lustig and got inspired to kick sugar out of my diet bar very small amounts (and fruit because fresh fruit is fine), small amounts being a teaspoon of maple syrup in some yoghurt or a blob of bbq sauce with dinner a couple of times a week. Holy fuck the difference is insane. I'm not going to preach, everyone has their own methods but fuck me my energy, focus, sleep and general feeling of fitness are all through the roof.
Along with that I've been eating clean in general, the bbq sauce is about the only 'processed' food I've eaten in about 10 days. Don't miss any of it, I can see this staying better than other things I've done in the past.

Im not counting calories as such but i reckon I'm only eating 1200-1500 cals a day based on rough estimates. Before anyone panics Ive got at least 2 stone in spare tyres to use up, about 100k cals. Always full up as well.

Exercise I have just been doing some weights and my usual dog walking. DS get on the weights if you can, buy some dumbells and get a basic routine. Muscles look good and burn calories at rest.

"He clocked four minutes and 20 seconds for his eighth mile"
Elite runner in the great north run just taking the piss!

I'm a pretty terrible distance runner but a good mile for me is double that....blows my mind to think the elite are literally running twice as fast as i can and for ten times further.

In better news though i have managed another week getting to the gym a few times. Going to try footy this week and then see if i can survive that and keep the gym going...

It’s so hot today too. Not much breeze and bright sunshine. St John’s are gonna be busy today I think, hope everyone gets through ok.

acemuzzy wrote:

Yeah the 4m43s 2k WR the other day is kinda mind-blowing.

That's doing 14.15s for a hundred metre sprint...20 times without stopping.
Mental

Good stuff Davy.

I see my earlier post about joining the gym was on 17th august, and here we are on 18th september and i'd still consider myself a gym goer! which is probably a record for me.
only downer is after 4 weeks of getting there fairly often but taking it steady and focussing on getting reps into problem areas, i went on saturday and decided to do some strength training - squats, deadlifts and bench press pretty much to my limit - then went again on sunday thinking i'd take it easy but then for some reason did the opposite.
so today i'm suffering full gym ache! lower back and legs are stiff and sore to touch and walking down stairs is a danger cos my legs feel like they'll buckle each time i bend them!
so hopefully this isn't the end and I'll get back to it in the next day or two, but i had to give myself the morning off!

Nice!

Good stuff mate, well done

RamSteelwood wrote:

well quite clearly you've just got a certificate from someone else and tippex-ed out their name, that's cheating!  

Shit, he's discovered my cunning plan!

Thanks guys, getting back into martial arts really helped my mental health through lockdowns and I discovered I have a real passion for it

Benacol

Unlikely wrote:

Your own shit.

No thanks, I get enough feces in my diet from having to read your turd posts

The Daddy wrote:

Gonna target end of sept for a sub 20, and if I manage that, end of Oct for a sub 19. Need to get something to focus on.

How's this looking, The Daddy?

Got down to 20:10 in today's parkrun, so I'm slowly getting there. Sub-19 remains a bit of a dream atm tho...

Did my first 10k race this past weekend. Did it in under an hour and was reasonably happy with that. Got a medal and everything (everybody who wanted one and finished got a medal, but still - I medalled!)