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[chickenstrip]

I find it difficult to talk about my own fitness journey. It seems a very personal thing, especially given my injury limitations. Progress is still steady. Got a good range of exercises that work most of the body now, although I can't do any overhead moves. My only goal in each session is to try to do a little more than the last time. Unfortunately, I'm also limited on available weight, so I end up doing stupid numbers of reps with some exercises, and multiple sets of everything. Cardio is still problematic.
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[chickenstrip]

So is this thread supposed to replace the health and fitness one? I'll treat it as if it is.

Been pretty listless for the last few days, not doing anything, but today I worked out a pretty good session with my very own improv. on resistance bands, vis. x2 strong bungee cords
I thought I might be wasting my time not having the proper items, but by 'eck, that was quite a good little work out!
4 exercises that gave good isolation on rear delts, pecs, lats and triceps, three sets of each one. Quite pleased with that, think I'm gonna be sore tomorrow!
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[garth]

I can now comment on this as I done did get fat.

After I came back from America and Canada etc I was 80kg. At 6'2"ish that's ok for me. That was 18 months ago, and I've since put on 10kgs! I blame moving in with the Mrs and too many takeaways.

I've started using a cycling machine and have been doing 10km each morning. My rowing machine has now turned up, so this morning I added 2km of rowing on top of that too.

It's not much - but it's a start, and I refuse to buy new leathers so the gut has to go.
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[garth]

10 days in, 1kg down. Not much, but the right direction.
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[bhinso]

I've lost 1.5 stone since February.
I'm hardly eating because i'm completely inactive. Soon as I eat properly the weight will go on.

[Bubbs]

Down from 213lbs to 200.4lbs (as of Sunday)

> Cycling 3/4 times a week
> Alternating everday - Pull ups (30) and Press-ups (100)
> App everyday Home Workout

Food
Eat everything except bread, sugar/sweet things, alcohol, dairy

Upping my output to 50 pull ups and 200 press ups after this month. Feel like i'm smashing it at the moment. I can feel my stomach shrinking. It's a lovely feeling.
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[chickenstrip]

[bhinso]

[WD Forte]

[Bubbs]

[chickenstrip]

[Riejufixing]

Back from my little walk "around the block". 3.03 miles in 42 mins, which is an improvement on a fortnight ago.

Shoes. I need new shoes for walking in, which must be hard-wearing, but do not need to have cleated soles, preferably cheap. Even used. Boots might do too, but again no cleated soles. Where's a good place to ask (if not here)?

[grr666]

I've been walking a lot lately. Doing circuits of the local common. 1 lap is approximately a half mile, it's a square route
where 1 side goes downhill, the remaining three uphill on a very gradual incline so 3/4 of the time I'm walking uphill.
My daily minimum distance target is 11.2 miles so I can achieve my weekly distance target of 78 miles+ a week, or
three marathons. I started at the end of April and haven't been tracking weight but my posture has certainly improved.
I syncced my phone with my itunes acouple of weeks ago so I just pop in my wireless earbuds crank up some music
and get walking. Pantera seems to work well.

I've worn two pairs of trainers smooth in this short space of time , I have a brand new pair of Asics Gel trainers waiting but
I'll finish wearing out the Merrells that have lasted literally a month. My first pair of Merrell shoes and my last. Never
seen a sole wear out so fast, I'm not a huge heavy guy and I've only ever walked on tarmac in them but they were showing
signs of visible wear after just 3 days and after a month they've pretty much had it. Shame, they were a pair of fancy gore tex
shoes as well, the upper looks new still. Determined to wear them for another few days at least. I wonder if it's the slope
causing the wear?
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[chickenstrip]

[Riejufixing]

I used to do 9 1/2 miles Mon-Fri, and twice a day at weekends. Then, I used to have some £20 "builders boots", without toecaps of course, which were good, and some leather boots which had soles made of recycled tyres, which seemed indestructible. Screwfix seem to have only toecap boots, which I don't want. Neither do I want to buy trainers every 3 weeks.

Is there such a thing as a cheap hard-wearing trainer? The sort with flat soles, a hard layer not just foamy? If not, cheap boots with smoothish soles? I don't want gore-tex or similar unnecessary stuff.

I tend to wear out the soles under the balls of my feet, towards the outside edge.

[chickenstrip]

Dunno. I bought some comfortable shoes that have more of a trainer-style sole for lots of walking, Kangols, but I now think those soles aren't going to last long

We're living in an age where things aren't supposed to last
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[Riejufixing]

[chickenstrip]

[Bubbs]

[garth]

[WD Forte]

Week 25.
The Saturday morning weigh in and I'm 88.5 kgs or abt 13st-13lb
which puts me in the upper end of 'healthy weight' zone.
Although I'm no longer 'overweight' for my 6'3"-ish height
I still have fat to lose.
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[Bubbs]

Sunday weigh in 199.4lbs... my weight has remained the same but my fat percentage continued to drop and my muscle percentage has increased so it's all good.

Going off just weight is a silly move. I would have lost motivation had I not had the musle and fat percentage on the smart scale to go off.

Decided to go mountain biking with my younger brother and his mates yesterday, they were hitting jumps at the jump park so decided to go for 15foot double... took off, front wheel clipped the second jump and I went flying, landed with a huge impact on my right shoulder and now it doesn't work anymore... can't even lift a tin of beans. Managed to rip skin off in multiple places so i'm in a sorry state today.

So... I may have to try my first one handed press up to see if I can do it. Hopefully the atomic dead arm goes awat quickly. I used to be able to bounce back from that kind of fall in the past but now my body refuses to function.
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[chickenstrip]

I have found a goal to motivate my fitness journey. It might be a little unrealistic, depends on one certain thing being available to me in a little under 2 years time. But meanwhile, I'll pretend it's achievable. It has been hard these past two years not having anything to aim for.
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[Bubbs]