Silly season

As the silly season approaches my question is "have you reached your goals this year ? if not why not have you jumped from newest brightest thing on the internet/ Mens health to the next ? or have you stayed consistent ?

If you have stayed consistent - do you believe in your goals ? Is your mind in the right place so you can achieve your goals?

So what am i really asking are you you open prey for the silly season marketing onslaught ???

stay strong let someone else be the sucker this year


Bonus read this artcle posted by JLT in the last week - it should inspire you, be it thought-provoking ot action-provoking!

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Sat 7/11/09: 2K3 Workout A
Bodyweight warmup
SB Leg curl 15
close-grip Push-Up 15 reps
Stick ups 10 reps

Warm ups:
1A) chin ups - 4, 4
1B) DB Chest press 20kg/8 22.5kg/8
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1A) chin ups 6, 6, 6
1B) DB Chest press 25kg/8, 25kg/8, 25kg/8

2A) BB Row 60kg/8, 60kg/8, 60kg/8,
2B) DB low incline chest press 22.5kg/8, 22.5kg/8, 22.5kg/8

3A) Decline pushups 15, 15, 15
3B) DB incline curl 17.5kg/8, 17.5kg/8, 17.5kg/8,

Not bad after such a stressful week work-wise - energy levels were low ... can probably increase the reps/weights on a couple of things next time round.

still get those painful head pains for few secs every-time I do chin-ups - weird ! must be something to do with my headaches generally though ....

work fun fair & fireworks thing tonight & the inaugural choir performance ... we are sounding good though "Christmas in the park" is getting closer ......

going forward am going to stop posting workouts here .... except on the odd occasion & move back to posting musings only

later

good gym blast ...

Don't know what it is about Sunday's always seem to get chronic insomnia these days ie not getting anything near a catnap till after 03:00 am - the joys of an overactive mind - bummer when i was fixing all the woes of work!

after shifting my mums stuff Saturday did not workout on the weekend.

Mon 02/11/09: 2K3 Workout B
Bodyweight warmup
SB Leg curl 15
close-grip Push-Up 12 reps
Stick ups 10 repsl

Warm ups:
1A) BB squats - 60kg/8, 60kg/8
1B) DB shrugs - 30kg/8 32.5kg/8
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1A) BB squats - 90kg/8, 90kg/8, 90kg/8
1B) DB shrugs - 35kg/8 35kg/8, 35kg/8

2A) BB RDL - 60kg-8, 80kg-8, 80kg-8,
2B) SB jack-knife - 15, 15,15

3A) DB step-ups 20kg 8/8, 20kg 8/8, 20kg 8/8
3B) 1 leg- SB leg-curl 8/8, 10/10, 15/13

# grip improved on the step-ups only the 3rd set were issues - reckon it might be those shrugs helping.

# keeping the ego in check with squats & RDL's still playing safe with my back - that said making sure all the squats are parallel - no cheating!

# had a bit of fun psyching out three guys in the gym "ie the gym is ours Monday night crew" ...all machine boys of course!

Monday

Long weekend, still great weather despite predicted thunderstorms ( am I tempting fate ??) football team crashed embarrassingly this morning, never mind - here is todays stuff

Mon 26/10/09: 2K3 Workout A
Bodyweight warmup
SB Leg curl 15
close-grip Push-Up 15 reps
Stick ups 10 reps

Warm ups:
1A) chin ups - 4, 4
1B) DB Chest press 20kg/8 22.5kg/8
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1A) chin ups 6, 6, 6
1B) DB Chest press 25kg/8, 25kg/8, 25kg/8

2A) DB Row - elbow out 30kg-8/8, 30kg-8/8, 30kg-8/8,
2B) DB low incline chest press 22.5kg/8, 22.5kg/8, 22.5kg/8

3A) Decline pushups 15, 15, 15
3B) DB incline curl 17.5kg/8, 17.5kg/8, 17.5kg/8,

+ skipping (jump rope) intervals

Ipod: The clash

Have not done much structured exercise since Monday night, back was a tad sore after hockey, & running the wellness day for work on Wednesday stuffed me out ... okay now so here is todays stuff

Sat 24/10/09: 2K3 Workout B
Bodyweight warmup
SB Leg curl 15
close-grip Push-Up 12 reps
Stick ups 10 repsl

Warm ups:
1A) BB squats - 60kg/8, 60kg/8
1B) DB shrugs - 30kg/8 30kg/8
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1A) BB squats - 90kg/8, 90kg/8, 90kg/8
1B) DB shrugs - 32kg/8 32kg/8, 32kg/8

2A) BB RDL - 60kg-8, 80kg-8, 80kg-8,
2B) SB jack-knife - 15, 15,15

3A) DB step-ups 20kg 8/8, 20kg 8/8, 20kg 8/8
3B) SB leg-curl 15, 15, 15

fun fun fun

Had fun tonight - came out of semi-retirement for work sports league & played a game of indoor hockey ... played a whole game without being subbed & scored a goal from behind halfway !

weight dropped nicely from last week without trying really, must have been all the walking, see there are benefits to bus strikes :) 86.3kg-to_ 84.8kg

goals

Boring I know but being one of those driven people i need them, otherwise I can go off in all directions - but with i direction/focus I can achieve.....

Have sat down & been honest about workouts, as recently have not been great, could make excuses with back injuries, work etc, but honest truth is that I haven't been turning up & been present - constantly looking for something else.

Truth is that I like lifting heavy shit but I need to balance that with keeping the fat down. so next 4 weeks will be 2K3 - this is the one I always come back to & gives me results to boot.

depending on how I feel will then do the 2K4/5/6 .. series or will alternate them month to month with Meatheads.( ie 2K3 the meatheads/ then 2K4).