UltanBoyd

I am an engineer. 98kg is 100kg to the nearest 100kg. You'd hate how I do the mental maths for Kilometers to miles then!

Grow it long, long or shave it off. This is what I have found. Going from a grade 3 all over to the shoulder lengh hair I now have was harrowing. Then again long hair gets annoying being wet for hours even after 10 minutes under the hair dryer!

Saw MΟΛΩΠΛΑΒΕ and knew who this would be. Nice To go with the Η ΤΑΠΗ ΕΠΙ ΤΑΣ. I think I will be checking out Xenophon (seeing as I usually get his name and the xiphon confused.

Yo bro, looking at these while curling them totally increases testosterone levels and gives you mad gainz yo!

Hey how's it going?

Uh-Maze-ING!

I hear you can get a cream for that! Oh wait....is cream paleo?

Yesterday I had a lot more food than usual. An office refresh gave us free bacon rolls and mini pastries. Then in the evening I stopped after three enchiladas. Thinking the other one of mine and the other one of the other halfs would make a nice lunch. Anyway she ate her fourth and I found that though Bean-sated (Ender's game Bean not broad bean, sated) I did kinda want the fourth. So I had it. My excuse is the lodger is ill, my other half's liftshare is ill and we've both been rediculously tired. I think it's a case of we're fighting off diseases and winning. What does that make us? Any how I think I feel better for the refeed but I'm concious of how I've eaten alot of late. These 'refeeds' seem to come again and again. Maybe I do need more food, I visibly have more muscle mass and in three and a bit months of eating better and two and a half months of lifting heavy I've lost 1.5 Stone and think I've reduced my body fat % by about 4-5%. Perhaps things have changed and I need to rethink my daily feed. Breakfast: Natural Yoghurt, Oat Clusters Lunch: A meat and salad wrap, an apple, a banana and a 25g bag of crisps Dinner: A meal usually something like a plate of roasted veg and sweet potato with a slab of meat. Post workout: A glass of chocolate milk. (I chase after and persitance hunt the chocolate cow on the running machine in the gym!) So usually averaging around the 2000 Cal mark. Hmm perhaps a little low.

Wait.... you row? Jakkals? Why no puppies?

That's what I like to see! Desire dressed as need! Welcome aboard!

Wow a massage artist! Do you have any idea of web based stuff to learn from? I figure it's a good way to ensure on rest days I spend quality time with the other half and occasionally get a free massage. Congrats on the progress so far and on having the right attitude, life got the better of you tomorrow might not! It will take you far in the next 6 weeks!

Fighting a war takes a lot of energy. Don't feel bad if the Riders of Ro-wan (your immune system) has left you low. You got out there, lead from the front and knew when to withdraw. That makes you mighty! Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder and crush him. - Sun Tzu

Totally got this down. Weight in Kilos is weight in (lbs -10%)/2 So (220lb -10%)/2 is ball park (220-22)/2 =98kg which is pretty much 100kg The other way kg * 2 and then add 10% of the total so (100kg *2)= 200 add 10% (20) =220lb!

Rodents of Unusual Size: I got in two gym sessions this week and at the weekend a functional movement that I'm totally counting. Though I would like to get to the gym more it's not my priority right now. I'm showing I can get fitter, stronger and healthier around my hobbies, interests, family and advancing my career. Gnoll Avengers: I have lifted and it was good. Squatting is starting to get back on track, I think I could probably get my 1RM goal done now really but this time I'm taking my time and taking the weights as they come. Going too fast last time messed me up I think so I'm sticking to the new plan. My other lifts have been worked on and that's enough for now!

Well look who's back! Good to see you back, figured you for a goner! A big welcome to the new crew members as well. Hows the first week going?

I went to church, like an actual church (not the Church of Iron) for a friend's "Thanks Giving" think Christening but they believe the child should find Christ themselves before being declared a Christian. The Pastor's sermon was about raising children. He suggested four stages. 1. Discipline 0-5 2. Training 6-0 3. Guidance 11-14 4. Coaching 14-18 His arguement being too many people wanted to be friends with their children in the discipline zone and wondered why when they try to introduce discipline at the coaching zone (when they should stand on the sidelines more) that was when there was trouble. That actually as a parent. I see people all the time which were never told their mother was not their slave and don't know how to tidy up after themselves. I have no answers, I have no kids and nieces and nephews are a poor subtitute for experiance in this situation. However I wouldn't beat yourself up about raising your voice if that's the way to discipline the child for the sake of having the child know right from wrong. Check intention, check the results and remove your crankiness from the situation and there'll be times when shouting at kids is the quite possibly the right move.

Good chap that Pratchett! Last night I was dog-tired. Went to the gym anyway. Didn't have a good time. I was tired, too much pasta over the past couple of days was annoying my stomach, I had to wait 15 minutes while some bros curled a bar only in the squat racks, I used the time to use the 20kg fixed weight set of barbells to squat with. Fixed weights, up to 30 kg. Not only were they curling in the squat rack, they were curling the 20kg bar when there were other bars better suited to the job available! Thencleared all the plates in the gym off the floor of our squat rack before starting squatting 70kg again. Slowly building the knee back to strength. I think the issue was knee stength. In my resting phase I saw some kid teaching his friends some exercise that looked like a clean but he kept telling his mate he was wrong for bending his knees when he picked the weight off the floor. The kid when he showed the exercise at 40kg was bent in two to pick it up. Anyway then Benches were filled with people curling (the preacher bench was free but it's harder to swing the weight up and look stronger than you are that way) so couldn't get a bench, gave up on benching, got on with some assisted pulls did some machine work and went down to grab a now free bench. Stomach felt bleurch. Went for a run, could not be arsed. tl;dr Ultan is a grumpy git when tired; not enough focus in gym.

It's the UK recommendation for men. Doesn't take into account height/body shape anything of that ilk. It's something for a poster and rule of thumb I guess but seems jolly reasonable to get the old wind brewer ship shape and in a pair of gor blimey trousers for half a dozen half dozen inches. Damnit to hell Rowan, have a butchers this way and see what you've made me do!

Erm wow, Swolórin. This looks scary! Will be watching from behind my sofa!

Oh and loving the new tshirt cap'pin!

Hey Chickie you did so well last challenge I'm sure you'll do amazingly this challenge. Con funk or no!

I should probably point out that I did go to the gym last night. I went Sunday with some friends to learn Cleans and got some deadlifts and a massive back blowout going on. Last night I had a practise cleaning session. I just keep pulling the bar rather than dropping under it. There's some bruising on my thighs as well. Gotta work out the putting it down part of it, I'm at the start of the ramp down for legs. Started a full on push for a pull up and massive lats. I don't know why but lats are cool. So started using the assisted pullup machine hard. 12 with 41kg, 8 with 39kg, 5w/33kg 3 w/27kg down to 1 with 21kg assist. Couldn't get the 1. Banged in the 27kg and got 1. Decided I'd drop set it so backed off to 39kg. Couldn't get up. Backed off to 50kg. Just couldn't move. Was horrendous. Then again I hit it hard the day before with 5x Wide Pull ups, 5 tricep dips, 5x chin ups, 5 x tricep dips, rest 30 and repeat. However as of Sunday I do move about an inch when hanging raw off a bar. Getting there. Slowly, very slowly. It was just odd to have lost any strength at all on the pyramid. Resting after the pyramid I full on felt dizzy. Was fun! Still, looking for non-leg dominant exercises for the next two weeks. Strict press, Bench press, any other big barbell lifts? Any good dumbell lifts?

Shouldn't even jest bout zombies. How you gonna know if you're in a zombie apocalypse or stumbled across the zombie run. Hesitation on the trigger....well that might not end so well for you! Still hope you enjoy the run and glad to have some enthusiastic new blood in the browncoats. Forever shall we be Browncoats of Summer!

Ooh the fan is something one of the guys at work suggested for background noise during the day so you don't listen to the neighbours!

Yeah a Portsmouth is a round consisting of 60 arrows shot in threes at 20 yards with 10 ring scoring. (i.e. inner gold 10, outer gold 9, inner red 8 outer red 7 etc etc) shot at a 60cm face. It's usually pretty fast paced and the short distance with the smaller face make it a different challenge to outdoors shooting where hitting the boss (big round straw thing or big square foam thing the target face sits on.) Indoors some people have to put three cut down faces on otherwise they risk robin hooding (Shooting one arrow into another) their arrows. Set up is often different. Some people use lighter bows (boo) however most use a thicker, heavier set of arrows with massive fletchings to slow them down, straighten them out and pierce the line between scoring rings. A portsmouth has a max score of 600. I know I could comfortably pull a 500 out of the bag when I was on form (could have done better but prefer outdoors to inoors even in winter) Jargon? You mean this wasn't easy to understand?