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  1. Jarric
    Half-jacks done with EC. My calves hurt! Congratulations @Alcnedlor on hitting Silver!
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    Sorry to hear you've been struggling. Sometimes life throws you loads of crap all at once; getting ill, manic work weeks, and with the best will in the world you won't meet all your goals at those times. You've kept off the soda, so that's really good! Don't panic too much, but keep accomplishing as much as you can and just try to make mostly good choices until life calms down. Don't beat yourself up about it anyway. Really sorry to hear about your knees, that truly sucks. But you're working to get lighter and be healthier each day, so you will lose the weight and be able to do those things again.
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    Also @Miw_Sher and anyone else who was interested, this is the Tough Mudder 3 month training plan: http://toolkit.runireland.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Tough-Mudder-Full-2017-Training-Plan.pdf
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    Sorry man, got a bit distracted by life! Yes, I'm in! My wages get in on 25th too so if we pick a day I'll buy my entry then. I can do either day, but personally I'd say go for the Saturday and then we can enjoy a Saturday night in Dublin!
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    Sounds like you're doing great with so much going on . Good luck with the move.
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    ...you rang? This sounds absolutely amazing. Count me in for 2018!
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    Woo! Excellent gif usage btw! Although whenever I see YEAAAAAAAAAHH I think Yeah, it's really great. The stomach, on the other hand, will need addressing this year... Ah good, not just me then! Cheers man. Yeah, certainly seems to be working now, and I'm still hitting enough depth as far as I can tell. This place is amazing; I probably would never had attempted these lifts (amongst many other things) if it wasn't for all the lovely nerds here. ...this may become the subject of my next positivity update. Have I done that already? Idk. ===== No proper update today guys; the highlight of my day so far has been going to the dentist, which kind of tells you how the rest went, so I'm going to recharge tonight and hopefully say more tomorrow.
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    I'm far from being an expert on running programming, but I would say do the least amount of running you can do whilst still seeing the progress you want. If you can get away with 3 runs per week and make decent progress then it might be worth sticking with rather than working any harder (and therefore marginally increasing the risk of poor recovery and possibly injury).
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    Shrimp squats done with EC.
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    ^took the words right out of my mouth; you're pretty much working the same muscle group in 4 different ways here. My suggestion would be to halve your workout and alternate between the two halves each time; better to enjoy a shorter workout than suffer through/not start a longer one. I'd also point out that you've listed 8 workouts of varying types each week, plus about 5 dailies. If you can do all of that then go for it, but try to be mindful of not over doing it
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    Karaoke song: I run the occasional karaoke night so there's hundreds, but I quite often end up doing this one:
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    Stats at W2D2 Eat - i. 2/4 - ii. 2/4 - iii. 2/7 Sleep - i. 2/7 - ii. 2/7 Lift - 0/3 Like it - 2/7 Daily Dare Score - 20 The Captain - 17/30 Worked late last night to try and catch up a bit, so it was a bit of a rushed evening. Got home a little after 8, washed up whilst Mrs cooked, ate and was in bed about 2 hours later! Still, the sleep has done me some good I think. The daily dare yesterday was boat folds. Horrible things, but they really exposed how much work I need to do on my core/abs as I really struggled. Positivity: Recently I'v been really proud of my shoulder muscles. For most of my life I had no visible muscles to speak of and didn't even realise it, so it's great to see some size on them now. ===== Got in the gym this morning. Tried a couple of the tips you guys gave me on my squat but my back was still complaining (even on the warm-up), so I switched to a low bar squat instead and was amazingly pain free (thanks @Laghail). So I'll be giving low bar a go for a little while and try and progress on that. What I did: HB Squat: 20kg (~44#) x 2 x 5 40kg (~88#) x 5 55kg (~121#) x 3 65kg (~143#) x 2 75kg (~165#) x 2 LB Squat: 60kg (-132#) x 3 x 5 OHP: 20kg (~44#) x 2 x 5 30kg (~66#) x 5 35kg (~77#) x 3 37.5kg (~82.5#): 3, 4, 3 - bit of pain in my right shoulder on these Clean: 30kg (~66#) x 2 x 3 35kg (~77#) x 3 40kg (~88#) x 5 x 3 - I recorded one of these sets so I'll probably stick it up here once I've looked at it ===== Snooker tonight which should be fun, and I'll have a few beers. Must also remember to prep breakfast and lunch, particularly as I forgot lunch today.
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    Flappy boats done, no EC. I'm still not where I'd like to be on core strength.
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    Jarric replied to Maggie-Miau's topic in Rangers

    ^this. Drop in and say hi?
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    That's great news; so much easier to make progress if your both going for it together, particularly with shared meals. I'm not quite there with my Mrs yet, and tips on convincing her?
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    What is this witchcraft???
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    Totally, I think it's that puzzle like aspect to it that keeps it interesting. And when you really can't figure it out it's great how people come together and try and suggest things and figure it out with you. Thank you! You'll get there with the gaming nights; just be prepared with lots of healthy(er) snacks and you can get though them! Re: Bouldering
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    300 miles is a long way! I could leave England and be in Wales, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany or Ireland if I travelled 300 miles (though just as likely I'd be in the sea). Well I would have said Jeff Buckley's version of Hallelujah, but you beat me to it! So maybe this: Or this has grown on me more recently:
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    Right? It feels like a reward all the time, whereas often other exercise is more like work towards a reward.
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    Stats at W2D1 Eat - i. 1/4 - ii. 1/4 - iii. 1/7 Sleep - i. 1/7 - ii. 1/7 Lift - 0/3 Like it - 1/7 Daily Dare Score - 19 The Captain - 16/30 Train was cancelled yesterday morning, very annoyed as it meant I missed my lifting! I debated going this morning but favoured sleep instead, so the rough plan is now Wed/Fri/Sat this week. The first two are definites, the third I'll see how I feel about consecutive days and a temporary gym at the time. The Captain push-up challenge is starting to get pretty tough. Yesterday was sets of 20, 10, 5 and having done 16 days without breaks my shoulders ached! I'm not sure any f us with make a set of 50 by the end of the month, so I'm just trying to to crack first! Positivity: Some things at work have changed which means once the bulk of February is out of the way we should have a much more manageable workload, and I can give some more care and attention to my remaining clients. Feels like the first chink of success on my work/life balance goal.
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    Week 1 Round up Stats Eat - i. 4/4 - ii. 5/4 - iii. 7/7 Sleep - i. 6/7 - ii. 7/7 Lift - 3/3 Like it - 7/7 Daily Dare Score - 17 The Captain - 15/30 So nearly perfect apart from that one point on the sleep goal! Very happy with this start! ===== Saturday Parkrun in the morning as I mentioned, and then I pretty much failed to do anything productive. Caught up on here, chilled out in general. In the evening Mrs and I stayed in with a few beers and watched TV. I stayed up until about 12:30, which is my only missed point for week 1 (the plan wasn't really designed around the idea of me staying in on a Friday or Saturday night!). Positivity: I've had a lovely, relaxing day today. Nothing special, just a lot of unwinding on the sofa. It's nice to have a day to do nothing once in a while. ===== Sunday Bouldering in the morning. Was great run, was there well over 2 hours and totally knackered my grip strength. Finished a bunch of new climbs that had just been set and had really good fun. In the evening I was working the bar at the local members club. I drive there, so no alcohol, but with my goals it's also a whole evening with no diet coke and no sweets/crisps (Americans, read candy/chips). As that's generally all I do on these evenings it was so hard guys! I brought a load of fruit with me though to help me out, and made it through the evening without breaking my goals. I'd forgotten to prop breakfasts or lunches, but luckily Mrs is on board with this and actually did both for me! So I got home a spent a few minutes reading some Green Arrow before getting into bed on time. Positivity: I'm so happy I discovered bouldering last year. It's so much fun and every week I'm excited to go, and to push myself, and generally have fun. It's been the easiest exercise habit I've ever made, because I enjoy it so much it never feels like work.
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    что нового? I tried learning Russian for a couple of days and that's the only phrase I can remember! Cool you're learning it; I've bookmarked that channel in case I ever get into it again.
  23. Jarric
    Bicep extensions done with EC.
  24. Jarric
    Ah, but if you win you'll get more than your money back, and if you lose you won't need the money.
  25. Jarric
    Hi, just thought I'd see how you were doing after you dropped by my thread, and I see things are going awesome. Carry on.
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