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Category Archives: Fitness
Caffeine is less work?
Caffeine makes the heart beat faster. So doing a cardio workout after having drunk something like Red Bull means you actually work less hard because the cardio target is a certain rate (143 for me) and the drink has got you part of the way there already. I think. So in order to really workout [...]
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He fixed my bike
There are some things I’ll happily attempt, some I’ll grudgingly have a go at and others I just avoid. Servicing my bike is one such task. I needed all new cables, wheels realigning, things tightening and it being checked over by someone who knew what they were checking. Fixmybike in Leicester was just the job. [...]
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Circling feet
Back to the gym today after several weeks absence. 60 minutes on the elliptical trainer, 130bpm non-stop music. It was a breeze. Amazingly easy. So easy I’ll do it again tomorrow. The problem I’ve had before with returning is always weights. Having to drop a couple of blocks, building back up and trying not to [...]
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Standing in a sunshine tube
Mainly for health reasons and partly for curiosity I had my first of 10 tanning sessions. It’s not that I want a tan because I dislike that look (though a white t-shirt and the newly honed bod could look good…..) and I know the downsides of sunbeds but it’s something that the GP says would [...]
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10 tic-tacs/minute
1200 calories in 60 minutes on the x-trainer. Goal :) (edited – my maths should be better…)
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First gym injury
Using the A frame I have 40kg loaded to do squats. Not a huge weight – I can push 101 on the horizontal leg press – but somehow I got my stance wrong. Halfway through the second set I felt a dull deadness in my right thigh. Couldn’t – still can’t – walk as fully [...]
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The idiot at the gym
At the gym one guy has stood out for a few weeks now. He reminds me of a certain pudgy Bostonian because he too has the same lank hair. What I first noticed was not that he was like a Green Card-wannabe but that he wasn’t wearing gloves, but straps. Most blokes there wear gloves [...]
Noting so I don’t lose the info.
10 reps, 3 sets. In kg Pec fly: 56 Free weight bicep curl: 12 Free weight tricep curl: 8 Seated row: 49 Chest press: 42 Shoulder press: 30 Reverse pec fly: 28 The one where you have one knee on a bench, the other leg out, you lean forward and lift the weight from the [...]
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Cals at the gym
I would like to do 1200 cals in 1 hour on the cross-trainer. That’s 20 calories a minute to burn. I can manage just over 18. That difference – a tic-tac is 2 cals – eludes me. In the last 2 weeks I’ve done over 100km on the cross-trainer and I’ve lost the grand total [...]
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