I don't generally hold with New Year's Resolutions, but having completed my 2017 Fretboard Running Club target of running 1million meters I feel like doing something else.
So...
I'm doing two things-
30/30/30- 30 pull ups, push ups & squats for 30 days. (I'm starting a new job next week & won't be as able to get to the gym, hopefully bodyweight stuff done at home will keep me in shape- along with an extra 10miles on my bike to work).
The other is the "Yoga with Tim 30 day yoga body".
1 yoga video a day for 30 days- I did loads of yoga whilst recovering from injury, but have been lazy & noticed my flexibility suffering.
Anyone else got plans?
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With luck this would get me a top twenty placing in my age category and possibly even a top ten.
I also want to get my weight down to nearer 17 stone that the current 18 and a bit.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I pulled a PB of 8 mins for 2k a couple of months ago and nearly killed myself.
I enjoy rowing and usually do a 2k as a warm up and warm down a few times a week. That day I could see I was well up on my usual time of 8:30 ~ 9 min so went for it early on. I was pissed off that I could get under 8.
However, after I was in no fit state to carry on with my usual circuit! I couldn’t believe how much losing less than 60 seconds off my average took out of me!
I’m toying with buying another concept 2 for at home this year. I sold the last one to free up space and money last year as I wasn’t using it much.
I’d love to get sub 7:30 which I’m sure if I applied myself I could. I’m 5’9” and just over 12 stone at the moment - not the best frame for optimum rowing performance.
I'm 6'4" which is a major help. I also rowed when I was at university but that was more than 15 years ago now. Technique is mostly still there though so I just need to get my fitness up. I've been doing Crossfit since August though and that has helped massively. I managed a 3:23 min 1000m a couple weeks back as part of a workout so know there is more to come.
Fingers crossed
So,
* 40+ push ups a day
* Duolingo each day
* 200 hours guitar practice (for the year)
* 500km running
* Two work related exams.
I need to get back to boxing, that's the best training I've ever done. Pretty much all you need.
.stimpsonslostson said: I was doing yoga everyday up until Christmas and felt great for it, but have let it slip whilst everybody has been off. Finding floorspace and getting some time when it's quiet has been impossible. So back to it tomorow. I use an app called Yoga Studio. 15 mins min a day but target 30 mins mainly with the additional hour session. I need to do it early before work or it doesn't happen.
I've not got a bar for pull-ups... Don't want to damage the door frame! Would love to do those, though.
Push-ups .. property ones with arms tucked in are difficult.
I only do home exercise with bodyweight or dumbbells, or go for a run. Trying to do more to bulk up a little as always been so stick thin. Been using wrist gross, too. It's a lot of effort, though.
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Gorilla Sports 10000120 Wall Mounted Pull Up Chin Up Bar, One Size https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0050I7LU4/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_ZORsAb46Y55YV
Got it about a year ago. When I started I could only do about 6 pullups. Now I can do about 6. But I don’t blame the bar for that!
Actually, post Christmas I’m probably down to about 4.
Should be not too much of a stretch as I managed 800k last year and I didn't start running properly until May.
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One exercise I like is sledge hammering, get a big tyre or heavy duty rubber mat or something, big old sledge hammer and a bit of space to swing it (WARNING: not suitable for indoors) and go to town. If I didn't have a load of logs that need splitting I'd do this instead, old school exercises FTW.
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I think I’d need 30 days of gentler movements before I could tackle Day 1!
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
My bodyweight squats are exactly as they sound- fully standing to "Ass to grass" and back again thirty times. Preferably with some kind of explosivity.
Im lucky in that I have a deep door frame that I can do my chins on- as I can't wrap my hands around it it's a good hand strengther too.
Push-ups I'm varying hand position- wide, narrow... Whatever I feel like. I'd like to be able to do one armed ones, that's the target.