[Drew]

Originally Posted by Jeff

Don't get me wrong, I love my daughter, but getting up at 12am, 2am, and 4am kills me.

Try this - do like 5 push-ups or 5 sit-ups whenever you have to get up in the middle of the night for her. Over time, it'll add up.

After spending the last couple weeks away from home at weddings eating badly (because almost nothing at airports is healthy) and drowning myself with booze, I'm back up into the 183-185 range, up from 180 (but still down from 190-195). I'm mono free, however, and my arms have almost stopped aching from the last round of vaccinations, so I'm hoping to get back out on my bike again and start doing pushups again.

[neon_black88]

Hey everybody I'm in a slightly different boat to some of you guys, im mainly getting fit and doing some strength training to get fit enough for the army. Most of the shit I do doesn't involve weights, because the way I see it, if I need to be able to do pushups, I train for it by doing pushups, same with situps, chin-ups ect. Anyway this is my weekly plan.

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Monday
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Pushups - Chest, Trycepts (2 Sets)
Sit-Ups - Upper Abs (To Max)
Leg-Ups - Lower Abs (To Max)
Chin-Ups - Bycepts, Back ( 2 Sets)
Overheads - Trycepts
Beep Test - Cardio

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Tuesday
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Sit-Ups - Upper Abs (3 Sets)
Leg-Ups - Lower Abs (3 Sets)
Beep Test - Cardio

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Wednesday
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Pushups - Chest, Trycepts (To Max)
Chin-Ups - Bycepts, Back (To Max)
Overheads - Trycepts
Bycept Curls - Bycepts

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Thursday
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Situps - Upper Abs (To Max)
Leg Ups - Lower Abs (To Max)
Beep Test - Cardio

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Friday
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Beep Test - Cardio
Chin Ups - Bycepts (2 Sets)

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Saturday
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Pushups - Chest, Trycepts (2 Sets)
Sit Ups - Upper Abs (3 Sets)
Leg Ups - Lower Abs (3 Sets)

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Sunday
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Rest


Any comments from anyone who knows there stuff? My diets kinda hard for me to control, but I try to make sure theres always a can of tuna handy. And I go for water or milk instead of soft drink. Im not really trying to loose wieght, although I wouldnt mind cutting down on my body fat. Also any comments on training to the beep test? Basically I try and improve or maintain my score everytime. Its a really short duration, but high intensity cardio, so probably not the best way to burn fat, but effective for what im trying to achieve hopefully. Its just really motivating to have an exact number to try and beat every day.

By the way. Im on about 25 pushups, which isn't great. I wana get that up to 50. Military style situps about 30-40, which is REALLY suprising because I used to be able to do sit-ups till the cows come home. Im gana test my max to the army test tommorow though. Thats gota get to 80. Beep test score is 8.0, ill let you guys know If I beat that tommorow.

Basically im alreaddy on the minimum for recruitment to the army, but I wana be outstanding haha, enough for special forces selection.

Also, is it right that you can do your abdominals every day? Same with cardio?

Hope all you guys are going good! I can feel the progress alreaddy and I havent even fully goten into it yet!

Next day update:

I increased my beep test score to 8.5, whoooo. Also I tested my max aussie millitary situps to there audio tape thing and I made it to 45, which is the minimum. So now I've got all the minimums its time to break some records. I killed myself doing pushups and negative rep chin ups aswell.

[neon_black88]

I kill threads! Anyway I've increased my score to 9.0

[neon_black88]

9.5

[Rev2010]

Jeff, I'm coming into this thread many months late obviously but man, your situation read very much like mine. I'm 33 now and when I started my job 7 years ago I came in weighing about 160lbs. Now, I was also told I was waaay too skinny during those years being I'm 6' 2" but I never thought anything of it. I went from a job standing on my feet all day, doing some stocking here and there and the "occasional cleaning your section" - was a computer software section in a store. Anyhow, since then my job has been and currently is as a desktop support technician. So as you're well aware there's a lot of sitting at computers. We used to move around big ass CRT monitors and heavy towers but today's gear is much smaller and much lighter being flatpanels and micro-tower PC's. With that our own cafeteria doesn't help.

So anyway, to get to the point I shot up to 205lbs and said that's it, I gotta do something about this. I want to get back on my skateboard again like I was 2 years ago (weighed 195 or so then). So I bought an exercise bike and everyday I come home and do 45-60 minutes on it while watching DVD's episodes of Star Trek or whatever to pass the time. Also, if I plan on watching a movie or something I will most of the time get on the bike rather than lounge out on the couch. I burn on average 325-350 calories in that time. On some occasions I will do two workouts to burn 700 for the day. On top of that I cut down on the quantity of my meals and also eat much healthier selections. I've also switched over to primarily drinking zero calorie beverages during those meals. Also, I picked up a bunch of weight watcher type microwaveable meals. They don't taste so great but are usually only around 300 calories with some being even less. So far in the past week or so I've dropped three pounds. I'm trying to get to 185lbs or so.

My big problem is that I drink a LOT of beer, annd I don't want to stop. I love beer. But being I exercise first now when I get home it's actually reduced my beer intake as I would usually have one or two in that time span. I don't know how things have progressed for you as I haven't read all 9 pages yet but I hope things have gone well


Rev.

[Jeff]

Well, new update. I went on the Nutrisystem plan, just this past week (tomorrow will be one week).

I've also been walking 2.5 miles a day at lunch time, and it's going pretty well. It's pretty easy to see why people lose weight on this.....they don't let you over eat! I don't really feel hungry though, which is good.

I have to stay on it for 3 months, so we'll see what happens by Dec. 17th.

[Jeff]

Update: nearly two weeks, and I've lost 7 pounds. Not too bad! It's really encouraging to see progress.

[Papa Shank]

I've finally had to get off my ass and start running again for the first time in 5 years and fuck me it's tough. I'm doing a 0.5 mile warmup jog into a 1.5 mile run, the aim is to do the 1.5 miles in 9 minutes, I started running last Saturday...

Saturday time- DNF
Sunday time- 12:47
Monday time- 11:20

So, I'm quietly confident I can knock more time off tonight. Infact I might just go out for a run now (odd how I can go without it for ages then can't stop...).

I've also got to get back into deadlifts, power cleans, pushups, pullups, situps and I'll start to do 3+ mile runs to help lower my 1.5 mile time.