harddeck242’s BodyBlog

there’s a question I’ve been asking myself recently. There’s a girl in the office (fat of course) who’s idea of motivating people is to bring in boxes of cookies and big communal bars of chocolate and organises the daily take away runs.  I mean, that’s lovely tasting food full of trans fats but hey, it feels good for now right?

I think my conclusion is that I’d rather be the hard one who people follow because of a mental state they’d like to be a part of rather than the guy who’s slowly killing the suckers who partake of the take away lunches and the free potato chips. When you give away food only rats will follow.

Went to maroubra beach this morning instead of gym as summer is quickly approaching (3 days left). It’s funny how ir started becuase the guy i started boxing with 18 months ago has dropped out of the scene and has been "loving his food" a bit too much of late.  Anyway the teacher has become the taught and he knew that I was having so much fun being fit that he asked if I knock out a little somethin for a morning hit.

Then my best friend and her sister found out and away we went.  Man it was beautiful at 6 on the beach. Push ups in the sand, forgetting what a bitch running on dry sand is, getting sand in my hair from all the sit ups, comments on how hard i’d turned from this time last year. LOVED IT!

I think that if I’m looking to move it up a notch or three this might be the answer - twice a week in the morning at the beach, twice a week spin in the morning and moving one of my weight days to the afternoon (which makes more sense anyway).

Dear god i feel drained.  I was as ready as I ever was for anything in my life this morning so it almost went off without a hitch (with exception of forgetting electrolytes until the 1.5 hour mark).

First hour was tough as I was trying to get settled in and getting the crap out of my system.  Once it was just me and my head it was balls to the wall.

I’m feeling entirely tougher than I thought I could be.  For each hour I got a ticket to win a trip to Vietnam for an 8 day bike challenge so fingers crossed.

Holy whacked out sets!  Started volume training this month as part of 4 month plan and it is hell.  It’s not a full GVT mind you but still, 10 sets of 5 is a killer when you’re super setting mil presses with chin ups or bench with rows.

Super impressed with this program as its MADE me hit the chin ups twice a week for 2 months now so now that I’m on my third month and we switch to GVT, I can only do once a week with the chin ups however, the great thing is that i did 3 full sets of 5 chin ups and 4 on my 5th.  Not many more after that but not giving up and just knocking those f_ckers out is they key here.

Mind you, I did 4 full sets of 50kgs on the standing shoulder press then went down to 45kgs for the 5th and 6th then down to 40 for the 7th and literally couldn’t do any more.  My bis were tight and my shoulders were screaming.  Plus my head started thumping so I thought maybe i should leave well enough alone.  Next week it’s onwards with the GVT but no stopping this time.

Live it!!!

8 days till my 4 hour spin class for charity.  I suppose I’m a bit nervous but I’m also a whole lot more "bring it on!"

I mean, what am i afraid of, actually making it? I’ve got my diet set, my warm up set, my breakfast set, what’s there to make me fail except my stupid mental deficiencies?  Which I shall ovecome by the way. Yes 4 hours might seem a big ask and I’ve never done 4 hours straight but if I’m not reaching beyond my grasp I wonder just exactly what the point of all this health stuff is.

It occurred to me that this "plateau" word that i see being thrown around so much may just in fact be something that I haven’t had the chance to experience yet.  I mean, I don’t expect to hit one anytime soon just because this weights thing is just too much god d@m fun.

I love being 180 pounds, I love doing more than 10 chin ups for the first time ever in my life.  I love feeling my mind connect with my body on the the fifth set of bench presses or 20th mil press.  Give it to me brother I’ll take it on.  Maybe THAT’S why I haven’t hit a plateau…..