Question for anyone reading:
What is a good carb source that is nice to eat cold?
Currently I can heat up my food at work and usually have rice but I won’t be able to at uni and I’m not sure about eating it cold.
I have cold rice at work. Pasta and bread works too.
Try to find a common room shared with students of your year/degree they should have a microwave somwhere if you really can’t have it cold
I could find a microwave somewhere but I would rather not go to the effort and just eat it at a desk in the library while I’m studying.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Rice except with something like chilli con carne or chicken curry
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I agree with duke above.
I have rice and scrambled eggs with peppers usually. Although I don’t mind plain food and I eat it cold if I don’t add cheese on it.
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25/06/19
Airdyne bike: Easy 5 mins
Superset
Overhead press:
3x10x20
2x5x30
6x40
7.5x35
8x30
Ab wheel: 3x5
Dumbbell RDLs: 2x10x5s
Pause incline bench (slow eccentric): 8x20, 30, 7x40
Pause bench press (no lockout): 2xRP: 16-8x40
Lateral raises: lots
Tricep push-downs: lots again
Airdyne bike: easy 5 mins
Time: 50 mins
I think this lacked the intensity needed - I just was not feeling it.
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I find benching very hard after OHP, maybe that’s why ? Unless it’s decline I always prefer to bench first
It wasn’t really how much weight and reps I got but more how hard I pushed, bench was probably the best exercise actually because my chest was on fire.
I was very weak on OHP though.
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Weight this morning was 85.5kg which is the lowest it has been in probably at least two years.
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26/06/19
Air bike: Easy 5 mins
Barbell rows: 2x10x20, 2x5x40, 5x50
Lat pull-down: 12x31, 10x36, 13, 10, 16x45, 10x36
Chest supported T-bar row: 2x10x10, 10x15
Rear delt butterflies to swings: 2 sets to failure
Hammer strength rows: 2xRP: 20-10x20
Concentration curls: 16, 8x5
No rest
Hammer curls: 10x5s
Air bike: easy 1 min then (10s on, 20s off) x8
Similar to yesterday I struggled to really push hard and there was more quantity that quality, although I did have a few good sets. Whereas yesterday was more mental, today was trying to find the right exercises and my triceps, which are stupidly sore, were aching/hurting more than anything else on a lot of the exercises.
Time: 1hr 10 mins
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27/06/19
Air bike: 3 mins
RDL: 2x10x20, 8x40, 6x60, 4x100
Hack squat: 2x10x0, 20x20
Walking lunges: 50 reps
Sled push/drag:
1/1 x25, 30, 35, 40, 45 (up to 1 min rest as got heavier)
then
1/1 x50, 35, 25, 15, 0 (No rest between sets)
Time: 50 mins
Lower back has felt stiff and a bit painful the last few days, I think due to either lots of driving or how I slept and I have been delaying leg day. Today was the best it has felt but it still felt very flaky trying to deadlift 100kg so I shut it down fast. I go on holiday next week and I am not risking hurting myself.
Hack squat and lunges were good and sled was a lot of work so fairly happy.
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29/06/19
Air bike: 5 mins
Hammer strength chest press:
15x0, 12x10, 26x30, 14.5x40
Lat pull-down: 12x32, 14x41, 15x41
Smith Machine Seated OHP:
10xbar, 15x10, 18x10 (behind neck)
Rear delt butterflies to swings: 1 set to fail
Air bike: 1 min easy, (10s on, 20s off) x8
Time: 50 mins
Best session of the week. I really like the hammer chest press - it hit my chest hard but my triceps didn’t feel too bad and I completely failed the 15th set of the last set. Behind the neck smith OHP is probably going to become a more common exercise because I like that too. I felt it mostly in my lateral delts and had no discomfort or anything with it either.
This is likely my last workout for a while now as I go on holiday for two weeks from Monday.
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20s on, 10s off much harder, real tabata. Gets really hard, but it’s only 4 minutes.
The bike has settings for both but I have purposely gone for the ‘easier’ of the two to start with.
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I am probably the wrong person to ask because I can eat almost anything cold but fruit is a great carb source. Sandwiches as well. Popcorn, rice cakes. Cereal, but if I recommend that I have to also recommend cake, ice cream and donuts. I will eat the rice and potatoes cold if need be but yea it isnt great.
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Back from a two week holiday. Had a fantastic time and now excited to get back into the gym.
I need to sort out my conditioning and inspired by @flappinit I am going to do Dan John’s Kettlebell Challenge (with the women’s weight though).
17/07/19
10K Swing KB Challenge - Day 1
10 swings
1 press
30-60s rest
15 swings
2 presses
30-60s rest
25 swings
3 presses
30-60s rest
50 swings
~3 mins rest
5 rounds of above
Time: 1hr 12 mins
Overhead presses were done with 40kg and kettlebell swings with 16kg as per the women’s guidelines in the article.
I didn’t care about the time today, that can come later, my goal today was just to complete it. Saying that, the time includes about 10 mins of talking during the last round - a guy was doing yoke next to me and we got talking about strongman. I think he’s the first person I’ve spoke to about it in person so it was a conversation I was happy to have and it seems like there’s a decent strongman presence around where I live.
Created a blister on my pinky by the end of the second round and ripped the skin off it by the end of the third but other than that the surface of my hands are ok. Mentally it was a big challenge - these next 19 workouts will either make or break me and I’ll quit, hopefully the former.
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A longer time in the beginning just means you have lots of time PRs ahead of you! Good luck, I’ll be following along for the journey.
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Thank you that’s one of the things I tried telling myself.
Glad to have you following along!
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Don’t forget to clean up your diet, if it’s not that way already - no point in being miserable for 30 days if you’re not reaping all the benefits.
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Good advice, thank you. It’s not bad but could be better. I am not too bothered if I lose weight or not, the main benefit for me will be the increase in work capacity and conditioning.
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