Ah cool, be good to know the numbers, I tested hba1c of 38 2 months ago, prediabetic is 41, so too close for my liking, been sugar free since, will retest in Jan.
Other things I’ve been doing - apple cider vinegar pre carbs, celyon cinnamon and pine park extract, haven’t gone berberine yet but might do blood test depending.
Hope you manage to smash this and get it under control!
Didn’t really answer this. The philosophy is my life is changing right now. I’m just getting used to shift work and I need to find a way to balance that with training. Reading “Brawn” by Stuart McRobert he talks about waves of training. And the right things done at a high enough intensity will elicit results. But also intensity in training much be done at the right time and can not be sustained at max all the time. And if you have “other things” on at work or in your life - these to must inform your training life.
With these changes I’m going for short and sweet. Hit a max(ish) effort set for push, pull, legs once a week. And try and get in a cardio session. As I get better at juggling my new work life I will start doing more training. Adding in bigger longer work outs.
So yeah that’s it. For now I need to measure my effort as I’m maxed out in other areas. As work takes less I will give more to training.
Today’s workout it’s the first time I’ve done a workout in between two 12 hours shifts. As I stated above I’m still trying to juggle work Life workout balance and this is a big step. Granted I finished the 1800 hours last night and don’t start to the 1100 hours this morning so I had the better part of 15 hours off. And it is a very short workout lacking in what you would call all that intensity as well. But they all count they all add up if I can throw another couple of these in a week maybe five a month I’ve seen more progress than what I’m seeing now.
Front squat
108kg - 8 reps
Back squat
108kg - 20 reps
Short and sweet.
So my blood work came back and there is good and bad news.
HbA1c - 36 (41 is pre diabetes). This is the good news. It means I’m not (pre) diabetic. I also tested after food tonight and I had a BM of 5.8. Very healthy, very happy.
Lipids. This is the bad news. These are very high.
Cholesterol - 7.9 (normal is 5.0 - this is in the very high bracket)
Triglycerides - 1.88 only just over
LDL (bad cholesterol) - 5.2 (normal is 3 this is very high )
HDL (good cholesterol) - 1.87 (normal is 1 so this is very high)
Total to HDL ratio - 4.2. This is good.
The out come though is due to otherwise being in VERY good heart health and having good BP (I range between 115/65 and 135/75) my Qrisk - 10 year risk of stroke and or heart attack is 1.6%. I will work hard on bringing this down. This is the kick I need I feel. No more messing about. To see a genuine percentage chance of having a heart attack in the next 10 years against your name is odd. This needs to be = 0 . Or as close as you can.
Yo mate
Haven’t seen you in quite the while
Wow that cholesterol isn’t great, good news on the hba1c (I was 38 a couple of months back, working to bring that down). My cholesterol is always around 4 and my Tris and LDL low, but my HDL is always just a smidge below 1, hoping that the dietary changes that I’ve made for insulin reasons will also positively impact the cholesterol.
Keep us updated here, I’ll be following along and I’ll tag you when my blood results are updated.
Yeah - feel off the wagon. But back on it now. I keep seeing your YouTube channel. Seems to t8 be doing well. And you look great!
Yeah, my feelings are the same. That if I just make the adjustments to look after one of those factors, the other one is going to improve. If I start working hard to bring down my cholesterol the improved diet will also help the hba1c.
As I get stuff done and make improvements I’ll also update on here. I can track cholesterol easily enough. There are tracking kits you can buy. I’ll text every month or so. I will beat this.
You I did the 2000kg push press front squat work out.
50 reps of 40kg
3:40.
To improve this I’m not going to attack the time. Or mess about with keeping it at 2000kg total volume.
I’m going to up the weight.
Next time is 50kg - 50 reps.
If there’s anything I can do to help you with your nutrition, just give me a holler. I’d be happy to help!
Thank you. I might just do that.
Yesterday - I did Grace.
2.50. for all my high cholesterol I have good CV fitness.
Next work out is tomorrow. I’ll do 50x50kg push press / front squat.
As promised 50 kilos 50 reps. Push press in the front squat combo.
I managed all this in four minutes 50 seconds. An once I get this down to life 4 minutes 30 I might look at a bit more weight and go for the magic 60.
I don’t know where this adventure will it lead to, or what my Max could be 50 reps. I guess there is only one way to find out.
so you front squat it and then press it, or is it one movement ?
Hey dude.
I do the push press for 10 then 10 front squats. It’s really important that I do push press first. As it pre fatigues the legs. So come the front squats the legs have had a bit of a going over already.
I do this as I can’t do / I find thrusters very painful.
Hey Carl, randomly thought of you today having some similar thoughts about future career and remembered you were currently training to be a paramedic. Did you go straight to the uni route or manage to get an apprenticeship degree?
Hope you and the family are doing well?