Really appreciate that mate. I think 2024 is going to be a great year.
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Drove up to Sydney with the family today. That’s about a 9 hour drive from Melbourne. Had a trouble free drive and found our apartment ok. We are staying in the Olympic village which is a part of Sydney where they built a bunch of stadiums for the 2000 Olympics. 3 bed Apartment is really nice, there is a pool for residents to use and an outside workout station for pull ups and other stuff. Kids couldn’t wait to get in the pool as soon as we got there. I did a few pull ups whilst supervising them and will call that my training for today.
5 min walk to the local precinct where there are restaurants and bars. Found a nice steak and ribs restaurant. Ordered 1kg of mixed ribs (pork,Lamb and beef). Was really tasty. Looks like my holiday bulk has started off well.
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I want that. Good thing you ate it all.
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Insanity.
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Straya.
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Got back to Melbourne last night after an 11 hours drive from Newcastle. Spending the day today doing chores (tidy the yard, wash and vacume the beach out of the car) do some food prep) and then back to work and the gym tomorrow.
Family holiday was absolutely awesome, too much to write about but here are the highlights.
Drove to Sydney and spent 3 days there. Spent time in the city seeing the sites
A day at the waterpark getting my steps in and having a ball with the kids, a day at the beach enjoying the surf
And got to finally meet coach @wiseman83 face to face after many years of online and phone conversations. Met at the new Sydney zoo with his family and mine and everyone had a great time together. Felt real easy like we have been mates for a long time , which in a way we have.
After Sydney we went to the Blue mountains for few days of adventure.
Did some canyoning which was soo good
To be continued…
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Canyoning really was amazing, lots of jumping off waterfalls, natural rock slides and rappelling down waterfalls
Spend the next day mounting biking. Hired E bikes which made the going a little easier up the hills and more enjoyable for everyone. Did about 50km all up and down in the hills great fun.
One more day in the blue mountains site seeing and then up to Newcastle for more beach fun and some ATV driving.
Best family holiday ever but everyone was tired and now ready to go back to work and back to school for the kids (in 2 weeks).
I will try and catchup on everyone’s logs this week. Hope you have all been training hard.
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That looks an awesome holiday mate.
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It really was great. Now the kids are older we get to do more adventure type activities, which it turns out can be a bit hard when you are nearly 50 and a little on the chunky side 
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Funny little story from my trip that I know a few of you will smile at but tagging @T3hPwnisher and @wiseman83 because they will get it.
When staying in the blue mountains I visit the supermarket one day, late afternoon. I go in with my son and middle daughter. As we are walking around the shop a guy walks past and my son immediately says ‘damn he is a unit’. And he is not wrong. The dude is 6ft 2 and I am guessing about 280 - 300lbs. Wearing tradie work pants, boots and a singlet. Deff strongman / powerlifting type. Massive shoulders and back but with a good power belly and beard to go with it.
I say jokingly to my kids, if you want to see how to get big you need to see what he buys for dinner. The kids laugh and say yeh.
As we get to the tills he is in front of us in the queue and the sum of his grocery shop is 2 x whole cooked chickens and a 3 litre bottle of milk.
Was so funny, we named him 2 chickens and referred to him as such for the rest of the holiday.
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So if I started eating two whole chickens a day I would get all swole?
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Great pics! Sounds like a excellent vacation. It’s nice to see parts of the continent that aren’t dry and dusty.
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Looked like an amazing holiday Simo, and very cool that you were able to link up with another T-Nation’er.
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That’s what I told my kids, Well actually not per day, just 2 chickens for dinner.
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It is funny that everyone thinks of Australia as desert, when we have desert to rain Forrest and everything in between. I agree though it s nice to see some of the greener areas of the country.
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Yer always good to meet one face to face. I met @guineapig a few years back at the Arnold in Melbourne but he doesn’t post much anymore,
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My favorite thing about Australia, is that everyone thinks its small. When it’s every big as the US on terms of land mass.
Hilarious when a tourist arrives thinking they can just “take a quick drive out to Uluru…”.
But it’s a 2700+KM drive, that would take 30 hours of non stop driving. At which point you’ve only reached the middle of the country 
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Wednesday 17 Jan - primer week
Just moving some light weight this week to get used to the movements and work out some doms.
Barbell complex
Row, clean, front squat, overhead press, back squat, good morning
3 reps per movement
Bar
30kg (5 per side)
30kg
SSB squat
60 x 5
80 x 5
100 x 5
Used the Kabuki bar for these in SSB setting. No idea how heavy it is but called it 20kg.
Bench press
60 x 5
70 x 5
80 x 8
I already know that high rep bench is going to suck in a good way. I am so out of practice.
High rep squat
40 x 20 reps (88 lbs)
Weight was light but still works the lungs
Dips - BW
8, 8, 8
These felt a little wobbly, just out of practice
Rolling tricep extension - Db
15kg x 8 x 3 sets
Good first session to blow the cobwebs away. Will probably have a little doms but hopefully nothing too bad.
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