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Lockdown Day 41. Still no abs.
Off day yesterday. Today is boobies. Shoulda been legs, but the lady in my phone says I need to run today, so I will do legs tomorrow instead.
The below is a bit tougher than I thought it would be, because I was doing the 16 kilo DB presses as drop sets, and sorta treating them a bit like flyes. It burned nicely, quite the pump.
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Barbell Floor Press
- 45 kg x 10 reps
- 55 kg x 10 reps
- 65 kg x 10 reps
- 75 kg x 10 reps
- 75 kg x 10 reps
- 75 kg x 10 reps
- 75 kg x 10 reps
- 75 kg x 10 reps
- 65 kg x 10 reps
- 65 kg x 10 reps
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Dumbbell Floor Press
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
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Going to run in a bit. Rescue chopper on standby.
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Lady on my phone told me to skip a day of the plan because I told her the last one was too easy. So she bumped it up a bit. First half of this sucked a little, might just have been due to some upper body fatigue. Got better towards the end.
30 minutes (10 of which being warmup and cooldown)
4.0 km
8 minutes of actual running
I guess that is 7.5 minutes per km, which is pretty okay when more than 2/3rds is walking.
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I hate it when I only get 15 reps on the 11th set.
My pull up workouts are like 10, 8, 5, 3 which is down from the days of 4x10.
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Lockdown Day 43. Still no abs.
Skipped yesterday, and also decided I am going to skip leg day this week entirely, so as to help my legs adjust a bit better to this running shit. Resting HR was level at 51 for a while, has strangely spiked back up to 53 for the last week. Probably temporary. Have probably lost roughly 5 kilo now since early December. Can definitely feel it from a strength POV, but for now I donāt mind.
Speaking of being weaker, press day today.
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Standing Barbell Shoulder Press (OHP)
- 25 kg x 8 reps
- 35 kg x 8 reps
- 41 kg x 8 reps
- 45 kg x 8 reps
- 51 kg x 8 reps
- 55 kg x 8 reps
- 61 kg x 8 reps
- 45 kg x 10 reps
- 45 kg x 10 reps
- 45 kg x 10 reps
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Upright Barbell Row (superset with some db delt flyes)
- 25 kg x 10 reps
- 25 kg x 10 reps
Gonna run today as well, app lady says it is start of week 2.
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Running for todayā¦lady changed the interval scheme up a bit today, sorta upping the difficulty:
28 minutes (10 warmup and cooldown as usual)
3.73 km
8 minutes actual running
Still about 7.5 minutes per km, which is fine.
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Lockdown Day 45. Still no abs.
Getting into a schedule of only training every other day, which is exceptionally unusual for me.
Trying to make sure I recover adequately from all the running. Very easy pull-up day, nothing to see here.
Pull-Up
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 5 reps
- 10 reps
Running for the dayā¦app lady wanted me to repeat the exact same interval scheme as last time, so I was determined to be a little bit faster.
28 minutes (10 warmup and cooldown as usual)
3.97 km
8 minutes actual running
Gets to just about 7 minutes per km, so that was actually quite a bit faster. Probably have to slow it down if she ups the difficulty next time.
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Is the nice lady on your app called Laura?
Umā¦no? It would be kind of strange to anthropomorphize an inanimate construct by giving it a name 
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Or even a baseball cap or a blindfold?
I was more or less just figuring out if you were doing the same version of couch to 5k as me.
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I am guessing it is a different app at the least (called 5k Runner). But likely the principles are similar. For example, my next run would beā¦
5 min warmup
1.5 min run + 2 min walk (6 times)
5 min cooldown
And that is Week 2 Day 3.
I should state for the record that I do not have any specific ambition of running 5k or exceeding any times. It is just a means to improve cardio conditioning in a sensible way, I could easily dump it part of the way through.
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That sounds like the same scheme I used in week 2.
And mine is to get cardio up and to get not shit at running since my end of year conditioning will be running based and because Iām 90% committed to a 12k obstacle course run in September.
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Itās 2021. Just stop kink shaming cyrex and Bob, ok?
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Lockdown Day 47. Still no abs.
Did a sorta heavy floor press day. The PR is more a result of never having bothered to try that weight before. Everything felt pretty okay, so no huge strength loss here. Worst part is getting 100kg in position and then putting it back when done.
Barbell Floor Press
- 47 kg x 6 reps
- 57 kg x 6 reps
- 67 kg x 6 reps
- 77 kg x 6 reps
- 85 kg x 5 reps
- 93 kg x 5 reps
- 101 kg x 5 reps (PR)
- 81 kg x 10 reps
- 77 kg x 10 reps
- 77 kg x 10 reps
- 67 kg x 15 reps
- 67 kg x 20 reps
Did some curls as well. Skipped the run today partly due to lack of time, and partly because I probably need to occasionally skip days in order to stay on a week by week program. Will do it tomorrow.
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Lockdown Day 48. Still no abs. Although the fabs are actually starting to come through.
Just running today. App lady bumped up the degree of difficulty slightly with an extra minute of running and a slightly harder split. Had a mind to slow things down a bit, and I did, but as I got into it my legs felt fresher and I was recovering my breathing pretty quickly, so I still kept up a decent pace and it felt pretty okay from start to finish.
31 minutes (10 warmup and cooldown as usual)
4.41 km
9 minutes actual running
Thatās the end of week 2 and five total runs. I can see it will get harder again next time, but I guess that is the whole idea.
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Lockdown Day 50. Found out we will at least be in this situation until Feb 28, so that is amazing. Will just have to keep on keeping on. Still no real abs, only fake ones.
Was supposed to run today, but it snowed and would probably be treacherous enough to slow me down, so I will wait til tomorrow. Went 10 solid minutes with Bob, which was fine, but knuckle on the right hand is apparently still bruised. Other than that, just some simple pulling:
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One-Arm Dumbbell Row
- 12 kg x 10 reps
- 16 kg x 10 reps
- 20 kg x 10 reps
- 24 kg x 10 reps
- 32 kg x 10 reps
- 32 kg x 10 reps
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Body Weight Bulgarian Split Squat
- 6 reps
- 6 reps
- 6 reps
- 6 reps
- 6 reps
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Yates Row
- 27 kg x 10 reps
- 37 kg x 10 reps
- 41 kg x 10 reps
- 45 kg x 10 reps
- 49 kg x 10 reps
- 53 kg x 10 reps
Bulgarians deliberately light and easy, need a few more running sessions before I start adding back in real lower body stuff.
Heart rate back down to a stable 51ish. BW plateaued for a bit, now heading back down again. Probably somewhere just over 81 kilo, so 6 kilo or so dropped since lockdown began.
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Running day today. W3D1 according to app lady. Interval difficulty jumps quite a bit here compared to the first two weeks, but still nothing terrible. Amounts to slightly longer runs at a slightly slower pace. Coulda gone a tad faster, but would rather be conservative.
26 minutes (10 warmup and cooldown as usual)
3.57 km
8 minutes actual running
About a 7 minute 17 second pace per km, which seems okay at this interval.
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Lockdown Day 52. Still no abs.
Quick and easy session today with some BW exercises, then a run. Had to hurry a bit because it started snowing.
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Handstand Push-Up
- 5 reps
- 6 reps
- 7 reps
- 8 reps
- 9 reps
- 10 reps
- 10 reps
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Pull-Up
- 5 reps
- 6 reps
- 7 reps
- 8 reps
- 9 reps
- 10 reps
- 10 reps
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Run was the same exact interval as last time, but I tried to push it a little more. Felt way harder as well, in part because of a cold, swirling wind.
26 minutes (10 warmup and cooldown as usual)
3.71 km
8 minutes actual running
About a 7 minute per km, which was quite a bit faster than last time. That is kinda the pace I want to be hitting at this early stage. But was a bit tough today, and the interval gets harder next time. I donāt like slowing down, but I will probably have to.
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Lockdown Day 54. Still no abs.
Skipped yesterday. Shoulda coulda woulda ran today, but too cold and slick outside. Plus I think running in minus degrees messed me up a little. Kinda annoying, because I have been in a decent rythmn, but might have to skip a bunch of days here and there.
Oh well, boobs day. Kinda just going for a bunch of reps. Still feels okay considering I have dropped a bunch of weight.
- 27 kg x 10 reps
- 37 kg x 10 reps
- 47 kg x 10 reps
- 57 kg x 10 reps
- 67 kg x 10 reps
- 77 kg x 10 reps
- 87 kg x 10 reps
- 67 kg x 10 reps
- 67 kg x 10 reps
- 67 kg x 10 reps
- 67 kg x 12 reps
- 67 kg x 15 reps
- 47 kg x 30 reps
Finished off with a bunch of Bob. Cardio shaped much improved from the running already, felt like I coulda gone on for a long time. Resting heart rate also down to 49 the last couple days, probably wonāt stay there.
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Has it really been 54 days already?
Damn, that is a lot of floor press!
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