Castle Hill in Townsville is awesome. Did you take the main road, or try the Goat Track. I got taken up the Goat track first time I was in Townsville.

Anyone had issues with recurring muscle pulling/tightness?

I'm not even 18 yet I pull my hamstrings after every training session :lol:

I've tried everything... extra warm-ups, more stretches, baths after every session.

Wat do?

Have you seen a massage therapist?

FWIW the chicks at work did however many they could on their toes, and then knees. So one chick got "10 toes, 10 knees", another got "20 toes, 30 knees". Have a go KC - may give you motivation to improve, and hence get fitter

Don't think it's such a great idea to go gym at 10 at night with a 6am start. Oh well.

Really loving the feel but.

Kiwi chick, fuck push ups. Machine bench. ;)

Do you do any hammy strengthening exercises? If you ever get to the gym throw in a few leg curls and good mornings

Yes, went up the goat track and then down the road... was a great climb and a nice walk back too. What a view eh?

To add to that I wouldn't do curls as such.
An old physio showed me this that works with most hamstring strains/problems as well as Tendinitis:

on lying leg curl pick a low weight, perform the concentric (bending the knee) movement with both legs and lower with one leg. Its using the light weight and the lengthening of the muscle to start the rehabilitation process.
Do this for 3 sets of 10 reps for each leg but at a very low weight.


Secondly go see a physio and purchase a foam roller and get the physio to show you how to roll your whole lower body not just hamstrings.

This is something my fiance struggled with herself.

We started using push up negatives essentially. start in push up position and lower yourself as slowly as you possibly can. Then when at the bottom bring your knees to the ground and reset yourself in the pushup position and repeat 9 more times and then 2 more sets of 10 again.

Within 1 month she had gone from 0 push ups to over 25 in 30 seconds.

Back day!

Gaining weight like a boss

Where are all you C-Units? It's almost summer!

lel.

-PB

Will give it a try :)

Are there any exercises or anything that is good to do when you have very very little energy. I really need to workout, but I'm so exhausted all the time.

Do something that is high intensity that will get your heart rate up for an extended period. I always feel much far more energetic after riding with an rpm over 100 for 10-20 minutes.

Actually, biking is a really good idea, cheers :)

I got around to the run. I did about 10 minutes better than I expected because the hill I chose to run down and then back up was very steep. I had slowed to a crawl by the end. It felt like it took forever to get up.

Best ask a chick about that but I'd imagine anything low weight high reps.

Gettin keen for mega lift day on Thursday.

Fuwarkin joocy.

-PB

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Hit a PR squat of 160kg at an internal gym meet last Saturday.

Jumping off a strength program for a while now though and going to run with P/P/L for a while.

Fuck yeah nice work brah.

Tomorrow I'm aiming for 3 sets of 10x 100kg on Squatties followed by 3 sets of 8x 110+kg deadlifts.

-PB

Cheers man.

Toying with a 5/3/1 type of workout for the leg day.

So did a 3x5 for 120kg and then 5x10 at 50% of my max. Specifically targeting my explosiveness out of the hole on the 5x10

Hip drave!

Nice work though man, very jelly.

What's you recov times like for such a workout?

-PB

No idea lol. Just finished madcows 5x5 were after the first two weeks I would be fine the next day but I haven't done that much volume in a long time.

The mrs watched an infomercial on a workout program and got sold. Instead of buying it, we may or may not have downloaded it :lol:

Anyway it's called Insanity by Shaun T. Labels itself the most difficult workout program on DVD. Promises you'll be the fittest you've ever been in your life in 2 months.

I'm not sure what I'll get out of it, but we're giving it a go. We're on day 2 now - and we're pretty sore already!

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if you put in with Insanity you will get out of it incredible results.
I have done P90x, P90x 2 & Insanity.
Will be doing Insanity asylum in the coming months.

Basically if you push yourself with each workout you will see massive changes but you really have to push yourself like with every workout.

Sounds awesome. We've only done the Fit Test and the first Cardio Circuit, but obviously will go through everything the more we go on. We're definately a "do it well or don't do it all" kind of couple, so we're pushing ourselves. All the exercises are new atm, so we're basically just trying to learn how to properly do them all atm so I assume when they're all second nature to us we'll be able to push further

I've never really done these sorts of workouts before. Pretty much all my exercising has been football-based. So it'll be interesting to see how it eventuates.

The mrs has developed a personal hatred with one of the chicks on the screen who does it with you - the Asian chick Tanya. Her goal is to look and perform better than her now :lol:

It's leg day today. Going with the mrs. Shall be interesting. I'm wrecked as fuck though. 6am to 12:30am takes its toll. Can't wait till I'm out of uni. This shit is getting old. Fast.