Back on the horse now.

Today:

1km Erg
BP 1x5x50 3x5x70
Squat 1x5x60 3x5x100
Hanging Clean 2x5x40
Preacher Curl 3x8x35 (I think, not sure about the bar)

Pull Ups 11xBW
Dips 16xBW

16km cycle

Jay Cee Gee wrote: Conditioning: 3 round circuit (1 min rest between rounds) 5 chin ups 10 burpees 15 box jumps 20 kb swings (20kg) 25 squats Then did my remaining burpees as one continuous set as a 4th round (at a snail's pace). Stolen! Ditto. Interval session this morning, so 2 rounds of 30s sets...

I'm sure none of you boys will be be disappointed with the number of shagging/boob & naked women scenes, plenty more in esp 2. :roll: There is one very alarming scene involving Theon and the captain's daughter that's just unnecessary. The rest of course is integral to the plot and adds real histori...

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Brazil wrote:Hang Cleans are officially my favourite exercise. Now all I need is to get up to a respectable weight on them.

I like them but i struggle to get into the rack position properly because of my massive front delts.

Nobody likes a show-off.

Hang Cleans are officially my favourite exercise. Now all I need is to get up to a respectable weight on them.

Reading Winter King about the reign of Henry VII. Very readable and very interesting narrative of a period that's often overlooked.

Yep, I sorted that out. Just seen episode 2, and it's good. Still building obviously but good, with some outstanding historical accuracy in there. They're deviating from the books, making things that are implicit explicit, and taking out a few of the minor characters. Still, as George Martin said i...

After an on-off for a couple of weeks, finally back into something approaching of a routine. Today: BP: 3x5x70 Squat: 3x5x100 Hang Cleans 3x5x40 Dips 8 Pull Ups 8 Preacher Curls 3x8x20 Pleased with the BP and squats and generally improving. Wondering whether to work up to BW and a half on squats and...

Why no Inspiral Carpets on the list? I'm going to see them next Friday. Can't wait! Also The Verve aren't from Manchester. Just for you Theo, they have made the cut and have relegated the verve back to wigan! Can you relegate The Charlatans back to Northwich/Birmingham....they are not a Manchester ...

Go and watch 24hourpartypeople before we all murder you...

Edit: Also, the Fall are actually from Salford, not Manchester. MES is very clear on this.

If you look on the website, every day there's a 'WOD' or 'Workout Of the Day' amongst all the other crap. That's the programme basically, they do a pattern of three days on, one day off, and it's a mixture of strength and circuit training using lots of different bodyweight and weighted movements, a...

One of the opposition was raving about Crossfit on Saturday and from his description it sounded like quite a decent programme to raise reps, particularly pull ups. What are the general principles? The main website seems to mostly consist of pictures of dead american servicemen and attempts to get yo...

An Italian merlot called Planeta which brought back from Syracuse two years ago. Accompanied the steak I got from borough Market today very well

Sit coms in general (certainly British ones) really don't date well. The best loved comedy of the 50s and early 60s were the various vehicles for Tony Hancock, which genuinely emptied the pubs. The most famous line in the most famous episode, The Blood Donor, has Hancock saying to a nurse "I don't ...

Womack wrote:Cheers, will do. I do like a split squat.

Edit: Braz, yes, you should include the weight of the bar - a 7ft olympic/powerlifting bar weighs 20kgs.

In that case:

BP - 3x5x65
DL - 2x5x95
Squat- 3x5x95
Preacher curl: 1x8x20
Pull Ups
Dips
Press ups

BP - 3x5x45
DL - 2x5x75
Squat- 3x5x75
Preacher curl: 1x8x20
Pull Ups
Dips
Press ups

Do people include the weight of the bar in their totals btw, or is that cheating?

The Revelation Space series by Alastair Reynolds is superb. Also, Neal Stephenson is very good - Golden Age, Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon and the Baroque Cycle (technically) are all excellent.

Today: BP: 3x5x45 Squat: 3x5x70 Clean: 1x5x20 Reverse Rows (pulley from floor): 3x8x28 Pull Ups: 5xBW Dips: 5xBW Press UPs: 25 Much better day, helped by going a bit later and not being surrounded by personal f**king trainers and goons. Really struggling with the Clean at the moment, and am not sure...

In fairness the other people in my gym aren't really that bad. They are generally doing things properly as a rule, or at least attempting to, it's more that I seem to be getting my sets ever so slightly out of sync. That and I was just generally appaling today. I'm still not sure why four personal t...

:lol: I love how you summarise your session Braz. There always seems to be some wit kant being a wit kant where your gym is. They follow me around. If it's not hogging the benches, it's stealing the weights I need, or hogging the step bench that I need to do bunny hops over. Why aren't the wit kant...

Pisspoor session, not helped by personal f**king trainers taking over the bench for most of the time I was there:

Back Squat - 2x5x60 1x5x70
DL - 2x5x60 1x5x70
BP - 2x5x40 1x4x45 (fail, basically)

Shoulder Press 3x8x16
Shite Dips and Pull Ups

Name: Brazil AGE - 31 Height - 5ft9" Weight - 86kg B/F - no idea. Almost certainly not good... Today: BP3x5x40 Squat3x5x60 Clean1x5x20 Pull Ups: 5 Dips: 5 Press Ups (knuckles) 19 Not the best day, not helped by not getting enough sleep last night. Really struggled with the cleans - started at 30kg a...

Having grown very tired of fuckers on Bromptons overtaking me while i wheeze and struggle along roads on my mountain bike I'm going to bite the bullet and buy myself a road bike. Now i know fudge all about bikes but have been guided towards a Specialized Allez by a helpful pseudo bike messenger fro...

I'll have a quick butchers tonight if possible (the threat of snow tomorrow is making me reconsider my options on cycling in...) I'm slightly worried, being a total novice at this, that I'll utterly fudge it up and end up forking out more for the consequent repairs, though I do have the Haynes bike ...

I'm absolutely overjoyed that, having forked out £150 to get my bike serviced, the (new) bottom bracket sounds like a f**king antique typewriter. :lol: The BB itself or do your gears need trimmed? What did they do for £150? I'm not entirely certain. The bottom bracket/cranks have been a pain in the...

I'm absolutely overjoyed that, having forked out £150 to get my bike serviced, the (new) bottom bracket sounds like a f**king antique typewriter.

My Gymboss ran out of battery mid-set this morning. The bastard.