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Blurr wrote:isnt the idea to keep the heart rate up?

As long as you do each back to back then that should be fine but inserting a long pause in between each excercise causes your lactic acid to drop along with your heart rate thus reducing the effectiveness

well i should have explained it more clearly. Yes you cant drop the heart rate if you want to make the exercise effective, i meant roughly do 30 pushups, then 30situps switch to 30 pushups then 30 crunches. but if it isnt effective i must have been doing it wrong for the last 15years.

yes long pauses reduces the amount of carlores burnt hence not making ANY exercise 100% effective, it would just take longer to see any results.

if we really get into follow the warm up i used to get my students to under take:

start by a loose stretch, dont want to put to much tension on any tendions or muscles.
then to get the blood pumping start by a little jog, proceeding into 5 second sprint bursts.
after 5-10min of this we do stretchs. {martial arts, so not evey strecth is important just the ones you work often }
then proceed to do 100 push ups and 10reps with a 2 sec break in between.
after that flip and do 100 situps.
after that flip back and do 20pushups, flip do 20crunches, 20 pushups, 20 situps...and so on and so on. until i stop them.

after that we would do circuit work where they would have to do 15 laps of the room drop and do 20pushups,crunchs, tridips and squats.
then 10laps and repeat the pushups,crunches, tridips and squats, then followed by 5laps to a finsh of once again 20 of each.

by that time i would say the heart rate was up. but then again that was the start of a 2 hour training exercise.

must admit worked for me. And also they are the exercises the institute of sport recommended when i did my teaching accreditation.

No weigh in last week. Was interstate with work.

Been slack and eating Macca's for a week so I think I'll be back around 89. Aiming for 83kg by KSRC track day in December...

93.5kg

ty wrote:Good numbers Jonno - but you lost 6kgs this week? (108 to 102)
or did I read that wrong?

btw I added your column to the graph in the spreadsheet

Thanks..

My bad, using different scales and typo as well had me confused a bit 105 on one set of scales and 107 on the work scales.
Split the difference I suppose


At least until I can get a correct reading.

gpxpunk wrote:yes long pauses reduces the amount of carlores burnt hence not making ANY exercise 100% effective, it would just take longer to see any results.

Technically you will burn exactly the same calories, the difference is the energy system you will use. The problem with having large breaks with pushups and situps is they are too low an intensity to use for interval work; but done continuously will eventually push your body partially into it's anaerobic threshold so will be more effective at increasing cardiorespiratory endurance. Interval work is actually quite effective for burning body fat due to the oxygen dept it leaves the body in, but the intensity needs to be high to achieve this.

ty wrote:Back to my exercise regime on Monday - so I'll probably start putting weight on again

surprise surprise - +1.1kg this week
. o O (I think I'm going to stop weighing for a few weeks)

87.5 kg.

Didn't make my last goal of 85kg by 14th of Oct. But I'll be trying a lot harder to make 83kg by 12th December

No change.

95.3

97.2

Loss of 200gm which considering the drugs is not too bad. Bit disheartened though.

Ahh well another week goes by without getting to the magical 95.

probably put back on this week, since had a great pizza, beer and tequila weekend.

I've been pretty slack recently - at least on the diet/weigh in side of things. Decided to weigh in today, just off the cuff to see how much I had put on - and it turns out i'm down!

Last weigh in 25th Sept, 88.6

Today 20 Oct, 86.8kg

Spreadsheet is updated. Some good figures there since starting

I just updated the 'Total Losses' table too.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to make that automagic

A while ago I lost a crapload of weight on Jenny Craig... Since then, I have given up smoking, and I have created life.... I have put most of that weight again. I have joined Weightwatchers this time... it has a wicked web interface that allows you to "count points"... I guess it works for a lot of people, so it should work for me too...

And by the way... GOOD WORK to all of you!