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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 13:48 

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I'm hovering around 160lbs because I can't be arsed to eat less, which is basically the only thing stopping me from reaching my goal of 150lbs that I set yonks ago. :S :DD


I reached 150lbs this week. I'm eating a teeny bit more sensibly but mostly it's just through the increased cardio I've been doing this year (lots of races).

I was hoping 150lbs would make my muscles more obvious, but it's not really done anything other than equal out that fatty hip I mentioned before (and depleted my generous boobage) so now not really sure what to do.

I guess I want to look like I work out. I'm not talking visible abs, because you have to lose crazy amounts of body fat to do that as a woman and I don't have the time/patience and I like burgers too much, but IDK... more obvious shoulders/upper back, bigger biceps? Not sure if losing another 10lbs would make a difference to that or if I just need to concentrate on hypertrophy. :shrug:


GJ on the weight loss; I know how difficult it can be to stick to a diet (as I never do)

Are you doing anything at the gym to specifically target your traps, lats and biceps?


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 13:55 
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Yeah, I was pre-move, and had seen some more definition but it's a relatively recent change in my workouts in the grand scheme of things, so need to get back on track and keep that consistent. Probably expecting too much too soon, as is the norm.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Yeah, I was pre-move, and had seen some more definition but it's a relatively recent change in my workouts in the grand scheme of things, so need to get back on track and keep that consistent. Probably expecting too much too soon, as is the norm.


:roll: guess you should go do some more pull-ups then!


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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I fucking hate pull-ups/chin-ups, they're one of a couple of exercises (the other being various types of press-up) that I never seem to get any better at even while everything else improves.


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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If you're struggling with pull-ups, do some reverse bicep curls; also wide grip pull up is easier (or is for me) than chip ups.

I found a video that explained it once, it'll try and dig it up.


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 15:13 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfGNjYogpiE

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Youtube is great in some ways but not in others. If anyone says something like "In Laos, for $20, you can shoot a cow with an RPG", previously we'd all go "cool" and consider the draconian bovine-centric hegemony we live udder which prevents entertainment such as this, or cow tipping where one pushes cows over when they sleep. If it can happen, it on youtube now, bookended by "don't forget to like and subscribe". Kills the imagination and dreams so it does.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 15:22 

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Youtube is great in some ways but not in others. If anyone says something like "In Laos, for $20, you can shoot a cow with an RPG", previously we'd all go "cool" and consider the draconian bovine-centric hegemony we live udder which prevents entertainment such as this, or cow tipping where one pushes cows over when they sleep. If it can happen, it on youtube now, bookended by "don't forget to like and subscribe". Kills the imagination and dreams so it does.

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I always wondered if cow tipping was possible, I always heard stories about it but never considered either doing or looking it up lol


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 15:56 
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In fairness pulls-ups haven't been in my rotation for a long time now so I might be better at them than I used to be given all the other stuff I've done in the interim. I just do what my PT gives me though because I can't be arsed thinking about it.


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 15:58 

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That is fair; try doing some on your next gym session (you'll be more successful if you do them BEFORE you workout)


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:00 
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Kris wrote:
If you're struggling with pull-ups, do some reverse bicep curls; also wide grip pull up is easier (or is for me) than chip ups.

I found a video that explained it once, it'll try and dig it up.


I find chin ups no problem at all, but I can't do a single wide grip pull up. Different strokes for different folks. Different pulls for different fools. Different ups for different pups.


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:03 

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When you're doing them are you cheesing it by swinging or just PURE MUSCLE!?!?!? (I can't even do proper ones yet, I have to use the machine that pushes me up with an extra 10-15kgs on the bottom)


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Kris wrote:
That is fair; try doing some on your next gym session (you'll be more successful if you do them BEFORE you workout)


Today I learned there are people that don't consider pull-ups working out. Like some fun pre-workout hobby or snack or something.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:08 
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No swinging, pure muscle! My biceps are a lot stronger than my shoulders, which I assume is the difference. Like I say, I can't do a single wide grip pull up.

The one machine I really like is the the calf one, the one where you stick your toes on the edge and put the weight on your shoulders. I can pull some serious kg on that, makes me feel like superman :D. Everything else I feel like pewee Herman...


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:26 
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My upper body strength is laughable. I could pop your head off with my thighs though.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:42 
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My upper body strength is laughable. I could pop your head off with my thighs though.

Basically this.

I have real problems with pull-ups and they've long been my #1 goal. I've been actively working on them over the course of the last fortnight by doing these negative pull-up things and am able to hold for longer and get a slower descent, so am fairly sure it's doing something.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:52 
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I have a strong back and shoulders, weak spindly arms and beer belly. Are we making a list? :D


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:54 
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I have little problem with pull-ups (although I probably can't do loads in succession) but I'm pathetically weak at almost everything else.

I can do 15+ push-ups on my knuckles though.


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 16:59 

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:this: this is because you weigh like 3 stone or something :P


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
PostPosted: Thu Jun 21, 2018 17:01 
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He's apparently only about 10lbs lighter than me, which I find hard to believe. And also I can squat him.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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DavPaz wrote:
I have a strong back and shoulders, weak spindly arms and beer belly. Are we making a list? :D


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Jem wrote:
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My upper body strength is laughable. I could pop your head off with my thighs though.

Basically this.

I have real problems with pull-ups and they've long been my #1 goal. I've been actively working on them over the course of the last fortnight by doing these negative pull-up things and am able to hold for longer and get a slower descent, so am fairly sure it's doing something.

Am I wrong in thinking that you’re tall? Pull-ups is all about the principle of moments so if you’ve got long arms you’re going to find it exponentially harder to do than someone say 5’4” with consequently shorter arms.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Jem, overhead press and bent over rows or inverted rows are great for back and shoulders. OHP is great for your core too, back, shoulders and waist were the first places I got some proper degree of muscle definition.

Those exercises, and the good old bench press, will really help your upper body strength and help you build towards pull ups, if you really want to do them.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Cras wrote:
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I have a strong back and shoulders, weak spindly arms and beer belly. Are we making a list? :D


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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DBSnappa wrote:
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My upper body strength is laughable. I could pop your head off with my thighs though.

Basically this.

I have real problems with pull-ups and they've long been my #1 goal. I've been actively working on them over the course of the last fortnight by doing these negative pull-up things and am able to hold for longer and get a slower descent, so am fairly sure it's doing something.

Am I wrong in thinking that you’re tall? Pull-ups is all about the principle of moments so if you’ve got long arms you’re going to find it exponentially harder to do than someone say 5’4” with consequently shorter arms.

I am 5' 8", but Gaz is over 6' tall so how come he can do them when he's a weed? :'(

(As he quite rightly just pointed out, as I've lost weight, I am also now only 4lbs heavier than him, although unless his bones are made of osmium I don't see how that's possible.)

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Jem, overhead press and bent over rows or inverted rows are great for back and shoulders. OHP is great for your core too, back, shoulders and waist were the first places I got some proper degree of muscle definition.

Those exercises, and the good old bench press, will really help your upper body strength and help you build towards pull ups, if you really want to do them.

I can OHP til the cows come home, and that's been part of my workouts for years. Only recently added bench though.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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One thing I do have that Gaz doesn't is weird elbows. I can't straighten my arms fully. I have often wondered how - if at all - that impacts upon various lifts and movements.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Gaz may be a beanpole, but he will still have greater muscle mass and that muscle mass will be concentrated more in the upper body, purely because he is a bloke, and being a beanpole goes in his favour. You may be a similar weight, but he will be a much greater percentage of muscle than you are.


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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I know, my disbelief is not entirely serious - I regularly moan at him that he has biology in his favour. It doesn't make it any less frustrating though when I'm shifting 50, 60 kilos above my head and still can't do a pull up whereas he can barely lift a bag of cat litter and still bloody knocks them out one after the other :P

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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Have you tried doing chin-ups instead of pull-ups Jem?


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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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I can't do any "ups". I can't get my feet off the ground except by jumping.

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I bet you can do Hicc-ups.


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Yes, ok, I can do them. And I'm pretty great at fuck-ups too.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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I have been sat trying to think of other -ups you can do.

Fry-ups; you definitely do a good fry-up

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I'll take that.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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I've lost a stone.

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Mostly from my waist and bottom. I'm down to a 44, from a 48+ on my wedding day.

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But it's hard because of the meds I am on. I cut 30% of my food intake and swapped out sugar for sweetener. I've been on this diet about two months, with a lot of exercise but I feel I should have lost more. Especially with all of the riding I have been doing.

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That's really good!

I think I found it though...

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Thanks all. It is nice to be back in a XL Tshirt again, without it rolling up your stomach every time you sit down lol.

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 Post subject: Re: Middle Age Spread
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I went the other way, I was down to slim-fit shirts; I gained a bunch of weight over a year after getting a girlfriend (wtf is that about) and now have to wear regular ones; I tried one of my shirts on the other day I am at a loss how this shirt EVER fit me at all.

Semi-related however, I threw in a couple of chin-ups when I was doing my pull-ups as I was curious as to whether or not I could do these now. I could do definitely do them but still find the pull-ups MUCH easier!


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I did a power test on the bike.. in 6 months gained 50 watts across all the tests.

Did a 100km bike ride yesterday, including a PB up the hill back in to my town at the end of the ride..

Feeling a bit chuffed.

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Nice work mate; how long did the 100km take you?


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Just under 5 hours.. took it steady on the way out, and dropped the hammer on the way back.. did 10 miles in 33 mins :)

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Fuckin' smashed it mate; don't forget to work on your swim as well as your cycle for the next ironman!

Next stop 04:30:00 100k? :P


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Fuckin' smashed it mate; don't forget to work on your swim as well as your cycle for the next ironman!

Next stop 04:30:00 100k? :P



yes I am working on my swim... that 1 second hurt me :P

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I'd be gutted; that being said I've not swam since I was about 16 so I don't even know how quick I'd be.


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