Re: Post your daily exercise routine

Yes getting out of bed certainly DOES count

These other people are just showing off.

I've done sod all today because this hot, humid weather def doesn't float my boat.

Very very bored, because I do like to venture out most days

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Not strictly true Pumie....
Your resting heart-rate will be considerably higher than mine due to lack of exercise.
ie; Mine is around 45bpm. When out running it will only reach 120bpm for a comfortable long distance run of say ten miles. Only about once a week will I push my heart-rate up to 150bpm, which is the maximum for my age, and it will only be for a couple of five minute sprints.

Because I can only run for one or two hours each day, the rest of the time my heart-rate will be at the lower level. Years of training has made my heart work more efficiently therefore beats less to do the same work as yours.
So using your theory I should live to be over 100!

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A couple of decent runs this week even in the tropical conditions. (Rachel!)
I admit the last mile on most of this weeks efforts has been laboured.
It is said that for every one degree Centigrade your core temperature rises, you lose ten percent of your power. So it is important to keep your temperature down in the hot weather.

This mornings ten mile run turned out to be the best run of the week, thin cloud blanked out some of the suns rays, and at six thirty it was cooler than it will be later in the morning. Good pacing played the biggest part of an extraordinary relaxed and comfortable run. Recovery was swift and sweating kept to a minimum.

It will be a busy week from now on as we are having a new boiler fitted and because we are changing from a 'Back Boiler' to a 'Combi Boiler' (different locations) there has, and will, be much work to do exposing pipes and preparing the new location. However, running will not be affected even if it means some early starts. Consistency is the runners greatest training aid.........

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There was one man who did his last marathon at age 101. He died aged 104. Maybe he would have lived a bit longer if he hadn't used all his heartbeats up by running.

I suppose it goes to show that the 'number of heartbeats' theory isn't a hard and fast rule.

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I wasn't actually serious
And I am in awe of OGF's fitness and prowess.

At 70, I'm flat out walking across the foreshore to my boat, let alone RUN.
I do occasionally row, however. But less so since a shoulder op earlier this year.

Hell, I even pay someone to mow my bloody lawn.

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Sorry Pumie, I didn't mean to be patronising, sometimes I'm so far up my own rectum I forget to look at the bigger picture, but with your help I'm learning.....If I lived near you I would mow your bloody lawn for nowt!

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This is a revised full list of all the exercises I currently work from as part of my routine. The figures are used as a guideline for my starting weights for the first set and then I note down my subsequent sets in turn. I write in the reps before the 'x'. These are all upgraded after each session. Obviously, I don’t do all of these exercises every session, just select from the list whatever suits on the day.

CHEST/Triceps
Bench (fail sets): 20xbar w/u x50, x60, x70, x70, x75, x80
Smith inclines – to fail: 15x30 w/u
60°: x50, x50
30°: x60, x60
15°: x70, x70
DB flat press, 15° inc: x26’s
Decline bench*: x40,
Incline chest press: x60,
Shoulder press – to fail: x50,
Triceps p/d, c/g*: x59,
Triceps p/d, b/r: x40,
Triceps extensions: x60,
Sgl. DB raise: x50, x50, x50, x50
Ab crunch: 20x55, 15x60, 10x65, 10x70, 5x75 20x40
*The decline bench and close grip triceps pulldowns are new for next time.

BACK/Biceps
Lat pulldown, underarm: 15x40 w/u x50,
Lat pulldown, hammer c/g: x40,
Seated row, hammer: x71,
S/arm DB row, kneeling, alt: x40,
S/arm low row, alt: x80,
Arm curl machine, alt: x45,
DB hammer curl, seated, alt: x14’s,
DB conc. curl, seated, alt: x16,
E-Z curl, pr., low pull: x38, x43, x43, x43
BB Forearm rev. curl: x20,
Ab crunch: 20x55, 15x60, 10x65, 10x70, 5x75

LEGS
Incline press: 20x150 w/u, x200, x250, x300, x300, x300, x300
*Optional: x350, x400
Hack squat: x200,
Seated press: 25x150, 15x200
Calf press: x150, x160
Extensions: x90, x100
Seated rev. ham curl: x70,
Good girls: x60, x60, x60
Bad girls: x50, x50, x55
Ab crunch: 20x55, 10x60, 10x65, 10x70, 5x75

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Those 'Good Girls' and 'Bad Girls' sound like something I could attempt Floydy....

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Less Reps, more Steps, fitness and functionality are everything.

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Self-explanetary when you see the pics bud