My training thread, progress, advice etc

[BIG H]

My weekly weigh in today, and a bit of an anomoly. According to my scales my bodyfat is still 16.1%, unmoved for the last month now, but my bodyweight had increased by two whole pounds.

This is weird as I've been 135.1 for the last month, every Monday, now I'm 137.1.

I will retest tomorrow to ensure I wasn't just constipated or something but if this the case it might mean I'm actually growing some muscle at last. If my bodyfat stays the same I'm happy to gain weight of course as presumably most of it must be muscle mass.

I'd love to get back to 140lbs again, this time of lean(er) tissue.

I took a day off yesterday, first in 11 days and am getting back into things with a row, and Kinect session this evening.

Amazed I'm still keeping this up!

Fair play to you mate - feels good doesn't it!! I'm off to the gym in about an hour and have 2 personal trainer (weights) sessions booked this week. Back to 22 mins for 3 miles on the road as well, so I'm getting there.

[Kev]

Yeah its great that we are both committed. It's got to the stage now where it's enjoyable to me so I stick at it.

I don't do any running obviously but I have now added indoor biking to my cardio along with the rowing. I wish I had normal lungs so I could just really go for it but as long as I'm improving it's all good.

My lungs are slightly better now than they were 8 years ago which is actually pretty amazing with a degenerative disease. I've not tested, but I'm sure my resting heart rate is down a bit too, feels noticeably slower when I can hear it on my pillow at night.

[BIG H]

Yeah its great that we are both committed. It's got to the stage now where it's enjoyable to me so I stick at it.

I don't do any running obviously but I have now added indoor biking to my cardio along with the rowing. I wish I had normal lungs so I could just really go for it but as long as I'm improving it's all good.

My lungs are slightly better now than they were 8 years ago which is actually pretty amazing with a degenerative disease. I've not tested, but I'm sure my resting heart rate is down a bit too, feels noticeably slower when I can hear it on my pillow at night.

I can relate to the lung bit (obviously not in same way as you) having had asthma all my life. Big obstacle having lung issues!

[Kev]

Yeah it is annoying. As is natural feebleness when trying to do weights.

[BIG H]

Yeah it is annoying. As is natural feebleness when trying to do weights.

I have that too lol. Although it's not natural I used to be quite strong, I've just not touched weights for nearly 20 years and now people half my size can lift the same as me

Keep up what you are doing and the strength will come

[Kev]

Yeah it is annoying. As is natural feebleness when trying to do weights.

I have that too lol. Although it's not natural I used to be quite strong, I've just not touched weights for nearly 20 years and now people half my size can lift the same as me

Keep up what you are doing and the strength will come

Ah when it comes to feebleness I'm most definitely a natural, a prodigy even.

[Kev]

Just knocked almost a second off my 500 metre pace for rowing over 10 minutes

Rowed for 10 minutes at a pace of 2:20:8, previous best was 2:21:5

Well chuffed. 2:20 pace is the goal!