dpb

Thanks , first standard length olympic one Hever Castle . Went last year but catastrophically underestimated how busy it would be . Got to signing on tent 10 minutes before departure . Bottled it

hoping to avoid the 4 hour cut off / heart attack

scoobyboy1

iTrader: (16)

Anyway thought id step up my fitness to build some extreme muscle and order one of these badboys!!!

SJ_Skyline

Good day at the office, 4 minutes off my previous time (400m swim; 20k bike; 5k run).

dpb

That's more less my pace on swim ( seems a bit short though? ) and run

I'm about 5 minutes faster on bike

(road bike)

dpb

I'm okay with the swim, just takes 10 minutes or so to fully settle into watery world ( so noisy) bit like the first mile of the run .
Bike. Well you're sat down, all you have do is pedal fairly gentle

SJ_Skyline

Entry-level road bike, no carbon-fibre-goes-like-a-vindaloo mularky


I messed up and forgot my watch so I had no idea on my splits, and consequently no idea on how much extra I could push


I reckon I can get about a minute off the swim and about 5 off the bike, probably save 30 seconds or so between the two transitions too.

dpb

Only done a few triathlon so far. The bike section this time will be one lap or is it two , anyway there's no slowing down to go round a cone and back on yourself, which I'm looking fwd to

Just a steady 18mph if I can

dpb

My roadbike is carbon, but 15 year old carbon. Probably considered entry level now

jaygsi

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Might try these as my lower back is weak.

dpb

When's your next one SJ?

To me it's an expensive hobby, even the entry fee seems a lot

Paben

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Two old friends of mine, both recent cancer survivors, have put in loads of training in the last nine months. One has just done the Baku Iron Man in under 14 hours, amazing considering he could hardly swim a stroke a year ago. The other completed a John O'G to Lands End bike ride, ten days, finishing last Saturday. Awesome work!

dpb

The euro championships ??!

Paben

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Aargh, sorry, error! I was just reading about the Baku event and wrote it but my friend has actually just completed the Welsh Ironman in Pembrokeshire, a bit different in quality of competition but just as testing. Both he and the bike rider had previously suffered from oesophagus cancer, with big bits of gullet removed. The ironman chap had his done 5 years ago, the bike rider just 18 months ago. Apparently it makes it very difficult to get enough food down themselves for these long endurance events, so all the more remarkable.

dpb

i'l bet !

andy97

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It just demonstrates that when a person wants to do something they thought they couldn't/wouldn't attempt, a shock to lifestyle usually triggers these attempts. Well done to each of them.

I had a similar life shock, should of happened earlier in life really

banny sti

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Progress pic, still looking to get a little leaner

Paben

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Hmm, pecs needs some work

Trix-wrx

I think if he didn't have his arms up they would look bigger. Your lats look huge though banny what do you do to train them?

banny sti

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Arms down for context



My current back work out is:

50 chin ups spread over 5 sets

4 sets bent over rows

4 sets narrow grip pull downs

4 sets wide grip pull downs

4 sets t bar rows

4 sets machine pull overs

Paben

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Mine was obviously a poor effort at being amusing! If that's really Banny then I'm a Frenchman!

hux309

Banny, what weight bud?

banny sti

iTrader: (68)

chin ups are body weight

bent over rows the heaviest set is 100-120kg

pull downs I tend to stick around 90-100kg

T bar rows heaviest set is 80kg

my workouts are based around working the muscle to its absolute max, rather than using the heaviest weight possible where you tend to recruit other muscles

Trix-wrx

Ha yes but my plot to fool banny into a pic with his arms down worked a treat and came across a bit less homo

Trix-wrx

Do you not do any dead lifts banny or is it just on another day?

Paben

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Oh blimey, looks like I'd better start wearing a beret and hang some onions around my neck from now on. Sorry for thinking this wasn't Banny, I thought it was a pic from a magazine!

hux309

Likewise, my bor's are around 80k myself, i've topped out at 140 but i just know something will go twang one day given my age.
But i was more asking about your weight, i'm resuding at 218 but holding water and yet more to shift, fingers crossed i'll have most of it off by the end of the year.

banny sti

iTrader: (68)

Nope no deadlifts for me, its an exercise I dont get on with but I did do it when I started lifting to put the foundation down. I do rack pulls every other week to work my lower back thats it

banny sti

iTrader: (68)

my bad currently sitting arouund 194-195lbs

hux309

Hah no worries, i should have been clearer.
I'm hopeless at guessing, i was going to suggest 210lb but i didn't want to get it wrong

I'm bigger, and yet my legs are weaker than they've ever been which is odd.
I feel it's my body bringing everything into proportion, as my thighs have always been on the large side.

Trix-wrx

As if, didn't expect that. I thought every lifter did them. I do them when I can as I have lower back pain which varies day to day. I've had to drop weight a lot though as I had a long break from them to see if that's what was causing the pain. Obviously not as it never went away!! I used to lift 150kg and now after a few months back on them I'm back to about 90 comfortably from 60. Either way it's clearly working for you mate