Honestly thinking of using my Mod powers for the first time to alter the title of this thread to "The Sad and Desperate Club thread".
I have one I use. He's a mate and he runs ultra marathons and helps with sports massage at the Newcastle Falcons. He's a right little hard bastard (he ran the Marathon Des Sable and once did 130 miles of UK hills in a single 24 hour period. With me he works of core strength and running techniques (Intervals, pyramids etc....). I give him £27 for an hour and he is well worth it plus we don't clock watch.... The bonus of him being a trained masseuse is that if he ****s me up... he can help mend me. One task he has failed at thus far is to make me violently sick through over exercise. It's my holy grail so he keeps trying... I've come close to passing out twice though.
I'll go till Xmas without a drink mate. Although I'll start on 24th December. Hope I can last till Xmas day.
Joking aside... my PT said if you go out on the piss once... your body takes 3 days to fully recover and it's impossible to hit peak training form in those 72 hours.
He's right. That's why those who really care about health and fitness cannot subject themselves to the idea that getting pissed once a week is fine because you're only drinking once a week. You could probably get away with having a few drinks once a week but not getting drunk. You can probably afford to get drunk once a month at most. I haven't been drunk for ages now. Only had about 3-4 drinks in the last couple of months.
I've spewed a fair few times, Fartlek training with Royal Marines, although that was after returning from Xmas leave. On some occasions my pre-workout will come back up as well, usually if I'm doing a killer leg session. I've just committed £132 to a meat delivery on Monday so hopefully that'll be enough to kick me back into action, I'll try for 8 weeks of solid training, it'll all be undone by Boxing day.
By drinking cans I'm helping the environment in terms of recycling so I'm going by bit for mother earth.
Get it done then..... What they don't realise is its too late for them in any case. In the immortal words of Carter. When you're younger, you can eat what you like, drink what you like and still climb into your 26" waist trousers and zip them closed. Then you reach that age, 24, 25, your muscles give up they wave a little white flag and without any warning at all, you're suddenly a fat bastard
Definitely not the truth for me. If I'm at a significant caloric deficit, I drop like a rock, if I am at a significant caloric surplus, I gain weight quickly. If I miss a meal one day because of work I literally see it on the scales, and it's the same if I have a ****ty fast food weekend.
After my first gym session after getting over man flu I would definitely say room for improvement 4/10
Time to inject some honesty and realism into this thread. In the health and fitness stakes I'm a definite Moyesey and so have to award myself two points! I smoke like a chimney, drink way too much coffee, have a job that involves sitting on my arse all day and suddenly find in my late 40s I have turned into a fat bastard. I would have awarded myself only one point, but I did once make a website for a gym - so reckon that deserves a bonus point.
Back on it this morning. Up at 5:45 Trained on empty Vitargo post workout, wakes me up for the day. Bonfire night on Saturday, supposed to be going out for drinks and food... so that'll be the first hurdle.
I cant not drink, I worked so hard last week, 5k every morning Monday -Friday before eating. Weight work outs every lunch. Eating reasonably well until Friday night, then I had an indian and Brandy, Saturday it was Jack daniels and again sunday. Today back on it, going to the gym in 10 mins, but I question why I don't see results, when in fact I know why I don't see the results I want. The results are not becoming obese!
Eating some post run Tofu here. 25g of protein, tonne of calcium and iron also. Only 200 cal portion.
Using my fitness pal to get my nutrition up to speed. It's a great app for anybody who wants to track their eating habits. Once I'm into 7 meals per day without clock watching and measuring servings I'll stop using it.
I'd say for my age, I'm a nine.......I feel good and compared to other blokes my age, I look good. Quit smoking almost twenty years ago, drink maybe 6 units max per week, have a physical job and work out about four times a week. And I'm down to eleven and a half stone.....almost a stone lost since coming back from holiday two months ago. I have my missus to thank for preparing some fairly healthy meals. I did have a six pack recently but the ten pints of Guinness and kebab I had in one session put paid to it
I run like a **** but drink like a bastard weekends... It's balance in my book.... For 45 I'm not in to bad a shape... Could do better could do worse.
