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Jonbo298 · 08-13-2008, 02:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Dyne

Curls are fine, just make sure you're taking in plenty of protein to help you recover on your days off.

Jonbo: You should start spitting in to a bucket every time you have water in your mouth. Apparently it helps you lose 1-2 pounds before you weigh up. It's an old boxing trick, but I learned it off of Kenny Vs. Spenny, hahaha.

I'm not concerned with "trickery" because then it feels like I didn't truly do it

I'm content weighing myself in the mornings after waking up and hitting the pisser because its the most "stable" part of the day to do so.

Now granted, if it was a Biggest Loser type competition, hell yeah I'd be all over that 'trick'. But unfortunately I left the job that did it twice while there. First one really helped me initially finally get off my ass, join a gym, and at least try and did well even though I gained back most (not all thankfully) but second time around, I'm doing ALOT better.

One of these times I will have to email the person who did it because it was her who truly got me to start thinking about what I was eating and whatnot by doing the 'competition' (plus, the prize money was I believe $500 plus money put in the pot which honestly was worth trying for since it was only $5 to enter in the pot)

Angrist · 08-14-2008, 04:43 PM

Ok, I finished the first week. Not bad so far, I'm still in the hardest column. Today I had to finish with a max of at least 15. I did 19. Then I almost collapsed.

Jonbo298 · 08-14-2008, 06:43 PM

Pushed hard and didn't starve myself like some people do (not referring to anyone on GT if it came across that way) and I finally hit 219 today. Now on to 209....

Jason1 · 08-18-2008, 07:19 PM

Im into week 4 now. Still going pretty strong, although its not a total cakewalk like it was in weeks 1 and 2...

Dyne · 08-19-2008, 05:23 AM

Yeah, I just finished week 4 and my exhaustion test came in at 51. I'm going to have a hell of a time in this final column again, but I know I might be able to do 100 pushups.

I don't look forward to 8 levels of it all, though, what the heck.

Angrist · 08-21-2008, 03:56 AM

Do you think this program would work for situps? I can already do about 40 successive of those, but I think my abs could use a boost.

My arms really look much better btw... of course I had already started using weights half a year ago.

Dyne · 08-21-2008, 05:07 AM

Yeah, I think Joeiss is using it for situps too.

You definitely notice a difference in your arms and everywhere else. It's almost a full upper-body workout. Sooo good.

I just did 8 freaking levels in week 5 day 2. That's just insane. That's what I get for doing 51 on my exhaustion test..

My arms actually hurt for once, but that might be because I also had a really good MMA workout tonight too.

Angrist · 08-21-2008, 06:09 AM

Ok, I'll do the situps too. I guess it's best to start in week 1?

Just finished day 3 of week 2. The last 5 extra pushups were hard, but I'm keeping up the extra 5.

Angrist · 08-23-2008, 06:39 PM

Did the test after week 2. I was afraid I wouldn't make it to column 3... I did 30 pushups, which is more than 25, so yay!

But seriously, I went from 20 to 30 in 2 weeks. How do they want me to go from 30 to 100 in 4 weeks???

Jason1 · 08-23-2008, 09:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Angrist

Did the test after week 2. I was afraid I wouldn't make it to column 3... I did 30 pushups, which is more than 25, so yay!

But seriously, I went from 20 to 30 in 2 weeks. How do they want me to go from 30 to 100 in 4 weeks???

yea, looking at this, the pacing is kinda strange...

that being said, I just did the exhaustion test after week 4, and managed 49.

Angrist · 08-24-2008, 05:35 PM

I found Xantar on youtube:

Bond · 08-24-2008, 05:42 PM

That looked a lot like low-class gymnastics, haha.

Angrist · 08-25-2008, 02:31 PM

Week 3, day 1. First day I didn't meet my quotum.

Did the 25, 17, 17.... then couldn't get to 15 but had to stop at 12. Now they want me to finish with at least 25... impossible.

I'll finish the week as well as I can and I'll start this week over again.

Perfect Stu · 08-25-2008, 08:15 PM

I've started jogging a bit again...have run 1 mile 3 times per week for the past couple weeks. It's tough for us big guys but worth it...

The Germanator · 08-25-2008, 08:55 PM

I've just started slowing down my running. I was doing 45 miles a week consistently and now I'm down to 25-30 a week over the last few. I'm also not trying to lose 2 pounds a week like before either, so it makes sense. Plus my left hip started to hurt a lot. But I still ran 7.5 today, and my weight is down to 168, almost 40 pounds down...