You won't believe this....

Hi people, last night when I was cooking tea for my troops, I sliced the tip of my thumb almost off, not concentrating on what I was doing. I managed to get it sorted before the blood really turned up and hopefully have been able to get the tip to "seal" itself. It was looking promising last night before I went to bed. So I sit here today, having the day off work so I don't bang my hand, giving my thumb a chance to settle down and stop throbbing. Now it's just a waiting game for it to heal enough so I can go swimming. I reckon a week should do it. However, that doesn't mean I'll be doing no training. I guess now is as good a time as any to start on my running training. I may have to start off with a few walks and ease my way into it. Crickey, I really don't know where to start. Any ideas anyone?

Another turning point, a fork stuck in the road....

Well, that's not entirely true, the fork isn't actually stuck. BUT, there is a turning point. A challenge of sorts for myself and one that I am prepared to conquer and I have just over 18 weeks to get to the start line and some time to finish the 2009 City to Surf Half Marathon.



My company boss approached me and asked if I ran, "Only if I have to and that's not often, so no not really Phill". He then went on to inform me that he and a few others from work were doing the half marathon and asked if I'd be interested in doing it. Now, I'm not the keenest person when it comes to running, but it took all of 2 mins 43 sec (probably less knowing me) to say "Yeah OK, I'll have a crack at it" I then proceeded to walk to my car all the while saying to myself " What the hell just happened in there and why did you say yes?" Oh well what's done is done and I'll put that on my to do list and cross it off when I'm done.



Had a great swim session tonight with NO CRAMP!

Here's what we did:

4 x 100 w/25 m kick

3x 50m hand sculling
3x 50m elbow bends
100m one arm drill - all with fins

200 m technique swim
300 m tennis ball swim
200 m technique swim
6x50 m - 25 easy/ 25 hard

100m warm down

Total 2000 m

Feeling a bit flat and fat today.....

HI people, today as the heading says, I'm feeling a bit flat and fat today, strange thing is, I have no idea as to why. Also the stuff that I got from the natruopath on Friday has left me with the meanest "salty" mouth ever and it really is quite disgusting! Alas, I shall keep on keeping on with it, because despite the salty mouth, if it helps me with my cramps then all good. I'll just have to up my water intake to try and combat the aftertaste.

Went to the gym at 7.30 tonight and here's what I did:

5 min treadmill set on an incline of 4.0 and speed of 6.0 and the warm up was really good - got the HR up to a good level to start lifting.

Chest / Back

Bench Press 1x20x70 kg
2x20x65 kg
Incline D/Bell Press 2x20x35 lb
Seated Cable Row 3x20x100 lb
Bent Over Row 2x20x100 lb
Machine Dips (to failure) 3x60 kg (33,30,35)
Wide Grip Pulldowns 2x20x45 lb
Wide Grip Chin (Assisted) 1x6

Crunches 3x30

I'm feeling that I need to do something else ie: Cardio wise.... Any suggestions? I might have to get back on the bike, or dare I say it...RUN? I never said or even thought that did I? It must be a typo LOL


Well that's me for the night, So.... Tofa soifua ( Samoan for Goodbye, live long and prosper )

It's been a great weekend....

A very busy weekend for us at 1 Luke Street. The girls did the 40 hour famine ( 40 hours of self imposed silence - it was BLISS! ) Shar and I got jobs done and feel good after our accomplishments - Thanks partner.

Had swimming today and it was really good. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

200 mtr warm up
10 x 100 free (aerobic) :15 sec/ 100mtrs
300 mtr fist swim w/ tennis balls
300 mtr steady swim
400 paddle/pull
75 mtr warm down (backstroke)

Total 2275 mtrs

Feeling pretty buggered now, so I'm going to finish my Milo and go to bed. Here's to a good week for my followers and I see I have a new follower, so welcome, enjoy the journey and feel free to leave comments.

Ka kite.

Although the Hurricanes lost........

Hello, it's been a good few days and although the Hurricanes lost last night, the better team won on the night and it was a really good game. Here's hoping for a final in Hamilton, but the Crusaders have their work cut out for them in Pretoria against the Bulls.
I went to the natruopath yesterday to seek advice on my cramping situation, $41.50 later, I walked out of there with a small bottle of electrolytes which should last me a while, as you only put 48 drops into a 750ml bottle and away you go. She also told me to keep up with the mag phos8, so I'll do that and see what happens over the next few weeks.

Went to the gym tonight and was surprised how many people were there at 6pm on a Saturday.

Legs and Shoulders

5 min warm up treadmill

Squats 3x20x100 kg
Leg Press 3x20x300 lb
Military Press (Smith Mach) 3x20x20 lb
Lateral Raises 2x20x20 lb (Dumbells)
Calf Raises Seated 3x20x35 kg
Cable Lat Raises 2x20x11 kg

Crunches 3x30
Good Mornings 3x20x20 kg

20 min FBP treadmill

Swimming tomorrow and I'm looking forward to that. Ciao

Last nights swim and tonights gym session

Howdy people, I'm a bit disappointed with last nights swim, not with the effort on my part, because I'm really training quite hard I think, more disappointed that I'm not being able to shake "IT" off and "IT" just turns up when I'm just "hitting my straps" if you will and that is really starting to piss me off. So, I will take Kathy's advice and go see a Natruopath and hopefully get "IT" sorted. Apart from the cramp, the session was pretty cool, I really enjoyed swimming with tennis balls and the difference afterward when you get rid of the balls is just amazing, so the next thing that goes into my swimming bag will be 2 tennis balls!
Here's what I did last night:
100m swim , 50m kick (x4)
100m long dog 100m duck drill
250m swim
250m swim with tennis balls (fist swim)
400m with pull bouy
TOTAL: 1700m

Tonights gym session was a good one. Arms and the 1 pack plus 20 treadmill

5 min warm up treadmill

Preacher Curls 2x20x38 kg
Reverse Curls 2x20x55 lb
D/B Tricep Curls 2x20x30 lb
Bench Dips 2x20
Tricep Pulldowns 2x20x50 kg
B/B Curls 2x20x60 lb

Crunches 3x30
Hyper extensions 3x10

20min treadmill FBP

I was standing in the bedroom talking to Shar, rubbing my puku pretending that there were defined abs, when she asked what I was doing. I told her that I was rubbing my one pack. She laughed and said it was a crate, then in her next breath she said it used to be a keg. I'll take that as a compliment, because there's no keg there anymore and it won't be reappearing any time soon, which brings me to this mornings weigh in at 6.30am 134.05kg. I'm pretty happy with that.

G'night :)

Training the 1 pack...

Last night when I left the gym I thought to myself "I should really do some ab training as well as weights and treadmill work", because I know that having a solid core is important for pretty much anything that you undertake sporting wise and I guess on a daily basis for that matter.
So, tonight after my 5 min warm up on the treadmill, I started to train my 1 pack, and I also did a bit of work on my lower back too, because you can't have strong abs and a weak lower back - it just doesn't work like that. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

So here's what I did tonight

5 min treadmill

Crunches 5x15
Hyper extension 3x15

D/B Bench Press 3x20x40 lb
Incline Bench Press (Smith Machine) 1x20x70 lb
1x20x40 lb
One Arm D/B Row 3x20x40 lb
T Bar Row 2x20x35 kg
Cable Crossovers 2x20x20 kg
Close Grip Pull downs 2x20x45 lb

20 min Fat Burn Program on treadmill.

Feeling pretty good after that. Have had a good day overall.

Swimming tomorrow :)

So tonight, I leave you with this joke.

3 hicks, Steve, Ben & Daveo were working on a pylon, when Daveo fell to his demise. Steve says to Ben "Someone has to tell his wife what has happened" and Ben says "I'm pretty good at the sensitive stuff, I'll do it."
2 hours later, Ben arrives at the depot, carrying a box of beer. Steve see this and asks " Where did you get the beer?" Ben says "From Daveo's wife"
"That's unbelievable! You told the lady her husband was dead and she gave you a box of beer?"
"Well not exactly" Ben said, "When she answered the door I said to her, 'You must be Daveo's widow' "
She said "I'm no widow"
And I said " I bet you a box of beer you are"


I thought it was funny... See you later