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Sorry guys for no updates for a week - still training every day, but today was last weight session until after my challenge on the 10th. Was advised to rest up and carb up for at least 2 weeks before the event, so the best I can give is giving it a week and half off the weights and a few days off the cardio prior to the challenge. I can't manage 2 whole weeks! Shucks I have to take enough time off when the kiddies get ill - never mind having to take it off when everyone's well!!

Anyway I've been in an absolute fowl mood all week and just wasn't in the mood for posting - reason.... I got on the bloody body fat % machine!! Tears of frustration were shed in private let me tell you. It's barely moved from when I started out in March!! 30+ lbs gone, 30+inches gone, 3 and a bit dress sizes and it's still:

34.2% upper body
37.0% lower body

Aaaargh, nuff said!
 
yorkshirelass said:
Sorry guys for no updates for a week - still training every day, but today was last weight session until after my challenge on the 10th. Was advised to rest up and carb up for at least 2 weeks before the event, so the best I can give is giving it a week and half off the weights and a few days off the cardio prior to the challenge. I can't manage 2 whole weeks! Shucks I have to take enough time off when the kiddies get ill - never mind having to take it off when everyone's well!!

Anyway I've been in an absolute fowl mood all week and just wasn't in the mood for posting - reason.... I got on the bloody body fat % machine!! Tears of frustration were shed in private let me tell you. It's barely moved from when I started out in March!! 30+ lbs gone, 30+inches gone, 3 and a bit dress sizes and it's still:

34.2% upper body
37.0% lower body

Aaaargh, nuff said!
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Hi Yorky i wondered were you got too! i think your callipers are incorrect hun all the weight you've lost you couldnt possibly be same as before .
maybe you could get a pro to do your bf just to check.
anyway good look with your mission lol your hardcore doing that lol i couldn't hack it!
and ps make the most of the carbs lol because my body is crying out for carbs its killing me lol:mix::mix::mix:
 
Hey Donna,

It's also been a crazy busy week due to my little girl (4) starting school next Monday! Making me feel old when I'd just started to feel younger again due to changing my appearance!! Shoes, uniform, gym kit, haircut etc. etc. It's been a bit manic!

It was the electronic scales at the gym I used, and the hand held machine for upper body. They don't do calipers there, otherwise I would have had them do that too.

Can't dwell on it though - I'll get where I want to be one day. Just temporarily feeling low!

Starting to get a tad nervous now about the 'mission' - 40 % fail rate!! But I've raised over £500 for my charity so I'm pleased with that.

I won't tell you about all the carbs I scoff then - don't want to send you over the edge hun!
 
Yorgy that electronic crap is notorious for being incorrect. The cheapest and easiest way is to buy yourself an AccuMeasure. Google it. But like I said that electronic is total bulshit. Odd that someone told you to carb up for 2 weeks? Dam gurl pro marathoners only do it for a day max......
Yorgy darlin, when you get advice always check it out here. We really do have your best interest at heart. Not gonna just blow some noise at you. The thing is when you stop cardio you instantly begin to loose the cardio vascular benefit from doing it. So to stop it for 2 weeks before you do your climbs is kinda taking lots of steps backwards. But its a lesson that you wont forget.....
Would have much preferred to see you just stop your workout 2 or 3 days prior to your excursion and just keep doing the cardio. IMO you would be further ahead.
But on your climbs take carb rich snacks with you. Nuts and M&Ms mixed together is a gr8 one. You could even put your fav cold cereal in with that to increase your carbs. You make this up at home and take it with you. Then just snack on it as you feel hungry. Chew the hell out of it before you swallow and then you have pretty fast absorbsion from your stomach.
 
Oh Zed am I ever glad that I posted that today's workout was my last training then - it won't be now then! I'll keep going. thanks bro.
Really interesting about the carbing up too - the company running these events take people all over the world - everest, mont blanc, kilamanjaro etc so you'd really think they know their stuff! Don't worry - I wasn't gonna go mad with it anyway, and still keep it clean, just a bit more sweet potato/rice than normal!

I will check out that Accumeasure you mention cos I never wanna step on those damn electronic scales again haha!
 
yorkshirelass said:
Hey Donna,

It's also been a crazy busy week due to my little girl (4) starting school next Monday! Making me feel old when I'd just started to feel younger again due to changing my appearance!! Shoes, uniform, gym kit, haircut etc. etc. It's been a bit manic!

It was the electronic scales at the gym I used, and the hand held machine for upper body. They don't do calipers there, otherwise I would have had them do that too.

Can't dwell on it though - I'll get where I want to be one day. Just temporarily feeling low!

Starting to get a tad nervous now about the 'mission' - 40 % fail rate!! But I've raised over £500 for my charity so I'm pleased with that.

I won't tell you about all the carbs I scoff then - don't want to send you over the edge hun!
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Ah bless her you must be so proud getting her ready for her first day at school .
Don't quote me on this but I'm sure I read that they are always wrong if it's like the scales were you put in your age and gender and it comes up after weighing you I was told they were useless. If you have any personal trainers at your gym usually you can pay them to do it.
Anyway either way don't loose faith Hun you came so far now!
£500 WOW! Thats great news Em well done nerves will be normal at this stage Hun but you will be fine you have great determination that's enough to drive you up them mountains lol.
Lol yeah I'd die for a good old all you can eat day lmao .
The hardest part is giving up my favourAte foods I love food me but it will be worth it in the end!

Hope your little girl really enjoys going to school bless her!
 
I think that they gear the advice for the typical office type yorgy. But that is not you! You are a trained body so for you its different. Like I said the most important thing is to take your fuel with you so you dont deplete on the way. Here we call that mixture I gave you trail mix.
You can put just about anything into it that you like and is mostly carbs, some fat and a dab of protein.
Your fav nuts, dried fruit and raisens and then add broken up pretzels. There you go you just made another one!
But whatever you mix up be sure and chew it up to a pulp. That way faster break down in your stomach.
Another one but different,
Natty penut butter, honey, fav cold cerial, raisons, dates and a diced up apple and maybe some dried fruit. Mix it all up so that it clumps together and holds. This is a soft treat but lots of carbs and tastes gr8.
The Mountain climbers in the Rock Mtns like to take dextrose tabs with them too for the same reason but faster absorbtion.
Also take plenty of water. 2x what you think you will need! When you have to pee just find a bush, you not gonna be above treeline so no worries...LOL
 
Yeah I've been ready up about trail mix so that'll definitely be coming up the mountains with me...your peanut butter one sounds yummy!!! Obviously we can leave more substancial food on the coach for the journey's between each ascent.
You are probably right with the 'office guy' comment, thinking about it Zed, I'll just keep going and rest for a couple of days before hand.

Bush to pee behind!!...I should be so lucky Zed.....these hills(to you) mountains (to me) are just rock with some grassy areas lower down and snow nearer to the summit!
That reminds me...if I run out of water at the summit...I must not eat yellow snow! x
 
Oh I keep forgetting to mention Zed - after you told me about you doing x4 14ers in one go, I went off looking to see what your 14's are all about, and look at pics etc and came across milage charts and actual elavation climbed for these big boys, and it turns out that although our mountains over here seem utterly puny to yours when you compare our 4000 feet with your 14000 feet, the distance and height climbed will actually be really similar, as yours are so far above sea level to start with, and ours are virtually at sea level. Just thought I'd give our little UK mountains a 'big up' - some of our's are bigger than yours!! :p
 
LOL yellow snow. I think I remember a song about dont eat the yellow snow......

Hey glad you checked out the 14ers chika. And glad you did the comparison.
What you are doing is significant and dont think its not. You are doing it for a gr8 casse and you are doing it for you too.
Im proud of you for taking on the challenge and I think your a wonderful person for giving of yourself and your time for the cause.
Also you will have a gr8 time and fond memories. Take a point and shoot camera and shoot lots of pics to show us on here too plz!
 
Aw thanks Zed for those words - yeah it is an huge accomplishment for me to be doing this really - if someone would have said to me in late February, before I started, that by the end of the Summer I'd be back into lifting, be much smaller and healthier, and climbing mountains for charity I would have thought they were bonkers!

I have officially blown my target amount out of the water today - 130% of my target raised now - £650. I know it's not huge but I'm really pleased with that, especially as I haven't worked for about 6 years (recovering from a family tragedy for 2 years, then raising my family) so don't have colleagues,company donations commitee, bosses etc to hound for cash!!

I will most definitely post you up some pics when I get back.
Rest day today, shoulders tomorrow night.
 
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Yorky if you use eBay there's a brand new acumesure machine for £23 that's a bargain!
 
Put up the link suga.
The Accu Measure that I was talking about is a caliper and should only be a few bucks/pounds.
But I would like to see what this is too.
 
zedhed said:
Put up the link suga.
The Accu Measure that I was talking about is a caliper and should only be a few bucks/pounds.
But I would like to see what this is too.
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Here's the item number Zed the ones I've seem were around £30 this is the cheapest I've seen.

400221590148 (eBay item number)
Accumeasure FatTrack Gold Digital Body Fat Caliper BMI
 
hey donna, thanks for that link. Is that you ones you meant Zed?

Shoulders today - did same as last time:

warm up circuit of 1x12 half weight of all the following working sets:

3 sets of 8 for all
upright bb row 33lbs + bar
seated millitary bb press 33lbs + bar
overhead db press 26lbs each,
front db raise 22lbs each
plate raise 33lbs
lateral db raise 18lbs each
bent over (head on back of bench) rear delt db flye 22lbs each

When my climbing challenge is done and dusted I'll be reworking my weight lifting plan, think it's time for a change up, considering back and bi's super sets instead of back and chest, and likewise chest and tri's instead of bi's/tri's. Though I will definitely miss flat DB chest press supersetted with one arm DB row - there's just something about that set that I really really love!!
Also considering changing up to 3sets of 15 rather than the lower reps ranges.
Will be leaving shoulder day and leg day as stand alones still as they both knacker me and I really enjoy giving those my all.

Food - had to have a medicinal bowl of chocolate ice-cream last night - raw swollen throat, glands are up, sinuses blocked, ear ache - the works!! 1 week before I need to be feeling on top form - typical eh!
 
Great leg session today despite still feeling bloody awful. This will definitely be last leg workout until the climbs as my DOMs sometimes last a week and I want fresh legs for next Saturday.

Thorough warm up and stretching
Squat built up to 66lbs + power rack bar 22lbs 3x8 ATG
Leg press 305lbs +rack 12,12,10,8
Plie squats 44lb DB 3x10
Standing single leg ham curl 55lbs 3x8
Hack squat machine, close stance, 187lbs 3x8
SLDL 88lbs +22lb bar 3x8
Good girls 254lbs 3x20
Bad girls 254lbs 3x20
Seated calf press 143lbs 3x20

Oh Boy!!!!!! Serious case of jelly legs walking down 2 loooong flights of stairs! I did actually almost go arse over tit at one point!

Will pick up Vit C when shopping tomorrow Z - cheers! x

Hey Donna, i have been really excited for my little girl starting school because she's been counting down the sleeps till she starts and she's really excited so it's been negating my emotionalness(is that even a word!) about it - but today she's been really tearful all day over every silly little thing and that always means she's coming down with something, so guess she's gonna be starting school with my bug! Poor little mite. They start school far too little in this country in my opinion! x
 
All good here yorgy!
Best of luck to you hunny pie on your climes too!!
 
yorkshirelass said:
Great leg session today despite still feeling bloody awful. This will definitely be last leg workout until the climbs as my DOMs sometimes last a week and I want fresh legs for next Saturday.

Thorough warm up and stretching
Squat built up to 66lbs + power rack bar 22lbs 3x8 ATG
Leg press 305lbs +rack 12,12,10,8
Plie squats 44lb DB 3x10
Standing single leg ham curl 55lbs 3x8
Hack squat machine, close stance, 187lbs 3x8
SLDL 88lbs +22lb bar 3x8
Good girls 254lbs 3x20
Bad girls 254lbs 3x20
Seated calf press 143lbs 3x20

Oh Boy!!!!!! Serious case of jelly legs walking down 2 loooong flights of stairs! I did actually almost go arse over tit at one point!

Will pick up Vit C when shopping tomorrow Z - cheers! x

Hey Donna, i have been really excited for my little girl starting school because she's been counting down the sleeps till she starts and she's really excited so it's been negating my emotionalness(is that even a word!) about it - but today she's been really tearful all day over every silly little thing and that always means she's coming down with something, so guess she's gonna be starting school with my bug! Poor little mite. They start school far too little in this country in my opinion! x
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Ah the poor lil thing she will be ok probably just a little worried she won't know what to expect such a big leap for her .
If that's not a word it should be yorky lmfao.
Yeah I think your right it is really young but 6months in school she will grow up so fast .
Donna x
 
So I'm meant to be leaving for my climbs in about 30 hours times and as of yesterday I'm on pneumonia grade anti biotics for bronchitis and tonsilitis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doc's put me on such strong meds to try and give me a fighting chance of getting a green light to go on this adventure, he'll see me in the morning, 24hours from now, to say yes or no, depending on listening to my chest.
Oh My Good God I'm so annoyed. I certainly don't feel up to it. Breathless just going up the stairs this morning with the laundry.
Needless to say the last WO I logged for legs was my last WO even though the plan was to carry on lifting till the event.
 
yorkshirelass said:
So I'm meant to be leaving for my climbs in about 30 hours times and as of yesterday I'm on pneumonia grade anti biotics for bronchitis and tonsilitis!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doc's put me on such strong meds to try and give me a fighting chance of getting a green light to go on this adventure, he'll see me in the morning, 24hours from now, to say yes or no, depending on listening to my chest.
Oh My Good God I'm so annoyed. I certainly don't feel up to it. Breathless just going up the stairs this morning with the laundry.
Needless to say the last WO I logged for legs was my last WO even though the plan was to carry on lifting till the event.
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Ah no yorky so sorry to hear that mate. After a your hard work aswell.I know exactly how you feel as that was what I was suffering from a few weeks back. Seems to be slot of people ill with that.
I hope your feeling betta soon huni.
I'm bloody fed up aswell I've lost my job I've been head door supervisor there for two years and basically because that incident happened even though I was not in the whole team have been axed! They didn't say that in so Many words but that's what they mean. I'm furious looking for more work now good job I have two more part time jobs or I'd be knacked.

Let me know how you get on at the docs Hun.

Donna x
 
Dang sistas! I feel for both of you. IDK what else I can say.......
Get well soon yorgy and Donna hope the best for you in the job search.
You 2 should get together and have a nice day together. Eat fudge.....get pampered.....take an easy walk....and talk about sex!
Really hope the very best for both of you sistas.
 
zedhed said:
Dang sistas! I feel for both of you. IDK what else I can say.......
Get well soon yorgy and Donna hope the best for you in the job search.
You 2 should get together and have a nice day together. Eat fudge.....get pampered.....take an easy walk....and talk about sex!
Really hope the very best for both of you sistas.
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Thanks buddy lol I'll leave the pampering to the Girly girls .
Yeah may b one day !
 
God sake donna that's awful to hear - I'm so sorry for you. If that's the reason behind it that sucks big time. What was the reason they actually gave? Surely they can't get away with just 'not needing' a whole team anymore.
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed you find something that suits you really quick to move on to.
Are you looking for something in the same field?
No chance of your other 2 positions becoming something more?
And yeah I'm with ya on the pampering! Don't get me wrong I like my nails done, and don't go out without my face on and hair done every 3 weeks (have to as it's so short) but someone else doing it would be my idea of hell - I'd be constantly thinking you're doing thsat wrong give it here!!
Chin up hun -
 
yorkshirelass said:
God sake donna that's awful to hear - I'm so sorry for you. If that's the reason behind it that sucks big time. What was the reason they actually gave? Surely they can't get away with just 'not needing' a whole team anymore.
I'll be keeping my fingers crossed you find something that suits you really quick to move on to.
Are you looking for something in the same field?
No chance of your other 2 positions becoming something more?
And yeah I'm with ya on the pampering! Don't get me wrong I like my nails done, and don't go out without my face on and hair done every 3 weeks (have to as it's so short) but someone else doing it would be my idea of hell - I'd be constantly thinking you're doing thsat wrong give it here!!
Chin up hun -
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Thanks yorky they basically said they have a different form lined up as they have to be seen to do something after what happened.
I can't even do anything as they sub contract us through my company I work for .
I hate that people can get away with treating people like that.
My firm have offered me hours in Durham so guess I will have to take that but won't be head door no more so means less pay but could work out better as traveling less. Never mind these things are sent to try us!
Lol my sisters a hair dresser so just get her to do mine lol can't stand people picking and pulling at is lmao.

Anyway hope your feeling betta Em keep me posted on the climb if you get there chic best of luck to ya x
 
Ok daym......you couple of roughnecks!!!!LOL
Ok how bout this.....go to the local pub toghther, get couple of pints and then bust some headz????Or maybe just do a workout together???
IDK you english babes......:confused:LOL
 
zedhed said:
Ok daym......you couple of roughnecks!!!!LOL
Ok how bout this.....go to the local pub toghther, get couple of pints and then bust some headz????Or maybe just do a workout together???
IDK you english babes......:confused:LOL
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Hahaha bust some heads what do you think we are Z a couple of yobs! Lmao.
Yeah a training session wins hands down lol
 
Ok whats yobs???
 
LOL gotcha !
 
LOL......
Hey where the heck is our yorgy?
 
Hope the very best for her on that mounatain somewhere.
 
Missing our yorgy!!:(
 
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