It's Just a Ride! And it's time to hold on tight!!!!

Have a fab time Tan!! Wish I were off with you.

Hey you, have an absolute wonderful time. I'll not ring you cos I know you're busy with your parents and possibly last minute preps. Going to miss you so if you get chance of a cyber cafe please do send little messages and make sure you let me have your temp number so I can let you know any gossip and show results

Safe journey

Awe...cheers guys!

I'll try to pop in as often as I can so keep an eye on my journal.

Kitty will text you the number asap and keep me updated.

You all be good now....and ig you can't be good then be safe

Have a lovely holiday !!

Bump...get your arse back in that gym

ORIGINAL: kitty

Bump...get your arse back in that gym

Pies first, gym second.

ORIGINAL: kitty
Bump...get your arse back in that gym

From what ive spoken to Tan already on MSN kitty shes leaner than when she went away and trained while over there

Il let Tan tell you the training related news as well

PMSL!!!!! We have been during a grand tour of NZ gym's on our travels and had some cracking workouts. My happy holiday training partner wasn't too bad either.

Pete dind't get a chance for pies as their were OBVIOUSLY plenty of people in NZ who really had ate all the f888ing pies.

Will do a proper update when my brain catches up but I have managed to get my squat up to 60Kg

You're squatting as much as me now

It must have been all the sun Paul did tell me I had to 'go deeper'.....I am presuming he was talking about the exercise

Well 1st day back at work today after our mega adventure. We landed back at home at about 7am yesterday morning after about 30 hours of travelling. The holiday was just ace, did loads of travelling around NZ and just had a cracking time. We ate pretty well while we were away and did LOADS of walking and managed to train well too at various gyms we found on our travels. Training with paul was good fun and not having to do cardio on the treadmill because we were wandering around all the time was even better

I spent yesterday chilling out and got a couple of hours kip in the afternoon then had an early night. Woke up feeling refreshed and ready to climb back into the swing of things. I even did and an hours cardio and trained legs lol. I have to say I feel shattered right now though and am planning on a early night.

Legs

Rear Leg Raised Lunges (db)
10x20lb x 2
10x25lb x 1

BB Squats
40kg x 10
50kg x 8
60kg x 7

Leg Press
90kg x 12
140kg x 12
190kg x 10
240kg x 6

Leg Extensions
2 plates x 10 (plates 12lb)
3 x 10
4 x 10
5 x 8

I left it at that for today. My legs are SO full of water from the flight it's unbelievable. All the time I was away I hardly had any water retention which was really good but at the moment they are like 2 balloons. I have canckles lol....very attractive. I weighed myself this morning and was 65kg so I reckon I've put on a couple of pounds whilst we were away but will only get a more accurate idea when my legs stop being the mitchellin man's. I felt pretty lean while I was away and my pants are falling down so something has changed (probably my pants stretching lmfao).

Well that's about all I can manage for tonight....am officially fkt and ready for the land of nod!

ORIGINAL: ElfinTan

It must have been all the sun Paul did tell me I had to 'go deeper'.....I am presuming he was talking about the exercise

You sure it wasn't an echo you was hearing

Early night last night???? You were still on line when I logged off

If you and I stood in front of a car we'd look like two spare tyres from the sounds of things

LMFAO

Well I have to say my body clock is definitley not quite right. I woke up at 4am this morning as bright as a button so I got up had a sarny and a cuppa and watched **** on TV until it was time to do the mormal getty ready for work things in the morning. Then this evening I could hardly keep my eyes open after dinner and have come on the pc because I'm not getting in bed at 8pm ffs!!!!!

Well apart from that it's been a jolly good day. Trained back and shoulders with Paul as he is still Billy No Mates training partnerwise(although we did manage to draft a new recruit to kill just before we left for him....thank fk for that because there is NO way I was gonna do legs with him lmfao). So that will make me Billy No Mates then as of tomorrow as I haven't seen sight nor sound of Space Cadet since we've been back. Ah well I will miss him but I'm sure I can still rope him in to spot me if needed (preferably not in the farting state he is in at the moment though ffs)!

Anyway this is what we did.

Iso Shoulder Press.
15kg (each side) 8x single, 8x double
20kg 6 xsingle, 6 x double
25kg 3 single, 3 double
25kg 6 x double

Reverse Pec Deck
3pltes x 10
4x8
4x6
4x6

Side Laterals - This is the 1st time I have done these pain for for months due to a niggle running right down my forarm. Have slightly adjusted the vertical stance to a slightly diagonal one and this appears to have sorted the problem.
4 sets x 12@ 5kg

DB Shrugs
30lbx10
35lbx8
40lbx8

Bent Over DB Rows
30lbx10
35lbx10
40lbx8
45lbx6

Cable Rope Rows
5,6, 7 plates x8-10

Close Grip Pull Downs
5,6, 7 plates 8-12

Straight Arm Lat Pull Downs
3 x 12
4 x 10 3 sets.

That was me done and dusted. I managed to jump on the treadmill for an hour today too. The water in my legs is disapearing too, I taken some herbal diaretics so they seem to be doing the trick. Although my tummy above my scare has some swelling too but the doc said that that could happen for up to 12 months. So now instead of cankles I have a pot belly....int life just a bunch o roses lmfao!!!!!!!!!!!

If you keep training like that then I'm gonna make you compete

Am loving it at the moment but you aint no way getting me in them fkin heels. Am doing chest and arms tomorrow if you fancy it.

OOO yeah we have another girly training at the gym That's a grand total of 7 of us LMFAO!

Don't need heels in natural physique

ECA kinda takes me out of that anyway lol!

Jet lag is a bummer LMFAO! Bright and sparky at 5.30am....this is soooooooooooooooo not me! Ah well has given me plenty of time to make poached eggs for brekki and some scram for lunch!

I've lost some of my balloon legs too and down to 63kg so hopefull the rest of it should go over the next couple of days amd will be back to normality...whatever that is!

ORIGINAL: ElfinTan

OOO yeah we have another girly training at the gym That's a grand total of 7 of us LMFAO!

At my mum's gym there used to be 2 women, then I left; so now it's just poor mummy on her tod!

I'm sure you'll soon be back on track with your body clock, it always surprises me how long it takes me to get back into the swing of things after a long-haul flight, and you've been off gallivanting around the other side of the world so you're allowed even longer than that! Glad you had a fabaroony time.