Lift, Train, Fitness

Apart from the rooster incident, a lot of today was spent chipping an area for a new garden bed which will be for herbs. Also replanted to wicking bed, every time I planted something there were a heap of worms and the soil was rich, dark and healthy with all the organic matter from building the bed breaking down. The bed has been fallow for a month after ripping out the remnant of the summer crop. Now growing a couple of self seeded tomatoes which I left when removing the few weeds growing, planted chillies, capsicum, beans, cauliflower and onions.

When the seeds sprout, I will be adding more mulch.

The chickens ate the curl grubs I dug up. Applied neem oil to deal with the rest of the grubs I could not see.

Pruned some small flowering trees (mock orange and a Geisha Girl) both of which attract a lot of bees, and there were no shortage of bees all over the purple flowers today.
 
Great that all the work for the wicking bed is paying off! That must be so satisfying. Your eggs are going to have the most amazing yolks too if your chickens are grubbing for grubs.
 
Your garden sounds full of biodiversity & very healthy. We went to Fat Pig Farm on Sunday (Fat Pig Farm ) & it was great to see the owners not just talk about sustainability & biodiversity but also actually follow those practices in their restaurant. I think most of the people there for lunch were from interstate & G & I were the oldest easily. I found it really interesting & a great experience. The quality of our soil is so important. I feel like adding another paddock out from our house & growing more vegetables.
 
I had an assessment on metabolic conditioning and matching the right conditioning to the clients goals, very happy with another %100 result.

as far as relevance on this forum, HIIT has negligible extra benefits for fat loss, the benefit comes from being great for those with limited time to exercise. Fat loss still comes down to diet !!. When you dig into it you really begin to see how people think they are training one thing and in reality their training is not actually helping them much.

Time, intensity, work to rest ratio all change the energy system your working.
 
Trusylver said:
as far as relevance on this forum, HIIT has negligible extra benefits for fat loss, the benefit comes from being great for those with limited time to exercise. Fat loss still comes down to diet !!.
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It would be funny to see the claims some people make if there weren't so many who believed it. Congrats on another perfect score!
 
LaMaria said:
It would be funny to see the claims some people make if there weren't so many who believed it. Congrats on another perfect score!
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Marketing makes the difference, there is so much BS out there, if the marketing is good enough people will believe anything.

an example used today re exercise for fat loss was professional rugby league players, they have 10 training session a week plus a game, yet a lot of the players still have plenty of jiggle, if these professional athletes cannot exercise away the fat what makes an ordinary non athlete think that they can exercise away a bad diet ?
 
Trusylver said:
an example used today re exercise for fat loss was professional rugby league players, they have 10 training session a week plus a game, yet a lot of the players still have plenty of jiggle, if these professional athletes cannot exercise away the fat what makes an ordinary non athlete think that they can exercise away a bad diet ?
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Louder for the people in the back!
 
Had a good day at Uni.

Worked on learning to coach the strongman lifts, I was able to flip the big tyre in one motion but the guy I was teamed up with for the exercise passed out. Strongman log and atlas stones were fun but I am not real good with the keg toss. Also today a variety of sled drills, KBs, Sandbags, zercher bar and battle ropes. The squat row sled pull looks to be a good exercise to include in general programs. The Zercher bar was fun, after everybody worked with it unloaded I was able to load up the weight and really feel the instability of the loaded weight work my core to the max. Just another piece of equipment to go on my wish list lol.

A couple of strongman exercises load the spine in flexion, so not something to give beginners, yet you see places like CrossFit, F45 and other bootcamp type exercise classes throw these exercises at people who should not be doing them.
 
He was ok, the class certainly requires a good base level of ability, and this guy just does not have it, at least it was outside on soft grass, so no extra harm done, he is an exercise physiology student and this is a class which is common to both sport and exercise science and the more clinical exercise physiology. As a fellow student I do not know what health conditions he may have but the tutor needed to pull him back from trying exercises he was just not capable of doing and he left the class early.
 
Embarrassing for him (I hope he had the sense to be embarrassed rather than angry) but a good example of why proper guidance is important.
 
My appetite it through the roof tonight :(

I have my period at the moment combined with 2 hours of intense exercise at uni has kicked my appetite into overdrive, I have eaten way too much cheese while I waited for the chilli beef to finish cooking, of which my serving sizes were also too big. I am not sleepy unfortunately so the temptation to eat more is gnawing at me. My internet is slowed so this distraction is limited.
 
Made it through last night :)

Found a commercial quality sled for sale on marketplace today for $200 half the price of a new one, going to drive down the coast tomorrow to pick it up.

I am starting to plan out what equipment I need to be able to offer outdoor strength classes, working commercially out of the gym at home makes insurance complicated but with the ability to add strongman movements outdoor classes in town become a viable option, with my target market being athletes wanting to improve performance in their sport.

I don't want to run classic boot-camp. f45 style classes because they over promise on the weight loss and do dangerous movements in a highly fatigued state with no proper technique, a good example is plyometric box jumps given to unfit beginners who are puffing from a previous exercise.
 
Trusylver said:
I don't want to run classic boot-camp. f45 style classes because they over promise on the weight loss and do dangerous movements in a highly fatigued state with no proper technique, a good example is plyometric box jumps given to unfit beginners who are puffing from a previous exercise.
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Quoted for truth. Some of these movements carry enough risk of injury when you´re rested and well-trained.
 
I got my sled today and the harness to go with it, very happy with my purchase (picture in strength club), works well on concrete. I will need to come up with a better solution for getting it in and out of the car. I would estimate it weighs in at around 60 kg and is a bit awkward to lift in and out of the back of my wagon. Tomorrow I want to try it out on a sports field to see if I need to take the skids for concrete off.

The harness should also work for car and light truck pulls.
 
Trusylver said:
The harness should also work for car and light truck pulls.
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That sentence had me very confused for a second until I remembered you were working on strongman stuff :rotflmao:
 
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