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just keep positive mate... your been doin so well!!

You haven't let us down mate. You will be fine.
Maybe use your birthday sunday as motivation?
Have a great weekend.
Nat

No change again, getting depressed

come on blue.... pick it up bro....you can do it!

i know how ya feel mate... im going through a flat spot with my training at the moment(except i'm not putting on weight ).
i'm going to force myself to go out in the gym now.. try and get some motivation back!

Ok mate will put in the big yards this week and if all fails by next Wednesday I will shoot myself

Don't say that Blue. You are doing great mate.
Sometimes results take time. Just do that little bit extra, don't eat that snack and you will find great results

Bluey Report
All weights are in Kilograms

Date..............Weight..............Loss ..........Gain….....Total loss
16/05/07.........112.0...............na...............na.............na
23/05/07.........110.0................2.................0..............2
30/05/07.........108.0................2.................0..............4
06/06/07.........106.0................2.................0..............6
13/06/07.........105.0................1.................0..............7
20/06/07.........104.0................1.................0..............8
27/06/07.........103.0................1.................0..............9
04/07/07.........104.0................0.................1..............8
11/07/07.........105.0................0.................1..............7
18/07/07.........105.0................0.................0..............7

Ok now, I have got rid of that depression and am raring to go. Seen my Doc yesterday and he said do it very gradually. He was impressed with my progress. Now you fitness fanatics, can anyone help me with these crunchies and push-ups as I can see stretch mark already (And they are bloody ugly YUCK). I don’t go to the GYM as it is too expensive for me. Just remember I could hardly do one push-up but the crunchies are easy. Can some one please point me in the right direction? How many sets per day? I would say about three sets per day (Morning, Noon and Night). Obliviously I can do a ton more crunchies than push-ups. So how would I go about it, any help would be greatly appreciated in advance.

PS: Starting all over again, 4 days without a

PSS: Am putting this report in early just in case

G'day Bluey. I suppose you are talking about ab crunches sort of like sit ups. In our twice weekly sessions, we do 3 sets of twenty crunches, but each set is different. First is laying on your back with your knees bent and running your hands down your thighs to your knees with each crunch. The second is lifting your legs up vertically and holding them there. You then reach up and touch your knees or higher with each crunch. The last is laying flat on your back with straight legs, and your hands flat on the floor beside you. Then lift your feet and upper body up about six inches for each crunch.

Our instructor also talks about core strength, which is basically what crunches are doing. Another exercise is to lay on your belly with your hands joined and resting on your elbows. Then lift your body off the ground, keeping it straight, with your toes and elbow taking all your weight. You hold this for about 15 seconds and repeat as many times as you can. I find this a lot harder than crunches, and my muscles get the shakes while doing it. Good thing about this is you can do it at any time.

The main thing with pushups is keeping your form. This means keeping your body straight at all times, which again gives your abs a workout, as well as arms and shoulders. I've got a bit of a crook shoulder, so often do the pushups on my knees. We also do 3 sets of 20. You will find that you can get variation by changing where you place your hands - in close, out wide, under your chest, under your nose etc.

These sets, both crunches and pushups, are all done in one session. You could certainly aim to get a couple of sessions in each day, or second day for the first few weeks.

If you pm me your email address, I can email you our program (shh, don't tell anyone!!). Bear in mind that the blokes doing this are all around 35-45 and have the typical office workers belly and love handles - me included.

I find the routine of doing this with a few others at a set time is very helpful. I suggest you set aside a time to do this, eg 8.30 each day, with the bike session each second day.

I haven't looked, but I suspect there is heaps of info on the net about exercises to do at home. A few other things we do without any equipment are skipping, squats, boxing etc. Have some music going too, it seems to help.

Best of luck.

that sounds like some good advice bluey

i brought one of those decline(or incline..depends which way you look at it) situp/crunchy bench things... and ahhhhh do they work!!! i was sore for days after doin a few sets

glad to hear you havn't got the blue's( ) anymore.
you have been doing excellent mate, you wont get a loss every week so dont let it get you down!!!