Torso-tormenting!

Thursday and friday I did a lot of training of the muscles around my Torso: Sit-ups, the plank  etc. Now it hurts, when I walk up the stairs! I'm NOT twenty anymore! -though it IS great to feel alive. I've always meant that feeling moderate pain from training is a great sign of having done "enough" and getting better
:-)
I also took out Anna-banana together with my mountain-bike for a fast ride in the evening. It is good to vary the training of both dogs and humans. But once I felt a little "alone" out there at around 21.00...
Anna had caught the scent of some large animal moving in between the trees! She was all light up with eagerness, but I only wanted to get the f... out of there. We do have at least two large bears in our neighborhood.


Today the plans are as following:
Tidying up things in the house, cleaning, feeding the monsters and picking up their "left-overs", training the 4 dogs in one team, out running the first intervals in this training-season, bicycling with Anna and making goood healhty food for me and my hubby :-)

MUDDDD!!!

Muddy training of the team of 4 malamonsters!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUjZA4qujFY

Later this evening I did a circle of totally 276 reps for the back, side and belly muscles. I bet that hurts tomorrow :-)
I can still feel my legs after the last weeks stunt, testing speed and endurance. Why do I keep on doing these silly things? One should have believed that I had managed to grow up loong time ago, at least have learned to handle my penis-envy a little better :-D
I don't need to prove anything??? Do I?

Test of my endurance

Today I did a test to see how much endurance I have, before I start up training seriously. Alex drove ahead of me in the Jeep, and I ran for as long as I could, without feeling any serious pain in knees and hips. As soon as I started to get small symptoms in those areas, I stopped.
I managed to do 8,5 km in 49 minutes and 58 seconds! I'm very VERY pleased with my self.
Next time, I will be doing tests, will be in 5 weeks from now.

Did a test of my strenght regarding the muscles around my belly and back. Took a static test in the so called "planken" (The plank), just to see how long I could hold the pose before starting to shake and sweat all over. Time: 3 minutes and 3 seconds. It's an awful looooong time in that position :-o
But I do believe, that this is a real good way of training the muscles around the waistline. Take a look at this video, that shows how to combine training in this area:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUFHkYiCctE&feature=related


I also took out the "youngsters" + their mother and let them go "seek" for their food in the large playground, we builded for them last year. Their "old man", Grizly loves to be with his family. Then he proudly walks around between them and enjoy their fascination of him. They love him very much. I'm so happy, that nothing has ever come between him and his son. It's like they know how much family means :-)
The Grizzz also loves to be with his daughter; Imelda and Silver. Despite Silver was out of Madsen and Dizzy, he has had a love for Grizly, since he was a puppy. So they also walk along very very good. 
I'm happy, that he has such a large family, the Grizz :-)
He means the world to us!

Snow ..AGAiN!

GOOOOD morning!


Started the day by taking my resting-pulse, it was 50 beats per minute, which is ok but higher than last summer. Then again.. Last summer I did not have the flu.


Outside it is snowing, and it has been snowing all night. I have an urge to go to the skiing-stadium to train on technique, but the feeling I got in my chest after yesterdays running-stunt is a reminder to keep calm, until I'm completely recovered from the damn virus, that has been bothering me, Alex and half of the small town, were we both works as teachers. It already has a nick-name amongst the people up here:  The plaque of Hammerdal or the the Hammerdals decease.. 


Apparently it takes 5-6 weeks to just get through it! I don't have time for that crap now!

Ground Zero..

In spite of my good intentions on NOT to start running again, before I was completely recovered from the flu, I couldn't resist doing a little test on my self today, just to find out HOW bad it actually was.


"Timed" a distance on 2400 meters. Did it in 12 minutes and 13 seconds. It was iiiiincredible stupid of me to do so, (I've been sick from a bad flu the last 4 weeks, and my lungs are hanging on the outside now) but I simply had to find out what "Ground ZERO" felt like and were it was. Now I have a point to start on
:-)
Very important to know, were You are, if You need to find out the best and shortest way to the goals, You have. -And.. pain IS still just a sign of weakness leaving the body, -a mental state of mind..


After doing this stunt, I put on the blood-presure-meter, that was on the other hand encouraging. Did several tests and took the average pressure: Systolic: 99 and diastolic: 59.


Tomorrow before I get out of bed, I'll try to find out my resting-pulse.

This is the devastating truth before the next step in my training-program:

Weight: 66,8 kg

Measures in cm: 97-87-96, legs: 54, arms: 30


I got rid of the first 20 kg during the last 2-3 years by altering my food and lifestyle slightly: Cutting down in general on food, sweets and alcohol, and avoiding fat and fast carbohydrates in my everyday + being more observant on the fact, that without exercise, there is no healthy and lasting loss of weight.


I'm NOT on a diet now, training hard requires a certain amount of good and solid food. I have never been able to combine hard training with diets. And I do not think, it is a healthy way of doing things. But just by start training and running and bicycling again after the winter,  probably will help me loose a couple of kilos and hopefully transfer the rest into more muscles.


So just You wait and see, Krister Sand (My challenger regarding the bet about skiing!)..
I'll do my best to make it difficult for You to win!

So tonight I started the muscular training of my self. Every second evening I will train as following:

A circle of 10 different sets to train belly-back-legs-knees. Simple but very effecient 3 x 5-8 reps for a beginning.

Every other evening I'll train biceps-triceps chest and shoulder, as far as my damaged shoulder will take me. 

Tonight I did the leg-back-belly thing! Of cause AFTER Alex had gone to bed, so I had no "spectators" with silly comments!

I actually really enjoyed starting training again.

Here is a very informative link on how to train Your legs and knees in particular:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBSv_XW8dAw&feature=related