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A week in workouts #3 (13th – 19th July, 2020)
A great week of workouts featuring progress on each of my big 3 sessions: arms/shoulders, chest/back, legs (see below). Reps were up across the board, I felt like an altogether more powerful person. Fingers crossed I’ve got momentum now – that is, my muscles are used to growing and expect more of the same. As…
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Weigh-in week #9
I skipped weigh-in last week, having had a highly turbulent Friday 10th July. I try to standardise the 2 days prior to weigh-in so as to ensure that results are not skewed by something abnormal. It is basic scientific practice to isolate and control variables other than that you are interested in. The result for…
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Peak Garden
I always do my best to make the garden nice but went to special effort this year. Many trees were planted, although they will not mature for several years. In the meantime I have enjoyed the wonderful blooms of my hydrangeas, lilies, geraniums and roses. One day in the not too distant future it will…
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A week in workouts #2 (6th – 12th July, 2020)
A messy week with lots going on including guests. 😱 I had to sacrifice a weights session so I did a legs/chest crossover session on Friday to prioritise. In both workouts I was stronger (as the rep count proved) and felt more powerful. I’ve featured videos of two sets below… UPRIGHT ROW (SHOULDERS) (Monday 6th…
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Belated Easter gifts
During lockdown the ritual of in-person gift giving was put on hold. I received a cactus and a set of flutes last week having had my first house guests in months.
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Band of Brothers
Next year this seminal 10-part series will be 20 years old. I watched the original run back in 2001 and decided to re-watch it recently. This only underlined how special it is. Asides from telling one of recent histories great stories (the invasion of Normandy – told through the eyes of a US Airborne company),…
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I won a raffle…I didn’t enter!
So yesterday I discovered I had won a TV in a raffle. What made this something of a surprise was that I hadn’t entered one. Turns out I was entered by colleagues which was awfully kind of them because I won the grand prize. 🙂 It’s the first time I have won anything in a…
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Diet dashboard week #7
The changes week to week are small and incremental but over the course of several weeks they’re significant. Of the weight loss charted in the dashboard over 8lbs of the total loss has been body fat, I’ve gone from around 49lbs to 40lbs in seven weeks. The good news is the boring bit is done,…
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Results are in!: Diet week #7
In a chat with a friend yesterday I observed that the changes in my body are racing ahead of the changes in my weight. My waist in particular is shrinking rapidly whilst my biceps seem bigger, filling my shirt sleeves. Maybe this is wishful thinking but I’m seeing rewards and feeling progress and this is…
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A week in workouts (29th June – 5th July 2020)
This is the first week I have executed my full weights schedule in 2020, the first of many I’m sure. Generally I felt stronger and performed better than in prior sessions. I look forward to establishing a settle pattern of weekly workouts, carefully tracking performance and attainment. I’ve had enough of on and off, from…
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Dr Martin James 