Good Morning World

Due to the new addition in our lives I'm a little behind in the blogs.  I'm sorry for this, but it might be a good thing, imagine the crap I would be putting up in my sleep deprived state.
Yesterday was upper body size and strength and I decided to increase the amount of reps until I get new Kettlebells. It worked out fine, I even did some abdominal work at the end of the session. As the weather is good I'm out working round the house every day catching up on things like splitting logs and moving pallets about the yard. Yesterday I did two good hours again splitting logs and I really feel it today in my abs and chest. Its some workout. Today I might get started on my project for the summer. I'm going to build a permanent camp site in the trees at the back of the house where I can take Lillie camping in the summer. I'm going to build walls from pallets on three sides and then floor it with more pallets, sort of like decking. I will make a frame for the roof that I can put a tarp over when its needed, stick in a fire pit of a home made stove and ill be done. I'll get some pictures up soon . enjoy the weather folks and stay classy.

Monday Monday!

This is my third fourth attempt at writing this blog? Well its been an eventful week, but its the start of a new one  and its my day off (thank god) even if I feel guilty for not doing anything?
  I have meant to put this up on Saturday but I am only getting round to it now, here is my Saturday core workout:
Low-hi windmill x 5 each side , 2 kettle bells.
Renegade row x 10.
Suitcase dead lift x 5 , 2 bells each side.
Double snatch x 5.
L sit , 30 sec.
1 leg dead lift x 5 each leg.
Double clean and press x 5.
2 x 16 Kg kettle bells
repeat x 3.
 I ended up feeling so guilty about not working out today that I split logs with a wedge and a 10 kg sledge hammer for two hours.

Welcome to the world Evie.

On Wednesday night , my self and my heavily pregnant wife made the 45 minute dash to Castlebar hospital, where 40 minutes later Evie Farmer was born. Both mother and daughter are fit and well, Evie was good enough to come the night before my rest day lol.

So back to the Kettlebells,  Today was lower body day, here is the break down:

10 x Front squats, 2 bells.

10 x good morning, 1 bell.

5 x 1 leg dead lift, each side.

5 x box squat, each side.

10 x racked lunge, 2 bells ( KILLER MOVE)

10 x Jump squat, 2 bells.

5 x Double swings, 2 bells.

Repeat x 3. 2 x 16 kg kettlebells.

Question Time

Which would be better for increasing my size and strength?
  1. Bigger weights? (20kg Kettlebells).
  2. Working out for longer? (doubling my workout time + 30 mins ).

Upper body workout breakdown.

Today was upper body size and strength. Here is a break down of the workout(hope you can understand it).
10 x press.
5 x each side bent row with double bells.
10 x alternating military press.
5 x each side bottoms up clean.
5 x each side seated snatch.
5 x seated double rack.
5 x double swings.
10 x pullover.
repeat x 3

Weight ; 2 x 16 kg D8 fitness competition bells.
This is from the Steve Cotter extreme series that I follow.
                After the motivation problems I had on Sunday I thought that I might have problems this morning getting out of bed. When the alarm went off I was already awake, I jumped out of bed and blasted through the workout without stopping. It took me twenty two minutes, when it normally takes me a half an hour. I think I might have been trying to prove something to myself.
                 I was reading an article lately about protein shakes and I was wondering, when do people take their shakes? Before? After? or both as the article suggested.

Monday! Shit!

So another week has rolled around and for me that means back to the start of my workout plan. Today is Rest day as all Mondays should be, then its upper body tomorrow, but that's not what I want to talk to you about, Yesterday was cardio day which usually means a forty min kettle bell workout but I couldn't manage it, after twenty minutes I was wreaked and I had a splitting headache, which proceeded to get worse as the day went on.  Normally I have no problem motivating myself but i just couldn't get going.  So to my question, how do people motivate themselves? What do you do to maintain the drive to get your lazy ass out of bed and workout?

Running For Two?

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