Regime Time
17Tuesday 03 June, 2014 by Uncle Spike
Looks like I’ve got a couple of strict months ahead. First of all I am taking part in the “30 Day Ab Challenge”, and that is immediately followed by Ramadan – eek! Me thinks I should have sussed out my timing a little better; but hey ho, nothing like a little challenge to get body and soul in order 😀
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Just completed Day 03 of the Ab Challenge – oh boy, it’s harder than I reckoned, but survived so far… With Ramadan starting on Day 28, I just realised I have to drop THREE days somehow (ouch). Maybe I will drop 2 of the rest days, and just jiggle the numbers up a bit to ensure I complete the full list.
Any recommendations from any fitness lunatics out there??
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I then have to prepare for Ramadan. First of all there is the farm and garden, so all the flower beds and veggie areas have to be dug over and water pools created around everything so I can water with relative ease. It’ll still take me 1-2 hours a day to do the watering, but when it’s over 100F (37C) and you’ve had no water/food for 17 hours, the last thing you want to do is start digging around the Aubergine’s 🙂
The orchards will take care of themselves, that is, once I get the 5000 metres of drip/water pipes laid, artesian pump cleaned/serviced and tested so I can water the trees with minimal physical effort. Apart from that, the land can be left to it’s own devices for the month of July.
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I will also do my own prep for Ramadan – but that’s another post altogether 🙂
Best get on with it then…..
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[…] all started by accident back in June, with an Ab-challenge that a friend of mine was doing back in the UK with some chums from the office I worked in back in […]
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High degree of difficulty on this one, you get top marks from me for just starting such a kickass personal challenge!
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I dunno if I can count that high anyway 😀
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Reach for the stars 🙂
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Good luck. I’ve been doing a yoga plan and I was finding it hard to motivate myself five days in so I went for a taster of Bikram intense yoga for 90 minutes, oh my! Intense yoga in heat! This workout looks tough, trying for a six pack Uncle S?
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3-pack… maybe 6 next year 🙂
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Lol, my brothers just done a massive transformation, personal trainer, dietician for three months, he had to change his diet to this really weird thing that meant he couldn’t eat bread, potatoes, pasta etc for a month! He was eating veg, I think he could have sweet potatoes and chicken/fish!
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As we grow most of our own food, I dont have a diet issue, but bread in Turkey is always fresh baked, has zero preservatives, cooked in wood burning brick ovens – so THAT is not good news for Mr Tum
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I know you eat healthy 🙂 I love bread, especially fresh bread, I think it was because he was building muscle more than that he needed to lose weight I think he’s actually heavier now. Just trying to help you get your six pack in three months 😀
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any number pack would be a start, lol 🙂
Btw, sent you an email about sumfink else…
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you won’t get any tips from me. I’m not a fan of exercising 🙂 I do ok with stretches. Stretching the body, the legs and the arms. Sit-ups and crunches are boring.
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As if you need it!! 🙂
I am strong in the shoulders/chest and legs, but my little spare tyre requires removal 🙂
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haha. spare tyre be damned. don’t you know that a little spare tyre is quite appealing to women who are not shallow? I’m sure the wifey is appreciative of the pillow.
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Hehe, perhaps, but the rest of me is trim, and I want to still see my feet 🙂
At my age, if I keep in shape I’ll be ok, but let it go now and I’ll be doomed, lol
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125 sit ups and 200 crunches on Day 30?! That’s gonna hurt.
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There used to be snack bar when I was a kid called a Crunchie – maybe they mean 200 of them 😀
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Reblogged this on The Daily Pause and commented:
Not a fitness guru here, but lose the/any belly fat with proper diet and exercise or else we can’t see the muscular ab “cuts”. Don’t forget to rehydrate frequently with fluid/liquid/water, too. Good luck and praise your efforts if you succeed.
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