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by BartMan
Mon Nov 12, 2012 7:43 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: Hello strangers...
Replies: 3
Views: 643

Re: Hello strangers...

cheers, and if anyone out there has had torn biceps, or have recently torn, would love to hear about it and recovery. Mine was a distal tear, from the elbow end, apparantly the rarer tear, usually goes from the shoulder end.
by BartMan
Mon Nov 12, 2012 8:00 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: Hello strangers...
Replies: 3
Views: 643

Hello strangers...

Hey all, some of you may remember me, I was a rowing fool (for want of a better word), a fgew yeaers back here, remember great competition with a couple of others on the metre board, and trying to get into the top boats on the challenges, and I will be back, one day. I and my wife are currently bitt...
by BartMan
Wed Dec 01, 2010 8:48 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: Decembers CTC penalty challenge...?
Replies: 132
Views: 4701

Re: Decembers CTC penalty challenge...?

to bloody complicated for this old sometimes rowing prop - was looking forward to this months challenge too, as it forces me to have at least one decent rowing session a month, but this one interests me as much as dropping my bollocks in a vice and seeing how hard I can squeeze .... :shock: so see y...
by BartMan
Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:38 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5
Replies: 195
Views: 6184

Re: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5

Good work PV - once you've broken a mark I reckon it is easy to do again, or rather, easier.

Like when going for a run and you manage to make it up the 2k hill for the first time - you never fail on it again, as you know you can do it, and if you don't, you are ju8st bludging!
by BartMan
Mon Nov 22, 2010 7:29 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5
Replies: 195
Views: 6184

Re: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5

at last got to complete the row - thanks to a cancelled rugby fitness session that the only person not told that it was cancelled being the trainer... Anyway, first 20 minutes 5331, not feeling too bad, nice hard row without death creeping up on me. Next 20 minutes not quite so easy. First ten no pr...
by BartMan
Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:43 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5
Replies: 195
Views: 6184

Re: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5

I did the first leg post weights this morning (I know, doesn't count, just wanted to see if I could row for 20 minutes, before trying 2 in 45)!! Anyway, did 5296. Sooo, my 4th real row for about 18 months, and pleased to see I have not lost too much rowing fitness. I expect the second 20 will be tou...
by BartMan
Mon Nov 08, 2010 8:15 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5
Replies: 195
Views: 6184

Re: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5

i wimped out on sunday - aim is now Wednesday morning...

hoping for 10k at least, we'll see...!
by BartMan
Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:54 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5
Replies: 195
Views: 6184

Re: November´s CTC: 2x20mins r5

this looks painful, especially as I have rowed 3 times in the last year, 2 x 10 minutes after a weights session, and a sub 7 2k just to see if I still could - 6:59.9 sis sub 7 too, so was happy. Anyway, might give this a 'Sunday session' at the gym, as they have just got 2 brand new machines, a plea...
by BartMan
Fri Sep 24, 2010 3:54 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

I'll have to ask him about that, I reckon the doc would drop off his seat, that is for sure!
by BartMan
Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:31 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

cheers bd, yes, the legs do help in the overall package - too many out there are scared of squats, and it shows! But boy I miss rowing, but at the same time enjoying this too much - expecially with the results that keep coming in! facebook - think just look up Jason Bartley, and oversize bodybuildin...
by BartMan
Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:59 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

well, long time no row, but still doing the bodybuilding thing, and back in athletic division - physique with the big boys is just a roid storm, even here in little ole New Zealand. naturals just can't compete, although did land a second in the Auckland championships in the open men, and a first in ...
by BartMan
Mon Jun 14, 2010 8:12 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I rowed, therefore I am...
Replies: 13
Views: 1263

Re: I rowed, therefore I am...

yeah, I am looking forward to when I get sick of eating fish and chicken and stop BB and get back into rowing - think I;ll go hard out and get a decent training diet from our trainer when I do, and look up some competitions here in NZ. will row again in a week and see what happens - maybe make it my...
by BartMan
Mon Jun 14, 2010 2:44 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I rowed, therefore I am...
Replies: 13
Views: 1263

Re: I rowed, therefore I am...

I rowed again, therefore I still am.... still on the bodybuilding pathway, but eating more food at the moment as the next comp is 77 days away or so (not that I am counting), so had a crack at the 2k, and managed a sub 7, but you could not get much closer... 6:59.9! First, did a 500m warm up, hard (...
by BartMan
Sun May 02, 2010 5:45 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I rowed, therefore I am...
Replies: 13
Views: 1263

Re: I rowed, therefore I am...

those BIG men are freaks man - full creeit to them. Amazing thing though - that is the same piece of music that I am using for my next comp!!!!
by BartMan
Fri Apr 30, 2010 11:28 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I rowed, therefore I am...
Replies: 13
Views: 1263

Re: I rowed, therefore I am...

yeah hewitt it is nuts with weighing food and so on. We're lucky to have a superb trainer so 'all' we have to do it do it, not worry about how much protein, how many carbs etc, as the nike add says, we, 'just do it'!! Don't know how long for though, been 13 months so far, but will be a few years mor...
by BartMan
Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:01 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I rowed, therefore I am...
Replies: 13
Views: 1263

Re: I rowed, therefore I am...

thanks wolfie, hit a BB where it hurts... But that is where it was at - I just was not lean enough. I'm not going to beat these giants, but I can get leaner than them. The bloke that won weighted in at around 104kg. I went in at 86, third place getter would have been mid to high 90s. IN that photo b...
by BartMan
Wed Apr 28, 2010 10:10 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I rowed, therefore I am...
Replies: 13
Views: 1263

I rowed, therefore I am...

Kia Ora rowers. My first row for a year probably, 2000m, 7:27.1. Warm down after a workout out. As some of you might know and remember, I threw the rowing machin in, and have taken up Bodybuilding, winning the National Overall Title for the Athletic grade in New Zelaand last year. Well, with an anot...
by BartMan
Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:48 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

Quick update as we head into the new season (I know you have been waiting with baited breath :lol: ). Anyway, have not sat on my rower at all, I think I have fallen off that wagon big time, and even less likely of being allowed to row by my trainer now. Now am officially too big to be 'athletic', an...
by BartMan
Tue Dec 29, 2009 9:35 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: I am nearly back... Anyone in New Zealand?
Replies: 50
Views: 2483

Re: I am nearly back... Anyone in New Zealand?

that looks like a nice place to live, NZ :D
by BartMan
Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:44 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

http://www.muscleimaging.com/Events/NABBA/NNT09/NNT09.html bugger me sideways with a broomstick. For those of you who have been visiting this thread, the NZ National BB champs are over, and you are 'talking' to the new Mr New Zealand Athletic. The journey though, is not over, it has hardly begun I h...
by BartMan
Thu Oct 15, 2009 8:40 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

thanks guys - yes, can actually balme the Mrs for the whole thing - she gave up smoking, and put on a few Kgs. A lady at the gym had just competed and won a comp, so being the goal setter that she is, bam, 7 months time, Wellington and a flexathon! I was dragged along in the wake - I think every rug...
by BartMan
Thu Oct 15, 2009 3:06 am
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

yes, that is the better half, and the reason we are up on stage! She stops smoking, and ka pow, 7 months later, there you go!
by BartMan
Wed Oct 14, 2009 9:07 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

and the results are in...

Wellington Regional NABBA comp.

placed first in Novice Athletic category, First overall in Athletic Division.

The Mrs placed second in Figure over 35.

Together first place in couples.

Qualified for the NZ Nationals in two Sundays time, stay tuned...!!
by BartMan
Mon Oct 05, 2009 8:29 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

hey SC - no, have not been sick all through winter - the amount of fresh veg we eat probably the best eating I have done ever!! The Mrs usually gets sick when she hits 60kg, she currently 54 as we head into comp, and she not been sick at all this winter either, and she usually 2 or 3 good colds / fl...
by BartMan
Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:40 pm
Forum: Free Spirits forum
Topic: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug
Replies: 46
Views: 6175

Re: bodybuilding kills the rowing bug

These photos from about a fortnight ago, this Saturday D-Day. Marathon wax session last night, feel like a plucked chicken today!! weight this morning 80.4kg, BF 4.6% Carb depleting at the moment, so no energy for workouts, only two weight sessions left. But all good, challenge almost met, light at ...