2 fitness tips: Callouses and clean headphones

2 quick fitness tips I use everyday.

TIP 1: Use isopropyl alcohol spray to clean over-ear headphones.

I’ve not met anyone use this but it seems obvious to me, isopropyl alcohol is great for disinfecting and removing bad smells and it also does not upset electronics (its used for cleaning dirty and corroded circuit boards) so therefore it is perfect for cleaning the sweaty ear pads on your headphones without having to take them apart. Make sure you use the 99.9% version, my preferred brand is “Nope”

Tip 2: File calluses from weightlifting and bar work to stop them ripping. 

This one seems to be wrapped up in lots of other tips and over complications, but put simply, the calluses you get from lots of weight lifting, using a bar pull-up or that kind of stuff will often rip, and while this might seem mainly it means you have to stop while the bloody things heal, lots of people get special creams and stuff like that to stop it, but what I have found all of the professionals do is just file the damn things flat with what ever they have to hand e.g. nail files, pumice stones etc etc, though I have seen this one recommended a lot.

Me I just use my modelling files, simple.

 

Fitness the long road back Week 1

Got to get fit , GOT TO GET FIT, want to go back to fencing but I would be an embarrassment at the moment, so I have set my self a baseline first

23/04/2017

Run 2.4 Miles (3.9 KM) to the Park and back 1 : 33:45 Fail

1 x Complete 7 Min Workout : 4 out of 12 Fail

25/04/2017

1 x Run 2.4 Miles (3.9 KM) to the Park and back : 31:22 Fail

Complete 7 Min Workout : 5 out of 12 Fail

27/04/2017

1 x Run 2.4 Miles (3.9 KM) to the Park and back : FAIL WORKING LATE

Complete 7 Min Workout : FAIL WORKING LATE

  1. So the passing score for the Army 2 miles run (I have no idea which Army the US one I expect is 19:30 for an old fart like me I have no idea if that is carrying pack or what but its a good start, the park I will be using for fitness is 1.2 miles away, Sooooo 19.30 which equals 1170 Seconds, Pro-rata that: ( 1170 Seconds / 2 ) * 2.4 = 1404 seconds = 23.24, that will be my baseline the end goal will be the top mark in the old fart chart of 13:36 which Pro-ratas to 16.20 (hahahahahaha)[↩]

Started swimming

Due to my squash partner twisting his ankle while pissed, I was looking round for a cheap interesting exercise this morning, turns out the Local pool is 5 Min’s walk away from me and costs £3 with my “Iz card” WHY haven’t I used it before now????

Its open at 6.30 for lanes, done my first 500M (starting slowly)

Only 6,649.5Km left till I’ve swam the length of the Nile :p

Old Comments

Mark Barton(28/05/2012 13:15:56 GDT)

Won’t all of the wookie fur block up the filters?

Fitness Week 22

A feeble effort all round this week, don’t bother even reading

First person to win 250 squash games
Kieran: 50 Games
Mark: 79 Games
(1 point head start on a game for every 10 games the other person is ahead)
(we also play by “you have to WIN a game, genuine mistakes on game points are ‘let’ “)

Only 1 match played and we took it in turns to win games, and it seems even the case for points, if it wasn’t for the sweat soaked shirts and pain filled hobbling it would seem as if we are not trying

First person to loose 2 stone
Kieran ( Initially 15 Stone, 8 pounds) : 14′ 10″
Mark ( Initially 16 Stone, 8 pounds) : 16′ 7″

No fencing yet and no change in weight, the same this week for the evil Green, not helped by my parents both achevingting their ideal weight and looking fab, sod this I’m off for a take away