Don’t think it matters how fit you are when Hypothermia sets in Mark.
The article didn’t mention the cause of death so I didn’t either. I figured it would be interesting to know what it was (at a later date). Not sure hypothermia would be allowed to set in as he must have had a backup team monitoring his condition.
No they didn’t mention the cause Mark but I’d put money it that was the reason.
It happens so fast and even a backup team wouldn’t have got to him in time, it happened to me while swimming in the sea at Newquay.
It was a very hot day and I swam too far, fortunately I had just left the water when I collapsed. I was soon in the back of an ambulance and speeding my way to hospital with a suspected heart attack. It was found that I was suffering from hypothermia and five more minutes in the sea would have been curtains for me. Once it gets beyond a certain point there is no coming back.
It turns out that because I was fit (Training to run marathons then) my heart rate was normally low (around 40 bpm) and did not respond quickly enough to warm me up.
Been waiting all day for the cause of death and it’s still not forthcoming.
Isn’t it usually heart, hypothermia, or one if those nasty bugs they get in polluted sea water
?
No…
With a well trained athlete it will either be overheating or overcooling that does for them. (Heatstroke or Hypothermia)
or spending too much time on Over 50’s Forum!
Very good post, OGF:-)
I’m well aware of the effects of jumping back into any sort of training routine after a week’s (or more) abstaination, I advise others not to do this for the same reasons.
I sometimes do things on a whim though, and having had so many areas to catch up on, I decided to do a somewhat more intensive session than I would normally do on a return. Usually a workout like the above would have been done as a regular session, not after 11 days of ‘rest’.
There were many reasons for my ‘sabbatical period’, things to do at home etc., but next time I must tell myself to ease myself back into it, not go the whole hog and rupture something!
I’m much better today after treating the area with alternate cold and hot remedies but the niggle is still hanging on. I’ll be continuing with the rest of the session and adding some leg work too, with plenty of stretches to follow.
And so we’re back again with today’s catch-up, which was taken carefully. My back is much improved from yesterday’s extreme killer pain but the inflammation is still present and no way did it need further aggravation, therefore most of my planned exercises were either reduced in weight or discarded completely, depending on the extent of ‘pulling’ motion required.
An even bigger blow was experienced when BOTH leg presses were found to be out of order, a disastrous sight on what would have been predominantly a legs session. But I got around that in a fashion with some good hack squats – and surprisingly some very heavy weight, which didn’t niggle my niggle – so all in all a bit of a bodged session but it hit the spot and with no harm done…
Monday 29/8/16 – Legs, biceps:
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Hack squat:
10x100
10x150
8x200
4x240 -
Extensions:
10x100
10x100
8x100
*These were paused for about 4 seconds at the top with a slight bounce to invigorate the top of the thighs. Really felt the burn there. -
Seated ham curls:
11x75
7x80
*Not ideally a good exercise when the lower back starts to twinge. Left it at the 80kg. -
Good girls:
37x60
23x60
18x60 -
DB hammer curl, alt:
8x15’s
8x15’s
8x15’s
*Some nice new 15kg dumbbells in the gym today, along with some other interim weights too. Saves taking a massive 2kg jump from a 14 to a 16 lol. -
DB concentration curl, alt:
6x18
6x18
6x18 -
E-Z curl, preacher:
10x28
*I had planned some very heavy stuff on this today (43, 48+kgs) but felt these pull quite severely on my back, so wisely abandoned them after one set. -
Single DB raise:
25x42
25x42
A few pulldowns on the vertical traction machine to stretch my back a bit.
- Ab crunch:
16x60
*Again, never a good exercise when you have a dicky back, so stopped it.
Time: 45mins.
A vastly curtailed session but better than nothing I guess. I’ll rest tomorrow but return to the gym on Wednesday with hopefully a better effort.
Time to relax in the garden with Bob Harris’ autobiography and a litre of iced cranberry juice.
Thanks for popping in, hope the bank holiday’s going well:-)
Glad to hear there are no lasting effects Floydy, I can see you are made of tough stuff…
Thanks Mr. Fox:-)
Desperately clinging onto what precious little youth I have left still;)
Due to my working hours, my mid-week session is always going to be a sedate and rather laid back affair. The nights take it out of me but as long as I do ‘a bit’, it’s enough to tide me over until the weekend ‘serious’ stuff. Not a lot to note down, but for the sake of the thread…
Wednesday 31/8/16 – Upper, various:
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Smith incline 60°:
20x30 w/u
6x50
4x60 too heavy!
4x55
*Essentially my version of a shoulder press. Because I can move the bench where I like, I’m not set to an awkward or strict position, which I think is the reason I get so much neck ache. -
Decline bench:
10x60
6x70
*Really getting to grips with this exercise now. -
Lat pulldown, hammer bar:
10x60
10x65
6x70 -
E-Z curls:
10x28
10x33 -
Ab crunch:
20x60
10x70
10x75
10x80
20x50
*At least the ab crunches went to plan.
Time: 40mins.
Thanks for reading:-)
A good workout Floydy, I’ll try some short fast intervals on tomorrow’s early morning six miler.
After driving the Granddaughter 180 miles down to Stanstead Airport through the night and arriving home at 7:00am I managed to snatch a couple of hours sleep. It was 10:30am by the time I got out for my Tuesday six. The sun was well up and it was already in the mid twenties so although it was a sweaty run I was surprised by how good I felt.
you silly bugger!! and so say all of us!;-)
Yes I believe you’re right Gumbud, as much as I would like to deny it (especially to myself) with every passing year and every laboured sweat soaked run that description fits me like a well worn slipper. In the past I have punctuated training runs with the occasional event; Marathon, Fell Run, Half Marathon or all singing all dancing full blown expedition taking more than one day to complete, but these days there is nothing on the horizon. Even Mrs Fox has withdrawn her support when I suggested that I might have a go at a half marathon later in the year. Her reply was “I’m not coming to watch you kill yourself!”
So I fear the inevitable, It’s not just Mrs Fox, but the drive seems to have left me and more appropriate hobbies are beckoning (stamp collecting or fishing) I have come to the end of a forty year high and all I have to show for it are the numerous stories that everyone has heard a thousand times before.
This mornings six did go rather well though managing a time at the faster end of this years efforts…Maybe I can snatch some shuteye in the cinema while Mrs Fox drooles over Jason Bourne…
wasn’t talkin about the runnin was talkin about the drivin!!:shock::shock:
Because of my night shifts and subsequent body clock trauma, I’m usually up in the middle of the night at weekends. But for the first time in living memory I slept right through a Friday night without waking up. I think it had something to do with getting up quite late yesterday afternoon (1.30 pm) and eventually going to bed at 11 pm last night. So this morning I was up at 7 am feeling absolutely brilliant.
My back is still a little tetchy but otherwise I thought to myself “Well, why the hell not? Sod the resting – get your finger out and get yourself to that gym”. I duly travelled onwards with a spring in my step to that glorious place forthwith…
Saturday 3/9/16 – Upper body, various:
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BB press w/u:
25x30 -
Bench:
12x60
7x70
7x70 -
Smith incline 60°:
5x50
4x50
8x40 -
Incline chest press:
12x50
12x50
12x50 -
Triceps extension, stack machine:
25x40
25x40 -
Bicep curls, stack machine, alt:
8x35
8x40
8x45 -
Lat pulldown, underarm:
8x60
8x65 -
Seated row, hammer bar:
25x47 -
Rope pulldowns:
25x41
20x47
15x53 -
E-Z preacher curl, low pull:
12x28
8x38
4x48 -
Smith “push press”: NEW
10x40
10x40
8x50
*I saw someone doing these late on in my session and decided to have a go.
Positioning myself way back on a flat bench with the bar virtually above my lower diaphragm, pushing with a very close grip with thumbs touching. Felt absolutely great and really hit the pecs. Must do these again regularly. -
Ab crunch:
20x60
10x70
10x75
10x80
25x50
25x45
*Extra set there at the end.
Time: 1hr 10mins.
So there we have it. A splendid upper body mix of general pressing and pulling interspersed with a generous array of high reps to boot. No issues with the back except a cautious warning whilst I was frantically showering, so I slowed down a bit.
Out this afterlunch for a few ales in Beverley to check out Wetherspoon’s latest establishment.
*If you are getting bored of me posting these routines, please say. I know I’m alone on this forum with any kind of gym talk, so perhaps I should limit these write-ups to my regular journal at MuscleTalk?
Thanks guys, have a great weekend.
I love reading about your workouts and how you fit it in around work and your daily life, the disciplines are very impressive Floydy, but my eyes glaze over at the lists of rep’s, don’t stop posting for gawd’s sake though…
Well not exactly today but back in 1991…
http://www.over50sforum.com/picture.php?albumid=873&pictureid=9114
Perhaps easier to read…
http://www.over50sforum.com/picture.php?albumid=873&pictureid=9115
OldGrey Fox - I take it one of these chaps is your good self?
Impressive effort and even better it was a charity event. Don’t you just love Robin Hood’s Bay though?
Okay bud, that’s good thanks:cool:
I may just simplify it a little for this site, keeping the full version for the guys on Muscletalk