The Tokyo 2020 Paralympics are over. What an amazing Olympics and Paralympics it’s been. Team GB finished fourth in the Olympics medal table with 58 medals, and second in the Paralympics medal table with 124 medals. I’m hoping that the great work our paralympians have done will encourage people to pay a little more attention to parasports rather than obsessing over their one sport of choice.
Throughout the 2 periods, I’ve been eating clean and focussing on specificmovements at the gym- the movements in which I could watch the games from the gym stations, either on screens on the gym’s walls or screens attached to the machines themselves.
Back in 2013 I was doing a series of 10-minute runs, starting at 7km/ph and increasing in speed by .1 of a km/ph each session. I managed to get up to 14km/ph. Since then, I’ve not been able to get anywhere close. I’m also nearly 20kg heavier than I was back then. So, I ran at the 14km/ph for as long as I could. In July, I managed 2:00. I recently managed to get to 4:00. I’ve not got that far since January last year. I’m going to keep tapping away at this one and see if I can get to the 10:00 mark before December, when the Santa Dash will return. the Santa Dash is a 5km run, which should take me somewhere between 30-45 mins.
There are 2 types of bike at Oldham Sports Centre- those with a backrest to the seat, and those without. On the bikes without, my 10-min PB was 3.55km, from 2016, probably from around the last Olympics. I managed to bash this right up to 4.23km. Incredible. My dips record was at 95 from December last year. I managed to hit 100 in early August. I started using the triceps machine, a seated station in which the user keeps their upper arms straight and pushes down on two handles. (This is positioned in my gym directly in front of a TV screen.) I started this at 35kg and, throughout the 2 events, worked it up to 70kg, the top weight on the machine. I also started working dumbbell press, a movement similar to bench press. The dumbbells are held parallel to each other and raised and lowered like a bench press, without the advantage of the supporting bar. This requires the individual muscle fibres to work in conjunction with each other to balance the weights throughout the movement.
I got up to 30kg. I didn’t work it often as there are no screens on the ceiling.
After a minor break from clean eating, I’ll be back to good food, and I’ll certainly stick with the running, but I’m looking forward to doing more weights.
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