Oh, and before I forget.
Seattlites, one of (if not my absolute) favorite bands is coming to Seattle in may.
The Bottlerockets are playing the Tractor Tavern.
Go see them.. Come with me, I may even buy you a beverage.
WOOOHOO!!!!
Monday, April 14, 2008
B-rocks!
Oh, and before I forget.
Seattlites, one of (if not my absolute) favorite bands is coming to Seattle in may.
The Bottlerockets are playing the Tractor Tavern.
Go see them.. Come with me, I may even buy you a beverage.
WOOOHOO!!!!
"You think it'd be fun living in a house full of crazy people, but it's really not."
-Bart Simpson.
Playin catch-up.
Friday:
Variation on a Dan John favorite:
10xfront squat @ 135+chains
sled drag across the parking lot. (tire+90lbs)
full rest, 4 total reps.
Brutal. Total oxygen debt, legs screaming, my last set of squats were a sheer act of will.
Good times.
Saturday:
BJJ-I'm BAAAAAAAACK. Triangles, and open mat. Really improved my triangles and triangle defense on saturday. Need to work more on initiating the triangle more cleanly. It's better, but not good.
Open mat: My rib still is kind of painful, and the flu killed my shape. So I kept it easy, and took a few breaks here and there. Rolled with B first go round of open mat. He's always been good, but something changed after Pan-Ams. Now he's aggressive, and he's better by an order of magnitude. He had me on the ropes the whole time. Tapped me with a kimora from guard and something else.. choke I forget which one. Good for him, and me. Raised the bar and all that. Now I have to raise it again.
Did some No-gi with Paul. Good roll, it's hard to tell how you're doing when you roll with him because he holds back. Lets you get into positions so he can work out of them. Afterwards he said "You've gotten a lot better." That means a lot. I am glad to be back.
Saturday afternoon:
Unilateral work/Rep method.
Step ups: 24" box 3x6/6 @ 95 (legs were still sore from friday)
Chest supported rows: 3x8@115
incline bench: 3x8 @135
Chins:3x5@ bw
curl to OHP (slow neg) right arm only:
AMAP@ 25, 30, 35
Sunny on saturday, had lunch with the wife outside. I love Seattle in the summer time. You've gotta come check it out.
Playin catch-up.
Friday:
Variation on a Dan John favorite:
10xfront squat @ 135+chains
sled drag across the parking lot. (tire+90lbs)
full rest, 4 total reps.
Brutal. Total oxygen debt, legs screaming, my last set of squats were a sheer act of will.
Good times.
Saturday:
BJJ-I'm BAAAAAAAACK. Triangles, and open mat. Really improved my triangles and triangle defense on saturday. Need to work more on initiating the triangle more cleanly. It's better, but not good.
Open mat: My rib still is kind of painful, and the flu killed my shape. So I kept it easy, and took a few breaks here and there. Rolled with B first go round of open mat. He's always been good, but something changed after Pan-Ams. Now he's aggressive, and he's better by an order of magnitude. He had me on the ropes the whole time. Tapped me with a kimora from guard and something else.. choke I forget which one. Good for him, and me. Raised the bar and all that. Now I have to raise it again.
Did some No-gi with Paul. Good roll, it's hard to tell how you're doing when you roll with him because he holds back. Lets you get into positions so he can work out of them. Afterwards he said "You've gotten a lot better." That means a lot. I am glad to be back.
Saturday afternoon:
Unilateral work/Rep method.
Step ups: 24" box 3x6/6 @ 95 (legs were still sore from friday)
Chest supported rows: 3x8@115
incline bench: 3x8 @135
Chins:3x5@ bw
curl to OHP (slow neg) right arm only:
AMAP@ 25, 30, 35
Sunny on saturday, had lunch with the wife outside. I love Seattle in the summer time. You've gotta come check it out.
Friday, April 11, 2008
Squat, thrust, push, row, clean, press, crawl.
warm-up:
10 min kb stuff (swings, cleans, whatever.. sets of 5-10) and chins sets of 3.
work:
Man-makers: 5@30lb dumbells
bear crawl:10m@30lb dumbells
x5
no rest.
Getting back into the swing of things.
The flu this weekend took a lot of my.. sharpness? efficiency? I just feel flat and sluggish.
It'll come around.
Have a good weekend.
Mahalo.
10 min kb stuff (swings, cleans, whatever.. sets of 5-10) and chins sets of 3.
work:
Man-makers: 5@30lb dumbells
bear crawl:10m@30lb dumbells
x5
no rest.
Getting back into the swing of things.
The flu this weekend took a lot of my.. sharpness? efficiency? I just feel flat and sluggish.
It'll come around.
Have a good weekend.
Mahalo.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
If you work on something it will get better.
Low volume lifting last night, just trying to get back in the swing of things.
Squats: all off a 12" box. My previous best was off of a 14" box. All of the mobility work I've been doing and the OHS are starting to pay off. I'm going to start free squatting my warm-ups work on getting truly ass-to-grass.
worked up to 2x2@225+chains.
chins:
4@bw+25
3@+25
2@+25
5@ bw
6@bw
Incline bench: this seems to really work the weak sections of my bum shoulder, so as loathe as I am I'm going to be doing more of these.
10@135
4x5@155
db bent rows:
3x8/8 @ 75
1A db static holds:
3x15missippi each side @ 100 lbs
these were mostly for fun, I do a lot of planks for core stability, and this is a novel way to change things up.
This was good to be able to try out a couple things to see how my body responds.
I'll be picking up the volume here shortly.
Mahalo.
Squats: all off a 12" box. My previous best was off of a 14" box. All of the mobility work I've been doing and the OHS are starting to pay off. I'm going to start free squatting my warm-ups work on getting truly ass-to-grass.
worked up to 2x2@225+chains.
chins:
4@bw+25
3@+25
2@+25
5@ bw
6@bw
Incline bench: this seems to really work the weak sections of my bum shoulder, so as loathe as I am I'm going to be doing more of these.
10@135
4x5@155
db bent rows:
3x8/8 @ 75
1A db static holds:
3x15missippi each side @ 100 lbs
these were mostly for fun, I do a lot of planks for core stability, and this is a novel way to change things up.
This was good to be able to try out a couple things to see how my body responds.
I'll be picking up the volume here shortly.
Mahalo.
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Belly button?
Last night, I was getting ready for bed, and I felt some stuff in my belly button.. nothing new. I have an "innie" and it gets lint from time to time (always blue, I don't know why. I could be dressed head to toe in orange and yellow, and I swear my navel lint would be blue.. maybe the navel produces it's own lint.. hmm must research) so I go to retrieve the lint that has collected there in (you know, cause I'm all hygenical an stuff) and I pull some weird lint out and then my navel starts to hurt a little. Weird, belly-button pain is not exactly on my "hot list." I stick my finger back in there to sort of "check things out" and I have blood on my finger. Rather disconcertingly I am bleeding from the navel. Not one to panic, I go to the bathroom and swab out my navel with some rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. Producing a rather peculiar stinging sensation, and more blood, and then I just sort of left it alone.
I remember when my folks brought my brother home from the hospital. There was this big clothes pin looking thing on his umbilical chord. When my mother very scientifically explained what it was for (the cord, and the pin) I became very worried that the pin would fall off and that my baby brother would "go flat." Belly buttons are weird.
I remember when my folks brought my brother home from the hospital. There was this big clothes pin looking thing on his umbilical chord. When my mother very scientifically explained what it was for (the cord, and the pin) I became very worried that the pin would fall off and that my baby brother would "go flat." Belly buttons are weird.
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