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Do you want to be flamed?lol This isn't much of a lifting journal anymore.

well that was mean...there is just as much lifting in here as there was before, crap numbers atm, but other than that... there is just much more other crap that I write about here.

I probably should just move off of this board entirely...

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X2....You can't go! Alot of us would have to search Philly to find you if you do.

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Yikes! I was joking HW. Because you mentioned getting flamed in your post ^ up derr.

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Yikes! I was joking HW. Because you mentioned getting flamed in your post ^ up derr.

Yeah, I know.... the second part of your statement hit me a little hard. I was just leaving work, when I read you post. It was getting close to 9pm I was in since 7:30 am I never managed to sneak out and go to weapons, and I HAD to lift last night to keep on schedule. I didn't know if I was going to realistically pull it off... I read that, all I could think was damn, I'm old, I try to have a some sort of balanced life, i don't have a fitness job, but I have a physical job... there is only sooo much activity I can do,  ... and I am highly displeased with my bodies ability to recover... bblah, blah, blah and I certainly am not a "body builder", haven't been one for years now, weightlifter sure (although that is not quite right either). SO I do regularly question why I hang out here. but it's the people, that is why I come back.

I am sorry you just accidentally hit a nerve... didn't want to come off as needy or fishing for compliments, or friends... and I did come off that way : (

Thanks guys for your support.

Midnight... after sending the boy off to bed.. I got my lift in... I was tired, I tried.
 
67 lbs straight circuit 1 minute rest between (I increased )
chin up 3, 3, 2,  what the hell happened there??? ohh it's still happening
push press 8, 8, 8 (better) (there were several actual military presses in there but overwhelmingly they had to be pushed, I can't do 8 strict 67 lb presses especially after chins and rows... note my order has been consistently wrong, I row then I press)
 bent over row, 8, 8, 8
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 static lunges 8, 8, 8
  hang clean to front squats  8, 8, 8
 Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

UGGGHHHHHHHHH, that was hard.. 5lbs, no big thing but when you never put the bar down and just keep klipping, last set my legs were shaking by the time i got to lunges, and the HCFsquat I thought I was going to loose the bar more than once. Rabbit stole my one lifting glove, I can not find it... it really hadn't mattered, it has been gone for several weeks now but I got really sweaty last night, and palms were dripping... the bar kept slipping.

I bailed my last set of chins... I had to go to bed, in again at 7:30 am.

Last thing i am worried about with this routine... The push press to get the bar off my back... I always worry about it... it's not good. I push it I don't press, 1 to save my shoulders, and 2 well i don't really think I can press that weight back up from behind. But, by the last set I am tired enough to worry I can't get the bar off. That I won't be able to lock out, I haven't been able to lock all of them out, I control the bar as it comes down, I move my body out of the way, but if I fall even 2 inches short form where my lowest push gets me, I won't be able to move out of the way in time, and that bar is coming down on my head.

Oh I mentined loosing so me muscle, but really I think it is only in my arms of all places... cause' my legs, damn my legs... they are not at all smaller, and I did not add extra fat to them.

You should talk to Nmoney. He's trying to work complexes into his routine.

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Fight night, I only worked with Ray. He took it way easy on me... It was a lesson in kicking, kick sequencing, with a tutorial on breathing, at my request.

Oh all the bad habits weightlifting has fostered as it relates to my kung fu.... The Valaslava Maneuver is by far and away the WORST offender. Works brilliantly for max attempts and necessary for me under 5 reps... I don't use it for higher rep weight work... BUT, when I free spar, and it's for real... I am in damger of being hurt, and my body responds automatically, hold your breath!!!!! Hold it til you done, punching, FAIL!!!!! after my discussion with Ray I found out there are several forms of hard Qui, that are fight applicable. (holding your breath,,. and then realeasing slowly, after you throw some sort of punch volley, or combo), however I am certainly not ready for that I need to breeth when I punch. I do it in forms, I do it in form spar, I do it in warm ups... free spar.... come in hold hold hold, retreat a little... can't catch my breath. FAILURE, I will endevor to work harder on that.

i also need to work my kicking more.

had a quick during water break fight with Mike... hehehe I smoked him...he is fun to fight, not like ray... who is just scary, under the guise of the nicest guy you have ever met, and he is.

Forms ehh, I was sloppy off balance, distracted. But ok. Form spar I worked with erics daughter, damn I can't remeber her name al of a sudden...

I have been trying to get her to free spar. I am the current ladies free spar intiative at my school. Other than Wendy (and she never makes it on time), or when Phan makes all of us free spar during forms... no other girls free spar. Oh, we do have another one, but she is pregnant now... no free spar while pregnant. DUH. So I we played around a LOT, in my attempts to toughen her up, make her more confidant... get her to spar... she comes to it, watches.... her dad is tring to get her to fight too.. In her defense, the whole family is a group of wusses, dad didn't spar at all for the longest time. We had a good, good time... and we worked on our applications.. but we got morew fighty than that.

This morning I HIIT-ed I should have lifted, or I could have lifted, today or tomorrow off doesn't make much of a differance, for me this week or my schedule.

MY Schedule got soooooooo FHUUUUUUUCKED UUUUUUPPPPP, wioth my work this weekend!

I can't keep beating myself up about missed days, when it is just not my fault, and IT"S NOT MY F'IN FAULT. I am starting to really hate the minister here, he is not my boss, buit he ruins my time management with his captain , last minute, poor planng, no communication, oh i need your help, bad idea overly dramatic, needy whinny pissant, piece of crap, all the whiole spoting Budhist crap, that he internalizes improperly, and causes many more problems... Yeah my boss and myself starting to really hate that f'ck. 65 plus hour work week, I'm salery... yeah that's great.

He will learn, oh boy he is going to be sorry. I had to teach him a lesson about purchasing equiptment with out my approval... it was an exspensive lesson in boudaries, and areas of expertice. Time managment and palnning, that is going to be an embarrssing lesson.

67 lbs straight circuit 1 minute rest between
chin up 5, 4, 3,2 and back up they went???
push press 8, 8, 8 (better) (there were several actual military presses in there but overwhelmingly they had to be pushed, I can't do 8 strict 67 lb presses especially after chins and rows... note my order has been consistently wrong, I row then I press)
 bent over row, 8, 8, 8
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 static lunges 8, 8, 8
  hang clean to front squats  8, 8, 8
 Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

Fu and a weapons, Phan took me through the staff himself, I think I almost have it memorized (half way, there is another half i haven;t gotten to yet.

Snake tiger is down, although on the second side I mess up the block sequences. But I know what they do, so it is purley a matter of practicing that side more.

Sparred with wendy, sh eexpalined the snake strick movement... II need to work on the charictor of snake tiger up until my test, and nailing the spin kick, I mean having it down so if I threw it it would be effective, not nailing in the terms of making it look good.

Class and spirit tonight, eeep, did a little spirit stuff on my own...

Going ot try read try to lift 3 days straight wed thurs fri, beacause of my work schedule... to catch up... we will see it hold though beating myself up over missed workouts is not helping me at all... I hav the dicipline, I have been doing this over 3.5 years, If I can't I really can't.

EDIT IN THE CHIN UP TOTAL, to quick a cut and paste this morning.

Forms, fine, called a complicated warm up, keopt a good temo and rhythem. form spar fine... ish.. I had a junior stuudent (not that I am senior or anything, but he is up for his very first test in April, I am up for my third in July), so I really had to teach... it is good for me because if i can teach it I know it, duhhhh! But, much less of a work out for me.

Spirit. Well I spent Most of spirit class giving and explaining to Big Mark, his diet, and priming him for his lifting (the lifting will come after his Bike race in April, all this at his request). I gotr up and did a little work for the last 10 minutes.. it is a free for all no structure, you work with your teacher as long as you both would like. there is a lot of talk and discussion amopng students and Phan at that time as well. Very different forom regular class.

So, I did what the tingles compelled me to do... no lie... and my hands came down, and they started doing stuff, I wasn't being pushed around like the past couple times, it was very gentle, and suble, I did not know if it was "correct", or I was just responding to fatique in my arms... I got dressed pahn came over to me, and said I was watching, and you were being taught open palm technique, it was very clear and recognizable form, you are correct.

Ok then.........

SO, HERE COMES NUT JOB STUFF, if the above wasn't nut case enough for you.

I am sitting on my couch watching the biggest looser of all things (I watch that to remember where I came from, former 250lb fat ass over here)

my hands start moving all by themselves... really... believe that ****. going through these patterns that were very specific that  did not know (like they were not part of any of the forms that I know or have seen in class)... I was compelled enough that I ahd to leave the room, and I went in the kitchen and it started all over again, like from the begining, but with steps and breathing... WITH BREATHING????? GTFOH but tis true I don't lie. My teacher wanted me to ahve a lesson... I got interupted, cleared my head sat back down on the couch, and I certainly had to leave the room agian went upstairs, and was compelled to do the whole thing over again, it was the SAME MOVEMENTS>>>> I don't know those movements... hell I practice things a 100 times and I**** it up, so how I did this three times, the same, not knowing it (read so I am not making this up in my head as I go along).... yeah waYYYYYY F'ed up. I say And then he left me... It wasn't like he took control of my body from the inside, it was as if I was a child and he just gently moved my limbs around  as I was limp. It was very careful and deliberate, precise.... crazy, crazy, craaaazzzzy

this morning

67 lbs circuit 1 minute rest
chin up 5, 3, 3,2 what ever...............????
bent over row, 8, 8, 8
push press 8, 8, 8 ok first 5, 4, and 4, respectively of each set were a true press, the remaining were pushed
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 static lunges 8, 8, 8 ( i hurt my big toe, in spar last week so when I do my right leg back, I have a problem achieving the true depth I am used to...)
  hang clean to front squats  8, 8, 8
 Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

(I watch that to remember where I came from, former 250lb fat ass over here)

 
I'm guessing you didn't literally weigh that much? My festive peak was 220.

''If one is after quick results one never learns an art.''

Erich Fromm

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(I watch that to remember where I came from, former 250lb fat ass over here)

 
I'm guessing you didn't literally weigh that much? My festive peak was 220.

the last time I was on a scale around my peak I was at 240... I know I went up a little, before I started moving the scale back down.... GROSS I know. At least that was 12-13 years ago... ; )

Oh my God I don't want to be impertinent/obvious but for a woman that's huge. Well done for getting rid of it.

''If one is after quick results one never learns an art.''

Erich Fromm

HAha, of all the nasty comments that could be written in my journal (especailly recently)... wow, congrats on not being a house anymore, is rather welcome... I have to say I am rather pleased, I have fluctuated over the years... but have never reverted to my former self, I read the percentages at some point and time, something like 75% (the figure might actually be higher i can't recall, I know it was not less) of the obese who have lost the weight regain it in 3 years... that is not me! nor is it you, Jane : )


Thursday night fights.... Alan was back... I <3 Alan... we had a good fight, I seriously reinjured my big toe, I front kicked him sqaure in the shin... I sprung another Knuckle.... ****, midlle finger left. I am goign to have to leaf throught the journal, I think it is a repeat offender. I am going to have to start conditioning my hands... knuckle push ups to start.... doesn't that sound like fun.....  I had a lesson with ray, again on kicking... I think i am retaining it... Had a very easy, easy, easy spar with Dan. I don't know why, I shouldn't fight him, I shouldn't like fighting him... but I do????

So we did no forms, only warm ups, because our sparring embarressed Phan... "I stop teaching.. go back to China". He is right too, it is hard to figth or style, so incorporating what we learn into real (well not real, spar) situation.... we are just trying to stay alive...

SO I had Terelle as my my partner... He is terrible and thinks he is hard... he is not hard. I swear he must have studied a hard... Japanese style.. Katate, or something like htat, because that is how he moves, very linear very hard, but eaqually as sloppy and uncordinated (not because of his former style, it should be the exact opposite,). he would not hit me, I started to get rather angry about it.. he threw punches "for the block", how is that helping you or me... I am just going to kick the air 3 feet to your left... even though iyou are supopsed to block that kick... I don't have to block if your not soming close to hitting me, actually it would be stupid of me to do that. I actually said 'you can hit me you know, your supposed to hit me, I'm a girl, not a p*ssy! " He really pissed me off. I think I might chalange him next free spar just to be a b*tch, or should I say jut to make him my b*tch.

I can't believ I got my work out in this morning... I hurt my grip is sh*t, I had a hard time with chins 9grabbbing the bar), and sldl.

67 lbs circuit 1 minute rest
chin up 4, 3, 3, 2
bent over row, 8, 8, 8
push press 8, 8, 8 ok first 6, 5, and 5, respectively of each set were a true press, the remaining were pushed
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 static lunges 8, 8, 8 ( big toe = big problem, ..)
  hang clean to front squats  8, 8, 8
 Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

Slept ALL DAY Saturday!!!!!! I mean like all day all night... ; ) : ) : )

Sunday, 1 very hard run HIIT.... ummm my machine is crap, I have mentioned this before... It was proven when I was able to run when it was on it's max speed... considering my running prowess, if it was on max, I should have been thrown across the hallway and down the stairs...

Gonna try to weapons tonight and a lift.. well see.

So I went home last night and died on the couch, triple sabotage. Myself, the rabbit (playing YOUR best pal ever, let's sit on the couch and not do anything, but pet me... ok keep petting me, i'm a rabbit, it's spring, I need love and attention... ), and boyfriend who just would not get off of me... He needs to start spending more time back in the bar, so I can get some peace... *(who says that????). I hurt, my knees, right hip, hip flexor, right ankle, big toe,  fingers shoulders and back ache, I have cramps, and gas pocket in my intestine, that just won't shift, still there! Well I looked over my log It has been a good 6 weeks since i injured my hand, and now is a good a time as any to take my week. If training has taught me anything, I have a good 6 weeks in me max (now I have gone longer for sure), but at about 6 weeks my body pines for break week... and I have mostly stopped arguing, and just let it roll in when it wants... it is a little soon, but in the long run it is better for me... when all my joints act up it's time... I SUCK.

I am going to look at a gym today.... If the boy won't go to the bar, I need to go some where, he is not helping... neither is bunny man.

There is actually something wrong with me (apart from the usual ; p). I did go to class last night. felt I made the correct choice about off week, as I twisted an ankle, pulled my other hip out, and wrenched my knee.... all really slight, but I wasn't doing anything tricky enough to warrant those slight damages.

The pain in the intestines will not shift, it just slides back and forth, gonna run and get a shot of wheat grass,.... might help????

i also can not stand up straight, I have a wicked headache, my joints still hurt... I think I might have slight food poisoning. I am sensitive to light and sound.... I feel like ass.....

No weapons, no class, no lifting....

Looked at another gym I did not even know existed, really close to my house... Things are looking interesting, on the gym front...

I FEEL BETTER!!!

not 100% but much much better...

Sparred last night, had very good time. Only Dan twice... I have got to stop that, I was warned to not fight him so much ... I don't know why he fights me as much as he does... except maybe because I will, and quite a few people won't and for really good reasons.. he goes hard on me, when he fights the men with skill, he goes too far, frequently, and his control is questionable...

 ehhh, he wants to do tournaments, he studied a little tai kwan doe (spelling ?), and he does have a gymnastic background. That is why he can throw himself in to running somersaults, cartwheels, flips and jumps, and butterfy kicks (admittedly useless he knows it himself even, just does them as he warms himself up, they are stunningly beautiful),, all sorts of acrobatic stuff we do not do in our form.

We did did have a very nice beginning spar I still can sneak a couple good body shots in on him... maybe it is because i am such a puncher, and my kicks are pretty much useless on him... and the thing is he is so tall, that if I can kick him, I am close enough that he can punch me, means I have to get in closer so I can punch and he can not, cause he is all wrapped up in his limbs he has to hold or drop me... I do also like sparring him cause he is grabby, and grabby scares me, as I have mentioned several time, so getting out of his grabs (not real take downs or grapple style, but grab to kick or grab to throw kinda grabs)  helps my confidance.

Second sparr degenerated into him on the ground kicking up at me, for along time... Yeah I got nothing for that, i mean nothing... he is to fast I could not get around or on top, I could not get away from the legs... there was 1 instance when I bested him in that situation, but that was 1 out of 30 tries, so I got nothing... other than almost kicked in the face and got in trouble, with phan and aj about sparring with him...

funny how it's not my ego that causes me to fight him, I am aware when my ego is involved, it is not with him, go figure, suirprises me too. I got nothing so it is not like i have something to prove. the only thing I prove with him is I got nothing. HAHAHA

2nd fight was with my friend Chris, good spar, he let me work on my kicking, and we are aroungd the same height, and rough proportions.. (another siggie (sp?))! He is seriosly my etter as well, I like Chris a lot, he lives across the street from buddy John, he is just really good people, we know some of the same people in the music industry, He was the original drummer for Miscief Brew... good Hardcore punk guy. Good teacher he helps me when I spar him, he helps me period. I learned. I got him in the body to a couple of times, and he might have been a little easy on me, I warned him (warned Dan, too) that I am getting my tattoo completed this moth so I can not have bruises on my right calf form here on out... I am so excited!!!

Phan remarked that my sparring got better this week! He also kept saying she's is really a tough lady... now he has said it before, but I believe he generally means it at this point.  Horray! I have zero interest in being an inelegant brawler, I want to fight well using our style, that is the point or I would have choosen something easier to learn...

Forms class was great, Phan worked us really hard, everybody was dripping in sweat, through to the belts. I felt really confidant at times, and distracted at others, but i did not get seriously hurt, like at all this week!!! (toe is still a problem, but waning).

Form spar was just LOVELY...I worked with a guy 3 months my junior, we were doing stuff that we have practiced a lot, so we both knew what we were supposed to be doing. No figuring out, we just worked on executing them well, at a medium speed, not fight speed, not super slow, at a careful and deliberate pace that alowed for clean and proper execution, while going quickly.


Ok I mentioned Tyrelle (although I think I called him tyrone, or I spelled it differently or something when I wrote about it)... He weirded me out yesterday... I am not gonna challenge him out of spite, I think that would be very dangerous for me... He is weirdly fixated on me, I don't like it, at all.

I was talking to AJ about a variety of dietary stuff, I mean like kids who don't eat, and then the grown-ups who don't like food.... It wrapped around to him not gaining weight, and he has been lifting I even double checked the routine he was given back when he started it...and it's fine... not what I would have chosen for him, but I mean it's just fine... started talking about him needing got eat more...

Tyrelle comes almost out of nowhere (although I saw him watching me and listening to our convo),walks in between us, pulls his shirt up over his arm, flexes and says something like that... ????? I don't even know what to say, it was not impressive, he does have some muscle, but honestly the guy is like 6 foot at least out 200+ not lean, really rather flabby and paunchy, might have lost a lot of weight, at some point... his arm was mostly fat with a bicep bump, and sort of cut underneath. ummm really honestly I am not saying this to be a jerk or b*tch at this statement, I think my true muscle is bigger then his true muscle... we don't know what to say as we were in middle of a conversation...he sits back down kinda deflated, and says I can still lift more than you... ???? what the ****? I have never spoken with him about lifting.  All I wanted to say was you a man, your at least 10 years younger than I am, you have 6" and 40-50 pounds on me easy, you damn well should be lifting more than I do!! So either I threaten his masculinity, or he has a crush on me or something... I really did not like the vibe I got... at all.

Good day, (besides the last 2 minutes)! to steal a phrase from bulking up.

So off time came and went with me thinking a whole lot about what I would do with a gym membership, and practically nothing about how i was going to change what I am doing currently, brilliant planning, on my part.

What I did do was keep the basic routine, and execises, in the interest of changing it around and allowing a lift or two to go up in lb'ages... I added bench (can't remeber last time I was bench pressing) , changed lunges to split squats (stupid big toe...)and super seted the thing rather than a straight circuit...60 sec rest inbetween pairs....  The push press (or oh press or miilitary depending how strong I am feeling that day)was always going to be my limiter for adding weight... so while I kept the 67 lbs... on everything this time, the front squats SLDL can progress..also think i shoud have a different day in there do A and B days... but I obviously didn't think about that either... well I thought about it did not come up with anything...

chin up 4, 3, 2
_bench press (db 35lbs, each) 8,8,8
push press 8, 8, 8
_ bent over row, 8, 8, 8
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 _split squat 8, 8, 8
hang clean to front squats 8, 8, 8
 _Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

worked out well , my butt is serious sore today, as are my hammies (split squat I hate those ****ers, I really do)... funny I lifted on Saturday, still sore today...

other thing I was pretty sure that taking away the circuit, would automatically up my numbers no problem... that's not how it worked....that was not how it worked at all....

Played sticky hands Saturday night, with an acquintance who studies Aikido...Sticky hands is a martial arts game, but one I don't play, and we don't play in class... where you have to try to push your way either to get your opponanate off balance, or get past their gaurd with out breaking contact with their arms... I am not explaining this well...anyway, he kept trying to get me... and kept muttering damn, your good...  he tried to get all tricky I just kept my center.... damn your good... hehehe, can't catch me I'm the gingerbread man.... nah, however, I did certainly do really well since i don't practice that and he does... I surprised him, LOVE IT!

Had some weapons fun... wrote down the whole form, I still don't have it memorized... but I have it on paper so I can be "that idiot in the park", hitting imaginary people with a 6' stick.... hahahaha

So I though hard about what to do last night... didn't want to do what I have been doing again.... twirling a stick around for 45 minutes is a bit of activity, but not huge...(not like what it will be like when I move to swords and heavier weapons)... so no reason to skip, but maybe a reason for decreased intensity.

I made it palatable, in my mind... I thought I need a recovery lift day, I'll just do some auxiluries... cuff work, maybe hit the abs hard, maybe a high rep ovwerhead squat, for 1 "major" lift.. It sounded like such a good idea.

that turned into...

power clean 5 x 67 lbs, 5 x 77 lbs, 5 x 87 lbs, 5 x 97 lbs
dead lift 5 x 147 lbs, 5 x 167, 5 x 187 lbs, 5 x 187 lbs 3 x 187

auxiluries?????
 well I have to admit I am not upset, power clean holding steady, small drop in strength....
deadlift 20 lb drop, but considering I have not don't any style of dead at a really challenging weight in 7 weeks I'll take it... I could still pull 200 at a sloppy 1 rep but I could get it... I am sure I could.

then 3 x 30 bicycles... their my favoirte ab specific... keeps my hip flexors out of the eqaution, I have a problem not using them on ab work...

assorted cuff work... 3 x 15 3 movements, supersetted.

I don't knwo I think I am going to leave post weapons lift up in the air, I had no problem slowly getting the work done last night. It was a fun night there was no routine, I just did what I felt like, it was relaxing.

A hard nights, lift serious effort... but not an overwhelming burdon...and it was very minamal work. I feel good about it... I didn't know how much I miss heavy cleans, until I pulled a few.

5x97 is a pretty good clean there HW!

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**** I typed in a long entry and i hit something and it wiped!!!

Thanks ripped, I think all the hang cleans keep my number decent on those.

Yeah, I am not re writing my entry

Fu was fine I did a good job on snake hand, phan told me so... : )

I have lingering concerns about gym membership... I wrote them out, they wiped obviously... they are not that many and none are insurmountable, or failure in the making...

My gym has two treadmills. One is broken.

''If one is after quick results one never learns an art.''

Erich Fromm

Yeah, I can go to the Gym that seems like the best choice for me, location wise, and have a workout, to see if I will like it or not. They seem to have all the things I want, although it is a "fitness gym", their head trainer used to be a power lifter, and he managed a bunch of different LA fitness. He talked about there always being a core group of heavy lifters (bb'ers, powers) at every gym he has ever managed. At this place he has the equipment for them, but none of the lifters... seems almost to good to be true, quite frankly.

I have used a few of those gym searches, nothing I wasn't aware of came up.

I need to focus on some stuff that I can not do at home, I have to start back squatting, and have to have access to those damn cable machines.. My shoulders are starting to roll forward, I can fix that at home, but it is just more of a pain. I have to have a chin bar that I don't hit my head on the ceiling at the top. I need safety equipment... The bf was in the room the other night when I was dead lifting,he said the bar was bending... he builds custom motorcycles, he can by eye measure 1/100 th's of an inch...and I have seen him do it (it's kinda crazy). he knows metal fatigue, has a good eye... He said it was slight, but definately bending... he had never watched me dead from that angel, which is why he didn't see it before... I have had 50 more pounds on that bar. The heavy cleans, the jumping,even just repping deads heavy... that one night brought back all the reasons why I stopped before....

So I just have one more week of financial jigging, and after wednessday, I should know wheteher or not I can join... meanwhile I am amybe gonna try a round at near by gym... still got to stop in at 12th street (gaybourhood)... but I know a few people who work out there and it is always crowded...they do have the nicest and cheepest town gym, though, I must admit.

anyway
I tried to up the weight and do the past circuit last night..,. after too much thought, I will change around sub out some exercises on day 1 (of this cycle), hit my lagging upper back, bench, keep the superset routine, I will just change the exercises a bit. Keep a heavy + aux up in the air day for weapons class night, and do the afoprementioned circuit, on day 3 just to mix it up, and have a very fast weight day, until I decide what I am doing.


First circuit I tried 72 lbs... OH S H I T...it was just 5 pounds, I di n;t think I was gonna make it.... I didn't on the press.... I almost dropped the bar getting it off of my shoulders...from lunges, and I could not hang clean for squats traps too sore, especially after I caught the bar, comming down out of control, from my behind the neck push press. Dropped it back to 67 in defeate, for last 2 sets.
chin up 5, 3, 3
push press 5, 8, 8
 bent over row, 8, 8, 8
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 static lunges 8, 8, 8
  front squats  8, 8, 8
 Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

 

Adam, you always crack me up... whether you intend to or not.

ehhhh... fight night worked with Dave... I hadn't gotten a confirmation on from my tattoo artist, as to which weekend he was coming down, 19th or 26 th, so I was really wary about sparring... I have had bruises that lasted more than 4 weeks...bruised calf = no tattoo. I wanted an alteration to the original for about 7 years, finally drew the thing and have had it drawn had for 9 months at least. Scheduling has been what has held it off thus far... so I am not jepordizing it now.  So we worked on hand work predominately... I picked him to spar because his control is very good, he still tagged the one spot I told him not too... quite honestly, There is a good chance he was just blocking my kick, I can't even pin point when it happened. but it's gonna be on the 26th, so it should be fine it is not a bad one or anything.

Forms was fine, I worked with little Jackie... who is getting good despite herself. She is a fun form spar partner. Iam pissed though louisa the women who admonished me so harshly about over doing form spar, specifically shoulder blade take down, and me working her shoulder to hard, was working with another lady, and she was reaming her to really apply the move... when I applied I got in trouble, she wouldn't do the move on me I was told me to pantomime the move on her, and gave me a lecture that form spar is not free spar... no ****in **** bitch, I was applying the move that is what form spar is sparring using very specific responses to a specific stimuli...like dropping her dto the damn ground. She told Phan she doesn't trust me. Because women are just as bad if not more competitive then men, I think she used to be the tough broad, at school, we have another one but she is her senior I believe, I am her junior but I am tougher and stronger than she is and see's me as a threat. I don'rt understand though, she is big into the higherarchy of our school, and I am dong my best (and I really am, one thing I like about kung fiu that unfortunately will change over time, is that I am not in charge, I do not make decisions, I am not the authoruity, I am not the one who knows what we are doing or how to do it:this is so opposite from my job, I relish in the lack of power and that my opinions and ideas carry no weight) to be the humble respectful, eger to learn, I'lll do what you tell me, if I hit too hard let me know, f'in washrag on the floor being stepped on, because I am a beginner, and she still treats me like crap, watches me through forms, but won't ever talk to me.. ... she has problems...that was comming from what other people have said. And she only comes like once a month. 

   I have found through time that the ones who give you the most S**T about something, are the ones most fearful of you rising over them. It has always giving me a reason to push harder at that which bothers them the most. Sooner or later you will become bigger,better, and faster. Some people have great trouble dealing with the lose of power that is coming to them. They see it, they know it....so they belittle and rant, til that day comes.
   Rise above, you are already better.

Team Keine Ausreden = No Excuses
mein scheinehund ist daheim
48 yrs young
6'5" 270 Lbs

True that wetdawg


Friday ended horribly, with me leaving work to pay my kung fu tuition, so I could turn immediately around and go back to work til 10:30 just love an unexpected 13 hour day...did I mention I hate these ****ers... I really do.

So as I continue on, with my.... to steal an old journal title form twisted link... hardway does a bunch of random crap, and hopes for the best...(hope is never a substitute for a plan, hahah)
focus of my weekend workout, lagging parts, neglected groups postural corrections.

super sets 60 sec res between pairs

DB close grip bench (palms in) 3 x8 @ 35 lbs (each)
bent over rows DB, 2 pt, elbows out 3 x 8 @ 35 lbs (each)
I got lucky (or choose wisely) with that pair, weight is good for each

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military press 3 x 8 @ 57 lbs
overhead squats 3 x 8 @ 57 lbs

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SPlit squats 3 x 8 @ 35 lbs DB (? I think that is right)
SLDL 3 x 8 107 lbs

I felt what I needed where I needed it...I am walking a little straighter, so good ex choices.

Sunday officially became that moron in the park... Worked on staff for a good 45 minutes, long enough that I had it committeed to memory, and managed to forget it by the time I called it a day.... *sigh*, saddly that does equal progress for me... so *horrah*

Got a quick lift in, before going to school to watch the tests. Also had to meet up with an old friend in from MI

power clean 5 x 67, 5 x 77 5 x 87 5 x 97 5 x 102

deadlift(ran out of time, did not have 1/2 hour to pull heavy deads) 2 sets 162 x 15... that was hard

reverse flies 3 x 15 @ 12 lb DB

rotator cuff work assorted 2 x 12

hanging knee tucks 2 x 15
crunches 2 X 15

I was really sore yesterday...

Fu town, was fine... had bouts of really good focus and then total distraction. ehhh.

I really need to work on my hip flexor flexibility, I should be more flexible in a straddle than i am. Constant annoyance, but I have have had only momentary bouts of actively working on it, so all my fault, really.

hung out with dead guy in spirit class, I guess either I have a dead buddy, or I am seriously impressionable. Hands moved slowly... they did this rolling thing... it is funny they had a resistance as if I was magnetized and each arm was a different pole. they repelled each other, then would change directions and start over, in reverse....

did I mention I called him at home and ended up somersaulting into my dresser...

still at  67 think this was the last day playing this circuit 
chin up 4, 3, 3 (I need to do these like every other day to make progress... but i hate them sooooooooooooo much... more things that are my own fault)
OH press 8, 8, 8 (hey I didn't push them... I didn't bring them all the way down like a military press either)
 bent over row, 8, 8, 8
 good morning 8, 8, 8,
 static lunges 8, 8, 8
  hang clean to front squats  8, 8, 8
 Romanian deadlifts 8, 8, 8

need to figure out a day 3... for a couple weeks... after tattoo... I think i get to go to the gym... have to do a little more computing, the only thing that migth change is joining earlier rather thanlater.

fat report.. well waist is flatter and smaller... Hamstrings got big??like I have a hard time putting on jeans, like an inch past my knees they start getting stuck, well my tighter jeans anyway. It is partly do to my skin slide, my butt fat sags have moved a couple inches off my ass, and have slid down my upper thighs... so from half way up my butt, pretty damn good (even the skin sacs on my stomach  are not as bad as they have been nor am I carring extra fat to fill them up and give me the illusion of firmness... ) This is like the fat I grew when I was 10 years old... it's been hanging out with me for 23 years, it is just a ****to shift...however the whole point of this was to say new progress has been made it is an improvement, it's undenieable.

day before I should have lifted but had to work late, knew yesterday was test day so i would have the night off, nor could I make it to the second day of test, so that is why I didn't journal yesterday. and lifted last night.. no fights not like i should have fought with the impending tat anyway.

OH and I AM NOT STAYING LATE TODAY, WHATEVER LAST MINUTE CRAP THEY COME UP WITH IS THEIR PROBLEM. I LEAVE AT 5:30 LATEST, I fu, hang out with my head buddy,  and go home, DAMN IT!

Good job

Thanks

however you might have not read up to current times... where kung fu has taken the majority of my focus...

My lifting currently is no where near where it could be, or should be for that matter..

welcome to the forum!

Check out Jane and rippedchick. they are the ones with serious lifting focus, at the moment.