My ramblings, the endless journey

Clean and press.. 5 x3 @ 72
 Deadlift 1 x5 ramping 157 x 5 167 x 5 177 x5 187 x 5 202 x5 (lock out problems....)
 Bent over rows 3 x 8 @ 72 (though I upped them did not)
revese flys 3 x 12 @ 12

well a a whole lot of working on my prettty this year... and it has progressed in my very slow and lazy fashion it has,... and even after all of that my strenght is about where it was last year about this time... little weaker but not much... endurance a little better... aover all body comp similar size, similar weight... leaner, better definaition, more muscle... so slowly slowly... this might be my last Keto week... til like February, where I think I am going to give it another solid go.. results too good, food to sad and bad...

I totally want to talk to you bc the way you write is so unique.

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- Don't you hate those days when you go to exercise and you just give up half way through - Tried doing power cleans and dead lifts last night but almost had a stroke I think.

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

Erich Fromm

You know guys I totally sold myself short... I said that I have worked on body comp this year, and in dribs and drabs, I have.

My main focus has been Kung Fu, though... and I have worked very very hard on that, and all that is is comprised of... I have made great advancements, on most of my areas... I need to remember that. THAT was this years focus...

I'm calling your bluff ripped, want my phone number?

Adam... Your telling me..., , although for me it's the starting, I hate when I put off lifting soo long... it turns into the morning of the next day, before I get going... I might crap out on on assists... or chin up's (great, one sure fiore way to not get better is to give up on what your bad at)... It's soo hot in my house... It's sooo hot at kung fu... It makes it difficult to put in a real serious effort.

Stayed late at work... missed spar... prolly best for my toe... who's toe nail is on it's way off...

Had a painful class... just everything was hurting my hips and knees... I am reevaluating my stances... I think my horse stance is too wide, same with snake... BUT TO MY SURPRISE, I am Pain free today, for the first time in weeks i was casually throwing kicks as I took a little break... : ) I do think I have Bursitis...  not a stress fracture, form all my research Bursitis hurts when your at rest but stress fractures feel better when your off your leg... my hip screams the loudest when I am relaxing, and have my weight off of it... so that's comforting... I still need doc... but I am less afraid my femur is just going to snap in half, while I am squatting...

God damn it was hot... up there... we did a lot of form spar, because of the heat... I danced with ABC Brandon, he sparred so he was a little lackluster for a big 17 year old boy.. but we learned applied, and made mortal combat noises... Taught Jo some more staff after class was over...

It must be 2000% humidity here in semi-rural New Jersey.  Must be a freaking sauna down there in big city Philly!  Stay cool and dry!  :)
 
Just checked weather.com:  About 3pm should get interesting.  Maybe the storms will cool things down and dry out the air.

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Alright you got it ripped...

I see a lot of moderators in OOB... I think I am gonna get banned any second now for my comments in the speeding ticket thread... so If I am gone for a while guys that is probably why, and I'll be back, eventually......

Are you off to pay a visit to that Holmesburg prison?

Score!

Only took 3 years of smooth talking to get the number...*koolaid voice* OH YEAH!

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did a modified coulture circuit... 57 lbs 3 x 8 no rest til all exercises complete. 60 sec rest Chin ups 2,2,2
 push press 3x8
bent over row 3 x 8
good morning 3 x 8
static lunges 3 x 8 (each leg)
back squat squat 3 x 8
 RDL 3 x8

no time for notes today...

Jane you have a nice collection of suitors yourself... if you hadn't noticed...
I already got a 4 am ripped txt... I can't wait for drunk dialing!

Excellent class last night... my hips are feeling sooo much better... I had been taking it very light since Friday, not really intentionally, It is just the way my life has been flowing.... Now I am concerned they are gonna flair up again... partially why I didn't increase over the weekend... easy does it... (I think Kung fu is moe to blame than the weights though, but still I am being very very careful, because i can't remember when they didn't hurt anymore, so it has been way too ling that they have ebeen seriously bothering me), I have been working them hips in very gentle ways.

But i had  absolute full range of motion, for the first class in forever, and I carefully took advantage of it.
Worked my stick... worked my forms, really pushed the body movement expression, depth of stances, all the bits I have a hard time doing, whe the hip is achey, had a fierce form spar with Jasper... great temperture outside, fun class... Phan asked me to go to turnaments next year... so I guess next summer i am gonna compete.... Yikes!

Good Job! You have worked hard and it is showing. Competing next year, then turning Pro, then all the movie contracts....Ahhh I can see it now.  Your replacing Chuck Norris.

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mein scheinehund ist daheim
48 yrs young
6'5" 270 Lbs

front squat 5x3 @ 112
 bench 3 x 5, 1x4, 1x 3 @ 45 that's an increase in reps my friends, working on my bech fom problems (how the hell after 4 yeras do I STILL have form problems>>>>
 5 x 3 @92 boo
chins 1x2, 1x3, 1x2 up

Serious serious problems with the clean, I don't think I racked ONE correctly... I got no power from the ground... I don't know what my problem is, the clean to the front squat could be described as dodgy at best... f'in A piss poor, sloppy, can you even call that a power clean at their worst... same goes with the 92 lbers... They haven't always been THIS bad, but last night, my fish tank flashed before my eyes, on the last one.


thanks wet dawg!  5 or 6 people from my school were in a movie this year, my teacher helped with the choreopgraphy of some of the fight scenes... 2 guys were  stunt men, other had little parts in the big battle scenes... oh crap what is it called, oh Avitar, from the Anime, show, M. Night Shamolon directed... so who knows they are working on the sequels in the next few years... ya never know... But I think Chuck Norris is safe... hahahahaha

but tornements, that is gonna be something.

When the tournaments come up, you have to post dates and times. I think I will fly up and watch you pummel the competition. Starting your fan base already! I can't wait!!

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

Just fabulous class... our new beginners are finally gettiong to the point that our warm ups can be challenging again, and fast...and confusing, combining a lot of forms in ways we don't normally do...And Chrissy, and her husband were in they are bopth red sashes, contemporaries to my buddy john, who is no longer there... They call fast and with good rhythm, people complain that they are too fast, and she always smarts back... your a marial artist your supposed to be in good shape... ROLF!!!! A girl after my own heart... she id the other one who will free spar, they have kids now and live in the burbs, so shame they are not in class as much as I would like...

Lots of form spars with Jackie, we had a good time, carlos is trying to toughen up the meek asian girls, and i think it is working a little bit.

more forms, was tired by the end, great class...

Oh and Wendy said I am getting all circular, and really progressed all of a sudden...

Free spar...well Phan's girls attacked me for the first 30 minutes I was there..7 and 5 year olds, the little one was climbing me like a monkey, and the other was just dragging me around, and making me pick her up while monkey was climbing my leg... sigh not the workout I wanted, but they are really nice kids, really hard to deny then anything that is truely reasonable... the older one just defights in my muscle... I am not kidding, in the changing room (and ever after everyday) tells me and everyone else who will listen that I have muscles in my butt... and named my biceps Sailor Moon... I wish I was making that up....

So I finally got around to fighting Karl (there were only three of us there for free spar anyway. I fought really differently yesterday... I was trying so very very hard at using my forms... but it didn't feel like i was, I was waiting a lot for him to attack me, and in my opinion I absorbed way to many blows ( i took a really hard shot to the solorplexus, I am surprised I didn't have to call off the fight then, he got me good), Like half the time I didn't understand what hell I thought I was doing, I was thinking to myself.... what is going on, what is wrong with me. we fought for about 10 minutes, or so... he would just come flying at me (he likes his monkey, he is one of those guys). I tended to stick with tiger... I should have tried some snake in there too... in hindsight that would have had a good chance of being effective, against his attacks... We fought each othe really kind of dirty too, I think he tried to rip my throat out 3 times, (need to protect my throat), meanwhile I one point I definately grabbed his nipple/pec flesh, and caught myself tring to twist it off... (more things in todays entry that i wish I was joking about... lol)

Well when it was all said and done, I appologised to Karl, "I am sorry I don't know what was wrong with me today, I know I wasn't a fun fight", he replied back what are you talking about, you sparred the best ever against me... (we do tend to spar a lot, we have a good time together). He said you were deep in your stances, not as upright as you usally are, you used your forms exsclusively, you were always in claws, and you were always defended.

There was some MMA guy (I am sure that was his background, not to stereotype, but half the time you can just tell those guys, especially when they visit school), observing our free spar, when I was done, and walked off to get water, he said to me, your really strong...love that.

At the end of forms class, before meditation, Phan said that my sparring was much better today so what the hell do I know... What is really funny is that he said Karl couldn't knock me down, and he couldn't.... not like Dan, who Karl drops every time they spar, usually repeatedly... and Dans the one who wants to be "captain Kung Fu champion", and spars constantly, and hard, and has been in school for 5 years... So horah, I suck ass at atkedowns, but I am hard to drop.

Regular class was exshauting, I was really all done, by the last 10 minutes, we did a ton of forms, ansd I form sparred with Amber, nice day at school...

oh and my hip is all shot to **** again! woke up night before last with bf on it... woke up that morning with pain, it worked itself out and then Karl kicked it....

Hang Clean and press.. 5 x3 @ 72 (up!, and felt very solid)
Deadlift 1 x5 ramping 157 x 5 167 x 5 177 x5 187 x 5 202 x5 (felt much better this week)
Bent over rows 3 x 8 @ 77 easy for some reason??/

did a modified coulture circuit... 62lbs 3 x 8 no rest til all exercises complete. 60 sec rest Chin ups 2,2,2
push press 3x8
bent over row 3 x 8
good morning 3 x 8
static lunges 3 x 8 (each leg)
back  squat 3 x 8 (I am really lazy these days, again it should be a hang clean to front squat, but the bar all comfy on my back, and that behind the neck push press... I don't like doing that... so I talked myself into resting my shoulders just a bit longer, and let myself do back squats)
RDL 3 x8

At least I woman'ed up and upped the weight

I just don't have time for this right now... day before yesterday good class, too much hanging out in horse stance, and my toenail is almost all the way off... I told you guys it was going... it's really yucky. Sparred with Lamont, fun was had... kung fu was learned, hung with dead guy for only a little while, the first time he fought against me stopping, Phan had talked my ear off during spirit class, about his family in Vietnam and china, and all these problems with his mom, to the point that I had no time for class... So when I finally got into a grove, I knew that everybody was dressing and tring to get out for group dinner (I couldn't go), so I had to stop, and I felt him fight me... weird....

Last night I ****ed up double time, I forgot my uniform,  I had rushed a renter, so I could get out on time for weapons, only to realize I can't go to class... So I went home set up for lifting a bit later, waited for BF to come home so I could do the challenge, (He could get 80lbs on and off my back, well I could get it on but the behind the neck press to get it off was the big problem),.... By the time he came home, and I convinced him to help me... that took a while, I got these HORRIBLE intestinal cramps, I was totally doubled over and just moaning, (I think it has to do with my return to fiber and vegetables, I missed vegetables).... it never really went away although it did subside to some degree, after about 30-40 minutes... and then it was just too late so yesterday was a total wash.... and my schedule is just getting rolling... not good>>>

I only sparred with ray, and i was just a total distracted mes... worst spar, ever I tried ot get help forom him and it jsut was worse... I don't have time to explain.


regular class was alright, but not great, I spnt a lot of time with Phan's girls, helped them a bit, had some good moments in forms... Form sparred with Kyle, he couldn;t get it together for some reason.. I am getting better at catching the knweee and locking my opponants knee.. but that is only in practice and not in real spar situation....

front squat 5x3 @ 112 Much better!!! I don't know what happened but, my form, is like just better than it ever has been. My hip is better, and something must have clicked, finally, because it finally felt like it should, they racked correctly, the snap of the hips, the straight up pull, with out using arms... ehhh, I doubt it will stay, but I'll take it for today.
 bench 4x 5, 1x 3 @ 45 that's an increase in reps my friends, second week in a row
 5 x 3 @92 while the weight stayed the same, we will change last weeks booo, to horah, because the form correction held through to repping power cleans
 chins 3x3 oh... hey hey! that's an increase!
so great lifting day this morning!

You front squat more than me? What the heck!

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It would be a sad state of affairs if I didn't front squat higher than you, fronts are my primary squat. And if my cleans feel as good this week as they did my work out past... I expect them to shoot up very fast... My power clean is the limiter on my front squats not my quads...

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and I am going to put the squat rack where.... my imaginary 3rd bedroom???? Or the magical annex off of my fish tank, that only I can see that is actually a vortex into some gym dimension,  I can only get to by clicking 2 dumbbells together....

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Hang Clean and press.. 5 x3 @ 72 (up!, and felt very solid)
Deadlift 1 x5 ramping 157 x 5 167 x 5 177 x5 187 x 5 207 x5 (up! should be back uin the 220's very soon)
Bent over rows 3 x 8 @ 77 easy for some reason??/

So deads got the increase all else stayed the same...

I spent a large portion of my comp time (back to 12 + hour days for a couple weeks), attending to soem areas of my life that have been neglected recently, so I skipped Fu, and a weight work out... sometimes you have to prioritize other things, and things have come full circle, and my life needed attention, not my fitness, strength or fighting.

I have looked at squat stands like that, honestly there is absolutely no room for them in my house. I will video one day my work out area, there is no room... And spacial orginization is one of my strongest skills, so when i say there is no room there is absolutely no room. In my workout area, the adjoining areas, the hall way, bedroom or studio... I am full...

you can pull 220 for 5? Dammit!

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No ripped I used to rep in the 220's, around this time last year...

hey got to spar and class last night and lifted this morning...

Spar fought with Ray, he actually attacked me yesterday, and we worked on my moving in and punishing...
Hector asked me to dance, oh i think for the first time ever, he's been there 5 years or so, little guy, so much smaller than me, a different challenge, it is hard to hit a tiny target. After it was all said and done, he said he really enjoyed sparring with me because I am a really smart fighter, he never could figure out what I was going to do... I have been working on not telegraphing my moves, as a side emphasis, it is really for other reason, but some of the work I have been doing certainly had that side bonus... but actually he couldn't figure out what I was going to do cause i suck... and I did tell him as much... Had another long talk with Carlos, about the state of my sparring and my general frustrations. He again made me feel better, not by trying or telling me I was doing a good job (although I do receive props from all, since I do actually spar every week), but in thelling me how hard it is to learn, and hoe long it takes, and reminding me that the only way to really learn and apply our style, you have to loose a lot of fights, and not worry about looking foolish, because to learn the crazy effective stuff you have to do it over and over, it is much more technical than some other fight skills, and it is easier to revert back to "brawling", and winning, especially when you are failing, and loosing.  So removal of ego is paramount... so i am tring and trying with the correct intention... so hey.

Phan was called back to Vietnam, Ray ran class we worked a lot of fundementals...


67 up even chins
lbs 3 x 8 no rest til all exercises complete. 60 sec rest
 Chin ups 3,3,3
push press 3x8
bent over row 3 x 8
good morning 3 x 8
static lunges 3 x 8 (each leg)
back  squat 3 x 8
RDL 3 x8

front squat 5x3 @ 117  tie personal record
 bench 2x5 1x 2 1x3 1x2 1x2 , (yikes that crapped out... did an extra set of 2 to get more reps in very crappy @ 45
power clean 5 x 3 @97 up kiddies!
 chins 3x3 just got them barely... legs and back strong this week, chest crummy..


Fu town,. got off a coupel really good rounds of stick, called a lot in warm ups, Jesper is tring to get us in line the way Phan wants us, but won't tell us, cause he is chinese, nad won't say things, just expects them to magically happen... difficult.