January 2010
67 posts
Nice New Year’s Eve training. More and more pumped every day. I’m feeling a bit more like Wolverine now, you could say.
New Year’s Resolution tomorrow. Good times. Nutrition and sleep will all be logged on my training blog. My training will be at my blog hidden in pkto.ca. :)
December 2009
48 posts
I’m !@#$ing tired of dealing with clubs and bars. I hate them. Why can’t people just do good house parties instead?
I have a lot to do before Gracie’s tonight. Man.
I’m going to attempt to put up curtains in the garage to shield a wall or two. That’s only after I build the bench.
Let’s see how this goes.
Training plan for January/February.
So. Russian Squat Routine with a twist.
Found an easy template: http://www.exrx.net/WeightTraining/RussianSquatProgramGenerator.html
The goal is to complete the RSP for the lift, and get my lift above 400. I will also have a goal of 315 for my full zercher, done with high volume and a max test here and there mixed in.
I’ll PLAN it like this:
Day 1: RSP, P/P, Cond.
Day 2: RSP, P/P,...
Parkour helped me today. I had to wait an hour for my next bus because the first one didn’t come. I started to walk and the bus came as I was in between stops. I vaulted a fence, sprinted and cat leaped a few times to get over some snow so I could beeline to the bus. The driver saw me and stopped. “If you can make it here that quickly, I’ll stop for you anytime, even if...
So tomorrow I'm
testing out the garage in a few ways. If all goes well I’ll be doing a mini training video or two as well as doing some lifts on the rubber floors.
Self...
So, one of the coolest concepts in any book I’ve ever read was from Self, by Yann Martel. It’s not the plot of the book. It’s a small part, but it was amazing.
The character has two rooms. One is only for creative writing. She posts cue cards with a thought, a blurb, a quote, an image… A lot like this blog. She surrounds herself with them and thinks. This leads to more...
There were three times when I was happy with who I was for several months at a time.
As a child, I was happy with myself because I was one of the best at school, but I didn’t apply myself as hard as I could and I knew it. I slept better then and was always alert. I didn’t pay attention to food but always slept well.
Working at SuperPet, I was happy with who I was because friendships...
Man I'm going to enjoy
…sleeping in tomorrow morning. To-do list:
Administrative stuff like emails
Taper one last strip of rubber
Rubberize some jump pads, top and bottom
Order a freakin’ squat rack.
Kill things in Call of Duty MW2.
My God I’m sick. I have a “Christmas” planned with my roommates - gift exchange, I guess. They’re not answering their phones and it’s late; I think it’s not gonna happen as planned.
My Christmas dinner was marked-out Turkey Bacon Breakfast Sandwiches from work. I’m alone and lost my lung on the path to this computer. I set off the fire alarm by accident...
I need a vacation
in a couple weeks; after New Year’s. This New Year’s will be one of resolution for sure…
I will keep an agenda. It will be my life. With my sleep, nutrition, training and daily spending written in it. This is my goal.
trained with the 106 lb Kettlebell (Wolverine) today. Did more than 50% more volume than last time but I didn’t do many pistols or any lifts today.
I need to clean up the garage so I can lift again, although I’m happy to take some time off during Christmas to focus on some other things - I remember the Russian method of “switching,” spiking the nervous system with a...
Home.
This has been a theme that has been recurring to me a lot recently. Home is, for many people, where people think of them; where they can return to and feel welcome.
What if you don’t feel welcome at your house? I guess, then, you have to put your heart INTO something, right?
This has been on my mind for a couple weeks.
emcam:
Home to me will never be Barrhaven. It will never even be...
did i mention
I hate Christmas. Christmas day is my least favourite day of the year. Everyone is so happy to spend time with their family, that they panic for weeks before and mess up travel, shopping, work - Christmas just makes work suck more when I have to deal with more stupid people and their “favourite artist’s” rendition of soulless songs. I want to bash a speaker with my forehead when...
Today and yesterday, I...
called and worked out the order for the debit/credit terminal
installed the majority of the mats for the garage. I have a few more to cut. They take a long time.
Segregated the stuff left over in the garage, including the remainder of the failed drywall project. I’ll have lots of space once that stuff is gone.
Installed some beams to support some dry-erase boards (oh, how I love thee) to...
So I learned what I can
do with my 106 lb’er. I CAN’T do a one armed press with it yet. Not even close. That’s my weakest of the three movements I need to do for my challenge.
I can do one armed swings, cleans, pull-ups (barely got my chin over the bar. Barely.), chin-ups and some other minor stuff. Good times.
I smiled like a kid on Christmas when I did the pull-up with it. I got a lot of work...
Modest video of my new 106 lb'er. →
Got some rubber for the flooring and for the lifting platform. Good times. Hellllooooooo warmth.
Man. It’s freeze-your-fridging-face-off cold. Does anyone know how freaking hard it is to defend a poor garage against Canada’s attacks?
Mats coming in today with much thanks to my truck-owning ladyfriend. This means, I might be able to train barefoot again, if it’s not too bad, and it’s one more insulation method of many.
“Note: I made a mistake with what I refer to as the Facebook Fiasco. I stated...”
– So awesome.
…from this site: http://70sbig.com/
“My new favorite site: 70sbig.com
fav quote from the FAQ:
“I can’t eat...”
– From beastskills.com’s Facebook. This guy is awesome. He was the main reason I did one-arm chinups, along with the Russian Kettlebell Challenge forums. I get inspired often from this site.
So, a long time ago, there was a small city near a volcano. There were thousands in this city. The firefighters learned to run, sprint, vault, jump (even onto small landings from far away), land, roll, climb, swim, swing and move quickly. This was l’art du déplacement - what became parkour. They trained in a forest under the volcano. They protected the village and served as more than just...
So I tried budgetting.
It looks like I’m really poor. I also don’t know how to restrict spending on food. I eat out often and most of my money - an obscene amount - goes to food.
I gotta record my food as well as my money. I have a good record now for money. I wonder if blogging my food in a private blog would work? I might whiteboard it at home.
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There’s a good chance that I’m getting my massive kettlebell order in tomorrow. In case I haven’t told you, I’m getting up to 48 kg kettlebells. I’ll have over a dozen now, with doubles in several sizes.
The best part: 48 kg is the size of a small girl. If I can do pull-ups with that weight at my waist and Turkish getups with that weight overhead, I can...
Goals/Plans for the day: Zercher squat from ground with double my bodyweight.
Confirm the monstrous order of kettlebells I ordered is in.
Install Windows 7 [read: uninstall Vista]
Update budget
Find my old potato cannon.
Tonight’s gonna be a good night.
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Solution to me sleeping in past my alarm.
2 AM to 12:30 PM - amazing sleep.
Food.
1:30 PM to 1:45 PM - shower.
1:45 PM to 7 PM - sleep.
So I actually slept over 15 and a half hours. Almost 16. Take that acdavis’s psych class.
I’m super frustrated that both the rubber mats and the kettlebells, two separate drives, can’t go today and tomorrow like planned. I can’t start the gym until then. This sucks.
I need a drive to Kemptville… this is bad. Clients are waiting and I’m poor.
Mon estomac. Quel endommage.
So coffee and I are… *sniff* breaking up. Or, on a break. I don’t know. I’m starting to log my food down, eat more alkaline, and limit my coffee until I get bloodwork back from the doctor.
There’s a chance that an old problem is coming back that kept me in the hospital for a long time. I’m going to start being… ugh… responsible; I’m going to eat...
6:21 PM: ready to puke and rocking back and forth.
6:31 PM: started training zercher lifts after mowing down on half a container of blueberries.
6:43 PM: new 3 rep max in the zercher
6:53 PM: repeated the 3 rep max. Almost threw up.
7:01 PM: failed on the first rep with the same weight. Feeling better somehow though. Moving on.
7:16 PM - done my conditioning. I’m disappointed in myself....
How amazing would it be if this new gym had a mat for backflips and aerials?
I'm using my mouse on a couch. It works. Optical...
Tumblr. You’re going to be my guinea pig; my victim. I’m getting a video camera tomorrow and you’ll be hosting my videos. I’m going to perfect taking videos and upload them here.
So. I need a videos of a few things; this is my challenge to myself.
- General sandbag conditioning.
- General kettlebell conditioning.
- General bodyweight conditioning including ballastics...
Emily, can it.
“The lazy never started and the weak died trying.”
– Generic coach’s saying from my buddy Jay.
Can't wait for this gym.
The main reason I’m excited for the new gym, more than money or the dream or anything… is to train myself the way I want to.
To give an idea, when I train my main powerlifts, I have to lug over 300 lbs downstairs after freeing them from an awkward corner of my garage, pull out my barbell and clips… it takes time to set up and clean up.
I also can’t use the kettlebells as...
I think everyone should read Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency. That book is awesome. There is so much wit, style and sarcasm in it, as well as absurdism which is always my favourite.
If you have you’re awesome; has anyone read either Slaughterhouse Five, Waiting for Godot or anything from Douglas Adams?
It’s really hard to get organized. I should probably devote myself to that for a little while.
I said I wanted to practice that theory that training principles could apply to everyday life - that the spirit of doing well in one thing is the same as in another. I should focus on my weakest link like in training. My weakest link is my organization and how I apply myself.
I bought a printer...
Parkour ball. (from Yamakasi 2. Amazing movie) →
I drank a latte with 35% cream today. Like, whip cream before it’s been whipped. It was a challenge as to whether or not I was a man. Sincerely, Pat.
WHY ISN’T THE FLOORING IN? THE KETTLEBELLS? EVERYTHING IS TAKING FOREVER. I wanted this to be done by now. I’m worried I’ll lose clients if I wait any longer. At least the garage is warm now, if not clear.
I trained today...
I might hit a 400 lb DL by the end of the year! I should at least get to 375 no problem. Once the floors are in, I’ll build my bench and I get to decide which route I wanna go in training; powerlifting as my main path, or the overhead focus that I’ve been starting for the past while. I’m still going to train for Operation Wolverine and use my rings and all that fun stuff, no...
Everyone at my work is leaving. More importantly, like, 4 people that I really liked talking to are leaving. What the hell? I don’t know how I feel about work anymore.