Staying Busy...

"As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion." - Michael Johnson

Fri 6/24/11 - I'm back...

"We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves" - Eric Hoffer

I am done with school for the summer, so my brain can rest.

I told my son the other day that there is no reason why he can't remember stuff he learns in school when he can remember the name of every gun he sees on Call of Duty.

This goes that same for me, I can remember fights, Martial Art styles, and a vast number of techniques I learned years ago, but ask me about Pavlov's Dogs or factoring and I am lost.

My son told me that he likes Call of Duty, that is why he remembers that information. This is true for me also, I remember what I am interested in; but I told him that this proves that he can do it when focused and right now it is important he remembers.

This reminded me of one of my first instructors asking me why I never practiced the knife hand strike with the rest of the class. I told him it was because I didn't like that technique and wasn't good at it. He smacked me on my head and told me that we can't just practice the techniques we are good at/like or we will never grow as Martial Artists. This proved true when the only technique that stopped a better black belt from making me apart of the brick wall was a knife hand to the throat. After the fight was over, my instructor came over to me and smacked me on the head and said "See, I told you that you needed that move!". I wish he could go to school with me.

I'm going to start smacking my son on the head...

Mon 3/14/11

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be." - Lao Tzu

Warm up:

Stationary bike - 2 mins
Clinch fight - 2 mins

Workout:

Bench press - 5 sets x 5 reps
Incline bench press - 3 sets x 5 reps
Floor dumbbell press - 3 sets x 5 reps

Push press - 4 sets x 5 reps
Dumbbell press/Reverse fly - 3 sets x 10 reps
Lateral raise - 3 sets x 10 reps

Weighted dips - 4 sets x 10 reps
Close grip bench press - 4 sets x 5 reps
Skull crushers - 3 sets x 10 reps

Stretch - Protein shake - Shower

Busy...

“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans” - John Lennon


I haven't been blogging in a while. Between school, work picking up, working out/training, and recently we went on a cruise to the Bahamas, I have been busy. Hope to get back to it.

Wed 2/16/11

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." - James Baldwin


Warm up:

Each exercise 30 secs, 1 round

Sprawls on Swiss Ball
Shoot w/bungee
Frogs
Bear crawls w/bungee
Shrimps
Technical stand up
Duck walks
Crab walks

Workout:

Arm drag to harness drill - 5 mins
Arm drag to rear naked choke - 5 mins
Clinch drill - 3 mins
Take down drills - 3 mins

Roll - 5 mins

Lat pull downs - 5 sets x 5 reps
Seated rows - 5 sets x 5 reps
Bar curls - 4 sets x 5 reps
Dumbbell curls/static hold - 5 sets x 12 reps (4 half up, 4 half down, 4 full)
Machine crunch - 5 sets x 10 reps

Stretch - Protein shake - Shower

Mon 2/14/11

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye." - Helen Keller


Warm up:

Each exercise 30 secs, 1 round

Sprawls on Swiss Ball
Shoot w/bungee
Frogs
Bear crawls w/bungee
Shrimps
Technical stand up
Duck walks
Crab walks

Workout:

Bench press - 5 sets x 5 reps

Full sit ups - 2 sets x 20 reps

Plank hold - 1 min

Leg raises/scissors - 1 sets x 20 reps

Side crunch - 2 sets x 10 reps

Stretch - Protein shake - Shower

Wed 2/9/11

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses." - Carl Jung



Warm up:
Stationary bike - 3 mins

Workout:

Bench press - 4 sets x 10 reps

Lat pull downs - 4 sets x 10 reps

Lateral raises - 4 sets x 10 reps

Curls - 3 sets x 10 reps

Tri press downs - 3 sets x 10 reps

Shrugs - 4 sets x 10 reps

Stretch - Protein shake - Shower