SBR Training Journal

[Marykaa]

I'd love to read more about your yoga class.. what got you to near fainting?

Congrats on trying again and succeeding! I'm more and more interessted in this sport.. sure wish that week-ends had 5 days! you're inspiring. How was Shannon's test?

[Ogedei]

We both did our Belay test and passed, that wasn't a huge deal. They just want to make sure you can do the basics safely, as well as watch an orientation video.

The heat of the room in the yoga class had me pretty light headed a few times. It is a hot yoga class, so it's done at 100f and 50% humidity. Glad I am a guy and can remove my shirt during it. Either way the temperature was evil enough to begin with without intoducing movements and such in it.

Og.

[gobbla]

you seem to be really well rounded as a trainee(?). your training in general is really impressive, it looks like you're really starting to move to another level of training. cudos.

[Ogedei]

I am pretty motivated right now and in general want to do and be more than just a lifter. Guys like ODB who are out there outside living life are a great inspiration and motivator for me.

That being said, I have a tendon issue in my wrist, "dequervains" it's called. I had been given anti-inflamatories for it and was using them sporatically. I left them at home over the weekend so was unable to use them. Quite often in the mornings my wrist is pretty sore.

This morning at around 4:30 I rolled over and grabbed the blankets with my bad wrist and flexed or twisted it badly, I was mostly asleep so the initial pain didn't slow me down and I wrenched it pretty badly. Three hours later it still hurts pretty bad. I am skipping my workouts today, well I might go for a run tonight. And unless it totally calms down I am skipping lifting tomorrow as well.

I really want to avoid surgery for this, so unless these drugs start working I will probably seek out an ART guy as Bill had suggested at one point.

Hopefully I can maintain a decent level of motivation until the wrist calms down or I get it fixed.

Og.

[gobbla]

if nothing else you can do step-ups, lunges, most core work, 1 leg squat (or pistols), HIIT, and whatnot using BW.

hate to get frustrated when you're obviously doing so well...even if it turns into a worse case scenerio, just a little shifting of goals.

you're too motivated, too dedicated, and too resourcefull to let injuries to get in the way of progress.

[Ogedei]

Yes but it will severly hamper my EDT run unless it calms down. I think it has gotten better over the last few hours, I also contacted a couple of ART practitioners in the area and they seem to charge about $40 a session so I may try that soon as well if it dosen't get betterish quiclkly.

Og.

[Ogedei]

Tuesday: February 21st

Running.

3km - 19m 14s

[Ogedei]

Feb 23rd 2006

Swimming

Warmup:
4 x25m RI20

Workout:
Bi-lateral breathing: 4 x50m RI20
Overall still impressed with how well this has come along.

Catch up: 4 x50m RI20
This drill as well as forcing me to use good stroke also forces me to hold my streamlined shape.

Stroke and glide: 1 x25m RI20
Ok this one sucked bad today so I ditched it!

Golf Score: 4 x25m. RI30: 54, 49, 49, 48

Cooldown:
Swam a few extra laps and attempted to preform flip turns. These will need ALOT of work. I tried 15 or so and maybe pulled off 2 randomly.

[gobbla]

how's your wrist?

[Ogedei]

Still pretty sore compared to the days before the incident, but better than Tuesday morning. Probably attempt to lift tomorrow. We shall see. I doubt I will do any EDT and dumbell stuff, might do something more basic just to keep the muscles under resistance until I can get back to the EDT. We shall see how it is tomorrow. If it's still really stiff in the morning I won't. Play it by ear.

I have my first ART session on Monday.

[swiminto]

Nice..swim workout Ogedei....on your Catch up...I hope you are keeping your elbows high, on the recovery. As for the flip turns..keep at them..they are worth the effort, and so much faster to do, also, it is like doing one crunch every length of the pool.

Does the wrist bothering you during the swims?

Golf??...Damn, I hate that drill.

[Ogedei]

The wrist bugs me a tiny bit while I am swimming, but it isn't noticeable more than 20% of the time or so.

It's a pretty short workout, but I only get about 45 minutes to work on it in the morning. Do wwhat we can eh?

Trying to find a convinient swimming pool with decent lap time on the weekend.

[Ogedei]

Diet Note:

Not really keeping track of my diet on here but:

Not watching calories right now. Moved onto an "Adam's Diet" type approach.

I eat as many veggies as I want, also have a lean protein source with every meal. I take a couple servings of nuts in a day and eat a few servings of fruit as well.

Typical days meal sample:

Meal #1: 2egg omlette with X-tra lean ground beef and LF cheese. 1 cup oatmeal with frozen blueberries.
Meal #2: 2egg omlette with 1/2-1 cup frozen mixed veggies. Aprox 1 cup fresh veggies
Meal #3: aprox 100g x-tra lean ground beef and 1 cup frozen mixed veggies. 1 can of flavored tuna
Meal #4: mixed greens, spinach and others, 1tbsp sunflower seeds. 1 serving of Whey protein
Meal #5: 1 cup mixed veggies and aprox 100g x-tra lean ground beef. 1/2 cup frozen mango, 1/2cup frozen pineapple
Meal #6: fresh veggies, peapods beans carrots, 1 serving whey protein.

Usually have a non fat grande latte most days.

[Ogedei]

Wow seems like forever...

Feb. 27, 2006
Swimming.

Not my typical swimming day, but I thought I would talk to the ART guy about lifting since I am seeing him today, if he thinks it's cool I'll use the roomies bowflex dumbells tonight.

250m x1

Practiced flip turns.
Swam 25m, rested, swam 25m to the deep end and ettempted turn. Attempted maybe 10 of these

1 x250m
Lap 1: 1:15
Lap 2: 1:22
Lap 3: 1:25
Lap 4: 1:17
Lap 5: 1:16

Marginally succesful today. Mostly I turned to early but I manage to plant and push off the wall, although I am largely pointed down. This was made painfully aware to me during the attempt at the flip turn in shallow water. FLIP. PLANT. PUSH! YAY! CRACK OH MY HEAD! I catapulted myself into the bottom of the pool. That hurt.

Og.

[Ogedei]

Wow, knocked off the front page in a day, everyone is working hard. Kick ass!

Feb 27, 2006 cont.

Running

3km - 18m 23s

time to beat: 3km - 19m 14s
New time to beat: 3km - 18m 23s

[Ogedei]

Feb 28th 2006.

Check it out, 2 days into the week and already as many workouts as last week.

Swimming.

Warmup

6 x25ms RI:30

Workout

Catch-up drills
4 x50m RI:30

Bilateral breathing
4 x50m RI:30

Swim Golf
4 x25m RI:30 :52, 52, 51, 47

Cool down

4 x25m RI: 30

[Ogedei]

March 1st, 2006

Running:

Treadmill.
WU: 4 minutes
Running: elevation 2/9, 2.64km in 20mins.

So not as fast as outside running, but also has a steady slight incline.

Og.

[Ogedei]

March 2nd, 2006

Swimming, 500m

Warm-up
4 x50m @ avg 1m 18s

Work-out
Total 550m, 15m 59s, 500m in aprox 14m 30s
Last 8 50ms
Lap 4: 1:28
Lap 5: 1:31
Lap 6: 1:30
Lap 7: 1:28
Lap 8: 1:28
Lap 9: 1:34
Lap 10: 1:24
Lap 11: 1:16

Cool down
2 x25ms, back kick, breast stroke.

[Ogedei]

My diet has been ok, but I have had a few set backs around the last couple of days that involved to much food, and in some cases to much crap. Cravings for ice-cream have been far to bad lately and I broke down and ate a fair bit last night. I justified it to my brain by saying it was just my birthday. Because of this I doubt I will be anywhere near 90% good eating this week.

Result, this is only one week, it needs to be identified and marked. Then I need to move on.

I ran out of frozen fruit at home as well and that has not helped. Typically I can crush the junk food desire with frozen mango, which I actually enjoy more than the junk.

I will be starting to log daily food intakes here, for awhile at least.

Og.