The "get healthy, lift hard, play harder" diet

[galya]

Immencely. It's amazing how simple it is. You free emotions and let them go.Then they are no longer in the way. It works great with pain, too. You can do it to other people. It's very cool.

[galya]

Originally Posted by ljk

I've been told that my toe hurts due to a bone that is shorter than it should be, which causes the joint to jam and then of course results in pain. How could EFT help THAT?

Pain has two places that it goes to in the brain. In laymans' terms: One is the sensory spot (in the bak of your brain), the other is the emotional spot (frontal). Both places account for the feeling of pain. EFT can help with the frontal thus making pain less. You know intellectually that pain is and should be there because you have that condition. This itself makes it stronger. EFT can help with that. Just start and work. Your sentences can be like that:
"Even though my
a) toe hurts
b) I have pain in my toe because a bone is shorter than it should be
c) I believe I have pain because of a shorter bone
....and finish the sentence. Try wording the problem from different angles.

[ljk]

Interesting and I will be sure to read up on it.

[Milko Georgiev]

Originally Posted by ljk

I know how to do the descent part (keeping body straight, lowering down) but what is the upward motion meant to be like?

You can go upward but it gives more stress to your back.
For more intensity I prefer to go down holding a dumbbell between my feet.

[Milko Georgiev]

Originally Posted by Alcoholiday

dragon flags:

Bad form

[Alcoholiday]

Originally Posted by ljk

The guy on the ball looks like he is bending on the way up, no?
Is the goal to be rigid eventually?

Galya - I downloaded the EFT but will look at it later. has it helped you?

he's not on a ball, it's a bench. it's just the reflection from light

[ljk]

Originally Posted by Milko Georgiev

You can go upward but it gives more stress to your back.
For more intensity I prefer to go down holding a dumbbell between my feet.

It's intense enough without a db for me thanks!

[ljk]

Originally Posted by galya

It's static like this:


I can get from a straight up lever to down there and then fall down flat like a dead sausage. I can never hold it there. Yet.

THat's impressive. I tried it today and did the dead sausage thing too!

[galya]

I can imagine

Reminder : do not take ZMA prior to writing log, your fingers miss keys.

I had to skip weight training today, something unexpected took up my afternoon.
I did 50 minutes of jumping, kind of plyo style, something called 90x plyometrics workout. I must admit it looked like bogus at first http://www.beachbody.com/jump.jsp?it...RY&path=1,2,21
but jumping for 50 minutes was pretty challenging. My legs were smoked at the end. Better than I expected especially the jump squats and lunges (must have done over 200 of each).
Did some crunches and was done.

Food:
1. yogy/raspberries
2. beef/cauliflower
3. drink of yogurt/goat cheese
4. drinkable yogurt/egg/leeks/tomato

I am almost asleep at the PC. That stuff works.

[galya]

My inner thighs, glutes and lower back are soooreee. Nice feeling.

[ljk]

Did you order the P90X videos?
You did thta jumping thing using a dvd?

[galya]

А friend of mine gave the videos to me as a gift. He does that for me sometimes, very nice guy.
I did the plyo workout, yes.

[ljk]

Nice friend! Did you get the whole set? how are they in general?

[galya]

They are generally better than most videos I see. Nothing extraordinary, tho, just a mix of stuff I've done at a different pace. I like the plyo and kickbox ones, they are challenging and make me feel like I was out sprinting, which is what I want. Just a tool for when I can't be out or in the studio. My home and the CDs is all I need. I also watch a lot of videos because I like to watch instructors at work. I never got dumber from watching other trainers train people. My friend is an exercise video fanatic.

[galya]

It's past 7 p.m. on Saturday and our last client just left the studio. Just got done with my workout.

chin ups
10xBW (with some regrip brakes)
10xBW (with some regrip brakes)
10xBW (with some regrip brakes)-last set was agony

Military press
3x30kg PR
4x30kg PR
4x30kg PR

A PR..Kicked ass!

Cable pullthroughs
8x44kg
8x44kg
8x44kg

went up on weight here, too

SLDL with 32KB
6x32kg
6x32kg
6x32kg

cable dip
5x37kg
5x37kg
5x37kg

those are not getting easier and my triceps were fried

cable overhead crunch

15x20kg
15x20kg
15x20kg

hanging leg raises
10xBW
10xBW
10xBW

bunch of pikes, saxon bends and swiss ball crunches, floor crunches, scissors, you name them I did them, many sets of however much, felt good

stretched like a maniac, my hip flexors were tight

Oh, I taught a bodyweight complexes workout and joined the client for jumps and stuff...nasty nasty. My legs needed the stretch.

Food has been nice
1. coffee, milk and casein shake, raspberries
2. eggs/leeks/feta
3. same
4. tomato/yogurt
5. hypoglycemic: whey and some gatorade-like powder

Off home and to the movies I hope

[galya]

Traps are sore tonight.
Had a cheat meal, some cold cuts, cheese, creme brulee, 3 pieces of chocolate, ball of ice-cream and small serving of popcorn.
Watched Chaos, not a bad flick, Jason Statham was great as usual. He's put on some weight but is still one of the hottest guys out there.

[ljk]

Quite the cheat meal!