People who train only their mirror muscles are preparing for others to see them following while people who also train their hidden muscles are preparing for others to see them leading.
Assume everyone is standing in a single file line (as any good American would)
If your back is trained them people behind you can see the results.
If your front is trained then only those in front of you would be able to see it, but they don't care because you're a douche that's at the back of the line.
Notes:
--Another semi-repeat, only this time with the prescribed upper-body superset.
--However, the last time I did these two supersets in the same workout, it looks like the split snatch loads increased a little, the push jerk loads decreased a little (I'm still wobbly for the first two sets), bench presses were harder this time despite similar loading, I dropped one rep from the plyo push-ups, and the last set of wall squats nearly had me in tears. Just an odd fluctuation, I suppose. If this weirdness happens next time, then I'll be worried.
--I tweaked something in my left shoulder near the distal end of the clavicle yesterday during waiter's carries, but I'm just treating it as a tweak for now. I've been a little concerned over the push-dominant setup these workouts seem to have (or maybe I've just been doing posterior-dominant work for so long that I'm actually more balanced now). I'll continue monitoring.
--The beef jerky will be gone today. It lasted one day longer than expected.
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Relatively speaking, yes. Today was a hiccup since I was out of the house most of the day, but for the most part, I stick to a cereal of some sort at breakfast (if I don't have an omelet instead), then at most two sandwiches a day. Otherwise, it's carbs from fruits and veggies, so instead of low-carb, I guess I'm going low-grain. However, I'm making sure to not hit keto again. Good grief...
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If a bowl of cereal and two sandwiches is still low-grain for you, relatively speaking, then you must have been following the food pyramid before this!
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Circuit x 10, 0RI
--rope jump x 100
--burpees x 10
--push-ups x 10
--BW squats x 10
Time - 44:45
Notes:
--Major suckage on time, but then, I didn't even time the last iteration of this routine, so now I have a number to beat. I was fairly liberal in my unplanned rest intervals as I just did not feel like reaching the pukage point.
--No core work today since I did a little extra on my Gray Cook routine in warm-ups. I also blew off the planned finisher since it was the same as yesterday's.
--It seems the assholes are infiltrating Saturdays at the gym. I was kicked out of the aerobics studio during my routine because I was "messing up the people behind me," even though I'd offered to move behind those same people when they came into the class LATE and even though the music was so ear-splittingly loud that no one could hear me anyway. I wouldn't've minded leaving had the little 100lb carrot top bitch--er, instructor asked me at any point during the fifteen minutes before the class started that she was in there setting up. Nope, she waited until they were through their "warm-up" to stop the music (and the class) and say something. So, I asked her where else in the gym I was going to work, to which she gave the generic "I know there's not a lot of room out there [in the rest of the gym] but we're here from 10am to 11am on Saturdays..." I'd tuned her out by that point, picked up my stuff, and said on my way out, "Ya know, I wouldn't've minded leaving had you asked me before class or if you were actually teaching something beneficial and worthwhile to these people" (this was a Group Power class). Too bad that my old boxing gym's second location is no longer there, meaning a twenty-minute drive to the original location if I wanted to leave my current gym. In a pinch, I could do all of my workouts at home, but I'm a few pieces of equipment short of being comfortable enough to tell them to go fuck themselves. Soon, though, soon...
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If a bowl of cereal and two sandwiches is still low-grain for you, relatively speaking, then you must have been following the food pyramid before this!
"Cereal" involves oatmeal as well, and even then, "cereal and two sandwiches" is a high-grain day for me now. You're right, though: I was having some really bad days, like half a loaf of bread. Seriously, bread is my daddy.
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I spent an unplanned, unlogged three hours or so at/in a friend's pool yesterday. For one, though I got some good sun, I STILL have a tan line on my legs from the Friday boat outing at the summit (yeah, I got cooked despite the sunscreen). For two, this was my first time shirtless in public since said summit (those pictures remain under lock-and-key), and in comparison to everything else at the pool, I actually felt pretty good about it, but there's still a lot of work to be done. For three, having fun doing nothing is hard work. I slept really well last night, all night, for the first time in a couple months, though "all night" meant only just over six hours. Hey, it's a start, but I have a feeling I'm going to have a tougher time getting to my workout today (maybe I can get a nap at work).
That being said, I've been fidgety and restless as all hell for the past week or so. Insomnia aside, it's been a little difficult to explain, but I do know that I'm not currently reading something, which is usually a good indicator (mass purchase from Amazon is set to arrive later this week). Something also hit me this morning that I'll continue to explore over the next few days, basically a "why am I doing this" in my studies. Am I studying for the CSCS because I hold that certification in high regard (less so lately), because it'll get me doing something I really want to do, or because it'll get me out of a work and living situation I've long since tired of? After reading several recent posts on this and other forums, and after researching other certifications (namely ISSA--which has several supplemental certifications I really like--and NASM), the sense I got from the questioning this morning was that I'm not so much interested in getting letters as I am in just simply opening and running my own small, hole-in-the-wall gym that caters to people like me who hate the typical franchise "fitness center." Opening my own place has always been an option, just one that's been WAAAY back on the stove, maybe even on the backsplash rather than even a back burner. I don't need a certification to own/operate a gym, just a viable business plan and a small-ish loan (or sugar mama). (Of note, I've also wanted to open my own dance club--country/Western, of course--for awhile since the only decent place in town has really tanked over the past year or so, and I really hate giving them the two-dollar cover to get in, let alone the cost of any drinks.)
Part of what triggered this dormant thought was a quick conversation with an ex who lives in Richmond. She mentioned that the old 24-hour gym I used when I lived up there had been turned into an Irish pub (the place had been a restaurant in the first place, and I knew the gym owner had sold the space) and that the place had literally been destroyed after a blow-out party of some sort. There wasn't anything particularly special about the place other than it was the only 24-hour gym I've belonged to, a tiny place accessibly only by a microchipped key given to each member, meaning the "desk" didn't have to be staffed all the time (a closed-circuit camera recorded the entrance for ten seconds every time the door opened). It was just a great setup that I haven't really stopped missing.
This isn't to say I won't get a certification--after all, that'll put some legitimacy behind the ownership--but I'm thinking more and more that the CSCS isn't what I want (anyone want to buy some study materials? ). Though there is more expense, and though I'm already an NSCA member (I can let that expire eventually), I'll likely look toward those other aforemention letters for the sake of letters when it comes to that, but I'm thinking that I'll shift some temporal and mental resources toward the whole "my own place" thing. I'm already technically an independent contractor, so maybe it's time to actually be my own boss.
Of course, I may just need more coffee...
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All the advice that I've gotten was to go to "where ever you want to get hired" and find out the absolute minimum\easiest qualifications, and do that. The letters are primarily ego trip. You even see it with people on the board. *stops before full rant mode hits*
All the advice that I've gotten was to go to "where ever you want to get hired" and find out the absolute minimum\easiest qualifications, and do that. The letters are primarily ego trip. You even see it with people on the board. *stops before full rant mode hits*
That's the thing, though: I don't necessarily want to be hired anywhere or by anyone other than clients. I'd much prefer to be my own boss unless I can get on somewhere similar to some of the places we hear tossed about around here (JP's place, Cressey's, Hartman's, etc). Otherwise, I agree with the letters thing, which is why I've even looked at *shudder* ACE, but it'd be nice to have a more solid base in physiology than I currently possess since the basics don't change, and I kind of need a more structured approach to that content, even if the application is questionable (read: taught for the test).
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The NSCA has the bootcamp things. Read through the material once or twice. Go spend a weekend learning the test. Be done with it. You could also go down to your local CC and take a physiology class or two. Just an option anyway. If you were just interested in learning the material you could "audit" the class for free usually. You'd have to buy the course material but it'd be a real specific way to learn what you're wanting to learn.
I'll have to poke around for the boot camp stuff (didn't see it on a first pass). As for the classes, that thought crosses my mind regularly, but my work schedule doesn't really jibe with that. As it is, the Essentials text has done pretty well with that material; it's just a matter of learning it a little better. I do like the ISSA youth training certification, though. Been looking at that for awhile anyway.
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What about ACSM - either CPT or HFI cert? Pretty highly regarded, should you ever need 'em for anything else...
Maybe you could open a Country Western fitness dance bar & club?
HFI requires a health/science-related degree, which I do not possess. CPT doesn't. In the end, I don't really care where I get my letters as long as I have a set to start with, and if I don't like them, then I can let them expire. Mainly, they would be to lend credibility to any gym I might open (meaning no ACE)
Don't think I haven't daydreamed about a single massive building with a substantial structural/sound wall between the two venues
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Ah, okay. Looks like they have some stuff similar to ISSA. I'll keep pondering on my course of action, which is not to say the CSCS is dead in the water, but it's certainly in a holding pattern. I want to explore the business side of things for a bit.
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Notes:
--Some good and some not-so-good from last time. The 65lb DBs were just right for the C&Ps, which pretty much trashed me for the rest of the workout. I must say that this was THE. BEST. MONDAY. EVER. Why? Because the music system at the gym was broken, which caused everyone to be quiet, not yell or talk or scream or drop weights unnecessarily. Combined with me doing the C&Ps heavily with only the clanking of the weights and the occasional grunt or forced exhalation, it. was. awesome. You can't kill the metal. The metal will live on.
--My step-up balance is still off a tad, but as I continue my imbalance correction work from Gray Cook, one of two things is happening with my right leg: (1) my hamstring strength and proprioception is not as progressed as I've been thinking, or (2) even my wrestling shoes are preventing me from taking full advantage of my foot muscles to balance properly, or both. I say the latter because I can generally adequately perform my single-leg balance work with no problem in bare feet or in my Vibrams, but the former is also likely as I'm sure I have some screwy motor recruitment patterns still in place from the hamstring tear.
--Compared to the last iteration, pull-up reps held steady, and push-up reps dropped; however, based on the last time I performed this upper-body superset at all, pull-ups increased by a rep, and push-ups increased by a rep. This makes sense as I've shaved a couple pounds over the last couple weeks (down to a good 211lbs). I'm hopeful that a combination of passing the shock phase and getting well into the adaptation phase along with a dietary tweak here and there are having a positive effect on my body composition (based on yesterday's pool excursion, I'd say it is, body hair notwithstanding)
--For a few months, I've had some bouts of pain and a lot of inelasticity in the lateral fascia of my left leg. I have to think it's not muscular since it was an issue even when I was diligent in my SMR work. I may post this to the injuries forum, but something is amiss, has been for awhile, and it's getting really annoying to not even be able to put any weight on my leg after sitting with my left ankle crossed over my right knee for more than a few seconds.
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Circuit x 4, 60RI
--burpees x 30sec
--jumping jacks x 30sec
--split jumps x 30sec
--burpees x 30sec
--jumping jacks x 30sec
--BW squats (rounds 1 & 3) OR push-ups (rounds 2 & 4) x 30sec
Core circuit x 3, 60RI
--flags x 3 (negatives)
--Saxon side bends x 5 per side @ 20lbs
--Supermans x 5
Finisher
--rope jump, 6+ x 50+, 30RI
Notes:
--I am nowhere near saying this has become less challenging since last time, but I will say that I was able to function a little better a little longer after blowing through my lactate threshold.
--As I was at the gym, I decided to do a more gym-friendly core circuit than what I'd already written up (supersets of waiters carries and slosh pipe carries). I know I left out a rotational component here, but I'll make up for it down the road, I'm sure.
--I'm not sure where the rope jumping came from. The girl still had a part of her core circuit and all of her interval training left to do, so I just started doing something that wasn't a max-out, just close. On top of that, I decided to mess around and see if I still had some of my boxing footwork in me, which I oddly did, and much more so than I figured I would. This means rope jumping will likely become more frequent now that I know I can do more stuff than just double-leg hops. I just need to do more technique work.
--I (properly) spotted a guy today doing incline bench presses. I sure hope he didn't mind that I dripped a drop of sweat on his forehead, but then, he did notice my condition at the end of my workout and asked anyway. Maybe he'll just never wash that spot again.
--I started a thread in the injury forum about my left leg. I don't know where it'll go, if anywhere, but at least it's out there. Hey, if this means I need to hit up Hartman in Indy on an e-saver flight, then so be it Thanks to Lisa Squiggle for the email discourse today. It's a bear trying to diagnose issues through words only, but at this point, I'm open to any and all--well, knowing this crowd, ALMOST all suggestions.
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1. I just made, off the top of my head, THE best tunaloaf ever. Too bad it'll never happen again as I didn't write anything down, though there's currently a double-sized recipe in the oven right now. Hopefully it'll come close to the first batch.
2. I don't know what to read first out of the four books I have coming from Amazon this week: The Book of Five Rings, The Omnivore's Dilemma, Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, or Ender's Game. I have a feeling Five Rings will lead to a re-reading of Tao Te Ching and a first reading of The Art of War (been sitting on my bookcase for-eh-ver). I have a feeling Ender's Game will lead to buying and reading the rest of that series. I'm thinking these two books might go last. HALP!
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--I started a thread in the injury forum about my left leg. I don't know where it'll go, if anywhere, but at least it's out there. Hey, if this means I need to hit up Hartman in Indy on an e-saver flight, then so be it Thanks to Lisa Squiggle for the email discourse today. It's a bear trying to diagnose issues through words only, but at this point, I'm open to any and all--well, knowing this crowd, ALMOST all suggestions.
HA! Who knows what advice you might get!
I enjoyed the conversation. I don't think we solved any of the world's problems (or any of yours either, ) but it was fun to speculate. I hope you go see Bill. His expertise is needed!
Thanks to Lisa Squiggle for the email discourse today. It's a bear trying to diagnose issues through words only, but at this point, I'm open to any and all--well, knowing this crowd, ALMOST all suggestions.
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