Hallelujah! Wake up this morning and step on the scale and I’m 160.6 lbs!
But then I went to give blood and I got rejected because I went to Vietnam within the last year.
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I’ve been wanting to add a page for my fitness log for a long time. I have had a fitness log for years but I wanted to get it online to keep for record and progress purposes. It mainly lists out what I did on any given day but there are some charts there too. I like the charts because it’s easy to see my progress on any given routine that I may be doing for the month. However, it is a pain in the ass to get tables to look right on wordpress.
I eventually just got a tables plug-in (WP-Table) for wordpress done by Alex Rabe. It’s really simple to use but it also limits a few things I could do with tables manually by myself. Oh well, it saved me a whole mess of time.
And yet it still took me a few hours to set the whole thing up. Which means I need to get something to eat ‘cuz I haven’t eaten since about 10:30a. Now… what will I eat. Actually, I guess the real question is: what is there to eat? hmmmm.
Just fresh from the gym and out the shower and I must say it feels damn good to go to the gym again. Even if my out of shape butt can’t do much it still feels good to exercise again. Gettin some good blood flow is always a good thing. I’ve been needing to get to the gym too. Not just because I’m out of shape but because of all the stress that’s been going on lately. Then there’s my sleeping problem too. The gym should help me gain some energy, relieve some stress, and burn some energy so that I can actually go to sleep at night.
I haven’t really exercised much since just before I went to Vietnam in June. That’s plenty long enough. Also, looking back at my logs that was the 3rd time I was unable to complete my 16 week workout routine. Well, it’ll actually be 12 weeks due to my start point. In either case I gotta get back at it and there’s no point in delaying it any longer. Can’t let life continue to distract me from my little goals in life. Though, I don’t know how I’m suppose to eat all the calories I need to gain the weight I want. We’ll have to see how it goes. Though, at the very least I should get stronger.
This time around is also going to be a little different too. Not only do I have a phsycial fitness goal but I want to test something too. This makes getting back to the gym so much more important. It’s not just my own goal but it’s a little experiment for the benefit of mankind! Alright, maybe it’s not that big a deal, but I will answer some of my own questions from it all. As long as I do that it will all be well worth it.
I’m about almost halfway through April and I can basically see the light at the end of the tunnel. School as I know it will no longer be a hindrance for any goals any longer. However, that doesn’t mean I will stop learning. On the contrary, one of my main goals in life is to continually be an active student in the school of life.
Now on to my jump training. Its been tough, to keep playing bball and doing jump training at the same time. All the research I’ve done has stated repeatedly that its not wise to do jump training while playing basektball, but I think they meant an actual season of basketball. And not my one time a week kind of scenario. So what’s been weighing me down? Well, simply, its weights!
I got a weighted vest about 1 month ago and this last Thursday was my first day actually using them in my jump training. The vest can weigh up to 20lbs, but I chose to start off with only 6 lbs. I basically did my regular routine for jump training, but added the vest with some of the exercises for extra excitement.
5 sets of explosive squats at 145 lbs with 10-12 reps
3 sets of sparq lunges with a 10 lbs weight, at 10 reps each set
3 sets of box jumps with 6 lbs vest, at 10 reps each
3 sets of depth jumps with 6 lbs vest at 10 reps each
3 sets of box jumps w/o vest, at 15 reps each
3 sets of depth jumps w/o vest, 8 reps ( I was pretty much dying at this point)
And well today is Saturday, and my legs feel like jello. I consider that success. My next way of improving my jump training is to be able to do this twice a week. Lets see if this will happen next week. Thanks for listening.
I think my last post for jump training was over 2 weeks ago. But don’t let that fool you into thinking I’ve let my training go for 2 weeks. On the contrary, the training has only become more frequent and intense. It is just too boring and long to write out exactly what I do on a weekly basis for my jump training. Here is a summary:
1) Been going to the gym twice a week for my jump training.
2) One day is quick feet day and sprinting.
3) The other day has to do with more jumping and squatting.
To know the difficulty and intensity of my work out you would only have to go as far as to ask my work out partner (John Wu). Last week during one of the box jump exercises I pushed him so hard that on his last jump he had no energy left and basically jumped his shins into the metal box. But being the warrior he was, I just put a band-aid on his bloody leg and we continued the workout like it was nothing.
Yesterday, my workout was really intense. I played bball for 2 hours. Then went to the gym to work out and then finished up with rock climbing. I took the day off today because my body was really really tired and it needed the rest. Too bad it won’t be a long rest with this Thursday coming up. I’m heading up north to Davis to visit my boy Mako where I’m sure we are gonna be balling and working out all weekend. And finally, this weekend I will measure my hops to see if I’ve gained any ground on the two inches i have left before touching the rim. It is definitely an exciting time for me right now.
