Wednesday, Thursday
Wed - good plyo workout, feeling a little weaker overall from weights I think. The Irony never ceases to escape me.
Thurs - Squats, Deadlift, etc. Did some more sets at 205lbs in squat, but only up to 165 with deadlift. My lower back was hurting pretty good. Not hurting too much, but definitely saying hello. I feel like I'm doing the exercises correctly, so maybe I strained it last week when I was doing the GoodMornings as well?
Friday will be an off day (trying to take days off after the weigthtlifting day), then on into the weekend.
Should shoot a video this weekend.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Day 73
Tuesday
I'm starting to think my days off should be the days after lifting. Sounds logical, eh? I jogged today, and thought about doing all the plyo, but my knees were saying no. Nothing of a crisis, but just causing me to think, "why push it". I'm sure I'll be fine Wednesday.
Thanks to good feedback, I will continue to hone my workout exercises and schedule. For now, I'm staying with the current regiment where I do squats, good mornings, and deadlifts on the same day. That will probably change starting next week.
I weighed 200lbs this morning. I ate a lot on Memorial Day, so I hope it's an aberration. But my body likes to make muscle, and my body likes to eat.
I'm starting to think my days off should be the days after lifting. Sounds logical, eh? I jogged today, and thought about doing all the plyo, but my knees were saying no. Nothing of a crisis, but just causing me to think, "why push it". I'm sure I'll be fine Wednesday.
Thanks to good feedback, I will continue to hone my workout exercises and schedule. For now, I'm staying with the current regiment where I do squats, good mornings, and deadlifts on the same day. That will probably change starting next week.
I weighed 200lbs this morning. I ate a lot on Memorial Day, so I hope it's an aberration. But my body likes to make muscle, and my body likes to eat.
Monday, May 28, 2007
Day 70-72
Saturday, Sunday, Monday
Saturday - dog hike, then a light jog and plyo and situps
Sunday - dog hike (rest day)
Monday - lifted weights. Felt weaker, but still lifted the same if not more. I got up to 5 reps @ 205 with squat, and got up to 5 reps @ 165 with deadlift, i think...i need to write this stuff down as I do it so I can chart my progress...I didn't do good mornings (bend over more than squat) because my lower back was pretty sore and I don't want to push it.
As for diet, cityofsteel wanted to know what i'm eating. I must confess, my diet could be better, in that, i'm not doing one set official thing. In fact, I've only lost 10 pounds in 2 months. I'm at 194, and I weighed around 180 in high school. I CAN say that I haven't had fast food since my quest began, and i'm eating more salads. I hate salads. But when I eat them, I feel better. But today (Memorial Day), I had 2 burgers and a hotdog. In sum: NO FAST FOOD, MORE SALADS.
Oh - since I've been lifting, my appetite increased. I'm thinking of doing the protein shakes for the first time. Stay tuned.
No video this week. Next week looks good for that. :-)
Saturday - dog hike, then a light jog and plyo and situps
Sunday - dog hike (rest day)
Monday - lifted weights. Felt weaker, but still lifted the same if not more. I got up to 5 reps @ 205 with squat, and got up to 5 reps @ 165 with deadlift, i think...i need to write this stuff down as I do it so I can chart my progress...I didn't do good mornings (bend over more than squat) because my lower back was pretty sore and I don't want to push it.
As for diet, cityofsteel wanted to know what i'm eating. I must confess, my diet could be better, in that, i'm not doing one set official thing. In fact, I've only lost 10 pounds in 2 months. I'm at 194, and I weighed around 180 in high school. I CAN say that I haven't had fast food since my quest began, and i'm eating more salads. I hate salads. But when I eat them, I feel better. But today (Memorial Day), I had 2 burgers and a hotdog. In sum: NO FAST FOOD, MORE SALADS.
Oh - since I've been lifting, my appetite increased. I'm thinking of doing the protein shakes for the first time. Stay tuned.
No video this week. Next week looks good for that. :-)
Friday, May 25, 2007
Day 69
Friday
Back in the weight room today. My body needed less weight, which I expected. I stopped at 185 on the squats, but did 135 again on the deadlift. I was definitely feeling it in my glutes.
On the good mornings, i felt it in the right parts again. I feel that my form is good, which I expect since I lifted weights for 6 years back in my virile days.
Thanks to folks for their input. John commented in the last post that I shouldn't do deadlift and squats on the same day...which makes sense overall, but if I only plan to lift 2x a week, how would that work? Seems I'd have to do 4x a week if I want to split things up.....John also commented on my jump style, which is cool. If only John left his email... :-)
Tomorrow is plyo day. I think I'll have more energy.
Back in the weight room today. My body needed less weight, which I expected. I stopped at 185 on the squats, but did 135 again on the deadlift. I was definitely feeling it in my glutes.
On the good mornings, i felt it in the right parts again. I feel that my form is good, which I expect since I lifted weights for 6 years back in my virile days.
Thanks to folks for their input. John commented in the last post that I shouldn't do deadlift and squats on the same day...which makes sense overall, but if I only plan to lift 2x a week, how would that work? Seems I'd have to do 4x a week if I want to split things up.....John also commented on my jump style, which is cool. If only John left his email... :-)
Tomorrow is plyo day. I think I'll have more energy.
Thursday, May 24, 2007
Day 67-68
Wednesday, Thursday
Wednesday I simply missed my workout. I overslept a little, had to take the dogs to the groomers - boom - no workout. However, I did yoga with my wife for 30 minutes at night. It was the third time I've done yoga, and it felt like a good thing to do, since I was feeling sore from Tuesday's weightlifting. I was mostly sore in my shoulders and trapezius, from the cable pull workouts. My legs/butt were surprisingly unsore, but I'm in good shape down there.
Thursday, i did the jog, plyo, and abs. But I had no energy. I had to cut short some of the plyo because I just didn't have the gas in the tank. I want to think this is good in that Tuesday's weightlifting really got me.
Tomorrow, Friday, I'm back in the weightroom. As measly the amount I already lifted, it will probably be less tomorrow.
Wednesday I simply missed my workout. I overslept a little, had to take the dogs to the groomers - boom - no workout. However, I did yoga with my wife for 30 minutes at night. It was the third time I've done yoga, and it felt like a good thing to do, since I was feeling sore from Tuesday's weightlifting. I was mostly sore in my shoulders and trapezius, from the cable pull workouts. My legs/butt were surprisingly unsore, but I'm in good shape down there.
Thursday, i did the jog, plyo, and abs. But I had no energy. I had to cut short some of the plyo because I just didn't have the gas in the tank. I want to think this is good in that Tuesday's weightlifting really got me.
Tomorrow, Friday, I'm back in the weightroom. As measly the amount I already lifted, it will probably be less tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Day 66
Tuesday
First, what you really care about, the latest video:
Music by JUSTICE
Also, you can see the previous weekly recaps here:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
So, today I went to the weight room for the first time in 6 years. I did squats for the first time in 14 years.
I decided to do the 10-15 minute jog to LA Fitness, up on Hollywood Boulevard. It is something that a healthy human just shouldn't do. Hollywood Blvd in the morning is like crawling on your dorm room floor after an all-night party with incoming freshman. Only it's stale, old, and dirty. For a moment, I felt like dropping my quest and instead writing an ethnography on the culture of bums and strung out partyers who inhabit this area. Including the students of Hollywood High, 2 blocks away. Their mascot is the Sheik. Sheik! There's a fun post-9/11 mascot for ya.
I didn't want to kill myself on any of the free weights, and rip my body up. I started with squats. I began with just the bar (45lbs), and then worked up. I got to 1 set of 5 @ 195, which is my bodyweight. My ego wanted to do 2 full plates on each side (225lbs), but I held back sans injury. --- To be in proper leaping conditioning, I'm supposed to be able to squat 2x my bodyweight, or 400lbs!!! That's crazy, but I'm sticking with my quest nonetheless.
Next, I did deadlift, working up to only sets at 5 reps of 135lbs. I really didn't want to mess up my back, so that was that.
Then I did "goodmornings", which are like squats, but you almost bend your back parallel to the floor. It works your lower back more than your legs. Here, I got up to about 135lbs.
Then it was on to various exercises I got from API, with the contraption where you pull a cable from the side. I finished with chinups, of which i could do only 3.
Eventually I'll get visual reference to explain all these exercises. The whole workout took a bout 1.5 hours. I think I can do this, about 2x a week. The other days with be plyometrics and conditioning. API would have me 4 days in the gym, but I don't think I can do that. We'll see. I'm in the gym, finally, so it's a victory!
First, what you really care about, the latest video:
Music by JUSTICE
Also, you can see the previous weekly recaps here:
Week 1
Week 2
Week 3
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
So, today I went to the weight room for the first time in 6 years. I did squats for the first time in 14 years.
I decided to do the 10-15 minute jog to LA Fitness, up on Hollywood Boulevard. It is something that a healthy human just shouldn't do. Hollywood Blvd in the morning is like crawling on your dorm room floor after an all-night party with incoming freshman. Only it's stale, old, and dirty. For a moment, I felt like dropping my quest and instead writing an ethnography on the culture of bums and strung out partyers who inhabit this area. Including the students of Hollywood High, 2 blocks away. Their mascot is the Sheik. Sheik! There's a fun post-9/11 mascot for ya.
I didn't want to kill myself on any of the free weights, and rip my body up. I started with squats. I began with just the bar (45lbs), and then worked up. I got to 1 set of 5 @ 195, which is my bodyweight. My ego wanted to do 2 full plates on each side (225lbs), but I held back sans injury. --- To be in proper leaping conditioning, I'm supposed to be able to squat 2x my bodyweight, or 400lbs!!! That's crazy, but I'm sticking with my quest nonetheless.
Next, I did deadlift, working up to only sets at 5 reps of 135lbs. I really didn't want to mess up my back, so that was that.
Then I did "goodmornings", which are like squats, but you almost bend your back parallel to the floor. It works your lower back more than your legs. Here, I got up to about 135lbs.
Then it was on to various exercises I got from API, with the contraption where you pull a cable from the side. I finished with chinups, of which i could do only 3.
Eventually I'll get visual reference to explain all these exercises. The whole workout took a bout 1.5 hours. I think I can do this, about 2x a week. The other days with be plyometrics and conditioning. API would have me 4 days in the gym, but I don't think I can do that. We'll see. I'm in the gym, finally, so it's a victory!
Day 64, 65
Sunday, Monday
Good workout Sunday, the video will do the talking. But overall, I felt that I could have worked out harder, although we weren't sure what more to have done...
Monday I took the day off.
Tuesday I'm actually going into the gym!
Good workout Sunday, the video will do the talking. But overall, I felt that I could have worked out harder, although we weren't sure what more to have done...
Monday I took the day off.
Tuesday I'm actually going into the gym!
Saturday, May 19, 2007
Day 59-63
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday
Sorry for the lack of posts (don't worry, I've still been working out). It's a combo of being discouraged and embarrassed. Discouraged is understandable, but I'm embarrassed because of some of the response I'm getting. Lemme explain.
A few weeks ago, I started to get an occasional email telling me I'm doing the wrong workouts, and jumping poorly . I kinda had an idea on both points, but the emails confirmed it. It didn't help that the emails were from kids in high school, or half my age. Not to mention that I jumped highest in highschool, and now I weigh 20 more pounds, and have less flexibilty.
Then the unthinkable happened. Last week my music video for Kennedy "Your Mama" (best version at my website greentowel) was posted on the mainpage of youtube. You see, it was mothers day and Kennedy just signed with Cordless Records, a division of Warner Music. In less than a week, I got a million hits, and also a second chance to make it in videos. Anyway, because of the exposure, I started to get a few more emails about my dunk quest.
Many emailers were part of the user group at terminal vertical. In summary, it's been made clear that I need to hit the weights, and change my workouts more for strength, as I've been doing endurance training. I think it's a blessing that I've done endurance training though, because I got back into shape without injury.
Also, a lot of people recommend the Vertical Jump Bible. So I may as well get that too.
I gotta run, but I hope to show a lot better exercises from tomorrow's video, and I hope to get more great suggestions!
Sorry for the lack of posts (don't worry, I've still been working out). It's a combo of being discouraged and embarrassed. Discouraged is understandable, but I'm embarrassed because of some of the response I'm getting. Lemme explain.
A few weeks ago, I started to get an occasional email telling me I'm doing the wrong workouts, and jumping poorly . I kinda had an idea on both points, but the emails confirmed it. It didn't help that the emails were from kids in high school, or half my age. Not to mention that I jumped highest in highschool, and now I weigh 20 more pounds, and have less flexibilty.
Then the unthinkable happened. Last week my music video for Kennedy "Your Mama" (best version at my website greentowel) was posted on the mainpage of youtube. You see, it was mothers day and Kennedy just signed with Cordless Records, a division of Warner Music. In less than a week, I got a million hits, and also a second chance to make it in videos. Anyway, because of the exposure, I started to get a few more emails about my dunk quest.
Many emailers were part of the user group at terminal vertical. In summary, it's been made clear that I need to hit the weights, and change my workouts more for strength, as I've been doing endurance training. I think it's a blessing that I've done endurance training though, because I got back into shape without injury.
Also, a lot of people recommend the Vertical Jump Bible. So I may as well get that too.
I gotta run, but I hope to show a lot better exercises from tomorrow's video, and I hope to get more great suggestions!
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Day 58
Monday
Started more jump training, just a little.
Walked out to see I had a huge flat tire, so there goes Tuesday's workout, as I'll be at Sears Automotive.
Got some good comments from people via youtube. All these kids out there who are well on the way to dunking. They're gonna give some advice about dunk training. Will communicate this to the masses once they do to me.
It's time to turn up the explosive training. Are you ready, knees?
Started more jump training, just a little.
Walked out to see I had a huge flat tire, so there goes Tuesday's workout, as I'll be at Sears Automotive.
Got some good comments from people via youtube. All these kids out there who are well on the way to dunking. They're gonna give some advice about dunk training. Will communicate this to the masses once they do to me.
It's time to turn up the explosive training. Are you ready, knees?
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Day 53-57
Wed-Sun
Sorry for lack of posts....Be assured, I have been working out hard.
However, this weekend I didn't work out, as we took the dogs up to a cabin in Big Bear. I did hike 25 miles on Saturday, and 8 miles today.
Tomorrow, I am adding 1 and 2 step (as in stair step) jump drills.
There will be no video again this week, but definitely we'll have one next week, for the 2 month benchmark!
Sorry for lack of posts....Be assured, I have been working out hard.
However, this weekend I didn't work out, as we took the dogs up to a cabin in Big Bear. I did hike 25 miles on Saturday, and 8 miles today.
Tomorrow, I am adding 1 and 2 step (as in stair step) jump drills.
There will be no video again this week, but definitely we'll have one next week, for the 2 month benchmark!
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Day 52
Tuesday
Worked until 5am, slept a few hours, went back to work. So nothing today. Start afresh tomorrow.
Worked until 5am, slept a few hours, went back to work. So nothing today. Start afresh tomorrow.
Monday, May 7, 2007
Day 51
Monday
Only an hour workout today because I overslept. I overslept because I was up late working.
Tonight I'll be up even later, on a music video pitch. So I already know there won't be a workout tomorrow. This whole week might be tough, but this was bound to happen. I'll workout as much as I can, and the quest remains strong.
Only an hour workout today because I overslept. I overslept because I was up late working.
Tonight I'll be up even later, on a music video pitch. So I already know there won't be a workout tomorrow. This whole week might be tough, but this was bound to happen. I'll workout as much as I can, and the quest remains strong.
Sunday, May 6, 2007
Day 48-50
Friday, Saturday, Sunday
I looked in mirror, and can see visible change in my physique. Yet I continue not to lose weight or gain in vertical.
Nonetheless, I continue to workout hard. Today, on my "day off", I did a really steep hike in Runyon Canyon. Mickey was working today, so no benchmark day. Maybe Tuesday morning, or we may just wait till next week.
The fight goes on.
I looked in mirror, and can see visible change in my physique. Yet I continue not to lose weight or gain in vertical.
Nonetheless, I continue to workout hard. Today, on my "day off", I did a really steep hike in Runyon Canyon. Mickey was working today, so no benchmark day. Maybe Tuesday morning, or we may just wait till next week.
The fight goes on.
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Day 46-47
Wednesday, Thursday
Same ol. Get up. Exercise....
Though today, the security alarm people didn't show, so I was too pissed to concentrate. Then my dog Zoe attacked a cat under a car, literraly pulling it out with it in her mouth - the cat taking swipes all the way. And Zeke was at it too. In the end, Zoe was bleeding above her eye and had blood in her mouth, but the cat got away (luckily). So I couldn't concentrate further.
Feel like I need to work out harder, and at a gym. Not to mention, my working life feels like it's about to get more crazy, for a long time. I had these 2 months to fulfill my quest, and the window is closing. I hope to keep working out as much as possible for the months to come....
Even the 6-pack abs program is 4 months, not 2.
Same ol. Get up. Exercise....
Though today, the security alarm people didn't show, so I was too pissed to concentrate. Then my dog Zoe attacked a cat under a car, literraly pulling it out with it in her mouth - the cat taking swipes all the way. And Zeke was at it too. In the end, Zoe was bleeding above her eye and had blood in her mouth, but the cat got away (luckily). So I couldn't concentrate further.
Feel like I need to work out harder, and at a gym. Not to mention, my working life feels like it's about to get more crazy, for a long time. I had these 2 months to fulfill my quest, and the window is closing. I hope to keep working out as much as possible for the months to come....
Even the 6-pack abs program is 4 months, not 2.
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