New Coach

Todd,
I am sorry for my absence and I am thrilled with your selection of facial hair. You may be wondering about my picture, well let me explain. That is cupid, I met him on Fremont Street and he promised to make me a games worthy athlete if only I would follow his every command. Let's just say we haven't done any real training yet, but I feel like what he is teaching me could work.

In an effort to catch up let me recap my week. I was drunk, for all of it, but I behaved. Two of the guys got into a fight but I did not participate because they were being retards and I told them I was to old and went to a bar. I did however break the fight up when a homeless man ran inside yelling for someone to call the cops. So I feel like I still saved the day. Other than that we went to the lake, rode a zip line and spent some time at the pool. Did I mention we drank, from sun up till sun down. All in all it was good week and it is good to spend some time around the military mentality, but I am also glad it comes in small doses now.

So if you haven't figured it out yet, I ate like shit and did not train at all. On a positive note the shoulder still has some pain, but not nearly as much as before. Hopefully if I continue with the art and at home treatment and voodoo floss it will hold up. I will test it with some cleans tomorrow and we will see.

Sunday was my first day back in the gym and I did a tabata workout with bag strikes, sit-ups, flutter kicks and double unders. Easy work, but my sweat smelled like whiskey, ohhh and I was pretty thirsty too.

Today I managed to top off a ten page paper I wrote in 7 hours or so with no prior research and then I did some dead lifts, 3x3. @255,290,330. Relatively light weight, but I am really focused on lifting with a tight back and engaging my hamstrings, I have been working on hamstring flexibility and used to round my back a lot to DL, never again. Even with good form the lift was easy for triples.

I then went into an interesting AMRAP that I underestimated. 10 minutes, with 12 push ups each minute and double unders the remainder of the minute. As you know my double unders are sexy and I had no problems there, but let me tell you, minute 7, those push ups hit me right in the nuts. I however kept awesome form and fought through with sets of 3 or 4. Really fun little workout though I suggest you try it.

On a side note, I have promised myself after vacation not to be a fat ass anymore and to really focus on time management. I have tendency to get lazy and drink a lot, then binge eat like Rosie O'Donnell. So in an effort to renew my diet I subscribed to paleoplan.com and will do my first weeks worth of shopping on Wednesday, eat like shit on the 4th and then take the time to cook meals and be an athlete.

I hope this blog is sufficient to show that I am back. I am going to go outside and shoot children for lighting fireworks now because it is scaring my Millie. Cause you know "I buss my guns for the ones I love." - Smooches