9/22/13 - Sunday
Cycle 23, Week 3, Day 4
Bench press
5x120
3x140
4x155 - 2 left
Breakdancing
1990s
Couple of 1-1/2s, starting to improve from whatever reason my performance dropped with these. Lock the spinning arm, bring the legs fast around and up.
Oh yeah, I did this shit.
9/23/13 - Monday
Mill>headspin>mill
In that sweet spot of time between being warmed up and being tired, I was hitting, I’d say, 1 out of 2 attempts at these sets out of a coindrop. To land the coindrop, I have to get my upper back under me quick so I don’t crush down on my shoulder and bruise it. But the biggest thing is to get focused, in the moment, lock everything down. I did better today with consistency than ever, I’d say, especially since I was coming into the sets with a coindrop instead of a freeze or footwork.
Elbow freeze>handstand
Getting better here. While I was fresh with these I was popping head and hands all off the ground and temporarily stalling a handstand.
Chained headspins
Solid here, too. Focused on staying balanced on my head, my whole body aligned so that I am on top of my neck and don’t lose my balance. Was not able to go as fast, but was able to chain 3-5 spins per set. Made sure not to overdo each re-planting of the hands, just enough to re-stabilize quick and keep moving.
9/24/13 - Tuesday
1990s
Got the first 1-3/4 in a while, finally starting to feel stable and good with these again. Got tired of these quickly, only after a little under an hour I was barely getting full turns ;/
Headslides
Keep at it.
Windmills, just basic mills
Keep in place by kicking right leg directly up to the face on each mill, this also keeps me from brusing my shoulder on the ground.
Various style things
Good way to end the session, got better with c-walking to the beat and getting out of my head.
Deload starts tomorrow so
9/25/13 - Wednesday
Cycle 23, Week 4, Day 1
Late updates, busy. Hurt myself on Tuesday, banged my left wrist in the ground showing my friend a handglide of all things, so if anyone’s talking about getting themselves hurt on some dumb mistake fluke shit, that’s right here.
Deadlift
bar
5x110
5x135
5x165
Breakdancing
Couldn’t do moves that put pressure on my left wrist, so no flares as I wanted to do, or even mills.
So I spent the night on this set, toprock>headspin>hollowback. I don’t know what to do to make my hollowbacks deeper.
9/26/13 - Thursday
Cycle 23, Week 4, Day 2
OHP
5x55
5x70
5x85
1990s
Got a new beanie; old one got holes in it when I put it in the dryer so it was harder to practice with my fingers sticking out of it. Had to get used to the new one, it was stiff, got some 1-1/2s today as I got used to it though.
Head hops
Keep at these, but definitely not every day
9/27/13 - Friday
Some bullshit ended up happening, no training today. But I took the opportunity to find my max push-ups, 30 without any sagging or flaring my hands out.
9/28/13 - Saturday
Cycle 23, Week 4, Day 3
Squat
bar
5x100
5x125
5x150
1990s
Practiced at my hometown gym which has a less slippery floor. It’s more forgiving if you don’t nail the move down perfectly, but it’s less rewarding if you really get it right. Got four 1-1/2 spins in a row at one point.
Elbow freeze>handstand
Keep at it
Some style stuff, crip walking, footwork
9/29/13 - Sunday
Cycle 23, Week 4, Day 4
Bench press
bar
5x65
5x80
5x95
Barrel mills
My left wrist still hurts, so instead of going up into a headspin which I need my wrists against the ground for, I just whipped around for barrel mills. Couldn’t do better than one crash landing barrel at a time.
Head stalls
9/30/13 - Monday
Measurements as of Sunday:
Weight: 168.5
Waist: 33"
Chest: 41"
Hips: 37-1/8"
R bicep: 13-1/4"
L bicep: 13-1/2"
R thigh: 24-1/2"
L thigh: 23 7/8"
So it doesn’t look like breakdancing more is making me any smaller, but it definitely isn’t getting me swole mode. Waist and weight are inflated because I had eaten two chicken breasts and a bunch of vegetables almost directly before going to sleep. On the note of eating more, I feel like an idiot because I just realized that I have access to all-you-can-eat protein in the dining hall. Over the weekend I started eating 300g protein/day instead of just 200g. As soon as today (Monday) I felt the difference, not just in my energy during practice but all throughout the day - at one point I was crip walking to class.
1990s
Felt really good. Couple 1-3/4s, felt really stable and focused.
Left elbow freeze
The 1990s left me dead. Couldn’t do anything more complicated; wanted to get some familiarity with my left arm.
10/1/13 - Tuesday
Breakdancing.
Barrel mills
I didn’t practice these and only these all throughout. I would do some, get tired, then do style stuff or freezes to keep from cooling down but also let myself recover from this move. Or I’d tone it back to mill>headspin or just mills, then come back to barrels.
What I learned today is I need to keep my legs apart while bringing the barrel mill around; I tend to bring them together.
Elbow freeze>handstand
Keep at it.
Time to sleep. 
10/2/13 - Wednesday
Cycle 24, Week 1, Day 1
Deadlift
bar
5x185
5x215
14-15x240 - Felt like I could have just kept pushing them out one at a time.
1990s
Best was 1-5/8. Not going to get too uppity since tonight was really late night session; I had to take a physics exam and it started at 8 pm.
Hollowbacks
Back was stiff so I couldn’t bring my legs down as far as usual. But I did learn that I have to squeeze my glutes to push my legs down.
10/3/13 - Thursday
Cycle 24, Week 1, Day 2
Overhead press
bar
5x95
5x110
9x120 - down 5 lbs from previous 9x125, no reps left
Breakdancing
Tried to do barrel mills but I couldn’t get stable on my arm, I just felt dead. I went back to my dorm to sleep, figuring I needed to help my nervous system recover, but I couldn’t sleep either.
So I was just like fuck it and went to the weight room and banged out a lot of pull-ups, pull-downs, dips, and DB OHP, just got a big upper body bro pump. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while, especially because I don’t put enough time into working muscles as well as movements, and honestly it shows.
10/4/13 - Friday
Breakdancing:
Mill>headstand
Upper body still toasted from yesterday, couldn’t do these, let alone barrel mills. So I did…
Headhops
Head freezes
Head slides
Head freezes are starting to feel just a little longer, and I can roll out of them instead of just falling back on my belly like a dumbass. Headslides also feel like they’re going farther too, will need a video though. Headhops are tricky. I want to improve them, but I have better things to use my head for.
10/5/13 - Saturday
Cycle 24, Week 1, Day 3
Squat
bar
5x170
5x195
7x220 - none left. previous: 6x225
Frontflips
Knee felt solid and upper body was fried so today was perfect for these. Landings were better than I remember. More forward shift on the landing, the squat that I’m landing in isn’t so deep, and I got most of my landings like this. Even better, I didn’t hurt myself.
Elbow freeze>handstand
I got an even better one than this, believe it or not after the worker turned off the lights for closing time.
I feel like the load of assistance work I did on Thursday was a good thing. It left my muscles fried for a day, but I swear I was at a sticking point with the elbow freeze>handstand trick, push as I might I could never quite get it until today.
10/6/13 - Sunday
Cycle 24, Week 1, Day 4
Bench press
bar
5x110
5x125
13x140 - Beats previous 12x140. Now we’re getting somewhere.
1990s
It has been obscenely long since I’ve done these. Got a load of 1-1/2s but nothing any better.
Crip walking
Learned a new move in 30 minutes from a youtube video, here’s what I came up with.
So basically here’s a new mindset I’ve come up with that organizes my training priorities:
Pure dumb strength - Nothing matters if I can’t pick up something heavy; applies to more fields of my life than breakdancing would.
Power moves - Backbone of my breakdancing sets, these are the moves like mills, headspins, and 90s that people notice.
Size/Style - Both low priority relative to the others, but still important. Size deserves its own time, one way or another, because I’m not going to fill out a shirt practicing barrel mills. Style is also important; if I don’t have my own style then my breakdancing just becomes a poor man’s gymnastics session.
10/7/13 - Monday
Breakdancing.
Barrel mills
Past a couple of warmup ones, all landings were at least clean singles. Pretty much painless, clean. But I still have to roll higher if I’m going to chain more than one barrel mill on at a time.
Hollowbacks
I stopped worrying about how deep they’re going today, and started worrying about how to put them into a set, tried some new stuff. For the record these are still head hollowbacks.
10/8/13 - Tuesday
Breakdancing.
1990s.
Best was a fair amount of 1-1/2s. Didn’t focus.
Finished the day with some c-walking, practiced going faster with the move I learned yesterday.
Getting rhomboid spasm again in my left shoulder, felt it during practice while I was doing a quick battle with a friend for fun; rolled back up into a forearm headstand, spun, did some other stuff and when I was done I felt that pinching feeling. I remember how bad barrel mills made it feel so I’m not going to do barrels until I get adjusted.
10/9/13 - Wednesday
Cycle 24, Week 2, Day 1
Deadlift
bar
4x135
3x200
3x235 (should’ve been 225, doh)
15x255 - one or two more rest pause reps at most. Beats last week though.
Breakdancing
I would have done barrel mills but I just saw the chiropractor today about my left rhomboid spasm and he just adjusted it today. I remember how shitty it got when I tried to push it; I couldn’t carry my backpack, couldn’t put my pants on, couldn’t get out of bed, it had me pinned down. I can’t risk going through that again, I simply don’t have the time to deal with something as serious.
So frontflips. I went outside and warmed up. I sprinted perfectly, leaning forward and ready to pounce into a flip. The moment of truth came when my feet planted on the ground…
…and slid about a foot on the recently-rained-on grass, making me trip and almost fall on my face. Cool.
SO here’s how tonight really went.
1990s
Awesome. 1-1/2s, one after another. Felt stable and strong. Got one of those rare 1-3/4 spins, and had a couple novelty ones where I might not spin so far but I would stall for a bit at the end of the spin. Even had one that might have been a double, but my arm is not strong enough; it collapsed and I fell on my butt. Got tired quickly and was soon barely getting full turns so it was pretty obvious when to quit, too. Very good, but I need more muscle and strength.
Elbow freeze>handstand
More of them that were exactly how I wanted, hop up into the handstand and hold it. Time to make it special; thinking about doing a 1990 off of the handstand, just plain hopping higher, different things.
Assistance work
Because this is the best time to do it - after I’ve put my energy into the skills that I really care about, and before I do something irrational like trying to practice crip walking or footwork without a beat.
GMs: 20x95 15x105 10-12x115
Didn’t feel the tension in my hamstrings that I remember when I used to do them; probably because I used less weight tonight than I did when I used to do these. But I just want a dumb easy exercise where all I have to do is think about the muscle working, just set the pin and get a pump.
Sitting leg curls: 3x10x90
Sitting leg extension: 5x10x100
Stealing some of my roommate’s milk now, while we’re at it let’s see if the eggs aren’t spoiled.
10/10/13 - Thursday
Cycle 24, Week 2, Day 2
Overhead press
bar
3x100
3x115
8x130
Breakdancing.
Drill headspins
Headspins, but put legs together and punch them up once kicked in motion, to get a lot of rotation really fast. I had one or two that felt really good, like I spun three full turns.
Assistance work
Went between high-rep dips, pull-downs, DB OHP and DB bench until I got a pump. Call it arbitrary but it is no less arbitrary than saying, “OK, I’m doing THIS MUCH sets with THIS MUCH reps with THIS WEIGHT and THAT’S IT.”
10/11/13 - Friday
Breakdancing.
So now my upper body and lower body muscles are dead, I was trying to think what I could do that I could still perform with. I tried the drill headspins from yesterday but I couldn’t perform as well as I did yesterday; couldn’t keep tension.
So I went to sleep from 10:30-7.
My hamstrings are still tight from deadlift day:(