12/10/13 - Tuesday
Breakdancing.
Halos
Definitely no better than yesterday.
Left forearm hops
Got some sets of triple hops, but the third hop was always a little iffy. Beats yesterday nonetheless.
Rollback stall+thread
Got it multiple times. Roll back, legs shoot up and to the left. Head tucks next to left forearm. Left leg comes down belly side, right leg hangs over backside, grab left foot with right hand and pull through.
12/11/13 - Wednesday
Cycle 26, Week 3, Day 1
Deadlift
bar
3x135
3x185
5x225
5x255
20x285 - Has to be a PR. What’s even stranger is although I did not feel another one left in the tank, the final rep was still done with straight back, right up the shins, just a little hitching to make it work.
1990s
Whatever injury kept me from facing down at my hand while doing these is gone and I am damn happy. Tucking the head is just not for me. Tucking my head I was hitting full turns at best, falling all over at worst. When I look down at my hand, I’m in control and more stable. It throws off my center of gravity because it forces my back to arch, but if I can lift what I can then I definitely have enough dumb strength to make up. Got several 1-1/2 spins today, and even landed a 1-5/8 on my knee. My goal for the battle is hit a 1-3/4 spin and stall it in a handstand so I can do something else.
Left arm handstand
Performance tanked fast with these. Not much to say, it’s not even an actual move. I just wanted something for my left arm.
Squats
bar
3x135
10x165
10x175
10x185
10x175
10x155
Pull-ups
8 6 4 - dead by now.
12/12/13 - Thursday
Cycle 26, Week 3, Day 2
Overhead press
bar
4x95
5x115
3x130
10x145 - Was wanting 11 to concretely beat last week’s 11x140. But I still have two reps and five pounds up over last cycle’s 8x140, so that’s definite progress.
Breakdancing.
1990s
Really, here’s the truth. Was doing pretty shitty, mostly 1-1/4 spins at best. Then some girls came in and started doing p90x. No shit, once they started playing “Timber” I got lit up and hit a 1-3/4 spin and a bunch more 1-1/2s afterwards.
Also practiced going into other things from it. I can stomp down my left arm and land in a forearm freeze on my right forearm pretty easily. I’m thinking if I want to incorporate my left forearm hops this is where I’ll have to do it.
Left forearm hops
Got a few triples. Felt less stable than on Monday and Tuesday, had to focus to lock it down. Left shoulder/trap is sore but I looked in the mirror today and it’s finally coming up to match up my right side, doesn’t look freaky retarded anymore.
Rollback head stall, no hands/arms
I find myself accidentally cheating with my elbow. Trick is to launch legs up hard because that’s the only way I can get moving up. Will put a video when I get it how I want.
Swipes>mills>swipes transition
First day actually working on this. Not hard but it gets me winded.
Bench press
10x115
4x10x135
Pull-ups
12 6 7
Last set had one more because I said to the girl putting the weights back this one’s for you right before doing it.
Overall today went well, which is really surprising given that I didn’t get to eat shit today; the dining hall was… that’s another discussion, damn.
12/13/13 - Friday
Breakdancing.
Mill>headspin
Wasted too much energy and time with these. Came in at 7:00 and it was 8:30 by the time I moved on with the session. Couldn’t do any sets worth a fucking shit and it drained me from performing well for the rest of the night, along with setting me up in a shitty mood.
Halos
Pretty much Tuesday’s performance.
Left arm handstand
Nothing new.
1990s
New set: 1990>pause in a handstand>right arm forearm freeze>headspin. Pretty easy, definitely will practice it more.
Swipes>mills>swipes
Keep at it, needs to be smoother.
12/14/13 - Saturday
Cycle 26, Week 3, Day 3
Squat
bar
3x135
3x185
5x210
3x235
3x265 - Beats last cycle’s 3x255. Difference between today and the last time I hit this set is that this time my knees stayed out and my back stayed straight.
Breakdancing.
Fucking sucked.
Halos
Had to give these up after a while, excess resting time due to fear of hitting my already over bruised left shoulder.
1990s
This move and mill>headspin are fucking driving me crazy. It has been YEARS and I still have not locked them down. Tried new set with 1990 > right forearm stall > headspin, got it once.
Swipe>mill>swipe
Hit it a couple times, but something is up with my knee when I swipe.
Left arm handstand
Keep at it.
Deadlift
bar, warmup, lalala
10x195
10x215
10x225
10x245
10x225
All pretty easy.
Pull-ups
9 6 4
12/15/13 - Sunday
Cycle 26, Week 3, Day 4
Bench press
bar
3x95
5x130
3x150
12x165 - Probably beats last week’s 13x160.
Breakdancing.
Mill>headspin
I got it. The key is not in sweeping around or moving fast or re-stabbing. It is in rolling HIGH. I got four good sets in a row when I just thought about rolling HIGH, so high that I imagined making my feet touch the ground behind my head.
1990s
Also, got it. Legs have to stay low as they rotate around. Once rotated I can straight them up to spin more, but if I straighten them too soon I’m just falling in a circle.
Rollback thread.
Had to re-learn it, but got it.
Left forearm hops throughout sesh
Best was a double 
Swipe>mill>swipe
Tired by the time I got to these.
Overhead press
10x95
2x10x105
10x115
10x105
Pull-ups
10 8 8 - 26 total, pretty good amount
12/16/13 - Monday
Breakdancing.
Mill>headspin>mill
On that grind.
1990s>headspin
Getting better, consistent, honestly feels pretty locked down and easy
Swipes>mills>swipes
Difference is that I practiced these with music today and before I got too tired - could hit the set from standing about 1 out of 2 tries. Still not fast enough.
Left handhops
Got two. First day.
Rollback thread
Did them.
12/17/13 - Tuesday
Breakdancing.
Finals and some other issues kept me from having the time to eat enough. Got less than 200g carbs today, starvation right there for a nigga tryna hit his power moves.
Mill>headspin>mill
Did them.
Halos
Arch the neck, punch the right arm through the ground, whip around hard to catch it before my feet hit the ground. Today’s were the best since Monday.
Monkey flip>left arm handhops
New set. Currently too slow.
Left arm handhops
Got a set of three.
12/18/13 - Wednesday
Cycle 26, Week 4, Day 1
Deadlift
bar
5x120
5x150
5x180
Breakdancing.
Halos
Dropping these for a while. I’ve been doing this long enough to know that there is no “almost got it” with a power move, there is no “one more week and I’ll own it”. It’s always at least several months of drilling, soreness, and bleeding, no matter how close it may look to the goal product, and I don’t have time to do that before the battle, especially not at the cost of my other moves.
Started actually working on one of the sets that I have planned for the battle. I have four that I wrote out, stringing together moves that I know how to do. I spent the day on one of such sets, will refine it tomorrow and post a video. The biggest challenge is conditioning. I can do the moves well by themselves, but at the beginning of the session I was lacking the stamina to string them together and still lock it down. Towards the end I got better though.
Left arm rollback thread
Left foot and right hand meet in front of belly button when I get to that freeze. Then thread it through.
Squat
bar
3x135
10x155
2x10x165
10x175
10x185
Pull-ups
8 11 5
12/19/13 - Thursday
Cycle 26, Week 4, Day 2
Overhead press
bar
5x60
5x75
5x90
Breakdancing.
Head was burnt up from all the, um, head dominant moves of yesterday. So that had me in a bad mood to begin with. The MAIN problem today, and any day, is that I don’t focus. I know what I need to do to bring a move together but I don’t actually do it. So it took me too long to get in the mindset of actually doing things properly.
Swipes>mills
Keep at it.
Monkey flip > handstand > left arm hand hop
Accomplishment of the day was getting consistency here. Really pretty simple but it was only today that I made it work.
Just plain swipes
Getting as many as I can per set (best was 10), the more I can just do them, the more familiarity I’ll have with them and I’ll be able to go faster - this is exactly what I did to get good with windmills. It’s all so fucking simple if I just do what works.
Bench press
bar
10x115
4x10x135
Pull-ups
10 5 6
12/20/13 - Friday
Breakdancing.
Moved back home today. Head is still burnt up so I wouldn’t be doing head work even if I could on the poopy floor.
Monkey flip>handhops
Butt tight, tuck head, don’t look down. Got consistent sets of double handhops, and one with a triple hop.
Left arm handstand>left forearm freeze
This really bruises my elbow. Practiced going from left arm handstand to left forearm freeze with left forearm, and right hand on ground, but head off the ground.
Crickets
Worked on speed. On days when my knee feels too weird to swipe and my head is burnt up, I’m going to figure out these and UFOs.
12/21/13 - Saturday
Cycle 26, Week 4, Day 3
Squat
bar
5x110
5x140
5x165
Breakdancing.
Swipes
Worked on going faster, bouncing right off the floor every time. Didn’t take a video, which was dumb of me.
Freezes stuff
Nothing fucking else to do. My head is burnt up and even if it wasn’t, the downtown gym I practice at has a floor that will rip my head open if I try to spin on it. So I just messed around with airbabys, left arm handstands, trying to scurry backwards in a handglide freeze.
Deadlifts
3x10x185
2x10x205
Cut down on rest periods, had to leave quick.
Pull-ups
10 5 5
12/22/13 - Sunday
Cycle 26, Week 4, Day 4
Bench press
bar
5x70
5x90
5x105
Breakdancing.
Monkey flip>handhops
Wanted to get a set with four handhops. Failed but got a few more sets with triple hops, more than yesterday.
More freezes business.
Overhead press
3x10x95
10x105
10x95
Pull-ups (pronated)
10 7 5
Past few days all I’ve been wanting to do is fucking sleep. Going out to train is a pain in the ass when I come home because the gym is a 30 minute drive, and the place I get chicken to eat post-workout is another 30 minute drive from home. What ends up happening is I leave for the gym at noon and come home at six. Like, what the fuck.
12/23/13 - Monday
Breakdancing. There’s a martial arts place in our town (with an excellent floor), and when it closes they let us breakdance there. Underground night session hah. Head is all healed up too.
Mill>headspin>mill
3 times in a row, perfectly. (then I got tired:( ) On the final try I tacked onto the end a couple of burns and got the exact set that I want when I go to the jam. What’s awesome is that it’s been a week since I even chained two mills together, let alone even stood on my head.
Rollback thread
Got it.
1990s>headspin
Don’t got it.
1990s by themselves
Right leg comes around low, punches up hard. This is the best way I have of doing it because it is so simple that if I get tense and put my pure dumb strength to use there’s very little that can go wrong.
Swipes>mills
Tired by now, these sucked.
Good day. Did fun moves, learned, feel confident I can get my sets down. Main problem I feel is the visible imbalance between my right and left shoulder, left hand hops have made the forearms even but years of mills, 1990s, ufos, airbabys, and other movements where the right arm simply dominates have made my right trap erupt and bulge while my left trap is still trapped in two dimensions.
Oh yeah, measurements. Didn’t get weight but:
Waist: 34-1/4 (+1/4) - I’m eating right before bed now that I’m at home it’s a different schedule so.
Chest: 41-1/2 (+7/16)
Hips: 38-1/4 (-1/2)
R bicep: 14-1/4 (+1/4)
L bicep: 14-3/8 (0)
R thigh: 25-3/4 (-1/4)
L thigh: 25-1/4 (+1/2)
Deadlifts TOMORROW on account of Corporate Christmas essentially saying that I should spend Wednesday sitting on my ass eating high carb comfort food spending hundreds of dollars on devices and possessions whose sole accomplishment has been to reduce self-dependence and intellectual capability.
12/24/13 - Tuesday
Cycle 27, Week 1, Day 1
Today fucking sucked. But now we know what happens when I try to get 6-1/2 hours of sleep, wake up, eat nothing, go to the gym, and hit a deadlift PR a day earlier than I should, all only a little more than 12 hours after an all out breakdancing practice session.
Deadlift
warmup
bar
5x135
3x185
5x200
5x235
16x265:F
Breakdancing.
Couldn’t even do a single handstand pushup.
So I went home, took a 3 hour long nap, and just tried to chill.
12/25/13 - Wednesday
Christmas. Merry everything’s closed and can’t do shit day.
Did one set of 30 pushups, didn’t go to failure but I definitely didn’t have another one left. Straight back, head in front of hands. No improvement over the last time I did pushups but after Tuesday and considering I gained 10 pounds since, I’m happy.
REALLY nervous for tomorrow, I don’t want to get stapled under 125 for OHP or something…
12/26/13 - Thursday
Cycle 27, Week 1, Day 2
OHP
bar
5x100
5x120
10x135 - Still weaker than I was before break.
Breakdancing.
Monkey flip>handhops
Also shitty, barely got some sets of two
Swipes
Got tired, fast.
Bench press
15x95
10x115
2x10x125
10x135
Pull-ups
12 5 6
Today was the first day in the past week that I got back on to eating as I should.
12/27/13 - Friday
Breakdancing.
Found another place to practice that has a nice floor. Practiced everything. Overall note is that none of it is good enough.
12/28/13 - Saturday
Cycle 27, Week 1, Day 3
Squat
bar
3x135
5x185
5x215
10x245 - Beats 10x235 from week 1 last cycle.
Deadlift
10x185
2x10x225
10x235
10x245
Pull-ups
8 5 4
Breakdancing.
Mill>headspin>mill
Need to remember to roll high. Working on chaining headspins. Also noticed an improvement in conditioning, where before I would be winded after bringing the headspin back down to mills, today I was able to go up in to the headspin, down in to the mill, and back up into a headstand.
1990 > headspin
This is so far my least consistent/stable move.
The battle is in three weeks.
12/29/13 - Sunday
Cycle 27, Week 1, Day 4
Bench press
bar, 95, w/e
5x115
5x135
15x155 - stands up to last cycle’s 16x150, 13x160, and 12x165. YMCA at my hometown has a weird bench because it’s closer to the ground so my footing is different… w/e
Like yesterday, planned on doing assistance right after core lift and going to another place w good floor to bboy…
OHP
10x95
2x10x115
Felt my right shoulder slip, had to go to the chiro, couldn’t even pick up 95 lbs. Inflamed situation of last week when I landed a headhop and felt a pulling on the right side of my neck afterwards.
After chiro, gyms were closed.
The reason today was shitty was that I didn’t take action to go to the chiro earlier so that my small problem would be eliminated before becoming a large problem. Now the clock is ticking and instead of getting work done I’m waiting for tomorrow’s appointment, after which hopefully I’ll be able to turn my head.