So, I got the video recorded this morning but YouTube is being a little bitch and not letting me upload. I’ll see if I can get Vimeo working or something.
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Much appreciated dude. No rush on it.
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I just don’t bother wearing shirts/tanktops when I lift in the heat. I find it incredibly stifling because I’ll sweat that much by the time half the workout is over. Nice arms and traps btw
@liftangryordie500 The stifling is part of the goal for me, haha. Just trying to maintain that increased misery. Shirtlessness tends to go poorly for me as well, as it can make things get slippery. And thanks for the compliment dude!
Pain and mobility continue to improve. I once again am wondering if I tore the labrum in my hip socket, just based on what is/isn’t painful, but the fact I don’t have any instability to contend with makes things permissible. I keep forcing my body through the painful parts of the ROM and just holding there and it seems that, each day, it gets to be less and less and I have to work harder to find the pain.
Was able to hop up the flight of stairs on my injured side again, so that’s a positive.
I’m starting my 7 days on again, so posting will be sporadic. TKD lessons are going to be SUPER short until the weekend. Today I just had the kiddo practice holding the roundkick chambered position and making a fist/throwing some punches from the hips. We got to improve on both of them over the course of 5 or so minutes. I think little short practices may go far.
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Be warned: it’s 17 minutes.
There’s a handful of drills for the first 3/4 of the video. I, as expected, rambled on a bit; I’m a little out of practice since I haven’t taught in the last couple years due to moving. The last 1/4 roughly is addressing the reason why kids tend to lose balance with the roundhouse from my experience. Hopefully it helps.
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I skimmed this, as a non-TKD practitioner who won’t teach it to my kids ever, but just wanted to say this was super cool of you. Glad to be part of a community that shares information so freely.
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Dude that was AWESOME. I am going to steal a ton from it, and not just for my kid too, haha.
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No stealing necessary, haha. I’m happy to help anytime!
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Was making my meals for work and figured I’d share another “what do I eat” sorta moment
As a co-worker pointed out to me: this is basically a bad chili. It’s leftover taco meat mixed with fire roasted tomatoes and riced cauliflower. Microwaves easy, but you can eat it cold. Meat and veggies.
All that said, I may be having to change the diet soon. Lipids came back and LDL is still at 200. HDL is 80 and triglycerides are 50, so the good numbers are good, but they are gonna want me to drop the LDL and I would prefer to not need meds for that. Meeting with the doc next week to discuss, but from what I have read I am most likely going to get told to drop the red meat a bunch and add back grains and a more diverse selection of fruits. Will suck to have to abandon what has always worked, but keeping health insurance is a better bet.
I do imagine this is a product of the attempt to move up a weight class. Diet was very heavy during that time. Hope is that reversing it won’t be too arduous.
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what is this blasphemy 
let him be anathema ! 
I know other folks have done it and made it work: just means I have to be smarter about nutrition.
And, of course, this is all speculation until I hear from the doc anyway.
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Is that kind of thing standard for health insurance, or is it just that your line of work demands higher standards than most?
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Not standard, but there is an expectation from my employer that I keep my health, and failure to do so could mean less than ideal terms of separation.
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It seems like a smart thing to do, honestly. I’m not too familiar with health insurance in general however whenever I take out house insurance or car insurance or the like, its assumed I’ll take reasonable precautions to keep not need said insurance. It makes sense to me that health insurance should be similar.
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Are you a chicken/turkey/pork/fish person by chance?
Not at all opposed to eating it: beef has just always been easier. But if the doc tells me to make the swap it won’t be hard.
Good deal. Ground beef is about as easy as it gets, but luckily they make ground turkey/chicken etc. Joys of getting older man…better than the alternative I suppose.
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Have you ever peeked at the Anabolic diet or cyclical keto? Low carb/high fat weekdays and high carb/low fat weekends. Seems like a good middle ground. I’m taking the AD for a spin, but using healthy fats instead of all the processed meats touted in the book - it’s looking very “Mediterranean” so to speak.
that first high carb day put me in a lethargic stupor though, but I don’t think I worked in enough complex carbs.
@zeptrey Ground turkey is always a hit. Little bit of taco seasoning goes a long way.
@TX_iron Haven’t looked into either one. Might be something I go toward. As much as I hate to blame the family, eating in a manner that my family can also enjoy tends to be the limiting factor. Left to my own devices, I’ve got no issues eating something regimented and controlled with minimal variety, but I get informed after 2 days of having the same dinner that it’s apparently “abnormal”, haha. I do think it might be easier once people get back to work, as on top of having a lot more meals together, we’ve been ordering out a lot more to support some local places.
AM WORKOUT (post breakfast)
DARKHORSE-esque PRESS DAY
MAX EFFORT GIANT SETS (chin-press-abs-boxing)
NG chins
5xBodyweight
5x30
5x55
5x80
3x105
1x130
Axle strict press
5xAxle
5x66
5x136
5x186
1x226
1x246
Standing ab wheel
6x6
Boxing slipline drill
6x30 seconds
STRENGTH GIANT SETS (row-press-abs-boxing)
DB row 105
3x12
Log clean and strict press away 190
1x6
2x5
Standing ab wheel
3x8
Boxing slipline drill
3x30 seconds
ASSISTANCE 20 minutes
Unbroken medley of dip-DB lateral raise-band pull apart-band push down-pull apart-lateral raise-dip
Dips went
1x47
1x27
1x25
3x20
1x15
Body Action System boxing workout for 10 minutes
20 seconds on/10 seconds off
Notes: 90 seconds rest between all giant sets. The groin/psoas/whatever it is continues to improve, but is not 100%. I could do standing ab wheel, just not quite to full extension. The topset on my strict press was hard fought but not full potential. It’s honestly like introducing instability training because I can’t get my core fully braced under the load. Being able to hit 246 under those conditions is awesome, because along with being about 15lbs lighter than my most recent PR work on the axle, anything above 240lbs eluding me for YEARS, so now I can hit it at my absolute worst.
Had to clean the log VERY slowly, or as I refer to it “totally normal log clean”. Getting it into my lap ached pretty good the first time, so after that I just brute forced it into place. Once again, super unstable at the top.
Wife went in to work for the day, so I added 5 minutes to the assistance work.
Watched some boxing on ESPN yesterday and saw a combo I liked from one fighter: rear body uppercut to rear head uppercut to lead head hook. Basically, make the fighter drop their head with the body uppercut, then pop the head up with the head uppercut and then knock it sideways with the hook. Very viscous. In retrospect, I realize I’ve seen Tyson land that same combo before.
Had a very solid pump and sweat after this was done, and just a little bit of log bite
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My 4 year old gave me this lecture the other day. Apparently its deeply offensive to him that I eat the same meals every day for a week. He also feels the same about any food I eat out of a bowl instead of a plate.
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