Thanks Soldog. HAHA DCA, I wish it was steak and potatos! Come to think of it, the take out I see in China is all AMERICAN! McDonalds, Taco Hell, KFC, and Popeye’s. Its really intresting to watch someone eat a chicken leg with chop sticks.
Monday morning workout, Dongguan China
YTWL 8 lbs
Tumminello Complex: 4 sets
Treadmill walk: 20 minutes
What a long flight! for some reason the Russians wouldn’t let United fly over Siberia and we had to take a different route. Therefore we didnt have the gas to make it to Hong Kong. We had to stop in Seoul for gas and off to Hong Kong. Took a 2 hour car ride over to Dongguan and FINALLY I could pop an Ambien and off to sleep.
I think the gym attendant thought I lost my mind with my complex…
JW’s thought from China: Games DON’T affect kids. If PacMan did, we’d all be eating pills and listening to repetitive music
Enjoy. Wish I was there with you. Miss the orient every now and then. Make weird noises while doing the complexes. Remove any doubt from the attendant that you’ve lose your mind.
Good work in China! Now go reward yourself with some decadent duck blood soup.
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
JW’s thought from China: Games DON’T affect kids. If PacMan did, we’d all be eating pills and listening to repetitive music
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That does explain a lot…doesn’t it…
Glad you got there safe and have already intimidated the natives.
Dongguan China
Wednesday morning workout, Friday afternoon workout
YTWL 8 lbs
Tumminello Complex: 4 sets
Treadmill interval: 20 minutes
Just trying to keep my conditioning on. The Chinese gym attendants, guests of all nationality think I have lost my mind doing these complexes. Sometimes I question mine as well. We have had some successful meetings and sold some lumber. Tomorrow it’s off to Vietnam for a few days. I can introduce the complex to another Asian hotel. I’m sure I will give the Vietnamese gym attendants something to talk about at the supper table too.
JW’s China observations:
- Frog fried rice does not appeal to me.
- What kind of eel has cheeks and why would ANYONE eat them.
- China government stimulus works, you should see all the stuff being built here.
- The smog is worse, more factories are open.
- While the rules of the road here are whoever gets to the ‘spot’ first wins, there is a damn good reason why there are no Chinese NASCAR drivers.
- Rear view mirrors are as useful as tits on a boar hog, NO ONE uses them. You drive forward, don’t worry about wtf is behind you.
- Trucks have front, rear, and side bumpers. Its to keep the cars, scooters, bikes, and people from being sucked under and messing up the under carriage.
- If it’s dark brown its beef, light brown its pork, tan its chicken. Just take that on faith, and don’t worry why you never see cats over here.
Always remember in the orient if you can eat it and it ain’t poisonous, you do. Showed the wife your post and she laughed. Then she said, “I haven’t had any good eel in a long time”. I may have to eat out more soon. Glad your trips going well.
Thanks for the update, j-willy. Glad to hear of the success on the workout AND business fronts!
Frog fried rice and eel, huh? I think my reaction to the thought of such was very similar to my wife’s when I mentioned shrimp and grits…lol. That just ain’t right.
Dateline: Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City for the politically correct.
YTWL 8 lbs
Tumminello Complex: 4 sets
Treadmill interval: 20 minutes
Been getting a morning workout in every morning. The gym attendant here had the same reactions as the ones in China. They shake their heads in disbelief… My shoulders have been hurting. It’s the pillows. I can’t wait to get home and get started at the new gym. I may have to get on the 531 program like everybody else, and mix the complexes in on the off days.
I finally found something I couldn’t eat, undercooked chicken. Oh I didn’t eat the eyeballs in some kind of soup. The snake and eel hot pot was good, other than all the little bones… in and aside note I made the following observations:
- Bin Hoa is a curious place… It has to be filled with sinners AND saints. I must have seen 25 Catholic churches in this town, thus the saints…We were passed by 7 BIG paddy wagons, filled with folks, thus the sinners… I sank low in the seat, hoping…no one saw me and lightening DIDN’T hit our car…
- Vietnamese traffic has 3 main control factors, no dividing line in the center of the road, a dividing line, and a big ass concrete barrier in the middle of the road. SSOO if there is a barrier, every one stays on their side of the road at 100 km/h. If there is a dividing line, you sort of stay on your side of the road at 100 km/h. If there is no painted line the whole road is yours. So you can pass from the extreme left lane to the extreme right lane… at 100 km/h, into oncoming traffic. Personally I keep my eyes closed the whole time…
that looks like KFC gone bad…
great update nice training in strange conditions.
Rather scary looking dish. The head just adds so much to it.
Looking forward to you getting back state-side. Hope the meetings have been productive!
Dateline: eastern NC
Saturday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 15 reps
YTWL: 8lbs, 5 reps each
T-bar rows: 3x135x8
Lat pull downs: 3x130x8
Upside down push up thingys: 3xBWX6
Kroc row: 3x85x12
First day back with the weights. I didn’t try to push myself. Just a boring back day. Hopefully next week I can go sign up at the new gym and start ‘really lifting’
We had a good trip this time. We took some orders and drove our selling prices up. Its a shame there is a raw material shortage here state side. We could have taken 3 times the orders if we had the inventory. I didn’t want to promise what we couldn’t deliver. Now we have to get the rubber on the road and get these orders out.
Going to take the daughter to her last pottery class, this morning. Hopefully we can go eat a nice lunch, then it’s off to the last night of the county fair. It’s good to be home, I had to eat a greasy ass cheeseburger with bacon and slaw last night for supper. Back on the diet today…
JW:s morning thought: Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.
Glad to have you back!
It’s good to see that you had a successful trip JW!
Its funny, but I think even vegans want to eat a cheeseburger when the come back from a trip overseas. Welcome back.
Sunday Morning workout
Bench Press: Barx20, 135x15, 205x8, 4x245x5
Incline DB press: 3x50x15
Flat Flys: 3x35x8
Rev grip incline CGP in the Smith: 185x8x5x7
Typical chest day. It felt good to do some pressing. I am a touch sore from the shoulder and back work from yesterday. I don’t think anything was remarkable this morning, just some steady work.
Took the family to the last night of the fair. I’m not a ride rider, but the daughter met up with friends and relatives and had a blast. She also collected 2 red ribbons for some abstract paintings she entered. I guess she comes by it honest, the wife declares I am as abstract as anything!
JW’s morning question: Since Bugs Bunny wears no clothing, Why does he wear a suit at the pool?
Welcome back. Very talented daughter.
Thanks for the warm welcome home, everybody!
Monday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 15 reps
YTWL: 8 lbs
Tumminello Complex: 4 sets
Treadmill interval: 20 minutes
Conditioning day, with a nice case DOMS. The complexes were really rough!
Seems Autumn is approaching fast. The maples and gum trees are changing and the grass is growing slower. Soon deer season will be upon us. That makes life in rural NC quite interesting. You DAMN SURE better not go in the woods with out wearing blaze orange, and you best be watching for deer and dogs bounding across the road at any time. Never understood the lure of deer hunting. Seems to me it is a lot like masturbation. Its kind of fun to do if there is nothing else going on, but you always end up with a big mess when its over.
JW’s morning question: What does cheese say when it gets it’s picture taken?
[quote]j_willy3 wrote:
Thanks for the warm welcome home, everybody!
Monday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 15 reps
YTWL: 8 lbs
Tumminello Complex: 4 sets
Treadmill interval: 20 minutes
Conditioning day, with a nice case DOMS. The complexes were really rough!
Seems Autumn is approaching fast. The maples and gum trees are changing and the grass is growing slower. Soon deer season will be upon us. That makes life in rural NC quite interesting. You DAMN SURE better not go in the woods with out wearing blaze orange, and you best be watching for deer and dogs bounding across the road at any time. Never understood the lure of deer hunting. Seems to me it is a lot like masturbation. Its kind of fun to do if there is nothing else going on, but you always end up with a big mess when its over.
JW’s morning question: What does cheese say when it gets it’s picture taken?[/quote]
I like deer hunting, even though I don’t go much. For me, though, it is just a great excuse to go hang out in the woods…where it is cool, quiet and relaxing. That within itself makes it worth the trip. Wind through the trees…no cars, buses or trains. Of course, the adrenaline rush from watching a monster stroll out in front of you is a nice side.
Send some pics of the fall colors!! We don’t get any in OK.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
j_willy3 wrote:
Thanks for the warm welcome home, everybody!
Monday morning workout
Rubber band dislocates: 15 reps
YTWL: 8 lbs
Tumminello Complex: 4 sets
Treadmill interval: 20 minutes
Conditioning day, with a nice case DOMS. The complexes were really rough!
Seems Autumn is approaching fast. The maples and gum trees are changing and the grass is growing slower. Soon deer season will be upon us. That makes life in rural NC quite interesting. You DAMN SURE better not go in the woods with out wearing blaze orange, and you best be watching for deer and dogs bounding across the road at any time. Never understood the lure of deer hunting. Seems to me it is a lot like masturbation. Its kind of fun to do if there is nothing else going on, but you always end up with a big mess when its over.
JW’s morning question: What does cheese say when it gets it’s picture taken?
I like deer hunting, even though I don’t go much. For me, though, it is just a great excuse to go hang out in the woods…where it is cool, quiet and relaxing. That within itself makes it worth the trip. Wind through the trees…no cars, buses or trains. Of course, the adrenaline rush from watching a monster stroll out in front of you is a nice side.
Send some pics of the fall colors!! We don’t get any in OK.[/quote]
I understand that feeling. I was raised in a family of bird and waterfowl hunters. My graddaddy would always say there is no sport in deer hunting. at least that bird had a chance to out fly his shooting… But Granddaddy liked hunting Red Heads, the dumbest duck in the world… The ones that didnt get shot would come back again and again… Which is probably why they are damn near extinct!!