I hurt my neck today. I hope it is just inflammed and will calm down soon so I can stretch it out and loosen it up. Basically the muscles in my neck are as tight as violin strings and pain is shooting down my neck, left shoulder and left arm. It is a recurring problem that happens when I don’t warm up properly. C1 and C2 tend to tighten up which causes hypermobility in C8-T1, which of course causes lots of pain and muscle spasms and cramping. If only I had a physio or massage therapist redily available. I am single so if there are any really really ridiculously good looking female massage therapists who want to massage me for free any time I need it, I will marry you (at least while I am still training and not retired from sports).
Funny story: I lifted weights (Cleaned 110kilos x 1 at the end of my practice), and then went and did some stuff with the athletes that I coach at the University. I warmed up and did a few accels, and then decided to do a couple 30m sprints @ 100% intensity. I did 2 or 3 of them, and luckily did not injure myself. However, since that day (last Thursday), my CNS has been fried. I have been dropping everything and anything (keys, spare change, pens/pencils etc), and the twitching under my eye it getting annoying.
The moral of the story, I am still fast enough to tax my CNS, but my ability to recover from it and handle the stimulus is quite depleted.
I’m glad to see this thread is up again. I had a friend get back from a muay thai fighting camp in Thailand (he spent a month there). Keep it up (or in the case of the injuries, don’t keep it up!).
My CNS is still not recovered. My eyes and face are still twitching. I am hoping to catch up on sleep this weekend.
I have been going for light interval type jogs the past week. Bascially I jog until I start breathing heavily and then walk for a bit. The jogs last about 5 songs worth.
Today I actually felt a bit athletic for the first time in many months. I was watching Lethal Weapon on the weekend and thought to myself…I used to be skinny and in shape like Mel. It is time to get back there (hopefully not like the 50 other times I have decided to get back in shape and utterly and miserably failed).
I went and lifted weights with Guy Greavette on Tuesday. I did mostly 55kg clean & jerks, and then 55kg snatches for about 5 reps and 5 sets each.
If any of my athletes read this remember rule # 1: Do as I say, not as I do.
I have decided to get my bench up to 400lbs. Not sure when this will happen. I am only around 200lbs now so I have a ways to go, but it should happen fairly quickly once I get back into things.
My shoulders haven’t felt this good ever. Doing Olympic lifts is money!
As far as fighting is concerned, we will say that I am retired. This way I don’t have the stress that comes with people always asking, “When are you going to fight next!?!”
I am taking 2 months off from fight training to let a stress fracture in my right hand heal. When you hit the heavy bag as hard as I do…
Ummmm, the halo soundtrack??? NICE:D, the special edition of the 2nd volume is supposed to be released soon! I think its in the US already…bah… btw, nice pong workout, oh yeah, and are some of the pictures you posted previously from gray’s anatomy?
It’s not quitting. It is finishing. Quitting is when you stop before the finish.
2 Timothy 4:7
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.
Do you really want to add another almost to that list of yours? Almost a blackbelt, almost a teacher, almost an olympian…almost the UFC CHAMPION OF THE WORLD. Since when did THIS become the finish line? We both know you haven’t finished the race yet. “Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us” (Hebrews 12:1)
In my opinion, you haven’t finished anything yet, I won’t be impressed until I see what you can REALLY do. And I know it will blow everyone away.
Listen up Dre…As far as everyone is concerned, I am retired. I am tired of answering the question, “when is your next fight?” I need some time off to get back into shape and have some fun. And in fact, things are going quite well in that regard.
I just got back from a jog. It is feeling better every day and my overall energy throughout the day is on the increase. I will do the following David Lee-Pong workout before I go to bed: 3x(1 sit-up; 1 Hyperextension; 1 Push-up).
Could be. Could be. I am thinking that since I have been going for easy jogs lately and contrast showing my knees and have been loosing pounds because of it that my body is starting to adapt (as would be the case with the S.A.I.D. principle). Not having the stress of a timeline and of people asking when my next fight will be helps to make things more enjoyable as well.
hey coach, this is a very entertaining journal you have here. I laughed so friggen hard when I read your david lee pong work-out. Oh, and I’ll try not to ask you when your next fight is. ANd nice picture collection you have on the 5th page. Ya thats about it.
Just so my athletes all know, the cheering funny boy today at practice (the soccer guy with blonde curly hair that wouldn’t shut-up)…I was SOOOO close to dropping him!!! Grrrrrrrrrrrrr. No jokes, it ain’t just the Mississippi Mud that is talkin’ either.
Skipping as a warm up.
Power Cleans
50kg x 6
50kg x 6
Clean & Jerk
50kg x 6
70kg x 6 PB
Power Cleans
70kg x 6
70kg x 6
Snatch
50kg x 5
50kg x 3
Bench Press
50kg x 8
70kg x 6
90kg x 3
90kg x 3
50kg x 7
Today I felt good. I wasn’t going to lift, just stay home and drink beer, but I decided to go anyways. An old back injury (lower back/ hip area) flared up with my second warm up set of power cleans, but I decided to continue. I could have stopped, but I figured the back injury wasn’t going to get worse, it would just hurt like a bugger for a couple days. I just took 2 Tylenol 3s, a muscle relaxant, and a beer (Dab from Germany). I should be passing out shortly.
Anyways, today I decided to go into an Olympic Lifting competition in August. Obviously from the weights that I lift I won’t be a contender (unless I get a sports psychologist…then I could probably break the world record in a month). Still, it will be fun to be in a competition again. This will be my first Oly Lifting competition ever.
Woah…muscle relaxant and beer kicking in. Getting a happy dizzy feeling. Pain dissappearing. I should finish watching Kevin Sorbo kick the Minotaur’s butt (Hercules: The Maze of the Minotaur).
