CG great day!

Many many accomplishments! Soon it will be told! I did a SIDEFLIP!

coming soon... :D

Ill training day

For 4 days, I have been very ill. And I'm looking for ways to get back with my training while I'm not fully recovered from sickness. Of course, I should start slow, but yesterday, me and my bros. trained outside at a local spot. And I got excited getting back even though I just got back from recovery. So I played myself along. Did what I wanted to do. But through the trainings. Sometimes I feel some things doesn't felt right. So, we went home early. The next day, my core hurts, so does my body. So, yeah, I should take it slow. Back to basics for a week or two. Start slow and low.

Well, after I will be fully recovered from sickness. I want to focus on using an explosive amount of energy on a very short period of time, Pylometrics for instance. I want to train that for a while, for less strength use, and maybe to practice flips.

I also want to focus on climb ups. I want to have a smooth flow and understanding the concept on attempting the technique. That's why I will be also focusing on upper body strength, and I will include plyos.


It has been long since my last update. Well, ***UPDATE***

20.07.09

An irregular jam day with the crew

So today, I went to our regular jamming spot, QC Circle. Did something new, trained something old. I've conquered many actually during the jam. I conquered doing a 360 under bar to the next under bar that was positioned perpendicularly. It was a very fun move to do, drilled it a few more times. Then proceeding to a Ambidexterity training. Drilled some opposite vaultings, the flow, the control.
Conquered a new precision gap jump, maybe it was about 6 feet wide I guess - drilled it 2 times to get my muscle memory use to it. And also did this 7 feet gap wide. I only did it once, since I felt bursting all my leg power during that jump. Drilled some of my climb ups, upper body strengths. Oh, and I conquered an under bar trick that involves obstacles beneath the bar. It was really fun, drilled it a few times. Maybe next time I'll try to control more on the 'control' of the technique and the amount of energy I've used during the technique. Then all led to tardiness, I think I've wasted enough energy during the jam. Then I did my stretchings and cooled down.

I'm planning to condition a few at home just to increase my strength. I'll be focusing on my main focus of the week. Core and Lower body Strengths. I feel like I'm getting psyched on the next jam with the group.

I lost 2 pounds referring to what I saw on our weighing scale at home. Felt good. I just hope I'll not be lean muscular body type of guy. I'm aiming for a healthy, strong-looking, muscular type of guy.

08.07.09

Post Workout Regimen ***UPDATED***

I just had my conditioning session lately, I'll be changing some routines. Because I don't have enough strength to carry the last reps. So I better take it lightly and slowly. Anyway, here are the changes:



CORE TRAINING:

Advanced Curl Ups - 5 reps./3 sets (instead of 10 reps.)
**No 'lifty legs' yet**
Planks

• Front - 30 secs./3 sets
• Sides - 30 secs./ 3 sets
• Reverse - 30 secs./3 sets

*** Training Result***

Advanced Curl Ups, is what I need more control on.
Planks, the 3 various planks are fine. They are comfortable on my standard. By next week, I'll be increasing the seconds by 45. To make sure of my comfort.





LOWER BODY TRAINING:

'Chair' Position - 30 secs./3 sets (because I think I'm doing it the squats wrong)
**Cancelled 'Squat Gallons' due to property wreckage***
Pistons - 5 reps./3 sets (added 2 more reps.)
Single Leg Calf Raise - 15 reps./ 3 sets (leg by leg)



***Training Result***

'Chair' Position, I think I need to lower more my squat position. Because doing my usual squats feels no feeling on my legs. So, lowering it is.
Pistons, 3 repetitions feels good. It is at my level of comfort and pressure. By next week, I'll be increasing my Pistons repetitions to 5.
Single Leg Calf Raises, 15 repetitions is fine with me. Although, I'm getting a bit pressure on my left leg but it's fine. I can handle it. No discomfort, just a bit.

06.07.09 UPDATED

Post Workout Regimen

It's been long since I practiced strength training. Well, strength training is my main focus of today. Because I'm moving my goals to 'remain strong'. That is - whole body training and various body exercises. These past few weeks I felt that I'm loosing strength in lifting heavy weights. It's not that I'm practicing lifting weights but controlling the weight I'm training with.

I'll be also focusing more on my fitness diet. I feel like I've been eating too many, or too much fatty foods each day, and I need to lose fats to fully contract my muscles from stretching. So I'll be doing more cardio, more raw veggies, and stay healthy.



So today's focus is:



CORE TRAINING:

Advanced Curl Ups - 10 reps/3 sets
(The one where you lift your legs up balancing on your shoulders) - 10 reps/ 3 sets
Side Crunches - 10 reps/ 3 sets (side by side)
Planks

• a. Front - 30 secs./3 sets
• b. Sides - 30 secs./ 3 sets
• c. Reverse - 30 secs./ 3 sets

LOWER BODY TRAINING:

Squats - 10 reps/ 6 sets (with a gallon)
Pistons - 3 reps/3 sets (leg by leg)
'Chair' Position - 1 mins./ 3 sets
Single Leg Calf Raises - 15 reps/ 3 sets (each leg)




***My upper body has to rest because my shoulder muscles hurts ever since the last jam with the group. So I decided to focus on my core an lower body.

*** I'll be updating this the week after.

06.07.09

My UST gap comeback and MORE!

There's because this 5 ft. (or something like it.) gap that I can't nail before long. But now I did, and it felt great. I was so proud that all these conditionings and drillings made me through. Thanks to my leg powers for making it work, and thanks to my faithful abs who controlled the power.

It's because sometimes after every session of training, I feel down on what will happen next. But I guess not today.

That was not the only one that I conquered. But I conquered doing 3 reps and 2 sets of pull ups. I never felt so strong after it. It was also another moment of greatness. The second one that I conquered was the Kong-To-Cat drill. I've been drilling this for weeks but now I guess I can do better.

It was such a fun day today. Although my brother got injured/scraped/bruised. I don't know what exactly but it was some in the lower body. Hope he can get back from training after weeks, and face his fears again. :D

Well, that's it for today. Had a really fun day. Many accomplishments, many things that was conquered. Now, I've been thinking of drilling my whole body strength. Hopefully, it will be done this week. So at weekends, I'll be able to do some back tuck drills, and more flips. The free running stuffs.


Date: 28.06.09


This will be my new official Training Journal for today. I'll update every session when I'm done, and especially the special ones.

Transformers 2: Revenge Of The Fallen

About hours ago, Me and my friends treat ourselves to watch the exciting Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen. It was surprising that all cinemas are occupied by the movie.

And so we went there finding the best seats in the house, unfortunately they were all taken.
So we gave in the second best seats, tough luck y'know. And so we set our butts into places with our eyes poured in the movie, seeing the excitement, the thrilling, the awesomeness of the movie.

And as a film critic, I would say it was okay. Maybe a 7.5-10 rating or close. 1st reason - was the movie was a bit long or too long, that at some parts it was boring. 2nd reason - was the story/plot/climax I don't know what d'you call it, it didn't gave me a good thrill or a shock of "What will happen now?". Those two reasons should be the official critic for me. And according to Rotten Tomatoes that it gave the move 22% of its rating. I wouldn't give that rating if were Rotten Tomatoes. Maybe a 40% to 60% rating. But they're proffesional film critics.

But hey, I still enjoyed the movie. I still had fun. The graphics, let me tell you, WAS OF THE HOOK, IT WAS SUPERBABLY AWESOME. Michael Bay did a great job with it. And Megan Fox *whew!* she's HOT, SO HOT. The comedy was great too, gave me a big LOL.

I like the movie that's all I gotta say. Very very well done.

New account

Hey everybody! I welcome myself to this blogspot!

I hope I can use this for reasons, and I'm thinking I'll be using this as my training journal of this discipline called Parkour. I've visit alot of traceur's blogspot and hoping I could use it like them.

Well, this is my first blog ever written here. I've made a tons of accounts from..maybe everywhere. I have a Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Multiply accounts. I guess that's enough for me to create another one. So I hope I can use this wisely.

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