Renga: Brickish

Yeah, so I know this is supposed to stay as much as possible on the whole fitness end of things, but can I get that out of the way so I can rant?

 I worked out on Thursday, felt good, drop by my Workout Tracker to see how that one goes. I’ve decided that my goal isn’t going to be specific weights, but reaching a particular volume, which I understand is something to the effect of Weight Lifted x Reps x Set = Volume. then you add that up across all exercies to get the Exercise volume. I’ve decided that I want to shoot for 50k volume by this time next year. Sounds like more fun than dropping little numbers, eh? I can record it with little "K"’s attached, adn without them when I feel like it. XD Gotta love it, eh?

 Anyway, rant of the day is the sudden loss of my ability to tell frat people apart now that Fall has started in full swing. What is it with these guys, but some kind of herd instict? Suddenly they go from wearing at least different colors of plad to the suspiciously similar pairs of jeans and frat t-shirts. Now i can’t tell them apart. I tend to tell people apart based on marking/common color/shoes. Winter and styles don’t help that much. Visible tattoos. If you ever want Renga to be able to tell you apart, either get something visible, or make sure you give me such a whooping that I remember you by that rather than what you’re wearing.

*phew* anyway, go play rock band. there’s demos at Wal Mart and Best Buy. Very fun!

Yeeeah… so as previously noted in other locations about the web, I dropped off the whole weight lifting thing back in September for two reasons:

1.) Change in the martial art: I started studying the traditional Aiki of the family, and thus no longer needed the endurance training or strength training required by MMA.

2.) My weightlifting instructor insisted on giving me a hard time for taking things easy when I had, oh, you know, busted or had parts of me moved into the wrong places due to the above reasons and had been instructed by Sensei to NOT push myself too hard for the rest of the week.

3.) Same instructor, mind you, also decided that the whole of the first string of the baseball team who was in the class, didn’t have to go through with the two-a-day weight lifting schedule they put themselves on. Naturally, this didn’t sit well with me, and resulted in a formal complaint to the University against both this professor and the Baseball coach. Results pending.

 Now please, don’t go off on the whole, "But they’re athletes!!! They shouldn’t have to lift twice a day!" thing on me, cause I know a bunch of you do that, and well, there’s my proof: You guys, even the ones who have just started, get along fine with two-a-days. And not a lot of you have to deal with a regular part of training being your shoulder suddenly finding itself attached backwards to yourselves. Lucky… O.o

 Anyway, back to the original discussion, I’m getting downright scrawny, and I’ve decided it’s time to go back up to what I had originally planned: Gain back to 175 from the 160 I’m at. Let’s hope so. This time, I’ll be recording progress here. Enjoy?