Road 2 Recovery

So yesterday I went with my wife and in-laws to Universal Studios and we had a blast (she has 4 younger bros who I love). We walked a ton and ran all the crazy stairs but we finished off the day by going to the Hard Rock Cafe and eating a buttload of crap. I totally failed and had 3 Root Beers, a huge burger and fries, and some nachos (shared by the family). So the entire night I was feeling like total crap and kept complaining about how full and nasty my stomach felt!!

Well during half-time of the Lakers game she says alright this time I’m leading the workout and you have to do the Jessica Dance Workout (hahahah her name…I had no clue what this was going to be). So I finally agree and she turns on a few songs on our iPod deck and starts leading me in all these crazy made up dance moves and all I could feel is my stomach cramping up and yelling "what are you thinking jumping up and down with all this crap in here" Well 15 minutes later we finished and by the time we went to bed I was feeling much better.

Thanks Babe! You’d be an amazing trainer!

Alright well yesterday was officially my first workout and the first day of my body transformation adventure. I have 99 days before my wife and I leave for Southeast Asia for a couple of months and my goal is to lower my bf down to 7% and maintain my weight between 170 and 175lbs.

Yesterday I got out to the gym and started with legs. I jumped on the treadmill and ran 1.5 miles for warm-up and then jumped on the squat machine that sits about a 45 degree angle or maybe a little steeper and squatted away. Did three sets of 12-15 between 180 and 225lbs (sadly). Next was Step-ups on a bench with a kick at top and I used 50lbs on my shoulders for 3 sets of 15 reps. Then calf raises and some machine exercises.

Today I am sore as hell and it feels oh so wonderful to have that feeling again. I can’t wait until tomorrow when the DOMS really set in. =)

A year ago I strained my back while bench pressing. It was a pretty bad strain that set me back completely for 5 months. Even after physical therapy It is still a major irritation in my life. Despite that injury I found my motivation once again and started getting back in shape. I was lifting, riding my bike 100+ miles and playing lots of basketball. Well within about 2 months I had another major setback; I broke my wrist. I took a bad spill while playing basketball where I came down on my left wrist pretty hard and ended up breaking it. To make the story short it is more than 4 months later and I just got my cast removed but this time and for the first time in my life I am really struggling with my motivation. My schedule doesn’t permit a workout partner and I am still too weak in the left arm to do a whole lot of lifting not to mention exercises like squTs are a challenge because of my back, so it is difficult for me sin e I can’t give it 110% like j would like to.  Hopefully being back on bb.com will help me gain that needed drive to get going even if it must be one baby step at a time. Thanks for listening and for Ur amazing examples

For the past year and a half or so; since the time I first started working on training others and setting up work-out and meal plans for others I have never really been able to focus on exactly what I wanted to do. I would also say that because I’ve been focused on doing plans for others I haven’t really known what I wanted to acheive either. Right now I am currently training my younger brother for high school football on the side and decided this is the perfect time to work on myself as well. He is a running back and is looking to improve his 40 time and overall quickness and agility, so I told him I would train with him and help him get ready for this years combine. This is nice for me since I really want to get myself back into top shape for athletic performance (mostly for basketball). So we are starting a 12 week training session and I am going to be throwing in a lot of plyometrics and lifting for power. It’ll be fun. Once I’ve ironed it all out I’ll post the whole 12 week training program.

 GOALS

1. Right now I am currently at 10.7% bf which is quite high for me and I am looking to get it down to 7% or below while maintaing my current weight of 182-185 lbs.
2. My 40 time was 4.88 which is also high but I’m not in the best athletic shape right now since I’ve been mostly just lifiting the past year. I want to be back to at least a 4.6s 40 time.
3. I haven’t tested my vert yet, but I need to increase it by about 6 inches in order to be able to dunk consistently again.
4. Also he is going to be tested on how many times he can bench 185 lbs, but I can do about 10reps of 185 right now, so my goal is to train on 205 and be able to do 12 reps on that weight.

We’ll see how it goes.

So I have my parents (both 54 yrs old) on training programs right now and my dad hates to stretch, so I decided I’d check out a few yoga and pilates videos and see if I they’d be good for him. Seeing that I have netflix I can download workout videos, so I downloaded a Yoga video, tried it and now am in love. I love doing Yoga now on off nights or after a good solid workout. It’s very relaxing, gives a nice stretch, helps with soreness, and works your flexibility well but gently at the same time.

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