http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80 My BodyBlog Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:31:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=0.32 en http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2009/08/27/cant-wait-to-get-back-into-the-gym/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2009/08/27/cant-wait-to-get-back-into-the-gym/#comments Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:31:47 +0000 rkirby80 Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2009/08/27/cant-wait-to-get-back-into-the-gym/ For the past month and a half I have hit the gym on a very irregular bases to focus on specific training.  I have applied for officer candidate school (OCS) with the Marines, and I have been training for the fit test.  To get a perfect score (300) you must complete 20 dead-hang pullups (full elbow extension with no swinging or leg kicks), 100 sit-ups in 120 sec. and an 18min 3-mile run.  I have mastered my pull-ups (22 reps so far) and my sit-ups (104 reps so far), however, I am no where near the 18 minute mark for my run (currently around 23 minutes).  So, I have been working hard to lower my run time.  I don’t think I will get to 18 minutes before I have to take my test, but I definately think I will break that time before I go to OCS (if I’m selected).  Once I take my fit test though I am hitting the gym hard.  I think I will be able to bounce back fairly quick.  I just feel very deflated, and since I’m not a very big guy to begin with (damn metabolism) it sucks even worse.

]]> http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2009/08/27/cant-wait-to-get-back-into-the-gym/feed/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2008/07/10/out-of-the-gym-for-at-least-4-weeks/ http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2008/07/10/out-of-the-gym-for-at-least-4-weeks/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 19:11:05 +0000 rkirby80 Training http://blog.bodybuilding.com/rkirby80/2008/07/10/out-of-the-gym-for-at-least-4-weeks/ I have done something incediblly stupid.  I have partially torn my triceps brachii muscle and my brachioradialus while arm wrestling two weeks ago.  Since I am never one to back down from a challenge, I agreed to arm wrestle everyone at a party one night.  Everyone wanted to arm wrestle me and I couldn’t say no.  I wish that I had.  Although I never lost, I will now be forced strickly do cardio and machine weight leg exercises.  I tried to do some light lifting a week after the injury and the pain was so bad that I litterally almost vomitted in the middle of the gym; that’s when I decided to have a friend of mine who is a physical therapist check me out.  She said it could be a full tear, but is most likely a partial.  I feel like I am withering away!

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