sensiD’s BodyBlog

Thug is not usualy, in polite society, considered to be a positive term. Usualy refers to crooks, hoods and people of low moral charictor. Well, in SOME places it is a mark of respect and HONER!! The wellspring of this challange concept is sutch a place.

I will be attending A SCA fighting event in Manchester NH on the 31st of January.(Those of you who have NO idea what SCA fighting is check out some of my vids..the guys hitting eachother with sticks in armor..full force!) The set up of the turnament is 1 on1 fights, winner stays in and emediatly fights another person. If you are hit in the arm than you lose the use of the limb, same with legs. If you win a match after loosing a limb you start the next fight at a disadvantage. Thare are usualy more than 200 people at this thing with one line feeding about 8 rings (Talk about LORD of the Rings..Ha, Ha!!) with no brakedowns by weight class, skill,age etc. Just you fighting any and all comers. You get one point for fighting each bout and 2 for each win . Sounds cool, no?

One little thing to mention………..IT LASTS 3 HOURS…….The only rest you get is standing in line!!

Obviousely this is sprint and time based cardio!!Not to mention sheer determination!! I have been in the top 3rd ranking for the last 5+ years. So here is the challange!!

If you are a martial artist who can attend classes on a saterday attend as many classes(If you are teaching it does not count!) as you can on saterday..at least one sparring class if you can..at your DOJO and than run/jog/walk/crawl 3 miles.

If you can not attend a class work a bag for 1hr with kicks, 1hr with hands, and 1 hr yith both.

If you can not get a hold of a bag or something else to hit than eather work each hand and foot and knee and elbo strike 200 times(Both right and left) or cycle through the cardio equipment at your gym for 30 minuets twice on EVERY TYPE of machene they have.

Your last option is run 6 miles and do 10 sets of 10 to 20 pushups and 20 sets of 25 bodyweight squats.

Those of you out thare who hold rank of 1st Dan or higher KNOW that all of these are simple walks in the park compared to a Dan rank test!!!

I am interested to see how folks do on this..I will be in NH personifying the sperit and soal of a NORTHERN ARMY THUG!!!

YOU BETTER SMILE WHEN YOU SAY THAT!!!!!! GO 3rd Devision!

Hope that you all buck up to your highest potential!!

O.K people ,here is the newest thing to think about.

A few weeks ago someone requested, after completing my christmass challange, that I start a body group. I thought it over for a while and asked around and the result is ……SHUGYO. I hope people are happy with what they have pulled out of the dark corners of my mind and soal!! More info at the space. Those of you out thare who have a idea of a pic (And a way to send me the pic) feel free to help me come up with a logo. I do not have a personal computor so Have no way to put up something myself. Thank you and I hope that thare is actual interest.

I am finaly getting in here to post the results of my challange..at least as fare as I got results from people!

fenixatris rocked on a modifyed program of his owne with 50 pushups, 50 jumping jacks, 50 squats and an insane total of 1000 crunches in 2 sets of 500! Hats of to the overacheevers! Go bunny boy and bang that drum!!

Brandy TKO (Love the pics by the way) reported in that she had completed plan B. Rock on!

Growing up completed plan A with a little change that I know actualy makes the whole thing harder!! Keep kicking dude!

Carolynduerr pushed through plan B.

Size 10 chronicle called in with plan B completed!! You go!..But don’t "GO" ,you are definately impresive eye candy as well as being a hard worker!!

exguitarplayer and Iseabelhotrod wrote in that they were going to be doing plan c.

And, to round it all out, I completed (With a little extra!!) challange D. I did not forget any of it this time around eather!!!!

So..To all who did this thing, those who reported in and those who did not, congradulations and thank you for doing it with me!!

Reports of the results of the season in general..Benchpress went up a little from whare I thought it would in reps and the weight I could do for reps. That is the good news! Bad news is that between holeday "Snacks" (Read "garbage" for the most part) and eggnog I put on about 10 lbs! Lets get on task and drop the lard this month! If I can not obses about work and avoid stress eating I should be fine! Talk to al you folks later!

I thought I would put up a few choices for those people who have different problems with joints and stuff. Here she goes::

A) 200 + pushups, 100 bodyweight squats, 1oo crunches

B) 100 pushups, 200 bodyweight squats, 100 jumping jacks, 100 crunches

C) 400 crunches, 50 pushups, jumping jacks 50, 50 bodyweight squats

D) The monster killer

150 pushups

150 jumpingjacks

150 bodyweight squats

150 mountanclimbers

200crunches

100 toe raises

50+ bodyweight squats

We will see who does what! I look forward to hering from those who signe up and who finishes this!

I will not be abble to workout today becaus of a date with my wife..But my client had gym class today so I made good use of the time. While he played basketball I walked laps around the gym and did 5 to 20 pushups after every lap. Some pushups were feet elivated, some were not. Some of the elavated ones were on the 3level of the balechers.

laps  15

pushups 125

feet up pushups 50

Beter than doing nothing..plus got to show client that every little bit helps to get into and stay in shape! Role modeling something usefull!

Thanksgiveing went well and I was vary thankefull to all those who said that they would do the challange or voiced interest. I even had responders from europe and canada which was sooooo cool! Not everyone has reported in as to how well they did but the reports I did get were impresive. Most people , while not doing the exact numbers on all exercises, actualy did the same amount of work or, in some cases, far exceeded what was sugested and asked. Thanks to all of you this was a day not just of lard eating but of lard bearning also!!

 OK….I will put up what I got done..

Pushups  175

toe raises 100

bodyweight squats 200

crunches 200

 I did not get the jumping jacks done  myself. I totaly forgot that I had put them on the list without acess to a computor on the day. I did go over on the pushups and the toe raises however.

Here are the folks who have responded with what they did to me:

Harddeck242.,,,,,,,exelent job!

Bronzebird..who completed the challange plus a workout!

Mr.Xercise..Who totaly destroyed all expectations and totaly empresed the heck out of me!

Fenixataris182.congrats!

foobar68. congrats!

I hope I will here from all other people who did this thing..would love to have everyones scores/totales here!

I will be comeing up with something for christmass here in the feuture..and newyears!!

Hay folks!

 I started my current body fix on thanksgiveing day last year by getting back into the habbit of drinking a gallon of water a day during the week (And watching "Englands: The biggest looser"  while cooking thanksgiveing dinner at a frends house). That was the start of a 30+ lb loss without loosing to mutch benchpress strength for a change.

My challange to anyone who will take me up on it is to do, on thanksgiveing day……This:

200 jumping jacks

150 pushups

200 crunches

100 bodyweight squats

50 toe raises

If you pull it of..or beat it..post it here!!

Drive me into the ground folks!

Hello folks and greatings.

Recently I receved a comment on my page that I thought I would reply to in detail .

The person mentioned on the title of this page ranted at me with a few interesting acusations. I was called a "Fat ass" who suposidly go’s on and on about things I know nothing about "As if you know everything about bodybuilding" (Paraphraised with more polite language) . I suposidly "Aint nothing!!" The person was extremly excited in his capatalization and presentation. I first deleated it from my site without replying to him but I thought I would reply after ferther thought.

1) The "Fat ass" comment.

 I am carying more lard then I would like and do not have a problem with it being mentioned..truth is truth. I am not shore why this is suposed to bug me?

2) I present myself as a know it all.

If I have done this then I did not mean to. As fare as I can tell the point of this place is to share as mutch info and sugestions as possible on the premis that thare are so many bodytypes, alergies, proportions of of muscle fiber per person, tastes in food, vareables in age and injury etc. that any info adds to knowlege and ideas. That is the point of this place..right? If I am off in left feald then I am. I just add what I have tried and herd about. People can , and do, do with it as they wish.

3)"You aint nothing"

What am I supposed to be, other than a person who wants to be in the best shap for what I do?

4) I would just like to mention that this createn had no site here of his owne and posted this as a "Guest". If you have nothing up to put your owne person into the ring than it is a little hard to take you at all seriously.

5) You are not a bodybuilder.

Never realy clamed to be one thare tex! I ame more interested in strength and being good at the activityes I participate in then how I look. Not that I would mind cuts..but not at the expence of affectiveness. 

If anyone out thare thinks I have sounded off inapropriatly then I apologise. Have a good day all and take care.

Just thought I was haveing a good day . I had gotten enough sleep, had a good energy drink and was a little hyped and had not maxed out in a while so I thought "Go for it" Slight problem of different spotters than last time and lousey music with no agression.

Warmups for bench went well and all but started haveing problems at about 360 benchpress and could barly get 380. I have done 450 in the past..what is up with this? I have been doing lockouts for monthes with 450 for around 4 reps.

I did manage to bring my squat up a little which is cool because this time last year I could not squat at all ant i got a farly good (Not compotition perfect) 345! Anyone have any ideas on what the heck to do?

Eastern Unbelts were not Victorious on the field of pennsic war this season..and for that I bare the blame as mutch as anyone. Now fall crown turney is comeing up and I have the opertunity to redeam myself to some extent by makeing a decent showing…or takeing the whole darned thing if I can somehow pull it off and god is smileing on me!!

 I gained 5lbs over the war and will need to drop that as well as probibly about another 10 without loseing strength while increasing my reaction speed, footwork and shot acuracy. All of this while looking for a new job and trying to have actual sparing partners who actualy show up and do what they say they are going to do. Any Ideas from anyone who sca fights or does a turnament based MA would be apreciated. Thank you all.