Zip it…

I woke up this morning with a dream fresh in my mind. I was playing basketball one on one on a beaten down grass and dirt field with a beat up old ball shooting into a netless almost broken hoop, playing against a dread locked young black dude that kept calling me for traveling, carrying, sliding. I kept making beautiful shots but turning it back over to him, using the universal street ball rule of 'respect the call no matter what'.Flash back to six pm last night, I was jogging to the gym and st...

Wednesday....Crossfit's Fransets of 21, 15 and 9Thruster...Followed immediately by pull ups of the same reps...So...21 thrusters, 21 pull ups, 15 thrusters, 15 pull ups, 9 thrusters, 9 pull ups.No stopping, get there anyway you can, which means if you can do 15 and 6 to get to 21, okay. 5 and 5 and 5 and 6? Okay. The real elites do it all straight, but many break it up. I do. I'll know I'm "there" when I can hit them all in a row without stopping or dropping. Not there yet.8:57, an improvement o...

Monday and Tuesday

Monday60 minutes of doormouse cardio circuit...killed me.burpees, stairs, plate twists, bench jumps, burpees, etc. etc. etc.one minute on, half minute offTuesdayGot trained by Zultan, a former Mr. Miami bodybuilder. He pushed me in new and different ways. Heaver loads, different angles, different exercises, momentary muscle failure. Chest, shoulders and triceps are exhausted. Looking forward to sleeping, but have to work tonight. Good thing Wednesday is go to bed early night.

Sunday

Saturday was a rest day, watched basketball, ate Andiamo pizza (!!!) and shopped for mothers day.Now listening to the classic DJ Unibomber-Do A Trick Or Something mixtape from 1998. SO good. Also listened to the Rub's 1994 hip hop mix during the workout. Solid as a rock man. Nothing but classic hip hop mixed perfectly.Sunday...Warm up...50 jumping jacks20 sit ups20 push upsCircuit one x3squat@135lb x15Ring push up x10deadlift@135lb x10Ring dip x10rest 60 seconds between circuitsCircuit two x240l...

And again…

Morning class was a good one.Sprints, ladder and cone drills, burpees, band work, more sprints, slams, drills, planks, push ups and long jump burpees to finish. It was a very humid day so the sweat was a pourin'.After that, on to the gym for-bicep curl/shoulder press super sets 25lbx15, 35lbx12, 40 lbx10-farmer walk @ 75lb 45 seconds (grab a heavy weight, walk slowly for time, put weight down.)-side to side pull ups 3 setsx10-clean and press@65lb 2 setsx10-lat cable pull down@70lb each side x12-...

Thursday

30 minutes doormouse cardio circuit...one minute on 30 seconds off.jacks, burpees, stairs, deadlifts, pullups, push ups, etc.3 super sets (one exercise after the last, no rest with the same bar never touching ground)@ 65 lbs...barbell bicep curl x10jump squats x10over head iso hold (press bar overhead and hold) 20 secondsbarbell row x15. rest one minute in between supersets.treadmill intervalsone minute warm upsix one minute sprints {2.0 incline, 5 minute mile speed (12.0)} with one minute rest ...

Yesterday I saw a full 180 in a client. It was his third session. He had come in looking for what everyone looks for. Six pack abs. Fine, yes, you can have that. Stop eating, move to a third world country. Abra cadabra, six pack abs revealed. We all have a six pack buried beneath. We do not all have core strength, balance, functional fitness tools. Ask the biggest meanest lifter at your gym to do ten burpees, ten pull ups and ten squats. See what happens. Now have him repeat it. And again. I fa...

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Yesterday was rest, body still recovering from the Sunday beating. Today energy is low, light total body work with cardio. Tomorrow back to the big stuff.

Captive with a motive

Now that we are up and running our task is to define what it is to train at "The GARAGE". In this process we must consider the environment we have created, resources at hand and the subject. In order to facilitate this process we have eliminated distractions, technology and excuses. In this way we attempt to get down to the essence of what it is to be "in it". On Monday I managed to get through an entire training session with a long time client without any deviation from what I had planned ...

Triathlon training day 01 or how I lost my legs.

Swim 1.5k open water ocean. Choppy as all get upBike 40k Rickenbacker causeway. Cursed hill. Up and down and up and down. Twice.Run 10k Cranden Park, no shade, sunny.Fall over and wait to feel legs again.