An observation about myself

[klank]

I was just teasing, klank.

Thanks

I know you were. And so was I about going to the pub between sets.

Matt

[Tom Yum]

Ahhh, you know me so well my friend.

I can say one thing about that. I am so glad I have no addictions to alcohol. I see it with my friends around me and they just don't understand how I can hang out with them and be happy not having a beer in hand for four hours. It's all good. It's about my family, not me.

I was just teasing, klank.

Thanks

[GranFire]

Thank you very much!

[klank]

Being healthy for your kid is just about the best motivation I can thing of. I started after I had my son enrolled and it looked like fun...

The push-ups sound interesting...but I can't picture the negatives...

Let me help you...

In the push up position lower your body slowly to the ground focusing on the negative portion of the push up and let your body go to the floor.

Now..

With your knees on the floor and your arms in the push up position lift your knees up and lower your body slowly to the floor again letting it go to the floor.

Your basically doing a push up with out actually doing the "pushing Up part of it" That's what negatives are.

Also like a bicep curl where you have so much weight it's hard to pull it up so you do whatever you can to get it up and than you concentrate on the lowering which is negatives.

[klank]

Good stuff.

Just make sure you don't go to the pub between breaks and drink 10 pints before you work on your next set...

Ahhh, you know me so well my friend.

I can say one thing about that. I am so glad I have no addictions to alcohol. I see it with my friends around me and they just don't understand how I can hang out with them and be happy not having a beer in hand for four hours. It's all good. It's about my family, not me.

[klank]

Got a good pushup method for you.
Do one.
Take a break.
Do two.
Take a break.
Keep adding one each time.
Try going up to five, and then back down again.
Next time you do the pyramid, try going up to and back down from six.
Next time you do the pyramid try seven. etc.

If you work up to a pyramid of ten, then that's exactly one hundred pushups in the set.

Thanks, I'll try any advice I can get. I can tell you that since I advanced to the Intermediate level of my training I am super pooped at the end of class and don't always get my push ups and sit ups done like I have been doing. I will try this though.

[Tom Yum]

Got a good pushup method for you.
Do one.
Take a break.
Do two.
Take a break.
Keep adding one each time.
Try going up to five, and then back down again.
Next time you do the pyramid, try going up to and back down from six.
Next time you do the pyramid try seven. etc.

If you work up to a pyramid of ten, then that's exactly one hundred pushups in the set.

Good stuff.

Just make sure you don't go to the pub between breaks and drink 10 pints before you work on your next set...

[Troll Virus]

Got a good pushup method for you.
Do one.
Take a break.
Do two.
Take a break.
Keep adding one each time.
Try going up to five, and then back down again.
Next time you do the pyramid, try going up to and back down from six.
Next time you do the pyramid try seven. etc.

If you work up to a pyramid of ten, then that's exactly one hundred pushups in the set.

[GranFire]

Being healthy for your kid is just about the best motivation I can thing of. I started after I had my son enrolled and it looked like fun...

The push-ups sound interesting...but I can't picture the negatives...

[klank]

My Motivation

Maybe you haven't' read any of my past posts which is not much when I've said that Truly my true motivation for all of this is my son who will be 3 on Sept. 4th. I want to be healthy and strong when were in the back yard playing football for 2 hours. I realize that we need that break at times when we just want our kid to go outside and play but I'm going to be that Dad that says "Son, lets you and I go outside and play!". I know how it was with my dad and sorry, aint gonna happen with me. I can't even begin to tell you how much of a difference it is between 25 and 34. Yikes!

Thanks for all the Kudos everyone. I may not post much but I'll certainly keep you up to date with my progress.

I had a guy come into my work yesterday who was ripped but not bodybuilding huge and found out he is a personal trainer. Lets just say that I got some great advice about push ups.

He said the best way to train for push ups and the core body strength it takes to do them is these two things

1. Holds. Simply holding your self in the the top position for 30 seconds to a minute at a time and building your hold longer.

2. Negatives. Use your knees to get to the top hold position and than do a negative rep. but don't push back up.

So, with that I'll be trying that come Monday. My shoulder is killing me from test night for some reason.

A few days rest and it's back to the front.

[GranFire]

Thanks Guys. I see your point GranFire. It was frustrating me to practice a drill and feel like I'm having to defend myself in a Cage match. By the 5th time I was loosing respect as well.

That's not losing respect. He's lucky to learn etiquette now. There is always someone bigger and badder around the corner. Tread with caution and respect or you get your a$$ handed to you in your hat! We had a student like that, too. Man, did I ever want to pound him at sparring... :EEK:

O Monday, and one thing I didn't say in my post was after we were close to done with class our instructor came over to us and got the pads out to show him how well weve come along. I was pleased that my fellow student was asked to slow his moves down and needed a lot of work because as you said GranFire (think Wild West Duels, speed is secondary to accuracy). Sure he was fast and strong but he was missing the detail. I've thought a lot about this and feel better about where I'm at compared to him. I think I am that type that needs the detail first before I can get it right, and with speed and endurance.

Some people are gifted with athleticism. For the rest of us, especially th older crowd, we have to carefully train our body to form new muscle memory before we can speed things up. That's normal. But I also know a few people who look like they are slow and weak, but pack an enormous wallop in their technique. Heaven help you to get on their bad side (you sound like one of them! )

And Tom, I have made a lot of progress. I'm the only one in my class that stays behind regardless of what I've done in class and I do 3 sets of push ups for 1 minutes each, 3 sets of sit ups for 1 minute each set, and triceps chair dips. I've been doing this for 3 weeks now and wow, what a change in my strength on how many push ups I can do which is only about 12 at a time.

And I just want you to know that I got major kudos last night at my test. One of the Judges stopped everyone and said they needed to give the same effort as I was giving with the detail, strength, and loud Ki-upping I had just done on a pad work combination. I felt good. I gave it 110% and I know I did because today I am soarer than I've ever been and that's pretty cool. Even on my last Muay Thai Kick I did the pad holder was like "Whoa!" because I kicked him so hard.

It feels good. After last night, it gave me a new meaning of training harder when the School owner came up to me afterwards and said "Keep up the hard work, your going to be one bad ass machine!"

So, If I have another goal to set for this belt it's going to be concentration while at class. I'm totally guilty of thinking about everything but what I'm doing at the moment. I'll work at it.

Thanks again.

This just makes me smile! Being hot, sweaty and hurt and feeling better than ever! Great feeling!

[Tom Yum]

Keep it coming!

[GranFire]

There you go!

[klank]

I made it!

Thanks Guys. I see your point GranFire. It was frustrating me to practice a drill and feel like I'm having to defend myself in a Cage match. By the 5th time I was loosing respect as well.

O Monday, and one thing I didn't say in my post was after we were close to done with class our instructor came over to us and got the pads out to show him how well weve come along. I was pleased that my fellow student was asked to slow his moves down and needed a lot of work because as you said GranFire (think Wild West Duels, speed is secondary to accuracy). Sure he was fast and strong but he was missing the detail. I've thought a lot about this and feel better about where I'm at compared to him. I think I am that type that needs the detail first before I can get it right, and with speed and endurance.

And Tom, I have made a lot of progress. I'm the only one in my class that stays behind regardless of what I've done in class and I do 3 sets of push ups for 1 minutes each, 3 sets of sit ups for 1 minute each set, and triceps chair dips. I've been doing this for 3 weeks now and wow, what a change in my strength on how many push ups I can do which is only about 12 at a time.

And I just want you to know that I got major kudos last night at my test. One of the Judges stopped everyone and said they needed to give the same effort as I was giving with the detail, strength, and loud Ki-upping I had just done on a pad work combination. I felt good. I gave it 110% and I know I did because today I am soarer than I've ever been and that's pretty cool. Even on my last Muay Thai Kick I did the pad holder was like "Whoa!" because I kicked him so hard.

It feels good. After last night, it gave me a new meaning of training harder when the School owner came up to me afterwards and said "Keep up the hard work, your going to be one bad ass machine!"

So, If I have another goal to set for this belt it's going to be concentration while at class. I'm totally guilty of thinking about everything but what I'm doing at the moment. I'll work at it.

Thanks again.

[wavyd]

Klank-

Don't get hung up on this guy too much. He's likely to have been an athlete in school and may be naturally gifted physically. There's always someone that faster, stronger, etc. but that's no reason to doubt your self. The best thing in my experience is to try to get them to slow down enough to correct their technique. When I've taught extremely athletic people the hardest part is to get them to slow down and truly learn. Your doing well to make him slow down and think. Keep it up!

Relaxing for sparring and/or fighting comes with time and experience as well as "putting on your game face". Some find it very effective to visualize doing well or winning, I prefer to simply think about flowing with my opponent so I'm not stuck in a game plan (at least when I compete in TKD because I don't generally know my opponent).

Hope it helps!