Fridays on Defend

[Tom Yum]

LOL!

Mike, I can take a pretty good joke too - how else do I keep moving forward in the morning after looking at my face in the mirror

I've plowed through a 6-hr workout, then put out for an additional 45-minute workout with the lady....












...she kicked my ass on the tennis courts

[jubaji]

Jubs, would you share with us either your running or lifting routine?

Wrasslers probably have the best of both worlds and have been training that way long before MMA became popular.

Well, I hate to disappoint but I don't think what I do today is all that amazing or insightful. I usually put in 2-3 miles of road work a day nowadays. Just your basic running. Try to hit the weights 5 days a week, alternating major muscle groups. The usual stuff. Wrestle or go jump in with friends at some other gym, dojo, dojang, etc. at least 5 days a week. More if I'm feeling ambitious, less if, like last week, I have to have some horrible test done. Oh, and I horse around in the park with my big 'ol dog, if that counts.

When I was really training hard for competition (I mean REALLY training hard) I'd put in some sick hours. Back in the salad days it was a minimum of 5 miles a day for distance, plus interval sprints, jumps, rope-work, 3 hours of practice a day, an hour or so of extra work with teammates, stairs, lifting (a little more for reps than weight back then except for during the off-season) everyday but the 2 days before comp, and the inevitable and hateful hours in the sauna. This was all while going to school full time and pulling two or three part-time jobs. It was stupid, but I was too young to know better.

Now, I'm just slowly breaking down but still doing what I enjoy.

[jubaji]

Wrasslers have been doing it longer, but they're no good past about three minutes. Shallow gas tanks. Every damned one of them.

*edit* no comment that doesn't make me look worse...

[Britt]

Go out and have dinner with my wife and some friends (my instructor and his wife, coincidentally) tonight or tommorrow night. My dad signed us both up for a 5K race tommorrow morning. I haven't been able to keep up with my running as much lately as I'd like and I need to catch up on some sleep (why are races always so friggin' early?), but the District Attorney and a couple of assistant DA's are running it so I feel compelled to go and beat them.

Other than that, try to have a good heavy lifting session and a good gut-busting bag session on Saturday or Sunday afternoon, make up a little for not having time to lift this week. This whole "having a job" thing is really getting in the way of training.

[Tom Yum]

Have you decided on that career shift into the whole East coast rapper thing?

Well, I work a different job on the weekends that challenges my sleep schedule during the rest of the week...alot of the other guys complain about it, but I don't mind (so long as others understand that my sleep patterns will be off).

[Britt]

Have you decided on that career shift into the whole East coast rapper thing?

Still workin' on it, yo. No problem with time for training then...cause I'll be full time Wu-Tang style!

[treelizard]

Working another 14-hour shift tonight but tomorrow I get to go hiking... Now I just have to clean the house and cook dinner.

[jubaji]

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[Hardball]

God, I used to hate those 14 hour shifts!! It gets better, I hope.

[jubaji]

What happened to the teaching job, Tree?

[treelizard]

What happened to the teaching job, Tree?

I'm still teaching! Two of my kids got expelled, which helps with my class size.

[Hardball]

I'm still teaching! Two of my kids got expelled, which helps with my class size.

Also helps to get rid of the troublemakers? Yikes

[Hardball]

Today Friday (10/12/07 is my 50th birthday. I'm headed out for a broiled seafood dinner, then a quite night watching a movie and some romance.

Teaching 4 private lessons over the weekend then lots and lots of chores. We finally got some badly needed rain here in Md., but no yard work this weekend.

What's on tap with you?

[Hardball]

Happy birthday, Hardball! I'm going to spend the weekend catching up on work, but I'll tip one back in your honor. I'm still trying to make enough time to get up your way for some training, but on an upside, I found a spectacular gym here in my own hometown that might be receptive to some training from outsiders. I haven't asked them yet, but they've got the right idea. I'll keep you posted.

Thanks for the Birthday wishes. Glad you found a gym. You gotta be about 90 minutes at least from me? Or 90 miles? I'm always open to some new ideas and some cross training.

[treelizard]

Also helps to get rid of the troublemakers? Yikes

I try my hardest to not look at them as troublemakers but as confused, misguided children... and I wish they would make better choices!

I hope to stay up all night and finish grading today so I can have my weekend. I want to go to Tucson Meet Yourself and to this really amazing poetry center housewarming event, ooh and I get to bake cookies for someone.