Thursday, March 4, 2010

Gone but still Training

Has been a very complicated and busy few months, and have not been posting as of late. But enough excuses.

Lately, I have been playing with combining RTK with Convict Conditioning. Suprisingly, they fit very well. Whether I use one before the other in the same session, or alternate them throughout the week, they seem to fit in a suprising comfortable manner. Due to the two different angles they work on, they seem to compliment each other. And the fact that I can train, warm-up to cool down, in as little as 30 min. 45 if I do both in one session. And the progressions keep coming.

As Adam Glass states, I am posting new PRs every workout. ARE YOU?

Grippers are coming along. Expect the CoC 2.5 to fall by summer of this year, and if I can stay focused on it through the chaos, the 3 by years end. I WANT THESE.
I have been training hard with filled down grippers, and they really help with the standard final close.

As for pressing, I am not sure how to approach it. From the perspective of bringing up the bottom level to provide a stronger base for new 1RM PRs, I will have to experiment. All I know is that 36 kg feels like a babyweight, and have been taking my time with progressions in weight as I wanted to give my shoulder joints some rest (was coming close to an injury at the end of the last year).

Picked up steel bending again. 60Ds fall easily, have not retested myself on the Blue nail. I choose very tough 60D nails, and find them easier than the Blue nails, until I cut the blue nails to 5 inches. 4.5 inches sucks (big hands, so nowhere to grip when I bend DU). Also use less wrap than most, and am going to transfer over to the blue ironmind wraps (forget what they are called).

Only problem I have is stopping my thighs from chaffing. CC is partly to blame, genetics another, and the Metabolic Diet I have adopted. Years of retraining my body to be more efficient via the Warrior Diet have made it easier, and because of my new training style and the anabolic response from the increased protein levels I am eating, I am leaner at my current size than I ever have been, and have the strength levels of myself at 250 lbs. I am around 230. CC plus RTK plus the Metabolic Diet equals muscle without bodyfat. Just have to keep an eye on your acidity levels.

Will start logging my training sessions again.