Rockin’ the Rockies

So, now I’m pretty much packed up and ready to head back home tomorrow. Been out at the Springs again for the last week and a half. Pretty busy time here, too. Got a classroom session learning about fly fishing last Thursday, followed up by the field portion the following Saturday. That was quite… interesting. [...]

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Back To The Old Grinds

Simple stuff this morning–back to the basics. Straight out of Pavel’s Power To The People (PTTP). Sometimes I just like to do something simple and raw, and that’s what this is. Pure power up. Grabbed the 32 kg kettlebell and did five military presses on the left, then five on the right. Then the long [...]

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The Eyes Have It

Friday night was a good longsword session–my first after the LASIK and having no glasses. So naturally, Chris had us do exercises where in particular, we were not *supposed to use a mask*… I agreed with his reasoning; don’t go full speed, but you can’t use the mask as an excuse. You *must* feel some [...]

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Morning And A WU

That’s “WU,” as in “Wake Up.” Used often in the military as you’re counting down the days ’til you leave, as in, “I’ve only got 12 days and a WU, man, and I’m outta here!” I’m using it here to denote a morning PT used to start your day. Today’s wake up was a casual [...]

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Now, THAT’S Entertainment

Keeping my promise to myself, I did the PT thing this morning, after a morning hot tea (white jasmine tea–the last bag). It was fairly intense; I definitely was spouting sweat and getting some breathing in. Simple Tabata protocol for kettlebells and some bodyweight stuff. At first, I thought my GYMBOSS had had it. It [...]

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Badge of Honor

Good striking training day on Wednesday with Chris and I. We started off with lots of fist-pushing, where you press your fist into the other person. That gives you feedback on whether your strike would have any strength and/or penetration into the other person, due to body positioning. It lets you know if you are [...]

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Shock! Water Socks Rock Block

So–I’ve been playing with looking for shoes that give the best barefoot feel for working out. Now–I’m aware of the Vibram Five Fingers, and I think they’re darn cool. I found out about them a few years ago, before anybody had really heard about them. Then recently, one of the Longsword fencers (Trey) showed up [...]

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Wrappin’

What’s better than a nice, hot pastrami wrap? Why–two nice, hot pastrami wraps, of course! Made these with ye olde Xpress Redi Set Go. I might post some pix here forthwith. The Xpress has been mighty useful for me, though I sure coulda use that full pan insert as one of the default pans that [...]

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Into The Zone – Nice Rack

I’m always a sucker for a nice rack… Brother Dahood took these pix of some bikes and their interesting racks. I likes. Next time I head out to The Zone and have to fight off mutants and/or zombies and/or Tim Thomerson and his band of rag-tag adventurers/pirates whilst looking for my Cherry 2000, I want [...]

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Hey Man, I Gotta Rep To Maintain

A kettlebell rep count, that is. Just got finished with a good PT this afternoon. I scheduled my kbell interval training in similar fashion to what Rob has mentioned from the new Kenneth Jay book, “Viking Warrior Conditioning.” I say similar, because there are specific measuring protocols, and timing factors that are prescribed, and I [...]

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