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 [...]

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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, [...]

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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 [...]

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Sweaty and Buzzing

Tonight’s PT was all-”MetCon,” all-tabata, all-kettlebell.
I’ve been doing a lot of aiki tai-sabaki and ken throughout the week. This kept me loose, warmed-up, and nicely glowing. But of course, you need that hyper-intense workout every now and again, so tonight was the night. I wasn’t going to hoof it up to Manassas [...]

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Sunday, Sunday

Getting around to post some of last Sunday’s PTs. Relatively low key but nice.
First off, both Saturday and Sunday were IF days for me, in the sense that I underfed during the daytime. Saturday saw us going to The Melting Pot up in Arlington, and since it was to be a “brunch” at [...]

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Battle Royale–Snatch vs CFT

Recovering from a good one, today. Basically a variation on the CFT Variation 3 (Combined w/UAW). This time, for the Pre- and Post-Fatigue sections, I did several of the exercises for 15 counts instead of a steady 10. And for the Core, I did quick-time snatches, starting off with the 32 kg.
Start [...]

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Sunlight Breaks Through

Here’s a new one from titanium soul:

Just a short little piece that I was working with. It was actually inspired by a piece by Philip Sheppard from the Science Channel program “Moon Machines.”
In other (but maybe related news, now that I think about it…), my mom’s latest PET scan (no, [...]

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Best Foot Forward

Just a simple health update, since I mentioned the unpleasantness I was dealing with in my last post. I’m down to just dressing my little toe and padding the outside edge of that toe and a little down the blade of the foot. I wrap the toe with gauze, then leave some to [...]

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Fecht

So last night’s German longsword training was really good. After showing us the Zorn-Oort, and the various plays resulting from that, we got into some good training about “Windings.” I had some confusion on those. I had read Tobler’s book, and I’ve practiced a good bit with Chris, but I hadn’t been [...]

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Watt?

The other day, I forget what brought it up–but I ended up looking up some formulae for power, both electrical and units of work. I found them on Wikipedia, and ended up writing a couple of them in a little pocket calendar I had bought. When we were kids, my dad used to [...]

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