Full House

2006-03-12T22:46:00.000-05:00

lets see, knees are feeling better and finals are slowly getting done, not until tuesday unfortunately
got last week's track workout done last monday with 2o0s from 31-33s and 100s around 12-13s
lifted day 1 of the alternate workout today and will probably lift at least once more before break, i'm not sure which practices i'll be able to make so i'll squeeze in the last track workout tomorrow at some point

watson 3/10

2006-03-10T03:58:00.000-05:00

Hey guys,
ultimate last sunday, then plyo workouts on tuesday and wednesday. track yesterday.

32, 32, 32, 31
14, 14, 14, 15
32, 33, 33, 32
15, 15, 15, 15
33, 32
15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15

Short

2006-03-09T10:34:00.000-05:00

Track workout Tuesday by myself, which sucked. I have no idea how to pace, which meant my 200 times deteriorated as I progressed. Also got to Leverone on Tuesday night, lifted Day 1 Alternate with Mikey yesterday, will be practicing today and lifting Day 2 Alternate tomorrow, then practice Saturday.

lots

2006-03-05T23:11:00.000-05:00

so i've been lazy and haven't posted in a couple of weeks, but i've still been keeping up with the workouts
got both of the last two track workouts done with 200s between 32 and 34 seconds and 300s between 55 and 56 seconds, the couple 400s were around 78-80, i would write down exact times but i lost my sheet
i finished up 8 weeks of the original lifting workout and last week started the alternate lifting, got through a week of it and am going to start the second this week, i'll keep doing it until spring break and then start up the normal workout once we get back
the turf did a number on my knee yesterday and now its bruised and swollen, can't get much drive off of it and laying out for the time being is not going to happen

updates

2006-03-03T14:26:00.000-05:00

lots of them. sorry i haven't posted in two weeks. last week i was on vacation and this week was unable to get access to a computer. last week, i was only able to get in a plyo workout and a track workout (times below). also got in three days of telemarking. good for the quads.

33, 34, 33, 33
53, 54, 54
33, 34, 34, 33
14, 14, 14, 14

this week, plyos on monday, 3x3x5 40m sprints on tuesday, plyos and 5x100 5x50 5x25 on wednesday, and a track workout on thursday. the rest/work ration was 3:1 for the sprints.

31, 33, 33, 32
51, 53
32, 33, 32, 32
13, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14

Nate 2/24
hey boyos,

i've been running some agilities now that we have a decent stretch of pavement. yesterday did 10 sets of stadiums with 20 situps or 10 pushups at the top of each set, and then ran 5-200m shuttle runs.

three days ago did 20 of the shorter shuttle runs and then ran 5 compasses.

four days ago did my plyo lifts (3x) (15 squat, rdl each leg, 120 wall touches, 30 situps)

6(?) days ago did the plyo lifts again

Forrest 2/24
lifted (day 3 week 6) on monday + squash
track workout on tuesday --> felt sluggish, partly because it was the first track workout id done since vegas. times were still decent, but should be faster this week
squash wednesday and thursday (games v. walker, mikey, and seigs twice)
lifted (day 1 of week 6 again) today --> starting up the altrenate workout with lamar et al. next week so i had a freeby. i hate chinups

that's it. not playing in four corners, but ill do something to make up for it (probably squash and some tossing) instead

Devlin 2/22
monday - 15 5-10s, interspersed with getups and those sprints u do by falling down to start. threw with my dad, and by that i mean caught swill.

tuesday - lower body lift (3x10x195, 3x10x215 squat; 3x12x45 rdl; all paired with 25/30/35 iso calf raises)

today - upper body lift, weds night pickup. 2 goals, 1 assist, 2 Ds (including a pseudo-intimiD poach layout block...will wonders never cease), no turns.

Sammy 2/22
I'm picking it up this week, it's been good.

Saturday - sprints/plyos
Sunday - Conditioning, 2 2's, 2 4's, 2 6's, 2 4's, 2 2's
Monday - Day 1
Tuesday - Long Run
Wednesday - 10 x 100

I'll try to keep the intensity as we head into the close of the program here, only 3 more weeks

Checkup

2006-02-28T17:14:00.000-05:00

Lifted day 1 of the alternate with Mikey on Monday, it was fun and we got to abuse Sadie as she and the rest of Princess attempted 8 or 7 or some number Minute Abs at the end of their agilites. Ran the track workout with Fo and Timmer this morning, I thought it was probably the strongest one we've run together yet, although we didn't do quite enough on the last sets of 200s.

4 laps striding half/jogging half
4 x 200 30, 29, 31, 32
2 x 300 52, 53
4 x 200 34, 34, 35, 32
6 x 100 didn't time, but I was pretty happy with my sprinting speed when I got up for it... between these 100 sprints though, at least over the past two weeks, I've felt mad nauseous as soon as my body kind of slows down. I don't really eat anything before the workouts, so I dunno what the cause is.

Cool. Those of you reading this from some exotic location will be back soon. I'm pumped.

Workout Today

2006-02-21T16:11:00.000-05:00

I did the track workout today with Lamar, Timmer, Forrest, and Spooger. It was the first time I had done one in two weeks, because my knee had really been hurting me, but thankfully my knee did not hurt that much afterwards. I am still having to stretch alot before i do anything active, but i can tell it's getting better. I also finished the old workout sheet and am going to start the alternate workouts for the rest of the winter and the spring.
Much Love all.
-Rem

Alternate Workout

2006-02-20T15:53:00.000-05:00

Hey Full House,

Just got done Day 1 of the Alternate Weight Workout with Chimpo. It was a nice change of pace from the original workout, and it was nice to be working with someone so they can commment on form, weights, whatever. I then beat him in one on one, a very ugly game which featured 5 airballs by me but also 6 blocks, one sky hook and a game winning three that I called. Admittedly it was the third three I had called in a row and the first to go in, but let's focus on the good.

After some really weird back problems on Sunday, the good ol' spine held up just fine today. Hopefully that means that all of the lingering pain will be gone soon.

-Uncle Joey

2006-02-20T08:19:00.000-05:00

lifted a few times last week, my legs have been bothering me recently so i took the weekend off, now i've got the flu so i probably won't be doing the track workout until late this week

more updates

2006-02-16T12:31:00.000-05:00

Sammy 2/15:
Saturday - Chuckie and I did a bitch of a conditioning workout, something like 2 x 200, 2 x 400, 6 x 200, 2 x 400, 2 x 200. During one of the 200's I was chased by a stray dog, but a nice Marshallese dude called him away as he was about to attack. Phew
Sunday - 18 5/10's and plyos, felt great. I beat chuckie on several of the sprints too
Monday - Day 2, week 4, kicking butt with the weights
Tuesday - 10 x 100
Wednesday - off
Today (thursday) - 8 sets of 3 minutes soft, 1 minute hard running. Still a bitch.

Forrest 2/15:
after spraining or doing something weird to my back on friday in vegas, i'm starting to feel better. the plan right now is the rest thru saturday (convenient given i have 2 papers and a midterm between now and then), then to toss and hang out a bit at the turf tourney before either runnig the week's optional track workout or throwing a little lift in

Lamar 2/15:
Just got back from a lift, did day 1, week 1 to start over again... i think i remember that being the thing to do once week 6 was done, but i might be wrong. either way, i don't think i'll be doing too much week 1 stuff, as i have decided to try out the alternate weight workout for a couple of weeks, until sometime in march when i'll figure out number of weeks left, etc. and jump back into the regular workout so that it will peak at the right time.

Nate 2/15:
i was out of it for the past weekend travelling and then accidentally travelling to panama (yeah, i'm an idiot) but have kept up with my little plyo thing: 3x(15- 1 leg squat each leg, 15- 1 leg rdl each leg, 120 wall touches, 15- 1-leg box jumps each leg). also done some running, though its kinda discouraged since you're not supposed to go outside without boots so i've been running in them, which isn't great.

Watson 2/16:
I've been out of it for a bit the past week. Saturday and Sunday I practiced flexing my muscles on the beach in nice on the mediterranean. Monday and Wednesday i did some pretty tough plyo workouts and then today did the track workout. for some reason, i felt exhausted, slow, and weak while doing it even though my times aren't bad. Also, i don't know why, but i figured that the middle 6 100s were strides instead of sprints. oops.

31, 52, 73, 54, 33
strides instead of sprints
31, 53, 74, 54, 33
15, 15, 15, 14

this week i'm going on vacation, so i don't know if i'll be able to get in very many workouts. at the very least, for three days i'll be working my quads telemarking by mont blanc.

stuff

2006-02-14T07:51:00.000-05:00

2/7 track workout
200: 33,33,34
3oo: 59,60,60
400: 80,81,80
300: 59,60,59
200: 33,33,30

since i was just sitting on my ass in hanover i decided to do the track workout again on monday 2/13
200: 34,35,34
300: 59,58,59
400: 78,80,81
300: 59,60,60
200: 35,35,30

lifted 3 times in between and played some squash and bball, hope vegas was sweet and that you guys played well

Vegas in 11 hours

2006-02-09T17:12:00.000-05:00

yup. 11 hours. even less by the time you read this. maybe i'll be there. maybe i'll be back. maybe i'll have gone, come back, and gone there once more. who knows.

this week's track workout times:

32, 54, 79, 54, 34
34, 55, 78, 55, 32
34, 56, 80, 57, 31

also finished week 6, and thus the first workout sheet, earlier this week. starting it all over come next week. (or maybe i already started it. depending on when you read this, of course.)

updates

2006-02-09T15:05:00.000-05:00

nate 2/6:

hey guys, i've been out of phone and internet contact for the past 3 weeks, just got back from the largest still-untouched area of rainforest in central america last night, but i've been doing workouts. can't really get track times, but am running distances and interspersing some sprints and doing lifts which are basically plyos that involve 4x (10 1-leg squats each leg, 10 1-leg RDL each leg, 80 wall touches or 40 calf raises, 40 situps) 3 times a week plus hiking on average 5-6 miles a day.

forrest 2/7:
apologies to the guys who are off for being bad about blitzing my fitness stuff. every week is about the same, with the track workout, 2 lifts, saturday practice, and the optional wed workout. because I have DREAM on fridays, i use the wednesday stuff as make up. i also play 2-3 squash matches (best of 5 or 7) per week

as for track times, they're dropping and im feeling pretty good:

depending on the workout, my 200 times have dropped from the 34-35 range to 31-33, pretty consistently. even ran one 29 earlier today. the 300s went from 56-59ish to steady 51-55s. 400s are usually 73-77

feeling good about heading into vegas this weekend, too. feel like ive been playing real well in practice, and feel much more confident as one of the main d-line handlers (atleast for the winter)

thats about it. hope all's well with you kids. miss those of you gone

forrest

sammy 2/7
Yo kids, just doing my check-in for the week, normally I'd check blitz on friday but apparently I have to sign up for classes. Wanktastic registrar. I've fallen behind slightly but I should be able to catch up. Sunday I ocean kayaked for 5 hours, it was maybe the hardest physical thing I've had to do since freshman year of high school soccer tryouts. You can't ask a coach to sub you out when you're fighting huge currents in the middle of a lagoon. Monday I took off, yesterday I conditioned, and today I did 18 5-10's and plyos. I am having trouble with the conditioning, I haven't been able to get past the 8 reps of 1 minute hard, 3 minutes soft yet. Don't really know what to do better, I could blame it on the 80 degree heat maybe.

watson 2/9
been going to practice as usual, saturday and sunday i did a plyo workout, and more plyos tuesday and wednesday. track workout today, times below.

32, 53, 74, 55, 33
34, 54, 76, 56, 34
34, 56, 77, 56, 34

happy with my improvement on the 400s, but now am going to start focusing on bringing down the 300 and 200 times. good luck in vegas guys.

this week

2006-02-05T17:38:00.000-05:00

got in some lifts, did the weds night pickup (2 assists, 3 scores, 1 D, 1 drop), plyos, sprints, and just got back from an epic 4.5 hr brooklyn practice.

watson 2/2

2006-02-02T12:57:00.000-05:00

friday - ultimate practice and some focused throwing.
saturday and sunday - tournament near marseille.
monday - off
tuesday - plyos, 15 5-10 suicides
wednesday - more plyos
thursday (today) - track workout. blew my load on the first 400, but i brought it down to a level that was more appropriate. Proud of myself for the big improvement. i wish my 200s were faster, though. something to work on next week

200 - 30, 31
400 - 73, 76, 79
200 - 35, 35, 35, 34, 35, 35
400 - 78, 80
200 - 34, 34

sammy 2/2

2006-02-02T02:45:00.000-05:00

hey kids, just wanted to let you know that I'm keeping up with the workouts.

Sunday - Day 3 - oh man I was so good at those single-leg squats, getting all the way down on the 4th set on my weak leg, felt great
Monday - conditioning, 8 sets of 1 minute fast and 3 minutes slow. I was damn sore and tired, I'll blame it on 80-degree weather and the tough workout from the day before.
Tuesday - Day 1. I'm moving up in the world, I usually use 30 and 35 pound weights now, last year I was all into 20's and 25's
Wednesday - Sprints - 8 x 100, all in the 13 second range
- Plyos for about half an hour. I think I do fewer plyos than you do, but with the sprints my legs felt dead, I wasn't even able to cooldown run all the way back
Tomorrow (Friday) I'll do sprints to round out the week, probably 5/10's, maybe some 70's though.

Pimp. You're playing colorado, huh? Let me tell you that last year when we went to San Diego I thought we were gonna be totally outmatched, playing west coast teams when we couldn't even beat harvard, and we came out in the first game and beat defending national runner-up Cal-Berkeley. Trust that you can play with anyone as long as you play our game. And have fun too, there's no pressure, so live it up.

2006-01-31T22:15:00.000-05:00

i forget when i last updated, but i lifted day 2 last thursday followed by agilities on friday, practice on saturday was great and for b team practice on sunday we did some drills (go to and huck) and competitive 4v4 boot in the two hours we were out there, my legs were feeling dead and i i wasn't feeling too good when i did the track workout on monday, it went fairly well and my legs started to get better as it went on
200s: 33,33
400s: 85,86,85
200s: 31,31,32,31,32,32
400s: 81,82
200s: 30,31
i really went all out at the end, mixture of relief and feeling like crap afterwards, i did the last set of 400s a few seconds faster than expected, pretty sure i timed them correctly
lifted day 1 week 8 today, realized i skipped day 3 by accident, i'll just make sure i do it this week at some point, submitted my history fsp proposal this evening, what a relief

Various bad things

2006-01-31T18:54:00.000-05:00

So at some point last week, I believe it was Wednesday, I got in day 1 of week 6. It was a good time. Friday's agilities were tough but felt good, and practice on Saturday was beautiful. Today I did the track workout with FoHo and Timmer, really was not happy with myself.

2 x 200s 34, 33
3 x 400s 77, 74, 75
6 x 200s 33, 34, 33, 33, 34
2 x 400s 77
2 x 200s 37, 35

the last of the 6 200s and the first of the 2 400s i spent over the toilet in Leverone, desperately trying to get myself psyched up to pull the trigger. I have never felt that messed up from working out before. Also, the last two times don't look awful, but I was a good 3 - 5 seconds behind Timmer and Fo on each one. I don't know what it was today - I know it's a hard workout and we really tried to not hold anything back from the beginning, but I was just not doing good.

I'll be lifting tomorrow, maybe do the Air Assault 3 with Mideast (gasp!) first? Who knows.

good lord

2006-01-29T19:18:00.000-05:00

i just completed the week from hell- got 6 hrs of sleep TOTAL from tues-thurs, was working nonstop. kind of tapered off towards the end, but still left me no time to a) lift and b) play ultimate (which is a big part of my training). did plyos on monday and sprints this morning.

now i can see why college is absolutely the best years of our lives

sammy 1/27

2006-01-27T02:44:00.000-05:00

hey kids, just wanted to check in and let you know that I've completed another week of workouts. It's getting pretty exhausting to do it without ultimate on the side, but charlie and I make it fun, and the fact that I do it when it's 75 degrees out on a pier on the Pacific Ocean helps too. Here's the schedule, as best as I can remember.

Saturday - plyos
Monday - conditioning, 9 sets of 1 minute hard, 3 soft
Tuesday - Day 1
Wednesday - 17 reps of 5/10's, plyos
Thursday - Day 2. I love the lower back exercise for some reason, always gives a good pain
Friday (today) - 10 x 70 yard sprints, plyos.

Hot. See you soon. Write me letters.

watson 1/26

2006-01-26T16:08:00.000-05:00

friday 20: played some indoor ultimate and did a short plyo workout.
saturday 21: went telemark skiing for the entire day. good thigh workout.
sunday 22: indoor ultimate
monday 23: rien (nothing)
tuesday 24: 12 ~60/70 yds sprints (however far i run in 10 seconds) used a 5:1 rest/work ratio, plyos
wednesday 25: short plyo workout
thursday 26: track workout and plyos.

200: 30, 30
300: 55, 58, 57
400: 81, 85, 85, 83
300: 57, 58, 56
200: 34, 34

lamar 1/24

2006-01-24T18:46:00.000-05:00

hey cellies.

finished off week 5 yesterday, added some weight to the box dips for the first time but made sure to keep going way down. a fairly good workout, i guess, but no awesome music from some dance class.

also did the track workout today:
200s 32, 33
300s 54, 56, 55
400s 78, 78, 83, 83
300s 57, 58, 63
200s 33, 31

not doing the extra fartleks at the beginning helped me on the 400s since i wasn't really friggin tired, but i don't think i warmed up well enough. i was pushing myself pretty hard, and even though my times weren't worse than last week, my body just didn't seem to respond as much as it did then. so i guess i've got to balance the need to do a legit warmup with the ability to actually finish the workout strong. still working on it.

2006-01-24T08:19:00.000-05:00

stadiums on friday, turf field scrimmage on saturday, day 3 week 7 on sunday, track work out yesterday: 200 (31s,32s), 300s (60,58, 58), 400 (85,86,86,88), 300 (57,58,60), 200 (30,30), definitely feeling improvement with the track workouts, although i was bothered by some shin splints this time around, mostly hit me on the later 400s and second sets of 300s and 200s, they weren't too bad though

Hola Peeps

2006-01-22T14:37:00.000-05:00

Hey all. Sorry I haven't been posting stuff, my fault. Anyway, my calfs are still a little sore from the calf-raises we did at the stadium the other day, but overall I feel great. I felt really good during the tourney this weekend, which sort of surprised me, becuase I really really don't like playing in the cold that much. But then again, it was warmer than usual. The workouts and the lifting has been going pretty nicely. I have gone and done some lifts by myself, becuase sometimes I can only get to very odd hours because of other commitments, like very early in the morning or late at night, but i'm still getting them done. I'm done with week 5, so hopefully now that i have a hold on my schedule, i can start going with the full house peeps again. I'm also playin IM basketball and we are 1-0, with a win against Dan Yi's team. Yea, we beat that ass. Anyway, everything's good, get crunk, have a nice sunday. Peace out
-Rem

brooklyn

2006-01-22T14:33:00.000-05:00

went to the brooklyn ultimate practice yesterday. it was fun- lots of kill drills, give-and-goes, and 70yd sprints mixed with two scrimmages. my dump cuts need work, although it was pretty hard to get traction in the soft mud. Had some in and out cuts from the vert stack though. brooklyn certainly has some good players, although it's not too difficult to see why they placed 6th or so at regionals. but i'm definitely planning on continuing to go if i can, as well as to the wedsneday night game.

apart from that, i've been busy celebrating my 21st bday with my first-ever legal beers. also had some grey goose.

on the downside, i had a great time working 23 hours on thursday.

nate 1/20

2006-01-20T15:13:00.000-05:00

i've been doing something most days, missed yesterday but the day before did plyos and then went on a 9-mile run, day before that ran a series of 400's and 800's (this also happened to be running up and down the beach looking at sea turtles laying eggs), day before i don't remember. i've been doing plyos every other day or so and running on most off days.

Watson 1/19

2006-01-19T12:35:00.000-05:00

yo. This past weekend I went and played in a indoor tournament in switzerland, so that was pretty fun. I'll count that as one workout.

Tuesday and Wednesday I did some short plyo workouts.

Today I did the track workout, which has a funny story to it. Since I didn't want to run in the mud again, i found a new track, but shorter, which looked about the size of the one in leverone. It's pretty nice, and even has some little things to keep you dry when it rains and you're not running. anyways, the times

200 - 40, 39
300 - 72, 72, 73
400 - 114, 113, 113, 114
at this point i realize that something is seriously wrong. my muscles must be deteriorating or something. I just can't run any faster. at the start of the 400s, i decide to take it a bit easy and just work on getting a consistent time. then, i get the bright idea that maybe it's not me. I ask, in broken french, how long the track is, and i hear the reply "deux cent cinquante." if you translate this correctly, it means "you are all my bitches." i was running 250s, 375s, and 500s. i fixed the distances for the rest of the sets i had to do.
300 - 61, 57, 56
200 - 34, 34

hope you enjoyed my story. fucking french.

sammy 1/18

2006-01-19T02:48:00.000-05:00

alrighty, here's what I've been up to this week, same as usual.

Saturday - Day 2
Monday - 8 sets of 3 minutes easy, 1 minute hard. That's the early-season conditioning workout I think, we did it a bunch last year. Charlie and I are gonna keep building up from that.
Wednesday - Plyos and sprints, 8 x 100
Thursday (that's today) - Day 3
Friday - sprints

sophomore slump

2006-01-19T01:01:00.000-05:00

played pickup for the 2nd week in a row. had virtually zero impact (good or bad) on the game. got beat on D, beat other ppl on O. and so it goes.

one thing i notice is that i tend to drift to the open side a lot before cutting, esp in the endzone. definitely not a good idea.

did another short midday lift on tuesday:

squats 1x12x110 2x12x120
incline bench 2x12x35 1x10x35
curl 3x12x30 pair with forearm curl 3x15x20
incline situps 3x15 holding a 25 lb weight

day 2, week 5

2006-01-18T20:21:00.000-05:00

just did day 2, it was pretty solid. my jumprope skills did not go unnoticed by the 60 girls in the aerobics class, let me tell you. also, they did an extensive routine to a linkin park song that had been remixed into gym music.

i was overjoyed.

2006-01-18T19:15:00.000-05:00

lifted day 1 week 7 tuesday, air alert workout plus core today, lost first sigep basketball game verses thetadelt

lots of updates...

2006-01-18T10:36:00.000-05:00

FORREST
jan 3
did day 2 of week 5 this evening then played 4 games of squash v zargham (4 wins) and two v. seigs (2 losses)
(forrest did the track workout the following day)

jan 10
9 min Fartleks
4X400: 1:20, 1:19, 1:18, 1:21
3X300: 1:01, :57, 1:01
2X200: :34, :34
also played seigs in squash and beat him 4 games to 3, including some nice layout points. I am exhausted

SAM
1/3
Hi guys. I have worked out a bunch since I've been here, and Charlie and I haven't had trouble keeping up. Friday I took a 35 minute run in the 85 degree heat, it was tough. Saturday Charlie and I did day 1, week 1. He said he wasn't very good about keeping up with the weeks during break, so he wanted to just start over and I was fine to make that compromise. Monday we did a track workout, 8 reps of 3 minutes soft, one minute hard. Tuesday we did day 2. Today I am doing a warmup, sprints for 15 seconds with 45 seconds of active rest, and then some plyos on a pier that juts out into the Pacific ocean. Pretty cool huh?

1/12
Saturday - day 3
Monday - Plyos on the pier overlooking the pacific
Wednesday - 10 x 70 yard sprints, 1 minute in between each, a mile warmup and mile cooldown
Thursday - Day 1
Friday - Sprints and plyos on my pier of love.

NATE
jan 11
i ran 400's today, they went well though i don't have a watch to time them. i've been working out every day at 5:30AM, which feels really good. i like this whole getting up early thing.

Track Workout

2006-01-17T16:35:00.000-05:00

just wanted to put my times up before i lost the page ripped out of the communist manifesto i have them written on.

2 x 200s - 35, 36 seconds
3 x 300s - 56, 61, 60 seconds
4 x 400s - 82, 84, 89, 80 seconds
3 x 300s - 57, 56, 56 seconds
2 x 200s - 32, 30 seconds

we also ran 9 minutes of fartlek to begin because i thought that the 'warmup' portion of the blitz referred to that... it really hurt us at the top of the pyramid, as everyone was falling apart during the 400s (9 seconds of difference is way too much). we were also too tentative on the first set of 200s, which i'm not surprised about.

my arm's been feeling really good so tomorrow i'm getting back on the lifting schedule along with all of the team stuff. i'm pumped.

2006-01-17T08:14:00.000-05:00

practice was tiring, but the play was solid overal, i still feel like i'm playing a little tentatively, but it's getting better
lifted day 3 week 6 sunday with an upper body circuit added
did the track workout monday: 200s - 30s, 300s - 59-61s, 400s - 87-90s, 300s 59-61s, 200s - 29-30s
i'm pretty sure the times are correct, but some could be off by a second or two in either direction

plyos part 2

2006-01-16T20:57:00.000-05:00

in an effort to continue babying my hamstring, i did the following plyo workout in lieu of track workout:

3x20 leapups
2x20 calf raise
2x20 step up
2x20 thrust up
1x200 burnout
4x20 squat hops
3x10 split lunge jumps
2x45sec wallsits
3x20 leapups
1x200 burnout

2 sets of 25 pushups paired with 25 flatfooted situps

plyos

2006-01-14T14:10:00.000-05:00

did the following workout:

jump rope- 4x 1 min on 2 legs/1 leg/other leg/2 legs
- 2x20 leapups (air alert)
- wide leg bounds- 5x 20 yards
- squat jumps- 3 sets of 5
- split lunge jumps- 3 sets of 6
- side to side ring drill- 3 sets of 8
- 2x20 calf raises
- wall sits (back to back)- 2x 45 sec
- drinking bird- 2x 15 ea leg
- 1x100 burnouts

you talkin bout practice?

2006-01-14T11:27:00.000-05:00

nope, not in this post.
the sixers beat the celts in 3OT last night, ridiculous and lamar odom almost had a triple double against the cavs (nice job)

the two above comics are dedicated to all the nihilists out there

first track workout

2006-01-12T12:24:00.000-05:00

finally i was able to find a track, and by track i mean a wide dirt path that is 400m around (i think), and by dirt path i mean mud path. since i missed the first track workout, my times aren't so great (kinda got a little excited on the first 400 but i'll work it out). my feet also kept slipping from underneath me, but i'll take what i can get.

400s - 79, 82, 84, 88
300s - 57, 57, 54
200s - 40, 40

long time

2006-01-11T23:51:00.000-05:00

...no post. anyways, my job is pretty demanding, and it's only training yet. im in the same boat as wats- no tracks, and i get out of work way after it gets dark. theres a tiny park that ought to be good for some 100m sprints, as well as some space for plyos. hopefully it's lit...

monday: decided to do stair workout in my apt in lieu of track workout. sprinted 22 flights, then 20 flights, then 18 flights (2 at a time) until i dry-heaved from a lack of ventilation.

today: no real time to do the full alternate workout that seigs blitzed out (only had an hour break for lunch). so i did squats (1x10x100, 2x10x120), RDLs (3x10x35), wrist curls (3x15x45), and some quick incline situps.

tonight i went to east river park to play some high level pickup. felt pretty good- only one turn (a lefty drop), 3 Ds (1 callahan). had some nice IO breaks as well as baby talk cuts. my team rolled, with the help of some scrub named alex masulis. lowlights included injuring my right hamstring on a deep cut, getting D'ed in the air cause i didnt go up hard, and finally walking 30 mins to the closest subway stop in the pouring rain.

but im really psyched to play disc this spring, cause we're gonna be fucking good. im also excited to work more on quickness and plyos.

2006-01-11T20:49:00.000-05:00

in the spirit of brevity: day 1 week 6 yesterday and the air alert workout today, good stuff all around, legs feeling tired but sturdy
monday's track workout times: 400s were all around 88s with 300s between 74 and 76s and 200s at 29 and 30s respectively, for future reference i'll take more exact times

stupid arm pit

2006-01-10T12:27:00.000-05:00

So I did day 1 of week 5 yesterday, but in the process re-aggravated the left armpit/shoulder injury I got last week trying out this crazy leg-swinging-while-one-legged-jumping thing. I dunno, it really hurt at Saturday's practice and after the chin ups yesterday, so I'll be taking a break from the lifts till I'm confident it's better. I'll still be doing stuff in the gym, legs and plyos and such, along with the track workout (did this morning) and the thompson stadiums, etc. I'll let y'all know.

To everyone who's away, I hope your respective locations are mad sweet. It's snowy here.

recent stuff

2006-01-09T23:05:00.000-05:00

forget what i posted about last, but here's my most recent stuff:
day 3 week 5 on sunday after IM hockey, we won 9-3, but I took a puck off the shin and now its swollen like crazy, but hey a win's a win...
track workout week 2 today, besides from painful shins it went well, ran hard and manged to not be late for my 2

practice on saturday was a good time, worked on the stack and cutting, my legs felt good, but my throws were pretty rusty, especially my backhand, which was weird, but all in all with practice, hockey and lifting it was a fun and productive weekend

Done with Week 4

2006-01-05T17:04:00.000-05:00

Did Day 3 of week 4 yesterday, it was awesome to do dips on a plyos box instead of on the seat of an uncooperative chair. Also did the track workout this morning for the first time, did all of the laps but couldn't do the 400s at anything close to a sprint pace. Hoping that I show some quick improvment on that over the next few weeks. Also seem to have hurt (but hopefully not injured) my left leg at some point, probably from not stretching well enough after, so i'm not lifting today. Team conditioning tomorrow, so I guess I'll be doing day 1 some time this weekend.

2006-01-05T13:17:00.000-05:00

did day 3 of week 4 today. got my ass kicked by the running yesterday

2006-01-05T08:31:00.000-05:00

did day 1 week 5 on tuesday after playing around an hour of basketball, yesterday did the track workout

disc4

2006-01-03T18:39:00.000-05:00

just finished watching disc 4- sweet spikes seigs!

upper body

2006-01-02T15:47:00.000-05:00

db incline bench: 1x12 x35lb, 2x12x40lb; paired with 3x25 incline situps holding a 10lb plate
db bench: 2x12x30, 1x15x35; paired with 3x20 incline situps holding a 10lb plate
tricep pulldown: 1x15x35, 2x12x40
back row: 1x12, 2x15 on the "8" setting
db bicep curl: 3x12x30; paired with 3x25 incline situps holding a 10lb plate
db forearm curl: 3x15x25

back on the horse

2006-01-01T20:45:00.000-05:00

day 2 today- did 3x12 back extensions instead of 3x8, and i decided to subsitute leg curls instead of the sb leg curls.

sorry

2005-12-31T17:44:00.000-05:00

i just got back from florida- a week full of nothing but disney world, sitting in the car for longass stretches, and chinese buffets. so i didnt get this week's lifts done- sorry fellas...

Feliz Ano Nuevo

2005-12-31T15:35:00.000-05:00

So on Thursday I hit up my free week gym membership for a second time, got day 2 of week 4 done. It was probably the best workout I've gotten since coming home, I really felt good about it. I then went and played some 6 on 6 for a few hours with the old HS team. Today I played in a chill/swill hat tourney downtown for a few hours. Hope you're all looking forward to this next year. My astrologist says it'll be sweet.

my week

2005-12-31T09:58:00.000-05:00

haven't posted in a while...
on christmas eve i went for a three mile run, on monday i did day 1 week 4, tuesday i did upper body and played a few hours of football, wednesday i was incredibly sore from football and took the day off, thursday i did day 2 week 4 and played a few hours of basketball, friday i did upper body again and went ice skating, today i'm going to do day 3 week 4 and play some more basketball
this week i also went to an Ansel Adams and a Surrealist art exhibit and played civ 4 until my eyes hurt, in ultimate related news Brown's ultimate team was mentioned in the Globe as the "best championship team that got overlooked [in 2005]"
am i the only one who feels a bit depressed when taking down the christmas tree?

More Updates

2005-12-28T18:46:00.000-05:00

Nate, 12/28:
yesterday i played a game with seigs and a bunch of my high school buddies, pretty good quality though we were all kinda fucking around. today i went running and did trailwork on the farm. wish sam the best, he's flying from hawaii to the marshalls right now.

Kimia, 12/28:
been workin' out 3-5 days a week, went to CA for xmas and i actually had to have emergency surgery on 2 wisdom teeth 2 days before xmas!! good now, but layin' low! see you all soon!

Updates

2005-12-28T13:00:00.000-05:00

Forrest, 12/25:
did week 4 day 1 two days ago and week 4 day 2 today, plus added crunches and calf-raises

Sammy, 12/26:
I did day 3 today, with 15 minutes (a little less than 2 miles) on the treadmill to warm up, extra core, and 50 jumpropes as my rest between the single leg jumps. Those single leg squats make me feel like a hot little potato.

Lamar, 12/27:
i went running for an hour or so yesterday on my own, then for a couple of miles today before tossing with a buddy. also went to a local gym and got a one week membership, did day 1, a kilometer on the rower and an assortment of extra lower body exercises on the machines.

Forrest, 12/27:
up in steamboat for the next few days. went to the gym in town and did day 3 of week 4 plus added crunches, calf raises, biceps and triceps. full day of skiing tomorrow, so we'll see how happy my quads are after tonight's single leg squats. happy boxing day one day late

Watson, 12/28:
Two days ago I went to wrestling practice with my high school team and yesterday did day 3 of week 3. Tomorrow I plan to lift again, and then friday I leave for France, so I imagine it will take me a few days before I can join a gym and start getting into a regular pattern of workouts again.

2005-12-24T09:44:00.000-05:00

on wednesday i did day 2 week 3 with 25 lbs for jump squats, lunges with 25/30 lbs db press with 25 lbs and back extensions with 10 lbs. Next on thursday I did the summer upper body workout and on friday I did day 3 week 3 25 lbs for vert jump, 25 lbs for box jump, sl squats with 0 lbs, 25/30 lbs for sl rdl and 15 lbs for hanging leg raises. I've been doing extra calves almost every other day and extra abs everyday with a medicine ball.
After getting some new basketball shoes I played two hours of basketball on wednesday night after watching BC destroy Harvard down in Boston. Played on thursday night again for another two hours or so and tooled on my friends (but we're all still pretty bad relatively). I ended up pretty tired and sore after each time and I yearn desperately to be able to dunk, although that will never happen. I saw Munich last night, besides from a questionable ending scene I thought the movie was well done and brought to light a lot of issues, although it defintely was not the movie to see just before christmas.
Merry christmas everybody and here's a sweet trans siberian orchestra song to listen to over the weekend.

Nate Raines 12/23

2005-12-23T23:29:00.001-05:00

i've been laid low for a bit with travelling and strange bosnian illness, but i went for a 6 mile run today which felt good

Owen 12/23

2005-12-23T23:29:00.000-05:00

also done. snowboarding on wed, suppose that worked the legs a bit. day 3 of week 3 today, thurs. possible track workout tomorrow before leaving for VA.

lamar

Sammy 12/22

2005-12-23T23:28:00.000-05:00

Yo A-squad fuel cellies, how's everyone doing? This guy is kicking butt. I did day 1 on Monday and day 2 today. Monday I did the upper body workout to make up for nate's absence. Every day I do extra abs and jumpropes, and monday I also did calf raises for watson. Tuesday night and wednesday morning I had a great reunion in NYC of me, charlie, crank, aekta, and tommy dickie. Tommy is ridiculous as always, he showed us his street theater routine, absolutely flamboyantly nuts. I leave for Marshall Islands on Tuesday the 27th. Happy travels to Watson as well. Take care guys, merry christmas.

today

2005-12-21T19:21:00.000-05:00

day 1, week 4. nothing major to report, although my streak of retarded injuries has continued.

also, got in contact with one of the brooklyn ultimate players, so i will definitely be playing high level pickup in ny.

Watson 12/21

2005-12-21T13:41:00.000-05:00

I decided to get back into the swing of things yesterday, having missed one workout from last week because i had my wisdom teeth removed. Went to the gym and did day 2 of week 3. I also added some workouts since full house decided nate was missing his in bosnia. Did 3x8 90lb sitting calf raises, 3x8 (70, 80, 90lb) leg extensions, and 100 crunches on a ball.

Afterwards, I went to wrestling practice at my old high school and tooled on some younger kids. It was sweet. Did 5x70yd sprints with them afterwards. I did manage to sprain my thumb though (I think) because now it's a bit larger than the other one and hurts to move it.

Forrest 12/20

2005-12-21T13:38:00.000-05:00

anyway, already blitzed out about skiing on sunday, but it was great. 6-9" inches at a-basin, plus i borrowed my friend's brother's season pass so i skied free. the next morning, though, i was sore as shit. quad's weren't too happy with me, and apparently my knees didn't like all the mogul runs. soooo, i took monday off. today i did day 3 of week 3, doing everything there plus i paired the single leg jumps with three sets of biceps. i'll still work out a few more times this week, so im not counting that as my makeup

also ended up playing a hybrid version of boot for two hours this afternoon with my friend julie (plays for cu's kali womens team), her brother, some other decent high school seniors, CSU's best player (a sophomore), and few other mamabird b-teamers. there boot is a combo of our boot + hot box, so instead of clearing across a center line, you have to get it into the box before you can go for one of the two cones. stall's still to 6, but you have to release the disc when you knock down the cone (no reaching in and tapping it over), and you can't stall from anywhere on the field like we do. all things i learned the hard way, but i was a blast. even got myself a new raspberry on my right hip from a layout (selfcall) which was nice

that's about it. hope all's well, more later

2005-12-21T12:45:00.000-05:00

a lot of stuff to report on since my last post, saturday night I played two or three hours of pretty high level basketball, got my jump shot back which was encouraging
On monday I did day 1 week 3 with 25 lbs for step ups, 30 lbs for split squats, 25 then 30 for rdls and 15 lbs for hanging leg raises. I also did some extra calves and core with a 7 kb medicine ball.
Tuesday I did the summer upper body workout with mostly 20 and 25 lb weights for the different exercises. I then did some more core and ran three miles.
I tossed with my dad over the weekend too...
going to keep alternating lower body and upper body with running for the rest of vacation, while playing a lot of basketball

2005-12-20T19:07:00.000-05:00

upper body today, 3x12 of the following:

incline db press
db bench press
skullcrushers
lat row
bicep curl
forearm curls

finished it off with 3x25 inclined situps holding a 10lb plate.

having completed 9 lifts, i've noticed that the only times my legs are sore are after day 3, mostly because of the sl squats. anyone else feeling the same way? does a lack of soreness mean i've been less productive?

lamar 12/19

2005-12-19T17:51:00.000-05:00

Just did day 2 of week 3 for the first lift of this week, also did various ab work and running earlier with a HS team mate. good times all around. thanks to jwats for posting my blitzes last week, i'll keep this thing updated more frequently from here on out. i also got a sweet shirt and running gloves for my birthday yesterday, among other things. remember when getting clothes for presents was just like the single lamest thing ever? yeah, now i'm like 'you rule, little siblings, for getting me something i'll actually use.'

i feel like blogs bring irritating observations like that out of me. oh well.

a case of the mondays

2005-12-19T15:28:00.000-05:00

did day 3 today, which was punctuated by me somehow wrenching my neck on the box jumps. stupid.

did 3x18 iso calf raises, as well as 3x12 flys and tricep pulldowns.

Rem 12/18

2005-12-18T21:40:00.000-05:00

hey all. I did day 1 and 2 this week. good times. i also have been playing pickup bball every day and running at least every other day. ATL is beautiful, someone should come and i'd show you a good time. Except for Owen.
-Rem

lamar 12/17

2005-12-17T12:27:00.000-05:00

yeah, i did week 3, day 1 yesterday to complete this week's workouts... starting next week i'll be doing daily conditioning with a buddy, either lifting or running. i'm in NYC right now too, actually, stalking sam and his camp buddies. just kidding, except about the being in new york part. and the stalking sam part.

lamar

the rest of my week

2005-12-16T21:59:00.000-05:00

was uneventful except for the great new music i've been listening too. I did day 1 on wednesday (20/25 lb for sl plyo stepups, 30 for split squats, 25/30 for rdl, 15 lb for hanging leg raises) with extra calves and abs. Thursday I lifted upper body with core and then ran three miles. Today I did day 2 with 25 lb for jump squats, 25/30 for lunges, 25 lb for db press and 10 lb for back extensions. Going to play some basketball over the weekend and take the rest of it off to watch a ton of football and make christmas cookies. Most shows on tv are horrible. Alias is now dead to me.

forrest 12/16

2005-12-16T17:54:00.000-05:00

did day 2 of week 3 yesterday. my knees dont like the lunges, and the dumbbell press wasnt too kind to my left shoulder, so im taking today and maybe tomorrow off. maybe some running instead tomorrow, then skiing on sunday... ill head back to the gym on monday

in other news, jack bauer of 24 fame continues to be FuCKING SWEET

Sammy 12/16

2005-12-16T17:40:00.000-05:00

hey fuel cell, happy holidays. Today I finished this week's set of workouts. Monday I did week 3, day 2. Tuesday I did 25 minutes on the treadmill and a good dose of jumproping and core exercises. Today I did week 3, day 3 and some extra calf raises, jump ropes, and core. Feelin good. Tonight I'll be in NYC reunioning with my summer camp staff friends, then back to more channel surfing tomorrow. I love you

-Sam

tgif

2005-12-16T15:37:00.000-05:00

upper body workout, 3x12 of the following:

incline bench
skull crushers
back row
bicep curls
forearm curls
flys (or flies?)
100 situps on a squishy ball

this week

2005-12-15T17:48:00.000-05:00

did day 1 on monday, hung out with my gf from mon-thurs, did day 2 today. PRs on the weights.

Back to work

2005-12-13T22:05:00.000-05:00

Thats me in Times Square if you were wondering. New York City was a great time. Saw all the sights and went to the important museums. MOMA has an incredible collection, just awesome. Saw some really weird people in the East Village, but there were some cool record stores too so I guess it evens out.

Now that I'm back home its time to start working out again. Yesterday I did day 3 with some extra calf and ab work at the end. 2o lbs for the sl jumps, 25 lbs for the box jumps, 0 lbs for the sl squats and 25 lbs for the sl rdl. I used 6 45 lb plates on the calf machine and did 50 flatfooted situps with a 5 kb medicine ball.

Today I did the summer upper body workout with various weights. I then did 50 more flatfooted situps with a 5 kb medicine ball. After all of that I ran 3 miles. Fun stuff.

Spent most of these past two days reading and playing Ocarina of Time (thats right). Hopefully we'll get to school the other cells at Mariokart or something over the winter...

Tomorrow its more of the same. I'll hit up the gym again and do day 1.

Watson 12/13

2005-12-13T13:09:00.000-05:00

Did day 1 of week 3 today. I'm having trouble at the gym doing all the stuff with the plyo box because the place i go to doesn't have one. So I substituted the plyo jumps or whatever with single leg leg presses. Also did my usual additional calf exercise.

Tomorrow I get my wisdom teeth removed so I probably won't be able to get back into the gym for about a week. I'll get my fill though by watching lots of ultimate online and reading up.

Get some fellas. Keep the posts coming and keep working hard.

Day 2, Week 2

2005-12-11T00:00:00.000-05:00

Did Day 2 of week 2 today, pretty good stuff for just using the free weights and free room in my house... also did the 50 pushups 100 situps thing, and will do it again tonight when I start on my entirely academic goal of watching all of season 1 of 24 on DVD over break. nuclear hijinks ain't got shit on me.

also, when i gave the little kid i babysat tonight the choice of DVDs between Batman Begins, X-Men 2 and just watching TV, she disappointingly ordered off the menu and forced us to watch Daredevil. If it wasn't for Jennifer Gardner's leather pants, that movie wouldn't have a single redeeming characteristic.

Watson 12/10

2005-12-10T12:33:00.000-05:00

Did day 3 today. I had to substitute box jumps for squat jumps because they didn't have a plyo box at the gym I was at. I also decided to take up single leg squats a different way. I think Mackey suggested going all the way down (so your ankle touches your butt) using less weight instead of going halfway down with more weight. It seemed to work pretty well. I also got a calf workout in, the one where you sit and have the weight on your thighs. I did 3x8 sets of 90lbs making sure to do the reps slowly and with focus.

In other news, while working out I heard a new rendition of 'call on me.' Imagine a cheesy, synthesizer elevator muzak version of it, because that was it.

Today I'm going into boston to get a new suit so I can look straight pimpin while in france and on fridays this coming spring. Regardless of whether the rest of the team does it, fridays before a tournament I will be dressing up. That's how I roll.

Bitchin.

Watson 12/9

2005-12-09T20:00:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I was able to go to the gym and get day 2 in. I also managed to pound out some calf exercises afterwards and a couple ab workouts later last night.

I got snowed in today at the house with 1+ foot of snow, so I'm going to the gym tomorrow morning to do day 3.

Other than that I'm sitting around, watching dvds and reading harry potter and its great. great i tell you! great!

2005-12-08T22:11:00.000-05:00

day 3, nothing out of the ordinary. 35 pounds (woohoo no more metric system) on the box jumps, 30 on the sl rdls. threw in 3x18 iso calf raises on the machine, and 50 flat footed situps.

today

2005-12-05T15:08:00.000-05:00

did day 2, threw in 100 crunches on a ball. also did my packing, hopefully ill get wasted tonight before my flight home

Dump D, Lifting

2005-12-03T22:06:00.000-05:00

Today, after a short clinic on Dump Defense, Rem, Dorner and I knocked out Day 1. It was nice being in the empty gym, it went fast and I need to up my weights because I left feeling about the same as I went in, not with any type of satisfying soreness. After lifting we tried to get in basketball, I missed 4 free throws in horrendous fashion and was forced to sit out, so I left. I'm gonna assume Rem's team won, cause DJ Rus was on the other one, and if he plays half as bad as he raps, he probably is incapable of dribbling one handed.

Now, back to finals studying. Good luck to all you Full Housers taking study breaks, and terrible, no-good, awful luck to members of any other cell reading this. Especially Drago, with his Honors Orgo. Terrible luck.

Watson 12/2

2005-12-03T08:21:00.000-05:00

Yesterday I got in a Day 1 workout. It was pretty good, and then I added some calf work in at the end.

Shot some hoops with rem, played a game of horse and went up HO to HORS until he came back to win it. Unfreakin-believable.

Shtick afterwards.

Shtick=shweeeeeet

2005-12-03T00:25:00.001-05:00

And playing it for nearly 2 straight hours tonight was just the study break I needed...by which I mean the break from not studying and wasting time in general. Definitely a really sweet way to use Leverone to it's fullest. Not to mention it was a good workout as well, which is good since I've been stuck inside quite a bit and will continue to be until Tuesday afternoonish.

Also sweet was hitting the free breakfast event at FC afterwards...damn that hit the spot

2005-12-01T10:10:00.000-05:00

Lamar does not approve of Lamar's poor basketball performance. We'll have to work on that over the winter....
Yeah, lifting went well yesterday. My weights are roughly 5 pounds or so less than during the spring and over the summer, but thats to be expected I guess. I'll probably work back up to that level soon enough.

sl jumps 25 lb
box jumps 25 lb
sl squats 0 lb
sl rdl 25 lb
hanging leg raises 10 and then 15 lb

I also changed up the way I do the sl leg squats a little thanks to Sammy, which made it an even more hellish exercise. Instead of using of 10 lbs in each hand, I tried using no weight and just going really really low. It felt like it was working a lot better. Thanks, I guess.

Wed, Nov. 30

2005-11-30T21:02:00.000-05:00

I, Dorner, Jesse, Lunar, the two Sarah's and Kamia all did day 3 workouts today. various weights were used, pull ups were hard, we felt the burn and tried not to be 'complete assholes,' as certain gym employees apparently think us. forrest and sammy were both there as well, getting in day 1 because they're hard guys and already did their first day 3.

later rem and some of the dartmouth football offensive line embarrased me and mikey and several other scrubs in pickup basketball. i had a greatest (not as cool in basketball) but terminal cheetah let it bounce off his legs. jeez. i also got posted up and scored on at least 5 times. not good times.

2005-11-30T17:24:00.000-05:00

Day 1:
16 kg weights for everything that required weights.
also did 3x15 sl calf raises at 160, 3x15 tricep pulldowns at 35, and 3x15 forearm curls at 10kg.

Good Game Lamar

2005-11-29T23:58:00.000-05:00

So from now on I'm going to post Lamar Odom's line every night after he plays since he's on my fantasy team and in my fuel cell

27 pts 16 rebs 3 ast 2 to

a good effort in a laker's loss, although losing will not be tolerated, his rebounds have been taking a hit this year and this is an encouraging effort, low turns are a plus too

i played squash today and did some abs stuff

Basketball is Sweet

2005-11-29T21:38:00.000-05:00

Good Evening All. I did a lil exercising today, between my 5 hours library stint this morning and the current 5 hr one i'm in right now. I showed Owen how to do Day 2, did some of those horrific oblique stretches, and then played 2 games of pick up basketball (I highly recommend it). Not alot, but enough to get my mind off of Spanish and Statistics.
-Rem

lamaw is sowwy

2005-11-29T19:18:00.000-05:00

so i fucked up and didn't make it to the cell meet yesterday. i was coming home yesterday as opposed to sunday because of yet another fuck up (not booking flights early enough) and snow in manchester delayed my flight by two hours leaving philly, which led to another 3 and a half hours waiting in the manchester airport. anyways, i was hoping to catch the end of the workout if everything went on time, so i didn't blitz out before i left, but even that was probably unrealistic, so it really is all on me. on the plus side, i watched I Bleed Black on the bus from Manchester to Hanover... oh, and i got great at the triangle offense. i'm nasty.

so i hit up the gym today with rem, who showed me all the day 2 workouts. i then proceeded to do them, 20 pounds on jump squats, lunges and db presses. oh, and the jump rope killed me and somebody needs to instruct this worthless freshman how to keep his balance, because both the torso rotations in this warmup and the crunch with extensions from day 1 have been giving me problems.

anyways, i did the day 2 workout except for the sb leg curls. rem showed me how, but once i tried i found that a. i couldn't come close to achieving the balance needed and b. it put some weird pressure on the skin of my right elbow that literally burned. so i forewent those, and hopefully when we come back to them someone will point out what is hopefully some aspect of my idiocy which kept me from completing them.

day 2

2005-11-29T10:59:00.000-05:00

Roughly half of the fuel cell did day 2 yesterday, while the others did day 3.

jump squats with 25 lb
lunges with 30 lb
db press with 20 lb
and back extension with 5 lb

I felt I got some good work in, although the workout took altogether too long because of all the people that were at the gym. Wats, Rem, Wheaties and I also made up part of the workout for Lamar who I guess was too busy working on the triangle offense to show up. We did three sets of calf raises on the machine and then 3 sets of 20 of those ab exercises with weight that start off as normal situps, but then switch to side to side.
I probably will go running or do something else athletic today. Gotta get those endorphins going...

Just for the record, you can start telling the rest of campus (everyone seems to have heard about it) that my intestine isn't actually ruptured. I did gain 5.5 pounds in the challenge though.

On the conditioning train

2005-11-28T20:19:00.000-05:00

Good stuff today, did the day 3 workout with slammy and forrest...needless to say, my legs are gonna be sore tomorrow.

On the downside, there was no one to play squash/r-ball with afterwards so I just went home...does anyone in the cell play racketball? I've never gotten decent at sqaush and I need a consistent partner for after conditioning or whenever.

Yeah, it's bastardized squash, I know...but it's squash for the attention deficit

day 3

2005-11-28T13:22:00.000-05:00

did day 3 today, 14 kg dbs on the box jumps, 12 kg dbs on the sl rdls.
also threw in incline db presses- 16 kg.
and 100 crunches on those bouncy balls.

also ate a shitload of fish and chips

Thanksgiving Break

2005-11-27T00:43:00.000-05:00

wed. night:
day 1 warm up
5 x 20 flat footed situps (feet held down)
paired with
5 x 10 pushups

thursday afternoon:
day 1 warmup
4 x 4 plyos (20 pounds)
3 x 10 splitsquats (20 pounds)
5 x 10 curls each arm (20 pounds)
20 pushups
40 flat footed situps (feet held down)

friday morning:
three hours of ultimate at the CHS alumni game
beat the new generation 15 - 2
played against some ex-teammates now on tufts and arizona who ran me around when we mixed it up

intend to go running tomorrow, if nothing else i have an appointment to shoot pool in a smoky korean billiards hall with a HS buddy. that improves lung capacity, right?

oh, and i saw no movies in theaters, but i did get drunk and place bets on CPU vs. CPU games of NFL Blitz for N64 last night. proceeded to lose a lot of money. fucking denver broncos in that game - they were untouchable.

happy thanksgiving, full house.

thanksgiving workout

2005-11-27T00:18:00.000-05:00

I managed to take a break from all the work I have to do day 3 of the ultimate workout. I've also been getting pretty sick over the past few days, and i'm hoping that once all the stress from schoolwork goes away i'll be able to get better.

Happy (belated) thanksgiving all.

gym

2005-11-23T18:00:00.000-05:00

did day two today:

jump squat- 14kg
lunge + press- 16 and 14 kg, respectively
back extension- 20 kg
single leg box jump- 14/12 kg. man, doing these single-leggers without a box is scary- the bench i use to jump onto is pretty narrow, so i'm always scared of overshooting it and thereby hurting myself...

Nate's Workout

2005-11-22T00:08:00.000-05:00

I'm just posting what he did....

hey guys, i worked out on my own trying out some stuff for this winter without weight. i did:
4x 25 situps
4x 20 1 leg RDL each leg
4x 20 1 leg squat each leg
4x 80 wall touches
2x 5 1-arm pullups. my and started hurting, so i stopped.

Full House, Day 1

2005-11-22T00:00:00.000-05:00

Today was the first day of the Full House fuel cell working out as a team. All A-team members were present, minus the dart (in london) and nate (busy working out by himself in his room). Nate's post will soon follow. Thumbs up to Jesse Victor for a strong b-team showing. The women did show, but participated in the womenses lifting.

For me personally, I did
3x4 25lb plyo step ups
3x10 25lb split squats
3x10 20lb rdls, the last with 25lb
3x5 chin ups
3x6 leg raises, the last with 10lb
3x5 tuck jumps

I also want to add calf raises and more jump roping to increase our jump height. I think that's something we all can improve on.

day 1 (of a long offseason)

2005-11-21T17:06:00.000-05:00

did day 1 today while you suckers were still in class. feels good to get back into the old routine... also added some abductor/adductor work, as well as some iso calf raises.

just trying this unit out

2005-11-21T01:13:00.000-05:00

seems like our cell doesn't blog as much as some of the others...people in mideast might as well be post their autobiographies at this point. but nonetheless i intend to stay close to the blog and hope others will as well.

looking forward to starting conditioning, i definitely feel like it's one thing that's always been sorely lacking in my ultimate game. i definitely did a shit job of keeping up with it freshman year and last year i wasn't on in the winter, but mostly jogged sporadically at home. hopefully this year will prove better, especially now that the fuel cell system is in effect. we definitely need to fire up large amounts of basketball/squash/racquetball and dominate some other fuel cells.

guess thats all for now.

-apparentlyihatecapitalletters

sore

2005-11-13T11:57:00.000-05:00

this week i finished my paper, but squeezed in a lower body lift along the way. then ludi came this weekend and it was a good time.

just got done playing a one-day tourney with a local university team...funny, because i dont think any of our players were actual students at that university. regardless, we rolled the chumps in our pool, then beat the other two pool leaders by 2 points each to capture first place in the division. i tallied 12 more goals/assists/Ds than turns for the entire day, including scoring the last winning goal after the cap was on (RING RING)...

physically i felt beat up afterwards, i guess that's what having only 8-9 people on your team will do to you. also cramped up quite a lot towards the end, but was able to play through it for the most part.

if any of you have any solutions for how to deal with leg cramps, i'd love to hear it, as it's becoming quite the repeating problem.

my crappy weekend

2005-11-09T09:24:00.000-05:00

let's see...

I haven't been able to do much outside of practice just because engines has been taking up so much of my time. But at the very least i've been going to practice.

This weekend was not good for me. Way too many turns and all were errors of focus on my part. 2 drops and 4 throw aways (of my 8 turns total) that could have been completed had i not rushed and focused on the task at hand. I have to get it in my head that no turns are acceptable at any level. My goal for the spring is to have no more than one turn per day of a tournament and to get 4x as many d blocks.

Forrest's update

2005-11-09T09:22:00.000-05:00

I'm just posting for him...

went to practice yesterday and thought i played really well. got footblocked on a terrible off-line attempt but got it back with a lay-out D while marking. also cut long after a swing and caught a score. all in all felt pretty good

stressful day so i took it out on the gym today. squash with fisher for an hour or so, then ran for 10 minutes on the treadmill, realized how much i hate treadmills, and decided to do a stairs workout instead. on the back staircase (by the athletic director's office) i ran the following x3 from the ground floor to the main floor then back down:

one step at a time
two steps
one step
right leg
left leg
hopping
left
right
one
two
one

exhausting but felt good