just a reminder for myself

...about that Carano/Cyborg fight, I'm somewhat disturbed after lurking in a bunch of forums. Some reaction to the fights are positive and constructive, others are just immature.I like to keep this blog training directed and my myspace blog everything else directed. I can't reach that blog right now, so I'm setting a reminder to myself about the fight:

-a girl that participates in athletics is not the same as a girl that is an athlete, believe that
-bump you all for knocking a girl for not looking "pretty" enough
-Yelena Isenbeyeva, the Williams sisters, Dara Torres, they're not "too muscular;" they are as muscular as their sports require them to be, they are as muscular as it takes to be good and functional in their sports; -you- on the other hand may just be muscular enough to change the channel on the remote, don't use yourself as a comparison
-No, it is not unusual to see female athletes look that vascularized or "swoll" please check out some track & field types, they rock that look very well
-Yes, women's MMA will live, quit your piss poor crying and take your anti-female athltete sentiment back to your weak juice loving room
-Yes, my Kung-Fu is better than yours and Cyborg's MMA is better than Carano's
-Yes, I am slightly biased myself, I was secretely hoping Carano would get the snot beat out of her and was joyed when I heard the news
-I want those abs
-this does remind me of the time guys kept on asking what supplements I took because they were so sure I could not look the way I did without some "unnatural" additive. They were right, it is called - Pole Vaulting, get up on a stick and try it ;)

Hero #1 - JT

JT

21-15-9
HSPUs
Ring Dips
Pushups

DB ? 16:12
AH ? 16:58
JW ? 9:23
SN ? 9:17

Yeah. What have we been up to - working out. Sorry to not have posted in awhile. We've been working out, playing sports, and generally being busy. It's been a good time so far though. This was the guys' first hero workout and they did good. Ring dips are never fun but we all got through them. Hero workouts aren't about us or our pain anyway, rest in peace brother.

Rings

21-15-9
ring pushups
ring dips

Just for completion. Still feeling sick, plus we still had a guy that had to finish Angie. And his time:

DB: 27:02

Angie

100 pull ups
100 pushups
100 sit ups
100 squats

SN - 14:14
JW - 20:02
AH - 22:55

We all subbed with jumping pull ups and I had jumping pull ups on the rings. We're also coming down with the crud...all of us :( But we made it through the workout. Now it is over. Hooray.

and I raaaan, I ran so far away...

Not really. There was way too much dust in the air. It was like a nice dust fog, dust just lofting there. It made it look a little bit surreal and a little uneasy on the lungs. So I did cardio inside:

30 min treadmill at 10min mi pace to loosen up the legs from yesterday's workout

15 min elliptical to let the sweat dry

Life with AMRAP

AMRAP in 20:

10 burpees
10 bicycles (2ct)
10 squats
10 pushups

SN - 11
JW - 9
DB - 9

We did this yesterday. It was "grreat." And by great, I mean that my calves are a little tight today and I'm a little stiff in the legs. But over all, I'm getting around. Good workout I guess. It did reaffirm that the burpees is a killer exercise. As far as enjoyment goes - not the best leisure activity.

Getting Beast

So, the other day I did a bench press competition. It wasn't the max weight lift I have done in the past. It was half my body weight for as many reps as possible. I never had to lift for max reps and after that competition, I'm not sure it's a favorite activity of mine. What I do know is that I gained 10 lbs while being here (boo) but that I was soo pissed about it that I lifted more because of it. 42-43 lifts at 70lbs. Not shabby.

Then I came back to work to do the 100-75-50-25 ab workout. Nice. So some guy called me Beast in the DFAC. Shamed, scared? Nah. It was kind of cool really.