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Post by Velkontés on May 18, 2014 14:24:32 GMT -5
I'm kinda at the point where everything is taxing and tiresome. lol.
Ok, that's exaggerating for comic effort, but I had a week a few weeks back where I was feeling sluggish throughout the day every single day, and I was getting home and being too tired to do ANYTHING other than slouch. Regular exercise just seems to regulate my mood (and my sleep) a lot better, which in turn gives me more energy during the day. I'm not even sure "energy" is the right word. Maybe "vigour" describes it better.
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Post by Champ on May 19, 2014 23:41:10 GMT -5
Yeah I hear you about the word "energy". I feel like no fucking matter what, I'm tired, except late at night when I should be tired. It's frustrating. I think the best way for me to put it is, I don't feel AS run down during a hard work day as I normally would feel. Here's the best way to put it, and I think I've mentioned this before. My last boss once asked me, how the fuck do you go to the gym after 8 hrs of work in the warehouse? I thought for a second and my only response was, because I go to the gym after 8 hrs of work in the warehouse....kind of like it becomes part of the full circle. It becomes a part of the daily conditioning. I think if I didn't go to the gym, I'd be a piece of shit after work. I have to stay in some workout routine just for my mental state alone. I hate that feeling of not feeling physically conditioned. I carry much more stress that way too
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Post by MasterSnit on May 31, 2014 17:03:49 GMT -5
I also believe it is more important to feel good, rather than look good. I mean, if you have rippling muscles bursting out from your shirt then it might make you feel good when you get a compliment from a homosexual every now and then, but if you are fit and trim and have stamina to spare, I find you always feel so much better about yourself every day, regardless of whether or not you look like Arnie. I have been doing well recently, doing a lot of running and I feel good. I've been gradually upping my distances and doing some sprints here and there.
Regarding work and ones exercise and mood, I feel a physically demanding job actually leaves me with more energy. I've had office jobs where I sat at a computer all day and sitting about all day hardly moving left me feeling knackered at night. However, jobs where I actually move about don't tire me out and leave me feeling energetic enough to do other things when I finish. It's weird how it works.
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Post by Champ on May 31, 2014 18:51:40 GMT -5
I'm down to 195lbs now so I'm officially the lightest I've been since 2008 and my back injury following. I've been so strict I even have people busting my balls at work because our store is closing and since we've been working harder they've been buying us pizza and ice cream and shit and I'm the only one not taking part. Yeah, thanks for the encouragement guys. lol It's funny, a lot of the reason I don't cheat NOW is because it makes me feel sick when I do! My body kind of rejects it.
But I agree with what you guys said. The main reason I want to look lean and good now is because I know that I have to get there to feel good. I'm not trying to be big and strong anymore. If someone told me I can be 220lbs and ripped, I would still rather be 175-180. Physical presence is the ONLY reason to want to carry that weight around at my height, even if it's all muscle. I look at guys like ryback, who are in great shape but I think, yeah but he's still carrying around 290lbs. That can't be comfortable! I want to able to move around and be agile like when I was younger. Age plays a factor but I can't use age as an excuse when there was a 90lbs weight gain from ages 17 to 31 lol. Granted, a lot of it was muscle but I probably gained a pound of fat with each pound of muscle. So if I can at least cut that in half, that would be sweet. I only have 15lbs to go. Then I can decide from there if I can go further.
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Post by Velkontés on Jun 1, 2014 5:51:06 GMT -5
Regarding work and ones exercise and mood, I feel a physically demanding job actually leaves me with more energy. I've had office jobs where I sat at a computer all day and sitting about all day hardly moving left me feeling knackered at night. However, jobs where I actually move about don't tire me out and leave me feeling energetic enough to do other things when I finish. It's weird how it works. Yeah, it's funny. It's like a vicious circle, but good. Being active begets being active. Another position became open at work a few weeks back, and I'm 90% sure they would have given it to me if I had expressed interest in it, but it would have meant sitting on my ass in front of a computer virtually all day. So even though it would have improved my future prospects I just couldn't countenance it. (Also it wouldn't have been any extra money, which made it a much easier decision, but still). A few months back I explained to my co-worker that this was the first job in my life that required me to sit the fuck down for most of the day. I've never known "what I want to do with my life" with regard to a "proper" career, so the fact that a pure "sitting on your ass at a desk all day" job disagrees with me so much is going to be a big problem for the future. At least I figured it out before leaving for another company.
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Post by Champ on Jun 1, 2014 11:35:58 GMT -5
I know exactly what you guys mean because I used to stand around by the front door all day at my job just making sure the right gear was coming and going and it made me feel so lazy and irritable. When I switched full time to the warehouse the days started going by so much quicker. When you're physically active it wakes you up. The problem I'm having now is it seems to be so hard to get myself going more than anything
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Post by Naitch on Jun 6, 2014 19:07:19 GMT -5
I was in another BJJ tourney last weekend, I made it to the finals of a 32 man tournament. Got me a silver medal and a nice little cash prize that is big enough to pay my mortgage this month and half of next. For anyone keeping count that makes my fight record 6-2.
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Post by Champ on Jun 6, 2014 21:15:46 GMT -5
Nice! That's pretty awesome. If you finally get to take out lashley you'll be my hero!
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Post by MasterSnit on Jun 8, 2014 13:02:17 GMT -5
Well done, Naitch. And don't mess it up if you get your hands on Lashley again!
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Post by Naitch on Jun 9, 2014 14:44:33 GMT -5
My entire life is judged by one battle with Bobby Lashley lol. In the back of my truck I keep a Gi and a bottle of water. I am prepared for Mr. Lashley at a moments notice.
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Post by Champ on Jun 9, 2014 16:49:23 GMT -5
The guy is a monster. The fact that you didn't get squashed by a super athlete is still impressive!
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Post by Naitch on Jun 9, 2014 18:10:46 GMT -5
The guy is a monster. The fact that you didn't get squashed by a super athlete is still impressive! Bro, you have no idea what kind of monster he really is. He looks like a freak monster on TV, in person, more freakish and more monster. Dude is a legit scary beast. I still hate him, but he does deserve his credit where it's due. The total truth to this story is, if he wasn't fucking around, he would have ended me quick. With most people I have solid take down defense. Taking me down isn't brag worthy by any means, but I know how to make it difficult for someone. When Bobby got me, I couldn't even slow it down. In hindsight, I was very lucky to be on an air mattress with six inches of air between me and the floor. Also in hindsight, that dumb fuck is a pro fighter and doesn't know how to properly protect his neck or arms. It's because of things like that why Brock went to UFC so soon and Bobby is lucky to fight in an armory.
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Post by Champ on Jun 9, 2014 19:17:43 GMT -5
Yeah dude there's no shame against someone like that. He's in an elite class of strength and speed. You almost don't have to be good to be a huge threat when you have those genetics
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Post by Naitch on Jun 10, 2014 11:28:50 GMT -5
Thanks bro. Another thing you have to give him credit for, is speed. He's SOOOOOO quick. That's why he is a three time time NCAA Champ. I have sparred with UFC fighters before, those guys are very methodical in trying to move on the ground. Lashley is these strong bursts that make you question how much you like your hips and calves. The first couple times you get hit by his ground movement it is jarring because no one else tries to move by strength. Which can easily be his downfall, technique always wins over strength. Damn, I just might sit in on to many fighter meetings. But when you get the chance to listen to current and former champions just formulating game plans, and they don't care if you listen, you listen to them to learn from them.
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Post by Champ on Aug 17, 2014 15:57:48 GMT -5
So I'm down to 187lbs. 4 more to go Til my lowest in 10 yrs. I actually started doing DDP yoga this weekend Naitch. I feel like I'm at a point where I need to do a bunch of different things and not stick to a schedule. I'm not isolating body parts anymore either. I'm hitting every body part during each workout now but just spending about 5-7 min on each muscle. Some days I go heavy weights, some days I go just calisthenics(all body movements, no weights), other days I go extremely light like lighter than working with my body weight and do a shitload of reps. Then I incorporate running into it. Now I'm doing the ddp yoga on days I want to just kind of rest and not kill myself. I noticed the older I get I just can't handle brutal workouts anymore along with working in a warehouse 9-5. I'm trying to work smarter these days and not be a tough guy. I even noticed the last day I did the heavy day I couldn't work out the next 3 days. So I think my heavy lifting days are over. If I actually decide to do a competition and set a date, I'll train for it. But I'm more concerned at being the best possible "champ" I can be now that I'm starting my 5 year journey to 40 yrs old next week
I had to come back to edit this. I wasn't sure how I felt about the ddp yoga Til I did the red hot core workout just now! Shit I consider myself to be in good shape but I was shaking like a leaf in a hurricane during some of these exercises, which tells me that, for a guy with a 300lbs+ bench press and 500lbs deadlift, my core is garbage! It's actually mind blowing to be relatively strong in some areas and so weak in others, like it's hard to believe these positives and negatives belong to the same body. I always knew my core was fairly weak, but this explains why I have terrible balance and stability. I really have to work on that. They always say that's the key issue with back problems. There's a tie in between weak core and chronic back pains
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