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Post by karate4life on May 6, 2015 15:08:26 GMT -5
I don't want to hear about your long arms! Apply some of those engineering problem solving skills to improve your bench. I could come up with a support structure that adapts its shape while I do the bench press in order to support my lifts optimally. Does that count as cheating if I come up with an engineering design all by myself? Wednesday, May 6th, 2015Lunchtime sessionKumite combinations, 15 minutes (a short clip taken today showing what I typically do: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEz62KgUZbc)Stretching 10 minutes Seienchin kata Side splits 10 minutes Wanted to do deadlifts in the evening, but it turned out that other things had priority. The old family man's problem - life gets in the way! Osu!
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Post by meguro on May 6, 2015 15:41:34 GMT -5
The old family man's problem - life gets in the way! Osu! It does indeed! Nice jodan mawashigeri! Be careful you don't make out the overhead lights. (it would make a funny bloopers clip though)
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Post by karate4life on May 7, 2015 15:24:41 GMT -5
It does indeed! Nice jodan mawashigeri! Be careful you don't make out the overhead lights. (it would make a funny bloopers clip though) ...especially when the little ones are still so small... Thanks! You can be sure that my log will contain a lot of funny things as time passes! Thursday, May 7th, 2015Deadlifts: 155.0kg/175.0kg/195.0kg: (5/3/1): 5/3/2. Ha! Never lifted 195kg x 2 before! Additional: 170.0kg: 3x3. That felt almost easy. Wanted to go for 170x10x3, but my right knee (the damaged one) felt incredibly locked today, so I decided to call it day here. Osu!
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Post by meguro on May 7, 2015 16:46:53 GMT -5
Congrats on the DL! Can't wait til X-Mas.
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Post by karate4life on May 9, 2015 11:35:23 GMT -5
Congrats on the DL! Can't wait til X-Mas. I'll probably be able to lift a ton by then! Friday, May 9th, 2015The dojoI haven't been there for ages, so I was not aware that for this evening sensei had invited a guy from New York who's here in Hamburg for a visit to give a guest class - on Tai Chi! "Meh!", I thought, "my mother is doing Tai Chi!" We started with some mellow warm-up and practiced the first 3 moves of the form this guy is practicing each day. Please don't ask for the name of the form and the specific style this dude does, but the moves had names like "the old monk", "hiding the flower under the blossom", and similar. These were the first 20 minutes or so, and then we lined up and applied the techniques to a partner. Man, that was interesting! Funky bunkai (or whatever the people in Tai Chi call that) including joint locks and moves that heavily reminded me of the bunkai for some GoJu kata. Really interesting 2h with a good, funny and profound instructor, and it was nice to get a glimpse at the origins of Karate. Here's something that I found very interesting as well. After he had demonstrated his form to us (which he sped up significantly and left out a lot of parts of it to compress it into 10 minutes of demonstration) he talked about some body mechanics. He said that a form changes with the person who is doing it. He emphasized that it is just natural for a form / kata to be looking very differently, depending on who does it, which skill set this person has, and, most importantly, what kind of body type the individual has. He said that it is of no consequence what it looks like, as long as the underlying principles are observed. "My form looks like that, and if Christian as a tall and strong guy would do it it would look much differently, but that's OK, it HAS to be different. It won't make sense for him to mimic my movements in each and every detail. It's the principles that count." According to him, the way they teach and practise in their school is very free in that regard, everyone is free to adapt the form to their preferences, as long as what is contained within the form does not get lost. I found that a really intriguing concept, and please compare this to the uniformity-thing in Karate, especially when it comes to kata. Oh boy, I do love Karate, I really do, but we have some really important aspects so badly wrong! Osu!
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Post by meguro on May 10, 2015 4:30:52 GMT -5
Something else to consider is the size and configuration of your opponents. Their height as well as the length of their limbs partly determine how you move and apply the technique. Taller opponents will not require you to assume as low a stance as shorter opponents, and limb lengths affect the placement and angle of your limbs in space.
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Post by karate4life on May 10, 2015 15:48:45 GMT -5
Something else to consider is the size and configuration of your opponents. Their height as well as the length of their limbs partly determine how you move and apply the technique. Taller opponents will not require you to assume as low a stance as shorter opponents, and limb lengths affect the placement and angle of your limbs in space. You cheeky individualist, you! Saturday, May 9th, 2015Rest day. Sunday, May 10th, 2015The garage. It's deload week.Squats: 80.0kg: 30 sets with 5 reps. It took me a little less than 1h to do that. That was fun and didn't feel heavy at all, but gave me a good sweat nonetheless. That knee had no objections whatsoever. Osu!
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Post by meguro on May 11, 2015 6:01:22 GMT -5
Now that's remarkable strength endurance! Plenty to clear out a barroom brawl with, but for us men of a certain age, perfect for cleaning out the garage.
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Post by karate4life on May 11, 2015 8:17:16 GMT -5
Now that's remarkable strength endurance! Plenty to clear out a barroom brawl with, but for us men of a certain age, perfect for cleaning out the garage. I'll settle for keeping pace with my kids on our typical weekend bicycle tours! Monday, May 11th, 2015Lunchtime session5 minutes shadow sparring for warm-up Dancing... erm, Kata: Shisochin, Seisan (both are my favourite GoJu-katas). 10 minutes stretching 10 minutes kumite combinations. I ran out of steam pretty quickly today. Lack of sleep (only about 4h last night) plus yesterday's squats orgy are the most probable explanations I think. Or I'm just old. Osu!
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Post by karate4life on May 12, 2015 14:36:35 GMT -5
Tuesday, May 12th, 2015 The garage - it's still deload week.
Bench press: 70.0kg: 20 sets with 5 reps. That took about 40 minutes, including chatting with my buddy S who lifts with me. Great guy, we've been lifting together for about 1.5y now. Good to have company in that man cave.
Osu!
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Post by meguro on May 13, 2015 4:49:07 GMT -5
Man, that's a lot of pressing!
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Post by karate4life on May 14, 2015 17:19:03 GMT -5
Man, that's a lot of pressing! Ah, but that's too much praise for an old fart like me! Wednesday, May 13th, 2015The garageI wanted to go to the dojo today, but the powers that be wanted me to work 12h on that day. Meh! Went into the garage at 11:00 p.m. instead and did the following: 15 minutes kumite combinations. Easy tempo. 10 minutes very mellow bag work. Some stretching Gekisai Dai Ichi Gekisai Dai Ichi against the bag, focussing on the mae geri / empi combination. Interesting as always whenever I find the time to take a kata to the bag. The bag makes it very clear that a "long" mae geri is absolutely pointless here if you want to drive home the elbow. It's at max a very short snappy one that works here. From that viewpoint I really wonder why anyone would want to perform a thrusting jodan mae geri ke komi here. I've got 4 days off now, and we'll spend the time with my in-laws in central Germany. So it's rest with a lot of food until Sunday, and I'll probably gain 5 extra kg weight. Osu!
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Post by karate4life on May 17, 2015 17:23:10 GMT -5
Back from eating too much and sleeping too little. Sunday, May 17th, 2015The garage - it's still deload weekFooling around with the deadlifts: 100.0kg: 20 sets with 5 reps. I'm not sure if that was smart training, but it was a fun experience because I never did so many deadlifts in one session before. 100kg is only 50% of my current 1rm, but I know that I'll feel this tomorrow. Ended with a short mellow run through the village. Here's the forecast for the upcoming cycle: Bench press:1rm: 100.0kg
| week 1
| week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | Set 1 | 65 kgs x 5 | 70 kgs x 3 | 75 kgs x 5 | 40 kgs x 5 | Set 2 | 75 kgs x 5 | 80 kgs x 3 | 85 kgs x 3 | 50 kgs x 5 | Set 3 | 85 kgs x 5+ | 90 kgs x 3+ | 95 kgs x 1+ | 60 kgs x 5 |
Squats:1rm: 160.0kg
| week 1 | week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | Set 1 | 105 kgs x 5 | 110 kgs x 3 | 120 kgs x 5 | 65 kgs x 5 | Set 2 | 120 kgs x 5 | 130 kgs x 3 | 135 kgs x 3 | 80 kgs x 5 | Set 3 | 135 kgs x 5+ | 145 kgs x 3+ | 150 kgs x 1+ | 95 kgs x 5 |
Deadlifts:1rm: 210.0kg
| week 1
| week 2 | week 3 | week 4 | Set 1 | 135 kgs x 5 | 145 kgs x 3 | 155 kgs x 5 | 85 kgs x 5 | Set 2 | 155 kgs x 5 | 170 kgs x 3 | 180 kgs x 3 | 105 kgs x 5 | Set 3 | 180 kgs x 5+ | 190 kgs x 3+ | 200 kgs x 1+ | 125 kgs x 5 |
The deadlift forecast looks challenging! Osu!
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Post by karate4life on May 19, 2015 15:42:44 GMT -5
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
Cycle XYZ, week 1 The garage Bench Press: 65/75/85: (5/5/5): 5/5/7 (!) Additional Bench Sets: 90.0kg: 3/3/3/2 Dips (BW): 8/5/8/5/5. Stopped each set when it became uncomfortable around the shoulders. Great exercise, but one I need to be very careful with. No pain here, but it's a really uncomfortable exercise for me, and a love/hate realtionship. Probably all the more reason to do it.
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Post by meguro on May 19, 2015 16:17:20 GMT -5
the nice thing about dips is it's much easier to bail out, compared to bench pressing.
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