David Dyer's Workout Log

[amphinon]

I will be starting this with my first entry tomorrow seeing as this website was unknown to me before today.

Starting stats: 245 lbs/Left Bicep 15.25" relaxed 18.25" flexed/right bicep 15" relaxed 18" flexed/right forearm 14"/left forearm 14.5"/chest 50.25"/waist 35"/ thigh 26.5"/ right calf 20.5"/neck 18.5"/6 foot tall


ugh ~ I sound fat and lazy.

[Ros]

What's your aim amphinon - where would you like your measurements to be?

[amphinon]

At this point, i feel maintenence will help me when it comes to size. Weight-wise, I's like to tone down to about 200-220 depeding on what looks good with my body structure.

Improve on technical skill and continue the high standards i have set for myself.

[curlbroscience]

Look forward to hear about your training methods and progress.

[amphinon]

Done!

What I did today...

warm up
Run 5.5 miles.
17.7 lb Kettlebells
5 minutes of ketlebell presses done at fast pace followed immediately with 10 minutes of Kettlebell rows
30 minutes on heavybag with jab, cross, hook, elbow and rond kicks
resistance harness training with jump and off the block.
ended with an hour of kata training and cool-down.

Tonight (i'll post this now so this will show up on today's), I will be hitting the P90X again.

[GJEC]

Seems rather a lot of endurance work. Curious how you intend to maintain size with that amount?

Gary

[amphinon]

Because that is my daily routine.

[GJEC]

DAILY?

Good luck with that.

Gary

[amphinon]

Today's workout:

5.5 miles of running followed by 30 minutes of heavybag (strikes), kettlebells, hour of kata and P90x.

[meguro]

You don't sound fat or lazy at all.

[amphinon]

Taking the day off to heal.

[amphinon]

After taking yesterday off to let my knee get a little better, I started back up today...

Workout 1
Heavybag work for 30 minutes.
Kata study for 1 hour
Swimming for 1 hour

Workout 2:
Kihon and Kata for 2 hours.

[Ros]

What's up with your knee? If you have a knee injury, it probably isn't a great idea to do much running, you don't want to make it worse.

Can you elaborate on kata study and share with us what you learnt?

[amphinon]

Aug 22, 2012 1:41:43 GMT -5 Ros said:

What's up with your knee? If you have a knee injury, it probably isn't a great idea to do much running, you don't want to make it worse.

Can you elaborate on kata study and share with us what you learnt?

To be honest, I strained my knee during one of the previous workouts. It is better now after some non/low-impact work. I held off on the running and substituted swimming when the problem arose.

As far as kata, I am practicing all my kata to maintain my ability level while learning a new kata or two here and there. Since I no longer am bound by the teachable kata from my previous school, I am expanding the kata repertoire. Primarily, completing certain kata families such as the kanku family and passai/bassai family.

When I study kata, what I am doing is learning the technical skills and combos associated with the individual kata. Afterward, I use Dr. Schmeisser's and Iain Abernethy as reference material to break the kata into applicable and street usable bits.

The school I cane from was called Ro-Ken after my instructor Robert Kendall. The characters associated with Ro-Ken can be interpreted as Street/Road Wise. Since our background is Kyokushin from the 70s, our philosophy is to end that fight with each and every technique including the meta-steps and in-between moves.

So when you ask what I have learned, it really depends on which part of which kata.

[amphinon]

My workout for yesterday was light due to having a lot of work and teaching.

Workout:
Kata work
Sprints
Brisk walk for 30 minutes
kettlebell presses for 15 minutes