JerseyDevil

DAMN. I wish I was 38 again

Archangel

#'s aren't as important as FORM!!! That imo is an EXCELLENT w/o my Friend!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

fantasma62

JD: it doesn't matter how old you are, but how cool you are...or in my case, not...

Thanks for the words Arch....

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

fantasma62

Great workout today....it had to be my B-day workout of course. I am very happy because today my body failed to finish the workout...

As usual, I continue with the 3 / 1/2 split


* 5 rounds heavy bag: These were a very grueling 5 rounds. I really hit the bag hard and went full tilt at it. I was very tired when I finished but I pushed on.

*1 round shadow boxing with 10 pound db's: This took everything out of me. I am not going to lie and say that I threw punches throughout the 3 minutes that I shadowed. In fact, I felt like I zapped my whole energy throwing combos. In the last 30 seconds I threw everything that I could and I felt as tired as I can possibly feel. But I pushed on...

* 4 rounds shadow boxing: I don't know how I finished the 4 rounds. By the time the last round was ending, I was doing badly and my arms weren't responding. I believe I was reaching soe sort of arm failure.

* 1 round speed bag: normally I do 2 rounds of speed bag work, however, today I could barely lift my arms when I was done shadowing. I gave it a hell of a go and tried my best. I couldn't get my rythm going because I could barely put my arms over my head. So, I gave it a go and tried my best. Never really got it going right, but to tell you the truth, I didn't mind. I really had nothing left tonight and I couldn't be happier...


All in all, I am very happy that my fist birthday workout was better than I thought it would be. Do I feel 38 today? Hell yes, and I am sure that tomorrow I will feel the last workout I had at 37.

Tomorrow I will take the day off, because I deserve it and I will resume on Friday. I'll catch up with ya'll tomorrow, I am about to have my birthday sleep......

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Archangel

AWESOME my Friend, now you know next time when you DO finish, you have SHATTERED a plateau!!! Hope you had a GREAT birthday Brother Tony, now go ENJOY the weekend!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

fantasma62

Thanks Arch, but PLATEAU? WHAT PLATEAU? I beat that plateau tonight baby.....don't worry Arch, I am not screaming at you and your thougth of plateaus. I am just elated. I thought the same way you did yesterday, but then I saw your post and said "I've gotta show them..." and I did....

* 5 rounds heavy bag

*1 round shadow boxing with 10 pound dumbbells

*4 rounds shadow boxing

*2 ROUNDS SPEED BAG (the hell with the plateaus): Great rythm, great speed, great all around.

I am too tired right now, and I just had dinner, but I am happy with the workout.

Didn't think I'd make it, but fought on....

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Archangel

AWESOME, I will gladly eat my words my Friend, Excellently done!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

fantasma62

Thank you Sir....your words are always a welcome inspiration...

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

DOMS

Few things feel as good as working out on your birthday!

Happy birthday, man!

fantasma62

Thank you Señor DOMS

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

fantasma62

Just finished tonight's WO. We ate dinner late ('bout 8:00 PM)

Anyway, feeling good...I improved my last workout even after following thru with my observations from my last one. Have a few more modifications to do and I'll go from there...

DB Chest Press: 15 x 40pds (Last w/o it was 17 x 35)

DB Flyes: 10 x 22.5 pounds (that was pretty much right on target).

Inclined Hammer Curl (both arms at the same time): 13 x 25 pd (improved from 10 x 25 the last time).

Concentration Curls: 8 x 25 pd (left), 8 x 25 pd (right).

Felt pain in my wrist, but my feeling is that it is going to be like this as long as I continue hitting the heavy bag, so I sucked it up and finished the curls. Felt real good in my bi's, not so good in my wrist. It is not a pain that I can't stand. In fact, I lifted in pain all workout long but finished. Tomorrow's rest will do wonders. On tuesday I will wrap it to offer support when I lift.

DB Triceps Extension: 17 x 30 pd (Increased from 20 to 30 pounds and it made no visible difference).

Not much else to say other than I am seeing changes already. I see (somehow, don't know why) more size in my forearms and biceps, and more definition on my bi's and tri's. This HIHT must be working out better than I thought. Do I notice increase in strength? Sure, if the changes that I made and how I reacted to them are what we mean by strength.

True thing folks, I am not here to get stronger, I am alrady strong. I am working to get thinner and so far it's working (again, cheating....I have a lap band).

I am eating healthier and my blood levels dropped dramatically from my 295 pounds in May to my 238 pounds today. Funny, I have not dropped weight but size wise I can tell that I am thinner by my clothes. I am now wearing size 36 jeans for example but I have to put them above my belly button and tighten the belt well because they seem to fall off. We don't need to see that, believe me...

Anyway, sorry for the rant, but I guess I felt like saying that today....and this is my journal, so I can do what I want to...

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

fantasma62

I took yesterday off and decided to finish studying for my Real Estate Exam. I took the course two years ago, but due to some personal problems I was never able to take the exam. Today was literally the last day I could take the exam without having to do the course over again and spend another $500 after I threw the first $500 away. Well, that didn't happen, today on the last day I passed the Real Estate Exam with flying colors. I am very happy because I really busted my ass studying. I had been hearing folks taking the exam 4 and 5 times and not passing and got a bit intimidated. When I showed up to the exam, I found it to be very easy and got thru it in a couple of hours (100 questions of which 14 were math calculations). I felt like I was in college again.....

Anyway, was thinking of taking the day off today too, but I am OCD and I have to always start on mondays, so I am off to working out...somehow, every time I wrap up my hands, I get an urge...so I guess I am off then.

Just wanted to share my happy moment with you good folks.....

Chao

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Archangel

AWESOME w/o and Mega CONGRATS on passing your exam w/flying colors, You deserve it my Friend, enjoy your accomplishment now!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

fantasma62

Thanks Arch, I thought of taking the day off to celebrate, as I said above, but as you will now see...

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

fantasma62

...so I worked out...

First of all, I made one of the dumbest mistakes I have made, followed by a small error. However, everything turned fine at the end.

To the workout:

As usual, I use the 3 : 1/2 ratio (minute per round : rest period in minutes)

*5 Rounds Heavy Bag: as usual I started off the way I wanted to, I was pacing myself because of the discomfort in my right hand but after a while that went away and I started pounding the bag. Then I made the dumbest mistake I have made since I started doing my boxing training. I was hitting the bag in good rythm, hitting it hard, then doing a few combo's and at the end of the round, for the last 30 seconds, I went all out.

In the third round, I saw these two really good looking women pass by and continued doing my thing. Suddenly, as I am pounding the bag, I took my eye off the bag for one second, and one of them had stayed behind looking at what I was doing, so what does a mature man who knows how to pace himself does? For the last two minutes of the round I pound the bag mercilessly with all I had. I was pumped up and I was just hammering. The discomfort long gone and now replaced by a fury... So, she left and when the round ended I slumped on my bench for my 30 seconds of rest, but I was done. However, I pressed on because I wanted to have something to show. My last two rounds were excruciating.

* 1 Round Shadow Boxing with 10 pd dumbbell: painful as usual

* 4 Rounds Shadow Boxing: of course folks I was spent by the time the 3 round was done and that fourth one was just slow shadow...

* 3 Rounds Speed Bag: yeap, that's right, three rounds. That woman came and screwed everything over, so much so, that when the bell rang for a third round of speed bag I got confused and did it. I had a very good first round, an ok second round and an aweful third as I couldn't even lift my arms. That was mistake number 2.

I am a little tired, I will come back later. I do deserve what happened to me for being a "puto" (male bitch)...You make your bed you lie in it...

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Malley

Brother your cardiovascular ability has to be some kick ass shit!

www.crossfit.com

fantasma62

Thanks a bunch DD

Funny thing is, I have been thinking of getting a stress test done just in case. I don't want any surprises on the way.

However, when I am doing this training, I don't get out of breath or tired. My body gets tired but I am breathing pretty well. In fact, to boot, I don't touch the water while I am training. I drink a mouthful before and I spit out a mouthful when I finish. I don't drink water until a good 15-20 miutes after the workout...

It kinda' reminds me of my old football days when the coaches just wouldn't let you drink water until you finished...I hated those days.

I am going to start jogging also around the park by my house. It is a 1/4 mile around, so at least I have an idea of distance vs. time. Yes, I want to compete against myself and beat my PR every time, I've always been like that....

I guess I am a whole lot more into my training now than I was when I first joined here. This is what I like to do. Not just weight training but boxing also. It's a great workout for the fatties who want to lose the weight or the size if not the weight...

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Archangel

As usual, doing GREAT imo my Friend, keep it up!!!

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

Pylon

Heya Tony! How's everything going?

"For beverages, I only drink water or whiskey and when I’m drinking whiskey, it’s usually when I’m working out. It gives me the courage to lift more than I can when I’m sober." - C. Bratton

fantasma62

Thanks Arch, I always look forward to your comments and critiques...

Pylon my friend, I am glad you are doing well, I am Ok. I am taking these couple of days off to rest my hand which has been hurting a bit.

Tomorrow I will be back on the horse again. Need to get ready for next week, as I am spending 3 days in Las Vegas with my wife. That is if something doesn't happen with my wife's grandmother, who's basically on her last few days (maybe even hours). Part of the reason why I stopped visiting and posting here the last couple of years has to do with my mother and wife's grandmother's health. If ya'll recall a couple of years ago, I had mentioned in a previous journal (those who were here back then) that both my mother and my wife's grandmother had gotten cancer at around the same time. My mother battled breast cancer and I thank God every day that she is here with us by beating her cancer. Soon after her cancer treatment she had a mild heart attack, so it was a bit of a weird time. She's well today.

My wife's grandmother got colon cancer a couple of years ago. Once we thought that she had it beat, it returned but not to the colon, but to one of the worse possible places, the liver. In the last year, since she got the cancer she had a surgery to remove it but all it did was stay in place and in fact, methastasized to her stomach. Within the past 3 weeks she has deteriorated too fast. I'll put it to you this way. A couple of days before I left to Colombia 2 1/2 weeks ago, we talked a bit, we joked around and hung out with her and my kids, etc. Less than a week later, Friday, when I flew back from Colombia, I saw something that wasn't Amelia. This person didn't know who I was or what I was. Later, my wife explained that during that week the cancer got a hold of her brain and things have regressed at mach speed ever since. She's no longer able to speak or even recognize people. A few days ago in her quasi-vegetative state, the only people she recognized were my kids and my nephew, as she smiled and called their names when they got close to her (gulp...), but as of yesterday she stopped eating or taking fluids. We can't feed her intravenously because she has fluids in her stomach, so it is pretty much a matter of time. This may stop things for us for a few days, including training or even any sort of a trip anywhere.

Sorry to bum you guys out, but I guess I am writing here to maybe get that off my chest and since this is my journal...well...I can do anything I want to do

For those who pray, I ask for you folks to keep this old lady in your thoughts. If you don't pray, keep her in your thoughts anyway.

That's all I have for today all...

Goodnight...

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Archangel

My Friend, my heart hurts and cries for you!!! GOD speed your family and know you will always be in my thoughts and Prayers!!!
Revelation 21:3,4

"I can do ALL things through Christ, who strengthens me" - Philippians 4:13

"For NOTHING is impossible with GOD" - Luke 1:37

fantasma62

Thanks a bunch Arch

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training

Pylon

Sorry to hear about your trials, Tony. Hope all goes well and she moves to a peaceful place soon.

"For beverages, I only drink water or whiskey and when I’m drinking whiskey, it’s usually when I’m working out. It gives me the courage to lift more than I can when I’m sober." - C. Bratton

Fitgirl70

I am so sorry to hear about everything Tone. I definitely will keep you and your family in my prayers. There is nothing like the power of prayer!

I do hope you and your wife to get to spend some time in Vegas though. Having just a bit of time to yourselves is always so rejuvenating!

Much love my friend! Please let us know if there is anything we can do.

All the glory to God! We have a baby on the way.

fantasma62

Thanks for your thoughts Pylon

-Tony-

HIHT: High Intensity Hybrid Training