Port Huron Weekend :: Game 2 & Testing

Bench Test, Shoulder Width (+2 inches), 2 inches off chest: 135lbs, 18reps (semi-failure)

Pull Up Test, Shoulder Width, Palms Facing Forward: Body (180lbs), 16reps (semi-failure)

Stand and Jump Test: 8 Feet Flat

I felt that if I had a good night of sleep I could have done slightly better in all tests. It wasn't as good as the testing I got at Network but I did really well compared to everyone else.

I felt I could better 8 feet on the Jump, but honestly, I wasn't positive.

Game 2:

I played pretty well overall. Played very well in the first period. Not very well in the 2nd, just not putting things together. 3rd period went okay, but again not amazing. I played really well, really quick, made the best of the situations I was in, but never scored.

I give myself a B+ on the day. B- for game 1, A- for the testing, and B+ for game 2.

Port Huron Weekend :: Game 1

Game 1 was a game where everything was easily predictable. I knew going in that everyone would be going hard in the first period and trail off from there. I played pretty well the first period, not getting the puck too much though. The second period was a crap-shoot, I started getting tired and double shifted a couple times when the Center's were switching up accidentally. I played well towards the end of the 2nd period, and going into the 3rd period I played very well. Almost scoring on two occasions. I felt a little grogy, drained and light headed, but I think it was mostly due to not having a great night of sleep. My problem was sleeping soundly. Last night I didn't get 2 hours of straight sleep. Maybe 7 hours of sleep, but not REM sleep. Sucks. I really needed it to, didn't play up to my potential in game one.

Hopefully game two is much better along with Combine testing afterwards. I will update after that, later tonight.

GohardorGohome.

Thoughts on future physically

http://www.leangains.com/2010/12/maximum-muscular-potential.html<<

To take it all in. I would be somewhere between 170 and 177 ish. I'll go with 174. Which is okay. I honestly don't want to drop any more weight than where I am right now. I would like to stay at 180 until next March.

I need about 5 lbs of baby fat for hockey to burn in case I need reserves in games or what-not. So I could perhaps get down to 5% BF, but I would need that extra 2-3% for energy to burn in case I have nothing left from being on the ice.

For now during this upcoming season I will be doing the same workout I am doing now, lots of Cardio, plenty of Plyo and dynamic stretching. Maybe hit the gym and tone the muscles I want to be tone that would atrophy otherwise every week or so in a circuit workout. My only goals physically will be to increase my flexibility, thru yoga most-likely.

Starting next March I will go through 2-3 months of Lean Bulk, along with more Physcial Therapy for my Shoulders.

Edit - Thought of one more thing I would like to change physically dramatically. I would like to pack on some muscle to my core (abs mainly), and increase my VO2 Max.

Leading up to Tryout

So the last few days has been a not-so-good draw on my nutrition. But now all the partying is over, the next 3 days its all loading up on food, and tons of cardio, core work, and plyo. Friday I have 2 games, Saturday I have 3, Sunday I might have another 2 if I make the All-Star games.

So I'm probably going to eat close to 6000 calories tomorrow and thursday. Looking to figure out how much Carbs and Fats in percentages I should be having during that time.

Watch out, this weekend is going to be off the chain.

Last week's averages

This past week 7/12-7/18 averages were....

3879.4 Cals

445.4g Carbs
32g DFiber
44.7% Carbs

151.9g Fats
41g Sat Fats
35.1g PolyUnsat
55.8g MonoUnsat
6265mg Omega 3
28163mg Omega 6
1.2g Trans Fats
34.7% Fats

195.3g Protein
20.6% Protein

My thoughts.....I am sticking to 200g of Protein, 150 is near impossible to achieve with my caloric intake, and at 150 I am noticing muscle atrophy in my upperbody.

I started eating some fatty fish and macadamia nuts.

I would still like to see it become 40%C, 40%F, 20%P though.

Sunburned....

I have learned my lesson, that is all.

My first week of Fatty diet, daily macro averages.

4052Cals

528g Carbs
39.7g DFiber
51%Carbs

136g Fats
39.7g Sat Fats
27.3g PolyUnsat
44.7g MonoUnsat
1789.7mg Omega 3
25754.1mg Omega 6
1.11 Trans Fat
29.3% Fats

197.4g Protein
19.7% Protein

My thoughts, I need to drop my Protein and Total Carbs down a little. I want to get my I want to be looking at 3500cals, 400g Carbs, 200g Fat, 150g Protein. It will be hard though.

Things to do before I die

After I finished this list, I saw how much shallowness there was in my first few things, then as I wrote on, I saw the depth in thought come in. Interesting....hope to read this in like 5 years, so what I've accomplished, maybe again in 50.

Run a Marathon.

Go Skydiving.

Go Bungie Jumping.

Shoot a Sniper Rifle.

Eat Vodka Flavored Sherbet/Ice Cream.

Experience/Participate (in) a MLG Event.

Play High Level College Hockey.

Play Pro Hockey.

Play Pro Golf.

Design and Drive a Car.

Fall in Love.

Dive from at least 25 feet.

BMX a little.

Participate in a Iron Man Challenge.

Be in the 1500lb Club. (Bench, Squat, Deadlift)

Design, Build, and Live in my own house.

Travel to Dubai's Man-made Islands.

Record my own music album.

Do some Modeling.

Write a book/screenwrite a movie of my life/hardships.

Get down to 5% Body Fat.

Watch an Atomic Bomb detonate with my own eyes, with some distance in between preferably.

Live a period of my life with a debilitating disability.

Go to the follwoing artists Concerts: Metallica, I am Abomination, Skrillex, Eminem, and Lil Wayne.

Live in one place no longer than 2 years, forever.

Have children, make sure they live care free lives, and help them along with success.

On that note, live long enough to tell stories to my Great-Grand kids.

On that note, live to see future in which I can't imagine now.

Travel beyond Earth's Atmosphere.

LASTLY, pull off a feat that was previously thought to be impossible, but through Mental and Physical training and staying completely in the moment, achieved.

Be remembered for having a fullfilling life, being kind, and helping everyone I ever meet in some way at my Funeral.

Wicked workout, weird eats though

Had a pretty funky day yesterday. Woke up around 10am, and my billet dad asked me if I wanted to go on a bike ride. I was like....uhhh let me wake up for 5 mins and eat, and then yes.

We road appox 40 miles over appox 4 hours. Sooooo tiring, but fun also.

Not sore today, but here is where the story gets weird.

Came home and had an amazing meal, of Pancit Canton (Lo-Mein), and Beef Lumpia (DELICIOUS!), killed my macros, but I think I deserved it.

Macros for the day were, 50%C, 31%F, 19%P ....and even worse yet, 3500cals, 470g C, 130g F, and 180g P.

I don't think I had that much fat in the past 5 days combined!

Now, gonna kill it the next week!

Small update

10 mile bike + Plyo + Sprints, Feel like a beast. My 40yd dash feels like something in the 4.6-8 range. My 60 yd shuttle feels about 2 full seconds faster since I started keeping track back in March.

Pulled Groin, Sticks, and Happiness

Good couple days of workouts this week, really cutting down nicely. Inching closer and closer to my goal of 6% BF.

After Wednesday's off-ice workout at Network I pulled both my groin's my right more than my left, and now I am resting them for a few days.

I think I need the break, but also I don't like the fact that I am sitting on my butt a lot.

I broke 3 sticks in the past week, not very happy about that, hoping to get a few sticks starting July 3rd and rip it up.

I have been really unhappy lately, sad about life, under pressure to play really well, and worried about a bunch of stuff. My parents splitting up doesn't help, money's tight, and its all climaxing. Its hard to perform when your always thinking, 'I better not break this stick or else I will need another one, and my parents can't pay for it', so you shoot with less punch.

Hopefully things will get better.

Simple update

I am getting closer and closer to my goal in life of 6% BF. I think I'm around 8-9% now, lots more of my abs showing. Gonna take B&A's this week and take my weight, so later in August I will release them as then we can see a better time line of changes.

Didn't workout at all Friday, Saturday skated for a couple hours, and made a local Junior A team, didn't do anything yet today, but have Network today, might shoot out back and bike a little before I go.

GO HAM!

Current maxes

24" Vertical (recorded) , 30" Vertical (Unofficial)
4.7sec 40 (Unofficial)
I don't bench due to a small tear in my labrum.
385 deadlift (Official)
315 squat (Unofficial)
45" Box Jump (Official)
Under 5min mile (Unofficial)
Under 1min 400yds (Official)

Changing it up a tad

Today at workouts we did a new workout where we cycled through one set of quick feet, then we used these to get better at our sprinting, then we did some "burpies", lastly we did some reaction time tests with basic usages (tennis balls dropped from 5 feet). All were for 4 minutes straight, then rest.

After (and more excitingly) we did 6 400m dashes. I have never actually done these to see how fast I could go, and actually I don't know what time I got on the 400, but I think it was close to 55-65 seconds, not sure though. Hopefully I can do it again (and time it), it was a straight away, and I was winded after all of them. Before this we were on the ice for an hour or so.

Liked it, but I think I may be sore tomorrow. :)

Tired

Man, I slept like 14 hours today. Woke up at 8am to eat, and went back to bed for 3 more hours.

Hopefully its paying off. Off-ice my explosiveness is better, but on-ice I seem to be struggling as of late.

It turns around, one way or another.

Might go biking tomorrow, well see.

Bad couple of days

Protein intake has sucked the last couple days, my diet went to shit after a couple of cheat meals.

But see, unlike most people you gotta just move past it. I understand what mistakes I have made, and now I can change it up.

One or two minor bad days won't kill you. I stuck to my diet in all regards other than Protein, and now I am ramping it back up, simple.

Hoping to get out and ride my bike a little today, probably get some shots on the ole net too.

28 miles

Biked 28 miles yesterday.

BPM was around 90 for 1/3, 120 for 1/3, and 160 for 1/3. Great sweat, not sore today, hopefully I can do it a lot more.

GINO!

Bring on the Icebath!

Little update on my stuff guys....

Recently relocated to Maryland to start training with some Pros and College guys over the summer.

Testing Day 1 (June 5th) - Was in great shape, and tested really well, can't wait to see how I stacked up. I know my 20yd Dash was 2.5sec. My Vertical was 24in (should have been closer to 30 if I was truly warmed up, and didn't have to drive 9 hours the day before....but no excuses I suppose). And we did a test called "Wingate" really hardcore, but I was in the top 5%.

Day 2 and 3 (June 6, 7) - LOTS of Plyo, and Dynamic stretching, and I THOUGHT I was in good shape going into this, I definitely over-estimated myself. Very sore all June 7th and June 8th. Mainly my Glutes.

Our workout went something like this (all PM and times);

June 6th; 5-530, Hardcore Dynamic Stretching. 530-645, Hardcore Plyometrics, lots of Lunges and squat-like movements (15-20 sets).

7-8, On Ice, Lots of Skating.

815-9, Jog, 9min mile pace.

9-930 cool down static stretch.


I went through a gallon and a half of water from 4-11PM that day.

June 7th, almost identical workout except no run, and different workouts in the plyo.

June 8th, Dynamic Stretch, In Gym workout whole body core work.

More pucks on the ice, and just a cooldown.

Today should be much more simple, then a break Friday (I might do yoga on my own, and bike a bit). Note, that everyday I am taking shots in my backyard too, 100-150. Then we have a setup game Saturday and a Lecture on Nutrition, Psycology, and such. Then back to the Plyo on Monday.

I like being sore.

New home, new beginnings...

So June 4th, I (not my family) moved out to Maryland to train the entire summer for the upcoming hockey season.

The move went great, 8 hour drive, then lots of rest June 4th.

June 5th was a great workout day, 10 miles on the bike, then lots of plyo, P90x ab ripper. Then at NH we did even more plyo, testing, and some other fun things.

June 6th was a good day, lots of working out, learning my new billet family's in's and out's. Simple life, its looking like it will be something like this the whole summer long;

Sleep - 1am-9am

Stretching, Fueling up, Shooting, and having fun, maybe do a little work 9-5.

Workout 6-11pm

June 7th, fairly sore, but feeling good about the workouts I did in March-May, otherwise, I would probably be much more sore.

We will see what the future brings....already seeing gains, and ripping it up on the ice.

Crazy tired

Still tired but got a weird story, so ill keep it short.

Jammed hard all day, 10 miles on the bike, shooting on goalies, worked out, got home around 8, showered, and fell asleep.

Woke up at 1AM, was hungry, ate a huge protein shake and some goldfish. HAHA

Gonna through up some more B&A's in the next couple days before I move out to MD for training.

Peace.