Deload Next 2 Weeks

That is all.

Chest & Tri Day

I hit the Chest and Tri's yesterday. I jumped in with 70's @ 8R @ 3S on Dumbbell Bench. Then hit the same weight on Decline Bench. After both series, I could bearly squeeze my chest, but I felt like a beast, I'll tell yall why in a sec. But I was so tired I had to do an Ab Circuit while I waited for everything to recover. Came back to the Bench area, and thought, why not just do Barbell Bench, could bearly hit 145 @ 8R @ 3S, which is about 30-40lbs less than what I knew I could do without being juiced from the previous two sets.

Anyway, I was flash-backed to a few pictures a while ago where I was 13, and just fractured my jaw (slapshot). I weighed 110-120. I could only dumbbell bench like 35s@6@3, and dumbbell press like 15s@6@3. Nowadays I could do more than double that on bench, and more than triple that on press.....

(A guy at the gym from Advocare is going to let me try a few samples of his "Spark", I might also try and start becoming a distributor for the company too, well see.) I know I preach about not using Pre-Workout stuff, but I feel that when you are trying to 1RM, it is had to get yourself jacked up with only music and natural foods.

Back on the ice today

Got on the ice today, thought I would be really rusty, but wasn't at all.

Everything was like I had never left except for shooting at stand-still which was garbage.

Hands actually felt better.

Didn't get the burn to play again though.

LEGS

I had a SICK leg day a few days ago.

I am really starting to like the Hack Squat Machine.  Hit 320x6x3 going past maybe 60 degrees.  Feel like a fucking beast.

My in-between sets were a 40(ish)inch Box Jump x3, everyone in the gym thought I was nuts....I was like dude, there are people that can do like 65inches.

I am going to be on the ice tomorrow for the first time in over 6 weeks.  Looking forward to it.  Lastly, I am going to hit Chest tomorrow, hoping to break the 200lb (reality, not theoretical barrier).  Actually I am hoping to SMASH it.  Or maybe I will just KILL chest and tri's then for my last workout before my deload/stretch week, I will trash the 200lb barrier.

#Ohyeahdontknowwhatimthinkin

Breaking PRs every week feels good

Broke another PR today.  Hit the EZ BAR Curl for 100 lbs even, 3 reps, slightly swinging but not as much as last week.  2 weeks ago I got it for 95 swinging a lot.

Flu Shot + Shoulder Workout

After getting a Flu Shot yesterday, I pumped out a Shoulder/Trap workout today.

Hit 90lbs (+Smith) x2 reps for my PR for Overhead Press.  Definitely feeling quite a bit stronger in my shoulders since October 1st.

Chest workout and a Surprise!

After a couple days deload, I felt that my immune system was back up to par.  I'm still probably only feeling 75% but, nonetheless.  [URL="http://www.kyle-maynard.com/"]No excuses.[/URL]  I benched yesterday, and didn't do very well in my opinion.  Maxed out at 195lbsx1x1 on plain Bench.

After watching 'So you think you can bench', I definitely will be changing the way I bench in the future.  First, I will try and learn to pull the bar apart, and squeeze it more.  Second, I will start Arching my back, using my legs to push off, to use the entire body during the workout.

After trying to max out (tried 215 and failed);

Decline Dumbbell Bench 65(ea)x10x3
Close Grip Bench, Holding it at top for a 3-5 count 135x8x3

Low Cable Flys 60x8x3
Dips Bodyweight 8x3

Low Cable Flys
Benching Bar, working on Form 45x10x5

Benching Bar, working on Form 45x10x5
Incline Pushups Body weight 15x3

Seated Tricep Overhead Extensions 45x10x3
Tricep Kickbacks 20(ea)x10x3

Weighted Legs on Floor Dips B+35x9x4
One Arm Tricep Cable Pulldowns 40x8x3

After this workout, I know for sure that my Chest is severly behind my Triceps.  I think if my Chest was up to par with my Triceps I could probably bench upwards of 275ish.

BTW, just got my....

YEAH BUDDY.:thumb:

Day off...

Took a day off today, felt like crap. Got a slight sinus cold. Might even take tomorrow off if I really feel like crap, or just go in and sweat it out, do some cardio.

If I do go in, I will bring my FLIP and do Bench. I want to first show what my form is like (horrid, I'm sure, after watching "so you think you can bench"), and what my max is.

Then once I get my form down really well and everything in a few weeks or months, I'll repost and show the difference.

New Gym First Workout

I had a great workout tonight. I am really liking the new gym, it has every free weight from 1-100 with 2 pairs of each weight. Lots of really good cable machines. Lots of really good free range cables. But whats awesome is the men's locker room and stuff. There is a whirlpool, sauna, tanning beds, big screen TV, and like 20 other things that are awesome. I think I might move in there.

There are 10 tennis courts, and a track (all indoor), 2 bike and plyo rooms. Enough about the gym though.

I maxed out at 95lbsx3 on the EZ Bar Curl, it should be noted that I was swinging what felt like, quite a bit.

Really warmed up well, with heating up my shoulders for an hour, then dynamic stretched them.

Dumbbell Curl 45lbs each x 6 reps x 3 sets
Preacher Curl 65lbsx6Rx3S
Forearm Curl/Rev Curl 35lbs/15lbsx15ishx3
Cable Curl Twist 90 degrees 35lbs each x 6reps each direction x 3S
Chin Ups (Bodyweight) 15x2

Now lets just all pretend you all read all that.

Caz big-ish Update

After a few weeks of debating, I am going to stop playing hockey this season completely. Focus on working, living life, and bulking up.

I have set a goal of weighing 210 by March 1st. No goals in terms of lifting yet, as I have yet to get a solid gym membership yet. I don't know exactly what I weigh now, but I think it is probably 185ish. What is more important to me is being stronger and bigger. I desperately need to work on my front delts/clavicular pecs, along with my forearms, abs, and hamstrings.

I'm back on Creatine fulltime, and feel stronger up top than ever before.

I think I need to rethink my bulking process too, I am thinking about cycling workouts every 2 weeks. Maybe supersetting for 2 weeks, low rep maxing for 2 weeks, plyometric/stretching for 2 weeks. Any thoughts, please let me know. I'm just thinking P90x style in terms of 'muscle confusion'.

Lastly, I am seriously thinking about getting even more flexible, I'm already in the 95th percentile, but I would like to be far more flexible. Thinking everyday yoga or something.

New things

I am starting to really settle in in Kzoo.  I have a PT job now, just need to look for a FT one in the mean time.  After figuring out what I will be doing next, either playing in the NA or walking on next year.  I will start changing things up for my workout, get a settled program.

I need to find a legitimate gym, then I will start going my vids again I think.

I think I may start coaching/teaching the game again.

If I do decide to try and walk on, my goals will be to Bulk all winter long, to get up to 200 lbs, then cut down to 6% BF before June 1st.

Workouts are going good.  I'm focusing on just maintaining or bulking slightly.  Doing mostly muscle group training.  I'm trying to drop my Caloric intake down to 2000calories, which is tough considering I'm use to eating upwards of 4000 calories/day.  I'm also dropping my protein to 150g, and upping the quality of the protein I am getting (more amino acids).

I got a job working for a local Elementary School, working as a lunch/recess aid.  Which is pretty fun work, the kids are a riot.

I am really enjoying playing the Battlefield 3 Beta, putting up a 2-3 k/d every game.

After arriving back in Kzoo, I feel a great burden has finally lifted from my shoulders.  I know I can finally move on to whatever I want to, at my leisure.  Coaching, Teaching, Playing, or nothing at all.

The future is certainly bright again.

Heading back to Kalamazoo today.  10 hour drive, don't know what the future might hold.

After over a month of silence, I think I am will try to get back to Blogging.  I am making some serious changes in my life including leaving my current hockey team.  Not sure what the future holds.  The great part about the future is that it is only bound by your imagination.

Update on Training Camp

Well, without saying what is needed (like 5 paragraphs). Training camp is going well.

I ran a 23min 15second 3.3 mile run. On monday.

And then today I ran a 11min 40second 1.7 mile run.

Its been a wicked couple weeks of workouts. Lots of icebathes. Lots of plyometrics. Lots of sprints. Lots of sore feet.

Thinking of changing caloric intake

After reading a little up on the issue and doing a few small/simple formula's I feel that I need to decrease my caloric intake a little during training camp do drop a few pounds of fat until the season really gets started.

First, I will be eating 175g of Protein from now on, instead of closer to 200-225.

Second, my BMR is ~1975kcalories. By playing hockey I need to add roughly 1000kcals/hr for that, along with exercise I would need to add even more. In other words, on a hockey+workout day, I might ingest 3500calories instead of my 4250-4500 now, and on a off day, I will probably only ingest 2500. I feel that after a month of trying this, I will have a better guesstimate on my maintenance kcal needs. All in all, I will be watching over each day how much kcals I need. Soon I will be getting a calorie, and heart rate monitor so hopefully I can watch these figures even closer.

Thoughts on Day 2 and 3 of Training camp coming soon today.

Training Camp

So over the next couple weeks or so, I will be posting regarding my Training Camp for this upcoming hockey season with my team.

Day 1 (8/15/11) - After getting a lot of politics(ish) stuff out of the way, training camp finally arrived. I went in with a different attitude than I have previously because I knew a good percentage of the team and knew the coach and surrounding cast.

The day started out for me at 9am wake up, with a good breakfast of bagels and Wheaties.

After arriving at the rink at 12 noon, we had a team meeting until roughly 1:30pm. At which point we were given workout gear, and sent outside to what we thought was the warmup to a day of testing. No.

We worked out outside for roughly an hour doing calisthenics/plyometrics/cardio work.

We then moved into a cycling room where we worked our legs on the bikes for around 15 minutes of hell. Then we tested our Bench, and Squat, both numbers I won't disclose because I feel they are inferior to my PR's.

After all this we went back outside to do a timed 2.2mile run. I finished with a time of 15minutes, 23 seconds, which is pretty good considering how much stuff we did prior.

2 weeks of Food Averages

Daily Food Averages

For week of 7/19-7/25

4095.6cals

497.6g Carbs
32.9g Dfiber
46.6% Carbs

158.7g Fat
45.7g SFat
23.5g PolyUnSat
56.9g MonoUnSat
3693.6mg Omega 3
19161.9mg Omega 6
0.86g TransFat
34.1% Fat

194.4g Protein
19.3% Protein

For week of 7/26-8/1

4052.6cals
529.7g Carbs
39g DFiber
50.4% Carbs

161.7g Fat
41.9g SFat
19.3g Poly Unsat
65g Mono Unsat
1645.6mg Omega 3
16670.7mg Omega 6
1.19g Trans
34.7% Fat

152.6g Protein
14.9% Protein

Keep in mind that I was on a mild vacation from the 20th to the 1st, and from the 26-31st I was on a Carbs diet for the 5 game weekend.

Thoughts on tryout with Port Huron (+Game 3, 4, 5)

Looking back at the weekend, I felt that I have no regrets, which in the end, is all I can ask for.

I give myself a A- on the all 5 games + the testing. I would have gotten a A+ had I scored more.

Game 3-5 on Saturday were a lot better, I was able to keep my energy levels up through all the games through proper rest, nutrition, and warm up methods.

By game 5, I was still able to go 100% without sacrificing for anything, which really helped me.

I didn't get picked for the All-Star games, which I figured might have been the case. I did absolutely nothing wrong, was in the top 25% on the weekend, but the team already had their team picked and there were only 3-6 spots to fill.

If the team was ONLY looking for players who could score, then they will fail later on when they can't skate, or have hockey sense worth a crap.

Now I'm back to Maryland for training with Network, 3 more weeks, then moving to whatever team I sign with. Lots of decisions to make. :/

Str8Geno!