Maxed out 275 6/24

I haven't been blogging lately, I been pretty upset at my injury of the sprained ankle. However a good new is that I finally maxed out 275, every time I go to the gym I try to get this locker "275" to remind myself what my goal is. My bench have been stuck for the past few months (wouldn't benched 270 for atleast 2 months before that) and I was getting pretty upset at myself over the whole "weight room" deal, I even though about taking a break from lifting weight for a while.





I pushed it up pretty easy maybe because since I can't do any much cardio with a sprained ankle, I been spending more time focusing more on lifting weight. Since I can't do legs, I been spending time working out on my triceps and shoulders. My old schedule was - day 1 chest/biceps day 2 legs/back, and follow a full day or two of cardio(basketball) and that was the cycle. I think spending more time on the triceps helped me with the maxing out a lot. Also I got a new workout buddy that is also in my class, we been hitting the weight room twice a week. Big up to him for pushing me hard in the gym. Got a workout buddy makes workouts much more effective.

I think seeing "the goal" every time I go to the gym, helped me though the tough time and I am glad I pushed myself though it. Now I am aiming to hit 300 and I will try to upload a video of it if I can push it up anytime soon. My ankle is still hurting when I jump, I been shooting around in the gym but I am not ready to play yet. Just got my ankle brace today, hopefully I can start playing after few more days.

How to deal with injuries

Ok I been playing a bit of basketball, maybe a bit too much but I just love the feeling of running up and down the court and get my cardio in, and most importantly the chance to play to win. Like I mentioned before I put in a good 10+ hours each week on the court, I haven't got hurt for a while and finally injuries cough up to me, and I sprained my ankle pretty badly yesterday. I been doing the RICE thing and but it is not looking too good.



Well atleast I scored a point on the play I injured myself. Hopefully my ankle will heal quickly. I already scheduled an appointment with a doctor, hopefully it will help my ankle heal a bit quicker. I really can't see myself sitting out for a week on running and basketball. But am I going to sit around while waiting for my ankle heal? Of course not, I already set a goal of completing 2000 push ups and 200 pull ups today. If I can't get my cardio or lower body in atleast I can get some workout in. Maybe I can get something done for school too.

It's always too early to quit

Lately I been stuck on my bench press(currently still benching around 270), but I am glad I been playing basketball pretty well lately. By the way I raged pretty hard at myself when I wouldn't put up 275 yesterday, however made 2 game winners on the 2s later on the court so it kinda balanced out.

This blog I want to talk about fitness, I think if you want to get in to a better shape, you must find reasons why you want to get into better shape. I know it might sound stupid, but I know many people that workout for a week or two and just quit. The main reason is because they didn't have a reason to workout.

In my opinion looking better is too weak of a reason to help someone to focus and stay in shape. I am competitive so besides wanting to look better, I always have a drive that pushes me to workout, whatever it might be like going to the gym or do a session of insanity. When I want to step off the StairMaster before the time is up, I think about times that I loses in basketball. Yeah by the way currently Basketball is my thing, I put probably 10+ hours on the court each week, either from shooting around, drilling or playing.

There are other reasons why I workout too, but looking good and being competitive I would say are the two of the few main ones. So if you want to get serious about getting in shape, find reasons why you want to do it. Took this picture at a local pizza joint "Pieology" though I should share it. Oh yeah went there for the first time, I do eat cheat food once in a while but I spitted a pizza with someone else, so wouldn't be that bad . ... right? You can read my review on yelp also. http://www.yelp.com/biz/pieology-fullerton#hrid:AJ76knZMExtvj-L9cScy4A

Road Bike! Scored!!

I always wanted a road bike and I finally got my first one off Craigslist. Scored this bad boy for $145, I think is a pretty good deal. The road bike is pretty smooth itself and I might need to get new tires down the road. So far I only had been riding it to the gym and back, still got to get a hang of it before I start hitting the road with it. Of course there are reasons of me getting a bike, the main reason is I want to do a triathlon sometime this year. Now I just got to think how to take care of the swimming part(I guess the simple answer is to start swimming).



Also it is always good to add in extra workout to the routines, plus it doesn't hurt to ride in the nice Southern California weather. I might have to many on my plate at the moment, I would say my workout routines are weight lifting, basketball, cardio(running/StairMaster) and insanity (just started also would do a blog on it maybe a bit later) plus few other things like stadium/yoga that I try to do atleast once a week. I will keep this routines til the July ToughMudder, I will give a more detail blog on each workout and explain the pros and cons of it and I will do an after picture to match the before picture I did last month.

One week vacation - Part 2 Bay Area

Last week on my 2nd part of the vacation I went to visit my home Bay Area. I stayed the 4days and the main reason of the trip was a “camping” trip that my friends and I planned a while back. It was a trail by Mission Peak and the hike was 18 miles each way. I have to admit we didn’t prep for the hike that well, I would say my conditioning paid off, and the hike was somewhat challenging but it was manageable for me. There was few additional up and down hills that I didn’t though of when I prepped for the hike. We manage have just enough water to make it to the camp site and we finished all the food we bought with us.



We spent one day hiked out there and we spent about 12 hours resting. We didn’t bring a tent so that was the only thing I was worry about. The camp site was pretty wet, we were above 3500ft and we were in the middle of the clouds majority of the night. There were some raindrop but we were lucky enough that it didn’t rain hard on us. We didn’t really get to enjoy the camping experience from this trip; however I think it was a good conditioning and gut checks especially for my friends that are not too active. Maybe next time we will give ourselves more time and get to enjoy the camping experience.



I know I been lagging on my blogs, and there are many things I want to share. I just bought a road bike, and I am sure I will do a triathlon sometime this year and I will make a blog on how I plan to train for it, and also I want to make a blog on my daily diet. I plan to complete these 2 blogs within the next week.