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.

One week vacation - Part 1 Chicago

It’s been a while since I did a blog, I just been extremely busy with school last month with finals and took a week off and traveled to Chicago then the Bay Area. Even though I was busy with school during that month, I still hit the gym almost every day. However my diet has gone really bad during the week of vacation especially when I was in Chicago, by the way there is nothing overhyped about there deep-dish pizza. By far the best pizza I had, and the look of the pizza could be deceiving too. The deep-dish is a must have if you ever visit Chicago, however I think you can pass on the famous Chicago Hotdog. It was ok, and I was not impressed at all. Overall it was a great trip out there, since this is not a vacation blog, I will keep my experience in Chicago short. I will make another blog for my trip to the Bay.

First goal achieved. 30 Pull ups

Quick update

I finally achieved my first goal, on 5/9 just did 30 clean pull-ups. I always been able to do 18-20 but the past few months I really focused on breaking into "30". However my other goal bench press is not progressing as well as I would like. Kinda stuck around 265-270. Final is next week. Hopefully I can get 275 by then.

Also I might make a video of completing 30pull ups, I might uploaded it on YouTube.

OC half marathon 5/6/2012

Completed the OC half marathon yesterday, it was the first one I did in the past 2 years. Even though I been training pretty hard, but I didn't really ran outside for a while and I wish I could of prepped for the race a little more. I did hit one of my goal which is make it the top 8% overall finisher. I finished 417 out of 8755 which is the 4-5% tile. However I didn't crack an hour 40mins, I think it would help if our group got to the race a little earlier and had a little time to stretch. Also the pacer helped a lot, if I started on time and stayed with the hour 40min pacer, I think I would finish the race a little bit quicker.



This is the first time I ever ran a half marathon for a time. I did 6 half marathons before, but all of them I ran with a friend that slowed my time a bit. I felt pretty good about my time, but I really want to set a goal for my next half marathon which is the Long Beach half in October. That is about 5 months from now I want to aim for an hour 30mins. Maybe is a bit far reach but after the last race, I really want to set my goal to qualify for the Boston Marathon. To qualify I need to complete a marathon under 3hours and 5mins, so completing a half marathon with that pace would be a good start. I am not sure when I can complete this goal of qualifying for Boston marathon, but I think it will help me with my training when I have an end goal in my mind.

So here it is, I officially listed an hour 30mins for a half marathon and qualify for Boston marathon is my goal.