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Oblivian's Adaptations

Congrats on the marriage!

...and lol at you for training on the week of your wedding.
 
Corrosion said:
Congrats on the marriage!

...and lol at you for training on the week of your wedding.
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I couldn't resist. I need to get back on it more. I gained a shitload of weight over this vacation. I weighed 186 lbs last night! I'm sure a couple lbs was water weight, but I typically weigh 182 lbs tops at night. Diet time.

Snitz said:
Oblivian - What is the song from your vid from 8-5-2009?
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Black Lips - Bad Kids


They are a very interesting band to see live. Wild as hell. If you like them, there is a ton of shows/travel documentaries of them on vbs.tv
 
Today ended up being another day off. It was my final day of vacation and I felt exhausted. I just took a 3 hour nap! Anyhow, the real work begins tomorrow. I'm going to start my diet and I'll probably record my morning weight in here. I'm also upping the training a bit. LSD runs will be longer than 3 miles. Technique heavy bag work will be 10 rounds. I'm hoping to have power work be 6-8 rounds, but a lot of that depends on the temperature in the garage. If I'm doing a 50 burpee challenge, I will probably do a second one now. No more skipping stretching, etc. I have one more day of deload on the 5/3/1 and then I start my 3rd cycle. It should be getting quite a bit harder now. I'm excited to see my progress.
 
Starting weight = 185.6 lbs
Goal weight = 170 lbs

I am pretty sure I'll drop back to 180 lbs really quick. I should definitely be able to be around 175 lbs while still making strength gains. I was at 177 lbs for quite a while when I was making good lifts. I think 170 lbs is the weight I should be at. The only thing holding me back was eating bad foods and eating a lot of them.
 
Morning Weight = 182.7 lbs (-2.9 lbs)*
*My weight yesterday was taken after breakfast and morning coffee. Today, it was taken immediately after waking up. I plan on taking it immediately after waking up from here on out.

Warmup
Jump Rope: 5 minutes
Overhead Squats: 95 lbs x 5 x 3 sets

Squats (5/3/1 Cycle 2 DELOAD)
180 lbs x 5
195 lbs x 5
210 lbs x 5

Thickbar Chins
BW x 12
BW x 11
BW x 10
BW x 9
BW x 8
*50 chins in 5 sets! This has been a goal of mine for a while. Some reps were very sloppy towards the end though. The strain I talked about a few months ago I got again.

Heavy Bag - Technique Work (3 min rounds)
Round 1: Jabs + Double Jabs
Round 2: Right Straights + 2-1 combo
Round 3: 1-2 combo (mixing between head and body)
Round 4: Left Hook + Liver Shot
Round 5: Right Hook + Overhand Rights
Round 6: Straight Punch Round (Mixture)
Round 7: Kicks (high, low, body), Knees, Forearms/Elbows
Round 8: 2-3 combo
Round 9: 1-2-1-(any right punch) combo
Round 10: Mixture of all strikes

Core Work
Weighted Situps: +20 lbs x 20 x 2 sets
Leg Raises/Reverse Crunches: 25 x 2 sets

Static Stretch
20 minutes
 
Freeman102010 said:
Man, keeping your strength and getting down to that weight would be crazy.
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It will be interesting. When I was at 177, I was still eating ice cream and a bunch of other shit. I basically defined my status quo for what I was eating and what I was doing for training when I'm in the 180s. I'm doing small things like cutting out the glass of OJ in the morning, putting half of a banana instead of a full one in the smoothies, cutting down the yogurt in the smoothie, etc. The biggest thing is cutting out the sweets and not gorging myself. A lot of my calories to maintain weight were empty/needless calories. Besides that, I did small things to up my training like hitting the heavy bag for 10 rounds instead of 8, running 3.5 miles for LSD instead of 3, doing two rounds of 50 burpee challenge instead of one, etc. My scale shows that I lost 2.9 lbs in one day! I have a feeling that getting down to 180 will be a breeze, getting down to 175 lbs will take some work, and getting down to 170 will be hard. If the strength goes, I will stop.
 
Warmup
Jump Rope: 5 minutes

Bench Press (5/3/1 Cycle 3 Wave 1
135 lbs x 5 (warmup)
150 lbs x 5
175 lbs x 5
195 lbs x 11

Bent Over Row
135 lbs x 8 (warmup)
205 lbs x 5 x 2 sets (strict)
225 lbs x 3 x 2 sets (strict)
255 lbs x 1 x 3 sets (somewhat sloppy)

LSD Run
3.5 miles
*I am going to up this little by little. I'll probably do 3.5 miles for another 3 runs and then up it to 4 miles.

Grippers
Trainer: 10 w/ hold on 10th (warmup)
CoC #1: 3 sets of 10
CoC #1.5: 3 sets of 5

Static Stretch
15 minutes
 
Thanks guys.

Morning Weight = 181.6 lbs (-1.1 lbs for day, -4 lbs total)
 
Heavy Bag - Power Work/Kick Work/Knees
Spent 30 minutes in the garage on the bag. No set rounds, but little 30 second breaks every once in a while. Mainly worked on power stuff, particularly to the body. Worked a lot on kicks and will post a video for critique. I realize that my form sucks bad. I quit kicking for a while to try to "unlearn" bad technique. Also, my first time throwing knees to a swinging bag. This was all done on my 70 lbs bag.

50 Burpee Challenge
2 minutes 40 seconds
*40 straight, then 2 sets of 5

No stretching tonight because of the tornado warning here and time constraints. Will post video tomorrow of the kicks and my weight. I cheated and had a peach after my workout.
 
Morning Weight = 180.8 (-.8 lbs for day, -4.8 lbs total)

Video from yesterday for critiques. I can tell I need major improvement.
 
Warmup
Jump Rope: 5 minutes

Squats (5/3/1 Cycle 3, Wave 1)
135 lbs x 8 (warmup)
205 lbs x 5
235 lbs x 5
265 lbs x 8 (+2 rep PR, +10 lbs from last cycle)

Thickbar Pullups
BW x 10
+25 lbs x 5 x 3 sets
BW x 10

Run - Medium/Fast Paced
1.75 miles - forgot my timer again. Probably somewhere around 12-13 minutes. Lungs were burning and legs were hurting.

Ab Wheel
Five sets of 10 (first 5 from standing, next 5 from knees)

Static Stretch
15 minutes
 
That stupid table is in the way...but here's what I see:

Why are your thumbs out? Do you want to defend a punch only to poke out your own eye?

You seem to just lug around when you kick. Your whole body should be put into it, swiveling your hips hard and fast, and moving your leg like a baseball bat. Right now you're just kinda "throwing" it into the bag. Your leg returns very slowly. Focus on speed and technique, you're trying to much just to hit hard.

You telegraph your kicks a LOT. Your arms look like they're charging up in slow-mo before you throw. When you do kick, you flail your arms around and there's not all that much protecting your face. This combined with your epic telegraph = you getting KTFO.

You're very flat footed and you bounce around too much - wasting energy. Try and stay on the balls of your feet.

You don't seem to pivot on the balls of your feet when you throw a kick, you turn your foot to the side in one motion and then throw. You'll lose a lot of power like this. From what I can see, I don't see much "hip" going into your kicks, which is essential.

Overall your very clunky and easy to predict. It looks like you've never had any training. I dunno if you're just doing this for exercise or what, but even a month at a solid MT/KB gym would do you a lot of good in improving your technique.
 
likkuid said:
That stupid table is in the way...but here's what I see:

Why are your thumbs out? Do you want to defend a punch only to poke out your own eye?

You seem to just lug around when you kick. Your whole body should be put into it, swiveling your hips hard and fast, and moving your leg like a baseball bat. Right now you're just kinda "throwing" it into the bag. Your leg returns very slowly. Focus on speed and technique, you're trying to much just to hit hard.

You telegraph your kicks a LOT. Your arms look like they're charging up in slow-mo before you throw. When you do kick, you flail your arms around and there's not all that much protecting your face. This combined with your epic telegraph = you getting KTFO.

You're very flat footed and you bounce around too much - wasting energy. Try and stay on the balls of your feet.

You don't seem to pivot on the balls of your feet when you throw a kick, you turn your foot to the side in one motion and then throw. You'll lose a lot of power like this. From what I can see, I don't see much "hip" going into your kicks, which is essential.

Overall your very clunky and easy to predict. It looks like you've never had any training. I dunno if you're just doing this for exercise or what, but even a month at a solid MT/KB gym would do you a lot of good in improving your technique.
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Is that all? Haha. Thanks for the input. I have zero training and this is mainly for conditioning, fun, and a challenge. I've posted this in the standup forum for critique as well. I had a video mainly of boxing, had A LOT of critiques, took a couple months to improve, and posted a second video which showed a lot of improvements. I'm looking to do the same type thing here. I figure that if I'm hitting the bag, even though it's just for fun/conditioning, then I should at least TRY to do it right. I really have no desire to be a boxer/fighter, but I really enjoy the bag work.

Here are those threads if you want to see other critiques. They are very similar to yours.:
Leg Kick Thread: http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f11/v...needs-major-improvement-looking-tips-1035856/
First Thread, Turns into Boxing Tips Only: http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f11/first-time-videoing-myself-998890/

Thanks for the input by the way.
 
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