If this is your first time hearin' this

Not doing Air Alert on Wednesdays -- p90x is Pylos and basically Air Alert already. Plus, practice on Wednesdays. Gotta make sure I still have knees by the end of this. Actual going to first practice tomorrow. Exciting! First day of school tomorrow. What am I going to wear?!

Another drug to juggle

So many leap ups! Stretch X was pretty sweet. Feel pretty good. Practice starts on Wednesday. Finally time to bust out the armsleeve! EDIT: When you work out everyday, it is so hard to shower. I'm just going to get smelly again tomorrow, so what is the point!?

Suddenly I'm not crazy

Kempo X today. I think it was so easy because I could not do most of the moves properly. Still made me sweat a lot. That was my last workout of my first week of p90x. Program is awesome. Most days I don't want to do it, but the fact that they walk you through every exercise, from what to do to how long to do it, makes it so easy to work out. I never realized how much figuring out what to work out was such a deterrent. I also feel like a strong-man. This is only after a week!

Not gonna double up on the p90x today because I don't want to throw off the rest day that they give you. Figure I will do more damage by doubling up than by taking 8 days for the first week.

Week 5 of Air Alert tomorrow. Time goes by so fast.

Doing p90x on tournament weekends will be mad awk. Such is life. Having double sessions with practice or conditioning, or triple with Air Alert, is going to be awesome

Bad news: School on Thursday
Good news: That means we have practice soon

I have to message the USAU about eligibility. I am such a procrastinator.

Lastly -- Once again told diet pepsi to stay at hannaford. Water water water.


EDIT: New Layout!

I am finding out that my legs are the weakest part of my body.

That is the opposite of good.

And what I loved most, she had so much soul

That yoga was amazing.

I forgot how awesome yoga is. Seriously, get out to the gym once a week and go to one of the beginner courses. Yoga is amazing for balance and flexibility -- things that are hard to train without specifically doing so, things that are extremely important (especially for throwing), things that most people neglect to work on. A lot of the poses also help with strength, training those little muscles that are hard to get to, the ones that hold you upright or transfer power from muscle to muscle.


Getting low for a forehand way outside requires an incredible amount of flexibility. Once you're out there, you need great balance to stay upright and deliver a sound throw.  Additionally, being able to get that far out, fake, and bounce back for an around backhand needs a lot of balance to be able to control your body and not fall over. If you can't bounce back from that low outside forehand, the mark does not have to respect the possibility of a fake, and can over commit without the threat of you coming back for the around. If you can't execute that fake swiftly, the mark has plenty of time to shift with you.

That, plus all of the benefits balance and flexibility give you in other areas, such as marking, using your body on defense, toe-ing the line, laying out, etc. And, less likely to be injured.

Yoga showed me where all of my weak spots are. My balance on my left leg is much, much worse than my right, which is pretty bad for throwing. I found out that my right shoulder (and my shoulders in general) has less range of motion than my left one. It gives you a good idea of where the weak spots are in your body.



I feel like everyday I get on this here blag and tell you that you should really go and do something. Actually go out and do some yoga.


Anyway, starting to eat better. Walked right by the diet pepsi aisle today. Eating less. Eating 4 meals on most days. 5 is so, so tough. Stomach (actual stomach, not fat part) is definitely smaller, though, so that is helpful.

When you do p90x AND air alert, days with just p90x are a joke.

Finally

No Air Alert today.

I'm living everyday like a hustle

p90x is awesome. Only on my third day (missed yesterday, gonna "skip" the rest day this week to catch up), and I have definitely gained muscle mass. Shit is intense. Don't get a gym membership, do this. Gotta get that High Tide body!

Air Alert is surprisingly difficult. About to do today, but, it feels almost as tough as the last time around. I never feel like I won't be able to finish a set, but it is always a struggle. Each week is just as tough as the last. I suspect that I am performing each exercise with much better form, so I am actually working the intended muscle rather than compensating with my whole body.

Haven't been able to do cardio because my foot is still messed up. It was good, but, walking around town today was almost unbearable. Gonna give it another week, and then get it checked out. Might have to start making the drive to the gym just for the elliptical or bike, but, such is life.


Most days, I feel like garbage until I workout. And then I feel like a boss.


Conclusion: Do work, son.


Edit: Must stretch today

Holy balls

That was difficult.

P.S. tomorrow will be the really fun one. Air Alert (after missing Wednesday last week) + more p90x. Shit is wild.

P.P.S. My fingernails sure are long. Better throw today.

Foot hurts again today.

At least I have my very own pull-up bar!

A true muthafucka' goin' out for the loot

Foot hurt again about a mile in. Ran another mile.

Gotta drop this extra skin.

I never clip my fingernails unless I am about to play frisbee. Makes for a wild winter. #noclipdecember

Goals:
5 baby meals
Water
Stop with this candy all the time

Girl I want you back

Foot didn't hurt, so I did Air Alert. Foot only hurts a little.

Success.

Back to running tomorrow, plan is to start up p90x on Monday.

In other news, something is giving me heartburn.

Also, LoL.

Life advice

Get a pull-up bar

Ups and downs

Downs:
Foot hurts enough to not walk. I think I tied my shoelaces one loop too tight.
Did nothing the past two days (^^) -- missed an Air Alert.
Feel like a fatty

Ups:
Pull ups!
The guns (^^)
Computer works again!


I will not run 5 miles from nothing again. Hopefully, foot feels better tomorrow (at like 60% right now). Priority is making sure I can do Air Alert on Friday, though, so if I have to do nothing again tomorrow I will. Hopefully I'll be good enough that I can take some long walks (not on the beach) to get some kind of calorie burn.

Sent in my AUDA statement! 153 words. Voting isn't quite open yet, but, vote for me!

What's the time?

I was 170lbs at club sectionals. I weighed in at 183.6.


5 miles + air alert today, p90x starts tomorrow.




New Years Resolutions (all the cool kids do it):

Throw everyday. Mostly to not suck at catching.
Don't be fat anymore.
Actually try on defence.
Accomplish your goals.


Need to write my AUDA board statement. Vote for me!

LOVE
DOOBER

The weather sucks

Start small:

Something three days a week
Pushups everyday
Walk the dogs
Please just drink water
And stretch

Better to start small than not at all.

P.S. A highlight reel! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTbPFwyAPww

Did a lot of work on the highlight reel. I am by no means an Adobe Premier Pro, but, this is looking pretty cool.  ~3 mins of highlight.

Air Alert is still tough. Squat Hops still blow. Sky is still blue. Etc.

Water!

Better not let them breathe

Pretty pleased with how I played at indoor on Sunday. Definitely showed that I hadn't played in a month+, as I had about six drops, all on discs that, while not easy, were extremely catchable. I do not think I have drop six discs in a tournament, let alone a day. I guess I am happy that the only thing that was really off was my catching, and that was probably also a bit of  variance. Besides that, though, I think I retained most of my speed and kept up with the veterans, and I think I used my body well to dictate where my man was going.

Attacking the field horizontally is so, so important. Especially in indoor when the field shrinks very quickly if you are only playing on the force side. On a related note, don't get broken, pleaaaaaaaase.

Got a sweet bait-n-reel layout-d. A bit of advice: as a thrower, if you make eye-contact with your target's defender, don't throw it. I sat on the force side of my man (but close enough to make a play on a disc to the break side), stared down the thrower's eyes, and waited for them to think they had a window. If I am making eye-contact with the thrower, it is like I am the receiver. The D I got was well within my range and I had plenty of room to go. However, I got quite the booboo.

Played like shit when I got tired. Got lazy and just ran upline and into traffic because I didn't feel like planting and turning in for a dump. Threw a ton of hucks because there was a small window. Threw with lazy form. It wasn't like I felt tired -- I felt like I could run full speed, but I definitely was tired. Need to take extra care when it is later in the game/day/tournament to play my normal game.

I was surprisingly sore after practice. I've been working out a couple of days a week, but I guess there is no real substitute for actual play.

Air Alert is still tough, even in week 1. It wasn't like I couldn't do more, but it definitely is still a workout. Excited to see how much it does now that I have the right form and am coming in with some base-strength rather than nothing.

Back home soon, time to grind grind grind!

Rich pulled me aside and said something along the lines of, “You can tell when a player is in the zone, because he uses his cards as weapons, as tools.” At the time, I was still in a bit of trance, so it didn’t sink in very well. It seemed all around me, people were taking notice of things that I was just doing. It wasn’t that I was not doing them intentionally, as I clearly was, but I was declining to take part in the spectacle of my own play, and looking back, I think that was an important distinction to make that week. Getting caught up in any one play or moment turns good play into something of a shrine, rather than a benchmark. If you pat yourself on the back every time you make some insane play, you come to view those plays as extraordinary, and be that as it may, you can subconsciously convince yourself to make those plays less often because they are not expected out of you often. If, only the other hand, you decide that that is the level of play you expect out of yourself time and time again, and register the moment as good play, but nothing out of the ordinary, you are going to return to that place much more often, as it is expected out of yourself.

-- Conley Woods, http://www.channelfireball.com/articles/breaking-through-day-2-saboteur/

Makes no difference whether a Benz or Bentley or Beamer's the car you in

A few things:

My most common turnover is one this: I see the cut, and it is likely the only downfield option that will come (one of the better cutters, stall is at 3-4). However, it is a tough throw but one that I can make about 50-75% of the time. I throw it because I am not likely to have other options and I can often make the throw.  I should instead dump the disc. Had two of those turnovers today vs. Sienna.

Another one is off of set plays. Today we called a set play for me to either throw it to Buzzi under if he was open, or bomb it to Brown. However, my mark was pretty straight-up so I couldn't step through the throw very well to get the extra bit of power, so the throw was off. I recognized this right away, and should have looked elsewhere, but threw a uncatchable pass to Brown instead. Just because it is your set play doesn't mean you have to pull the trigger.

In Ultimate, the most important thing in the game is possession. Eventually, if you don't turn the disc over, you will score. Now, obviously, scoring is all about percentages. Even though a 90% throw is more risky than one 95% throw, one throw that is 90% to score is is safer than making 50 90% throws to score.

The point is that there are a lot of times that before I make the throw I KNOW that it is going to be a dicey one, and I throw it anyway. You don't have to -- you can live to fight another day. Dump or swing the disc, reset your offense, and go again.



Also, from Win the Fields over on Skyd magazine (bolded part for emphasis):

"It’s also hard to say enough about the Revolver defense.  Having gotten a really great look at it across 2+ games, I’ve come to realize that as technically sound as the downfield work is, it is the marking that is truly exceptional.  In the finals versus Ironside, the Revolver marks were able to keep the boys from Boston pinned on the forehand side, allowing their defenders to hone in and sell out on stopping comeback cuts into the hole.  Even when Ironside was able to hit arounds or comebacks, the mark was established immediately, disrupting any flow (particularly east-west.)"


Don't get broken.

LOVE
DOOBER

And I ain't never been afraid of a drought

Working in a warehouse all day gives you an awful lot of time to think.

Too much time.


Moving boxes full of Justin Beiber and KISS blankets for 8 hours is a pretty good workout. Not good enough, though. Gym yesterday after work, scrimmage + abs today.



Can't just want it, gotta need it.