Counting Curtain Calls

It's Not Fitness.  It's Life.
Equinox PR Flack.

Good rap nonetheless.

Wednesday
Nothing. Work from home to deal with appliance delivery while I try to get out overdue discovery.   By 4:00 chest is tight from juggling, not good. Kids spend too much time alone and they are howling for attention.  Brigid gone by 6:30, off for a week, maybe.  Turns out not so, thank god.

Thursday. Digging out. Run to catch late afternoon EH class. Pretty easy class feels good. One legged stuff crap; really not good at all and it feels chemical. Sigh; you can control how you react.  Right.

Friday
In early to throw iron around:
10+10x5 16kg single arm swings
10 see-saw press 24s to 5 double press
10+10 step back lunge, 20 in rack
10 24kg crush curls
10 figure 8 to hold 20, to 10 24
X3

30/30 20 24kg swings x 10

Long day, good work.  Arms smoked from press work and crush curls till noon.  Pradeep late, hammer down. Long one foot series MUCH better.

Saturday.
Installing dishwasher + lawyer = at least potential code violations; functional fitness notwithstanding.

Sunday.
Rockin' 90 minute EH class with B.  Grocery shopping; walk the dog, dive bombed by angry terns.  If they only knew her, she is such a good dog.  Aimed at moi ?  Understood.  I'd yell at me too.

Monday.
In early for iron,
 10+10 single arm 16kg swings x 5
double mp
20k x 5
24 x 4
28 x 3
32 singles x 2
10 suitcase deads, twin 32
assisted pull-up, 5 then 3, 16lbs assist
10+10 step back lunges, 16kg vipr overhead
x3
No more time.  Ok, snatch test.
10+10 x 5, 20kg, 4:48.  Okay dokey.  Done smoked and dusted.

Tuesday
Hang for an hour with JWB.  Wears his heart on his sleeve; good place for it.  I used to think he talked too much for training.  Now he talks less and says more when he speaks.  We should all aspire to same.
Good day; up to CT.  Great 40 min, evil slow burpees to 15 +15 x 5 snatches, 7 rep 16kg to bu presses x 3.  The 15 minutes of snatch work should be a walk in the park but after the snatch test day before and JWB not the cake walk one would think at 51, go easy on thyself.  BU press have worked on; I don't want to be a show dog but also want work, so alternate between twin 16's and 20's.  Feels really good.  Fro yo with rene and ct; don't get out much, do you ?  I love San Francisco.
Late Weeds with Brigid, smack.


Hurt me Ray:

Hot Fun In The Summer Time

"End of the spring and here she comes back
Hi Hi Hi Hi there
Them summer days, those summer days
That's when I had most of my fun, back
high high high high there
Them summer days, those summer days."
Sly Stone, Hot Fun In The Summer Time,

Sing it:

Gotta let that one roll . . .

Sunday
Dog walk.
Monday
7/4. To fair with Amy Sara, Brigid, pat and B. B gets a henna spider and web on his arm and makes a beeline for the rides. Ball, all joy.

Tuesday
In early and headstands, frog stands and bu. Pretty good.
Evening, bail to run to buy the bitch her nutritionally optimized made from never-frozen boar, heirloom pork, venison dog food; Regional Red from Orijen.  Ought to eat this shit for breakfast. She is worth every penny.
Meet ct and Matt and the black kettle bells look really cool scattered over the freshly cut green grass. Quick workout, nothing heavy.
It's so damn beautiful in Bay Area right now can hardly believe it.

Wednesday
Go in for headstands/bu, fuck this I want to move, so:
15/15 16kg seven rep pace, x 60. Sport bell handle good.

Late yoga. Really hard. Really good. Yah, let's hang out in high lunge and plank variations. Let's do that, just don't ask my big tight shoulders to cooperate on any binds. No ? Ok, now I suck.  You're right, it is absolutely perfect.  Roger, spot on.

Thursday
Yeah you might have sucked but felt better leaner and meaner Thursday am than in weeks.
Juggling three matters by 7:30 am, two of them new. Financial reports good for moi yesterday: keep it going. Push. Delegate.  Don't piss anyone off.
Bust ass and leave for Yoga. Its a sub, and had iron on the mind anyway. Something not body-ripping but just move.
10+10x 3 16kg swings
Double 20kg press, ten alternating to 5 doubles
10 24kg goblet squats
10 24kg crush curls
10 20kg figure 8 to hold, 10 24kg
3x, except 24kg on last set of presses. Uh huh, know better now, with right warm up could have done all 3 with 24.
5-1 24kg single arm swings, to tgu x 5, last two set 28 on the tgu.
Probably the best single arm sets ever, thanks to ct's bone rhythm instruction a week earlier when it felt weird just to stand up. That plus Keira Newton videos, so clear no need to listen, just watch. Ferry back to cook for B, juggling two different matters, yes. Keep going. Pradeep tomorrow. Om Om Om.

Friday
Slow last week was not the harbinger of doom I have been firmly convinced is around the corner for the last 22 years. Good week for new stuff and end the week with more new good work in the door.
Run out as threatened at 4:15 for Pradeep. Great class with uber-core work in locust variations. He is so good at bringing the hammer down and backing off ever so slow. Hot fun.

Saturday
Six hours of housework. Remove old dishwasher. Shampoo carpets. Finally rejoining the living.  Rose bored:

 Sunday
With B in for yoga. We get spots in back corner; sub is JD who I like quite a bit. B puts in good practice flirting with two young women in front of us. Cute guy.

Monday
Long day with longer and calls as it progressed. Sucking the joy right outta me was last one where client was inebriated, finally dump the call on the gym steps.  Feeling bronchial again and not great. But really want to push heavy shit overhead:
single arm 16 10+10 x 3
Double long cycle c & p
20x5
24x4
28x3
Single 32x2
Front squats double 20x10
Renegade rows
20 24kg
5+5 slsx2, second with 16kg bu
x3
5-1 24kg single arm swings to 28kg tgu
x5
Pretty good workout.

Tuesday
Very long day, run into jwb in courtyard and gab about kbells.  He looks like a mountain.
Run off for seven hours of grind.  Up to ct, newly re-certed RKC II,  it's a brief warm up then:
5 double 20kg jerks, 3+3 20kg windmills, 10 double 20kg swings x 5, with very little rest.
She mixed that up a bit, and it was all fun until the double swings.  No voodoo which does at least give a breather.  30 minutes and after the day before, fried.

Set lists starting to go up on HSB.  OCMS this year.  Hot Fun:

Loving all of it.

Pride

"You know what they say:  You can't teach a gay dog straight tricks."
Trey Parker & Matt Stone

Sunday Pride.  Needed to do yoga am and kettlebell pm blowout, but could not stand thought of leaving B alone. Email EH about whether it's ok if he comes and being the sweetheart she is it's of course so we pack up and hit Equinox for an 11:00 start. Thinking light crowd with pride but hah ! It's packed by 10:50; drop two mats in the back row, B looks baffled.  There is an empty mat next to B and I am a little worried.  JB comes in at the last second, cheers "alright !" and drops down next to B and gives him a big smile.  He grins back and we are off to it.
He rocked it.  EH described him later as sweet and fearless, spot on. He was oved it. After that, an hour of Pride parade (best float PETA, buxom ladies in skimpy lettuce leaf bikinis carrying sign that say "eat me !") Up to ct for hour class. She is in a z health state of mind and we do a lot of visual drills and simple movement training and it's just about perfect. B getting restless toward end, load him up and head up to Anne's and watch Jeremy Affelt pitch to six batters, striking out five. Breaking ball untouchable and Cleveland hitters screwing themselves into the dirt. Threat response in the major leagues, you could see it in the way they walked to the plate.

Monday
Back in for EH late, good though one foot on right still a little weak re heel.
Tuesday
Crippling head cold feel like shit. Nothing except five hours of CEB.
Wednesday
Four miles on elliptical listening to CEB, that's it. There is is reason I stopped this, it's fucking boring. Night and almost finished with 12 hour course. Good stuff.  But feeling like shit by end of the day, not a little bit like shit, but major bronchial event requiring powerful anti-biotics fuck up the training wipe out your body kind of shit.  Up late to finish off CEB, sigh.
Thursday
Go back for more elliptical CEB fun; forgot shoes. Sigh. Quiet morning but its not gonna last, still feeling like shit. Gotta get through 5.75 hours of MCLE and bill, FML.
5:00, b is at Anne's. Plaintive email to ct; parked in front of her studio listening to MCLE programs, calls it to Marina Green. Great. Show up. Combination of cold it's all really not very good except the alphabet catch and tennis ball. Training has hit a very poor stretch the last three weeks and the ball drills were a really good change-up.
Friday
AM
But for ball drills last night feel as disconnected from body as have in a long time. Way too stressed with fuck-up (now fixed) last week and belated CEB finished night before with 89 min to spare.  In for headstands, crap. Frogstands ok. Bu stuff, crap. Resist urge to curl up in fetal position and give up.
Just slow down and get on hands and knees. Better. Bird dog in plank. Rock solid. One side bird dog, focus Lat and tricep. Good. Single arm planks. Excellent. More bird dog in plank. Feeling human again, back to bu. Double 24 bu cleans good. Single 24 bu presses both sides strong. A couple of real slow double 16 alternating bu press sets, 10 reps total. Ready to rejoin the living.

Really light day which for once is a relief.
In for 4:30 Pradeep. Been awhile and first ten minutes not great. Finish really strong and smoking class, not fast but hard hard hard, all plank variations and high lunge, laying it out triangle at end is blessed relief and in reverse get right hand outside of left foot for the first time.  He is the best.





Saturday
Into sf, dropping money and children all the way down 101.  Into Equinox for first good kettlebell blowout in a week.
10016kg swing warm-up
Press ladders, usual long cycle twin 20 up to 32
10 front squats twin 20's
20 24kg renegade rows
10 24kg bootstrap squats
3x
5-1 24kg single arm swing descending ladder to TGU, x 5.
All that pretty good considering how fucking spaced out the days before.
Go collect ct and head to Purisima with the rest of banana slugs.  Three hour 1000 foot gain, six plus miles and by the end of it felt re-grounded, rewired and rejuvinated, after two weeks of sucking.

Pretty much like that.

Fat lady in New Leaf looks at the VFF:  "Don't you need arch support ?  I sure would and lots of it."
That's cause you're killing yourself with 150 extra pounds lady.  It's not your feet, it's what you are shoveling into your mouth.  This is why our health care system is broken.
Sunday
Feel great after yesterday.  Walk, bathe dog.  Make ribs.

Enjoy one of the greatest queers ever . . . way early on, wow . . .


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