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First week of school has been pretty vicious. I'm also going to try to keep my part-time job for the time being. But I planned the weekend out and I have 15 FUCKEN hours of homework. I have practice Sunday and because it's a 45 minute drive that's half my day right there. I was expecting the first week to be easy cruising but apparently not.

So pretty much my motivation is drained and it will take me a little while to get used to this new regime. I see what most of you guys have to deal with working 9-5+whatever life stuff tho, lol. Hopefully my willpower will adapt as the semester goes along.

GOOD NEWS is my team's great performance at the last tournament earned our area an extra bid to regionals (6 teams from the MD/VA area will advance to the next level instead of 5). We were aiming to cinch the #5 spot but this makes it a whole lot easier. 

8/31
Nothing

9/1
starts x 8,8
40Y x 5
just super demotivated

Quote from: adarqui on September 01, 2017, 12:50:13 pm

just watched the fight again with my dad, because he's one of those people who think Conor/Floyd had an agreement not to hurt each other for the first 5 rounds - which is based off of nothing, just maybe his WWE watching.

anyway watching the fight a second time, it was still enjoyable. I've never "laughed" so much at a fight. I mean I cracked up when Conor countered Floyd, when Floyd would just casually tee off on Conor, when Conor did all kinds of crazy hammerfist stuff, when Conor hit Floyd with a good body shot & Floyd acted like he got hit to the nuts, when the ref pushed Floyd, when Conor cheap shotted Floyd after the low blow warning, and when Floyd was just walking Conor down at the end trying to end his life.

lots of laughing.. because it really was a circus, but a very enjoyable one.

I think it was round 8 where Conor dug deep and got off some great shots on Floyd. Here he was, completely dead, and he pulled some great combos/shots off and was effective. To me that is so impressive considering the state he was in.

Maybe the most impressive thing when re-watching it though, is how relaxed Floyd is. I mean it was apparent watching it live, but it's even more impressive watching it again. Floyd is just so relaxed, focused, powerful, fast, patient, etc. At no point in that fight did I see him look tired, worried, impatient, etc. That experience, composure, skill is the biggest take home point people should have from this event.

Also, Floyd basically taught alot of MMA fans about boxing punching vs MMA punching .. MMA punchers try and learn to improve their boxing etc, but even a guy with some of the best striking in MMA didn't look anywhere near as fluid/clean/powerful/relaxed/fast as Floyd, IMHO. I mean it's pretty evident from the footage. Conor landed some good shots but Floyd's shots had real sting, even if he was barely putting anything behind them. Some of Floyd's shots toward the end were just so clean and effortless, yet just cracked Conor so hard. Floyd's probably thrown 10 million more punches than Conor...

Also, Conor was wrecked at the end. LOL at people who thought he was fine. He was completely toast. When you see an early stop where the guy is fine, he gets the ref off of him real quick. Conor laid on those ropes with the ref for like 60 seconds. Smart move by him making people believe he was getting ready for his second wind for rounds 11/12 lmfao. People already talking about "would Conor win in a rematch?!!?" LFMAO.

Finally, look at how much we talked about a "hybrid circus fight"... Definitely makes sense that this broke every record, just given our discussion on it.

Exactly about the last point. This ppv defines floyd as boxer. People love floyd and watch his fights but alot of people hate him and therefore tune into see someone hopefully defeat him as for this ppv it was soo bad it was actually gaining attention regardless if it was bad or not just the fact that the people were talking about like in this thread, we talked about how bad this fight was, what each said what ridiculous statement each made. So ye it makes sense how it broke records and I understand now based on your other reply that this is actually good for boxing because you are getting more viewers. A big problem in a lot of sports is when they involve politics and make it more business than entertaining the fans.

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when Conor hit Floyd with a good body shot & Floyd acted like he got hit to the nuts

I have to disagree with the above statement. If you remember the image I posted, which I will post below. but ofc it wasn't intentionally but it definitely looks half on the belt and half below.

But it is entertaining to watch, would have loved to see the floyd of old add more slickness and accuracy. But without that it was still entertaining. But conor had good head movement making floyd miss, which ofc the floyd of old would have hit it. but ye.

OMG plz no rematch lol.

31-08-17

Morning BW: 78.3kg

Workout

High Bar Back Squat
Bar x lots
60 x 5
80 x 3
95 x 3
105 x 3
115 x 3
122.5 x 2 [over 1.5xBW for a pretty easy double while cutting, not bad] 
100 x 6, 6, 6

Trap Bar Deadlift [in squat shoes + with handles down, so way deeper/harder than last week]
70 x 5
100 x 5, 5, 5, 5

Leg Extension
27.5 x 14
35 x 14, 14

Lying Leg Curl
50 x 14, 12
50 x 10 + 35 x 13 [many of the 35 reps were partials. I am convinced this is basically the most painful thing one can do in the gym]

Treadmill - 1mi @ 4pm, 5% incline, 148 bpm [max 153]

Notes

Made the decision to just eat big yesterday. Feel much better today for it and not that much heavier -- more in line with where I ought to be, really. Ramen and ice cream are so wonderful. This workout was done without breakfast, but because I ate so well yesterday it felt like a fed workout.

Wanted to just go for it on back squats today to see what's what. They felt brilliant. I'll put up the footage of the 122.5 double later today. Puts me at ~130kg estimated max, which @ 78kg is 1.67xBW. Not bad for pretty much not training back squats at all!

Feeling good going into this break.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLgXIX_V4kI" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLgXIX_V4kI</a>

[edit: fixed the video orientation. youtube has some useful features]