10/31/2015
sleep = 7.5 hours
bw = 172
soreness = none
aches = right hip slightly, back slightly, right hand slightly
injuries = none
felt really good today.
Food
- orange juice
- greek yogurt
Tennis match: ~10 AM ET
- lost 6-0, 6-0
- HEH! got wrecked.
- match lasted ~1.5 hours (edit: including ~10-15min warmup)
- played very safe..
- lots of safe rallies until i'd hit it to short, guy would hit it back then go to the net, i'd hit it back weak and he'd put it away
- several games went to deuce, lots went to 40-30 then i'd lose it.
- served pretty good, a few aces, but also had some critical double faults
- when i'd hit a wimpy second serve, i'd get wrecked.. i did that because I worried too much about getting it in
- had some really good gets when the opp basically thought he hit a winner
Food
- fruit
- greek yogurt
- orange juice
Tennis: 1 PM ET
- lost 6-1, 6-2
- match lasted 1 hour 45 minutes (edit: including ~10-15 minute warmup)
- tons of games went to deuce
- all of my points came on breaking the opponent's serve
- this match should have been alot closer
- guy had a very powerful / flat serve but it rarely went in, then he'd hit a weak second serve.. when his first serve went in, was very hard to get it back
- aced him a few times
- he aced me once
- had some really good gets when the opp basically thought he hit a winner
- opp had a crazy slice, put some serious spin on it, sometimes i'd stop dead in it's tracks.. but that's because he was slicing my weak safe shots, so he could slice the hell out of it
- i wanted to hit with way more power in this match but i just couldn't.. safe weak shots. not high over the net but just weak.
had fun, that's for sure.
a few issues I need to improve:
- I sweat like a faucet.. makes the racquet more slippery.. how to fix? heh.. i wear a wrist band but that doesn't help too much.. I changed racquets, that helped temporarily.
- Serving! This is by far my biggest issue. I need a more accurate first serve and a much better second serve. I'm serving way better than I was a month ago, i'm getting much more of them in.. but not enough.. and when I worry about double faulting, my second serve is way too weak.. opponent can just destroy it if they want.
- Not hitting my strokes with speed/power.. I need to get back to hitting most every shot with a fast stroke. This has almost become an issue in my head now, very psychological. I worry too much about getting it in, in a match, than just crushing it. In practice hitting I can crush it. No reason I shouldn't be able to crush alot of these shots in the rallies.. I really need to remove this barrier and hit my shots properly in matches.
weird things in the tournament:
- usually forehands are my most trustworthy shot, but, during this tourney, my backhands were actually much more trustworthy. I was getting most of them in, and not even worrying about it.. I was second guessing myself on every forehand, sucked.
- the clay courts had crappy lines.. was really bad in my first match.. when a ball clips those lines, it can go anywhere.. some of them just launched straight up, some went off to the side etc.. surprised me initially; was expecting a ball to bounce normal and instead it bounce like 15 feet in the air (on a serve).. was funny.
- everyone was sweating profusely even after the first game.. was HOT AS FUQ.. I was like a faucet by the end of the matches.. taking a ball out of my pocket, bouncing it once before the serve, it'd pick up tons of clay because it was soaked.. (second match).. lol.
Food
- big thing of popcorn chicken
- chocolate soy milk
- some chocolates
Food
- some halloween chocolates
Session: Late Evening
jump rope:
- 6 x 500
- wanted to do more but a police helicopter was hovering around with a spotlight
- jump rope was surprisingly shitty.. lots of mess ups
- need to do this somewhat frequently; it's also good for my wrist/rhythm/fat loss.
- forearms/shoulders and glutes were getting way too tired.. probably just burnt from my matches today.
Food
- greek yogurt
- fruit
pc!
