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no training the last couple days because gym has been closed for jewish holidays (happy new year, everyone) and i've been super busy. turns out there is a LOT to do when you're preparing to move 7,000 miles away. not least starting to say goodbye to people.

did have a booty call last night with a really hot woman. fun times, she turned out to be a biter. ended up with a gnarly bruise on my neck, haha.

last night:

- mangled daily routine

today:

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: upper hamstrings
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: blah, woke up with pre-migraine and took the last of my medication for it. it worked but i'm still not 100%.

- warm up

- skater jump x 20,10

- full-court SLRVJ x 2/leg
just awful, haha

- one-step RVJ x 5
bad

- DLRVJ x 5,5,5
quite bad, so did these more or less consecutively in sets instead of as singles.

- high-rear-foot BSS x 20/leg

- stretch

ran out of time because i'm having a going-away party tonight and needed to pick up some stuff before getting ready and heading over to my buddy's place. if i'm not too devastatingly hung over tomorrow i'll jump again.

yesterday:

- tennis x 1 hour
was windy as hell. ball doing funny things on the toss-level windy. so it was a sloppy session, but still fun and worked up a little sweat.

tennis in the wind, is the devil.

combination of post-party sluggishness and wanting to maximize time with my family before i leave in one week (!) meant no gym.

damn!! one week. 

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: none
ACHES/INJURIES: sick; right hand by first knuckle of pinky and ring fingers, shins
MENTAL STATE: sick

- daily routine-ish
came down with a cold over the last two days. did not sleep well in NYC (very uncomfortable beds at the two places i crashed). haven't been sleeping well at all recently, in general. baseline anxiety is up, i guess, which makes sense given that i'm moving 7,000 miles away on monday. mentally i feel fine but my body is telling me otherwise.

not gonna work out today. too much to do. planning to catch a workout with my friend in london. she's an oly lifter i know from my old gym, moved to london to write for nature magazine a couple years ago. and i'll stretch and prob do some calisthenics in canada. but otherwise i'm in the air 5 out of the next 6 days and working nonstop when i'm on the ground, so not sure how much energy or motivation i'll have.

monday: fly to ottawa
tuesday: fly to london
wednesday: arrive in london
friday: fly to islamabad
saturday: arrive in islamabad

last night:

- stretch
tired, only slept 2.5 hours on sunday night, then flew to canada and had 8 straight hours of meetings, no break. managed to force myself to stretch a bit, which was wise.

this morning:

- row x 5:00

- TGU x 2,2/side

- mobility stuff

- stretch

just to get the juices flowing a little. felt good.

Good luck to this! Much admire you ( and slightly envy you ) for respecting and fulfilling that inner drive request.

well said. x2!

WEIGHT: ???
SORENESS: glutes a little
ACHES/INJURIES: none
MENTAL STATE: good

- warm up
row x 1 min; joint circles; row x 1 min; walking sprint mobility stuff

- row x 2000m in 8:25.6
humbling. got this only in the second attempt; went out WAY too hard in the first attempt, ~1:45 pace, knew by 500m that i would not be able to finish. stopped, rested a bit, regrouped, and tried again a bit more modestly. had a negative split (4:20/4:05), which is good. but man i have a lot to learn about the rower.

- card circuit x 9
-- push ups
-- leg lowers
gassed, meant to do a full rummy hand (13 cards) but just ran out of steam on the push ups.

- stretch

thinking about new goals for pakistan. dunking, jumping, and sprinting are going to have to take a back seat for the next while because i won't have easy access to a court or track. i don't really want to switch to full-on strength training, although that's tempting, because i think i'm still going to be on the road a lot and want to be able to feel like i'm working toward something even then. and i've neglected aerobic training for many years. so instead, i think it makes more sense to pick some more aerobic or "fitness"-type goals.

here are some possibilities:

- C2 tests: 500m in 1:29 (baseline 1:41) and 2000m in 6:59 (baseline 8:25.6)
interestingly, i'm much closer to a respectable time on the 500m than 2000m.

- deck of cards workout for time: clubs=air squats; diamonds=push ups; hearts=leg lowers; spades=band pull-aparts (would need a baseline for this, no idea how long it would take, push ups would be the limiting factor)

- double unders x 200 for time; single unders x 30 mins for turns; criss-cross double unders x 10

- burpees x 5 mins for reps

- turkish get ups (or sandbag get ups if/when i can fix myself up a sandbag) x 10 mins for reps

- pull ups for reps

- army physical fitness test for score (perfect 300 is 77 push ups, 82 sit ups, two-mile run in 13:18)

any other thoughts? it really helps to have goals or targets, if i'm aimless then training tends to slacken. none of the above does much for power, limit strength, explosiveness, or speed. thoughts about what i could do in limited space on those fronts? adarq in particular, i'm curious what you found helpful back in your vert days that didn't involve ME RVJ. box jumps and depth jumps come to mind, but those are hard to progress, really. if there's some way to measure vert i could add SVJ to the mix? at least try to let it not regress too far?

when i'm in islamabad i should be able to continue doing barbell/dumbbell work, but as i said i think i'll be on the road a fair amount. met with boss today and he's already planning for me to go to karachi and lahore in the next month or so.