“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
I thought about my life and the people around me that are a part of my everyday routine. I really have grown to love fitness, mental toughness, pushing limits, and taking my fitness into a lifestyle. I am in love of the mindset I'm working towards and I can see my friends and family being affected by it as I try to come of as a positive influence to them. As I feel myself getting stronger or hitting a new PR, I see my brother going to the gym more and I see my friends going to the gym sweating it out just to tell me their results. I also see my relationship with my girlfriend growing more as we share more activities together.
I like the way things are happening in my life. I can think of 100 things that could put me down or make me irritated, but I focus on the 10 things that make me happy and keep me positive and focused. I think it really is the freedom of choice and perspective that makes 'my world' the way it seems. I don't even know if I'm making sense. It truly is a blessing to be able to have the discipline to keep a strong will.
Speaking of strong will, I went to the gym for a second time again tonight to see my buddies Angelo and Steven do my cousin's WOD from 20121224.
Part I:
5-5-3-5-3-1+ bench press
**Angelo maxed out at 185#
**Steven at 275#
Part II:
7 min AMRAP
7 decline bench
7 box jumps at 24"
** Steven did 175#, 5 rounds +5bench press
** Angelo did 120#, 5 rounds +6bench press
3 rounds for time
15 HRPU
10 cleans @ 100#
5 burpees
**Steven 3:26 - fucker beat my time haha
**Angelo 5:45 - proud of this dude
Skipped Part III: Snatch
** not comfortable doing snatches in a gym full of bro's haha
Part IV:
1600m row
AMAP T2B
AMAP Dips
**Steven did 15 T2B and did not do dips
**Angelo did not do row and dips but showed his 3 rep muscle ups
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As for myself I practiced all my movements while the guys did their WOD:
Hang Cleans
10/65#, 10/65#, 10/65#
** I wanted to focus on bar placement at the catch. Felt my pinky slip out. Tried a closer grip on 2nd and 3rd set and it looked better, not really felt better.
2 Rounds NOT timed
10 Push Press 65#
10 Box jumps 24"
10 Push Press 65#
10 Box jumps 24"
**Worked on breathing while repping the weight. I feel taking a good short breath and holding it thru the motion then exhaling. I feel that it works the same on the box jumps. As I jump on the box I take a quick breath as I fall down, which gives me the strength to no hesitate and up right up for the next rep. I realized I used to get gassed when I exhale during the movements, so taking in a quick breath to let oxygen in my muscles before my movements helps a lot to no get fatigued so fast.
Power Cleans EMON for 10mins increasing load
3/155#, 3/165#, 3/175#, 1/185#
** just worked on increasing my load during Steven's 1600m row. I originally just wanted to do it for 8 minutes but he didn't finish fast enough so when he came back around 9:30, I just finished the 10th set to show him what I did while waiting haha
AMAP T2B
26 reps - if I had a better grip I could've done 30. I need to work on my breathing for this exercise... maybe another WOD that has sets of T2B, Kuya?
AMAP Muscle Ups
7 reps - I don't know why I couldn't do more than 7... I guess my chest workout yesterday really hurt haha
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Final thought: thank you friends for wanting to level up as much as I do. I'm blessed to have a few friends that have the same values... I just wished they went to the same gym and time as me haha
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