Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.
~ A. A. Milne
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It’s getting cold
Kristen likes my down jacket from the magic bag of holding. #parkour2016 #bringitboston
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Train to Boston
catch a midnight train gooooing aaaaaany where! great morning at BKB, did some climbing, did some conditioning for fun, headin downtown for some wandering around!
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Warm
Best mittens ever. Tracy keeping my hands warm from Pa
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CANT
This IS why LVPK doesn’t use a certain word.
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Boston
Yeah! finally here, next up: serious relaxing!
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Boston bound
Leaving NYC on a brisk morning! Headed to Boston for a few days with a few others from LVPK. #parkour2016 #swirlsonthemove
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Photo gallery for this tag
This post presents a gallery of ALL images in these tagged posts. You can click on any to enlarge; you can even click on the first, sit back, and it’ll run them all as a slide show. The gallery is dynamic so it will automatically grow as I add more posts to this series.
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Chihuly Glass
Happy new year! Welcome to 2016…
Today was challenging: Up late for New Year’s Eve. Nothing major, but snacking late into the night, short on sleep, alcohol… all adds up on the negative side of the balance sheet. I did my usual warmup, started into things, and then had to stop for my back. I could just tell it wasn’t feeling 100% and that I would have been in pain before I was done. So I started over doing range-of-motion and a second, longer warmup — it took me forever to get up to speed. BUT, I’m very happy that I managed to pull out of the nose dive and get the workout done without injury!
So today’s workout is done as planned. Pushups, squats were 5×10 (numbers are creeping up, but this is still easy :), 2×25 handstands — even managed a few seconds free-standing at the end of each handstand, 85 bar precisions as 5×9 and 5×8, and a tedious 80 pullups as 5×12, and 4×5. I’m definitely stuck on a plateau with pullups! But with the holiday “weighted vest” currently holding me down, I’m hoping to move on in the coming weeks… Saturday and Sunday are rest days.
Next week has three workouts, on Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. That’s planned to work around my Tuesday and Sunday travelling days to/from Boston. Monday I’ll finish banking bar-precision reps so that I don’t have to do any while in Boston (since I can’t be 100% sure I can find a handy bar precision.) So the two workouts while I’m away are just pushups, squats, pullups and handstands… I know I can get those in. I’m thiking of going to Brooklyn Boulders (a huge climbing gym where the parkour group has scaffolding setup for indoor classes) on Wednesday; that would let me use the scaff for pullups and get my workout in. Saturday I’ll see what’s happening.
Here’s next week filled in:
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Remain upbeat
A wise man hopes things will change, but remains upbeat when things do not.
~ unknown
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Salvia, Cosmos and Kalimeris
Salvia Sagittata (blue)
Cosmos Sulphureus, ‘cosmic orange’ (orange)
Kalimeris Pinnatifida (white)
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Tough week. That’s why planning leads to success.
This past week is filled in. Everything went as planned. Today was an exact copy of Friday.
Oof! My forearms are starting to get sore… the part where the grip tendon(s) attach at the elbow. I must make sure that doesn’t develop into tendonitis. I’m HEAVY from holiday eating, tired from messed-up sleep, etc. so this week’s workouts were tough. BUT, this was all expected and planned for, so I’m treating it like an expected plateau, smiling proudly and moving onward.
This coming week has several big changes…
I’m switching to a “workout, rest day, workout, rest, rest” pattern to give me a two-days-in-a-row recurring break. All the way into MARCH I’m going to have to be ramping up all the excercises so I’m going to need that double-day recovery break in the pattern. This week, Monday/Tuesday are MUCH-needed rests, and that makes Saturday/Sunday rest days too — so this week is going to be an easy week.
The following week I have January 5 thru 9 marked red because I’ll be in Boston. After a bit of juggling, I’ve arranged for the Tuesday/Sunday travelling days to NOT be workout days to avoid having to do 80 pullups in a train. I’ve two workouts planned while in Boston. I’m not 100% sure I can find a suitable bar-precision I want. So, to be 100% sure I can get the reps in, I’m going to take the 110 bar-pre’s that would be in those two workouts, and bank in the next three workouts. Thus the inflated 85,85,85 count on the bar-pre’s coming up. They’re not physically hard any more (just technically challenging) so there’s no probably cranking out those reps to ensure I don’t fall behind in the Jan 5-9 week.
Finally, if I stick to the plan, on day 184 — just a smidge after the mid-way point of the challenge — I hit 3,000 on the final rep in the workouts, AND sync-up all the activities. That will be a red-letter-day :D
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Soon
We’re first in line for 12:25 showing of Hateful Eight… Yessssssssssss!!
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No power over you
Your past is a story. …and once you realize this, it has no power over you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
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Challenge accepted!
Italians be like, “and now for a little dessert.” There are only ten of us…
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Merry Christmas everyone!
Glorious weather (ignoring the fog) for working on long term goals. Doing my homework before Christmas day with the family. (Yes, the “40’s” for push-ups, squats and bar-precisions are small-ish numbers, but I have a lot of pull-ups to catch up on.)
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Just a selfie
Tracy’s airport-dropoff-goodbye shot from my 2014 trip to Colorado.
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2,000 pullups
As I mentioned in the previous post, today’s workout included 80 pullups, and the last pullup was number 2,000. What a milestone! They’re not the greatest pullups – there’s some kipping and flailing at the end – but, build it, lather, rinse, repeat. 16 sets of five pullups is a LOT of pullups. I now have to do that, every other day for a couple weeks to finishing digging pullups out of the hole to catch up with the number of rep’s on the other exercises.
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Nerd decanting wine
2L Erlenmeyer flask, $17 icluding shipping. College chemistry lab for the win! (I note my 750ml bottle of wine isn’t 750ml.)
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