An Update!

So sorry no updates in quite a while.  Lift just got crazy, i was sick for a week, had a visitors in town for like three weeks in a row, and was busy working on a music project, starting to record my first cd.

In the fitness realm it looks like i may have an article published the Performance Menu soon, which is cool.  Its about integrating Brazillian juijitsu with outside strength and conditioning work that the regular 9-5, day jobber can handle.  It needed some pictures, so i got my grappling buddy Nathan and we took some pictures using Crossfit Portland’s crash pad.  It was fun to be able to thow each other as hard as we wanted.  Picking people up and slamming them is fun.

We definitely need to work with the crash pad more often.  Being able to take someone down is quite important.

There is another Crossfit Total coming up at Crossfit Portand this saturday.  I can’t believe its been more than a month since the last one, and i have prepared by doing more or less nothing in the past few weeks.  I had a program all planned out, then between being sick and all didnt up following most of it.  I was going to ditch out on the Total, but friends talked me into it, if for no other reason to see what i could do being under prepared.  So yesterday i went and squatted and pressed heavy.  Got an easy 280 on the squat, and almost got 140 on the press.  Not to far from what i got before, so i think for the Total i should at least be able to get the same lifts.  With the deadlift i mostly able to finish a speed cycle since the last total, so i am less concerned with that.  After this its back to a well rounded program for grappling, i am no powerlifter.

I promise to be better about updates and want to write up a bonch of topics that folks can actually implemet into their own exercise routines.

Anton