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| 23NOV13: 303 Axle Press Olympic Gym, San Antonio, TX |
Not that in mattered because just after Halloween in '13 I packed up the Stronghold of Strength and headed to Texas for another stint of military training at Goodfellow AFB. I left home after NATs would have been but with everything going on, I wouldn't have been able to properly train for it.
Admittedly, I didn't do much expect smash weights, pound calories and get fat from the time I competed at PFM NATs until about a month after I finally got all set up in San Angelo. A series of setbacks and a list of things that needed to happen had my focus on matters more pressing than my overhead and sometimes, I just get lazy.
What are you going do? Life happens and when you're training on the fair-weather split in the off season you've got to let it take it's toll on the routine and suffer the consequences.
When I returned from Thanksgiving break, I got back on the Holy Grail Diet and stayed on it until year end break; like before saw legit results of simultaneous fat mass loss and fat free mass gain (measured by the BodPod).
The problem is, I found too many excuses, missed too many workouts, got too lazy and grew far too fat in the off-season; I've backed myself into a corner. I have an Air Force Fitness test in Febuary and in the days of downsizing, I need to downsize my waist before the Air Force downsizes me.
Aside from the impending waist measure and mile and a half run, even though I've marked some decent numbers, I'm not strong enough to justify my bodyweight and I'm carrying around little more fluff than I'd like to.
This happens every year, an epic battle between amateur strongman Ronald A. Strahan and the big, bad AFI 36-2905. Every year since I got the first piece of paperwork for failing a PT test, I suck it up, put hammer down and cheat on the Air Force Physical Fitness Test. It's not the 365 fitness life that they want me to live but the crash-cut way of life, the life they DON'T want me to live, hasn't failed me yet going back to '07:
Again, like in '07, my strength is not on par with my bodyweight, again, like in '07, I've got to shape up or get out. I've tried some different things during the cuts since '07 but I've learned what works the best is what worked back then.
I test sometime in February of '14. It's time to turn my back on pounding weights and smashing calories and once again pursue a high-rep training, a six lap run and a streamlined midsection on par with a late 50's/early 60's Mr. America. For the amount I run my mouth, it's probably for the best for my long term health. If I didn't join the USAF and have to conform to the fitness standard, I have no doubt that at some point in my life you'd see rescuers cutting the wall off of my house to get me to the hospital.
From now until D-Day... It's goodbye strength and self-respect / hello vanity workouts and cardio.
I'll be back with updates and results...
Airpower~!!
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Again, like in '07, my strength is not on par with my bodyweight, again, like in '07, I've got to shape up or get out. I've tried some different things during the cuts since '07 but I've learned what works the best is what worked back then.
I test sometime in February of '14. It's time to turn my back on pounding weights and smashing calories and once again pursue a high-rep training, a six lap run and a streamlined midsection on par with a late 50's/early 60's Mr. America. For the amount I run my mouth, it's probably for the best for my long term health. If I didn't join the USAF and have to conform to the fitness standard, I have no doubt that at some point in my life you'd see rescuers cutting the wall off of my house to get me to the hospital.
From now until D-Day... It's goodbye strength and self-respect / hello vanity workouts and cardio.
I'll be back with updates and results...
Airpower~!!
Commets disabled because I just can't track everything... Click here to comment / follow along on FaceBook.
