IC rookie

Walleye here, the original Indian Club rookie.  Spent the afternoon hitting deadlifts and dumbbell military press extra hard and heavy.  Took it to the back yard with my brand new set of ultra cheap indian clubs.  Check out diystrength.com for how to make your own set.

First experience with the clubs has proven to be fun.  I like mixing it up and this definitely a new way to train.  Ballistic is the only way I can describe it.  Lots of rotational strength to be had with these gyms.  Time will tell, but I think this is going to be a go to finisher for the next month.

A story of an egg recall

There once was little country who greatly depended on it's supply of food stuffs.  Along came unclean working condition that lead to a spinach recall, and animal waste that lead to a lettuce recall, and now more lack of care has sent droves of eggs back from where they came.

I am not an all organic eater.  I maintain my own garden in the summer because in the end, we tend to eat more veggies because they're on hand, and it saves money overall.  Win, win.  I also go thru a lot of eggs.   This is where I'm really concerned.  I make use of protein powders and other similar dietary supplements like the next guy, but the easiest, cheapest way to get more protein in your diet.  Eat eggs.  With that being said, do you know how to spot a quality egg?  The shell should be fairly thick (as thick as an eggshell can be, anyway) and the yolk should be firm.   Do this test, if you crack an egg in to a bowl, and the yolk breaks when it lands in the bowl, good chances is that egg is months....maybe even a year old.  Thank you scientists for making poultry so profitable.   I didn't say healthy as we would assume....I said profitable.  Rolled in preservatives and stored in large cold houses, eggs can be warehoused for very long times.

Again, not a hippie, but I do support a local family by buying their eggs.  I used to be a jumbo sized egg (sometimes 2 dozen a week) on the notion that bigger is better.  It's one of the least purchased sizes, meaning I was probably buying the oldest eggs on the shell.  For 10 cents less, I get eggs that are less than a week old (not the same size) and delivered to my desk at work.

De-stress.  Find local suppliers, farmer's markets and the like.  Next time that ABC recall story hits, you can sit back and enjoy your purchase.  Support your local farmers, not the mega corporations who have their eyes on profit....not necessarily your health.

A justification for cheeseburgers

Alright, the Ms. is definitely exiting her first trimester and she's starting to get her mojo back in the kitchen after a complete, no-cooking-no-how, 15 week hiatus.  Her choice this evening....cheeseburgers and hot german potato salad.  If you're not familiar with the latter, it's this weird concoction of a little vinegar, boiled potatoes and bacon grease/pieces.  In other words, it's pretty tasty.

I've got nothing for the potatoes, no skin, no nothing.

The cheeseburgers on the other hand.  Freshly ground lean cuts of beef chopped full of protein and the creatine that it also brings to the party.  Pass on the white hamburger buns and top with caramelized onions and real cheddar cheese.  Not only tasty, but just the right combination of fat and protein.

What do we need for serious anabolic good times....we buy it in droves at the local supplement shops.  Protein and creatine.  Bring the digestion of fat helping the male body produce testosterone (yeah, that's a big catalyst, look it up), and you got a decent little pre weight lifting snack sure to bring the body online.

Finish a big work out full of thick handled dumbbell and heavy, heavy calf raises with sprints up and down the local basketball court....of course, you can't make the distance of the court with no one on you, and not have a ball in hand for a jump shot....admittedly easy when you're the only person on the court.  Fortunately my local court also comes with a 9 1/2ft goal and since I can't seem to get up like I did when I was younger, I still got to end my cardio work with a phi-slama-jama-good-time.

FYI - my weight sled will be on line by Saturday afternoon, and the weather man is promising beautiful weather.  I hope I wear it out the first day I use it!

-The Walleye

Skipped the workout

No workout this evening, just caribbean jerk chicken and veggies.

Picked up the components for some homemade indian club swinging good times.  Not my idea.   www.diystrength.com  Check it out.

Also, I love vendors who have to make their own skids  for shipping product out of new construction grade 2x4's.  Threw two of 'em in the back of the jeep and I've almost completed my first homemade weight sled.  It'll definitely be rocking the weekend's workouts.

Manic Monday

Spent a beautiful evening playing in the yard....playing very hard.  Cross shaped obstacle course of cones spread out about 30 yards bow to stern, 10 yards port to starboard.  Sprinted from the bow to the center of the cross, heal slide left to the tip of the arm, heal slide right all the way to the opposite tip of the right arm of the cross, and heal slide back to the center.  No time to stop...back pedaled back to the base, and then an all out sprint to the stern.  Once you get there, hop side to side over the cone a half a dozen times.  Perfect tabata protocol stuff.  Took 20 to 24 seconds to make the trip.  Walk back gasping hard and go again.  Got out a 40lb back pack and the 60lb tube of sand for walking lunges, squats, and zercher Romanian deadlifts.  The young'en did the same using the 12lb medicine ball.  Throw in a few misc. rounds of push-ups.  That's playing hard, and with maybe 10 whole dollars worth of toys.

Light in numbers this evening, just my step daughter and I, and she likes to drop out when I hit the "cellar dweller" mode and start hitting the weights, but it promises to be a long September with my Muay Thai instructor back from having his knee fixed, and I know he's dying to play around with some odd-object lifting, circuit training, cortex blowing good times.

Read some more from the Steel Tip (Written by Dr. Ken Leistner) and he advocates what he calls the "lift left to the archeologist".  The dumbbell deadlfit.  Use a set of 2inch plus handles, and set 'em for 100lbs each.  I managed 5 triples on some already tired legs.  The grip work and deltoid pinch is good stuff.  Not a ton of compression on the lumbars like heavy squats or trap bar deadlifts, but does the trick.  Lots of wrist roller and heavy gripper work.  Russian twists to finish it off.

Watch out as September 2nd brings back kickboxing couple with weight lifting before hand.  It promises to make everyone understand how much they've been slacking.

One of my only words on nutrition

The 3 over riding things to remember when training, and training doesn't make the top of the list.  This is it, in list of importance.

1.)  Sleep.  Get 8hrs a day and don't mind naps.  This is one of the main pillars of health and wellness.
2.)  Eat.  Bird and fish flesh are at the top of my list.  Plenty of vegetable matter.  Remember, if it has the word "enriched" or "hydrozenated" anything, just don't eat it.
3.)  Train.  As the folks from The Crucible so aptly put it "If it is important do it every day. If it isn't, don't do it at all." 


I don't think it can be put any better.


I've been on hiatus from the workouts since I pulled the spinae erector on the right side of my back Monday night.  We're celebrating birthdays tomorrow and we always make the Lord's day a day of rest, but Monday we'll be back at it, Playing Hard and Living Free!


-The Walleye

P = W ÷ T

Power equals Weight divided by Time.

It's a concept that has caused me many hours of thought.  If a man can move 100lbs in a second vs a man who can move 200lbs in 2 seconds.  Who is truly more powerful?

If a man can move 10lbs 100 times or if a man who can move 100lbs 10 times in the same time frame....who is more powerful?

Sir Newton had numerous equations that would unequivocally explain all notions of motion, but in regard to the sinew and motion of the human body, the leverage points, coupled with muscular design, plus that of the spirit, and other delimiters (the greater connective tissue), would it not leave all issues of theory to be left to those who are in practice and not to those who are in theory?

I leave my issues of development in the hands of the All Mighty as only the most divine can drive an individual to a higher plain and lead that development.  Glossy muscle mags, high dollar trainers, and the chrome plated glam of the local gym may not lead to personal development....but more importantly will normally lead to a distraction in one's unholiness, giving way to little more than a bit of ego development.

This whole thing...this need for development...is about a long term/life long effective treatment for weakness....for a lack of faith.  Not for a need of ego surely...but an increases in one's place in the Kingdom.

As I approach this journey, I acknowledge the power of the Father.  I know that I can't do it alone.  And I know that through the power of the Holiest of Holy that all things are possible.  Only though Him are all things obtained.

Power is accomplishment
Weight is the goal
Time is the agony that the forces of evil can weigh on our souls.

In the beginning....