The Beginning....again

With a lengthy hiatus from MMA training due to Taylor going down with a blown up knee, my training and weight have fluctuated greatly.  Today, we start again.  With no aspirations of any sort of MMA future, I do realize that the genetic response that comes with the violence, the self defense, the unleashing of power contained in every muscular cell with as many of those pistons firing at oncee brings great progress.  Mentally, letting the animal loose to run certainly helps him sleep better at night.  But the metabolic responses to working it to the end, to fatigue, to just saying "Hey boss man, need rest here boss man" springs forth hormonal responses that harken back to a time when it was truly those who could progress (dare I say evolve with all its horrible connotations) faster than those around them.  Those who would then eat well, thrive, and turn land into home.  Next Tuesday, I take what will probably be my last trip (albeit free) to the great chrome covered, fern decorated land that is Taylor's gym.  I will hopefully blow up their equipment with too many reps set on whatever "high" is for the gizmo, and lift weights so heavy that it makes the muscle pumpers near by cringe.  Not for the sake of ego, but for the sake of awakening the inner beast...knowing that the shortest distance to 1000lbs isn't 100 reps 10 times, but when you can do it in 1 rep, and then have enough time left over to flip a tractor tire, and throw a keg or 2, and run some 400m sprints.

As a money competition for weight loss starts at work the 16th, weight loss will become more important than big gains under a barbell....but I will not regress.  9 weeks to a thinner self, increase the weight to power ration we used to always say back when we raced Honda Civics against Mustangs and Camaros.  Decreasing the weight, increasing the agility....sounds like the making for one hungry beast....and I can't wait.  (BTW - for those who workout with me....say hello to 20lbs. of BFH....soon to be our new best friend Mu-ah-ah-ah!)