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Feb 4 '08
Waltham Y
745-942 PM |
Finished Upper Body Machines Workout;
started upper body free-weights workout
Continued Machine Upper Body Weightlifting
Workout, trying to set new records for maxes again
Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills The complete dose as of now: A+D
pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver oil,
hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again. |
Today I finished
the Upper Body Machines Weightlifting Workout.
Again on each exercise I was trying to set a new personal record
for number of reps at the given weight lifted. In the
end this time the upper body machines weightlifting workout took me 3
hours and 24 minutes. Trying on every exercise to set a new personal
record for max number reps, really slows things down alot.
Results Today:
Machine Exercises Last Done Jan
23:
Nautilus Nitro-plus Mid-row chest-pad=3, st ht
5: 55 lbs, (current 33% max), Feb 4-50 reps, Jan 23-40 reps, max
number reps at this weight Jan 17 was 30; up 20% over 12
days.
Nautilus Nitro-plus Mid-row: 110 lbs, (current
67% max), Feb 4-12 reps, Jan 23-9 reps, max number reps at this
weight Jan 17 was 6; up 33% over 12 days.
Strive Arm Curl, seat ht=3,
camset=2: 35 lbs, (current 67% max), Feb 4-15 reps, Jan 23-10
reps, max number reps at this weight Jan 17 was 6; up 50% over 12
days.
Strive Arm Curl,
camset=1: 35 lbs, (current 67% max), Feb 4-14 reps, Jan 23-9
reps, max number reps at this weight Jan 17 was 5; up 56% over 12
days.
Strive Arm Curl,
camset=3: 35 lbs, (current 67% max), Feb 4-14 reps, Jan 23-9 reps,
max number reps at this weight Jan 17 was 5; up 56% over 12
days.
Strive Arm Extension seat ht=6, seat bk=3,
camset=1: 55 lbs, (current 67% max), Feb 4-24 reps, Jan 23-16 reps,
max number reps at this weight Jan 17 was 8; up 50% over 12
days.
Strive Arm Extension, camset=2: 55 lbs,
(current 67% max), Feb 4-24 reps, Jan 23-16 reps, max number reps at this
weight Jan 17 was 8; up 50% over 12 days.
Strive Arm Extension, camset=3: 55 lbs,
(current 67% max), Feb 4-24 reps, Jan 23-16 reps, max number reps at this
weight Jan 17 was 8; up 50% over 12 days.
Note: the above machine exercises took from 745-840 PM, 55
minutes.
Free weights exercises last done Jan
24:
Forearm Wrist Curl Palm Down left arm: 5 lbs, Feb
4-60 reps, Jan 24-53 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 45
reps; up 13% over 11 days.
Forearm Wrist Curl Palm Down right arm: 5 lbs,
Feb 4-66 reps, Jan 24-60 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 45
reps; up 10% over 11 days. Triceps Dumbbell Kickback, left arm: 5 lbs,
Feb 4-76 reps, Jan 24-55 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17
was 35 reps, up 38% over 11 days.
Triceps Dumbbell Kickback, right arm: 5 lbs,
Feb 4-50 reps, Jan 24-40 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17
was 30 reps, up 25% over 11 days.
Upper Back Dumbbell Reverse Fly, both arms
simultaneously: 7.5 lbs each arm, Feb 4-30 reps, Jan 23-22 reps, previous
max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 15 reps, up 36% over 11 days.
Forearms Dumbbell Wrist
Flipper, both wrists simultaneously: 7.5 lbs each arm, Feb 4-130
reps, Jan 23-90 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 60
reps, up 44% over 11 days.
Forearms Dumbbell Wrist Curl, palms up, left arm: 10
lbs, Feb 4-60 reps, Jan 23-54 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17
was 45 reps, up 21% over 11 days.
Forearms Dumbbell Wrist Curl, palms up, right
arm: 10 lbs, Feb 4-60 reps, Jan 23-54 reps, previous max reps at this wt
Jan 17 ws 45 reps, up 11% over 11 days.
Note: the above free-weights exercises took from
845-940 PM, 55 minutes.
Thus upper-body
exercises that have not been maxed out on in terms of number of reps for
11-12 days, were up 46% (machine exercises) and
20% (free weights) in terms of max number reps at 33% or 67% of
max I can lift.
Notes: Some guy in the weight-room was talking about
how sorry he felt for Jr. Seau the Patriots linebacker, with regards to
the Super Bowl loss so late in his career. Plus before this I heard a
couple of announcers talk about how sorry they felt for this or that
Patriots player. And I', thinking, so much tragedy in the world, and these
people are pitying these wealthy athletes who lead these fun lives?
Weight/Appearance: 191 lbs unclothed at 730 PM, down 2 lbs compared to 2 days ago (height 5' 10"). At 1040 PM my forearms were 11.75" up 0.25". |
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Tuesday
Feb 5 '08
Waltham Y
810-940 PM |
LHKH Pattern Air Dribble Runs 90 minutes
Before practice
consumed the usual mix of juices oils and pills
The complete dose as of now: A+D
pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver oil,
hemp oil, brewer's yeast,Bolthouse C-boost juice
drink, Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again. A 1 C day. 36 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice. |
Today again as on
Saturday Feb 2, as there was space available on the indoor basketball
court, I was back to running the air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH'
pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum,
starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot after flipping it up,
then heading it, then kicking it, then heading it again, all with no more
than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward as fast as
possible.
I started the practice at 810 ended at 940, 90 minutes. Produced
47 runs that succeeded in adhering to the LHKH pattern. The first run that
was a LHKH success was at 814 PM, the first high-quality LHKH success was
at 815 PM. Many of the runs took the ball all the way across the width of
the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under tight control
and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole time.
Today was a relatively clumsy LHKH workout. There
are various factors suspect for this. I have been feeling
physically mentally and emotionally sluggish for a few days now; my
estimate has been that this has been because I have been constantly
setting new personal records for number of reps done at 33% and 67% of max
weight I can lift, on every weightlifting exercise I do, and this
kind of record-setting weightlifting, has not been combined enough with
other types of exercise.
Night before today's practice I had a dream. In the dream I saw a
gauge. The gauge was like an arm of a clock, that swept from pointing
left to the 300 direction to pointing right in the 900 clock
direction. In the dream the arm pointing in the 300
direction represented my original personal record for max number reps
at 33% and 67% of max in weightlifting; the arm pointing straight
up represented me getting to double my starting best; and the
arm on the gauge pointing all the way to the right represented me
getting to the point of tripling, doing three times better,
than my original personal record. In the dream, the arm on
the gauge also measured how dead I was--basically the arm pointing up in
the 1200 direction indicated that I was half dead and the arm pointing all
the way to the right meant completely dead (I sensed
these things re what the arm on the gauge represented while
dreaming not upon awakening)
My interpretation of this dream, is that setting new personal
records for max number of reps at 33% and 67% of max lifted in an
exercise: is like death in that it is like suicide, insofar as I am
constantly defeating my previous best; and, is extremely
physically demanding even though I may not during the hour I am
maxing out on reps feel exhaustion. As the dream indicated, in actual waking-time objective
reality I have tripled my ability in several of these exercises in less
than three weeks; I estimate that this extremely rapid progress in
strength, exacts a toll, in the form of mental and physical sluggishness,
when such maxing out on reps is insufficiently combined with other
exercises, even if fatigue is not felt during the maxing out on reps.
Another possible culprit for today's relatively
clumsy performance is the 36 oz of beer I drank last night.
Another possible culprit is the C before the
practice, or too much C in general in the course of a given week (C does
not mean vitamin C; I decline to reveal what it stands for--I share almost
everything with my competition through this blog must I share
all?).
Another possible cause of a sluggish feeling and clumsiness during
practice might be the extremely rapid rise (12 lbs) in body-weight I
have experienced in the last month or so (this has not been accompanied by
any increase in fat visible on the body).
Today an epiphany-like-experience was similar to such
experiences I've had before, that is: on different days by
nature we forge ahead in different ways; let us not fight this aspect of
nature, by interrupting whatever form of progress is natural to us on a
given day.
Today I felt myself forging ahead in terms of tightness of control
combined with changes of direction; I decided not to interrupt this by
forcing myself to kick the ball out further on the first kick so as to
speed up the run.
Today a significant train of thought in my mind during
practice was: the first kick can be short and tight the ball not going
more than 1.5 yards ahead, or it can be longer the ball going 3 or more
yards in front of the starting point; me grading myself in terms of
successful number of LHKH runs produces the short tight balls whereas
other forms of grading produce longer balls; I should be decisive
re what kind of balls I am putting up for myself on the first kick; both
the short and long first kicks have their
advantages/disadvantages.
Another subject in my mind was, to look at the ball or not to
look at the ball when I kick it while air-dribbling it. I noticed
today that I have developed this ability to produce excellent kicks while
air-dribbling the ball without bothering to look at the ball as it falls
towards my feet or strikes my feet; even with my right-foot (I am
left-footed) this ability has bloomed. Thinking about this resulted
in me beginning to mess up as a doubt developed in my mind: should I try
to look at the ball when I kick it, or should I purposely avoid looking at
the ball when I kick it? (note-in some cases it is impossible to look at
the ball when I kick it, in other cases this is possible).
Prior to this doubt arising, I was doing better than I did after the
doubt arose--I was simply doing what came naturally in terms of looking or
not looking at the ball.
I now estimate that I should place myself in one of three
camps while executing an air-dribble run: camp one, minimize looking at
the ball; camp two maximize looking at the ball; camp three look at
the ball when such is natural. I estimate performance suffers if I am so
to speak sort of wandering around between the three camps and not
squarely a resident of one of the camps during a
given air-dribble run.
Seems to me, that on the air-dribble I have naturally become
good at kicking the ball while not looking at it in situations where it is
difficult/impossible to look at the ball as I kick it; I have naturally
become somewhat dependent on eyeing the ball in situations where eyeing
the ball is possible; things have developed to the point where
sometimes balls that I naturally eye as they approach my foot, are
actually more difficult for me than balls that I do not eye as they
approach my foot. I remember months ago, attempting to force myself not to
eye the ball when I kicked it, how difficult that was, and how much I have
progressed in getting to the point where I routinely execute many of the
kicks made during the course of the air-dribble without following the ball
with my eye at all once it descends to below head-level.
The general positive characteristic this evening was: tight
control combined with change of direction and speed. There were a few good
deviant runs following patterns like LHKK as opposed to the desired LHKH
(K represents a kick, H represents a header).
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 193 lbs
unclothed, 2 lbs more than yesterday, this ties my personal record
for body-weight. I looked sort of
half-way to completely fresh in the mirror before practice (face/eyes);
the face looked fresher than the eyes which as usual looked tired. After
practice in the mirror in the living room at home I noted that I have been
looking better and better with each passing day since I have
'cleaned up my act' and gotten into weightlifting and conditioning. My
face has been getting more handsome and masculine and healthy looking with
each passing day judging from the mirror in my living room. I estimate
this in part has to do with weightlifting increasing my testosterone
level, the increase in the testosterone level resulting in a tightening up
of the face.
Faces in the Crowd: During
the first half the tall white guy who severely and harshly
coaches his heavily burdened ('but dad!...but dad!...but
dad!') approx 12 year old son, and his son (they saw me mess up
in basketball one evening) were on my side of the gym--the big blue
curtain was drawn between the two sides. During the second half there was
a white young adult male shooting baskets on my side of the gym. This guy
on my side in the second half of the gym ended his workout before I did
and returned to the gym in his streetclothes with a buddy. They watched me
continue to practice the air-dribble runs. I executed an excellent fast
tight run in which a kick with the right foot which involved minimal
eyeing-of-the-ball played a key pivotal role. After this the two guys
exited the gym with their heads down looking gloomy. And I was thinking,
seems in this neck of the woods, an unusually high percentage of
people allow things to make them feel and act gloomy. Some guy doing
something spectacular in sports should be a cause for celebration, not
shame and gloom. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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Wednesday
Feb 6 '08
Waltham Y
810-940 PM |
LHKH Pattern Air Dribble Runs 90 minutes
Before practice
consumed the usual mix of juices oils and pills
The complete dose as of now: A+D
pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver oil,
hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, tea instead of
coffee before workout.
A zero cg day again. A 1 C day. 24 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice. |
Again, LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble runs, as there was space available on the
indoor basketball court. As yesterday, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot after
flipping it up, then heading it, then kicking it, then heading it again,
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible.
Building on what I learned yesterday today I
resolved that today's practice would involve: a tight first kick, and
watching the ball as it nears the foot as much as is natural.
As yesterday, I started the practice at 810 ended at 940, 90
minutes. Produced 45 runs that succeeded in adhering to the LHKH pattern.
The first run that was a LHKH success was the first attempt of the
day at 810 PM, it was also the first high-quality LHKH success.
As yesterday, many of the runs took the ball all the way across the width
of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under tight
control and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole time.
Today was better than yesterday, though the score of 45 compared to
47 might hide this fact. Point is I am purposely slowing things down to a
pace that produces aporoximately 45 successful LHKH runs in 90 minutes so
as to avoid becoming burnt-out to the point where I avoid doing the
air-dribble runs--thus, the score these days does not mean much. Today
there was less failure.
I realize I am not as good as I was in the days when I was achieving
100 LHKH runs in 100 minutes. This has to do with taking time off
from sports activity for a month during which I was a sports nerd
researching weightlifting in relation to soccer and things like that. And
it has to do with for about a month replacing soccer with
weightlifting. Time away from practicing the air-dribble
results in a degeneration of skill. And then you have the effect of the
weightlifting.
Today prior to practice I was 191 lbs unclothed. That is at
least 10 lbs more than I weighed when I achieved 100 air-dribble runs
successes in 100 minutes a few weeks ago. Pick up a ten pound weight in
the weights room--10 lbs is alot of weight to be carrying around when you
are not used to it. Plus you have all the changes weightlifting produces
in the weight of various parts of the body used in the air-dribble, and in
the strength of these various parts of the body; an of course naturally
the weightlifting produces a certain stiffness in parts of the body
crucial to the air-dribble. I would think it is basic common
sense to surmise, that all of these changes produced by
weightlifting take getting used to when doing something as refined
and difficult as the air-dribble.
Then you have the positive effects of weightlifting on the
air-dribble. Today unlike yesterday but as I had felt on a previous day,
I felt sort of bouncy and strong on the court I think because of
the weightlifting. I felt faster and I felt I had better
endurance. Fact is, one of the main reasons I embarked on the
weightlifting adventure, is that I estimated that weightlifting would
improve my endurance. True, yesterday and today I tried to slow things
down in terms of number of attempts per hour to avoid burnout, but still I
estimate that the weightlifting has very significantly reduced the
pain and stiffness and muscle/joint fatigue I feel during and especially
after an air-dribbling workout, which indicates that during the dreaded
hyper-exertion of a match, I will experience less endurance-diminishing
pain.
When the body via improvement in endurance, suffers less
pain due to exertion, the body is better able to perform tasks that
supposedly have nothing to do with the level of endurance. This
kind of improvement improves the level of improvement produced by a
practice workout and also improves performance in matches.
Today as yesterday I noted that yesterday and today, IMHO due to the
weightlifting, for the first time, it would take me about 8 yards to
slow to a stop after accelerating for the first 8 yards during a sprint
during an air-dribble run (when I allowed myself the decceleration time
that is most comfortable). This means that I am building up more momentum
at the 8 yards point than previously-- the speed times weight of body
figure is going up. This kind of momentum could serve me well in soccer
matches and in games other than soccer.
Imagine the greatness of an air-dribbler who is not only very skilled
in terms of keeping the ball off the ground and close to the body while
sprinting, but who also, is heavy, strong, un-tiring, and very fast. Such
an imagined great, would emerge victorious in the collisions that are a
natural consequence of air-dribble attacks.
Today a thought in my mind was, that I should avoid looking
at approx 17 yd distances such as the distance I sprint while keeping the
ball off the ground but close to the body during an air-dribble, from a
visual perspective that makes such distances look long and
impressive. Seems looking at such distances from such
perspectives, contributes to a lack of confidence, feelings like:
there is no way I can cover that distance at a sprint while juggling the
ball, it is such a long distance, only a super-human super-hero could
cover that kind of distance at a sprint while juggling the ball.
By way of contrast, when I stand at the starting point, and
look straight ahead to the end point 17 or so yards away straight ahead of
me, the end point looks much closer than it does when I look at start and
end points that are both say 30 yards away from me.
Looking at two points 17 yards away from each other from a
perspective that makes this distance seem like a very long distance,
produces feelings of pride such as: what a hero I am, what a god, what a
man, to be able to air-dribble 17 yds at a sprint. It is fun to
wallow in such emotions of self-adulation; but seems such wallowing should
be avoided.
Note: today I corrected some dyslexic mistakes in
the narrative in the previous entry re the dream about the arm in the
gauge.
The general positive characteristic this evening
was: tight control combined with speed.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 191 lbs unclothed, 2
lbs LESS than yesterday. I looked fresher than I ever have looked(face/eyes)
in the mirror before practice since I started recording such
observation; after practice the eyes looked somewhat
tired. All I had to eat in the past 24 hours was potato chips with
dip, 24 oz beer, and 12 oz of yogurt+half&half+cane-sugar; and then
the pre-practice drink. I felt sick and tired of gaining weight and
eating.
Faces in the Crowd:
I realize snobs object to this section as they feel
the people being written about are simply creatures soon to be
exterminated (every-day Americans) but here goes anyway. My feeling is
that shallow superficial interaction with the folks written about here (I
realize their faults and defects) is much healthier, spiritually,
than interaction with said snobs is. Take for example, St.
Stephen who was stoned to death. An hour with him would be a
thousand times better than a year with the people who stoned him. I
am not saying the folks written about here are the equals of St.
Stephen but you get the line of thought.
Today I walked into the gym, and Sebastian, who I used to call
"mustache-boy" before I learned what his name is, was sitting on the
bleachers with some other 'Spanish Boys'. Sebastian declared that I needed
to do more weightlifting. He gesticulated so as to indicate that I am
mostly saggy triceps. He pointed to a fellow 'Spanish Boy', saying I
should look like him. One of the boys sitting with Sebastian said that I
should not be satisfied with tripling my strength in three weeks (I had
told him that I had done this), rather according to this boy, I should
quadruple (my strength).
In response to Mustache-Boy et al., I saw myself in
the mirror before I started the workout, while wearing a tight sleeveless
shirt and shorts. I looked very strong and athletic,
this had to do with the width of my upper body, the
muscles not being so tense-looking as to look clumsy, but at the same time
being toned/non-fat. I have big triceps but there is nothing fat
or droopy about them. I look much stronger than the
'Spanish Boy' child Sebastian said I should look like.
Fact is amongst the 'Spanish Boys' you find those who are prejudiced
against persons who are not from the 'Spanish Boys' group, and you also
find less-prejudiced. I could tell from the way one of the 'Spanish Boys'
there looked at me that he admired my physique and thought that Sebastian
was just mouthing off. I realize people like the white young man with the
dark brown beard I encountered in the free-weights room think people
like Mustache-Boy/Sebastian should be completely ignored but there you
have it. |
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Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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| Feb 7, 2008 |
Current Ingredients in my
Pre-Workout Juices/Oils/Pills Cocktail Described in
Detail |
What my Pre-Workout Nutrients
Drink Consists Of As Of Now:
Noble Tangerine Juice 'not from
concentrate'
32 oz $3.29 available at
Hannaford's
8 oz = 125 calories (Calories from fat 0),
potassium 440 mg, 12% RDA; carobohydrate 30 g, 10% RDA;
sugar 23 g; protein 1 g; vitamin A 20% RDA; vitamin C 100% RDA; Folate 5%
RDA; ingredients-100% pure squeezed Florida Tangerine Juice.
Bolthouse Farms Passion-Fruit/Apple/Carrot
Juice
'not from concentrate' available at Whole
Foods
32 oz approx $3.69
8 oz = 120 calories (Calories from fat 0);
sodium 95 mg, 4% RDA; potassium 270 mg 8% RDA;
carbohydrate 29 g, 10% RDA; sugar 28 g; protein 2 g; vitamin A
365%; vitamin C 35%, calcium 2% RDA; iron 2% RDA; ingredients=
carrot juice, apple juice, passion-fruit juice, natural
flavors.
Spectrum Essentials Wheat Germ
Oil
www.spectrumorganics.com
available at Whole Foods
8 oz, 16 tbsp, approx
$15
1 tbsp, 14 g = 130 calories (Calories
from fat 130); fat 14 g, 22% RDA; saturated fat 2 g 10% RDA; vitamin E 65
IU, 217% RDA; Omega-3 (alpha linolenic acid ALA) 0.2 g 15%; Omega-6
linoleic acid LA) 7.6 g; Omega-9 (Oleic Acid OA) 4.4 g;
RDA; ingredients= expeller pressed unrefined wheat germ
oil
Twinlab Norwegian Cod Liver Oil
'PCB/heavy-metal free'
12 oz, 71 tspns, $8.95 available at Whole
Foods
1 tspn, 5 ml = 40 calories (calories from fat
40); fat 4.5 g 7% RDA; saturated fat 1 g 5% RDA; cholesterol 25 mg 8% RDA;
vitamin A 4615 IU, 92% RDA; vitamin D 462 IU, 116% RDA; EPA 554 mg
426% RDA; DHA 369 mg 284% RDA; ingredients=cod liver
oil, mint flavor.
Nature's Way EfaGold Hemp Oil
www.naturesway.com available at
Whole Foods
8 oz, 16 tbsp price ??$
1 tbsp, 15 ml= 130 calories (calories from
fat 130); total fat 14 g, 22%; saturated fat 1.5 g, 2%; omega-3 fatty
acids 2.5 g; Omega-3 fatty acids as Alpha-Linolenic Acid (ALA) 2450
mg; Omega-6 fatty acids, 8.5 g (8470 mg); linoleic acid (LA) 8g (8050 mg);
Gamma-Linolenic-Acid (GLA) 420 mg; Omega-9 fatty acids, 1.7 g; Omega-9
fatty acids as oleic acid (OA) 1680 mg; Ingedients=Hemp Oil
(seed).
Spectrum Essentials Fish Oil
www.spectrumorganics.com available
at Whole Foods
250 softgels, 250 g $19.99
2 softgels, 2 g = 25 calories; total fat 2 g,
3%; saturated fat 0.5 g 3%; cholesterol 12 mg, 4%; EPA (eiposapentaenoic
acid 18%) 360 mg, 277% RDA; DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) 240 mg, 185%; other
Omega-3 200 mg; Omega-6 50 mg; Oleic Acid (OA) Omega-9, 185 mg; vitamin A
200 IU, 4%; vitamin D 2.4 IU 1%;
Lewis Labs Brewer's Yeast
'Gluten-free, non-GMO, not blended or
fortified, nothing added'
www.lewis-labs.com available at
Whole Foods
16 oz, 454 g, 30 tbsps = $15.89
2 tbsps, 30 g = 116 calories (calories from
fat 0); sodium 70 mg 3% RDA; potassium 600 mg, 18% RDA; carbohydrate, 13 g
4% RDA; Fiber, 6 g 24% RDA; protein 16 g 32% RDA; thiamin 80% RDA;
Riboflavin, 70% RDA; Niacin, 50% RDA; Vitamin B6, 60% RDA; Folic Acid, 50%
RDA; Vitamin B12, 5% RDA; Biotin, 5% RDA; Pantothenic Acid, 8% RDA;
Calcium, 2% RDA; Iron, 30% RDA; Phosphorus, 80% RDA; Magnesium, 8% RDA;
Zinc, 20% RDA; Selenium, 85% RDA; Copper, 10% RDA; Manganese, 1% RDA;
Chromium, 140% RDA; Inositol, 100 mg; Choline, 126 mg; RNA/DNA, 2 g; PABA,
750 g. AMINO ACIDS: Alanine, 1326 mg; Arginine, 1047 mg; Aspartic Acid,
1350 mg; Cystine, 213 mg; Glutamic Acid, 1800 mg; Glycine, 645 mg;
Histidine, 357 mg; Isoleucine, 717 mg; Leucine, 876 mg; Lysine, 882 mg;
Methionine, 249 mg; Phenylalaline, 675 mg; Proline, 405 mg; Serine, 624
mg; Threonine, 957 mg; Tryptophan, 303 mg; Tyrosine, 912 mg; Valine, 912
mg.
Whole Foods Vitamins A&D
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1 softgel = vitamin A (from cod liver oil)
10,000 IU 200% RDA; vitamin D (from cod liver oil) 400 IU, 100% RDA;
Whole Foods B Daily Essentials
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1 capsule= Thiamin (as thiamin mononitrate)
50 mg, 3333% RDA; Riboflavin, 50 mg, 2941% RDA; Niacin (as 91%
Niacinamide, 9% Niacin) 275% RDA; Vitamin B-6 (as Pyridoxine HCI) 50 mg,
2500% RDA; Folic Acid, 400 mcg, 100% RDA; Vitamin B12 (as Cyanocobalamin)
50 mcg, 833% RDA; Biotin, 300 mcg, 100% RDA; Pantothenic Acid (as
d-calcium pantothenate) 100 mg 1000% RDA; Choline Bitartrate, 50 mg;
Inositol, 50 mg; Para-Aminobenzoic Acid (PABA) 50 mg.
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Alpha-ketoglutarate, aspartate, lycinate) 1000 mg, 100% RDA; Phsophorus
(as Calcium Hydroxyapatite) 500 mg, 50% RDA; Iodine (as Kelp) 150 mcg 100%
RDA; Magnesium (as Magnesium Oxide, aspartate, Alpha-ketoglutarate,
Citrate, Taurinate) 500 mg, 125% RDA; Zinc (as Zinc Citrate, Picolinate,
Monomethionine) 15 mg, 100% RDA; Selenium (as Selenium Amino Acid Chelate,
L-selenomethionine) 100 mcg, 143% RDA; Copper (as copper citrate) 1 mg,
50% RDA; Manganese (as Manganese Citrate) 1 mg 50% RDA; Chromium (as
Chromium Polynicotinate, picolinate) 120 mcg, 100% RDA; Molybdenum (as
molybdenum amino acid chelate) 50 mcg, 67%; Potassium (as potassium rice
chelate, citrate, alpha-ketoglutarate, aspartate) 99 mg, 3% RDA;
L-Glutamic Acid, 81 mg; Silica, 20 mg; Horsetail Extract 4:1 (leaf), 20
mg; Boron, 2mg; Trace Mineral Complex, 2 mg; Vanadium, 1 mg.
Walgreens Echinacea &
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Thursday
Feb 7 '08
Waltham Y
815-940 PM |
Continued with the Upper-Body Free Weights
Exercises Started On Monday Feb 4; again attempting to set new personal
records for Number of reps
Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills The complete dose as of now is:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver oil,
hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again. |
Today I continued
with the Upper Body Free Weights Workout Started Monday Feb
4. Again on each exercise I was trying to set a new
personal record for number of reps at the given weight lifted.
Results Today:
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
24:
Chest Dumbbell Flat
Bench Fly, both arms simultaneously: 10 lbs each arm, Feb 4-72 reps, Jan
24-36 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 24 reps, up 100% over
11 days.
Chest
Dumbbell Incline Bench Fly, both arms simultaneously: 10 lbs each
arm, Feb 4-72 reps, Jan 24-24 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17
was 24 reps, (on Jan 24 I mis-read what the previous max reps was did not
make effort); up 300% over 11 days.
Chest
Dumbbell Decline Bench Fly, both arms simultaneously: 10 lbs each
arm, Feb 4-48 reps, Jan 24-24 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan
17 was 16 reps, up 100% over 11 days.
Biceps Dumbbell Standing Arm Curl, left arm:
12.5 lbs, Feb 4-48 reps, Jan 24-36 reps, previous max reps at this wt
Jan 17 was 24 reps, up 33%.
Biceps Dumbbell Standing Arm Curl, right
arm: 12.5 lbs, Feb 4-36 reps, Jan 24-27 reps, previous max reps at
this wt Jan 17 was 18 reps, up 33% over 11 days.
Note: The above 5 free-weights exercises took from
85 minutes, 17 minutes per exercise. I was taking it easy, I wanted
to show huge levels of improvement. There was plenty to talk about
with the nice white smart engineer from Northeastern Matt. I had become
aware of how this kind of maxing out in terms of number of reps produces
lasting fatigue in the body even if fatigue is not felt during the
workout.
Thus today, free-weights
upper-body exercises that have not been maxed out on in terms of number of
reps for 11 days, were up 72% (the 72%
arrived at by using 100% instead of 300% for the incline fly today
as this one was mistakenly not maxed out on on Jan 24). Obviously 72% over
11 days is an extreme rate of improvement, especially given
the fact that these exercises have not been done for 11
days. All you ever hear from people and on the internet,
seems to be, you have to get in the gym 3 or 4 times a week to get bigger
and stronger--yet here we have exercises being done once every 11 days,
and huge improvement.
Notes:
As the number of reps done grows higher and higher, so also the
accuracy of the number of reps given as the maximum number of reps I am
capable of at the given weight, grows less accurate. At higher reps there
is more of the gray-area type of thing, where you could do a few more if
your really pushed yourself to the max but you do not feel like it; at
higher reps the boredom effect comes into play, where you stop out of
sheer boredom. Using the dream about doubling the max number of reps being like
being half-dead, while tripling the max number of reps is like being
completely dead, Gives me the idea of re-testing the max I can lift on an
exercise and determining new 33% and 67% of max figures, when I have
doubled or tripled the max number reps I am capable of at a given weight.
Weight/Appearance: 191 lbs
unclothed at 730 PM, same as yesterday (height 5'
10"). Face looked fresh, but eyes look dark in eyelids and below
eyes. |
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Saturday
Feb 9 '08
620-745 PM
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LHKH Pattern Air Dribble Runs 85 minutes
Before practice had
nothing skipped the usual mix of juices oils and pills; just 1 cup
double-strength tea before practice.
A zero cg day again (this means zero cg in
the previous 24 hours). A 1 C day. 24 oz beer consumed in 24 hours
prior to practice |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs, as there was space available on the indoor
basketball court. As on Wednesday Feb 6, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot after
flipping it up, then heading it, then kicking it, then heading it again,
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible.
I started the practice at 620 ended at 745, 85 minutes. Produced
48 runs that succeeded in adhering to the LHKH pattern. Again as on
Wednesday Feb 6, the very first run that was a LHKH success was the first
attempt of the day; today this was at 620 PM, and it was
also the first high-quality LHKH success. As with the previous two
times I did this LHKH workout Wed Feb 6, and Tues Feb 5, many of the runs
took the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at
high speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body
and off the ground the whole time.
Today was better than Feb 6 and Feb 5, the score was 48 in
85 mins; again today I was deliberately slowing things down in terms of
attempts per hour so as to avoid
burnout/jet-lag/combat-fatigue/shell-shock/PTSD whatever you want to call
it.
The first 20 minutes or so today comprising the first 12
successful runs were excellent in certain ways. Aside from the
first kick of the runs being off a few times, none of the kicks or headers
were badly off in these first 20 minutes; the worst it got in these first
20 minutes with kicks/headers after the first touch, was that the next
touch would be a kick, at a good rate of speed before the ball hit the
ground, instead of a header as it was supposed to be.
Then after the first 20 minutes, these grade school boys started
wandering on to the little 6 yards wide 17 yards long strip of gym space
that is the "runway" for these air-dribble "flights". They were apparently
completely oblivious to the fact that heroic deeds were being done
(me) right before their eyes. They, apparently, were trying hard, to
get in my way alot. To me, they seemed like, people who were acting like
they could tell that I was there, but nevertheless were
behaving as if I was not there, so as to be a pain-in-the-ass. Frankly
they (boys getting in the way) seemed to me to be, like many of the
people I share the gym with during workouts, very self-absorbed people.
This (boys wandering on to the 'runway') got me annoyed to
the point where my performance was impaired for about half
an hour--I guess I do not perform so well when annoyed--then again,
when boys are constantly wandering into being in the way, like chickens
wandering into the take-off path of a jet airplane, there is
aside from annoyance, an impairment produced by the fear of running into
the boy(s) during the course of the air-dribble.
Today a notable feature of the runs, was a forging ahead in
terms of the ability to produce a fast air-dribble with the ball kept very
close to the body at all times.
Today I noted what a less experienced eye
might miss: today was an important day in that today, very few of the runs
were off/defective to the point where the being off would produce
significant disadvantage during the course of a game.
Today there were runs that were off to the extent that I would end up
kicking the ball at a point where strictly speaking in adhering to the
LHKH pattern I am supposed to HEAD the ball (these runs
though impressive were not counted as LHKH pattern-adherence successes);
and today there were runs that were defective to the extent that I reached
the ball soon after it bounced once without the ball getting far out of
control; and today there were runs that were off to the extent that I
would have to sprint a (too) long way using 4 long paces to reach the ball
and head/kick it before it hit the ground--but today there were very few
runs during the course of which the ball would get away to the point where
one could expect the defenders to simply seize control of the ball.
Could be that this has to do with the change in the way I grade
myself (you get what you grade for principle again).
Previously I made a big deal out of how many runs technically speaking
adhered to the LHKH pattern in the course of an hour. But this week I have
been satisfied with a slow pace in terms of number of attempts per hour
and 45 successes per 90 minutes, one LHKH pattern-adherence success every
two minutes. Thus I have more mental/physical energy to put into
things like, running a good run even though it does not adhere to the LHKH
pattern and will not be classified as an LHKH pattern-adherence
success.
Today I had no juices/oils/pills nutrients before the
workout. I estimate the result was increased skill especially at the
beginning of the practice, but decreased bounciness, energy, speed
and stamina; and more stiffness/pain after the practice. Seems
the result of the big nutrients drink right before practice, is, mental
sluggishness as the blood is diverted from the brain to the stomach
in order to process the nutrients.
Today I made a point of not looking at those long 17 yards
covered in getting from one side of the gym to the other on the
air-dribble from a visual perspective that made those 17 yards look like a
dramatically long way. I am fairly sure that this resulted in more
relaxation and less anxiety during the course of the runs.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 187 lbs unclothed, 4
lbs less than day before yesterday Feb 7. This coincided with: me not sleeping at all during
what was for me 'Thursday night' due to an appointment at Cambridge
District Court; me not exercising yesterday on Friday; me skipping the
juices/oils/pills nutrients drink yesterday and today. I do not
think I ate much less than usual between Thursday and today Saturday. It's
a matter of
conjecture to choose a culprit(s) out of these suspects.
Maybe when you skip sleep for a night, this
results in a loss of weight. Maybe the juices/oils/pills cocktail
(significant amount of calories) is an important source of my gains in
weight.
Faces in the Crowd
I went to Franco's bar on Moody after the practice. Yet again I did
not feel nearly as extraverted as I felt when I had been making a point of
doing plenty of long-distance running (treadmill and outdoors) every day.
Long distance running, which is aerobic, relaxes me more for
social situations more than primarily anaerobic stuff like weightlifting
and LHKH pattern air-dribble runs. Problem is, there is evidence that
long-distance running could slow down my sprinting speed and is over-rated
as a conditioning tool for soccer. I guess I should make a point
of doing that 12 mph on the treadmill for about a minute every day, see
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Sunday
Feb 10 '08
625-740 PM |
LHKH Pattern Air Dribble Runs 75 minutes
The complete
dose as of now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin
pill, C vit pill; E vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ
oil, fish oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine
juice, Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices Barowsky's Organic Multigrain
bread, coffee w cane sugar non-dairy creamer before workout.
A zero cg day again (this means zero cg in
the previous 24 hours). A 1 C day. 60 oz beer consumed in 24 hours
prior to practice |
Again, LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble runs,in some ways this was the best Air-Dribble day
ever. As there was space available on
the indoor basketball court, as yesterday, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot after
flipping it up, then heading it, then kicking it, then heading it again,
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible.
I started the practice at 625 ended at 740, 75 minutes. Produced
41 runs that succeeded in adhering to the LHKH
pattern. The first run that was a LHKH success came at 626; the
first high-quality success was at 628. As usual many of the runs
took the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at
high speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body
and off the ground the whole time.
Today was better than yesterday Feb 10; again today I was
deliberately slowing things down in terms of attempts per hour so as to
avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever you want to call it.
This kind of burnout-avoidance slow-down masks the fact that
today was in some ways my best day ever. The first eleven
successes were done in the gaps on the gym floor that would naturally
occur in the course of a full court basketball game that these white boys
and black boys started on the gym floor. According to the gym schedule the
gym time this evening was for soccer and for open gym; but the boys took
over the entire gym for their full court basketball game anyway and I
decided to be Sermon-on-the-Mountish about it.
The first half hour or so of practice took place while the boys
(about ten of them) were getting in the way with their basketball but
I was pleased with the way I handled the situation. Despite: the
fact that I had not warmed up; the pressure of doing the difficult
air-dribble run in a situation where the boys' eyes would be in the
direction of the run whenever they were on defense; the pressure of having
to without delay execute the air-dribble flight across the width of the
gym whenever this path across the gym opened up so as not to conflict with
their basketball game; despite all these factors, many of the flights
across the gym while the boys were out there were excellent, tightly
controlled, fast, with the ball under tight control over a long distance.
The performance got even better when the boys decided to play half
court basketball instead of full court basketball which allowed me to
execute the runs or flights when I felt like it as opposed to when a gap
opened up on the gym floor. Then after about an hour of practice the
fatigue effect began to kick in and performance declined.
The outstanding characteristics today
were: consistency--a large percentage of the runs high quality a low
percentage poor quality; and, tightness of control over long distances and
over many touches at a high speed. Today stood out
from previous days in that today more of the runs featured a fifth touch
on the ball (LHKHK); and today, the fifth touch
on the ball was executed with better accuracy than in previous
days resulting in the fact that were I not running into the wall
on the opposite side of the gym after the fifth touch, the air dribble
would continue to at least a point approx 21 yds from the start point,
with the speed still fast and the ball still under tight control, the ball
not having touched the ground over the entire 21 yd course of the flight
(more prosaically, the run).
My estimate is that nowadays typically, on these air dribble runs I
kick the ball with my left foot at 0 yards; head it at 2 yds; kick it at 6
yds; head it at 11 yds; kick it at 16 yds (next the ball collides with the
wall before I can touch it again).
Today unlike yesterday or the day before, I had the nutrients drink
(juices/oils/pills) before
the practice. I definitely felt that this resulted in more energy,
bounciness, endurance, and pleasure during the course of the
workout/practice.
What I find especially note-able, especially at this moment, is the
way mixing up different ways of grading
myself, seems to produce very high rate of improvement--which
reminds me of how mixing up different types of exercises, and different
types of nutrients, produces high rates of improvement.
When I used to grade myself on the basis of number of runs executed
per hour that adhered to the LHKH pattern this laid the foundation of the
skill as it encouraged lots of pattern adherence. Then when I
changed over to relaxing and settling for a rate of one LHKH
pattern adherence run every two minutes, this laid the ground work for
more time, energy, and attention to be paid to matters other than
achieving the LKHK pattern lots of times per hour.
At one point a big heavy black I would guess junior-high level black
boy in a red T-shirt, ended up directly in my way as I
air-dribbled in his direction. It was not difficult for me to pop the ball
up over him with my foot, and then reach the ball again with my foot
before it hit the ground after I ran around and past the boy, all
this without slowing down. Me doing this produced hoots and laughter from
the boys in the bleachers which surprised me since recently the boys in
the gym have been acting as if I am not even there.
I feel that what I need is tackling-dummy scarecrow type things to
put in my way, with me air-dribbling around and over the
dummies/scarecrows, which should be designed so as to cause no
injury on impact. But of course I bet I will not be able to find such
dummie/scarecrow type things available anywhere to buy; I will have to
make my own, out of floor-marker cones combined with tubes of foam or
something like that. Which reminds me that the businesses out there lack
inventiveness--why should I have to make such scarecrows myself?
The businesses seem to be behind the eight-ball due to an obsession
with credentials, experience, and the hiring of those whom the impolite
label as 'dorks'. And then you have the problem of prejudice against
persons who are not young as their health-insurance premiums are lower;
meanwhile the nations which provide universal health insurance to their
citizens (almost all the modern nations except the US) and who utilize
relatively competent but older workers, whup the USA in international
trade.
As for the talk implying that these great tricks I execute
with the ball are meaningless until applied during the course of a
game: if you cannot do something in practice outside of a
game you will never be able to do it in a game; who are they to in a
game, fail to set me up to start an air-dribble and then scorn me not
air-dribbling during a game?; who are they to in a game, fail to
position themselves and competently handle a pass from me at the end of my
air-dribble and then complain?; who are they to complain about
air-dribbling 'selfishness/riskiness/unorthodoxness/hot-dogging' and then
complain when I do not air-dribble in a game?; who are they to fail to see
that the risk of people getting injured or pretending to get injured
inhibits air-dribbling. To me it is self evident that air-dribbling opens
up the risk of collisions of a type that ground-dribbling does not lead
to.
Today I felt like, just when things are getting dreary (losing weight
so as not to be progressing towards the goal of being a 199 lbs
mini-Schwarzenegger, air-dribble runs not as good as at previous times)
everything explodes, I gain five lbs in a day and the air-dribbles are the
best ever. So watch out for quitting/suspending practice/workouts
when victory is just around the corner.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 192 lbs unclothed, 5
lbs MORE than day before yesterday Feb 9 (the 5 lbs gained in 24
hours repeated). This
coincided with: approx 60 oz beer, 1 lb chicken, 5 oz beef and
then the pregame juices/oils/pills consumed in previous 24
hours.
Faces in the Crowd
Mostly the boys were again acting as if I was not even there, but I
congratulate myself on turning in a great performance even though they
were like that. After the practice as I walked by Donald ('Black Buddha')
the programmer from U Mass who works at Partners, he looked at the ground
and said, 'that was excellent'. Funny I did not notice him watching me
during the practice.
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Continued with the Upper-Body Free Weights
Exercises Done Feb 4 & 7; again attempting to set new personal records
for Number of reps
Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills
The complete
dose as of now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin
pill, C vit pill; E vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ
oil, fish oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine
juice, Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. |
Today I continued
with the Upper Body Free Weights Workout I was doing Feb 7.
Again on each exercise I was trying to set a new
personal record for number of reps at the given weight lifted.
Results Today:
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
24:
Chest Dumbbell Flat
Bench Press, both arms simult: 15 lbs each arm, Feb 11-72 reps, Jan 24-27
reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 18 reps, up 167% over 18
days. Could have done more.
Chest
Dumbbell Decline Bench Press, both arms simult: 15 lbs each arm, Feb
11-72 reps, Jan 24-28 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was
14 reps, up 157% over 18 days. Could have done more.
Chest
Dumbbell Incline Bench Press, both arms simult: 15 lbs each arm, Feb
11-39 reps, Jan 24-21 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 13
reps, up 86% over 18 days. Could have done more.
Chest Dumbbell Pullover, both arms
together holding only one 25 lbs dumbbell: 25 lbs, Feb 11-36 reps,
Jan 24-24 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan 17 was 18 reps, up 50%
over 18 days.
Biceps EZ Bar PREACHER-STYLE Arm Curl, both
arms simult: 20 lbs (bar+0 wts), FEB 11 MISTAKE DID STANDING ARM CURL AT
THIS WEIGHT BY MISTAKE; Jan 24-36 reps, previous max reps at this wt Jan
17 was 24 reps.
Forearms EZ
Bar Reverse Arm Curl, both arms simult: 20 lbs (bar+0
wts), Feb 11-81 reps, Jan 24-40 reps, previous max reps at this wt
Jan 17 was 27 reps, up 103% over 18 days.
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
25: EZ Bar Triceps Extension: 25 lbs, 33% max,
Feb 11-49 reps, Jan 25-33 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan
17-18 was 21 reps, up 49% over 18 days.
EZ Bar Biceps Standing Curl: MISTAKE NOT DONE
ON FEB 11 25 lbs, 33% max, Jan 25-36 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 17-18 was 24 reps.
Bent-over Barbell Row: 45 lbs, 39% max, Feb
11-30 reps, Jan 25-23 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan
17-18 was 15 reps, up 30% over 17 days.
Incline Barbell Bench Press: 45 lbs,
35% max, Feb 11-45 reps, Jan 25-23 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 17-18 was 15 reps, up 96% over 17 days.
Note: The above 9 free-weights exercises
took 103 minutes, 11 minutes per exercise. Maxing out on reps is time
consuming for various reasons previously noted. By mistake I did the ez
bar standing arm curl at the weight I was supposed to do the preacher
curl, and then skipped the ez bar standing curl thinking this was a repeat
listed by mistake.
Thus today, free-weights
upper-body exercises that have not been maxed out on in terms of number of
reps for 17-18 days, were up 92% Similarly to what I said in the previous entry dealing with
weightlifting, 92% over 17-18 days is yt again an extreme rate of
improvement, especially given the fact that these exercises
have not been done for 17-18 days.
Notes:
Today when I in number of reps got to a level triple what the
original max number of reps was at the weight done, I refrained from doing
any further reps; as of now, I have decided that when I get to a
number of reps that is triple the original max number of reps at the given
weight, I will move on to estimating a new max and doing a higher weight
or some other option. It gets too boring going on and on doing
huge number of reps, my instinct is that I can put my time and energy into
better things. I estimate I am capable of greater things in
weightlifting when I am not bored, as compared to when I am bored. Which reminds me that since I am always trying to set new
personal records for max number of reps, I harness the adrenalin etc. that
the excitement of such record-setting produces.
While I was in the free-weights room, this hairy, wiry, shortish,
white guy with a beard and a mustache (this type seems to flourish around
here) entered the room and blabbed on and on with two "Spanish Boys"
who were in there with him. On and on about how he for so many years had
season tickets to the Celtics games and how much money he gambled on them.
I looked at him thinking the same thoughts I have thought while looking at
countless others, 'how has this guy made so much money?...how could I be
making less than him?...'.
At this point he the wiry sports/money wizard/know-it-all, looked at
me and like a ventriloquist said, "He's Brady's
receiver". Just goes to show I guess that my feelings about
looking athletic and manifesting types of speed and quickness while doing
the soccer air-dribbling are not just daydreams in my own mind.
I could have failed to mention this since he said it like a
ventriloquist (minimal detectable movement of the mouth while speaking);
thing is people around here talk like that so much that things get
incomplete when what they mutter, suddenly out-of-context, like
ventriloquists, is never mentioned.
Funny thing was that last time I was asleep before today's workout, I
had a dream about the Pats QB Tom Brady. In the dream I
was sitting, clothed in street-clothes, on a bench in a locker room and he
Brady was standing right next to me, wearing a gray sweater, talking
to me. In the dream I knew that I was 'his receiver'. In
the dream I liked certain things I felt about him while having the dream:
the St-Paul-like way he fights for a thing when he believes in it; the way
he is the same off camera as he is on camera; the way he did not hold
certain things I said in my email I sent to him against me.
Getting back to reality, at 940 PM today right after the workout,
my chest was up to 41.5", my biceps were up to 16" and my
forearms were up to 12"--shows there is hope I can
catch the Greek so to speak (getting closer to the measurements I am
supposed to have according to the 'Grecian Ideal' calculator at the Sandow
website at http://www.sandowmuseum.com/ideal.html).
The 'Grecian Ideal' for someone with wrists my size, 6.75", is 15.8"
biceps, 12.7" forearms, and 43.9" chest. Note--I measure my biceps with my
hand broght up to near my shoulder, and my forearm with my hand
curled upwards, but I do not tense my muscles when I measure.
Weight/Appearance: 190 lbs
unclothed at 740 PM, 2 lbs less
than yesterday (height 5' 10"). Still in the mirror in the
free-weights room I had in my body that athletic/strong/enforcer
look. In the living room mirror at home I have noticed my facial looks
improving.
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Tuesday
Feb 12 '08
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Analysis of EFA Nutrients in
Supplements |
Essential Fatty Acids in Supplements
Compared
RDA=Estimated Daily Requirement based on my
research; figures supplied by Spectrum.
Table Cells show milligrams, % RDA, price per
100% RDA
As you can see looking at the table: the Hemp
Oil is more than a hippie fad; it adds the ALA, LA, and GLA that the fish
oil and the cod liver oil lack; the mixing of the fish/cod-liver oil and
the hemp oil is wise in that the fish/cod-liver oils supply EPA and DHA
which the hemp oil lacks; getting rid of the fish oil and relying on the
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LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs
Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills
The complete dose as of
now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E
vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod
liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. A 1 C day |
LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble runs. As there was space available on the
indoor basketball court, today as on Sunday Feb 10, I was back to running
the air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me,
at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot after
flipping it up, then heading it, then kicking it, then heading it again,
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 830 ended at
940, 70 minutes. Produced 39 runs that succeeded in adhering to
the LHKH pattern. The first run that was a LHKH success came at
831; the first high-quality success was at 838, #3. As always,
many of the runs took the ball all the way across the width of the gym
(approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under tight control and kept
close to the body and off the ground the whole time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things down
in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever you
want to call it.
Today was not as good as Feb 10 two days
ago. It took much longer today to get to the point of executing the first
high quality run classified technically as an LHKH pattern adherence
success.
The main reason for this IMHO as of now, was
that the music being blasted from morning to evening by the woman in the
apartment below me, disrupted my sleep, delayed my sleep, delayed my
waking, and reduced the amount of time between when I awoke and when the
practice started. I have already tried to get the landlord to
make the woman stop blasting music but I was met by stuff like a white
female social worker knocking on my door and informing me that
the woman could not afford a headset (such would allow her to listen to
music without using speakers).
Because I have been following an unusual schedule
the music blasting reduced the time between waking and starting practice
from 4 hours on Sunday two days ago to 3 hours today; but also it changed
the time at which I was asleep, and the quality of the sleep.
Seems even if the time between waking and practicing changes only
a little, a change in the time when waking and the time when practicing
can be significant.
Notably today after I had been out practicing for 20
minutes, Jonathan came to the gym and for some reason drew the blue curtain separating the two sides of the gym
back. This for me resulted in an immediate improvement in performance,
because it increased the amount of light in the area of the gym I was
doing the runs in, because the curtain blocked off the
light from the lamps on the other side of the gym.
As usual today I forged ahead at least in some way.
Today I forged ahead in the sense of of handling difficult balls,
so the end result is still a tightly controlled fast run, this combined
with change of direction. Difficult
balls sometimes force a change of direction, and then there is the issue
of getting back on to the intended flight path after handling the
off-course difficult ball. Thus today there were
several runs featuring tight control, speed, and change of
direction.
Today I noted again how the scoring system whereby I
score my practice, effects what develops during the practice. Today my
goal was simply to do 37 runs in 70 minutes adhering to the LHKH
pattern. I had the 37 runs done after about 55 minutes. Thus the
pressure to execute the LHKH pattern was not as great in the last 15
minutes. In the last 15 minutes, the number of runs per minute that were
'deviant' runs that strayed from the LHKH pattern, such as LHKKK runs, was
much greater than in the first 55 minutes even though I did not
consciously will such change. The last 15 minutes produced some high
quality fast well controlled 'deviant' runs that would in an actual game
be as useful as the LHKH pattern runs. Seems to me that it is a good thing
to sometimes relax grading/scoring procedures so as to increase the
number of such 'deviant' runs from time to time.
The deviant runs allow me to compare myelf
the way I am today to the way I used to be when most of the runs
were 'deviant' runs, prior to the time I introduced the innovation of
adherence to the LHKH pattern; I can see that I have improved alot
quickly in terms of the 'deviant' runs performance, as a result of the
introduction of the LHKH-pattern-adherence innovation. The LHKH
pattern adherence is something I decided on after analyzing the
natural air-dribble patterns that occur when performing the difficult task
of receiving a pass in the air or intercepting a ball immediately prior to
commencing an air-dribble.
Today I noted that I am a completely changed
player compared to the way I was a couple of months ago. I have more
endurance, I am bouncier, quicker, faster, more energetic,
happier--mentally I associate these changes with the color Gold. After the
practice is over, there is alot less aches and pains than there
used to be a couple of months ago.
I attribute this to a combination of: the
increase in the number of days gone without a cg; the weightlifting; and
the nutrients drink prior to the practice. The nutrients drink
was taken before practices in the old days when I did not feel as good as
I feel these days also, but now I feel much better. At the same time if I
skip the juices/oils/pills nutrients drink before a practice, I feel more
like the way I used to feel: relatively weak, tired, gloomy, slow etc etc.
My estimate is that in terms of producing these improvements such
as increased feeling of well-being, the effect of the weightlifting
has been greater than the increase in days gone since the last time I had
a cg; also these improvements would be much less if I neglected
the juices/oils/pills nutrition. See (juices/oils/pills).
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 192 lbs
unclothed, 2 lbs MORE than yesteday.
This coincided with: approx 24 oz
beer, 3 pieces KFC chicken, 16 oz yogurt drink, then the pregame
juices/oils/pills consumed in previous 24 hours. Seems if
I just paid heed to stuffing myself somewhat each day I would reach the
proportioned-like-Schwarzenegger goal of 199 lbs 5' 10" quickly. Thing is
when I get heavy, to weights heavier than I have ever weighed, my appetite
declines. Seems like stress properly dealt with (facing it)
coincides with weight gain and increases in strength, while stress
improperly faced (not checking the mail/email) results in weight loss.
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LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 85
minutes
Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills; HOWEVER, the mineral pills have now not been taken
for two days, and the potassium pills have not been taken for five days,
as I have run out and not had a chance to get to the store.
The complete dose as of
now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E
vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod
liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. A 1 C day; 1 melatonin and 24 oz beer taken in previous 24 hours. |
LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble runs. As there was space available on the
indoor basketball court, today as yesterday, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot after
flipping it up, then heading it, then kicking it, then heading it again,
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 815 ended at
940, 85 minutes. Produced 47 runs that succeeded in adhering to
the LHKH pattern. The first run of the day at 815 was a
high-quality LHKH pattern-adherence success (there is no warm-up).
As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way across
the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under
tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole
time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things down
in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever you
want to call it.
Today like yesterday was not as good as
Sunday Feb 10 three days ago. Compared to Sunday there was more
inconsistency, lower speed. But the middle half-hour of the
workout today was at least as good as Sunday; several runs in a row were
fast, long, tightly controlled, textbook-perfect; if I could
continue always the way I was during these runs today I would
consider this skill mastered, ready for the next step which it
seems ideally should be dodging scarecrow-like objects while doing the
air-dribble runs.
Something I've noticed: the number of runs
per day that are textbook-perfect is much higher
nowadays than it was back in the days when I was managing to
do 100 LHKH pattern-adherence runs in 100 minutes and in the process
burning out my mind.
Today I did not have that 'gold' feeling,
feeling physically/mentally good that I had yesterday.
There are several possible suspects: in the five days
from Saturday to today including today four of the days have for
me been days featuring soccer; 5 mg melatonin was taken at
600 AM today did not help much with sleep; the last big meal was a frozen
pizza with alot of ingredients with big names in small type; the mineral
pills have been missing for two days and the potassium pills have been
missing for five days from the pre-game juices/oils/pills thing; sleep has
not been good; time between out of bed and start soccer only 3 hours
today.
Today seems I forged ahead in terms of, developing
the ability to perform well even when I am not feeling so well, by
mentally concentrating, and being alert and energetic on the first three
touches of the runs. I estimate this kind of approach works better than
being sort of laid back and relaxed, as in a hot-tub or something, on the
first 3 touches.
Looks like a large number of errors are due
to getting too close to the ball when kicking it, as a result of
which, the ball is mis-kicked. Not sure what kind of drill would fix this.
Seems like the melatonin combined with not being
warmed up at the beginning of the practice, and the melatonin combined
with fatiguing at the end of the practice, produced performance impairment
in a practice in which the middle section was very good.
Faces in the Crowd
3 high-school/college age 'Spanish Boys', who for
some reason have been around me alot when I've been in the gym or the
weight room the past few days were in the gym while I was doing the runs
today. They have become interested in basketball and weightlifting. One of
them, this talkative/friendly hefty light-skinned black/Latin mix type
(next president of USA?) looked at me with a questioning humble facial
expression on his face and body, and said, 'Our Soccer?'; I knew what he
meant--what I was doing was outclassing Spanish/Latin soccer, different
from their soccer. Seems seeing an American excel in soccer had for some
reason helpd to produce an interest in the American sport of basketball
within them Spanish boys.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 193 lbs
unclothed, 1 lbs more than yesterday; this ties my personal
record for body-weight; I have risen a pound a
day, from 187 lbs Feb 7 six days ago to 193 today without eating
much. This coincided
with: approx 24 oz beer, 48 oz apple juice, 2/3 of a frozen
pizza. tangerine juice mixed with cane sugar, then the pregame
juices/oils/pills consumed in previous 24
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Continued with the Upper-Body Free Weights
Exercises Done Feb 4 & 7 & 11; again attempting to set new
personal records for Number of reps Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills; HOWEVER, the mineral pills have now not been taken
for 3 days, and the potassium pills have not been taken for 5
days, as I have run out and not had a chance to get to the
store.
The complete dose as of
now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E
vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod
liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. A 1 C day; 0 melatonin and ?? oz beer taken in previous 24 hours. |
Today I continued
with the Upper Body Free Weights Workout that I last Did Feb
11. Again on each exercise I was trying to set a new
personal record for number of reps at the given weight lifted.
I entered the gym at 730 finished workout at 940 PM total 130
minutes.
Results Today:
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan 25 unless
noted:
Biceps EZ Bar
'Preacher' Arm Curl, both arms simult last done Jan 24: 20 lbs
(bar+0 wts), Feb 14-72 reps, Jan 24-36 reps, previous max reps at
this wt Jan 17 was 24 reps, up 100% over 21 days. Could have done
more. TRIPLED ORIGINAL
NUMBER REPS
Close-grip Bench
Press: 45 lbs, 35% max, Feb 14-36 reps, Jan 25-25 reps, previous max
reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 12 reps, up 44% over 20 days. Could
have done more. TRIPLED ORIGINAL NUMBER
REPS
EZ Bar Biceps
Standing Curl: 25 lbs, 33% max, Feb 14-72 reps, Jan 25-36 reps,
previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 24 reps, up 100% over 20
days. TRIPLED ORIGINAL NUMBER
REPS
END 33% of max lifting, at 817
PM 47 minutes after start.
Dumbell Wrist Curl, Palms Down, left
arm: 10 lbs, 67% max, Feb 14-25 reps, Jan 25-20 reps, previous max
reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 15 reps, up 25% over 20
days.
Dumbell Wrist Curl, Palms Down, right
arm: 10 lbs, 67% max, Feb 14-25 reps, Jan 25-20 reps, previous max
reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 15 reps, up 25% over 20
days.
Triceps Dumbbell
Kickback, left arm: 10 lbs, 67% max, Feb 14-42 reps, Jan 25-28
reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 14 reps, up 50%
over 20 days. Tough to do. TRIPLED ORIGINAL
NUMBER REPS
Triceps Dumbbell
Kickback, right arm: 10 lbs, 67% max, Feb 14-36 reps, Jan
25-24 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 12 reps,
up 50% over 20 days. Tough to do. TRIPLED
ORIGINAL NUMBER REPS
NEW Forearm Grip, left: Feb 14-45 reps, Feb 4-32 reps, up
41% over 20 days.
NEW Forearm Grip, right: Feb 14-38 reps, Feb 4-32 reps, up
19% over 20 days.
Dumbbell Reverse
Fly: 12.5 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb 14-24 reps, Jan 25-12 reps,
previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 8 reps, up 100% over
20 days. Tough to do. TRIPLED ORIGINAL NUMBER
REPS Dumbbell Triceps Extension, left arm: 15
lbs, 67% max, Feb 14-28 reps, Jan 25-21 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 17-18 was 7 reps, up 33% over 20 days. QUADRUPLED ORIGINAL NUMBER REPS
Dumbbell Triceps
Extension, right arm: 15 lbs, 67% max, Feb 14-37 reps, Jan
25-21 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 7 reps, up
76% over 20 days. 529% GREATER THAN ORIGINAL NUMBER REPS
Dumbbell Wrist Flippers: FORGOT TO
RECORD NUMBER REPS DONE
Note: The above 13 free-weights exercises
took 130 minutes, 10 minutes per exercise.
Thus today, free-weights
upper-body exercises that have not been done or maxed out on in terms
of number of reps for 20 days, were up 53% in terms of number of
reps. Similarly to what I said in the previous entry
dealing with weightlifting, 53% over 17-18 days is yet again a very fast
rate of improvement, especially given the fact that these exercises
have not been done for 20 days. This rate of
growth if continued for 6 months, looked at from the compound interest
point of view (53% growth every 20 days) would result in me being 46 times
stronger than I am now in just 6 months.
Notes:
In the locker room before the workout 'Vinny' the white guy with the
gray mustache who works at the Y, said hello to me in a loud tone of voice
and said to me, 'You're a hard worker!'. And I was thinking, 'but there
are people who think I'm lazy...my weightlifting, has given me
that hard-working look in my body already, even though I have only spent
about a month weightlifting (upper body) and have not pumped that
much iron in that month'.
I was talking with Mike in the free weights room during the workout.
He is a slim Chinese ancestry guy from Hawaii, an engineer with an MBA
from U Rochester. Due to the way I looked in a tight sleeveless
t-shirt, he could not believe that I could not lift more than him
on the Bench-press; nor could he believe that I had only been
weightlifting for a month, and not so often during that month.
Mike like the other engineer Matt, did not know about: the two
different forms of vitamin A; juice that is not from concentrate
having more anti-oxidant value than juice from concentrate, cod-liver oil,
or wheat-germ oil.
I was talking to Mike about: why I felt that my way of
weightlifting is superior; how IMHO people who lift more than 70% of their
max injure themselves with the result that their muscles do not grow
(recent Japanese study on injured muscles not growing); how people
basically do nothing but various types of bench press which impairs
production of the muscular look; and other subjects.
These highly educated engineers seem to have trouble corresponding
their thinking to my way of thinking. My train of thought has been: Bob
Hoffman, the Olympic weightlifting coach long ago declared that if the
body is missing one essential nutrient the body will fail to put on
muscle; after Hoffman the data showed the importance in terms of
disease-prevention of getting vitamins naturally; and then recently
the trend looking at the data has been that mixing up different approaches
(i.e., natural and synthetic vitamins) might be optimal.
At 940 PM today right after the workout, my forearms were up
to a personal record of 12.25", showing that there is hope with
regards to attaining to the 'Grecian Ideal' on the forearms
(ref. website at http://www.sandowmuseum.com/ideal.html).
The 'Grecian Ideal' for someone with wrists my size, 6.75", is 12.7"
forearms. Note--I measure my forearm with my hand curled upwards, but I do
not deliberately tense my muscles when I measure.
Weight/Appearance: 192 lbs
unclothed at 740 PM, 1 lb less
than yesterday (height 5' 10"). Do not really remember what
I ate in previous 24 hours I think it was not much.
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Sunday Feb 17 |
Data Table and Analysis Re Potassium as a Nutrient Produced |
Potassium Contents of Some
Foods
The Potassium Problem and its
Resolution
I determined that my juices/oils/drinks snack
I consume before my workout, supplies 974 mgs of Potassium, which would
according to some be enough to provide the minimum daily requirement, but
according to most every authority, be about 2400 mg short of the
recommended daily requirement, and only about 29% of what I should be
getting (beyond this I've heard of 'optimum' daily intakes of 4800 mg
Potassium).
Thus the question of what should be done
about the Potassium deficiency I estimate I have unwittingly stumbled
into.
I remembered that on the internet Bananas
were extolled as a source of Potassium. Then I read from those who scoffed
at the pop wisdom enthusiasm for Bananas, these declared Beans better than
Bananas. I decided that I could not just settle for all these opinions
being tossed around and needed facts which I found at http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR20/nutrlist/sr20a306.pdf. (2nd Place for Providing Facts I now give to Table 7.2
at http://books.google.com/books?id=_QWbLTSL6HoC&pg=PA429&lpg=PA429&dq=%22daily+requirement%22+potassium+mg&source=web&ots=Hwhi9Jyjhr&sig=23dSHG7DTYWk_yh1kMjVZnGxNsg).
As I suspected, there are foods that do a
much better job of supplying Potassium, than the foods commonly extolled
on the internet as Potassium power-houses do. The problem with being
ignorant of such foods is that the recommended and 'optimal' daily intakes
of Potassium are high and difficult to achieve when there is such
ignorance.
And it does not improve matters, the way the
pontificators re Potassium and nutrition, ignore factors such as: the
amount of the Potassium source in grams that must be consumed if adequate
Potassium is to be taken in; the fact that space in the stomach,
digestive energy, and appetite are limited and there will not be enough of
such for non-Potassium areas of nutrition, if too much of
Potassium-rich foods are consumed. Reminds me that a long time
ago the Olympic weightlifting coach Hoffman, in a book talked about
how foods that are not helpful take up space in the stomach that could be
taken up by more useful things.
Point is that the data is pointing in
the direction that high level of Potassium consumption is good and
naturalism is good; at the same time getting the Potassium naturally is
difficult mainly because even the Potassium rich foods generally have to
be consumed in large quantities if the Potassium is to be ingested, and
these Potassium rich foods are boring to eat, and extremely weak in terms
of certain nutrients found in relatively speaking Potassium-weak food.
My research showed me, for example, that I
would have to eat 4 bananas a day in order to get the proper
Potassium dose. All those Bananas would undoubtedly result,
in a person of small limited appetite such as myself, in very
significantly reduced consumption of foods strong in areas of nutrition
that the Banana is weak in. It is difficult for me to imagine myself
stuffing myself with for example the 2 cups of white canned beans or
the 3 cups of roasted chestnuts, or the 2 cups or raisins or the 2
baked potatoes which I would need were I to attain to the recommended
level of Potassium via such sources (and these are the foods which supply
the most potassium per gram). I just by nature am not the type of
person to consume such things in such large quantities; consuming
such things in such quantities would no doubt involve consuming large
amounts of liquids to help to wash the mostly dryish stuff down, these
liquids would further limit the digestive-space/appetite available for
foods that star in areas other than Potassium.
Looking at all the possibilities I
considered certain aspects most of the nutrition guru types seem to
ignore, such as the overall healthiness of the Potassium source, the
convenience-level involved in consuming the item, the natural human level
of attraction to the given possible source of Potassium.
Seems to me as of now, that the best
approach to increasing my daily intake of Potassium by 2400 mgs or so
(2359 mg to be exact) would be as follows:
1.5 oz potato
chips; 699 mg Potassium; cost:$0.68 (the Potato Chips available are getting healthier and
healthier, at 1.5 oz per day high-class potato chips can be
bought)
18 dates; 756 mg Potassium;
cost:$1.30
9 potassium pills
(each supplying 99 mg potassium 3% DV) 891 mg Potassium; cost:
$0.21
TOTAL 2346 mg
Potassium; cost: $2.19
Behold how through the application of
common-sense, one can suddenly inexpensively, conveniently, naturally,
humanly, without interfering with the consumption of other nutrients,
while consuming only small amounts of food, jump up to the level of a high
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Continued with the Upper-Body Free Weights
Exercises Done Feb 4 & 7 & 11 & 14; again attempting to set
new personal records for Number of reps. Total 105
minutes. Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills; mineral pill ant potassium pill no longer
missing.
The complete dose as of
now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E
vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod
liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, coffee before workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. FIRST DAY OF
POTASSIUM-DEFICIENCY-CORRECTION
DIET |
Today I continued
with the Upper Body Free Weights Workout that I last Did Feb
14. Again on each exercise I was trying to set a new
personal record for number of reps at the given weight lifted.
Also today I revised and corrected the table in the previous entry.
The error was that the number of dates in a given number of grams was
off.
I entered the free weights room at 755 finished
workout at 940 PM total 105 minutes.
Results Today:
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
25: Dumbbell Wrist
Flippers: 15 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb 18-60 reps, Jan 25-36
reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 30 reps, up 67%
over 24 days. Dumbell Wrist Curl, Palms Up, left
arm: 20 lbs, 67% max, Feb 18-28 reps, Jan 25-21 reps, previous
max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 21 reps, up 33% over 24
days.
Dumbell Wrist Curl, Palms Up, right
arm: 20 lbs, 67% max, Feb 18-27 reps, Jan 25-21 reps, previous max
reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 24 reps, up 29% over 24
days.
Dumbell Flat Bench Fly: 20 lbs, 67%
max, Feb 18-20 reps, Jan 25-15 reps, previous max reps at this weight
Jan 17-18 was 12 reps, up 33% over 24 days.
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan 26 unless
noted: Chest-
Dumbbell Incline Bench Fly: 20 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb 18-20
reps, Jan 26-14 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18
was 9 reps, up 43% over 23 days. Forearms- Forearms Grip, left arm: Feb 18-45 reps, Feb 14-45 reps,
Feb 4-32 reps, up 0% over 4 days.
Chest- Dumbbell Decline Bench Fly: 20 lbs
each arm, 67% max, Feb-18 16 reps, Jan 26-12 reps, previous max reps
at this weight Jan 17-18 was 9 reps, up 33% over 23
days.
Forearms- Forearms Grip, right arm: Feb 18-42 reps, Feb 14-38 reps,
Feb 4-32 reps, up 11% over 4 days. Biceps- Dumbbell Standing Arm Curl, left arm:
25 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb 18-18 reps, Jan 26-14 reps, previous
max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 9 reps, up 29% over 23
days.
Biceps- Dumbbell Standing Arm
Curl, right arm: 25 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb 18-18 reps, Jan
26-12 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 9 reps, up
50% over 23 days. Chest-
Dumbbell Flat Bench Press: 30 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb 18-28
reps, Jan 26-16 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18
was 12 reps, up 75% over 23
days. Note: The above 11 free-weights exercises
took 105 minutes, 10 minutes per exercise.
The average for number of days since last done today
was 20 days; the average percentage improvement was 37%. Thus on
average today there was a 37% improvement over 20 days, this
almost always involving exercises that have not been done at this
67% of max weight in twenty days. To be exact these exercises were
done at 33% of max once, in between the last time they were done at 67% of
max and today when they were done at 67% of max again. If you count the
33% max sets and the 67% max sets as being the same exercise,
these exercises except for the forearms grip are being done about
once every 9 days, when done they are being done for only one set.
37% improvement
over 20 days is again a very fast rate of improvement,
especially given the fact
that these exercises are being done at the rate of about one set every 9
days (counting the 33% max set and the 67% max set as
being the same exercise). This rate of growth if continued for
6 months, looked at from the compound interest point of view (37%
growth beyond the newest current level every 20 days) would
result in me being 17 times stronger than I am now in just 6 months.
Then again you could look at it from a point of view simpler and more
pessimistic than the compound interest way: you could assume that 20 days
from now I will be 37% stronger than I am today, 40 days from now I will
(adding 37) be 74% stronger, 60 days from now I will (adding 37 again) be
111% stronger etc. etc. This simpler way of calculating does not take into
account that as I grow stronger and stronger, a 37% increase is bigger and
bigger. Looking at things from this simpler more pessimistic point of
view, in 6 months or 180 days at this rate, I will be 333% (37X9) stronger
than I am now, approx 3 times stronger.
Either way of looking at it, the figures show that me feeling
disappointed re only improving by 37% over 20 days, is, yet again, the bad
habit of allowing things that should not depress me or discourage me to
get me down. Patience, patience..'Rome was'nt built in a day'.
Averaging the 3 times better from the simpler
more pessimistic viewpoint and the 17 times better from the more complex
viewpoint, I will at the current rate of progress be 10 times stronger in
6 months. So why I should I mourn?
Notes:
I was talking to Elvis Sarge (that he says is his real name) about
weightlifting. His last name is German, he is a mix of Honduran and
German. He advocates touching the dumbbells together at the end of the
dumbbell press. I told him I had never seen anyone advocate such a way of
doing the dumbbell press. He told me that he and his buddies, do five sets
on exercises, lifting 100% of the max that they are capable of lifting,
and on each set they do from 1 to 8 reps as many as they can. He told me
that alternatively he does 'pyramids' featuring him doing heavier and
heavier weights with each set. My response to him was that jumpers
and sprinters weightlift in order to improve their jumps/sprints
performance, and the data shows that when they lift more than 70% of
maximum they run the risk of impairing their jumps/sprints performance
instead of improving it. Thus I when I do even upper body exercises, avoid
doing more than 70% of max, because I want my arms etc. to be able to move
quickly (quick arm movements could enhance sprinting
speed).
Immediately after the forearm workout today, my forearms were at 12";
on Feb 14 they were at 12.25"; this indicates that the 33% of max sets
featuring more reps might do more to at least temporarily puff up the
forearms measurement. After the biceps exercise my biceps or arms
were at 15.5". On Feb 11 a week ago right after the workout the
biceps/arms were at 16". Still after the workout my upper arms or biceps
in the mirror looked brutally big. My chest was at 42" today at
940 PM, Feb 11 my chest was at 41.5" so up 0.5" in the chest
department. The 'Grecian Ideal' for someone with 6.75" forearms
like me, is 12.7" forearms, 15.8" biceps, 43.9" chest. The
'Grecian Ideal' is definitely not 'geeky' or 'punky'--15.5" biceps look
brutally big on me. If I can add 0.5" to my chest measurement every week
for the next four weeks I will have achieved the 'Grecian Ideal' in my
chest in one month.
(See website at http://www.sandowmuseum.com/ideal.html).
Note--I measure my forearm with my hand curled
upwards, but I do not deliberately tense my muscles when I measure. I
measure bicep with fist brought up to shoulder but without deliberate
tensing; I measure chest without slouching but also without 'expanding'
chest to max level. I estimate that if I expanded chest to max level I
could add 0.5" beyond what I report, to the chest measurement.
Today was the first day of me combining potato chips, dates, and
potassium pills in an effort to beat the potassium-deficiency
problem. Seems to me that the result today was: less puffiness under the
skin in the face (I've been searching for how to do this for a long time);
less anxiety; more endurance; more even-keeled mentally and physically,
meaning--less of this feeling tired one hour and energetic
another hour or feeling tense one hour and relaxed another hour.
Today my eyelids and the skin immediately below the eye were much less
dark in color contrasting much less with the rest of the face.
Today after practice I looked facially as good as I have looked
this year the year 2008.
I eat wheat every day, it is part of the Borowsky's multigrain bread.
They say that a kind of allergy to wheat glutens can lead to a thing
called 'false fat', which makes the face and other areas look fat due to
fluid buildup under the skin. But on the internet I read somewhere that
wheat increases the rate at which Potassium is excreted from the body.
Thus it could be, that the problem is not some kind of allergy/sensitivity
to wheat, but merely the sodium-potassium balance being disrupted in
sodium's favor by the wheat glutens leading to the fluid buildup beneath
the skin.
I know this sound laymanish but it strikes me that it is relevant
that they say that when you put salt in the pan and on the
meat when you cook the meat, the result is fluids draining out of the
meat. I did a little studying on the internet as of now it looks like:
sodium tends to move fluid to the areas between the cells; potassium tends
to move fluid to inside the cells; sodium tends to increase the body's
retention of fluids; high sodium produces results similar to low
potassium, low potassium produces results similar to high sodium, low
sodium produces results similar to high potassium, high potassium produces
results similar to low sodium; the balance between the sodium and
potassium effects things. Thus the body retaining less water,
and bodily fluids moving to inside of cells, due to the influence of
potassium, might be expected to improve physical appearance (see-
http://www.medicinenet.com/electrolytes/article.htm;
and, http://mattbrundage.com/publications/salt.php).
I find it hard to digest biochemical information becauses the sources
describe what happens without explaining why what happens happens, which
makes things conceptually difficult for me, and turns the subject into a
parade of boring and unrelated facts.
Weight/Appearance: 193 lbs unclothed at 735 PM, ties my personal
record for body-weight, 1 lb more than Feb 14, 4
days ago (height 5' 10"). I pigged out Friday evening at the
all-you-can eat 'Old Country Buffet'; and last night I got me $10 worth of
$20/lb cooked sauced up scallops at the Whole Foods or 'Bread &
Circus'. Plus today was my first day making sure I get at least 3333 mg
Potassium a day.
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LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 70
minutes
Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills;
The complete dose as of
now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E
vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod
liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, cofee before workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. A 1 C day; 24 oz beer taken in previous 24 hours. 990 mg Potassium (10 99 mg pills) taken
in pill form prior to workout with the pre-workout juices/oils/pills; 2nd
day of efforts to increase Potassium
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LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs. As there was space available on the indoor basketball
court, today for the first time in 6 days, I did the soccer runs. I was
back to running the air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH
pattern features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with
the left foot after flipping it up, then heading it, then kicking it, then
heading it again, all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with
me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 830
ended at 940, 70 minutes. Produced 39 runs that succeeded in
adhering to the LHKH pattern. At 832 in the second minute, there was
a good run all the way across the floor that deviated from the
prescribed LHKH pattern, it was a LHKK pattern the fourth touch being a
kick instead of a header (LHKK+ is the most usual
deviation). At 833 PM there was the first high-quality
LHKH pattern-adherence success (there was no warm-up prior to 830 PM
the start). The first perfect textbook-classic type run was at 850 PM 20
minutes from the start, it was the 11th LHKH pattern adherence
success of the evening. As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever
you want to call it.
Today was clumsy in the first
15 minutes or so for some reason. The first touch (kick) and the
third touch (kick) of the runs resulted in alot of miskicks during the
first 15 mins. But after the first 15-20 minutes, performance picked up
and was very good for about 50 minutes. Today there were lots of
perfect/classic or almost perfect/classic runs, despite the fact that lots
of runs were off. Today was not a mediocre day, the 39
mediocre/average LHKH pattern adherence success runs type of day; it was
more like a 25 excellent LHKH pattern adherence runs and 14 off LHKH
pattern adherence runs type of day.
Today I felt as if the increased Potassium was bringing
me closer to a Greek deity in terms of physical endurance.
I mean, literally, the thought in my mind in the first 20 minutes
despite the performance being off, was, today I feel almost like a Greek
deity in terms of physical endurance. Judging endurance can be
deceptive because increased endurance can result in not only more attempts
per hour, but also more energy put into each attempt, more energy burnt up
in the first hour with the result of less energy being left over for after
the first hour, things like that. Plus there is the factor, that if one is
improving in endurance with each and every passing day, a level of
endurance that would seem to be wonderful a week ago does not seem that
great now in the present.
Today the first and third touches which
according to the prescribed LHKH pattern are supposed to be kicks, were at
the beginning off a relatively large percent of the time; but after the
first 20 minutes I found that the kicks on the first and third touches
were often better than they ever have been. Seems like today I
improved on difficult first and third touch kicks, while I declined on the
'easier' first and third touch kicks. Seemed the extra
Potassium produced extra energy, but, at the same time, sort of slowed me down mentally and
reactions-wise, the way extra food prior to a practice
makes one sleepy and slows one down. Potassium and food in general require
digestive power to be processed which involves, as far as I know, blood
leaving the brain to process the food; or at any rate a process that makes
one feel as if blood was leaving the brain to process the food.
My estimate now is that if I make sure to expose myself to more sunlight prior to
practice (lesson learned from basketball shooting workouts), and combine
this with putting more time in between the time when I consume the
pre-workout nutrients and the time I start the workout, I will
significantly or dramatically improve my performance.
Today I
found myself hustling in ways that I have never found myself to
be hustling before: when a touch slowed down the pace of
the run as it forced me to slow down my speed to meet the ball, I would
often execute the touch so as to put as much speed back into the run as
possible; I put extra energy into executing as perfect as possible (from
the tightness of control point of view) touches on the ball; I put extra
energy into perfecting the last touch on the ball prior to the ball
hitting the wall on the opposite side of the gym. In the past I have had
the habit of not putting extra energy into these aspects of the
game. I suspect that the source of this extra
energy was the Potassium. Seems prior to today with less
Potassium in me, I had developed the habit of saving energy by not putting
the extra energy into certain such aspects of the game.
After the game I noted a
complete absence of the soreness stiffness and pain I am used to feeling
in the lower parts of my body after practice. I noticed something
similar prior to my new emphasis on consuming Potassium, which I
attributed to the positive effect of weightlifting, previously. My estimate is that weightlifting and Potassium
both have the effect of reducing post-workout pain, stiffness, soreness
etc.
My improved understanding of Potassium
has brought me to realizing, that the lack of Potassium
within me combined with a steam-room environment, extremely hot and humid
as I encountered at the Oak Square YMCA in Brighton, combined with the
loss of Potassium through the extreme level of sweating I experienced in
the heat and humidity, produced fatigue within me as I profusely
sweated through the games at the Oak Square
YMCA.
I have become convinced that the world
today is foolish re how 'breathable' shirts soccer players wear while
playing are. I find that even light comfortable un-painted sleeveless
t-shirts reduce my endurance and make me feel like someone who breathes
through his skin whose ability to breathe through his skin is
discomfitingly impaired by the shirt. At the Oak Sq Y games they wanted us
to wear these thick T-shirts with sleeves that had these numbers printed
on them using some kind of rubber/plastic material which made the shirt
even more uncomfortable and difficult to "breathe" through. I
heard somewhere people "breathe" through their skin I wonder how much
truth there is to that. How can manufacturers fail to come up with soccer
shirts that are easy to "breathe" through with the skin so to
speak?
Faces in the
Crowd
As I approached the main desk to go in the Y,
this tall heavy white nutty-acting guy with a slight mustache who is
always accompanied by a sane-acting white adult or two started talking to
me. He talks alot in the locker room when he is in there. He was telling
me about some musical group called the "Shirelles" (I might be
mis-spelling the name here). He informed me that the
"Shirelles" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirelles) were not Asian, but were, rather, African-American. He
thought this racial fact was very important.
To tell you the truth though I find him to be
kind of funny, interesting and charming, his attitude somewhat annoyed me.
I felt like, there are these people around here, and also people in other
areas, who seem to think that there are Americans who due to their racial
ancestry, are a step below an African-American, similar to how Southern
White culture considered African-Americans a step below Whites. I was
thinking, this place seems like a shameless commonwealth, in which
discrimination is considered to be funny as long as it is politically
correct (PC) discrimination featuring the "appropriate" group being
discriminated against and the "appropriate" group being discriminated in
favor of.
I was thinking, to tell you the truth, of how
they do things like set aside 13% of job A for ethnic group X because
13% of the local population belongs to ethnic group X, while they ignore
the fact that the percentage of the people in ethnic group X who have the
skills needed to do the job, is not the same as this percentage for other
ethnic groups. I felt like: these people seem to have so many prejudices
it is hard to believe; the prejudices that they adhere to are
apparently, adhered to with great ferocity; the prejudices that
infect them are (IMHO) especially deplorable prejudices such as:
anti-Christian; anti-handsome, anti-smart, anti-good,
anti-men-who-are-popular-with-female-beauties, anti-male, anti-hetero;
and, anti-atypical (atypical means not typical).
Towards the end of the workout the
fitness-trainer-in-chief himself Jonathan Capan came out to the gym to
wander around and check out the scene. I did at least one excellent run
right in front of him he was mute about it. Same with the white lady who
sweeps the gym at the end of the evening--I did excellent runs right in
front of her, she was mute but at least she smiled when she saw the runs.
Throughout the evening there was the usual
mix of adults and kids in the gym, and I felt that usual feeling
of, 'here am I being a deity doing spectacular things, but these
people act as if I am not even here amongst them'. But I
take pride in the fact that I performed well despite their presence and
despite their apparent obliviousness. During much of the practice
this white guy with a brown beard (who has the demeanour/looks of a hip
Navy Captain who smokes pot, er I mean Hemp) and his son were
playing basketball they could see everything the curtain dividing the gym
was not drawn. They said nothing but I liked the way Hip-hempy
Navy-Captain seems to truly enjoy playing with his son (as opposed to the
pretense of such enjoyment) (as opposed to getting all worked up and bent
out of shape out of the mistakes his son makes when playing basketball).
Weight/Appearance:
Before the workout at 815 PM I was 193
lbs unclothed, same as yesterday; this ties my personal record for
body-weight; this coincided
with: merely, approx 24 oz beer, 2 hamburgers made with
good meat/bread, 2 bags of potato chips, and then the pregame
juices/oils/pills consumed in previous 24 hours (I probably forget
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Continued with the Upper-Body Free Weights
Exercises Done Feb 4 & 7 & 11 & 14 & 18; again attempting
to set new personal records for Number of reps. Total 67
minutes. Before practice consumed the usual mix of
juices oils and pills; mineral pill and potassium pill no longer
missing.
The complete dose as of
now: A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E
vit pill; mineral pills, potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod
liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse
carrot/passion/apple juice. 2 slices bread, 2 fried eggs, coffee before
workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. Zero cgs since December 1, '07 continued with 9 potassium pills,
dates to get potassium level up
FIRST DAY OF exercise after starting
to consume MAO-inhibiting
herbs |
Today after a rest of 10
days, I continued with the Upper Body Free Weights Workout that
I last Did Feb 19. As usual, on each exercise I
was trying to set a new personal record for number of reps at the given
weight lifted.
The ten day layoff had to do with: the first 3 or 4 days of the
layoff was simple exhaustion; the following 6 or so days of it had to do
with fatigue produced by switching from a schedule and circadian rhythm
involving being awake during the night, to one in which I am awake during
the day.
Today I spoke on the phone, with the guy at the YMCA who is in charge
of the free weights room. Lest I forget, his name is Anthony Frongillo,
his email is afrongillo@ymcaboston.org. He
said he was a high school coach, he encouraged me to email him any
questions re the weight room. He told me that the long bars in the free
weights room all weigh 45 lbs; the long bar on the Smith Machine weighs
40-45 lbs; the 3/4 length bar weighs 35 lbs; and the EZ bar weighs 25
lbs.
Significance of this: I have been assuming that the long bars weigh
45 lbs even though some of them are a few inches shorter than others--this
assumption has been correct; I have been assuming the Smith machine bar
weights 45 lbs this assumption is basically and for all practical purposes
correct; I have been assuming the EZ bar
weighs 20 lbs, this assumption has been incorrect, actually the EZ bar
weighs 25 lbs, so I have been under-reporting the weights done with the EZ
bar by 5 lbs and this may have slightly thrown off my
estimates of what 33% of max and 67% of max are on certain exercises.
When I get a chance I will go to the log entries where the EZ bar is
assumed to be 20 lbs and correct the error.
Another problem today was that my notes showed that for the preacher
curl I should do 25 lbs, the bar plus zero weights, the assumption
being that the bar is 25 lbs, whereas for the other EZ bar exercises the
assumption in the notes I use, has been that the EZ bar is 20 lbs.
This confused me during the workout today, so I went home to study my
notes, and cut the workout short, as I put a high premium on keeping an
accurate high quality log of my activities.
As it turns out, the previous two times I did the preacher curl at
67% of max, I did it at what I thought was 25 lbs, adding 5 lbs to the 20
lb bar, but in one page of my notes I by mistake reported that I had
put zero pounds on the EZ bar when I did what I thought was 25 lbs.
Thus to be consistent, doing the same weight I did the previous two times,
I should add 5 lbs to the EZ bar, which produces what I have been thinking
is 25 lbs but is actually 30 lbs.
I think I made the right decision cutting the practice short to go
home and study the notes. For me the confusion regarding exactly
how many lbs I should put on the EZ bar was demoralizing. An accurate log
and record of number of reps and weights lifted enhances motivation/morale
for me in weightlifting. For me, in weightlifting good morale seems to
make a big positive difference.
Starting yesterday I have daily been consuming some herbs
from the bulk bins at 'Cambridge Naturals' in Porter Sq
Cambridge. Why? For a few weeks a few years ago, I consumed a
synthetic MAO-inhibitor drug and enjoyed it; I had a dream that the
members of this family I was acquainted with in Chicago, were monoamine
oxidase molecules invading my brain; I concluded that herbs that provide
helpful nutrients for which there is no govt recommended daily intake are
an aspect of nutrition not to be neglected; I am aware of how excess
monoamine oxidase has physical as well as mental consequences.
Mono-amines are neuro-transmitters in the brain. Mono-amine oxidase
breaks down these neuro transmitters. Mono-amine oxidase inhibitors
inhibit the activity of monoamine oxidase. Low levels of monoamines are
associated with depression and also physically being sub-par.
The herbs (from the bulk bins, usually powdered) I have
been consuming are:
American Ginseng
Siberian Ginseng
Korean Ginseng
Fo-ti (Polygonum Multiforum)
Licorice
Turmeric
Mugwort
I entered the free weights room at 1203 PM
and cut short the workout at 103 PM. Total 67 minutes.
Results Today:
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
26:
Chest-
Dumbbell Decline Bench Press: 30 lbs each arm, 67% max, Feb
29-32 reps; Jan 26-16 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18
was 9 reps, up 100% over 34 days; original number max reps
tripled.
Chest-
Dumbbell Incline Bench Press: Feb 29-23 reps, Jan 26-30 lbs each arm,
67% max, 12 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18
was 9 reps, up 92% over 34 days.
Upper Back-
Dumbbell Pullover: both arms together hold a 45 lb dumbbell, 67% max,
Feb 29-17 reps, Jan 26-9 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan
17-18 was 7 reps, up 89% over 34 days.
Biceps- EZ Bar Biceps Preacher
Curl: 25 lbs done by mistake, when the weight I had been doing
previously which I wanted to repeat again was 30 lbs (though I
thought I had been doing 25 lbs when I had been doing 30
lbs).
Note: The above 4 free-weights exercises
took 67 minutes, 17 minutes per exercise. The high 17 per exercise
figure has to do with the confusion mentioned previously in this
entry.
Thus on average today there was a 94%
improvement over 34 days, this involving exercises
that have been done only twice (just two sets one set each
day) in the past 34 days not counting today. Thus these
exercises were up on average 94% over 34 days despite being done at the
frequency of just one set every 17 days.
It is hard to judge without resorting to math, what an improvement of
94% every 34 days means, but I estimate the math is worth it as it
produces the morale I estimate to be so important in weightlifting.
94% improvement
over 34 days (from the compound-interest-type viewpoint) is a
rate of growth that if continued would make me 34 times stronger
than I am now in 6 months.
Looking at it from a point of view simpler and more pessimistic
than the compound interest way: you could assume that 34 days from
now I will be 94% stronger than I am today, 68 days from now I will
(adding 94) be 188% stronger, 102 days from now I will
(adding 94 again) be 284% stronger etc. etc. Looking at things from
this simpler more pessimistic point of view, in 6 months or 180 days at
this rate, I will be 498% (94X5.3) stronger than I am now, approx 5
times stronger.
Averaging the 5 times better from
the simpler more pessimistic viewpoint and the 34 times better from
the more complex compound-interest-type viewpoint, I will at the current
rate of progress be 20 times stronger in 6 months.
Thus at first glance it seems that the consumption of the
herbs has improved my performance because the rate of growth was not as
high last time I weightlifted, prior to the herbs. Then again the
difference could have to do with which exercise was done as some exercises
improve faster than others. Could be that the potassium combined with the
herbs caused the increase in the rate of improvement.
Weight/Appearance: 189 lbs unclothed at 1145 AM, 4 lbs less
than what I weighed last time measured ten days
ago. During the 10 days away from
exercise, I did not consume oils/minerals/pills and my consumption of
juices was reduced.
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Continued with the Upper-Body Free Weights
Exercises Done yesterday again attempting to set new personal records
for Number of reps. Total 145 minutes. Before practice
consumed the usual mix of juices oils and pills;
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice,
Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, 2 fried eggs, coffee before
workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. Zero cgs since December 1, '07 continued with 9 potassium pills,
dates to get potassium level up
second day of exercise
after starting to consume MAO-inhibiting
herbs daily |
Today
I finished with the Upper Body Free Weights Workout that I did
yesterday. As usual, on each exercise I was
trying to set a new personal record for number of reps at the given weight
lifted.
Today I felt impaired by what felt like a slight cold--fatigue,
cough, shortness of breath, fever--but with the fatigue cough fever
etc not as bad as when I actually have a cold. I think I know how to deal
with this, correct the problem.
I entered the free weights room at 505 PM
and finished the workout at 730 PM. Total 145 minutes.
Results Today:
Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
26:
Biceps- EZ Bar Biceps Preacher
Curl: 30 lbs (B+5), 67% max, March 1-48 reps (could have done
more), Jan 26-24 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18
was 16 reps, up 100% over 35 days. Thus originaly
number reps at this weight tripled.
Forearms-
EZ Bar Forearms Reverse Curl: 45 lbs (B+20), 67%
max, March 1-48 reps (could have done more), Jan 26-20 reps, previous
max reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 15 reps, up 140% over 35 days.
Thus originaly number reps at this weight
tripled.
Triceps-
EZ Bar Triceps Extension: 50 lbs (B+25), 67% max, March
1-27 reps, Jan 26-12 reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 17-18
was 9 reps, up 125% over 35 days. Thus originaly
number reps at this weight
tripled. Free Weights Exercises Last Done Jan
27: Biceps EZ Bar standing arm curl: 55
lbs (B+30), 67% max, March 1-27 reps, Jan 27-14 reps, previous max
reps at this weight Jan 17-18 was 9 reps, up 93% over 34 days. Thus originaly number reps at this weight
tripled.
Biceps Barbell standing arm curl: 50
lbs, 67% max, March 1-21 reps, Jan 27-14 reps, previous max reps at
this weight Jan 17-18 was 7 reps, up 50% over 34 days. Thus originaly number reps at this weight
tripled.
Upper Back Bent-over Barbell Row: 75 lbs, 67%
max, March 1-19 reps, Jan 27-15 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 17-18 was 12 reps, up 27% over 34 days.
Chest Incline Bench Barbell Press: 85 lbs,
67% max, March 1-18 reps, Jan 27-11 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 17-18 was 9 reps, up 64% over 34 days.
Triceps Close Grip Barbell Bench Press: 85
lbs, 67% max, March 1-20 reps, Jan 27-12 reps, previous max reps at
this weight Jan 17-18 was 8 reps, up 67% over 34 days.
Chest Flat Bench Barbell Press: 90
lbs, 67% max, March 1-19 reps, Jan 27-12 reps, previous max reps at
this weight Jan 17-18 was 8 reps, up 58% over 34
days. Thus on average today there was a 80%
improvement over 35 days, this involving exercises
that have been done only twice (just two sets one set each
day) in the past 35 days not counting today. Thus these
exercises were up on average 80% over 35 days despite being done at the
frequency of just one set every 17 days. Seems like doing the math on this rate of progress
helps in a kind of self-hypnotic way.
80% improvement
over 35 days (from the compound-interest-type viewpoint) is a
rate of growth that if continued would make me 21 times
stronger than I am now in 6 months.
Looking at it from a point of view simpler and more pessimistic
than the compound interest way: you could assume that 35 days from
now I will be 80% stronger than I am today, 70 days from now I will
(adding 80) be 160% stronger than I am today, 105 days from now I
will (adding 80 again) be 240% stronger than I am today, etc.
etc. Looking at things from this simpler more pessimistic point of view,
in 6 months or 180 days at this rate, I will be 416% (80X5.2) stronger
than I am now, approx 4 times stronger.
Averaging the 4 times better from
the simpler more pessimistic viewpoint and the 21 times better from
the more complex compound-interest-type viewpoint, I will at the rate
of progress evinced today, be 13 times stronger than I am
now, in 6 months.
Comparing the rate of improvement from Jan 17/18 to Jan
26/27, to the rate of improvement from Jan 26/27 to today March
1, definitely the rate of improvement was greater in the second time
period, marked by consumption of the MAO-inhibitor herbs prior to the
workout today. This effect was more pronounced in the exercises done
earlier in the workout than it was in the exercises done
later.
Today 9 exercises were done in 145 minutes, 16 minutes per
exercise. Slow rate of work probably due to not being used to
waking up early in the morning and then working out in the evening.
Weight/Appearance: 190 lbs unclothed prior to the
workout, 1 lb more than yesterday. In the locker room mirror (this top of this mirror is
slightly forward compared to the bottom) I looked brutally muscular
(looked less like this in the mirror in the free weights room, which does
not feature a slant like the locker room mirror). In the mirror
after the workout I noticed that I looked fresher than I have looked since
I started checking my looks when weightlifting. No dark color
under the eyes. This could be due to potassium or the herbs or the fact
that I had been awake for more hours prior to the
workout. |
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Started and finished machines section of
lower body workout, attempting to set new personal records for Number of
reps. Total 100 minutes. Before practice
consumed the usual mix of juices oils and pills;
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast,Bolthouse C-boost
juice, Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, 2 fried eggs, coffee before
workout.
A zero cg day again no cgs in previous 24 hours. Zero cgs since December 1, '07 continued with 9 potassium pills,
dates to get potassium level up
Third day of exercise after
starting to consume MAO-inhibiting
herbs daily |
Today
I started and finished the machines section of the lower body
workout. As usual, on each exercise I was
trying to set a new personal record for number of reps at the given weight
lifted.
I entered the machines room at 600 PM
and finished the workout at 740 PM. Total 100 minutes.
Results Today:
Machine leg exercises last done Jan
28:
No more than 1 sec rest between reps. Today the Y staff guy in the
room was Jonathan, he did not complain about noise created as the stack of
weights lifted hit the other weights on each rep, this may have effected
quantity of reps done. Jan 28 the Y staff guy complained about this (which
gets me to thinking, a weight room is not a hush-hush public library).
Also today the order of the exercises was slightly different perhaps more
conducive to higher performance.
Nautilus Nitro Plus Sitting Leg Extension, size L,
seat=3: 130 lbs, 67% max, March 2-15 reps, Jan 28-12 reps,
previous max reps at this weight Jan 11 was 10 reps, up 25% over 34
days
Nautilus Nitro Plus Sitting Leg/hip Adduction, from
leg at approx 33 degree angle, backseat=2, angle-set=5: 150 lbs, 67%
estimated max, March 2-15 reps. Jan 28-13 reps, previous max reps at
this weight Jan 11 was 11 reps, up 15% over 34 days.
Nautilus Nitro Plus Prone Leg Flexion (curl), size
L: 90 lbs, 67% max, March 2-18 reps, Jan 28-15 reps, previous
max reps at this weight Jan 11 was 12 reps, up 20% over 34 days.
Note: unlike others I brink my heels all the way up to my buttocks on this
exercise.
Nautilus Nitro Plus Sitting
Leg/hip Abduction, backseat=2, leg to approx 33 degree
angle: 175 lbs, 67% estimated max, March 2-24 reps, Jan 28-14
reps, previous max reps at this weight Jan 11 was 11 reps, up 71%
over 34 days. Nautilus Nitro Plus Sitting Leg Extension,
size L: 65 lbs, 33% max, March 2-45 reps, Jan 11-33 reps,
previous max reps at this weight Jan 11 was 30 reps, up 36%
over 34 days.
Nautilus Nitro Plus Sitting Leg Adduction,
from leg at approx 33 degree angle: 75 lbs, 33% estimated
max, March 1-70 reps, Jan 28-45 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 11 was 42 reps, up 56% over 34
days. Nautilus Nitro Plus Prone Leg Flexion (curl), size
L: 45 lbs, 33% max, March 2-56 reps, Jan 28-45 reps, previous
max reps at this weight Jan 11 was 45 reps, up 24% over 34
days.
Nautilus Nitro Plus Sitting
Leg/hip Abduction, from leg at approx 33 degree angle: 90 lbs, 33%
max, March 2-96 reps, Jan 28-43 reps, previous max reps at this
weight Jan 11 was 43 reps, up 123% over 34
days.
Thus on average today there was on the
machine lower body exercises, a 46% improvement over 34
days, this involving exercises that have not been done in 34
days, exercises that are being done at the rate of once every 34 days,
with just two sets done on an exercise on the day it is done.
46% improvement over 34 days (from the
compound-interest-type viewpoint) is a rate of growth that if
continued would make me 8 times stronger than I am now in 6 months.
Looking at it from a point of view simpler and more pessimistic
than the compound interest way: you could assume that 34 days from
now I will be 46% stronger than I am today, 68 days from now I will
(adding 46) be 92% stronger than I am today, 102 days from now I will
(adding 46 again) be 138% stronger than I am today, etc. etc.
Looking at things from this simpler more pessimistic point of
view, in 6 months or 180 days at this rate, I will be 248% (46X5.3)
stronger than I am now, approx 2.5 times stronger.
Averaging the 2.5 times better from
the simpler more pessimistic viewpoint and the 8 times better from
the more complex compound-interest-type viewpoint, I will at the rate
of progress evinced today, be 5 times stronger than I am
now, in 6 months.
The math shows that despite the fact that after the workout I felt
like I was progressing at a snail's pace, felt disappointed, the math
shows that the "disappointing" rate of progress will result in me being
five times stronger than I am now in six months. 5X in six months would be a very significant improvement
especially given the minimal time investment of two sets per exercise per
month. So after doing the math I feel encouraged. Thus the
importance of math.
Comparing the rate of improvement from Jan 11 to Jan 28,
to the rate of improvement from Jan 28 to today March 2, the rate of
improvement was greater in the second time period, marked by consumption
of the MAO-inhibitor herbs daily for 3 days prior to the workout
today.
Today 8 exercises were done in 100 minutes, 12.5 minutes
per exercise. Slow rate of work was due to the other people using
the machines, combined with me habitually deferring to them re machine
use.
Faces in the Crowd: This tall bespectacled white
lady with short straight black hair was using the machines at the same
time I was. She eagerly helped me to spray down a machine after I
used it and wipe the machine off with paper towels, she handed me the
paper towels; but, I noticed, she never sprayed/wiped the machines herself
after using them. After a while what seemed to be her husband
showed up. He was bespectacled also, he looked sort of like Donald
Rumsfeld on steroids; he was very intelligent/competent looking. The
lady told him that I was well behaved this seemed to be of importance to
them, as if I was some kind of problematic nephew, even though I have
never best I can recall, met them. He looked at me as I stood there
wearing a tight sleeveless T-shirt and smiled and said, "you're a
movie actor!" (admirable absence of envy). Which reminds me, that what
Black Buddha said to me when he saw me nude in the locker room (I
mentioned this previously without telling what he said because his volume
of talking was too low) was, "you're Absalom". Absalom in the Bible
was a son of David known for being the best looking man in the entire
kingdom.
Notes: After dinner
today, and then during the night (I wrote this entry the day after the
workout), I felt happier, more normal, better physically/mentally than I
have felt in a long time. This could be due to the MAOI
herbs or the change in Circadian schedule, or a combination of the
two.
So there you have it--in other people's
words (note mine) I am a 'Schwarzenegger', a 'Pele', an 'Absalom', and a
'movie actor'; yet I experience such difficulties trying to get a decent
job. Problem is typicalism I guess, amongst other problems. I got sick of working on stuff at the local cable access TV
station WCAC, because they shot some video of me (using a cheap camera and
unflattering lighting/camera-work) that uglified me and then claimed
that the video they shot looked just like me.
Weight/Appearance: 192 lbs unclothed prior to the
workout, 2 lb more than yesterday. This 2 lb gain in weight seems miraculously yogic. In
the 24 hours prior to the workout, all I had to eat was: approx 12
peanuts, 1 candy bar, 3 cups coffee with creamer and cane sugar, 1 cup tea
with creamer and cane sugar, 2 pieces of toasted and buttered Borowsky
brand multigrain bread, 2 fried eggs, 10 oz juices, 3 tspns herbs, 3
tblspns healthy oils, and mineral/vitamin pills.
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Tuesday March 4 '08
805-940 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 85
minutes
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast,Bolthouse C-boost
juice, Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 slices bread, 2 fried eggs, coffee before
workout.
A zero cg day again 1 cg i23 hours prior to practice; 1 cg total since December 1, '07; no melatonin or alcohol previous 24 hours; a 1 c day. continued with 9 potassium pills, dates to
get potassium level up
Fourth day of exercise after
starting to consume MAO-inhibiting
herbs daily |
LHKH
Soccer Air-Dribble runs for the first time in 2
weeks. Today I was back to running the air-dribble
pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum,
starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) after
flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K), then heading it
again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me
running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 805
ended at 940, taking into account a ten minute break watching Mike do
a great job shooting baskets and talking to him--total 85 minutes
running the LHKH pattern. Produced 42 runs that succeeded in adhering
to the LHKH pattern. At 805 in the 1st minute, the first run of
the day adhered to the LHKH pattern. The first high quality adherence to
the LHKH pattern was success #3 at 809 PM; the first perfect run was
success #24 at 833 PM (there was no warm-up prior to 805 PM the
start). As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way
across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball
under tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the
whole time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever
you want to call it.
Prior to the workout I felt as if I
was too tired to do the workout, but as it turned out (despite 12 hours
between the time I arose and the time I practiced) the feeling was
misleading. I remember weeks ago there would be days where I felt
even more tired than I did today but the workout still turned out OK.
Due to the (gasp) two week layoff there was
of course a drop-off in the skill level but this was not as bad as I had
expected. The skill level was superior to the days before I started using
the LHKH pattern. During the practice I felt that my ability to
run a fast sprint time after time throughout the practice had definitely
improved (improved endurance of a type). This could be
due to Potassium, herbs, rest, weightlifting or some other factor. I felt
as if today aside from endurance, I was faster on the sprint than I
ever have been.
Today continued the trend wherein the
deviations from the LHKH/LHKHK patterns, were nevertheless high quality
runs with with the ball kept under tight control at a high speed,
with the ball almost always never bouncing between touches.
On the negative side the number of perfect
classic textbook runs was relatively low today.
About half way through the practice I started
talking to Mike for ten minutes; after talking to Mike, seems my
concentration was impaired, the result being lots of high quality fast
tightly controlled runs that however deviated from LHKH pattern and so
were not counted as successes. For example, LHKK was the most common
deviation the ball being kicked twice in a row with it never touching the
ground, as opposed to being headed on the fourth touch (LHKK does not
count as a successful adherence to the LHKH pattern).
Seems I have gotten to the point (and
this is becoming more so with each passing practice day) where
the majority of the runs that cannot be classified as LHKH adherence are
nevertheless fast tightly controlled with the ball kept off the ground and
air-dribbled a long distance. Examples of such are: LHK bounce K;
LHK followed by ball kicked at same time it hits ground; LHKKK; LHKKH.
LHKHH (there were about a couple of these today) is counted as
an LHKH pattern adherence success because it starts with LHKH however, it
is a deviation from LHKHK which is the ideal I aim for.
Today was my first day of air dribbling after
switching to the new schedule of waking up at the normal time. Given this
was the case combined with the two week layoff performance was very good.
Before the practice I felt nervous, lacking confidence, but things still
turned out well. Previously typically I was starting practice five
hours after waking up, today it was twelve hours after waking up but I
still felt maybe peppier than I ever have.
Again after the game I noted a complete
absence of the soreness stiffness and pain I am used to feeling in the
lower parts of my body after practice.
Faces in the
Crowd
During the practice I saw this white guy with
long wavy black hair and a short beard and a mustache shooting baskets. I
was very impressed time after time he made six or seven in a row shooting
from the corners of the free throw line. I queried him re his technique,
he said that when he is shooting long he aims by eyeing the front of the
rim, and when he is shooting short he eyes the back of the rim. As good a
shooter as he was from 16 feet or nearer, his dribbling was not so elegant
and he was not so good at 3- pointers. He said the guy he was with Matt,
was the 3-point shooter. He told me he was in a band called 'Teen Plant';
he hesitated but then he gave me his email address so I could question him
re basketball shooting techniques (lest I lose it or forget, it is teenplant@gmail.com).
Matt who was with Mike was almost as
good a shooter as Mike (Mike wanted me to note in my notebook that Matt is
the good 3 point shooter). Mike was wearing a knit woolen winter hat--made
out of the same material as sweaters-indoors in the hot gym, while yet
again I marveled at how YMCA gyms are hot even in the winter and in the
cool fall or spring months. To me Mike, what with his hat, looked like
what the proverbial 'Central Casting' would send you if you wanted an
extra to portray a Jew in a movie about Israel during the time of Christ.
He looked similar to those Jews in the ancient Dura-Europos paintings what
with is hat and all; but he had more lines (of worry?) in his face than
the Dura-Europos Jews and his skin was whiter. He said to me, "very nice
meeting you" and seemed like he meant it. I told him (he is a guitarist)
that once I heard my voice on my dad's answering machine, and it sounded
angelic.
As we were talking, Californian Mike in
between the lines pointed at me with a finger and
(ventriloquist/off-subject in-between-the-lines style like a Massachusetts
person) almost inaudibly said, "you're a Pele". I was thinking to myself
that when I told him what a good shooter he was this could be very clearly
heard; but when he told me I was a 'Pele', it was almost inaudible,
off-topic, ventriloquist-like. Seems from what Matt was muttering as he
left the gym he noticed this difference also.
During the practice I was thinking to myself
(nothing to do with Mike or Matt), that those who are envious at heart who
would commit an envious sin if given the opportunity, are as bad as those
who have actually committed envious sins...it has been seeming to me that
there are lots of envious hearts around.
Weight/Appearance:
Before the workout at
about 755 PM I was 191 lbs unclothed, 1 lb less than two
days ago. This surprised me I thought I would be heavier. Day before
yesterday I had delicious tasty baby back ribs (half slab) from Bison
County; yesterday I had a delicious tasty regular size (not the smaller
individual) deep dish Pizzeria Uno Chicago style pizza all to myself
(which I wolfed down very quickly feeling hungry from the
weightlifting) so I thought I would be heavier. Last two days I did
not have the fried eggs and multigrain toast; yesterday I did not have the
juices oils pills cocktail. I suspect that I overestimate the
value of big tasty restaurant meals and underestimate the value of the
toast eggs juices oils pills when it comes to gaining weight--the
effect of advertising I guess. |
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Wednesday March 5 '08
815-940 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 85
minutes
Zero cg day in 24 hours prior to
practice; 1 cg total since December 1, '07; no melatonin, 48 oz beer
in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 geodon pill taken before going to
sleep in night prior to practice.
5th day of exercise after starting
to consume MAO-inhibiting
herbs daily |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs.
Today like yesterday, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 815
ended at 940--total 85 minutes running the LHKH pattern.
Produced 42 runs that succeeded in adhering to the LHKH
pattern. At 806 in the 2nd minute, the 2nd run of the day ws the
first that adhered to the LHKH pattern. The first high quality adherence
to the LHKH pattern was success #4 at 825 PM; the first perfect run was
success #15 at 826 PM (there was no warm-up prior to 805 PM the
start). As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way
across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball
under tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the
whole time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever
you want to call it.
Today I had a Mexican dinner just an hour
before practice. The spiciness (hot peppers in the salsas) seemed
to produce a lack of endurance, fatigue; the feeling in the
stomach was similar to what you feel when you try to play a tough sport
when you have been smoking cigarettes alot. But it was very tasty and
enjoyable.
Today the pre-nutrients cocktail was
skipped; and before going to sleep the previous night, I
had one 'Geodon' pill. I felt that today I was relatively clumsy, and also
not nearly as peppy as yesterday. Hard to say if this was due to
the Mexican dinner right before the workout, or the Geodon, or the
skipping the usual juices/oils/pills cocktail. But despite the
fatigue and the clumsiness I was better than I ever was say six months
ago. Again there were several LHKK deviations (LHKH is proper) that
nevertheless were fast tightly controlled long distance air dribble runs.
After the practice I felt much more of the
stiffness soreness etc that have been gone for a few days; thus I could
now estimate that the stiffness/soreness is a result of a potassium
deficiency (when I was taking the juices oils pills cocktail without the
potassium I used to feel very stiff/sore after practice). As I recall, I
earlier estimated that the Potassium or the weightlifting or a combination
of the two had cured the stiffness/soreness problem.
Today I woke up late as the Geodon pill made
me feel very sleepy and tired, I was not out of bed until 100 PM.
And today, I just do not feel mentally
energetic enough to write much in today's log entry.
Faces in the
Crowd
As usual the gym had a bunch of kids in it
who carried on as if I was not there. The 'Mass Wildcats' grade school
girls basketball team was practicing and their highnesses stayed beyond
the alotted time of until 800 PM that had been allocated to them. They
were a surprisingly attractive bunch but all the males, the boys and
men, hid their frustration over the fact the royal princesses
overstayed their scheduled gym time by 15 minutes--apparently the various
feudal dignitaries in the area consider it a breach of etiquette to fail
to overstay the gym time allotted to them in the gym schedule. Heck
lethargic as I feel, simply knowing that important people read this log,
energizes me to a little hip humorousness such as this.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout at
about 800 PM I was 194 lbs unclothed, 3 lbs more than
yesterday, a personal record for me. Five
more lbs 199 lbs at my 5' 10" height will be proportionately the same as
235 lbs at 6 feet 2.5 inches which was the weight and height of
Schwarzenegger for competitions. This gain of 3
lbs (visual inspection did not show any visible fat on the
body) surprised me. All I had to eat between the practice
yesterday and evening and the practice this evening, was: 48 oz "Sagres"
beer; 3 cups coffee with creamer and cane sugar; 1 oz potato chips; 12 oz
'Odwalla' brand 'Super Protein Vanilla Al'Mondo 'Soymilk Drink' (consumed
when waking up during the night and feeling thirsty). My guess as
of now, is that drinking the Odwalla soymilk protein drink
when waking during the night and feeling thirsty, or immediately before
sleeping, is a good way to gain weight. These Odwalla types (also
Bolthouse and Noble brands amongst others) have shown that they are
capable of doing an excellent job of supplying vitamins in a natural form
(juices) to the public. Thus it is reasonable to suspect that they can do
a very competent job of supplying assimilable proteins in drinks for the
public. I admit that heretofore, I have been perhaps unduly pessimistic re
these protein drinks due to all the foolish hype that has been associated
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Thursday March 6 '08
815-935 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 80
minutes
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast,Bolthouse C-boost
juice, Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
1 big cheeseburger 4 hours prior to start of
workout.
A zero cg day again 0 cgs in 24 hours prior
to practice; 1 cg total since December 1, '07; no melatonin, 48 oz
beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice; a 0.4 c (late c)
day.
continued with 9 potassium pills, dates to
get potassium level up
SKIPPED the MAO inhibiting herbs
today |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; today's practice the most enjoyable and relaxed in memory.
Today like yesterday, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 815
ended at 935--total 80 minutes running the LHKH pattern. The task I
had set for myself today was 42 LHKH pattern-adherence runs; I got the 42
done with 5 minutes time left, decided to give myself the last 5 minutes
off as a reward. At 816 in
the 2nd minute, the 2nd run of the day ws the first that adhered to
the LHKH pattern (same as yesterday); this run was also of high quality.
The first perfect run was success #4 at 824 PM in the ninth minute
(there was no warm-up prior to 815 PM the start).
As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way across
the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under
tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole
time.
“Neither snow, nor rain, nor heat, nor
gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their
appointed rounds”
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever
you want to call it.
I felt that today
I enjoyed the soccer air-dribbling practice more than I ever have. I felt
physically and mentally relaxed as if I was enjoying a sauna in some
upscale seaside resort. the performance was also
good, low level of error, lots ot tightly controlled fast LHKH
pattern-adherence and 'deviant' runs. Seemed that the endurance and
the speed might have been a little less than on Monday, but such judgement
is clouded by the phenomenon of constantly rising standards and
expectations. Perhaps I was not as energetic in the sense of the kind of
endurance that allows one to run a fast sprint time after time with little
rest in between; but I felt energetic in the sense of bouncy, muscular
strength which is a different thing. After the practice I could
tell, simply by feeling my legs with my hands and also from the way my
body and legs felt, that the latest bout of doing the leg exercises on the
Nautilus machines had had a significant positive impact.
For about the first half hour of the practice, I felt as if the new
scoring system of aiming for only 1 LHKH success every 2 minutes was
finally accomplishing what it is supposed to accomplish, which is a fun,
relaxing workout. I was enjoying myself on every run no matter what
happened (I fell such joy will if I can make a habit of experiencing it
improve my fitness and skill levels). Then after about the first
half hour the mental concern for keeping up to the one success every two
minutes pace began to sort of overwhelm or impair, to some
extent, the sense of joy and relaxation. I am reminded of
how Brazil's big forward Ronaldo, said that every time he touches the
soccer ball he feels 'pure joy'.
During one dribble this boy who wears a
Celtics Jersey with the name 'Pierce'emblazoned on it, a son of the lady
who works the front desk, ran in front of me as I was air-dribbling
forward at a fairly fast running pace, but I competently knocked the
ball right over him, ran around him, and continued the air-dribble.
I have noticed as a result of people intersecting with my flight
path that I have this ability.
Immediately prior to practice in the
locker room I felt like I as having a panic attack; I felt as if
I was about to collapse or die. But strangely enough during the practice I
felt better than I ever have going back as far as I can remember.
In the hours before the practice
before I got to the Y, I was feeling fatigued and stressed; I
felt like I needed to take deep breaths; but deep breathing did not help
the situation much.
So the key question today becomes,
why was the workout more enjoyable and relaxed than it ever has been
before? There are various suspect factors and combinations of
factors that could be held responsible for this:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed 630 AM-100 PM about 6.5 hours; asleep for
about 4.5 hours of this time. I have noticed that when I am
physically healthy enough, reduced time in bed and/or asleep can uplift my
mood and energize me. It is good to know that my health/conditioning is
getting back to the might where I can be happy and relaxed after a reduced
amount of sleep.
2 Number of hours in between rising
and practice: this was 7.25 hours today.
3 time of pre-game meal:
this was about 415 PM 4 hours before practice, it was exactly what I felt
like eating, which was a gas-grilled cheeseburger from Bison
County.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed: this
was at about 630 PM, 1.75 hours before practice started. In the past I
have consumed this cocktail about 0.75 hours before starting practice.
5 The MAO inhibiting herbs, after
being consumed for a few days, were not consumed today. This does
not necessarily mean that the herbs have been a negative. I have read
reports re how those who consume Ginseng in the areas where it has been
most extensively consumed for the longest amount of years in history,
those who consume Ginseng use tricks such as consuming Ginseng for a few
weeks and then for a few weeks not consuming Ginseng or replacing Ginseng
with Fo-ti. I doubt that the MAO-inhibiting herbs along with their effects
had been flushed from my body at practice time, given that about a third
of a teaspoon of each herb had been consumed 30 hours prior to
practice.
6 From about 200 PM to about 330 PM I
attended a meeting attended by the landlord, his staff and the
tenants: It was relaxing for me to meet these people in a
friendly type of way. In the past it has been stressful for me because all
my encounters with them have been in stressful situations having to do
with me allegedly having been a bad boy so to speak in some way. I am
reminded of recent research showing that the human brain is wired to
benefit from seeing human faces in the morning.
7 Time at which the mystery substance
'C' was consumed. Today C was not consumed until I had been out
of bed and awake for 5.5 hours. In the past C has been consumed within an
hour of waking up. This despite the fact that I have know for a long time
that C should not be consumed until one has been awake for a few hours.
Foolishly I, who had always been opposed to consumption of C in the
morning, allowed myself to be influenced by this Cambridge youth who I met
in Harvard Square who enthused to me about how great it is to consume C in
the morning; foolishly I forgot and ignored a piece of wisdom that I have
been aware of for a long time, which is that C is not to be consumed right
after waking up. I amaze myself how in various ways I forget and fail to
put into practice little lessons of life that I have been aware of for a
long time. Such little pieces of wisdom IMHO are what Christ was
talking about when he said, 'the children of this world, are wiser than
the children of light'.
'the children of this world are in their generation wiser than
the children of light.' -- http://bible.cc/luke/16-8.htm 8 Number of hours exposed to daylight
prior to practice: I was exposed to daylight for about 6.5 hours
prior to practice today.
Faces in the
Crowd
Matt and Mike were playing basketball, this
time it was two on two featuring Matt and Mike split up or on the same
team. Despite their awesome ability to shoot from 16 feet when unguarded,
they were given a very hard time by guys who cannot shoot from 16 feet as
well as them. The 2 on 2 basketball games to me were evidence of how
people who are great at shooting from 16 feet when unguarded can be
equalled by those who make up for lack of such shooting ability by:
defense, hustle, dribbling, in close shooting, long distance shooting,
ability to shoot when guarded.
There was a very cute lovable little girl
with brown hair in a pony tail and almost invisible brown eyebrows running
around jumping rope and being sort of sociable and sociably
faux-aggressive with her brother and others. Her mother holds a humble
position in life working the front desk at the Y but I was impressed by
this daughter of hers who seemed to me to ably represent the spirit of the
Irish Celts or something like that. Of course upon inspection of the facts
it might well turn out that the girl is actually Polish or something.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout at about 800
PM I was 193 lbs unclothed, 1 lb less than
yesterday. This surprised me, because I felt I had pulled all
the levers that would produce weight gain--in the 24 hours prior
to practice I consumed: 48 oz beer, 3 cups coffee with cream and sugar; a
big cheeseburger, peanuts, the juices/oils/pills cocktail, and 16 oz of
the Bolthouse Farms Soymilk protein drink (drunk when waking up at night).
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Monday March 10 '08
450-620 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 90
minutes
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast,tangerine juice,
Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
Zero solid food before workout
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total since December 1, '07; no melatonin or alcohol consumed in 24
hours prior to practice; a 1 c day.
continued with 9 potassium pills with pre
workout juices/oils to get potassium level up
SKIPPED the MAO inhibiting herbs
today
Today was the first day that I consumed the
"Cacao Power" Raw Chocolate Powder, 'certified organic', made by Navitas
Naturals prior to the practice.
Today I felt sort of as if I was half-way to
coming down with a cold |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; lots of very
fast runs. Today I was
back to running the air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH
pattern features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with
the left foot (L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then
kicking it (K), then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces
between touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 450
PM ended at 620 PM--total 90 minutes running the LHKH pattern.
The task I had set for myself today was 50 LHKH pattern-adherence
runs at one pattern-adherence success every two minutes; I got the 50
done 10 minutes prior to the 100 minute mark, decided to give myself the
last 10 minutes off as a reward. At 451 PM in the 1st minute, the 2nd
attempt of the day was the first that adhered to the LHKH pattern; this
run was of high quality and 'perfect' (lots of runs are better
than perfect though). As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever
you want to call it.
Today was not like Thursday March 6, 4
days ago the last time I exercised--Thursday I felt more happy and
relaxed than I ever have felt (in memory); but today I just felt 'wired',
hyped up. Aside from my emotions, today was perhaps the best day
ever from the number of fast runs and speed of fast runs point of view.
Today was good in terms of handling difficult balls; at the same time
today there were a relatively high number of miskicks on the third touch
with the foot.
Why was the workout emotionally speaking
'wired' and not paradisical as it was on March 6?
There are various suspect factors and
combinations of factors that could be held responsible for
this:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed approx 330 AM-100 PM about 9.5 hours;
asleep for about 7 hours of this time.
2 Number of hours in
between waking and practice: this was 5.8 hours
today.
3 pre-game meal: no pregame
meal
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed: this
was at about 235 PM, 2.25 hours before practice started. In the past
I have usually consumed this cocktail about 0.75 hours before starting
practice.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: the Mao inhibiting herbs were
not consumed today, but the Navitas Cacao Powder was taken to the tune of
3 tblspns, in a cup of coffee consumed from about 300 to 400
PM.
6 Time at which the mystery
substance 'C' was consumed. Today C was not consumed until I had
been awake for 3.75 hours; the figure for this interval March 6 the
paradisical day was 5.5 hours...a possibility is that 1.75 hours on this
stat is very significant.
8 Number of hours exposed to
daylight prior to practice: I was exposed to daylight for
about 3.75 hours prior to practice today.
9 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today I felt half way to the point of having a cold.
Maybe there is some genius out there who can
input the March 6 and the today March 10 data into some brilliant software
and spit out the secret to human happiness. As for me (I am merely a
sub-genius in certain ways) as of now I estimate that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing
some things that are unnecesary). Fundamentally this would involve putting 7.5 hours in
between time out of bed and practice; getting out of bed at same time that
I awake (I've heard such is a common healthy trait); going to bed 6.5
hours before rising time; being satifisied with approx 4.5 hours only of
sleep. By way of contrast, Points 1 to 9 above show that I
deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional state today.
I have this cough and fatigue which I believe
are a result of visiting this guy in his apartment--he smokes and does not
bentilate his apartment. In the past I have succesfully dealt with such
cold type stuff by consuming Agave-based Tequila. This time I am trying a
fruit juice drink containing Agave: 'Bossa Nova' brand mango acai juice
with agave. Today was an admirably energetic workout given that I
have had a cough, and fatigue for a few days.
Faces in the
Crowd The people in the gym were almost all either
grade school age or adults and either black or white; they all basically
acted as if I was not there. Except for Chris Kennedy the veterinarian
from Cornell U. I've had some trouble getting in touch with him via email;
lest I forget or lose the adsress, his email address according to what he
wrote in my notebook is: cak1111@cornell.edu. Chris was
trying very hard not get in my way. I told him he was the only one who
gave a hoot about geting in my way. He said that the with the Y staff the
kids (who get in the way) always come first but he did not think such
was correct. I told him that I always defer to the kids who
get in the way. He suggested that I do the air dribble sprint the
length of the gym instead of the width of the gym to avoid the kids. He
said that since I was always trying to avoid the kids running around, I
was getting less attempts in per hour--which come to think of it as I
write, shows thoughtfulness and observation on his part (I had not noticed
him watching me maybe he watches without me seeing him from a doorway or a
corner).
Chris agreed with me that it is improper the
way the kids run out and get in my way when I was there first and had
established myself in the runway-like strip of space about 6 yds wide
and 17 yds long I use for the drill. He also agreed that the wise thing
was to defer to the presence of the kids and humbly avoid them without
complaining because the Y staff attitudes are what they are.
Weight/Appearance:
Before the workout at about 435 PM I was 191 lbs
unclothed, 2 lbs less than yesterday. Seems there
is this prattern of me losing weight when I don't exercise, which implies
that I am gaining muscle as opposed to fat. Low protein foods
such as beer (scorned by some as 'empty' calories) can help one gain
muscle, by freeing-up the proteins which might otherwise be used simply as
fuel for activities, to build muscles instead. During the 4 days in which
I lost 2 lbs I skipped the juices oils pills and the MAO inhibiting herbs;
not sure exactly what I ate, but I ate alot of tasty steaks and ribs in
the past four days. Again goes to show that tasty ribs and steaks
might be over-rated as nutritiional tools for building muscle.
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Tuesday March 11 '08
800-920 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 80
minutes
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice,
Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
12 bean salad before workoout
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total since December 1, '07; no melatonin or alcohol consumed in 24
hours prior to practice; a 0.3 c day.
continued with 9 potassium pills with pre
workout juices/oils to get potassium level up
Today was the 2nd day that I consumed
the "Cacao Power" Raw Chocolate Powder, 'certified organic', made by
Navitas Naturals prior to the practice.
Today again I felt sort of as if I was
half-way to coming down with a cold; the cough, featuring sputum coughed
up, continued. |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; performance
worse than March 4 and all the Days Since March 4 Due (?) to Only 2.5
hours sleep. Today again,
I was back to running the air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The
LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball
with the left foot (L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H),
then kicking it (K), then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4
paces between touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 800
PM ended at 920 PM--total 80 minutes running the LHKH pattern.
The task I had set for myself today was 45 LHKH pattern-adherence
runs at one pattern-adherence success every two minutes; I got the 45
done 10 minutes prior to the 90 minute mark, decided to give myself
the last 10 minutes off as a reward. At 801 PM in the 1st minute, in a
repeat of yesterday, the 2nd attempt of the day was the first that
adhered to the LHKH patternm and again this run was of high quality
and 'perfect' (lots of runs are better than perfect).
As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way across
the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under
tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole
time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour so as to avoid burnout/jet-lag whatever
you want to call it.
The
performance today was definitely impaired. There were large numbers of 3rd
touch kicks which sent the ball so far ahead of me that I would not be
able to reach the ball even on a bounce. By way of contrast on
previous days I have taken pride in the fact that even when the ball is
kicked imperfectly on the third touch of the ball during the run, I have
still been able to maintain tight control over the ball at high speed.
However today I had plenty of
physical endurance taking into account that I only got 2.5 hours sleep the
previous night and did not start practice until I had been awake for
approx 8.5 hours.
Again as yesterday, today was not like
Thursday March 6--Thursday I felt more happy and relaxed than I ever have
felt (in memory); but today I felt emotionally humdrum.
Why was the workout emotionally speaking
humdrum and performance-wise impaired?
There are various suspect factors and
combinations of factors that could be held responsible for
this:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed approx 530 AM-100 PM about 7.5 hours;
asleep for only approx 2.5 hours of this
time.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice was approx 7
hours after rising and 8 hours after waking today.
3 pre-game meal: Just a bean
salad
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed: this
was at about 600 PM, 2.0 hours before practice started. In the past I
have usually consumed this cocktail about 0.75 hours before starting
practice.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: the Mao inhibiting
herbs were not consumed today, but the Navitas Cacao Powder was taken to
the tune of 3 tblspns, in a cup of coffee consumed slowly from about 200
to 500 PM.
6 Time at which the mystery
substance 'C' was consumed. Today 0.1 units C was
consumed after I had been awake for approx 1.5 hours.
Then 0.3 units C was consumed 0.75 hours prior to
practice.On March 6 the paradisical day C was not consumed till I had been
awake for 5.5 hours...a possibility is that the C even at 0.1 units
consumed immediately upon waking caused a problem emotionally later in the
day.
8 Number of hours exposed to
daylight prior to practice: I was exposed to low indoors level of
daylight for about 7 hours prior to practice today.
9 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today again I felt half way to the point of having a cold and had a cough.
As of now I estimate that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing
some things that are unnecesary). Fundamentally this would involve putting 7.5 hours in
between time out of bed and practice; getting out of bed at same time that
I awake (I've heard such is a common healthy trait); going to bed 6.5
hours before rising time; being satifisied with approx 4.5 hours only of
sleep; no C consumed until awake for 5.5
hours. NOTE: On March 6 I
awoke and got out of bed at the same time.
By way of contrast, Points 1 to 9 above show
that I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional state
today in certain ways: the time asleep was only about 2.5 hours;
the 0.1 units C was consumed only 2.0 hours after waking; time was spent
in bed after waking; mono-amine precursor Cacao was consumed instead of
Monoamine-Oxidase-Inhibitor herbs.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry Into Paradise Formula, was the 7.5 hours in
between getting out of bed and starting practice; but this in and
of itself does not seem to be enough to produce an emotionally paradisical
day.
Again today I had the fruit juice drink
containing Agave: 'Bossa Nova' brand acai juice with agave; I
still have not licked the cough. Nevertheless seems that
given the facts that: I only got 2.5 hours sleep the night before the
practice; there was a long gap of approx 8.5 hours between when I got out
of bed and started practice; and I felt under
the weather--given these facts, today was an energetic
practice. In past time I can see myself not even bothering with
practice under such circumstances. Weight/Appearance:
Before the workout I was 191 lbs unclothed, same as
yesterday. Between yesterday's practice and today's I ate: 2
mcD's hamburgers and small fries; small bowl bean salad; 1 big cup coffee
w cane sugar creamer and Cacao powder; oils juices pills cocktail; 12 oz
acai juice w Agave; and some insignificant forgotten stuff also probably.
Surprisingly this small amount of food is for me enough to avoid
weight loss, even when doing a tough 90 minutes of soccer daily.
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Wednesday March 12 '08
810-935 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 85
minutes
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine juice,
Bolthouse carrot/passion/apple juice.
2 fish fillet and 1 hamburger from McDonalds
2.5 hours before workout
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total since December 1, '07; no melatonin or alcohol consumed in 24
hours prior to practice; a 0.3 c day.
continued with 9 potassium pills with pre
workout juices/oils to get potassium level up
Today was the 3rd day that I consumed
the "Cacao Power" Raw Chocolate Powder, 'certified organic', made by
Navitas Naturals prior to the practice. But only about 3 tspns today not 3
tablespoons which is the recommended dose that I've been
using.
Today I still had a a cough/fatigue though
this was improved. |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; performance and
emotional state were mediocre (except for poetry in
motion using the left foot alone). Today again, I was back to running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
When I say mediocre performance, this is in
the context of what have become very high standards. Performance was
better than yesterday; but again today I did not feel energetic. The cough
(and attendant fatigue) is better but has not gone away yet. Come to
think of it, a cough is a physically energetic activity that probably
takes alot of energy out of the body. When there is a lack of energy, then
the slight extra investments of energy that are required to produce
stellar performance are neglected. There are also probably emotional
effects having to do with the attainment of high standards being impaired
by the cough. I suppose if I were wiser I would be able to
common-sensically block physical cough/fatigue from impairing my emotional
state by sort of talking myself out of letting the problem effect me
emotionally.
On the positive side today as usual
there were deviations from the LHKH pattern that were impressive;
today for the first time I began to feel sort
of like I had complete mastery of the ball when air-dribbling at a high
speed using my left foot alone; this can
be easier and more natural on certain runs than: alternating between
kicking the ball and heading it as called for by the LHKH pattern; or
using the right foot (I am left footed). Today certain of the
deviant runs developed into the use of the left foot alone but the ball
was still kept off the ground and under tight control at high speed--and I
felt like a skater in ice-hockey controlling the puck
with his stick while sailing along on the ice; I felt as
comfortable as a typical soccer ground dribbler does dribbling the ball on
the ground. Again it was evident that the discipline enforced by
adherence to the LHKH pattern has produced big improvements in me on
'deviant' patterns such as LHKKK in which the ball is kicked
three times in a row instead of being headed on every other touch as
required by the LHKHK pattern.
I noted that today as
yesterday, I drank alot more water than I usually do, about
24 oz; this is probably due to the body struggling with the cough/fatigue.
I have the feeling that all that water in the body can throw off something
as precise as the air-dribble; maybe that is why when perfectly healthy I
drink little water.
Today I started the practice at 810
PM ended at 935 PM--total 85 minutes running the LHKH pattern.
The task I had set for myself today was 45 LHKH pattern-adherence
runs at a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes; I
got the 45 done 5 minutes prior to the 90 minute mark,
decided to give myself the last 5 minutes off as a
reward. At 801 PM in
the 1st minute, the first attempt of the day was an LHKH success; I
forgot to note when the first good and the first perfect runs occurred
(there are runs that are better than perfect).
As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way across
the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under
tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole
time.
Again today I was deliberately slowing things
down in terms of attempts per hour.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a mediocre level I think this has something to
do with a tough workout being done in a fatigued state due to a lack of
rest (3rd day in a row of the 90 minutes running the LHKH) and a cough.
Also in the past week or so I
have been exposed to stresses such as: not being able to spend my
own money due to bureaucratic/legal hassles; excess messages left on my
answering machine by a guy who I told not to call me more than 3 times per
week; having to associate with persons who produce a stressed reaction in
me; having to eat dinner in a smoke-filled room (second day this month I
was in a smoke-filled room).
There are various suspect factors and
combinations of factors that could be held responsible for the mediocre
emotional state today:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed approx 100 AM expecting to fall asleep
immediately due to lack of sleep previous night--but did not fall asleep
till 530 AM; slept till approx 1230 PM, out of bed 100 PM. Total
time asleep approx 7 hrs.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice was
approx 7 hours after rising and 8 hours after waking
today.
3 pre-game meal: Two
fish fillets from McD's and 1 hamburger, at approx 530 PM 2.5 hours before
start of practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed: this
was as yesterday at about 600 PM, 2.0 hours before practice
started. In the past I have usually consumed this cocktail about 0.75
hours before starting practice.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: A large cup of coffee
containing approx 3 tspns Cacao powder and the
Monoamine-oxidase-inhibiting herbs was consumed slowly from
200-430 PM.
6 Time at which the mystery
substance 'C' was consumed. Today zero C was consumed until 1 hour before practice when
0.3 units C were consumed.
8 Number of hours exposed to
daylight prior to practice: As yesterday, I was exposed to low
indoors level of daylight for about 7 hours prior to practice today;
got little exposure to outdoors daylight.
9 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today the cough/fatigue though better, was still there.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary). Fundamentally this would involve putting 7.5 hours
in between time out of bed and practice; getting out of bed at same time
that I awake (I've heard such is a common healthy trait); going to bed 6.5
hours before rising time; being satifisied with approx 4.5 hours only of
sleep; no C consumed until awake for 5.5 hours; MAO inhibiting herbs
consumed day before practice but not on day of practice; about 1 hour
exposure to outdoors daylight prior to practice; resting the day before
the practice. NOTE: On March 6 I awoke and got out of bed at the same
time.
By way of contrast, Points 1 to 9
above show that yet again I deviated from what seems to produce a
paradisical emotional state today in certain ways:
mono-amine precursor Cacao was consumed in combination with MAO-inhibiting
herbs the same day as the practice instead of
Monoamine-Oxidase-Inhibitor herbs alone the day before the practice; sleep
was about 7 hours instead of 4.5; exposure to outdoors daylight was
minimal.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the 7.5 hours in between
getting out of bed and starting practice; the no C consumed until awake
for 6.25 hours; but apparently such in and of itself does not seem to be
enough to produce an emotionally paradisical workout.
Weight/Appearance:
Before the workout I was 191 lbs unclothed, same as the
previous two days. Between yesterday's practice and today's I ate: 1
Burger King Whopper w/ Cheese; 1 large cup coffee w herbs cacao creamer
and cane sugar; 2 MCD's Fish Fillets and 1 McD's small hamburger,
juices/oils/pills cocktail, 15 oz Yogurt smoothie, (not necessarily
in order listed) + probably some insignificant forgotten stuff.
Yet again, surprisingly this small amount of food was
for me enough to avoid weight loss, even when doing a tough 90
minutes of soccer daily. |
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Thursday March 13 '08
820-925 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 65
minutes
The complete dose as of now:
A+D pill made from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill;
mineral pills, potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish
oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, tangerine
juice, tomato juice.
1.5 pieces Barowsky multigrain bread before
workout
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total since December 1, '07; no melatonin, 48 oz
beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice; a 0.5 c
day.
continued with 9 potassium pills with pre
workout juices/oils to get potassium level up
No Cacao Powder or MAO-inhibiting herbs
today
Today I still had a a cough/fatigue though
this was improved. |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; performance B-;
emotional state C-; Today again, I was back to
running the air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it
(K), then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 820
PM ended at 925 PM--total 65 minutes running the LHKH pattern.
The task I had set for myself today was 40 LHKH pattern-adherence
runs at a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two
minutes; I got the 40 done 15
minutes prior to the 90 minute mark, decided to give myself the
last 15 minutes off as a reward. At 823 PM in the 3rd minute,
the 4th attempt of the day was an LHKH success, it was a good run but
not perfect; I forgot to note when the first perfect run occurred (there
are runs that are better than perfect).
As always, many of the runs took the ball all the way across
the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball under
tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the whole
time. The typical run was--ball kept under control and off ground
over at least 11 yds at a speed at least 50% of max sprint speed.
When I say 'B-' performance,
this is in the context of what have become very high standards.
Performance was again better than the previous day; but the cough (and
attendant fatigue) though better has not gone away yet--again today I
did not feel energetic and I deliberately slowed down the speed of the
air-dribble runs across the floor somewhat. The runs today though
slower were very tightly controlled. Today for the first time, I
noticed an extreme rarity of touches with the right foot while doing the
LHKHK pattern runs. There have been days previously wherre the
runs were slower than today; but today due to the slowing down
and due to having reached a new high level of
skill, the heading and kicking was so accurate that for the
first time, I very rarely had to use my right foot which is
not as good as my left foot. Today the right foot came into play mostly on
the fifth, last touch of long fast runs. If things continue like this I
will have to devote certain segments of time to deliberately involving the
use of the right foot. Today the right foot touched the ball during LHKH
pattern adherence attempt runs, only about 10 times the entire
evening.
Today after sleeping around night-time
for only 2 hours, and then in the afternoon taking a 1.5 hour nap, while
feeling under the weather due to cough-fatigue, I nevertheless went to the
Y and did a tough 65 minute workout in the evening after a hard day of
running around. I cannot imagine myself accomplishing
this--sick/tired/sleep-deprived yet still working out--3 months ago. It
takes a certain level of fitness to do a tough workout when sleep deprived
and sick.
Note: I coughed only about once
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am not working out these
days.
During the practice I noticed something
about the ball arc or trajectory that I have not noticed before. In the
course of the LHKH air dribble run, the ball follows an arc in between
touches. This arc can follow a trajectory and timing that is
such that while running forward one has the option of heading the ball
before kicking it--so that, the air dribble run forward will continue
whether or not the ball is headed at the option point. This option point
can be used for feints.
I drank approx 14 oz water during the
workout today.
The emotions
during the workout today were at a 'C-' grade level I
think this (like yesterday) had something to do with a tough workout being
done in a fatigued state, a lack of rest (4th day in a row of the running
the LHKH) and a cough. Seems to me, that I still have not reached
that saintly level at which my emotions are unaffected by things like:
cough/attendant-fatigue; lack of rest day previous to practice; lack of
sleep.
Today I was exposed to the stress of
running around during the day getting these financial records copied and
sent to a lawyer in Chicago.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the 'C-' level emotional state today:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed approx 400 AM - 900 AM but slept only 2
hours during this time; 1.5 hour nap 3-430 PM ended 3.75 hours before
practice. Total time asleep approx 3.5
hrs.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice was
approx 11.5 hours after rising in the morning and 4 hours after
ending the afternoon nap.
3 pre-game meal:
Just 1.5 pieces multigrain bread.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed: this
was as yesterday at about 600 PM, 2.0 hours before practice
started. In the past I have usually consumed this cocktail about 0.75
hours before starting practice.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were skipped
today.
6 Time at which the mystery
substance 'C' was consumed. Today 0.2 units C was consumed 3 hours before practice, and
0.3 units ws consumed 1.25-1.0 hours before practice..
7 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to relatively
large amount of outdoors daylight prior to practice today, approx 3.5
hours of it.
8 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today the cough/fatigue though better, was
still there.
9 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 48 oz beer
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary). Fundamentally this would involve putting 7.5 hours
in between time out of bed and practice; getting out of bed at same time
that I awake (I've heard such is a common healthy trait); going to bed 6.5
hours before rising time; being satifisied with approx 4.5 hours only of
sleep; no C consumed until awake for 5.5 hours, approx 0.4 units C
consumed; MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice but not on day
of practice; about 1 hour exposure to outdoors daylight prior to practice;
resting the day before the practice; 48 oz beer in 24 hours prior to
practice; eat what I feel like eating 4 hours before practice. NOTE:
On March 6 I awoke and got out of bed at the same time. By way of contrast, Points 1 to 9
above show that yet again, today I deviated from what seems to
produce a paradisical emotional state today in certain ways:
sleep was about 2 hours plus 1.5 hours nap instead of 4.5
hours in one stretch; there was the cough/fatigue problem; there was no
rest the day before practice; I was exposed to stress of financial
problems during the day before practice; did not eat what I felt like 4
hours before practice.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: I was exposed to daylight
and walking around during the day as I was on March 6 the great day; but
today this exposure and activity was greater than it was on March 6. In
the previous 24 hours I had 48 oz beer same as for the 24 hrs prior
to the magical March 6 day, Apparently getting a good shot of
daylight during the day and consuming the right amount of beer the evening
before, in and of itself is not enough to produce the magic emotional
result during practice.
Faces in the
Crowd
This black guy with spectacles and a beard,
was walking around wearing this shirt that had the 'diabolical' number
'666' emblazoned in the chest area against a background of flames. I could
not help querying him re his shirt. He said it was a frat-prank type thing
and that he was an MIT Mass Inst Tech grad. When I learned he was an MIT
grad who has his own business my interest in his email address wa spurred.
He gave it to me, lest I forget, it is, tlperkins@gmail.com. When I
complained to TL that I suspected that I got a low grade in a scientific
course while in college because the course was labeled as
'introductory' even though it was actually more advanced than
'introductory', TL defended the course and those who gave it. TL said
something to the effect that 'introductory' is not the same thing as
'beginning' or something like that.
Weight/Appearance:
Before the workout I was 192 lbs unclothed, up 1 lb
from the previous day. Between yesterday's practice and today's I
ate/drank: 48 oz beer, a homemade hamburger, a Hannaford ham and
cheese sub, a piece of sausage, 1.5 pieces bread, the usual juices oils
pills pregame nutrients. I expected this to produce weight gain and it
did. |
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Saturday March 15 '08
815-925 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 70
minutes
The complete dose as of
now: B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill; mineral pills,
potassium pills; coral calcium pill, wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver
oil, hemp oil, brewer's yeast, vegetable juice; ran out of A+D from
Cod pill.
1.5 pieces Barowsky multigrain bread before
workout
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total since December 1, '07; no melatonin, 24 oz
beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice; a 0.3 c
day.
continued with 9 potassium pills with pre
workout juices/oils to get potassium level up
No Cacao Powder or MAO-inhibiting herbs
today
Today I still had a a cough/fatigue though
this was improved. |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; performance B+;
emotional state C; Today again, I was running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I started the practice at 615
PM ended at 725 PM--total 75 minutes running the LHKH pattern.
The task I had set for myself today was 42 LHKH pattern-adherence
runs at a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two
minutes; I got the 42 done 15
minutes prior to the 85 minute mark, decided to give myself the
last 15 minutes off as a reward. At 615 PM in the 1st minute,
the 2nd attempt of the day was LHKH success #1; success
#3 at 618 PM in the 3rd minute was the first good/perfect run; it followed
the LHKHKH pattern, ball kept tightly controlled at a good speed for a
long distance. As always, many of the runs took the
ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a speed at least 60%
of max sprint speed. When I say 'B+' performance, this is in
the context of what have become very high standard--after I give
myself a few A+ ratings in a row the standards will get even higher.
Performance was again better than the previous day; the cough (and
attendant fatigue) has not gone away yet--but today the speed of the
runs was approx what it is when I feel perfectly healthy which indicates I
am on the verge of beating this cough/fatigue thing.
Today was
perhaps the best day ever if the criteria are the number of long fast
tightly controlled runs, and how fast tightly controlled and long these
runs are; but there were too many runs in which on touches
one two or three, the ball was mis-kicked or mis-headed.
Emphasizing the stellar side of today's performance I would give myself a
B+; emphasizing the consistency I would give myself a B; I choose to give
myself a B.
Note: I coughed only
about twice during the entire workout so I do not think at this
point it is dangerously infectious. The regulations are that
a person with an infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I
have been doing is a solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising these days.
I drank approx 3 oz water only
during the workout today--another sign I am getting over the
cough/fatigue.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a C grade level; yet again I felt
emotionally impaired by the cough/fatigue.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the C level emotional state today:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: asleep taking nap approx 930 PM - 1100
PM friday evening (recovering from pigging out at all-you-can eat Old
Country Buffet); in bed 200 AM - 100 PM of which approx 7 hours was
sleep. Total time asleep approx 8.5 hours.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice was
approx 5.25 hours after rising and 6.25 hours after waking.
3 pre-game meal:
Just 2.0 pieces multigrain bread approx 2 hours before start
of practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed: this
was at about 600 PM, 2.25 hours before practice started.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were skipped
today.
6 Time at which the mystery
substance 'C' was consumed. Today 0.3 units C was consumed 4.75-1.0
hours before practice.
7 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to
outdoors daylight for only about 20 minutes prior to
practice.
9 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today the cough/fatigue though better, was still there.
10 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 24 oz beer
11 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, was a day of rest.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary). Fundamentally this would involve putting 7.5 hours
in between time out of bed and practice; getting out of bed at same time
that I awake (I've heard such is a common healthy trait); going to bed 6.5
hours before rising time; being satifisied with approx 4.5 hours only of
sleep; no C consumed until awake for 5.5 hours, approx 0.4 units C
consumed; MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice but not on day
of practice; about 1 hour exposure to outdoors daylight prior to practice;
resting the day before the practice; 48 oz beer in 24 hours prior to
practice; eat what I feel like eating 4 hours before practice. NOTE:
On March 6 I awoke and got out of bed at the same time. By way of contrast, Points 1 to 9
above show that yet again, today I deviated from what seems to
produce a paradisical emotional state today in certain ways:
sleep was approx 8.5 hours instead of 4.5 hours; there
was the cough/fatigue problem; there was a lack of exposure to daylight
prior to the practice; I did not eat exactly what I felt like eating 4
hours before practice; only 24 oz beer was consumed in the 24 hours prior
to practice; 0.1 units C was consumed within 1 hour of waking.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: there was a
day of rest the day before the practice; apparently such is not
enough in and of itself to produce the Paradisical type experience
while practicing.
The night before the practice I had a few
dreams which I quickly forgot but I remember one of them: I was a defender
for Iran's national Futsal (indoors soccer) team. I was
personally, playing a one-touch game, as soon as I got the ball I would
pass it high in the air to a team-mate or shoot off a lob like chip-shot,
but the passes and shots were very accurate. The gym we were
playing in was kind of dark. Futsal is a little different than soccer, the
ball is smaller and a low-bounce type; last time I checked a few
months ago the world's top-ranked national Futsal team was
Iran's. Fact is that air-dribbling is not the only aspect of
soccer I am good at; but the thing is, I have to be good at air-dribbling
to get people to respect me as a player; and air-dribbling has a way if
strengthening skills like passes in the air above the ground, and chip
shots.
I estimate the fact I am world class in
Futsal was obscured when I played at the Oak Square Y or YMCA by
factors such as: extremely loud reggae music being blasted during the
game; extremely high temperature in the gym; extremely high humidity near
100% in the gym; me being out of shape; me not intaking enough Potassium;
full court games with only 3 or 4 players on each team; various factors
causing me to play the weird no hands goalie position (which I did very
well on certain days by not so well on other days). When the number of
players on each side full-court was five
or more during the games at the Oak Sq Y my
performance was always much better.
Faces in the Crowd: the
usual mix of boys and men, blacks and whites, acting as if they did not
notice superstardom in their midst. The mountain climbing instructor and
his students were there as usual; one of these mountain climbing students
watched me do a few excellent fast long tightly controlled runs before his
class started without saying anything. There was a red haird dad there
with about five little red haired boys; I was wondering how does he manage
such father-hood in such tough times. When my soccer ball rolled in this
dad's direction he spent alot of time and energy trying to get it out of
the bleachers for me.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 194 lbs
unclothed, up 2 lbs from two days ago; 194 lbs ties my all-time
record for weight. Between day before
yesterday's practice and today's I ate/drank: Thursday after
practice, just a few peanuts, a little fruit juice; then on Friday I had some
coffee/creamer/cane-sugar, 24 oz beer, and ate alot at the
'Old Country Buffet'--steak, roast beef and gravy, corn, mashed potatoes,
fish, salmon, shrimp, iced tea, cake, pie, ice cream; then Saturday prior
to the practice all I had was 2 cups coffee with creamer and cane sugar,
the healthy juices-oils-pills, 2 pieces multigrain bread; plus I probably
snacked on some stuff I forgot to report. In other words seems that this
time the big meal at the buffet almost by itself was enough to raise my
weight 2 lbs over 2 days. At the buffet looking in the mirror in the big
dining hall, I noticed that I looked healthy, young-ish, well
fed handsome and white. I remember when the Rumsfeld-on-Steroids said I
was a movie-actor, he first told me that I am white. But TL Perkins from
MIT was yesterday about the seventh person in my life to tell me that I
look like some actor named Venetio Dell Torre.
At the Old Country Buffet ( www.buffet.com ) I saw also
eating there, the nice clean-shaven white male with black
hair supervisor at the Oak Sq Y who found fault with me writing in my
log about how I could air-dribble across the width of the gym but the
other guys at the Oak Sq Y could not do this. I'll dig his name out of a
previous entry in my log when I get a chance. At least he did not get
in the way of me playing soccer at the Oak Sq Y.
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Sunday March 16 '08
500-600 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 60
minutes
8 oz soymilk protein drink, 2 cups coffee
with creamer and cane sugar, 1 small McD's hamburger 1 small McD's fries before practice
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total since December 1, '07; no melatonin, 0 oz
beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice; a 0.3 c
day.
Zero potassium pills with pre workout
juices/oils to get potassium level up
No Cacao Powder or MAO-inhibiting herbs
today
Today I still had a cough/fatigue
though this was improved; there was much less fatigue
today |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance A-; emotional state
C+; Today again, I was running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today I corrected a mis-statement in
yesterday's entry, the new correct words are in boldface green.
Today I started the practice at 500
PM ended at 600 PM--total 60 minutes running the LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to 500 PM the
start). The task I had set for myself today was 30 LHKH
pattern-adherence runs at a rate of one pattern-adherence success
every two minutes; I got the 30 done in 60 minutes. At 501 PM in the 1st
minute, the 2nd attempt of the day was LHKH success
#1; success #2 at 504 PM in the 3rd minute was the
first good/perfect run; it followed the LHKHKH pattern, ball kept tightly
controlled at a good speed for a long distance. This was almost an exact
repeat of the pattern yesterday, except everything happened 75 minutes
earlier by the clock today. As always, many of the
runs took the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds)
at high speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the
body and off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a
speed at least 65% of max sprint speed. 'A-' performance, is in the context of
what have become very high standards. Performance was again better than
the previous day; the cough has not gone away yet but the fatigue
is almost gone. Today the speed of the runs was approx
equal to or a little faster compared to what it has been when I have
been feeling perfectly healthy.
Yesterday I said yesterday's
practice was "perhaps the best day ever if the criteria are
the number of long fast tightly controlled runs, and how fast tightly
controlled and long these runs are; but there were too many runs in which
on touches one two or three, the ball was mis-kicked or
mis-headed". Today, the tightness
speed and length of the runs was even a little better than
yesterday, especially taking into account the problem of the gym
being crowded with people today; and today there were percentage-wise less
runs that were screwed up on and the screw-ups were not as serious (today
the number of runs in general was reduced by the large number of
boys-young men in the gym). Thus I graded myself at A-
performance wise today. Today there were some long fast tightly controlled
deviant runs such as LHKKK and (attaining to a good point I had previously
attained to a while back) the number of runs in which the ball was
kicked away to the point where I would lose control over it was low.
Today while the black-teenager-types had
their full court basketball game, the so to speak flight path I followed
while doing the air dribble runs was for almost the first time diagonal,
from the middle of one side to the far corner, so as to make sure I did
not collide with basketballers. This is is a distance of 25 yards approx.
There were several 25 yards length runs today
that were fast and tightly controlled, which is even more spectacular than
the usual straight across the width of the gym approx 17 yd
runs; hard to see how the basketball players and their
fans could not have seen these flights. This is especially commendable
given that when the flight path across the gym is always changing due to a
need to avoid collisions, flight becomes more difficult.
Note: I coughed only
about twice during the entire workout so I do not think at this
point it is dangerously infectious. The regulations are that
a person with an infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I
have been doing is a solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising these days.
I drank approx 3 oz water only
during the workout today.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a 'C=' grade level; I felt a little
better than I did yesterday when I gave myself a C. I guess I felt
better due to being well rested and improving in terms of the
cough/fatigue affliction.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the 'C+' level emotional state today:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in
bed midnight - 100 PM, 13 hours, of which approx 9 hours
was sleep; awoke noon out of bed 1 PM.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice:
Practice began 4.0 hours after rising and 5.0 hours
after waking.
3 pre-game meal:
McD's small hamburger and small fries approx 1 hour before
practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were skipped
today.
6 Time at which the mystery
substance 'C' was consumed. Today 0.4 units C was consumed 1.5 -
4.5 hours after waking.
7 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to
outdoors daylight for only about 20 minutes prior to
practice.
9 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today the cough though better, was still there while the
fatigue that came with the cough was almost gone.
10 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer
11 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary). Fundamentally this would involve putting 7.5 hours
in between time out of bed and practice; getting out of bed at same time
that I awake (I've heard such is a common healthy trait); going to bed 6.5
hours before rising time; being satifisied with approx 4.5 hours only of
sleep; no C consumed until awake for 5.5 hours, approx 0.4 units C
consumed; MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice but not on day
of practice; about 1 hour exposure to outdoors daylight prior to practice;
resting the day before the practice; 48 oz beer in 24 hours prior to
practice; eat what I feel like eating 4 hours before practice; start
practice 7.25 hours after waking/rising. NOTE: On March 6 I awoke and
got out of bed at the same time. Points 1 to 9 above show that yet
again, today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical
emotional state today in certain ways: sleep
was approx 9 hours instead of 4.5 hours; there was the
cough/fatigue problem; there was a lack of exposure to daylight prior to
the practice; I did not eat exactly what I felt like eating 4 hours before
practice; only 0 oz beer was consumed in the 24 hours prior to
practice; 0.1 units C was consumed within 1 hour of waking; MAO inhibiting
herbs were not consumed the day before practice;
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: almost everything deviated from the March 6 Formula today.
Faces in the Crowd:
The first 18 minutes there was a birthday
party occupying one half of the gym divided by the big blue curtain
hanging from the ceiling; and on the other side there must have been
around 25 boys playing basketball at 3 baskets. So I went over to the
other side and contemplated doing a run. But this little brown boy wearing
a skullcap took my ball away and kept getting in the way.
The Little-Brown-Skullcap-Boy and his friend stood in the way
and smiled at me (the cartoon character 'Snoopy' type smiles" they wanted
me to play with them, I had not time for such and did not want to
interfere in their birthday party. Plus the white skin black hair young
woman chaperoning the party informed me that they were a party and wound
not be done until 530 PM so I did all the runs I did in the first 18
minutes on the other side of the gym at which point the birthday party
ended at 518 PM. Right before their party ended I saw
Little-Brown-Skullcap-Boy attacking a little white boy with karate kicks;
seemed his victim did not know karate.
These first 18 minutes were tough because the
gym was so crowded; I had only a very narrow strip of space about 3 yards
wide running parallel to the curtain dividing the gym, to run the
air-dribble pattern in on the side opposite the side with the children's
party; I had to constantly be on the lookout for running into some
boy/teenager; I had to keep the ball under very tight control because of
the people around, all this without any kind of warmup; but I still
executed 8 mostly high quality runs across the width of the gym
air-dribbling the ball. Then in the remaining 40 minutes or so, the
teenager-types (they were mostly black guys) took over the entire gym for
a full court basketball game and I had to run the air-dribble pattern at
the exact moments when I could make it across the floor to the other side
without running into any of the basketball players. There was this
constant pressure of being seen by lots of people--none of whom paid me a
compliment--but nevertheless I handled the pressure well, performed well.
There were about a dozen people in the bleachers watching the basketball
game who of course also saw me.
Before they started their full court game,
"Louis", a stocky bespectacled bearded young black man, who said the
Y-staff-guy who looks just like him is his twin brother, was sitting in a
chair, watching a pickup half-court basketball game. I stood in front of
him before starting an air dribble run because I approach the ball from a
45 degree angle when starting the run. He loudly admonished me that I was
obscuring his view of the pick-up basketball game. Then later 'Elvis
Sarge', as he ran by me tried to do a trick with the soccer ball
that was stationary a yard in front of me, the ball went rolling across
the gym, I had to go retrieve it myself, Elvis is a nice guy but this is
not the first time such has happened. But a Spanish looking almost
bald-headed middle-aged looking guy who juggled my ball sending it rolling
across the gym, hustled to retrieve it and return it to me.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 193 lbs
unclothed, down 1 lb from
yesterday. Between
yesterday's practice and today's I ate/drank: 34 oz various soymilk type
drinks; Burger King hamburger & whopper jr, 2 coffees with creamer and
cane sugar, 1 tea with creamer and cane sugar, McDs hamburger & small
fries; & probably some isignificant forgotten stuff. In other words, 34 oz soymilk drinks & 3 little
hamburgers 1 fries 3 coffee/teas not enough to stave off weight loss.
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Monday March 17 '08
525-621 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 56
minutes
2 cups coffee with creamer and cane sugar, 1
small McD's hamburger 1 small McD's fries,
8 oz tangerine juice before practice
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07; 2 5 mg
melatonin pills taken 16 hrs before practice, 12 oz
beer consumed in 24 hours prior to practice;
Zero potassium pills with pre workout
juices/oils to get potassium level up
No Cacao Powder or MAO-inhibiting herbs
today
Today I still had a cough/fatigue
though this was yt again improved; |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance B+; emotional state
C+; Today again, I was running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today practice started 525
PM ended 621 PM--total 56 minutes running the LHKH pattern;
(there was no warm-up prior to 525 PM the start). The
task I had set for myself today was 32 LHKH pattern-adherence runs at
a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes over 65
minutes; I got the 32 done in 56 minutes. At 526 PM in the 2nd
minute, the 2nd attempt of the day was LHKH success
#1; success #2 at 528 PM in the 3rd minute was the
first good/perfect run (taking into account by nature one cannot
sprint at max speed in the 3rd minute of a practice);
As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a
speed at least 70% of max sprint speed.
'B+' performance, is in the context of
what have become very high standards.
Today I noticed that due to what I have been
emphasizing/de-emphasizing, the speed of the runs up to the point where
the third touch with the foot is made, could be faster. The
emphasis on producing large numbers of LHKH runs that successfully adhere
to pattern, results in caution and restraint during the first three
touches.
What stood out today was the speed and the tightness of
control during the runs. This speed/control was especially evident after
the 3rd touch (kick) was made.
It is getting to the point where the wall I run into at the far end
at aprox 17 yds, is more and more becoming an impairing factor reducing
the apparent (not the real) quality of the run.
Today I noticed that despite the fact that the right foot has
not been used much during the runs the past few days, the level of skill
with the right foot has not gone down and is still high,
high enough so that the use of the right even if it produces deviation
from the alternating header and kick pattern, such as two kicks in a row,
is still effective enough to produce generally tight control and high
speed in the continuation of the run.
Note: I coughed only
about twice during the entire workout so I do not think at this
point it is dangerously infectious. The regulations are that
a person with an infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I
have been doing is a solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank 20 oz gatorade
during the workout today, usually its just
water.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a 'C+' grade level; I felt sort of
like I felt yesterday.
I realize that the best thing for emotions is less sleep/rest, and
for exercise, the air-dribble exercise not by itself but combined with
weightlifting, treadmill, body-weights. But I am in the process of
vanquishing this cough/fatigue thing, I am taking extra rest and avoiding
weights.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the 'C+' level emotional state today:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed midnight - 100 PM, 13 hours,
of which approx 8 hours was sleep; awoke noon out of bed 1
PM. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100 PM; asleep
4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice:
Practice began 4.5 hours after rising and 5.5 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: McD's
small hamburger and small fries approx 1 hour before practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were skipped
today and the previous day. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day
before practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for only about 45 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today the cough though better, was still there while
the fatigue that came with the cough was almost gone. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: 48 oz beer evening before
practice
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin intake: 10 mg approx 16 hours prior to
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin in 24 hrs prior to practice.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 9 above show that yet again, today I deviated from what seems to produce
a paradisical emotional state today in certain ways, actually in almost
every way.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: only the
level of exposure to outdoors daylight prior to the practice; apparently
this in and of itself is not enough to produce the paradisical stte of
mind.
Faces in the Crowd:
There was an annoying guy playing basketball, who looked like a
hefty white black-haired junior high-schooler. Every 5 minutes or so, he
shouted out loudly in his hefty Flintston-esque way of shouting: "Oh my
God!!!!!". This annoyed me. And four grade school age boys and girls took
over 2/3rds of the entire gym for their ball game and then of course one
of them ran into me on my air-dribble run. I told them that four kids
cannot take over 2/3rds of the gym for themselves; they quietly reformed
to use only 1/2 of the gym; my tone of voice was in retrospect
probably too harsh.
As usual it seemed weird that I could be performing so spectacularly
(3 months ago I would have thought today was superb, the B+ grade reflects
rising, high, standards) and at the same the adults and kids in the gym
should act as if I was not there. It is getting to the point where I can
feel something, something that almost cannot be said, and it
seems others can feel it too: in certain ways I am becoming not
just a 'Pele' but something clearly a cut above a Pele--seems me
being white and Pele being black, my eclipsing a Pele
is tragic and unspeakable in the eyes of some. For one
thing, Pele was only 5' 7" and 145 lbs, built sort of like the
lovely loveable female track star at the college track meet. But I am 5'
10" 190 lbs. It is tough to play the
kind of aerial game I play well when you are light in weight, short in
height, with short legs, short arms, a lack of what the boxing world calls
"reach". I get the feeling alot of the great players got
alot of their reputation made, playing against relatively low-quality
defenders--seems like the areas that produce the great offensive players
also tend to produce through lack of interest and other factors, defenders
who are relatively easy to beat.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 190 lbs
unclothed, down 3 lbs from
yesterday.
Rarely do I lose so much
weight in 24 hours. Between yesterday's practice and today's I
ate/drank only: a Chorizo Tostada, half an order of Beans, half an order
of rice, and 12 oz beer from Taqueria Mexico; 2 cups coffee, 1 cup
tea with creamer and cane sugar; 6 oz tangerine juice, 1 small McD's
hamburger, 1 small McD's fries; and probably some
insignificant forgotten stuff. Lesson: looking at what happened
yesterday, seems with skimpy amounts of food/beer such as this about 42 oz
Soymilk type protein drinks could prevent weight loss.
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Tuesday March 18 '08
835-925 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 50
minutes
1 cup coffee, 1 cup tea, both with
creamer and cane sugar, 1 McD's big
mac, 1 small McD's fries, 8 oz tangerine juice before
practice
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice;
Zero potassium pills with pre workout
juices/oils to get potassium level up
No Cacao Powder or MAO-inhibiting herbs
today
Today I still had a cough though this
was yet again improved; |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance B-; emotional state
C+; Today again, I was running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today practice started 835
PM ended 925 PM--total 50 minutes running the LHKH pattern;
(there was no warm-up prior to the 925 PM start). The
task I had set for myself today was 30 LHKH pattern-adherence runs at
a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes over 60
minutes; I got the 30 done in 50 minutes. At 835 PM in the 1st
minute, the 1st attempt of the day was LHKH success #1, it
was a good run tightly controlled all the way across the width of the
basketball court; success #4 at 841 PM in the 6th
minute was the first perfect run (by nature one cannot sprint
at max speed early in the practice);
As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a
speed at least 65% of max sprint speed.
'B-' performance, is in the context of
what have become very high standards.
Again what stood out was the speed and tightness of the runs starting
with the 3rd touch of the run with the foot.
Basically it seems, that the more
physical energy, mental energy, alertness, concentration, and attention I
put into a practice, the better the practice. Sometimes I
just feel like cruising along not putting too much of such energies and
attention into the practice, and the performance goes down; but hey maybe
it is best to sometimes follow one's natural inclinations and take it
easy.
I have been forgetting to note that I have been while
air-dribbling sprinting on the balls of my feet as opposed to flat-footed,
for about 3 weeks now. Best I can recall this getting up on the
balls of the feet started a few days before the first experiments with the
MAO inhibiting herbs.
It is getting to the point where as I near the wall at the far side
of the gym, I have to make a decision: keep control of the ball tight as I
slow down as I approach the wall; or, kick the ball the distance I would
kick it if I were to continue at high speed, this can involve the ball
hitting the wall or me slowing down as I near the wall so the ball
hits the ground before I get to it. This has to do with changes in terms
of the points at which the ball is touched on the run; seems as the fifth
touch on the ball gets closer and closer to the wall the wall becomes more
of a problem.
I noticed today that though I rarely bring the right foot
into use on the kicks, when I do use
it, the right foot performs very competently producing fast tight
control according to the designated pattern usually.
For the first time in a few weeks I guess, I did not shower
in the 24 hours or so prior to the practice. Seems as a result I felt kind
of hot and sluggish.
Note: I coughed only about twice
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank 4 oz water during the
workout today.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a 'C+' grade level; I felt sort of
like I felt yesterday.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the 'C+' level emotional state today:
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed midnight - 200 PM, 14 hours
(trying to use rest to get rid of cough), of which approx 8
hours was sleep; awoke noon out of bed 2 PM. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100 PM; asleep
4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice:
Practice began 6.5 hours after rising and 8.5 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal:
McD's Big Mac and small fries approx 2 hours before practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were skipped
today and the previous day. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day
before practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for only about 40 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today the cough though better, was still there while
the fatigue that came with the cough was almost gone. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: 48 oz beer evening before
practice
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin intake: 0 mg approx 16 hours prior
to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin in 24 hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: the woman in the apartment beneath mine was
blasting music from early in the morning on into the afternoon. It is
getting to the point where I suspect this music blasting is having a
serious effect on me, interfering with my sleep, effecting the content of
the dreams that I am able to remember. March 6
Magic Formula for this: March 6 was basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 9 above show that yet again, today I deviated from what seems to produce
a paradisical emotional state in many ways.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6
Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: time between rising
from bed and starting practice; exposure to outdoors
daylight; apparently this in and of itself is not enough to produce
the paradisical stte of mind.
Faces in the Crowd: gym was
basically empty
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 192 lbs
unclothed, up 2 lbs from
yesterday. Between yesterday's
practice and today's I ate/drank: half a side order of rice and half a
side order of beans from the Mexican restaurant; 4 eggs 1 cup milk 2
pieces Barowsky multigrain bread, all organic, used to make 2 pieces
french toast and scrambled eggs; 12 oz juice, 8 oz half and half with cane
sugar, 2 cups tea and 1 coffee all with cane sugar and creamer; 1 big mac
and 1 small fries from McD's, plus probably some
insignificant forgotten stuff. Lesson: looks like
organic bread eggs and milk, though not glamorous, can go a long way
towards maintaining or increasing body weight.
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Wednesday March 19
'08
815-930 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 75
minutes
1 cup coffee, with creamer
and cane sugar, 1 steak and cheese sub (at approx 5 pm) from deli, 10
oz apple juice before practice
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 42 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice;
3 potassium pills with pre workout
juices/oils to get potassium level up
No Cacao Powder or MAO-inhibiting herbs
today
Today I still had a cough though it and
the fatigue were almost nonexistent |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C+; emotional state
C+; Today again, I was running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot
(L) after flipping it up, then heading it (H), then kicking it (K),
then heading it again (H), all with no more than 4 paces between touches,
all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Today practice started 815
PM ended 930 PM--total 70 minutes running the LHKH pattern;
(there was no warm-up prior to the 815 PM start). The
task I had set for myself today was 40 LHKH pattern-adherence runs at
a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes over 80
minutes; I got the 40 done in 75 minutes (there was a 5 min
bathroom break). At 819 PM in the 1st
minute, the 6th attempt of the day was LHKH success #1, it
was a good long tight fast run tightly controlled all the way across the
width of the basketball court; I forgot to record the run that was
the first perfect run. It took an unusually large number of
attempts before the first successful run was accomplished today.
As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 11 yds at a
speed at least 70% of max sprint speed.
'C+' performance, is in the context of
what have become very high standards.
On the positive side today, there were several fast runs with
the ball under control, at a speed at least as fast as the fastest runs I
have ever made; the control on these runs was not very tight but
control still existed and the runs were very fast.
On the negative side today was relatively inconsistent in
that, there were runs that were off on the the first second or
third touches, and an unusually large number of runs were technically
speaking LHKH pattern adherence runs but not high quality.
Note: I coughed only about once
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank approx
24 oz water during the workout today an unsually large
amount.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a 'C+' grade level; I felt sort of
like I felt yesterday.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the 'C+' level emotional state today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night before the
practice: in bed 130 AM - 100 PM, 11.5
hours (trying to use rest to get rid of cough), of which
only 5 hours was sleep; awoke 1030 AM, out of bed 1
PM. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100 PM; asleep
4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same time.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began at
815 PM 7.0 hours after rising and 9.5 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: Steak
and cheese deli sub at 5 PM approx 3.25 hours before practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today; rather, some
apple juice, a B vit pill, 3 potass pills were consumed 2.25 hours
prior to start practice. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75
hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were skipped
today and the previous day. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day
before practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for only about 40 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today the cough/fatigue were almost
gone. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 42 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin intake: 0 mg approx 16 hours prior
to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin in 24 hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: message left on answering machine by annoying
person. March 6 Magic Formula for
this: March 6 was basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 9 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: I spent time in bed that was not
spent sleeping; I lay in bed after awaking; the time between practice
starting and waking up was off; the nutrients cocktail was not
consumed; the MAOI herbs were not consumed the day prior to the
practice.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the amount of
sleep; the time between rising from bed and start practice;
the amount of beer consumed evening before day of practice;
apparently this in and of itself is not enough to produce the paradisical
stte of mind.
It is hard to face the idea that what we eat and drink, our
nutrition, could effect our psychological state. It seems
unfair--look at all the inequality in terms of what people are able to
eat. Then again a good scientist faces the reality that nutrition might
effect psychological state.
According to scriptures, long ago Christ: chastised people for
putting on 'a sad countenance' when fasting; and, explained that his
disciples did not fast because since he was with them it was not a time of
mourning.
Rev 6:6 And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts
say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a
penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
Pre-Christian scripture talks of: how God causes the herbs to grow
for the service of mankind; how bread makes the heart of man 'glad'; how a
dinner of herbs is better than 'a stalled ox and hatred therewith';
how God creates "wine that maketh glad the heart of man";
Gen 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb
yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was
in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you (mankind,
male and female) every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all
the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding
seed; to you it shall be for meat.
Heb 6:7 For the earth which drinketh in the rain that
cometh oft upon it, and bringeth forth herbs meet for them by whom it is
dressed, receiveth blessing from God:
It also is hard to face the reality that rest can effect the
emotional state. There is great inequality in the world in terms
of how much rest people get; and so it seems unjust that the amount of
rest should effect the emotional state. But again, seems a good scientist
has to face the reality that the amount of rest can effect the emotional
state.
Mat 23:4 For they (persons condemned by
Christ) bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them
on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of
their fingers.
A paradox is that one can be
emotionally depressed due to the fatigue of 'getting into shape'; yet when
one finally gets into better shape, activities that used to be depressing
no longer are depressing.
Faces in the Crowd: 'Elvis
Sarge' and his white buddy were shooting baskets while I was running the
drills.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 194 lbs unclothed equal to
my personal all-time record, up 2 lbs from the previous day for the second day in
a row. Between yesterday's practice
and today's I ate/drank: 1/2 lb cooked shrimp; 42 oz beer; 1 cup tea w
halfnhalf and cane sugar; 1 small bag doritos; 3 oz sea-salted potato
chips; 14 oz apple juice; another tea and a coffee both with the halfnhalf
and cane sugar; steak and cheese deli sub, 16 oz apple juice, B vit pill,
3 potass pills, plus probably
some insignificant forgotten stuff. Lesson: looks like shrimp
with plenty of tartar sauce lime juice and sea salt might be good for
putting on weight an strengthening the body...apple juice produces
bowel movements. Yesterday I saw that in the mirror I still have
that well-formed tough-guy strong look despite several days not lifting
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Thursday March 20
'08
815-927 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 72
minutes
Skipped the usual mix of juices oils and pills; (except for 8 oz
bolthouse c-boost drink)
2 cups
coffee, with
halfnhalf and cane sugar, 2 pieces Barowsky
multigrain bread, before practice
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 48 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice;
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup coffee
drunk 700-725 PM
Today I still had a cough though it and
the fatigue were almost nonexistent |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance B; emotional state B;
Today again, I was running the air-dribble pattern,
the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the
run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping
it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then
heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible.
I decided today to correct the grades I gave myself for
emotional state from March 13 when I started giving this grade to
yesterday. Seems to me that they were all a half-notch too high.
I wanted to report today's emotional state as two notches above
yesterday's, but that would put today's at a B+, leaving too little room
for improvement for states better than today's. Thus today I reduced the
emotional state grades for March 13 to yesterday March 19 by a half-notch.
Thus thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practice have been:
Performance/Emotions
march 13 B-, C-
march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B Today practice started 815
PM ended 927 PM--total 72 minutes running the LHKH pattern;
(there was no warm-up prior to the 815 PM start). The
task I had set for myself today was 40 LHKH pattern-adherence runs at
a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes over 80
minutes; I got the 40 done in 72 minutes (there was a 3 min
bathroom break). At 815 PM in the 1st
minute, the 1st attempt of the day was LHKH success #1, it
was a good long run tightly controlled all the way across the width of the
basketball court, it followed the LHKHKKH pattern; again I forgot to
record the run that was the first perfect run.
As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a
speed at least 70% of max sprint speed.
B level performance, is in the context
of what have become very high standards.
On the positive side today: there were a
relatively large number of textbook-classic runs that adhered to pattern,
were fast even if not extremely fast, and were very tightly
controlled; the number of attempts on which I failed
to attain to the LHKH pattern was low.
On the negative side: too many of the runs that were scored as
adherence to LHKH pattern were low quality; too many attempts failed to
adhere to LHKH pattern.
On one of the runs I noticed something that I have not seen before. I
kicked the ball at a low trajectory a little too far ahead of me so that
it bounced before I got to it; when this happened I was running at about
80% max sprint speed so the ball was going a little faster than 80% max
sprint speed; despite the speed at which the
ball was moving, and its low almost parallel-to-ground trajectory when it
hit the ground, when it bounced, it literally bounced backwards instead of
forwards, and to my right instead of straight backwards as
one would expect given the absence of spin--due to the spin that was on
the ball. Me learning to anticipate such spins better than the defenders
could give me significant advantage.
I remember being exposed to cricket as a boy; my estimate remembering
the spin-bowlers is, that the spin on the ball will effect the bounce of
the ball even more on turf or grass than it does on the wooden basketball
court floor.
Towards the end, after I had scored about 35 LHKH pattern-adherence
runs, I went into a streak in which several of the attempts went astray on
the third touch with the foot or before the third touch with the foot.
This was because the people running around in the space I was heading
towards gave me the fear of running into them; the resulting lack of
performance produced a lack of self confidence which further impaired
performance. I should have been wise enough to realize, that the
misperformance was simply due to a fear of collision then confidence would
not have been impaired. I do not fear collision with defenders in
a game, I have experience as a thin young boy colliding with heavier
players; but I fear it with these non-soccer players who run around
oblivious to my existence, because I fear hurting them or getting in
trouble for colliding with them.
An idea in my head now is--there are various points in the run in
which an attempt can be made to accelerate to maximum sprint speed. Lately
this has been starting with the third touch with the foot.
Alternatively, I could command myself to explode to max sprint
speed starting with the second touch with the head, or the first touch
with the foot, or even starting with the flip up prior to the first touch
with the foot. Seems that the first thing to do would be to do
some runs in which I explode to max sprint speed starting with the second
touch with the head.
Note: I coughed only about once
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank 0 oz water
during the workout today an unsually small amount. Seems the MAOI
herbs reduced the need for water drastically.
The emotions
during the workout today were at a 'B' grade level;
I felt significantly better than I did
yesterday. It was not so much the presence of positive
emotion as it was, the lack of negative emotion. Yesterday my mind, and
yes even my body during the practice,kept getting infected with hatred for
this guy who leaves excessive number of messages on my answering machine.
Today this infection of negative emotion was absent.
Today I felt less gloomy. Today I felt more upbeat because I was much less
tired than I was yesterday. My estimate is that credit for this
lack of fatigue should go to the consumption of the MAOI herbs with
the cup of coffee from 700 to 725 PM before I left for the gym. Seems to
me, that when the consumption of nutrients is limited, as it was for me
today, one can be more aware of, and can better appreciate, the value
of such herbs.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the improvement to a 'B' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night
before the practice: in bed 200 AM - 100
PM, 11.0 hours (trying to use rest to get rid of cough), of which
only 4.5 hours was sleep; awoke 1130 AM, out of bed 1
PM. at 1030 AM I was woken up by the woman who lives in the apartment
directly below mine blasting music. I am trying to get to sleep early so I
can get a full night's sleep before the she starts blasting the music
in the morning, but I have not been succeeding in shifting the schedule
and the result has been time spent lying in bed and a lack of
sleep. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100 PM; asleep
4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same time.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began at
815 PM 9.25 hours after rising and 10.75 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: Just
2 pieces Barowsky multigrain bread and 1 oz potato chips 2 hours before
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today; rather, simply 8 oz Bolthouse
C-boost drink 1.5 hours before practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed
today, with a cup of coffee from 700-725 PM, approx 1 hour before start of
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice
but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for only about 20 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today the cough/fatigue were almost
gone. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin intake: 0 mg approx 16 hours prior
to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin in 24 hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: relatively stress-free day. March 6 Magic Formula for this: March 6 was
basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 9 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: the time at which I awoke;
the time spent lying in bed after waking; the longer interval between
rising and waking and practice; the small pregame meal, eaten closer to
practice time than march 6; the nutritional vitamins/minerals cocktail not
consumed; the MAOI herbs consumed 1 hour before practice not day before
practice; the low level exposure to outdoors daylight; the lack of rest
the day before practice.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping; the time out of bed, MAOI
herbs consumed at some time from 36 hours before practice to practice
time; little to no cough fatigue;the 48 oz beer consumed evening of day
before practice
the no melatonin in 24 hours prior to practice;the relatively stress free day. Faces in the Crowd: There
were about 20 blacks and whites ranging mostly from high school age to
grade school age, mostly females, running around the gym while I was
practicing. None of them said anything re the demigod (me) in their midst.
But when am American style oval-shaped football came my way, I threw it
across the gym, a nice accurate spiral 17 yards to the recipient, the
first time I have thrown such a ball in years, and an East Asian girl
enthusiastically complimented me for the quality of the throw. Come to
think of it I am sure I could throw as good as a pro quarterback if given
the chance to practice. In grade school and high school I used to play in
informal games, sometimes as quarterback (hyperinflated egoes interfered
with me getting a chance to play more quarterback). Once I had a dream
that I was able to throw the ball better than this pro quarterback named
Jeff George.
Weight/Appearance:
Before the
workout I was 195 lbs unclothed a new
personal all-time record, up 1 lb from the previous day for the second
day in a row. That
means I am now only 4 lbs away from the coveted level of 199 lbs at 5' 10"
in height which would proportionally speaking be the same as
Schwarzenegger at 6' 2.5" and 235 lbs. When I get to 199 lbs I
can concentrate on shaping the flesh on my body as opposed to adding more
flesh to the body.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
ate/drank: 48 oz beer, 1 frozen $7 Pizzeria Uno Pizza, 12 peanuts, 10 oz
apple juice, 2 cups coffee with cane sugar and halfnhalf, 2 pieces
Barowsky bread, 1 oz potatochips, 8 oz Bolthouse C-boost drink, the MAOI
herbs. Lessons looks like beer and pizza might help to add muscle
and strength to the body; seems the MAOI herbs might help the body to
better assimilate food and put on weight. Feeling my legs during
and after the workout it felt like I am putting on muscle in the legs as
opposed to fat in the stomach.
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Friday March 21
'08
850-940 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 50
minutes
Skipped the usual mix of juices oils and pills;
pre-practice meal = 2 pieces multigrain bread and tea
with maoi herbs
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice;
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup coffee
again drunk 700-730 PM
Today I still had a slight cough though
the fatigue was almost nonexistent |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance B+; emotional state
B-; Today again, I was running the
air-dribble pattern, the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch
1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking
it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more
than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward as fast as
possible.
Thus thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practice have been:
Performance/Emotions
march 13 B-, C-
march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
Today practice started 850
PM ended 940 PM--total 50 minutes running the LHKH pattern;
(there was no warm-up prior to the 850 PM start). The
task I had set for myself today was 30 LHKH pattern-adherence runs at
a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes over 60
minutes; I got the 30 done in 50 minutes. At 851 PM in the 2nd
minute, the 3rd attempt of the day was LHKH success #1;
the first good quality LHKH pattern-adherence run was success #2 at 853 PM
in the 3rd minute; the first perfect was #4 at 856 PM in the 6th minute.
As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a
speed at least 70% of max sprint speed.
B+ level performance, is in the context
of what have become very high standards.
As I did not get around to producing this log entry until 24 hours
after the practice, I could not recall the positive and negative aspects
of the practice. Alot of things about a
practice, seems you forget if you wait 24 hours before writing up the log
entry.
One thought in my mind during the
practice was that tough drills doing new hard stuff will accelerate the
rate of improvement.
Note: I coughed only about once
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank ? oz water
during the workout today an unsually small amount.
The emotions
during the workout today were at a 'B-' grade level;
since I did not get around to writing up the log entry I could not recall
the specifics re why I gave the B- grade.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the improvement to a 'B' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night
before the practice: in bed 200 AM - 230
PM, 12.5 hours (trying to use rest to get rid of cough), of which
only 5 hours (630-1030 am, 1130 am -1230 pm) was
sleep; awoke 1230 PM, out of bed 230 PM. I am trying to get
to sleep early so I can get a full night's sleep before the she
starts blasting the music in the morning, but I have not been succeeding
in shifting the schedule and the result has been 'lazy' time spent
lying in bed and a lack of sleep. March 6
Magic Formula figure for this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630
AM to 100 PM; asleep 4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and
waking at same time.
This going to bed at what for me is a new early time, is merely
resulting in time wasted lying in bed but not able to sleep. Apparently
the solution is to go to sleep when sleepy, and to wake up and get out of
bed at the target time no matter what.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began at
850 PM 6.5 hours after rising and 8.5 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: Just
2 pieces Barowsky multigrain bread before practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure
for this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed
today, with a cup of coffee from 700-730 PM, approx 2 hours before
start of practice. March 6 Magic Formula
figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before
practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for ?? minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today I had a slight cough. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin intake: 0 mg approx 16 hours prior
to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin in 24 hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: ?? stress during day. March 6 Magic Formula for this: March 6 was
basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 9 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: much more time was spent lying in bed and not sleeping; the pregame
meal was less substantial; nutrients cocktail was not consumed; maoi herbs
consumed 2 hours before practice instead of day before; no beer consumed
evening of day before practice;
no rest day before practice. What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping;
the time out of bed, MAOI herbs consumed at some time from 36 hours before
practice to practice time;
Faces in the Crowd: Dont
remember this as I did not write up this log entry until the day after
practice.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 194 lbs down 1 lb from yesterday.
Between
yesterday's practice and today's I ate/drank: 1 thin frozen 12"
Hannaford Pizza, 1 cup tea, 8 oz bolthouse blueberry juice, 8 oz bolthouse
c-boost juice, maoi herbs with coffee, plus probably some insignificant
stuff. |
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Saturday March 22
'08
625-725 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 60
minutes
Skipped the usual mix of juices oils and pills; just 5 oz bolthouse
c-boost before practice
pre-practice meal = 2 pieces multigrain bread and cup
tea w maoi herbs; 5 oz bolthouse c-boost drink
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice;
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup tea
515-530 PM
Today I still had a slight cough though
the fatigue was almost nonexistent |
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance B-; emotional state B;
Today again, I was running the air-dribble pattern,
the 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the
run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping
it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then
heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible.
Thus thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practice have been:
Performance/Emotions
march 13 B-, C-
march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
Today practice started 625
PM ended 725 PM--total 60 minutes running the LHKH pattern;
(there was no warm-up prior to the 850 PM start). The
task I had set for myself today was 35 LHKH pattern-adherence runs at
a rate of one pattern-adherence success every two minutes over 60
minutes; I got the 35 done in 60 minutes. At 826 PM in the 2nd
minute, the 3rd attempt of the day was LHKH success #1
(like yesterday); the first good quality LHKH pattern-adherence run was
success #2 at 658 PM in the 4th minute; the first perfect was #3
at 630 PM in the 6th minute. This was all similar to yesterday.
As always, many of the runs took
the ball all the way across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high
speed, with the ball under tight control and kept close to the body and
off the ground the whole time. The typical run was--ball kept
under tight control and off ground over at least 12 yds at a
speed at least 70% of max sprint speed.
B- level performance, is in the context
of what have become very high standards.
On the positive side--there were several fast tightly controlled, and
very fast but controlled, air-dribble runs across the floor; and, several
of the runs that could not be scored as LHKH-pattern-adherence successes,
were at least still runs in which the ball was maintained under control or
could have been kept under control if I had hustled mustered the energy to
chase the ball. There were impressive, very fast, long, tightly controlled
deviations such as LHKKK, and LHK-bounce-chest-K, that technically
speaking could not be classified as LHKH pattern-adherence successes.
On the negative side, there was some inconsistency
in that there were too many low quality runs that were nevertheless
technically speaking LHKH pattern adherence successes, and there were too
many attempts that did not result in being scored as LHKH
pattern-adherence successes.
During the practice I noticed--
I can sprint forward reach the ball that is moving forward at a speed
similar to my sprinting speed, and then
by kicking the ball, deliberately send it on a trajectory straight upwards
perpendicular to the ground or even somewhat backwards. This a ground
dribbler cannot do. It makes for some interesting possibilities when it
comes to teamworks and also individual dribbles.
There is a declining rate of return on drills such as
LHKH. On a graph where the Y axis represents the rate of return
and the x axis represents the date on which the drill was done, the line
would be the old bell-shaped convex curve; you get to a point at which
each successive repetition of the drill produces less return in terms of
improvement. Thus it might be wise to now mix
in some new drills doing tough new stuff like zig-zagging, stop and go,
and acceleration to max sprint speed on the second or first
touch. True it is a blow to the ego to do new
drills one is not proficient in, and in the process one can look
incompetent in the eyes of the public, but we must be mature about things.
Emotional calmness seems to result in more mental energy
being available for the purposes of performance-enhancing alertness,
attentiveness, focus, concentration.
Note: I coughed only about once
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank 8 oz water
during the workout today an unsually small amount.
The emotions
during the workout today were at a B grade level;
I felt I did a good job of not allowing my
performance to effect my emotional state, not getting emotionally
flustered by things going wrong. This was a result of a conscious
attempt to deliberately use the mind to reproduce the mental state in
effect on the glorious March 6 'entry-into-paradise' day.
Thus I was able to mentally monitor the performance level, which is
useful, without getting emotionally flustered.
I had a bad night Friday night; driving around at night discovering
that three different supermarkets did not have the Bolthouse mix of
Passion, Apple, and Carrot Juice (an outstanding product) was annoying and
depressing.
But at night I had a dream that I found spiritually uplifting in a
way for some reason. In the dream they had discovered that one of the
Great Lakes, Erie or Superior, not Michigan, had once been home to lots of
these bases for military type canoes manned by American Indians. Each
canoe contained 100 Indian Braves, and there were 100 of these canoes.
These Indian Braves were brave tough men who tortured their enemies. When
I heard about the Canoe-Bases being discovered I took a trip out to the
midwest to tour the sites and learn about them; it felt good being a
tourist. There was some kind of tour where you got on a replica of
the war-canoes whose bases had been discovered. I got on a war canoe it
was about four yards wide and about 40 yards long and had a woodn floor
like a basketball court; at the front end it contained a tall book-case;
my ship-mates in the canoe with me were this white young woman with wavy
yellow hair and some little guy; I felt a spiritual kinship with the woman
we became friends; it felt good to take a vacation and travel; in the
dream the woman on the ship and me were both brave and tough like the
Indian Braves of old times. In the dream The woman's face lacked detailed
not sure who she represented. Point is that after I woke
up and went to practice, during the practice I felt sort of a new
mental toughness inside of myself that seemed to originate from the
feelings in the dream. There can be nothing wrong with admiring
characteristics such as toughness when faced with torture and
bravery; characteristics similar to such toughness and
bravery can improve emotional state and performance in soccer; the
early Christian church admired such in its martyrs; but society seems
to be de-emphasizing such in favor of things like wealth and income.
I guess alot of us are descended from brave folks who were pioneers
in the tough environment that was North America say more than a hundred
years ago and are thus kindred spirits in a sense. In high scholl english
class, We used to read about such hardy frontiersmen and frontierswomen
such as the French who settled Canada. Was it Willa Cather who wrote one
of those books? Not sure.
The same night I also had another enjoyable dream in which I was
walking around Bombay India, of modern year 2008 times, which however
despite modern improvements had alot of charming 19th and early 20th
century British-Indian characteristics, again I was a tourist having fun.
In the dream I liked the way the Indians had taken on some positive
British cultural characteristics; I saw horses pulling wagons, manned by
British troops, driving around the streets of Bombay in the dream.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the improvement to a 'B' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night
before the practice: in bed 1230 AM - 200
PM, 13.5 hours (trying to use rest to get rid of cough), of which
only 5.5 hours (430-600, 630-730 am, 830-1030 am, 1130 am
- 1230 pm) was sleep; awoke 1230 PM, out of bed 200
PM. I am trying to get to sleep early so I can get a full night's
sleep before the neighbor starts blasting the music in the
morning, but I have not been succeeding in shifting the schedule and the
result has been 'lazy' time spent lying in bed and a lack of
sleep. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100 PM; asleep
4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same time.
I skipped computer work in the evening yesterday, thinking
that the result would be that it would be easier for me to fall asleep,
but no such luck.
REPEAT: This going to bed at what for me is a new early
time, seems to be merely resulting in time wasted lying in bed
but not able to sleep. Apparently the solution is to go to sleep when
sleepy, and to wake up and get out of bed at the target time no matter
what.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began
at 625 PM 4.25 hours after rising and 6.0 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: Just
2 pieces Barowsky multigrain bread and tea with maoi herbs 1 hour
before practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for this: ate exactly what I
felt like eating, a big high quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed
today, with a cup of coffee from 500-530 PM, approx 1.5 hours before
start of practice. March 6 Magic Formula
figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before
practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for 20 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today I had a slight cough. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 6 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was no rest rather a
workout. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin intake: 0 mg in 24 hrs prior to
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin in 24 hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: ?? stress during day. March 6 Magic Formula for this: March 6 was
basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 9 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: yet again, compared to
March 6, much more time was spent lying in
bed and not sleeping; time between rising/waking and start of practice was
less than March 6; the pregame meal was less substantial; nutrients
cocktail was not consumed; maoi herbs consumed 1.5 hours before
practice instead of day before; oinly 6 oz beer consumed evening
of day before practice;no rest day before practice.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping was
close to March 6; the MAOI herbs consumed were at least consumed at
some time from 36 hours before practice to practice time;
Faces in the Crowd:
Basically empty except at the beginning of practice, a black young
man in sky-blue shirt and shorts and a grade school black girl who
was with him who was dressed in green
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 194 lbs same weight as yesterday.
Between
yesterday's practice and today's I ate/drank: 11/2 of a large fried rice
from Chinese Restaurant, 1/2 of a $10 Kung Pao tripledelight, 6 oz beer,
10 oz bolthouse c-boost drink, 16 oz mix of bolthouse blueberry, organic
milk, organic halfnhalf, and cane sugar; 2 pieces multigran bread, plain
tea w halfnhalf and cane sugar, tea w halfnhalf and cane sugar and
maoi herbs mixed in, plus probably some insignificant stuff.
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Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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Monday March 24
'08
525-638 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
ZZ (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
Runs 73 minutes
Skipped the usual mix of juices oils and pills; just 4 oz
bolthouse c-boost before practice
pre-practice meal = 1 piece multigrain bread and
cup tea w maoi herbs; 5 oz bolthouse c-boost drink
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 WHole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping capsules
taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup tea
415-445 PM
Today I still had a slight cough though
the fatigue that used to be there with the cough, was almost
nonexistent |
First
Day of 'ZZ' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs;
performance D; emotional state B;
Today I was running an air-dribble pattern,
the "ZZ-R" type 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball
not touching the ground. The ZZ innovation is
that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R for right) specifically
means that after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch with the head sends
the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd touch with the foot
sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the right; the 4th touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left.
Thus thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practice have been:
Performance/Emotions
march 13 B-, C-
march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
march 24 D B (new ZZ-R variant
of LHKH pattern)
Today practice started 525
PM ended 638 PM--total 73 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 525 PM
start). At 526 PM in
the 2nd minute, there occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1,
this was also a good and perfect run of ZZ-R LHKH, even though the angles
on the turns of the zig-zag were slight. In the end after 73 minutes:
there had been 16 runs in which I almost adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern
(almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one
of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there had been 12
successes in maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH pattern. That comes out to 0.22 almosts per minute and 0.16
successes per minute.
.
Some of the runs took the ball all the way
across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball
under tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the
whole time, with the ZZ-R variant of the LHKH pattern maintained.
D level performance as a grade, is
in the context of what have become very high standards. This ZZ-R
zig-zagging variant of the LHKH pattern is much more difficult than the
very difficult straight LHKH pattern; today was the first day that I
did it; I was pleased with my ability to quickly begin mastering the new
skill. But I decided to give myself a D as a reference starting
point, because naturally this first day will probably be the worst day,
though it was not a failing day; and I have to leave plenty of room
grades-wise for improvement in the future.
On the positive side--there were some fast tightly
controlled perfect or almost perfect zig-zag runs; several runs were
almost pattern-adherence runs with the ball under control; there
were deviant runs that were impressive. On the negative
side, there was plenty of inconsistency and failure, especially on the
first header of the run; it is tough to flip the ball up, kick the
ball diagonally forward to one's right and then head it diagonally
forwards to one's left while keeping the ball under control, tougher than
it is to do such later on in the run at higher speed.
During the practice I noticed--
The amount of angle on the turns is slight, and the distance traveled
on the straight parts of the zig zag is not long right now.
The ball bouncing between touches is more of a natural part
of this ZZ-R variant of the LHKH pattern than is the case with the
original LHKH pattern.
Seems as if two quick touches with the head instead of just
one touch with the head, could be a natural part of this ZZ-R
variant (it is hard on the first touch with the head to knock a
ball going to one's right, towards one's left, by touching the ball with
the head just once).
I can see how partial adherence to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern
could be useful. For example, kick ball to slant to right, head
ball to slant to left, and then kick shot forwards could be deadly.
On this zig zag variant of the LHKH pattern, I noticed my
feet slipping on the wood basketball court floor. I first noticed
slippage a couple of days ago, I think due to a combo of them refinishing
the floor, and the soles of my shoes wearing away.
Note: I coughed only about once
during the entire workout so I do not think at this point it is
dangerously infectious. The regulations are that a person with an
infectious disease must not use the pool. The drill I have been doing is a
solitary activity. I do much more coughing when I am
not exercising.
I drank only about
4 oz water during the workout today.
The emotions
during the workout today were at a B grade level;
I was doing a good job of preventing failure
(common with a new difficult drill) from disturbing me
emotionally, while at the same time putting physical energy and mental
energy (attention, alertness, concentration, focus) into the runs.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the improvement to a 'B' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night
before the practice: in bed 315 AM - 100
PM, 10.75 hours (trying to use rest to get rid of cough), of which
only 5 hours (600 am-1230 PM with intervals awake) was
sleep; awoke 1230 PM, out of bed 100 PM. I am trying to get
to sleep early so I can get a full night's sleep finished with
earlier in the morning, but I have not been succeeding in shifting
the schedule and the result has been 'lazy' time spent lying in bed
but not asleep. March 6 Magic Formula
figure for this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100
PM; asleep 4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same
time.
REPEAT: This going to bed at what for me is a new early
time, seems to be merely resulting in time wasted lying in bed
but not able to sleep. Apparently the solution is to go to sleep when
sleepy, and to wake up and get out of bed at the target time no matter
what. Problem is that if one has slept for only a couple of hours when the
target time for getting out of bed arrives, it is hard to resist sleeping
past the target time, because you know you will perform better in the
day's activities if sleep has not been too little.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began
at 525 PM 4.5 hours after rising and 5.0 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal:
Just 1 pieces Barowsky multigrain bread and tea with maoi
herbs 1 hour before
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed
today, with a cup of tea from 415-445 PM, approx 1 hour before
start of practice. March 6 Magic Formula
figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before
practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for 20 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today I had a slight cough. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was a day of rest.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin etc intake: IN 24 hrs prior
to practice, zero melatonin, 2 Whole Foods brand 'Restful Sleep' capsules.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin or herbal sleeping pills in 24
hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: not alot of stress. March 6 Magic Formula for this: March 6 was
basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 11 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: yet again, compared to
March 6, much more time was spent lying in
bed and not sleeping; time between rising/waking and start of practice was
less than March 6; the pregame meal was less substantial and taken closer
to practice start; nutrients cocktail was not consumed; maoi herbs
consumed 1 hours before practice instead of day before; 0
oz beer consumed evening of day before practice; herbal sleeping
pills taken before sleep before practice.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping was
close to March 6; the MAOI herbs consumed were at least consumed at
some time from 36 hours before practice to practice time; there was day of
rest before the practice started.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff:
Lately I have been remembering much fewer dreams upon awaking than
usual. Last night was different. I had a dream about the Prez Dubya Bush.
In the dream: It was early morning or late evening, dawn or
twilight; I was with him outdoors, seemed like we were sitting on
something like a big tractor-crane and talking. He was nicer looking than
he is in photos/TV, nicer than you would expect him to be as a person
given all the rumors swirling about regarding him. I had the distinct
impression that he was losing power as a leader while at the same time I
was gaining power. It seemed that he, Dubya, is not so much a bad person
but rather a person who makes mistakes. I felt that Dubya lacks wisdom
wheras I have it. I saw what looked like a gigantic tool of the type used
by mechanics, shaped like a big sword 12 meters long; I was using this
tool to good effect; I had wisdom, I was able to use a small amount of
force to accomplish a lot, similar to 'leverage' and 'torque' (there are
these tools that are not power-tools that allow you to accomplish
with a little energy what you could not accomplish using much more energy
without the tool). I felt as if Dubya was supposed to be the drinking
buddy of the liberal Prez (me) but had somehow gone astray and become a
critical argumentative conservative instead. And in a second dream, I saw
this beautiful young white woman named Heather who I first encountered at
Frosty's which is now the Lincoln (I heard that she 'does'); she was
walking on the sidewalk ten yards in front of me with a similar woman and
I felt I liked her.
Faces in the Crowd:
grade schoolers playing basketball, and some other folks. This one Y staff
guy was showing the Y to an East Asian family, in between the lines he was
muttering about me doing the ZZ-R LHKH pattern drill--he had noticed the
change, he approved of it, he noticed me succeeding and 'juking' (his word
for the zig-zagging). At this point I am wondering, all these people seem
to think I am important, how is it that they do not think someone
important like me should be making a good income?
I had the feeling today that me doing the zig zag variant of the LHKH
is more important to the world than it is to me in a way; I have always
known that I will be able to succeed in zig-zagging while air-dribbling
the ball sprinting while keeping the ball under control and off the
ground--but it seems the world will not believe such can be done until
they see it done with their eyes.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was 193 lbs 1 lb less than two days
ago. Between yesterday's practice and today's I
ate/drank very little(mostly organic/natural): 0.8 lb bone-in pork chop,
halfnhalf cane sugar milk and berry juice mix, some Bolthouse C-Boost
juice drink, cups of tea with cane sugar and halfnhalf, 1-2 piecea
multigrain bread, a few peanuts, a candy bar, cup tea with maoi herbs, and
some unremembered insignificant stuff. Surprising that so little
food over two days could result in loss of only 1 lb over two days.
The food was organic, high quality, healthy stuff. The coffee of
yore has been replaced for now with tea.
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Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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| Tuesday March 25
'08
803-933 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
Runs 73 minutes
Skipped the usual mix of juices oils and pills; just 4 oz
bolthouse c-boost before practice
pre-practice meal today = 1 piece multigrain
bread, 3 xchicken drumsticks, Amer chop suey and cup tea w maoi
herbs; 5 oz bolthouse c-boost drink
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping capsules
taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup tea
700-715 PM
Today I still had a slight cough though
the fatigue that used to be there with the cough, was almost
nonexistent |
Second Day of New Very Difficult 'ZZ'
(zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble runs; performance D+; emotional state C-;
Today again I was running an air-dribble
pattern, the "ZZ-R" type 'LHKH' pattern. The
LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball
with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading
it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H)
(touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me
running forward as fast as possible, and
all with the ball not touching the ground.
The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag;
ZZ-R (R for right) specifically means that after flipping the ball up the
first kick sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 2nd
touch with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left;
the 3rd touch with the foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards
the right; the 4th touch with the head sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the left.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march 25 D+ C-
Today practice started 803
PM ended 933 PM--total 90 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 803 PM
start). At 806
PM in the 4th minute, there occurred ZZ-R LHKH
success #1, this was also a good and perfect run of ZZ-R LHKH,
though the angles on the turns of the zig-zag were slight. In the end
after 90 minutes: there had been 8 runs in which I almost
adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by
no more than the fact that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat
off); there had been 29 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R
LHKH pattern. That
comes out to 0.09 almosts per minute and 0.32 successes per minute.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
.
Several of the runs took the ball all the way
across the width of the gym (approx 17 yds) at high speed, with the ball
under tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the
whole time, with the ZZ-R variant of the LHKH pattern maintained.
D+ level performance as a grade, is
in the context of what have become very high standards. This ZZ-R
zig-zagging variant of the LHKH pattern is much more difficult than the
very difficult straight LHKH pattern; I decided to give
myself a D+ today, because I estimate that when I get to 0.83
successes per minute, I will be at a B- grade level, and then progress
upwards further in grade by increasing the quality of the successes as
opposed to the number of successes per minute.
On the positive side--during the practice today I could see
the light at the end of the tunnel; I could see that eventually, I will be
able to consistently perform fast zig zagging ZZ-R LHKH pattern adherence
runs all the way across the floor at high speed keeping the ball under
tight control and close to the body. Today there were some
impressive deviations which did not exactly stick to the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern, but which nevertheless were tightly controlled zig zagging runs
with the ball bouncing no more than once over 15 yards. There were a few
that were LHKHKH and similar things the zig zag pattern maintained the
entire time over many touches of the ball. In general it was
evident that this new difficult ZZ-R variant, is tightening up the control
of the ball; there were a few runs impressive for the tightness of control
and the number of zig zag turns during the run across the width of the
gym.
On the negative side--there is still simply too much inconsistency,
too many attempts on which something goes wrong so that the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern is not adhered to; and, too many of the runs that were scored
technically speaking as ZZ-R LHKH pattern adherence successes, were of low
quality.
My estimate now is that doing this new ZZ-R variant will
improve my performance in non-patterned freestyle air-dribbling, and the
straight non zig-zag LHKH, more than doing the straight non zig-zag LHKH
will improve my performance in such areas.
It would be easier and more natural to use mostly the feet for
zig-zag patterns, but I have decided to stick with the LHKH
pattern alternating between kicking the ball and heading it as I believe
that the LHKH pattern is almost sacred in terms of the advantages it
produces.
I
drank about 8 oz water during the workout today.
The emotions during
the workout today were at a C- grade level; I was again doing a
good job of preventing failure (common with a new
difficult drill) from disturbing me emotionally, while at the
same time putting physical energy and mental energy (attention, alertness,
concentration, focus) into the runs. However, my sleep pattern
being thrown off even more than usual, combined with stresses of the
previous two days related to my financial accounts, had me emotionally
down.
I have learned to not allow poor performance during a practice to
effect my mental state; but I have not become adept at preventing
unpleasant experiences outside of practice from effecting my mental state
during practice. I think what I have to realize, is that preventing
unpleasant outside-of-practice experiences from disturbing me mentally
during the practice is not enough. Suppose I have unpleasant experiences
20 hours before practice and 8 hours before practice. I cannot allow such
unpleasant experiences to emotionally disturb me up to the time of
practice and then simply shut down the emotional disturbance during the
practice--because then, by the time practice starts, the disturbance will
have built up to a point where I cannot recover from it during the
practice. What I need to do is to prevent the
unpleasant experience from even beginning to negatively infect
me at the time that the unpleasant experience occurs.
There are various
suspect factors and combinations of factors that could be held responsible
for the improvement to a 'B' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night
before the practice: in bed 315 AM - 300
PM, 11.75 hours (trying to use rest to adjust schedule and get rid of
cough), of which only 4.5 hours (900 am-200 PM with
intervals awake) was sleep; awoke 200 PM, out of bed 300
PM. March 6 Magic Formula figure
for this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100
PM; asleep 4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same
time.
REPEAT: This going to bed at what for me is a new early
time, seems to be merely resulting in time wasted lying in bed
but not able to sleep. Apparently the solution is to go to sleep when
sleepy, and to wake up and get out of bed at the target time no matter
what. Problem is that if one has slept for only a couple of hours when the
target time for getting out of bed arrives, it is hard to resist sleeping
past the target time, because you know you will perform better in the
day's activities if sleep has not been too little.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began
at 803 PM 5 hours after rising and 6 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: a
little American chop suey, 3 chicken drumsticks, bolthouse c-boost drink,
1 piece Barowsky multigrain bread, tea with maoi herbs 1.5-1 hour
before practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for this: ate exactly what I
felt like eating, a big high quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual
pre-practice cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting
herbs or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed
today, with a cup of tea from 700-715 PM, approx 1 hour before
start of practice. March 6 Magic Formula
figure for this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before
practice but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed
to daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for 20 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type
Stuff: Today I had a slight cough. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was a practice rather
than rest. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin etc intake: In 24 hrs prior
to practice, zero melatonin, 2 Whole Foods brand 'Restful Sleep' capsules.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin or herbal sleeping pills in 24
hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: two very stressful encounters with Mr.
Grinch (not his real name), one yesterday and one today, re my financial
accounts. March 6 Magic Formula for
this: March 6 was basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I
re-create everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally
paradisical practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things
that are unnecessary).
Points 1 to 11 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: yet again, compared to
March 6, much more time was spent lying in
bed and not sleeping; the pre-game meal was taken closer to practice
start; the nutrients cocktail was not consumed; maoi herbs were
consumed 1 hours before practice instead of day before; 0
oz beer was consumed evening of day before practice; herbal sleeping
pills wree taken before sleep day before practice; and, perhaps most
importantly unlike the relatively stress free March 6, there were these
very stressful conversations with the gratuitously unpleasant Mr.
Grinch...the way conversations with him go, seems like it would be
appropriate to have an announcer announce, just before we begin
conversing, 'let the unpleasantries begin'; I have been drinking
tea instead of coffee which I was drinking on and around March
6.
What was done right today going by so
to speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping was
close to March 6; the MAOI herbs consumed were at least consumed at
some time from 36 hours before practice to practice time; there was day of
rest before the practice started.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff:
My estimate now is that: I remember fewer of my dreams, or have fewer
dreams, when I drink coffee; and, I remember more of my dreams, or have
more dreams, when I drink tea. I have switched from coffee to tea for
about 3 days now, such might be hard to get used to mentally and
physically, but I have been remembering alot more of my dreams.
Not sure what kind of effect remembering or having dreams has on
emotions and on soccer practice. You could say that dreams
are good in that they help to keep us in socially and psychologically in
touch with the people in the world; then again you could say that the
problem with dreams is that they bring us too close to the people in the
world.
Last night I dreamt of this beautiful white black haired girl (not
the same one mentioned in the previous entry) who 'came on' to me when she
was underage (about twelve), she was a friend of my neighbor's when I
lived at 90 Myrtle St. Waltham, since then I moved to a new location and
lost touch with the people at the old location. In the dream someone told
me her name (I do not know her name), and then I forgot it. The name was
an English name I think it ended in 'best'; I think it was
something-best. In the dream this family of this girl who is now a woman
liked me. The dream was kind of a shock for me, because I felt
disappointed that I did not remember the name given me in the dream, and
this got me to realizing the extent to which I miss the company of this
girl who has become a woman.
Faces in the Crowd:
Some white and brown teenage boys, about ten of them, got down on their
knees while I was in the gym, and in unison touched their heads to the
floor, their heads facing towards the East--they knew exactly which
direction the exact East was. As it turns out they were Muslim boys.
One of themm white clean shaven and bespectacled, under his
breath said, 'you're good' as he looked at me. They have no foreign
accent when they speak. One of them said he was an 'American'; they said
originally they were from different countries outside of America; they did
not seem to want to talk about which countries these countries were. One
of them said he was from Venezuela. The first thought that entered my mind
when I saw them praying was: Christians have a scripture which counsels
them to pray in secret so nobody knows they are praying; but these Muslim
boys are praying in public--I have never seen Christians praying at a
quote Young Men's Christian Association unquote (YMCA). Some of these
boys then joined some boys and young men of the usual Y type for a half
court basketball game while I was doing the soccer drill.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was ??? lbs the locker room with
the scale was closed. Between yesterday's practice and today's I
ate/drank little(mostly organic/natural): 0.8 lb bone-in pork chop,
halfnhalf cane sugar milk and berry juice mix, some Bolthouse C-Boost
juice drink, cups of tea with cane sugar and halfnhalf, 1-2 piecea
multigrain bread, a few peanuts, cup tea with maoi herbs, a little
American chop suey, 3 chicken drumsticks and proably some unremembered
insignificant stuff.
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| Wednesday March 26
'08
815-935 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 73 minutes
For the first time in days, had the nutrients cocktail (oils juices
pills), 2.5 hours before practice.
pre-practice meal today = 2 piece multigrain
bread, and cup tea w maoi herbs;
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 4 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
9 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup tea
700-715 PM
Today I still had a slight cough though
the fatigue that used to be there with the cough, was almost
nonexistent
I could tell that the 'nutrients cocktail' begain to
help my body to conquer the cough just minutes after I consumed
it.
The complete
dose for the nutrients cocktail as of now: A+D pill made
from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill; mineral pills,
potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil,
brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse carrot
juice. |
3rd Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C-; emotional state
B-; Today I corrected a clerical error in the
performance/emotions grades history that I have been including in
these log entries--for March 24 and March 25 I had
accidentally put the performance grade second in the little table and the
emotions first, whereas actually the format is suppose to be the reverse
performance first emotions second. The new
correct numbers are in green in the previous two entries.
Today again I was running an
air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-R" type 'LHKH'
pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the
run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping
it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then
heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the
LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R for right) specifically means
that after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd touch with the foot sends the
ball forwards and diagonally towards the right; the 4th touch with the
head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
Today practice started 815
PM ended 935 PM--total 80 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 815 PM
start). At 816 PM in
the 2nd minute, there occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1,
this was also a good and perfect run of ZZ-R LHKH, though as
usual nowadays, the angles on the turns of the zig-zag were slight. In the
end after 80 minutes: there had been 6 runs in which I almost
adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by
no more than the fact that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat
off); there had been 35 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R
LHKH pattern. That
comes out to 0.08 almosts per minute and 0.44 successes per minute.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 .
Looking at the data above, you could say I will
continuing at today's rate of improvement, be at 0.83 successes per minute
in 3 days (the initial improvement in terms of successes scored per
minute), and then it will take another week or two to polish up the
quality of the runs scored as pattern-adherence successes. Seems
to me this is the proper approach--first one improves in terms of the
number of runs that are technically speaking "successes" per hour; and
then one polishes up the quality of the runs and slows down the pace in
terms of runs attempted per hour.
I think I am following the correct path by first mastering the ZZ-R
variant featuring the first slant being towards my right; and then after
this going on to master the ZZ-L variant which will features the first
slant going to my left. With the ZZ-L variant the right foot does the
difficult change of direction kicking, and I am left-footed not right
footed. The idea is to learn what proper technique is using the
favored left foot and then apply these lessons to the use of the right
foot.
The ZZ-L will be difficult because I am left footed, but since it
will come after the ZZ-R has been mastered in that sense it will be
easier.
My estimate now is that in one month I
will have mastered the ZZ-L and ZZ-R variants, and then I will be
really something, able to not just blast across the width of the gym
keeping the ball off the ground and close the the body; but rather also
able to change directions in the course of the flight across the gym.
Seems to me that it is a no-brainer, that a couple of
hours of practice a day for a month, is a bargain price to pay to be able
to attain to such abilities.
I remind all those who might feel inclined to scoff at me having
spent time on the straight LHKH instead of the zig-zag, that there is no
way I could do the zig-zag without first learning the straight.
Today several of the runs took the ball all the way
across the width of the gym (approx 15 yds) at high speed, with the ball
under tight control and kept close to the body and off the ground the
whole time, with the ZZ-R variant of the LHKH pattern maintained.
C- level performance as a grade, is in the
context of what have become very high standards. This ZZ-R zig-zagging
variant of the LHKH pattern is much more difficult than the very difficult
straight LHKH pattern; I decided to give myself a C-
today, because I estimate that when I get to 0.83 successes per
minute, I will be at a B- grade level, and then progress upwards further
in grade by increasing the quality of the successes as opposed to the
number of successes per minute.
On the positive side-- What I especially noticed
starting early in the practice today, was that compared to
yesterday, I had become significantly, definitely more competent, in
running this new zig-zagging LHKH pattern up to the point of the third
touch, a kick (K) of the ball; however many times this third
touch mis-hit the ball so that the pattern could not be completed. I
suppose it is natural that at first, the competence should be gained over
the first three (L for left foot kick, H for head, K for
kick) touches on the ball; I believe it is more advantageous
to improve on the first 2 touches at the beginning, as opposed
to improving on the 3rd and the 4th touches of theruns. Starting 907
PM about 52 minutes after the start, the
number of long fast tightly controlled runs that adhered to the
zig-zagging ZZ-R pattern per ten minutes of practice, went up
dramatically.
On the negative side--same as yesterday: there are
still too many attempts on which something goes wrong so that the
ZZ-R LHKH pattern is not adhered to; and, too many of the runs
that were scored technically speaking as ZZ-R LHKH pattern adherence
successes, were of low quality.
I drank about ?? (failed to keep
track of this) oz water during the workout today.
During the practice I noted, that it
definitely seemed that if I adopted a certain attitude while doing the
runs, my performance improved. This attitude was: these zig zagging LHKH
runs are not that different from the straight LHKH runs, I should do the
zig-zagging LHKH runs in a manner similar to the way I do the straight
LHKH runs; these zig-zag LHKH runs are not that much harder than the
straight LHKH runs I became so competent at.
I have been feeling emotionally somewhat up, excited,
energized, when not at practice these days--I think this is due to
the fact that doing the new zig-zag version of the LHKH is
exciting, majestic. Seems like both I and the people around, see
the significance and the drama of it.
The emotions during the workout
today were at a B- grade level; like yesterday, I was again
doing a good job of preventing failure from disturbing me emotionally,
while at the same time putting physical energy and mental energy
(attention, alertness, concentration, focus) into the runs. Today taking
heed of what I noted yesterday re preventing outside of practice stresses
from causing emotional disturbance, I had made a point all day of
not allowing the stresses to even begin to effect me negatively, the
result was an improved emotional state during the practice.
Yesterday in the log I noted: "What I need to do is
to prevent the unpleasant experience from even beginning
to negatively infect me at the time that the unpleasant
experience occurs".
There are various suspect factors
and combinations of factors that could be held responsible for the
improvement to a 'B-' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night before
the practice: in bed 430 AM - 230 PM, 10
hours (trying to use rest to adjust schedule and get rid of cough),
of which only 4.5 hours (900 am-130 PM with intervals
awake) was sleep; awoke 130 PM, out of bed 200
PM. March 6 Magic Formula figure
for this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100
PM; asleep 4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same
time.
When it comes time to get out of bed early after having had very
little sleep, I rationalize sleeping later on the grounds that my
performance in the day will be better if I get a little more rest.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began
at 815 PM 6 hours after rising and 7.5 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: 2
slices Barowsky multigrain bread, tea with halfnhalf and cane sugar with
MAOI herbs, at 700 PM 1.25 hours before start practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual pre-practice
cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was for the first time in days, consumed today at 540
PM, 2.5 hours before start practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting herbs
or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed today,
with a cup of tea from 700-715 PM, approx 1 hour before start of
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice
but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed to
daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for 20 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today I had a slight cough. March 6
Magic Formula figure for this: no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was a practice rather
than rest. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin etc intake: In 24 hrs prior
to practice, zero melatonin, 4 Whole Foods brand 'Restful Sleep'
capsules. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin or herbal sleeping pills in 24
hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: a moderately stressful encounter with
Mr. Grinch re my financial accounts, the stress was handled better than
yesterday. March 6 Magic Formula for
this: March 6 was basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I re-create
everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally paradisical
practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things that are
unnecessary).
Note: keeping track of things like points 1-11 could be useful for
improving performance also, not just emotional state.
Points 1 to 11 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: yet again, compared to
March 6, more time was spent lying in bed
and not sleeping; the pre-game meal was taken closer to practice
start; the pregame meal was skimpy compared to March 6; maoi
herbs were consumed 1 hours before practice instead of day
before; 0 oz beer was consumed evening of day before practice;
herbal sleeping pills wree taken before sleep day before practice; the day
was somewhat stressful compared to March 6; there was no rest the day
before the practice.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping
was the same as March 6; the MAOI herbs consumed were at least
consumed at some time from 36 hours before practice to practice time;
the time interval between practice and rising/waking was similar to March
6.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing much to report.
Faces in the Crowd: Black
Y-staffer Patrick Ferdinand and a white young basketball guy, sat down on
some chairs right next to the starting point, and watched me during the
first 15 minutes or so of the workout, as I in relatively clumsy-looking
fashion, started out trying to do something that is much more difficult
than very difficult. During this time the runs were working out well up to
the point of the foot touching the ball on the third touch but on this
third touch the ball was being miskicked. I can say that I did not allow
the pressure of being watched while clumsy emotionally disrupt me and I do
not think it disrupted me performance wise either. At one point Patrick
muttered that once I master the zig-zagging, I will "have them".
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was ??? lbs I forgot to check my
weight in the locker room. Between yesterday's practice and today's I again
ate/drank little(mostly organic/natural): halfnhalf cane sugar milk
and berry juice mix, some Bolthouse C-Boost juice drink, cups of tea with
cane sugar and halfnhalf, 2 pieces multigrain bread, a few peanuts, cup
tea with maoi herbs; plus probably some insignificant forgotten stuff.
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Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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| Thursday March 27
'08
826-940 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 73 minutes
For the 2nd day in a row, had the nutrients
cocktail (oils juices pills), 2.5 hours before practice.
pre-practice meal today = 1 piece multigrain
bread, and cup tea w maoi herbs;
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
9 potassium pills
taken before
workout
MAO inhibiting
herbs in cup tea
700-715 PM
Today I still had a slight cough
I could tell that the 'nutrients cocktail' helps my body
to conquer the cough; the coughs are now less intense and less
frequent.
The complete
dose for the nutrients cocktail as of now: A+D pill made
from cod liver oil; B vitamin pill, C vit pill; E vit pill; mineral pills,
potassium pills; wheat germ oil, fish oil, cod liver oil, hemp oil,
brewer's yeast, tangerine juice, Bolthouse carrot
juice |
4th Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C; emotional state
B-; Today again I was running an air-dribble pattern, the
"ZZ-R" type 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball
not touching the ground. The ZZ innovation is
that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R for right)
specifically means that after flipping the ball up the first kick sends
the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch with the head
sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd touch with the
foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the right; the 4th
touch with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
Today practice started 826
PM ended 940 PM--total 74 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 815 PM
start). I adjust this 74 minutes to 67 minutes today, becaus 7
minutes were spent talking to TL from MIT, and the Ct Sch
Broadcasting grad 'Mike'. At 827 PM in the 2nd
minute, there occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1; at 830 in the
5th minute success #2 was also a good and perfect run of ZZ-R
LHKH, though as usual nowadays, the angles on the turns of the
zig-zag were slight. In the end after 67 minutes: there had
been 15 runs in which I almost adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern
(almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one
of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there had like
yesterday, been 35 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH pattern
this time in only 67 minutes. That comes out to 0.24 almosts per minute and 0.52 successes per minute.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
Looking at the data above, you could say I will
continuing at today's rate of improvement, be at 0.83 successes per minute
5 days from now (the initial improvement in terms of successes scored per
minute), and then it will take another week or two to polish up the
quality of the runs scored as pattern-adherence successes.
C level performance as a grade (up from C-
or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very high
standards. I decided to give myself a C
today, because I estimate that when I first get to 0.83
successes per minute, I will be at a B- grade level.
On the positive side-- starting about 919 PM, 53 minutes after the
start, the number of long fast tight ZZ-R LHKH pattern adherences began to
be high in terms of successes per ten minutes. Yesterday the story was
almost exactly the same, 52 minutes after the start, the successes per ten
minutes suddenly went up to a higher level. Today the performance
during the first part of the practice was better.
On the negative side--Today I had less energy than yesterday, the
speed of the runs was lower, there were fewer high quality successes. Too
many runs ended in failure to adhere to pattern or merely low quality
adherence to pattern. Re the having less energy, this is the fourth day in a row in which the practice has
been based on the theme of achieving as many pattern-adherence runs as
possible; this kind of practice involves a lot of hustle and intensity
from beginning to end. I remember previously I found that this kind of
practice burned me out to the point where I would avoid soccer for days or
even weeks.
I drank about 10 oz water during the
workout today.
During the practice I noted--with this new difficult drill, two days
in a row now I have noticed that after approx 50 minutes, the performance
improves dramatically; in other words, with this new difficult
drill, there is a long extended 'defacto' 50 minute warmup
period. Thus I hypothesize that it may be
advantageous to utilize long duration workouts, say 100 minutes or longer,
so as to better take advantage of time spent practicing after the 50
minute warmup period has been suffered through.
The emotions during the workout
today were at a B- grade level; like yesterday and the day
before, I was as usual preventing failure from disturbing me
emotionally.
There are various suspect factors
and combinations of factors that could be held responsible for the
improvement to a 'B-' level emotional state
today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night before
the practice: in bed 530 AM - 130
PM, 8 hours, of which only 4.5 hours (700 am-1230 PM with
intervals awake) was sleep; awoke 1230 PM, out of
bed 130 PM. March 6 Magic
Formula figure for this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to
100 PM; asleep 4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at
same time.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began
at 826 PM 7 hours after rising and 8 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: 1
slice pizza 500 PM;1 slice Barowsky multigrain bread, tea with
halfnhalf and cane sugar with MAOI herbs, at 700 PM 1.5 hours before start
practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure
for this: ate exactly what I felt like eating, a big high
quality cheeseburger from 'Bison County' in Waltham MA 4 hours before
practice.
4 time at which the usual pre-practice
cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was for the first time in days, consumed today at 610
PM, 2.25 hours before start practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting herbs
or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were consumed today,
with a cup of tea from 700-715 PM, approx 1.5 hours before start
of practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice
but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed to
daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for 70 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today I had a slight cough. March 6
Magic Formula figure for this: no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest prior to
practice: day before practice, there was a practice rather
than rest. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin etc intake: In 24 hrs prior
to practice, zero melatonin, 2 Whole Foods brand 'Restful Sleep'
capsules. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin or herbal sleeping pills in 24
hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: a stressful meeting with Mr.
Grinch and Mrs Grinch re my financial accounts; I handled it the best I
could, attempting to prevent the stress from even beginning to negatively
effect me. March 6 Magic Formula for
this: March 6 was basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I re-create
everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally paradisical
practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things that are
unnecessary).
Note: keeping track of things like points 1-11 could be useful for
improving performance also, not just emotional state.
Points 1 to 11 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways (exactly the same ways as
yesterday): yet again, compared to March 6, more time was spent lying in bed and not sleeping; the
pre-game meal was taken closer to practice start; the pregame meal was
skimpy compared to March 6; maoi herbs were consumed 1
hours before practice instead of day before; 0 oz beer was
consumed evening of day before practice; herbal sleeping pills wree taken
before sleep day before practice; the day was somewhat stressful compared
to March 6; there was no rest the day before the practice.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping
was the same as March 6; the MAOI herbs consumed were at least
consumed at some time from 36 hours before practice to practice time;
the time interval between practice and rising/waking was similar to March
6; the number of hours exposed to daylight prior to the practice.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing much to report.
Faces in the
Crowd:
Donald, the 'Black Buddha', was sitting talking
with a white female he coaches in basketball or something on a table right
next to the starting point I used for the drills. The table is where I
usually put my clipboard, bag, water, nicotine gum, etc. So I had to make
do with using a chair for my stuff today. Black Buddha was there talking
with her, as they watched me and the other goings on in the gym, for about
a half an hour. So just like yesterday, I was watched closely during the
relatively clumsy beginning phase of the practice, while attempting doing
something very difficult, something that these days I do not get good at
until I have been practicing for about 50 minutes.
And I saw 'Mike', this heavy, white, black-haired, bearded,
long-haired, jovial Connecticut School of Broadcasting graduate,
whose dreams of being a disc jockey have not panned out. He was glad to
see me and give me his phone number, lest I forget or lose it, it is
781-775-0003. I wanted an email address from him. My idea which enthused
him, was to perhaps use him while producing some internet-compatible audio
or video, as I expect he would be able to do a good job of sounding like a
pro announcer.
And I talked with TL, the black MIT grad. TL told me that he had been
thinking about what I had said re how Schwarzenegger at 6' 2.5" 235 lbs,
is proportionately equal to 5' 10" 199 lbs. TL was wondering whether we
were wise to exercise every day. We discussed the issue. While talking to
him I was convinced that although people like TL might be able to
convincingly defeat me in terms of performance as students in certain
subjects, nevertheless I am able to provide them with conversation that
they find interesting informative and enjoyable; they do not outshine me
intellectually in the art of conversation or the intellectual
characteristics made manifest during conversations. People like
TL tell me that people who are good science students can be weak in areas
that are more quote verbal unquote; I have a hard time digesting the idea
that these good science students who awe me could be beneath me in certain
ways; but the empirical data does indeed show that good science students
can be outshined intellectually in certain ways by persons who are not so
good at science.
I remember we were ruminating re how folks like Donald the 'Black
Buddha' go to Waltham High School and then U-Mass Dartmouth and become
successful programmers while people like me have a tough time studying
programming on our own and at the famous Harvard
University. David Hay (lest I forget his email is DPHay2004@yahoo.com ) told me that
it has to do with the fact that some teachers are better than others; then
thinking re what he said, it occurred to me that those who are
very excellent in science, elites such as professors at prestigious
universities, might not be so good at teaching people science, due to
their inability to understand problems people have learning science, due
to the fact they themselves, being very gifted, never had problems
learning science.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was ??? lbs I did not feel
like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been sort of
lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between
yesterday's practice and today's I again ate/drank little(mostly
organic/natural): 2 pork chops (discovered that maple syrup unlike
cane sugar or blueberry juice, has a very overwhelming dominating state
and should be used very sparingly if at all when cooking pork chops);
halfnhalf cane sugar milk and berry juice mix, some Bolthouse C-Boost
juice drink, tangerine juice, cups of tea with cane sugar and halfnhalf, 1
slice pizza, 1 piece multigrain bread, a few peanuts, cup tea with
maoi herbs; plus probably some insignificant forgotten stuff.
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Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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| Friday March 28
'08
452-600 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 73 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 11 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today
Today I still had a slight cough
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5th Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C+; emotional state
B; Today again I was running an air-dribble pattern, the
"ZZ-R" type 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball
not touching the ground. The ZZ innovation is
that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R for right)
specifically means that after flipping the ball up the first kick sends
the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch with the head
sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd touch with the
foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the right; the 4th
touch with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left.
It would be easy to get lost in bureaucratic clerical detail and
hence underemphasize the importance of the achievement that was today's
practice. Today's practice showed that soon I
will be able to zig-zag at sharp angles using my left foot, my right foot,
and my head, while air-dribbling forwards at a high speed with the ball
under tight control while kept off the ground, for a long
distance. When I am at this state I will undoubtedly be a
superstar.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
Today practice started 452
PM ended 600 PM--total 68 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 815 PM
start). I adjust this 68 minutes to 62 minutes today, because
approx 4 minutes were delays caused by sharing half a gym with some
"Spanish Boys"; and 2 minutes were spent on a bathroom
break. At 452
PM in the 1st minute on the 1st attempt, there
occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1; at 458 in the 7th minute success
#5 was a good perfect run that adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern, though as usual nowadays, the angles on the turns of the
zig-zag were slight. In the end after 62 minutes: there had
been 5 runs in which I almost adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern
(almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one
of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there had
been 42 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH pattern. That comes out to 0.08
almosts per minute and 0.68 successes
per minute.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
Looking at the data
above, you could say I will continuing at today's rate of improvement, be
at 0.83 successes per minute just one day from now (the
initial improvement in terms of successes scored per minute), and then it
will take another week or two to polish up the quality of the runs scored
as pattern-adherence successes.
C+ level performance as a grade (up from
C- or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very
high standards. I decided to give myself a C+
today, because I estimate that when I first get to 0.83
successes per minute, I will be at a B- grade level.
On the positive side--
Today was different from previous days, in that the success
rate per ten minutes, and the quality of the successes, was good from the
start; previously the success rate and the quality did not get good until
after 50 minutes of practicing. Seems
today was the first day on which, when I set my mind to it, I was able to
put speed and good form into the beginning not just the end of the
runs.
Today for the first time I noticed the
slant of the zig zags becoming admirably more than just a slight
slant on some of the runs. Today from beginning to
end, there were many runs that adhered to pattern and that were
long and/or tight and/or fast. And of course today was the a
big jump ahead (0.52 to 0.68) in terms of runs per minute that adhered to
the ZZ-R LHKH pattern.
On the negative side--
Today like yesterday my energy level was down somewhat so the speed
of the runs was down a little. As usual, too many runs ended in
failure to adhere to pattern or merely low quality adherence to pattern.
Re the having less energy today, this is the fourth day in a row
in which the practice has been based on the theme of achieving as many
pattern-adherence runs as possible.
Today during after the first 40 minutes I felt pain in the
soles of the feet; and after the practice I felt sore and stiff. This has
to do with the lack of Potassium today and/or the lack of the nutrients
cocktail today.
I drank about 6 oz water
during the workout today.
During the practice I noted--
I can at least now do a pretty good job of well formed fast
runs betwen the first kick and the first header and between the first
header and the first kick; this as a result of the
previous production of large amounts of poorly formed slow runs that
adhere to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern, which was a result of the
motivation to score high number of successes per minute which is what the
drills are all about right now due to the grading system emphasizing ZZ-R
LHKH pattern adherence successes per minute.
Today there were for the first time, a few runs in which
the angle of the zig-zags was significantly sharper than the slight angles
of the previous 4 days. This in my mind vindicates my tactic or strategy
of at first being satisfied with slight angles and being patient re the
appearance of sharper angles.
I noticed that the drill has resulted as expected, in
increased skill when it comes to zig-zagging using the feet alone as
opposed to alternation between the foot and the head.
Although due to the nature of the ZZ-R LHKH pattern the right foot is
used rarely in executing the pattern, I noticed today that the
right foot for some reason has become more proficient at zig-zagging than
it previously was.
Generally all this vindicates my theory that running the ZZ-R
LHKH pattern will lead to improved performance in air-dribble runs that
are quite different from the ZZ-R LHKH pattern.
The emotions during the workout
today were at a B grade level; a little better than the previous
three days. I was as usual preventing failure from disturbing
me emotionally. Seems the performance and emotions were improved because
for the first time in days I felt that the time spent sleeping (not sure
how long) had been deeply restful. This
restful sleep seemed to be a result of: fatigue; drinking a good amount of
Bolthouse berry juice and halfnhalf and cane sugar mixed with the
Bolthouse berry juice before going to bed and afterwards; and taking to
'Whole Foods' 'Restful Sleep' herbal sleeping pills.
There are various suspect factors
and combinations of factors that could be held responsible for the 'B'
level emotional state today:
(approx times)
1 Sleep the night before
the practice: in bed 430 AM - 130
PM, 9 hours, of which 5 hours was sleep; awoke 1230
PM, out of bed 130 PM, sleep was unusually restful, I estimate because of plenty of Berry juice being consumed
prior to going to bed and thereafter. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: In bed 6.5 hours from 630 AM to 100 PM; asleep
4.5 hours from 830 AM - 100 PM; rising and waking at same time.
2 Number of hours in
between rising/waking and practice: Practice began
at 452 PM 4.5 hours after rising and 5.5 hours after
waking. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: practice begins at 815 PM, 7.25 hrs after
rising/waking at 100 PM, rising-time=waking-time.
3 pre-game meal: Just cup tea
with cane sugar and halfnhalf. March 6
Magic Formula figure for this: ate exactly what I felt
like eating, a big high quality cheeseburger from 'Bison County' in
Waltham MA 4 hours before practice.
4 time at which the usual pre-practice
cocktail of juices oils and pills was consumed:
this 'cocktail' was not consumed today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
nutrients cocktail consumed 1.75 hours before workout starts.
5 Mono-amine Oxidase inhibiting herbs
or Mono-Amine promoting substances: these were not consumed
today. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: MAO inhibiting herbs consumed day before practice
but not day of practice.
6 Number of hours exposed to
daylight prior to practice: Was exposed to outdoors
daylight for 30 minutes prior to practice. March 6 Magic Formula figure for this:
exposed to 1 hr outdoors daylight prior to practice.
7 Common Cold Type Stuff:
Today I had a slight cough. March 6
Magic Formula figure for this: no cough, fatigue or fever
8 Alcohol previous 24
hours: 0 oz beer evening before day of practice.
March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: 48 oz beer evening before day of practice.
9 Rest on day prior to practice
day: day before practice, there was a practice rather than
rest. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: rest on day before practice.
10 Melatonin etc intake: In 24 hrs prior
to practice, zero melatonin, 2 Whole Foods brand 'Restful Sleep'
capsules. March 6 Magic Formula figure for
this: zero melatonin or herbal sleeping pills in 24
hrs prior to practice.
11 Various Stresses: a stressful meeting with Mr.
Grinch and Mrs Grinch re my financial accounts; I handled it the best I
could, attempting to prevent the stress from even beginning to negatively
effect me. March 6 Magic Formula for
this: March 6 was basically stress-free.
As of now I am estimating that if I re-create
everything that I did March 6 I will have an emotionally paradisical
practice (even if this means superstitiously doing some things that are
unnecessary).
Note: keeping track of things like points 1-11 could be useful for
improving performance also, not just emotional state.
Points 1 to 11 above show that
today I deviated from what seems to produce a paradisical emotional
state on March 6 in certain ways: yet again, compared to
March 6, more time was spent lying in bed
and not sleeping; the pre-game meal was taken closer to practice
start; the pregame meal was very skimpy compared to March 6; 0
oz beer was consumed evening of day before practice; herbal sleeping
pills were taken before sleep day before practice; the day was somewhat
stressful compared to March 6; there was no rest the day before the
practice.
What was done right today going by so to
speak the March 6 Entry-Into-Paradise-Formula: the time spent sleeping
was similar to March 6; the MAOI herbs were consumed on the day
before the practice day and not on the practice day; the number of hours
exposed to daylight prior to the practice.
Positive things done today that were different from March
6: Drinking lots of berry juice before going to bed
and afterwards seemed to produce an unusually restful sleep.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing much to report.
Faces in the
Crowd:
There were some grade school to high school "Spanish Boys" playing
basketball on the side of the gym I was on; on the other the right side of
the gym, separated from us by a big blue curtain, they were hurling a hard
little lacrosse ball here and there using their nets on sticks. I decided
to avoid the hard ball hurled by the net on the stick and did the runs on
the other side.
The presence of about 8 "Spanish Boys" did not impair my performance.
At one point, "Spanish Boy" Carlos, made a little bow in my direction
and said, 'I'm just Carlos'. He Carlos seemed more mature than he wa prior
to me writing him up in this log a few weeks ago, for the sin of shouting
about how I allegedly have 'madly skinny legs'.
I guess there is something about words written down in a log
such as this--they have more impact than words that are merely
spoken.
Today the 'Spanish Boys' did not directly compliment me, but seems it
is a certain kind of "Spanish Boy" that does compliment me. The ones that
compliment me are the best player in the bunch, or the maturest of the
bunch types.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between
yesterday's practice and today's I again ate/drank little (mostly
organic/natural) (not necessarily in order listed): $5 of baked
frozen breaded scallops, a baked fish-stick, about 28 oz Bolthouse Berry juices (seemed to improve
sleep), halfnhalf, cane sugar, lemon juice tartar sauce,
organic 'ghee', slice multigrain bread, 2 hrebal sleeping
pills; plus
probably some insignificant forgotten stuff.
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Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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| Saturday March 29
'08
650-750 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 60 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today
Today I still had a slight cough
|
6th Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C+;
(repeat:)
Today again I was
running an air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-R" type 'LHKH'
pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the
run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping
it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then
heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible, and
all with the ball not touching the ground. The ZZ
innovation is that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R
for right) specifically means that after flipping the ball up the first
kick sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd
touch with the foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the
right; the 4th touch with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally
to the left.
Today I decided to shorten the log entry leaving out the emotions
stuff and some other stuff like details about what I ate. I think I have a
pretty good idea now how to improve the emotional state, and will report
on it again when I have something significant to report. Seems
that including all the extra info in the log reports, in and of itself is
a stress and a drain on time and energy which could negatively impact my
emotional state and or my performance. Reminds me of how there is
apparently this phenomenon in science whereby the simple observation of
some thing that is happening, in and of itself automatically changes what
is happening; you could similarly say, that the degree or
extent to which something is observed, effects the thing that is
being observed. I wonder whether too much reporting on things
like when I awake or go to sleep or how I feel emotionally or what I
ate could negatively effect my performance in areas of life such as
what is reported on. Seems like revealing too much in terms of
details about one's private life, could negatively effect one's ability to
improve onself. The time and energy put into reporting such
details, reduces time and energy available for things like thinking out
the solutions to the soccer performance problems and getting on with
non-jock life.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH pattern)
NR = no report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
Today practice started 650
PM ended 750 PM--total 60 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 650 PM
start). At 650 PM in
the 1st minute on the 1st attempt, there occurred
ZZ-R LHKH success #1; at 659 PM in the 10th minute success
#6 was a good run that adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern; at
702 PM in the 13th minute pattern-adherence-success #8 was the
first 'perfect' run. In the end after 60 minutes:
there had been 5 runs in which I almost adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact
that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there
had been 38 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH pattern. That comes out to 0.08
almosts per minute and 0.63 successes
per minute.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63 C+ level performance as a grade (up from
C- or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very
high standards. I decided to give myself a C+
today, because I estimate that when I first get to 0.83
successes per minute, I will be at a B- grade level.
On the positive side--
From the tenth minute to the end in the 60th minute, there were runs
that adhered to pattern and were: long and/or fast and/or tightly
controlled. Though the object of the drills it to alternate between using
the feet and using the head in touching the ball, there were about a half a dozen runs featuring sharp
competent zig-zagging using the feet to hit the ball at the angle
points.
On the negative side--
As usual, too many runs ended in failure to adhere to
pattern or merely low quality adherence to pattern. Today during
after just the first 20 minutes (yesterday this figure was 40
minutes) I felt pain in the soles of the feet; and after the practice
I felt sore and stiff. This has to do with the lack of Potassium today
and/or the lack of the nutrients cocktail today.
I drank about ?? oz water
during the workout today.
During the practice I noted--
The new zig-zagging as opposed to
straight pattern, puts more stress on the feet as the feet struggle
against factors such as slippery floor and shoes wearing out, to
produce the zig-zags; when you combine this stress with the pain in the
soles of the feet that is a result of lack of nutrients, what you end
up with is a significant impairment, especially when
the impairment has to be struggled with day after day.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff:
The night before the practice, I again had a dream about the Myrtle
St. girl, who I talked about having a dream about in the March 25
entry 4 days ago. In the dream: it was night-time, but I could see
what was going on anyway. This ocean wave went by me from my left to my
right, the crest of the wave was carrying one or two dozen people away at
a high speed with force; the people being swept away were shouting,
"treason!"; one of these people was the Myrtle St. girl.
The dream saddened me. People feeling betrayed is sad; people being
betrayed is sad; people feeling betrayed and expressing their sense of
betrayal is sad. In the dream what I saw was not betrayed people cleverly
prospering as individuals by sucking up to the betrayers of their group.
What I saw was betrayed people vocally expressing their sense of betrayal.
From a punky-type point of view, those who prosper by sucking up
to their betrayers are more fun and relaxing than those who openly express
their sense of betrayal.
Seems to me that there are these disrespectable people, who in
their conduct and attitude resemble forces of nature. They seem to think
like this: tornadoes and tsunamis and hurricanes and earthquakes kill
millions of people, and so there is nothing wrong with me killing and
destroying and damaging millions of people.
Faces in the
Crowd:
This brown haired white girl who I guess is about nine
years old, who often wears a flashy silver belt, was playing basketball in
the gym while I was there as has been the case a few times previously. She
is hard to describe without using over-used words that generalize too much
like 'cute'. To me she though not typically pretty is a good-looking
enjoyable part of nature as she runs around the gym playing with the
boys. Today as I was doing the runs, twice she sat down in the chair
directly behind my starting point for a few minutes and drank from her
water bottle. There were all these chairs lined up in a row, 20 or 30 of
them, and she chose to sit down in the one closest to my starting
point. Her sitting there did not seem to impair my performance.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between
yesterday's practice and today's I again ate/drank little (mostly
organic/natural). Skipping the details on this for now.
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Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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| Sunday March 30
'08
510-609 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 59 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today
Today my slight cough
was almost completely gone, I think due to combo of steam room and
nutrients cocktail |
7th Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C-;
(repeat:)
Today again I was
running an air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-R" type 'LHKH'
pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the
run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping
it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then
heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible, and
all with the ball not touching the ground. The ZZ
innovation is that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R
for right) specifically means that after flipping the ball up the first
kick sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd
touch with the foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the
right; the 4th touch with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally
to the left.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions during the
practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH pattern)
NR = no report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
Today practice started 510
PM ended 609 PM--total 59 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 510 PM
start). At 514 PM in
the 5th minute, there occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1; at 516
PM in the 7th minute success #2 was a good run that adhered
to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern; at 518 PM in the 9th minute
pattern-adherence-success #3 was the first 'perfect'
run. In the end I counted 57 minutes running the drill as I
subtracted 2 minutes due to a (dreaded inevitable) collision with a
grade-schoolish boy; in the 57 minutes there had been 7 runs in
which I almost adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern (almost means that the
pattern was off by no more than the fact that one of the touches in the
pattern was somewhat off); there had been 27 successes in
maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH pattern.
That comes out to 0.12 almosts per
minute and 0.47 successes per minute.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47 C- level performance as a grade (up from
C- or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very
high standards. I decided to give myself a C-
today, because I estimate that when I first get to 0.83
successes per minute, I will be at a B- grade level.
On the positive side--
Several of the runs today featured sharper turns on the
angles compared to the slighter turns of yester-yore. In my notes
in my notebook taken during the practice, these runs were described
as: fast sharp KK (two kicks in a row) zig-zag; sharp tite; sharp;
sharp; fast tite sharp; long tite sharp; long fast tite sharp
perfecto; sharp; fast tite sharp; sharp; long sharp. In other words, the sharp turns on the angles were
today combined with speed and/or tightness of control and/or long
length of run.
I did not really feel like today was a
step downwards compared to yesterday because of this improvement in the
sharpness of the angles on the turns; but as of now, I am
going by the numbers which do not take into account the sharpness of the
turns and by the numbers today is a C- compared to yesterday's C+.
From beginning to end today, there occurred at regular intervals
runs that were long and/or fast and/or tight that adhered to
pattern.
On the negative side--
At 528 PM the dreaded inevitable occurred. I had already been doing
the runs across the uncrowded gym floor for 18 minutes and the
grade-schoolish white boys playing on the basketball court had seen me
doing them. But of course after I started a run, a typically
oblivious boy ran right into my way and collided with me at about the
13th yard of the run, sending me and himself to the floor. Admirably, I have been keeping my head and eyes up on these
runs, not following the ball with my eyes all the way to the point of the
touch with the foot--still I did not see the
boy because he was so short that he ran right under my field of
vision.
As I hit the floor, my first reaction was, what if the kid is hurt
and I get in trouble? I shouted at the kid that he should watch where he
is going. The kid was not crying or complaining luckily he was not hurt. I
apologized to his tall white bald athletic looking clean-shaven white
dad; his dad was very nice about it--he just said, 'that's alright'. Then
I complimented the kid for being tough and heroic about the collision.
I do my absolute best to avoid such collisions; the path was clear
when I started the run, but the kid being short ran under my visual radar
and blam!, I was sprawled out on the floor. After this collision,
my performance in the strictly numerical sense of pattern-adherence
successes per minute was down; it is sort of sickening, that
momentary fear of not being allowed to practice in the gym because of a
collision with some kid; and then that fear of such a collision occurring
yet again.
As usual these days with this dificult now drill, too many
runs ended in failure to adhere to pattern or merely low quality adherence
to pattern. Today after just the first 23 minutes (yesterday
this figure was 20 minutes) I felt pain in the soles of the
feet; and after the practice I felt sore and stiff. This has to
do with the lack of Potassium today and/or the lack of the nutrients
cocktail today. I have been skipping the potassium and the nutrients
cocktail due to running out of time before the start of the practice.
I drank about 1 oz water during
the workout today.
During the practice I noted--
One of the many positive aspects of alternating between feet and
head, is that naturally the middle parts of the body such as the chest and
the thigh come into play (today there was a very tightly controlled
sharply zig zagging run in which the thigh came into play). If
one is aiming for such an alternating foot to head to foot pattern and the
placement of the ball intended to set up a header is a little off, the
thigh or the foot can still be brought into use to continue the
air-dribble run. If I kick the ball say with
my left foot on a slant forwards and to the right, and miss the ball with
my head, I can bring my right foot into play as a back-up to continue the
air-dribble run at speed with the ball under control.
There is a real conflict doing this drill, between the impulse to
produce high-quality runs, and the desire to produce a good score in terms
of pattern-adherence runs per minute. The tendency is that the number of
pattern adherence runs per minute score goes down if I emphasize the
production of high quality runs. But
attempting high quality runs can contribute to improved performance at
least as much as trying to run up a high score in terms of
pattern-adherence-runs per minute.
Similarly, sometimes there are runs in which a ball is somewhat
mis-hit so the result is that in order to have a chance at turning the run
into a pattern-adherence success, I have to hustle especially hard. When I
am mentally focused on producing a high pattern-adherence-run per minute
score the result can be that I neglect to produce the hustle required to
possibly turn the run into a pattern-adherence success, because
I figure that it would be better to save the energy given the
low(?) probability of turning the run into a success through the
extra hustle. The conflict and the paradox is that
when I do produce the hustle needed to prevent a somewhat mis-hit ball
from getting out of control, the result can be very fast very tight very
long runs that are some of the best runs I have ever
produced; the production of which improves
performance more than obsessing over producing a high
pattern-adherence per minute score.
There are times when I surprise myself with bursts of speed, whereby
from a jogging type start, I sprint around ten yards at max speed to
chase down and contact balls before the balls hit the ground, balls that
it seems would be impossible to reach before they hit the ground given
that they have been hit so far ahead at such a low trajectory. These
bursts of speed often are forcibly slowed down at the end, due to the
presence of the wall on the opposite side of the gym. We hear alot about the 40 yard dash from the crouch start
and the 'shuttle' back and forth sprints and the like; but what about the
ten yard sprint from the jogging start?
I have also noted that I am becoming quicker and quicker when it coms
to changes of direction, despite the disadvantage of indoor soccer shoes
on a wood basketball court. What about
quickness with such changes of direction, which are not 180 degree turns
of the type made in 'shuttle' runs but rather are turns at
angles of the type commonly made during games?
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing much today
Faces in the
Crowd: Elvis Sarge walked up to me as I was
practicing. He kept saying, 'Ronaldo, Ronaldo, Ronaldo', as he looked at
me. I said, 'what'? He said, 'ya, you're a Ronaldo'. There are two
world-class Ronaldos considered amongst the best forwards in the world,
one is Ronaldo of Brazil who is similar to me in body build (stocky for a
soccer player) build but darker skinned; the other is Ronaldo of
Portugal who is white, more similar to me in face, but thinner than me.
Then I told Elvis Sarge about this Ronaldo I knew who worked at the
gas station, and he started shouting emphatically that he did not know
Ronaldo who works at the gas station. I guess snobbery is infectious; the
victims of snobbery feel as if they can get ahead by becoming snobs
themselves.
Weight/Appearance: Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between
yesterday's practice and today's I again ate/drank little (mostly
organic/natural). Skipping the details on this for now.
|
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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| Monday March 31
'08
532-628 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 56 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today
Today my slight cough was almost completely gone, I think
due to combo of steam room and nutrients
cocktail
I wonder, how many times per day does the
healthy person cough? |
8th Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C+; new personal
record numerical score (repeat in small type:) Today
again I was running an air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-R"
type 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at
minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch
1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking
it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more
than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward as fast as
possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH
pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R for right) specifically means that
after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd touch with the foot sends the
ball forwards and diagonally towards the right; the 4th touch with the
head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions
during the practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
NR = no
report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
March 31 C+ NR
Today practice started 532
PM ended 628 PM--total 56 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 532 PM
start). At 532 PM in the 1st minute, there
occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1; at 537 PM in the 6th minute
success #4 was a good run that adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; at 542 PM in the 11th minute pattern-adherence-success #8
was the first 'perfect' run. In the end I in the 57
minutes there had been 5 runs in which I almost adhered to the
ZZ-R LHKH pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by no more than
the fact that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off);
there had been 39 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern. That
comes out to 0.09 almosts per minute and 0.70 successes per minute. 0.70 successes per minute
is an all-time record for me in this drill.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH
Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70 C+ level performance as a grade (up from
C- or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very
high standards. I decided to give myself a C+
today, because I estimate that when I first get to 0.83
successes per minute, I will be at a B- grade level.
On the positive side-- from the beginning to the
end, there were many runs that adhered to pattern, that were long and/or
fast and/or tight and/or sharp on the turns of the zig-zag. Several of the runs were runs that I felt proud of, runs
that combined two or more of such characteristics, runs that I felt
excelled zig-zagging runs I had done previously.
There continued to be improvement in all facets effecting quality of runs,
the number of runs featuring sharp turns on the zig-zags continued to
increase, there continued to be manifestations of tightly
controlled fast zig-zags using the feet twice in a row as opposed
to what is prescribed in the ZZ-R LHKH pattern which is the alternation of
the use of feet and head.
The quality of the kicks of the ball after the
fourth touch with the head, was excellent today and exceeded the quality
of the kick of the ball on the third touch. In a sense this is good news,
because it means that I am not in a position in which I face
some difficult future problem of mastering zig-zagging at a high speed a
long distance from the point at which I started the air-dribble.
Strange that I should be doing so well after the fourth touch but messing
up on the third touch.
The tightness of control on the runs was really
impressive today; today there were a few long
fast tightly controlled zig-zag runs featuring sharp turns on the
zig-zags, in which the tightness of control was so extreme that the ball
never went more than 3-4 feet away from my body during the course of the
run--this while I was sprinting over a length of 15 yards
keeping the ball off the ground but close to my body, zig-zagging,
alternating between touching the ball with my head and with my feet! Oh my
Gosh!
On the negative side--
The weakness clearly as
of now is the 3rd touch of the run with the foot. Time
after time I set up what should have been an easy 3rd touch with the left
foot, through good work on the first touch with the foot and the second
touch with the head; and time after time I miskicked the ball on the third
touch with the foot. Weird thing is that I was doing great today on
touches with the foot that came after the first touch with the head, at a
time when the ball and my body were both traveling at high speed; but on
the third touch with the foot coming before the ball and the body speed
had gotten to a high level, I was mis-kicking the ball.
Yesterday and today, inspired by the way the college
basketball players on TV shoot the simple basic free-throw shots well, I
decided that I had to crack down on myself, concentrate, and stop making
mistakes on the first kick of the runs with the left foot that comes after
flipping the ball up with the left foot. In the process the first kick and
the second touch with the head significantly improved but seems the
quality of the third touch with the foot declined.
As usual these days with this dificult now
drill, too many runs ended in failure to adhere to pattern or
merely low quality adherence to pattern. Today again
after about 30 minutes of practice there began to be pain
in the soles of the feet and after the practice I felt sore
and stiff. This had to do with the lack of Potassium today and/or the lack
of the nutrients cocktail today. I have been skipping the potassium and
the nutrients cocktail due to running out of time before the start of the
practice.
I drank about 1 oz water during
the workout today.
During the practice I noted--
One way to deal with the
problem that the 3rd touch with the left foot is the weak link in the
chain, would be to end the air-dribble after the 4th touch with the head,
so as to put more practice time into the 3rd touch with the
foot. Heretofore I have been continuing the zig zag
foot-head alternation pattern after the 4th touch with the head extending
the runs up to sometimes 7 or 8 touches (even though such extra effort
does not increase my pattern-adherences/minute score).
After the practice I noted--
Today and yesterday the interval between
awaking and starting practice was unusually low time-wise, 3.5-4 hours
only.
This good practice today came after I had been
eating only food I myself cooked for a couple of days. Yesterday and the
day before I made and ate an spaghetti sauce I made that is very different
from other previous sauces out there in the world; if you told
people that it is a secret recipe dating from the time Marco Polo visited
Kublai Khan in Xanadu and when Venice and the East first met, people
would believe you. I seem to have good luck with things
like sports performance when I eat food that I myself have
cooked.
Basically the recipe
involves frying ground pork in peanut oil with: cayenne
pepper powder, yellow mustard powder, whole (not ground) coriander seeds,
Siberian ginseng powder (available at Cambridge Naturals in bulk), Ginger
powder (available at Cambridge Naturals in bulk), black pepper, cane
sugar, sea salt, and turmeric; and then mixing the fried meat with
spaghetti sauce. The trick to optimum quality production seems to be to
know exactly when to add the spices to the mix as spices can be overcooked
and undercooked; to be on the safe side, one could opt to add a
given spice at various times during the cooking process. This is
new never heard of Siberian Ginseng powder or ginger powder being
used in cooking. I think the recipe excels due to: the use of the ginseng
powder and the ginger powder; replacing coriander powder which is
overemhasized in south asian cooking with whole coriander seeds; relying
on black pepper less than typical south asian cooking does.
Sort of peeved me how the volleyballers who took
over at 630 PM and started coming in the gym around 615 PM, failed to so
to speak burn incense to me the emperor. Here is the transcript of the
notes I took during the practice from 615 PM on re what I was doing; I did
these spectacular things described in the notes while the
volleyballers were in the gym with me in the last 15 minutes of
practice--yet none of them acknowledged that anything heroic had happened.
First I give the key for reading the notes and then the notes as they
appear in my notebook, having been scribbled with a pen while I was
practicing:
Key: L=long, the air-dribble run
was 15 yds or more in length; T=tight the ball was kept especially close
to the body in the course of the air-dribble run; F=fast I was sprinting
at an especially fast pace during the air-dribble run; sharp=the angle of
the turns on the zig-zags was especially sharp; perfecto=the run was
perfect; # sign followed by a number = for example: #30 means the runs was
the 30th run that successfully adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern.
Notes excerpt:
#27 LT
sharp 615; #28 LFT sharp
perfecto 616; #29 F 617; #30 LFT sharp perfecto, 618; #31 L 619; #32
LT sharp 620; #33
FT sharp 622;
#34 LFT sharp
perfecto 623; #35 TF sharp 623; #36 FT sharp 624; #37, 625; #38, LT 627; #39 T
sharp 628; end
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing
much today
Faces in the Crowd: See
previous section re volleyballers.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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| Tuesday April 1
'08
830 -935 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
ZZ-R (zig-zag) LHKH Soccer
Air-Dribble Runs 65 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf plus 1 tspn American Ginseng and 1 tspn Korean
Ginseng
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 6 oz wine consumed evening of day before practice; 2
Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping capsules taken before
bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for Ginsengs in tea prior
to start of workout.
Today my
slight cough was almost completely gone, I think due to combo of steam
room and nutrients cocktail-- but it could have been just the nutrients
cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does the healthy person
cough |
9th Day of New
Very Difficult 'ZZ-R' (zig-zag) type LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance B-; new personal
record numerical score=0.86 ZZ-R LHKH successes per minute; today I finally succeeded in attaining to at
least the target 0.83 per
minute
(repeat in small type:) Today again I was running an air-dribble pattern, the
"ZZ-R" type 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH
pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-R (R for right) specifically means that
after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the right; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the left; the 3rd touch with the foot sends the
ball forwards and diagonally towards the right; the 4th touch with the
head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions
during the practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
NR = no
report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
March 31 C+ NR
March 31 C+ NR
April 1 B-
NR Today practice started 830
PM ended 935 PM--total 65 minutes running the ZZ-R LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 830 PM
start). At 830 PM in the 1st minute, there
occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1; it ws a good and perfect run taking
into account that today I refrained from attempts to continue the
runs beyond the 4th touch. It was a fast and tightly controlled
run. In the end in the 65 minutes there had
been 9 runs in which I almost adhered to the ZZ-R LHKH pattern
(almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one
of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there had
been 56 successes in maintaining the ZZ-R LHKH pattern. That comes out to 0.14
almosts per minute and 0.86 successes
per minute. 0.86 successes per minute is an all-time record for me in this
drill; the 0.86 score means that for the first time, I have attained to
the target I set for myself in this drill of 0.83/minute.
The idea has been, to attain to 0.83 per
minute; and then slow down the pace of attempts per hour and concentrate
on improving quality of runs scored as successes; and then, finally to
move on to the ZZ-R LHKH which would involve the first slant being towards
the left instead. Then again I could move to the ZZ-L variant before
polishing up the quality of the ZZ-R.
Stats so Far for ZZ-R LHKH
Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally
attained!) B- level performance as a grade (up from
C- or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very
high standards. I decided to give myself a B-
today, because I estimated that when I first got to 0.83
successes per minute, I would be at a B- grade level.
On the positive side--
Today I ended the runs after the 4th
touch with the head (I discussed this tactic yesterday), so as to increase
the emphasis on the weak link in the chain, which has been the 3rd touch
with the foot, which surprisingly has been much less accurate than
touches with the foot coming after the 4th touch with the head.
The result, as I had expected, was that I
improved more than usual on the 3rd touch with the foot, and had more
time and energy to put into practicing the 3rd touch with the
foot.
On the negative side--
Given the savings of time and energy derived from ending the runs
after the 4th touch with the head, one might even better than the 0.86 per
minute recorded today.
The cutting short the runs after the 4th touch with the head resulted
in the fact that there is less to crow about today. Those high
speed touches with the foot and the head coming after the 4th touch with
the head are what make these runs spectacular but today they were not even
being attempted.
Despite the high score, still too many runs ended in
failure to adhere to pattern or merely low quality adherence to
pattern. Today again after about 30 minutes of
practice there began to be pain in the soles of the feet and
after the practice I felt sore and stiff; but it was not as bad as
yesterday despite the fact that again I skipped the complete maoi herbs
(ecxept for gingseng in my tea), the pre-practice nutrients cocktail, and
the pre-practice potassium. Today I mixed American Ginseng and Korean
Ginseng into the tea I drank before practice.
I drank 0 oz water during the workout
today.
Before the practice I noted--
When the 3rd touch with the foot is off,
this means that the number of chances to even attempt a 4th or 5th or 6th
or 7th etc. touch is reduced. Thus at the present time it makes tactical
sense to end the runs after the 4th touch so as to have more time and
energy available for practicing the 3rd touch.
After the practice I noted:
I have learned the value of a stoic
approach, I have been preventing failures during practice
or disappointments off the practice field from messing up performance.
Reasons for the 3rd touch with the foot being surprisingly less
competent than touches with the foot coming after the 4th touch with the
head: at high speed it is easier to zig zag at a given angle; the runs
that are still going after the 4th touch with the head are the better runs
featuring the ball being accurately placed.
I estimate that now I am at a level of skill/endurance in terms of
pattern-adherences per minute, that excels the past. I estimate that the
mental stoicism combined with the mental concentration I have tought
myself should be credited for this.
Today I noted that compressing my lips during the first touch with
the foot seemed to produce good results. In Proverbs it says that 'he that
compresseth his lips bringeth evil to pass'--but this is a game, and you
could say I am bringing 'evil to pass' for the defense and the defenders.
It would be unreasonable to fail to record that today: I had
more rest before the practice than usual; and, today prior to practice I
put 1 tspn of Korean Ginseng, and 1 tspn of expensive American Ginseng,
into the tea I had before practice.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing
much today
Faces in the Crowd: Nothing to
report gym mostly empty today.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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| Wednesday April 2
'08
835 -935 PM
Waltham Y Gym |
1st day of ZZ-L (zig-zag) LHKH
Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 60 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf plus 2 tspns 'Siberian Ginseng'.
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 30 oz champagne consumed evening of day before
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout; but some potato chips eaten before
workout; little pain in soles of feet during or after workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for Siberian Ginseng in
tea prior to start of workout.
Today my
slight cough was almost completely gone, I think due to combo of steam
room and nutrients cocktail-- but it could have been just the nutrients
cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does the healthy person
cough |
1st Day of New
Ultra-difficult zig-zag type ZZ-L LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C-; numerical
score=0.44 ZZ-L LHKH successes per minute;
Today for the first time I
ran a new air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-L" type 'LHKH'
pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the
run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping
it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then
heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between
touches, all with me running forward as fast as possible, and
all with the ball not touching the ground. The ZZ
innovation is that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-L (L
for left) specifically means that after flipping the ball up the first
kick sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 2nd touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 3rd
touch with the right foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards
the left; the 4th touch with the head sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the right.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions
during the practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
NR = no
report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
March 31 C+ NR
March 31 C+ NR
April 1 B-
NR (new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern)
April 2 C-
NR Today practice started 835
PM ended 935 PM--total 60 minutes running the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern (minus 1 minute subtracted because basketballer white teenager
with 'Chi-town' shirt kicked soccer ball across gym); (there was no
warm-up prior to the 835 PM start). At 835
PM in the 1st minute, there occurred ZZ-R LHKH success #1;
it was a long run. At 839 PM in the 5th minute, there was
success #3 in adhering to pattern, it was a fast tight long perfect run.
In the end in the 59 minutes there had been 10
runs in which I almost adhered to the ZZ-L LHKH pattern (almost means that
the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one of the touches in
the pattern was somewhat off); there had been 26 successes in
maintaining the ZZ-L LHKH pattern.
That comes out to 0.17 almosts per
minute and 0.44 successes per minute.
The idea now is, to attain to 0.83 per
minute; and then slow down the pace of attempts per hour and concentrate
on improving quality of runs scored as successes.
Stats so Far for ZZ variants of the
LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern) March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally attained!)
(new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern) April 2
0.17
0.44 C- level performance as a grade, is in the
context of what have become very high standards. I decided to give
myself a C- today, because with the previous ZZ-R
variant, I started at 0.16 successes per minute, and estimated that
when I first got to 0.83 successes per minute, I would be at a B-
grade level.
On the positive side--
I surprised myself with the competence and elegance of my right foot.
Amazing how well my right foot does, seeing
that I am left footed, doing difficult air-dribbling stuff, and the right
foot gets maybe one touch for every touch the left foot gets in the drills
I have been doing. I guess I have forgotten about
all the time I spent doing the E3, in which I alternate between kicking
the ball with the left foot and kicking it with the right foot while
running forwards and keeping the ball off the ground. I estimate
as of now, that the right foot in certain ways is technologically superior
because I learned how to air-dribble with the right foot after I learned
how to air-dribble with the left foot because I am left-footed. Thus the
errors that ingrained themselves in the left foot style, did not engrain
themselves in the right-footed style, or such I suppose. Abd maybe
the defects that are characteristic of the right-brain which controls the
left foot, are to blame (I must admit I am naturally left-footed, but I've
heard the left brain which controls the right foot is in certain
ways superior to the right side of the brain which controls the left
foot).
With my left foot when I kick the ball on these air-dribbles, I tend
to use the ankle; with my right foot, I tend to use the knee (after
extensive experimentation I learned that on the first kick of these runs,
the kick that comes after flipping the ball up, it is better to use the
knee as opposed to the ankle). It could be, that the kick that
involves a flick of the ankle, characteristic of the left-footed
kicks, is not as good as the kick that emphasizes knee movement (
characteristic of the right-footed kick), when it comes to an air-dribble
kick that involves a zig-zagging change of direction.
We could get lost in bureaucratic clerical details forever, such as
'how many peanuts did I eat in the last 24 hrs?:' but the point is that
today I showed that I can zig-zag using my
right foot, even though I am left-footed. Thus we can now say with
confidence, that undoubtedly, within a few weeks I will be at the level of
a demi-god, super-hero, super-star, whatever you want to call it, when it
comes to the game of soccer.
The 3rd touch of the day today was always with the right foot.
Although there was a certain level of inconsistency on these touches with
the right foot, nevertheless, large numbers of these kicks on the
3rd touch with the right foot, were, impressively and surprisingly, very
accurate.
On the negative side-- there was too much
inconsistency, too many runs technically scored as successful
pattern-adherence runs which were low quality, too many runs which failed
to adhere to pattern. This was due to mis-kicks on the first touch with
the left foot and on the 3rd touch with the right foot.
I drank 0 oz water during the workout
today.
Before the practice I noted-- today is the day to do
the ZZ-L variant of the LHKH pattern, as opposed to further refining the
ZZ-R variant of the LHKH pattern. This because: the ZZ-L variant
is more closely related to ZZ-R basic than it is to ZZ-R
advanced; I have been having success via the formula
whereby the emphasis is on the new difficult drill as opposed to the
familiar drill which has become easy; my heart mind and soul felt
like doing the ZZ-L basic now.
After the practice I noted: The successes per minute while there were
lots of people (spanish boys etc playing basketball) in the gym in
the first 26 minutes was, 0.52 per minute; in the second 33 minutes (just
3 'Spanish' teenagers-adults sitting in the bleachers watching and
discussing things like me) it was 0.39 successes per minute. Just
goes to show again how I tend to come alive when the gym is packed.
Better than being someone who chokes when he is being watched by
lots of people I guess.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing
much today
Faces in the Crowd: Before the
practice this Iranian guy with graying hair and a mustache, who said that
I was insane to send emails to Iran Prez Ahmadinejad, and who had
previously been what I would call 'rude' to me, was in the locker room
talking with this 'Spanish' man about all the kids and grand-kids the
'Spanish' man had had. The Iranian guy was very complimentary re what a
great thing it was that the 'Spanish' man with the extensive tattoos had
kids and grand-kids. It all sounded as if what he meant was, that
this hyar 'Spanish' man having all these kids and grand-kids, was such a
great thing compared to this guy here ( me) who is merely becoming
the world's best soccer player. And I felt like, how can they
blame me for not having kids, they are denying me what it takes to have
kids, namely plenty of money, they come up with weird northeastern liberal
'masshole' bullshit like 'yo is overqualified'.
I was thinking, that these American Christians.
and etc. tend to destroy their nation and their
world because they are like some kind of creature that would suck the
devil's c___ if such would get their damned daughter a college
scholarship; they have kids when they should not have any, or they have
too many kids, as a result of which they have too little time and energy
and money for the concerns of society; their whole game is that thir
kids are their excuse for their cowardly effeminate failure to
be a good citizen (they obsess over the advancement and welfare of their
kids); the end result is that their kids are worse off than they would be
if their damned parents had put some emphasis on citizenship as opposed to
motherhood and fatherhood; it has to do with the tendency to obsess over a
given scripture, take it out of context, and ignore all the other
scriptures, which is characteristic of American Christians; I am sick of
all the 'Massholes' treating parents with kids like God to the point
where they abuse beautiful men who are brilliant and amongst the world's
best athletes.
The first half of practice today the gym was filled with 'Spanish'
boys and teenagers and whites and blacks playing basketball etc; the
second half it was just 3 'Spanish' persons sitting in the bleachers
talking and watching me. I heard them say something like: 'now let's see
what he says' (in his blog).
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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Thursday April 3
'08
902 -950 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
2nd day of ZZ-L (zig-zag)
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 48 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf plus 1 tspn Amer Ginseng, 1 tspn Korean Ginseng,
1 tspn Siberian Ginseng; plus 8 oz Bolthouse Farms 'C-Boost'
drink
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 30 oz champagne consumed evening of day before
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout; little pain in soles of feet during
or after workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for the Ginsengs in the in
tea prior to start of workout.
Today my
slight cough was almost completely gone, I estimate due to combo of
steam room and nutrients cocktail use-- but it could have been just the
nutrients cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does the healthy person
cough |
2nd Day of New
Ultra-difficult zig-zag type ZZ-L LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C; numerical
score=0.58 ZZ-L LHKH successes per minute;
Today again for the
second day, I ran a new air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-L" type
'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum,
starting the run kicking the ball with the left foot (L) (touch
1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking
it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4), all with no more
than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward as fast as
possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH
pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-L (L for left) specifically means that
after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the left; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the right; the 3rd touch with the right foot
sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the left; the 4th touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right.
Today for the third day in a row, I
refrained from continuing the air-dribble runs after the 4th touch with
the head.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions
during the practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
NR = no
report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
March 31 C+ NR
March 31 C+ NR
April 1 B-
NR (new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern)
April 2 C- NR
April 3 C NR Today practice started 902
PM ended 950 PM--total 48 minutes running the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern; (there was no warm-up prior to the 902 PM
start). At 902 PM in the 1st minute, there
occurred ZZ-L LHKH success #1; it was a long run. At 908
PM in the 7th minute, there was success #3 in adhering to pattern, it was
a tight fast sharply-angled perfect run. In the end in
the 48 minutes there had been 14 runs in which I almost
adhered to the ZZ-L LHKH pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by
no more than the fact that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat
off); there had been 28 successes in maintaining the ZZ-L
LHKH pattern. That
comes out to 0.29 almosts per minute and 0.58 successes per minute. The idea now is, to attain to 0.83 per minute; and then slow
down the pace of attempts per hour and concentrate on improving quality of
runs scored as successes. Stats so Far for ZZ variants of the
LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern) March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally attained!)
(new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern) April 2
0.17
0.44
April 3
0.29
0.58 C level performance as a grade (up from C-
or 'C minus' yesterday), is in the context of what have become very high
standards. I decided to give myself a C- today, because
with the previous ZZ-R variant, I started at 0.16 successes per
minute, and estimated that when I first got to 0.83 successes per
minute, I would be at a B- grade level.
At this rate of improvement, I will be at
the 0.83/minute (pattern-adhering-runs/minute) target in only two days.
On the positive side--
The day was similar to yesterday; what
stood out aside from the obvious improvement in terms of successes
and almost-successes per minute, was the degree to
which the runs featured tight control of the ball and sharp
turns on the zig-zags, and the number of runs that were tightly controlled
and sharp on the turns on the zig-zags. Like yesterday, the right foot produced many
excellent kicks, during which I felt as if my right foot was picking up
the ball, cradling it, and with excellent customer-service depositing the
ball on my forehead as I sprinted forwards.
On the negative side-- On the 3rd touch with the
right foot, as usual, there was too much inconsistency. as usual there was
too much inconsistency, too many runs technically scored as successful
pattern-adherence runs which were low quality, too many runs which failed
to adhere to pattern. This was due as usual to mis-kicks on the first
touch with the left foot and on the 3rd touch with the right foot.
I drank 0 oz water during the workout
today.
Before the practice I noted-- nothing much today.
After the practice I noted:
On the internet there is this constant stream of terrifying,
horrifying news regarding the economic future of this nation that I live
in; I have been again hounded via the answering machine by the guy who
bothers me with phone messages too much; I had no more than 3 hours of
sleep per night over the past two days; I only practiced for 48 minutes
today; the Mass 'Wildcats' girls basketball team coached by 'Black
Buddha' as usual overstayed their scheduled time today they took up
the entire court until 900 PM though I was ready to start at 830 PM and
this was depressing; the unnecessarily gratuitously unpleasant trustee Mr.
Grinch called on the phone; but, despite all
of this, by my efforts I turned a potentially lost and worthless day into
a day of dramatic advance forwards in terms of soccer--hats off, 'kudos',
whatever, to me.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: In the
only approx 3 hours sleep I got the so to speak 'night' before practice
today, I managed to have a dream; in the dream: it was the time period in
between 1800 and the civil war; a bunch of important types had misused
financial funds they had control over; they by way of shady illegal
dealings made alot of money with this money that they misused; but by the
time of the 21st century none of the descendants of these
swindlers were important; in the dream I saw the exact names of about
a dozen of these swindlers; when I awoke I could remember nothing except
that they were English type names; at the end of the dream after I in the
dream saw the names of the swindlers on what looked like a yellow and
orange label on a jazzy upbeat yuppyish bottle of wine, this
crocodile-like creature was biting at the left side of my torso but I felt
no pain; the creature was biting me because I had seen the names of the
swindlers.
Faces in the
Crowd:
As I started the practice, the stragglers amongst
the Mass WIldcats Girls Bball team such as their coach Donald who I call
'Black Buddha', probably saw the clumsy but not so clumsy beginnings
of today's practice which actually were not so clumsy; I saw Donald
sitting watching for a few minutes. I was wondering if they appreciated
that what they saw was the first few clumsy minutes of me working
with my clumsy right foot, sort of like a right-handed baseball pitcher
trying to throw with his left arm. During the practice I heard Donald the
'Black Buddha' lecturing to his girls, that he Donald is a 'stoic';
'stoic' is the exact word that I have used to describe my approach over
the past few weeks with regards to mastering the final crucial skills.
I was trying to digest the humiliation of being white and not a pro
computer programmer while Donald is black and a pro programmer. I
soothed my mental indigestion and heartburn by thinking of how
people like Donald who went to high school after I did, had the advantage
of growing up with computers and having access to computer programming
courses in high school, whereas I myself, being older than Donald, never
had a chance to take programming courses in high school and passed through
my formative years and even graduated from college before the
age of the widespread popularity of the internet and the personal
computer.
Thinking re the Iranian guy in the locker room yesterday shouting out
his speech re how great the Hispanic man was for having kids and
grandkids, I was thinking of amongst other things: all the lowly peasants
of the third world who have had six or more children (Mr. Iranian admires
the production of large number of kids so much); how the liberal-democrat
locals favor the less intelligent over the more intelligent and the less
attractive over the more attractive; how being liberal-democrat in and of
itself will not save your soul; how the story of my life is--another
beautiful young white woman wants to have kids, and another beautiful
young white woman wants to have kids, and another beautiful white woman
wants to have kids, etc etc on and on ad infinitum, and I am
not allowed to make enough money to afford such kids; how one
could say that the unintelligent outnumber the intelligent,
the unattractive outnumber the attractive, and the problems this
could lead to; how years ago I figured out theoretically (new and original
intellectual work) that the physically beautiful in terms of
personality and conduct must be assumed to be equal to the un-beautiful,
thus the beautiful being beautiful are above the un-beautiful,
whereas in these parts the un-beautiful are favored over the
beautiful and those beloved amongst the beautiful.
In another dream last night, I was in a room with my father's sister
and some other people; I was about 20 feet above the other people in
the room; one of the people 20 feet below me was my father's sister
and I angrily shouted at her for some reason.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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Friday April 4
'08
506 -600 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
3rd day of ZZ-L (zig-zag)
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 51 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup tea with cane
sugar and halfnhalf plus 1 tspn Korean Ginseng, & 1 tspn
Siberian Ginseng; FORGOT the Vit C containing
juice
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 30 oz wine consumed evening of day before
practice; 0 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout; little pain in soles of feet during
or after workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for the Ginsengs in the in
tea prior to start of workout.
(Repeat in
small type:) Today my slight cough was almost completely
gone, I estimate due to combo of steam room and nutrients cocktail
use-- but it could have been just the nutrients cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does
the healthy person cough |
3rd Day of New
Ultra-difficult zig-zag type ZZ-L LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C-; numerical
score=0.45 ZZ-L LHKH successes per minute;
Today again for
the 3rd day in a row now, I ran a new air-dribble pattern, the
"ZZ-L" type 'LHKH' pattern. The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH
pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-L (L for left) specifically means that
after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the left; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the right; the 3rd touch with the right foot
sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the left; the 4th touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right.
Today for the 4th day in a row, I refrained from
continuing the air-dribble runs after the 4th touch with the head.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions
during the practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
NR = no
report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
March 31 C+ NR
March 31 C+ NR
April 1 B-
NR (new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern)
April 2 C- NR
April 3 C NR
April 4 C- NR Today practice started 506
PM ended 600 PM--total 51 minutes running the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern since I subtracted 3 minutes for boys delaying things by getting
in the way; (there was no warm-up prior to the 506 PM
start). At 506 PM in the 1st minute, there
occurred ZZ-L LHKH success #1. At 511 PM in the 6th
minute, there was success #2 in adhering to pattern, it was a tight
sharply-angled perfect run. In the end in the 51
minutes there had been 15 runs in which I almost adhered to the
ZZ-L LHKH pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by no more than
the fact that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off);
there had been 23 successes in maintaining the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern. That
comes out to (like yesterday) 0.29 almosts per minute and 0.45 successes per minute (0.13 lower than
yesterday). The idea now is, to attain
to 0.83 per minute; and then slow down the pace of attempts per hour and
concentrate on improving quality of runs scored as successes in drills
already done, or move on to some new
drill. Stats so Far for ZZ variants of the
LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern) March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally attained!)
(new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern) April 2
0.17
0.44
April 3
0.29
0.58
April 4
0.29
0.45 C- level performance as a grade (down from
C yesterday), is in the context of what have become very high
standards. I decided to give myself a C- today, because
with the previous ZZ-R variant, I started at 0.16 successes per
minute, and estimated that when I first got to 0.83 successes per
minute, I would be at a B- grade level.
At this rate of the opposite of
(numerical score) improvement, you could say that I will be a
complete bozo in just 4 days.
On the positive side--
There were lots of 'almosts' and plenty of excellent
runs. Today I could see in my performance many runs that were fast
tight and sharply angled prior to the 3rd touch with the right foot-- I
could see such in some of the runs that almost adhered to pattern, and
also in some runs that did not even almost adhere to pattern as the
3rd touch with the right foot sent the ball off in a very inaccurate
fashion.
There are things beyond score
(pattern-adherence-runs per minute score), that are dramatic good news,
things that are maybe more important than the score, such as this being
fast and tightly controlled and sharply angled prior to the 3rd touch
instead of starting with the 3rd touch; yet the tendency is to get
gloomily obsessed with the numerical score, even though the numerical
score is only a rough measure of the quality of the performance.
(but we should remember that the best fairest criteria could still be a
rough and imperfect criteria)
Today there were fast tightly controlled sharply angled runs in which
I would first kick the ball diagonally forwards to the left; then head the
ball diagonally forwards to the right; and, then at full speed sprint get
my right foot on the ball and by mistake kick the ball away. If I
was not on the 3rd touch with the right foot trying to accomplish the
difficult feat of kicking the ball to a point ahead of me and
diagonally to my left where it can be headed on the sprint before it
bounces, I could have on these 3rd touches perhaps continued to maintain
tight control by deliberately hitting the ball so as to make it bounce
before I touched it again. On these runs I covered about ten yards from
beginning kick with the left foot to last touch with right foot.
In an actual game a fast tightly controlled sharply angled
ten yard air dribble sprint such as these, featuring a shot or pass
or continued air-dribble off of a bounce on the last 3rd touch
of the air-dribble, could be spectacular and deadly. You could say that in
actual games such 3 touch air-dribble sprints are more practical,
realistic, and common than longer 4 touch air-dribble sprints. Fact of the matter is that the short fast tightly controlled
sharply angled 10 yard 3 touch air-dribble sprints that I performed
today, even though they are not scored as pattern-adherence
successes, are vey glamorous and professional looking and something I
should now be chortling over and taking pride in; nevertheless my soul is
(foolishly?) cast down within me, due to the low pattern-adherence-runs
per minute numerical score today.
On the negative side-- Very inconsistent today on
the first touch with the left foot and the third touch with the right
foot.
Too many runs that technically speaking were
successful pattern-adherence runs were low quality, and too many runs
failed to adhere to pattern.
I drank 0 oz water during the workout
today.
Before the practice I noted-- nothing much today.
After the practice I noted:
Due to the inconsistency I became a little un-stoic and I do
not think this helped. There began to occur a crisis of self-confidence,
too much 2nd guessing, indecision and panic on the 3rd touch with the
right foot.
Yesterday I skipped the shower after practice because
the workout started late. The previous time when I skipped a shower the
performance was not so hot either.
Before the practice for the first time in
I think weeks, I neglected to drink a few ounces of juice
containing vitamin C; this probably negatively effected
performance.
Compared to yesterday and the day before, the time interval
between rising/waking and start of practice was small, and the amount of
tea drunk measured in terms of teabags used and also in terms of liquid
consumed was low; thus I was not as awake during the practice as I was the
previous two days. Today the interval between waking and start
practice was 3 hrs, whereas yesterday and the day before this interval was
6.5 hours.
When I woke up this morning I felt great, I felt as if the rainfall
that occurred during the night had cleaned out the environment ionized the
air allowed me to have more restful relaxing sleep than I have had in
weeks and rejuvenated me; nevertheless the level of performance was down.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing
much
Faces in the
Crowd:
The usual smattering of oblivious grade-school and high school age
boys.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
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Propel Gel Padding;
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Saturday April 5
'08
650 -750 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
4th day of ZZ-L (zig-zag)
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 60 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cupgreen tea with
cane sugar and halfnhalf; 2 cup coffee w cr and sug plus 2 tspn
Korean Ginseng, plus Bolthouse C juice
drink
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pills taken in 24
hours before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 0 oz wine consumed evening of day before
practice; 2 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout; little to no pain in soles of feet
during or after workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for the Ginseng in the in
tea prior to start of workout.
(Repeat in
small type:) Today my slight cough was almost completely
gone, I estimate due to combo of steam room and nutrients cocktail
use-- but it could have been just the nutrients cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does
the healthy person cough |
4th Day of New
Ultra-difficult zig-zag type ZZ-L LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; performance C; numerical
score=0.52 ZZ-L LHKH successes per minute;
Today again for
the 4th day in a row now, I ran a new air-dribble pattern, the
"ZZ-L" type 'LHKH' pattern. (Repeat:) The LHKH pattern features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking
the ball with the left foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then
heading it (H) (touch 2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it
again (H) (touch 4), all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all
with me running forward as fast as possible, and all with the
ball not touching the ground. The ZZ innovation is
that I run the LHKH pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-L (L for left)
specifically means that after flipping the ball up the first kick sends
the ball forwards and diagonally to the left; the 2nd touch with the head
sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right; the 3rd touch with
the right foot sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the left;
the 4th touch with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the
right.
Today for the 5th day in a row, I refrained from
continuing the air-dribble runs after the 4th touch with the head.
Thus far, the grades for performance and emotions
during the practices have been:
Performance/Emotions
(original straight not zig-zag LHKH
pattern)
NR = no
report
march 13 B-, C- march 15 B+ C march 16 A- C+ march 17 B+, C+ march 18 B- C+ march 19 C+ C+ march 20 B B march 21 B+ B-
march 22 B- B
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern)
march 24 D B
march
25 D+ C-
march 26 C- B-
march 27 C B-
march 28 C+ B
march 29 C+ NR
March 30 C- NR
March 31 C+ NR
March 31 C+ NR
April 1 B-
NR (new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern)
April 2 C- NR
April 3 C NR
April 4 C- NR
April 5 C NR Today practice started 650
PM ended 750 PM--total 60 minutes running the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern (there was no warm-up prior to the 650 PM
start). At 650 PM on the first attempt in
the 1st minute, there occurred ZZ-L LHKH success #1 a tight
sharp run. At 654 PM in the 5th minute, there was success #2 in
adhering to pattern, it was a tight sharply-angled fast perfect
run. In the end in the 60 minutes there had
been 23 runs on which I almost adhered to the ZZ-L LHKH pattern
(almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one
of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there had
been 31 successes in maintaining the ZZ-L LHKH pattern. That comes out to 0.38
almosts per minute and 0.52 successes
per minute (0.07 better than yesterday). The idea now is, to attain to 0.83 per minute; and then slow
down the pace of attempts per hour and concentrate on improving quality of
runs scored as successes in drills already done, or move on to some new
drills. Stats so Far for ZZ variants of the
LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern) March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally attained!)
(new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern) April 2
0.17
0.44
April 3
0.29
0.58
April 4
0.29
0.45
April 5
0.38
0.52 C level performance as a grade (down from
C yesterday), is in the context of what have become very high
standards. I decided to give myself a C- today, because
with the previous ZZ-R variant, I started at 0.16 successes per
minute, and estimated that when I first got to 0.83 successes per
minute, I would be at a B- grade level.
At this rate, from an arithmetic type
growth projection point of view I will be at the target 0.83 in 4.5
days; from an exponential compound interest point of view, at this rate of
growth I will be at the target 0.83 in 3 days.
On the positive side-- the first kick with the left
foot and the second touch with the head have been becoming more
consistent resulting in the right foot being consistently well set up for
kicks on the third touch. Today was a personal record for almosts per
minute; today was my second best performance it terms of almosts per
minute plus successes per minute looking at both the runs emphasizing the
left foot (ZZ-R) and those emphasizing the right (ZZ-L); nevertheless I
felt down re my performance today. Looks like I am suffering from
constantly-rising-expectations syndrome. In this syndrome since with each
passing day you have higher expectations for yourself, you underestimate
your rate of progress. As usual there were plenty of excellent or
perfect runs.
On the negative side-- Very inconsistent today on
the third touch with the right foot. Too many runs
that technically speaking were successful pattern-adherence runs were
low quality, and too many runs failed to adhere to pattern.
I drank 0 oz water during the workout
today.
Before the practice I noted-- nothing much today.
After the practice I noted:
I am tempted to at this point to attempt to focus on the 3rd touch
with the right foot by throwing the ball forward and to my left with my
hands, then heading it diagonally forwards to my right, and then kicking
it diagonally forwards to my left with my right foot and then heading it.
This would result in more chances of the 3rd touch with the right foot
type. But it would also result in less practice of the first touch
with the foot, less practice of the second touch with the head following a
first touch with the foot. Right now things are looking up with regards to
performance on the first two touches so for now I have decided not to
replace the first kick with the foot with a throw.
Compared to April 3 when I scored my personal record of 0.58 on this
drill on the first day I did this drill, the time interval between
rising/waking and start of practice was small; today there was
relatively speaking more hectic hassle etc
between waking/rising and start of practice. Today I lost a set
of car keys, got home and realized I had lost them, drove to the gas
station parking lot, and found them in the gas station parking lot all in
ten minutes just before leaving for the gym.
Today the interval between waking and start practice was
approx 5 hrs, whereas April 3 when I did well, this interval was
about 8 hours. Seems I perform better when practice commences later in the
evening. Then there is more time to get ready for practice.
Given all the disadvantages today, and the stress of a low
score yesterday, I thought I did pretty well today.
The only innovation I can think of now to
accelerate improvement on the 3rd touch with the foot is this: for a given
time segment watch the ball for as long as possible before kicking it with
the foot on the 3rd touch; and in other time segments watch the ball only
while it is above waist height which is the method I have usually employed
so far.
In a sense it is commendable that I have been watching the ball with
my eyes only when the ball is above waist height prior to the 3rd touch
with the right foot, because eyes-up means seeing what is going on in the
field. Yet it could be that for now, being left-footed by nature,
I might improve through some practice involving eyeing the ball for a
maximal amount of time prior to kicking it with the right foot on the 3rd
touch. Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing
much
Faces in the
Crowd:
The usual smattering of oblivious grade-school and high school age
boys.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
psi |
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Sunday April 6
'08
500 -600 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
5th day of ZZ-L (zig-zag)
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 60 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup double
strength brown tea with cane sugar and halfnhalf; 1 cup coffee w
cr and sug plus 1 tspn Korean Ginseng & 1 tspn Siberian
Ginseng,
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
1 5 mg melatonin pill taken in 24
hours before practice; 24 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 0 oz wine consumed evening of day before
practice; 1 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout; little to no pain in soles of feet
during or after workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for the Ginsengs in the in
tea prior to start of workout.
(Repeat in
small type:) Today my slight cough was almost completely
gone, I estimate due to combo of steam room and nutrients cocktail
use-- but it could have been just the nutrients cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does
the healthy person cough |
5th Day of New
Ultra-difficult Zig-Zag Type ZZ-L LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; numerical score=0.72 ZZ-L LHKH successes per minute, new
personal record; 5-6 PM at Waltham Y This evening, was like a
dramatic military victory (ignored by the Oblivious Boys)--successes were of high quality despite use of
clumsier right-foot on 3rd touches;
The performance showed I will quickly master the last obstacle on
the road to greatness, which is the zig-zagging using the right foot.
Today again for the 5th day in a row
now, I ran a new air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-L" type
'LHKH' pattern. (Repeat:) The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH
pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-L (L for left) specifically means that
after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the left; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the right; the 3rd touch with the right foot
sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the left; the 4th touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right.
Today for the 6th day in a row, I refrained from
continuing the air-dribble runs after the 4th touch with the head.
Today practice started 500
PM ended 600 PM--total 60 minutes running the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern (there was no warm-up prior to the 500 PM
start). At 500 PM on the first attempt in
the 1st minute, there occurred ZZ-L LHKH success #1.
At 512 PM in the 13th minute, there was success #6 in adhering
to pattern, it was a long (despite the 4 touch limit) fast tight
perfect run. In the end in the 60 minutes there had
been 16 runs on which I almost adhered to the ZZ-L LHKH pattern
(almost means that the pattern was off by no more than the fact that one
of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off); there had
been 43 successes in maintaining the ZZ-L LHKH pattern. That comes out to 0.27
almosts per minute and 0.72 successes
per minute (0.20 better than yesterday). The idea now is, to attain to 0.83 per minute; and then slow
down the pace of attempts per hour and concentrate on improving quality of
runs scored as successes in drills already done, or move on to some new
drills. Stats so Far for ZZ variants of the
LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern) March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally attained!)
(new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern) April 2
0.17
0.44
April 3
0.29
0.58
April 4
0.29
0.45
April 5
0.38
0.52
April 6
0.27
0.72 C+ level performance as a grade (down from
C yesterday), is in the context of what have become very high
standards. I decided to give myself a C- today, because
with the previous ZZ-R variant, I started at 0.16 successes per
minute, and estimated that when I first got to 0.83 successes per
minute, I would be at a B- grade level.
Easy to be Deceived by the harsh C+ grade I gave today's
practice, into underappreciating today's performance and the importance
thereof. Because of the way that I do the grading, you could on the grounds of
the C+ grade scoff at my performances these days. You would be wrong to
scoff because: practices such as today produced a relatively speaking
very high quality of run scored as success--the formula I use
to give the grade does not take into account quality of
successes; the formula used does not take into account the number
of runs recorded as almost being a success; the formula used is
pessimistic re what the quality of the runs scored as successes will be
when the score gets to 0.83 successes per minute; the
formula does not take into account whether the left or the right foot is
being used, this despite the fact that I am left footed
and naturally clumsier with the right foot; with the passage of time
though the general principle of giving myself the benefit of the doubt
remains, I become more and more stringent re whether I consider a run to
be a success (example judging the the ball did not slant left on the first
touch).
At this rate, looking at the 0.20 per minute advance from
yesterday, from an arithmetic type or exponential (compound-interest
style) growth projection point of view I will be at the target
0.83 in 1 day. Looking at the
0.28 per minute advance over four days
compared to the 0.44 performance the first day I did this drill April 2,
from an arithmetic type (0.28 growth every 4 days) point of view (of all
these the most pessimistic viewpoint) I will be doing 1.00 per
minute, better than the target 0.83 per minute four days from now on
April 10; from an exponential (64% growth every 4 days) point of
view I will be doing 1.18 per minute four days from now. Thing is, I plan
to move on to something somewhat new and different when I achieve 0.83 on
this.
On the positive side-- The score in almosts and
successes per minute (total 0.99) was only 0.01 less than my all time
best on these ZZ variants of the LHKH, and the all-time best was done with
the ZZ-R variant that emphasizes the favored left foot. The quality of the
runs was high. The 3rd touches with the left
foot were handled better than previously, using the innovation of
following the ball with the eye for as long as possible before kicking it
with the right foot on the 3rd touch. A large percent age
of the runs scored as successes were long and/or fast and/or tight and/or
sharply angled on the turns. Although the the runs were limited to
four touches, they usually were at least ten yards in distance from the
first touch to the last touch with the head.
What happened today, the high level of
performance with the clumsy right foot, illustrates the value of
thoughtfulness/notes such as presented in this soccer log.
The various disadvantages such as: hectic lack of time before
practice, lack of time between waking and start of practice, various
stresses, were handled well and prevented from impairing performance.
Note: what a long run is when the runs are limited to four
touches: 11 yds; when runs not limited to four touches: 15 yds.
On the negative side--
The main thing to report negatively speaking today,
is that many of the runs were aborted because the first kick of the runs
sent the ball directly forwards instead of on a diagonal slant to the
side. These errors would happen in streaks, twice or thrice in a row.
Solution for now is to be satisfied with a high chip at a sharp
angle leftwards even though such does not produce the optimum in terms of
grace beauty speed and length during the runs. When the
slant leftwards is slight on the first touch this tends to produce great
runs thus the temptation is to aim for such a slight slant that one ends
up with the ball going forwards or slanting right on the first kick; such
straight forward orslanted right on the first kick means the run cannot be
counted as a success.
I have to remind myself to put effort and concentration into
this 1st kick with the foot as it seems to be an easy kick, easier than it
actually is.
As usual as a perfectionist I would say that too
many attempts were not successes and the successes could have been of
better quality.
I drank 0 oz water during the workout
today.
Before the practice I noted-- The way to deal with
the frustrating slow pace of improvement on the ZZ-L variant now being
done, is to on the 3rd touch with the right foot, follow the ball for as
long as possible with the eye. Previously I had been following the ball
with eye only until it reached about waist height. So in the
practice I followed maximally with the eye on the 3rd touch, this produced
dramatic improvement.
After the practice I noted:
Certain parts of the practice were especially hot. Practice started at 500; from 514-532 PM in 18 minutes,
there were 17 successes. Of these 15 had at least
one notable good point such as speed length tightness or sharpness; 8
had at least 3 good points; and 4 had 4 good points (which I would call
perfect).
Today's performance indicates that the superior method on these
ZZ-L variants is to eye the ball for as long as possible prior to kicking
it on the 3rd touch with the right foot, at least for now. Still
the possibility remains, that the problem is that indecisiveness on the
3rd touch, not having made up one's mind re whether the ball will be eyed
for as long as possible or only as long as it is above approx waist
height. Prior to today I had not set doctrine such as follow ball for as
long as possible with the eye, or follow ball only as long as it is above
waist-height.
Today I succeeded in remaining stoic throughout the workout.
Prior to the workout: I had best I can recall, 1 tspn
Korean Ginseng & 1 tspn Siberian Ginseng in the tea; a cup coffee
and a cup double strength tea; I forgot to drink the natural vitamin
C containing juice drink; I had been awake 4 hours; I felt flustered by a
lack of time to prepare; the night before the workout I
had one 24 oz beer, 5 mg Melatonin pill, 1 herbal sleeping
pill, and 20 oz blueberry and rasberry juice (skipped the half and half
and cane sugar mixed in), the result was a relatively restful sleep but
sleep was still I estimate only about 4 hours.
Irrelevant(?) Stuff: Nothing
much Faces in the
Crowd:
The usual smattering of oblivious high school age and college age
young men playing basketball. Their obliviousness contributed to
this sense of weirdness I felt after today's workout: I
was thinking, today's workout showed that in a short time I will become a
great player, but still: the boys in the gym were oblivious, the sun did
not shine on yet another rainy gray day; I still feel stressed out as if I
do not have enough stress-defeating-power to deal with the stresses upon
me; I do not feel like I am in Paradise; all the people still sin by
treating me as if I was just somebody, nobody
special. Reminds me that one time several years ago, this little
old white bespectacled lady on Moody Syt., who best I can recall was
French or worked at some place with a French name, for no reason, looked
at me and shouted, 'you nothing special! (she was the opposite of correct
in her attitude).
The guy who is like a twin of Unmesh who was my friend in
India, named Anush, gave me his email address when I opportuned him for
it, even though he is apparently an admirably successful electrical
engineer. Lest I forget it or lose it it is: ansampat@softhome.net. Problem is
that the second letter looks like it might be a u have to check with him
on that. Anush and Unmesh seem to both possess some admirable qualities.
The pressure of growing up surrounded by poverty can produce maturity,
masculinity, humility, hard-work, endurance. Likewise growing up
surrounded by the comforting presence of widespread affluence can produce
weakness in such areas of character, I guess.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to 7.5
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Tuesday April 8
'08
835 -935 PM
Waltham Y
Gym |
6th day of ZZ-L (zig-zag)
LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble Runs 58 minutes
no nutrients cocktail(oils juices pills), before
practice today.
pre-practice meal today = 1 cup double
strength brown tea with cane sugar and halfnhalf; plus 1
tspn Siberian Ginseng & 1/4 tspn Korean Ginseng, 1/6 tspn
American Ginseng; 1 cup coffee w cr and sug; mini-tuna-sub from
'Subway'
0 cgs in 24 hours prior to practice; 1 cg
total (on March 4) since December 1, '07;
0 melatonin pill taken in 24 hours
before practice; 0 oz beer consumed in 24 hours prior to
practice; 24 oz 'Zinfandel' wine consumed evening of day before
practice; 0 Whole Foods Brand 'Restful Sleep' Herbal sleeping
capsules taken before bed night before workout
0 potassium pills
taken before
workout; little to no pain in soles of feet
during or after workout
No MAO inhibiting
herbs today except for the Ginsengs in the in
tea prior to start of workout.
(Repeat in
small type:) Today my slight cough was almost completely
gone, I estimate due to combo of steam room and nutrients cocktail
use-- but it could have been just the nutrients cocktail that solved it.
I wonder, how many times per day does
the healthy person cough |
6th Day of New
Ultra-difficult Zig-Zag Type ZZ-L LHKH Soccer Air-Dribble
runs; numerical score=0.67 ZZ-L LHKH successes per minute, EYES UP during 3rd touch kicks with right
foot
Again, like yesterday, the performance showed I will quickly master
the last obstacle on the road to greatness, which is the zig-zagging using
the right foot.
Today again for the 6th day in a row
now, I ran a new air-dribble pattern, the "ZZ-L" type
'LHKH' pattern. (Repeat:) The LHKH pattern
features me, at minimum, starting the run kicking the ball with the left
foot (L) (touch 1) after flipping it up, then heading it (H) (touch
2), then kicking it (K) (touch 3), then heading it again (H) (touch 4),
all with no more than 4 paces between touches, all with me running forward
as fast as possible, and all with the ball not touching the
ground. The ZZ innovation is that I run the LHKH
pattern in a zig zag; ZZ-L (L for left) specifically means that
after flipping the ball up the first kick sends the ball forwards and
diagonally to the left; the 2nd touch with the head sends the ball
forwards and diagonally to the right; the 3rd touch with the right foot
sends the ball forwards and diagonally towards the left; the 4th touch
with the head sends the ball forwards and diagonally to the right.
Today for the 7th day in a row, I refrained from
continuing the air-dribble runs after the 4th touch with the head.
Today for the first time, every time I kicked the ball with
the right foot on the 3rd touch, I attempted to keep the eyes looking
in a direction such that the eyes did not follow the ball when the ball
sank to below waist height. In reality this resulted
in my eyes not following the ball when it went below face-height, as I was
trying hard to avoid letting the eyes go down and overcompensated.
Today practice started 835
PM ended 935 PM--total 60 minutes running the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern (there was no warm-up prior to the 835 PM start). I
subtracted 2 minutes from the 60 minutes due to: tying shoelaces; sweeping
of gym floor interfererence. At 836 PM in
the 2nd minute, there occurred ZZ-L LHKH success #1.
At 841 PM in the 7th minute, there was success #3 in
adhering to pattern, it was a long (despite the 4 touch limit) fast
tight shaprly angled perfect run. In the end in the 58
minutes there had been 15 runs on which I almost adhered to the
ZZ-L LHKH pattern (almost means that the pattern was off by no more than
the fact that one of the touches in the pattern was somewhat off);
there had been 39 successes in maintaining the ZZ-L LHKH
pattern. That
comes out to 0.26 almosts per minute and 0.67 successes per minute (0.05 worse than
yesterday). The idea now is, to attain
to 0.83 per minute; and then slow down the pace of attempts per hour and
concentrate on improving quality of runs scored as successes in drills
already done, or move on to some new
drills. Stats so Far for ZZ variants of the
LHKH Drill:
Date
Almosts/minute
Successes/minute
(new ZZ-R variant of LHKH
pattern) March 24
0.22
0.16
March 25
0.08
0.32
March 26
0.08
0.44 March 27
0.24
0.52
March 28
0.08
0.68
March 29
0.08
0.63
March 30
0.12
0.47
March 31
0.09
0.70
April
1
0.14
0.86 (target of 0.83 per minute finally attained!)
(new ZZ-L variant of LHKH
pattern) April 2
0.17
0.44
April 3
0.29
0.58
April 4
0.29
0.45
April 5
0.38
0.52
April 6
0.27
0.72 (eyes follow ball maximally)
April 8
0.26
0.67 (eyes do not follow ball below face level
height) C+ (repeat:) level performance as a grade (down from C yesterday), is in
the context of what have become very high standards. I decided to
give myself a C- today, because with the previous ZZ-R
variant, I started at 0.16 successes per minute, and estimated that
when I first got to 0.83 successes per minute, I would be at a B-
grade level.
Again it would be easy to be deceived by the harsh C+ grade I
gave today's practice, into under-appreciating today's performance
and the importance thereof. It's getting to the point where I wonder
whether I should abandon this letter-type grade. However I realize that
numerical-score-wise I will level off, the numbers will become
constant, while the performance continues to improve.
(Repeat:) Because of the way that I do the grading, you
could on the grounds of the C+ grade scoff at my performances these days.
You would be wrong to scoff because: practices such as today produced a
relatively speaking very high quality of run scored as
success--the formula I use to give the grade does not take into
account quality of successes; the formula used does not take into
account the number of runs recorded as almost being a success; the
formula used is pessimistic re what the quality of the runs scored as
successes will be when the score gets to 0.83 successes per minute; the formula does not take into account whether the left or
the right foot is being used, this despite the fact that I
am left footed and naturally clumsier with the right foot; with the
passage of time though the general principle of giving myself the benefit
of the doubt remains, I become more and more stringent re whether I
consider a run to be a success (example judging the the ball did not slant
left on the first touch).
On the positive side--
Whatever the score was, I felt as if today was maybe
the best day ever for the zig zagging variants of the LHKH, even though
today the clumsier right foot was used on the difficult key 3rd touches
with the foot.
I did well with the right foot on the 3rd touches
despite the fact that my eye was not following the ball down when it sank
below chest height prior to me striking it with the right foot on the 3rd
touch.
Still, there were about a dozen instances wherein
the first touch with the foot and the second touch with the head placed
the ball almost perfectly, only to result in the third touch with the
right foot kicking the ball away due to the intense pressure I put on
myself not to follow the ball down with my eye when it sank below chest
height.
Thus the first touch with the foot and the second
touch with the head were performed well today. Today I felt confident and
I knew that eventually I will master zig-zagging with the ball alternating
between touch with foot and touch with head, whether or not I have to
depend on my better left foot.
This kind of zig-zagging
I am doing now, is the most difficult of the remaining skills I need
to master before I become what is undoubtedly a superstar; thus I now know
that I am a world-beater; this knowledge makes me feel
confident rather than elated. The remaining drills to be done focus on
variations in the change of direction, and on changes in speed during the
course of the run; these remaining drills are
less difficult than the zig-zags I am now doing.
On top of this you have the fact that I am
doing all this alternating between touches with the head and touches with
the foot, which is much harder than not having to do such
alternation. Thus I confidently feel that I now
'have it made'.
Today from beginning to end there were plenty of runs which combined
three or more of the following attributes: speed, length, tightness of
control, sharpness of turns.
Note: what a 'long' run is when the runs are limited
to four touches: 11 yds; when runs not limited to four touches: 15 yds.
On the negative side-- due to the forcing the eyes
to stay up on the third kick with the right foot, the right foot on the
third touch was often off, even though it had been set up well by the
first and second touches of the run. Today there were a few balls which
were misplaced on the second touch with the head.
I drank 12 oz water during the
workout today; the gym was hot and humid.
Before the practice I noted-- before the
practice I felt as if I was too tired, too sore and stiff in the legs to
be able to do even a decent high quality workout. But once the practice
started I felt fine.
During and after the practice I noted: even when I keep my
eyes up so that I am looking straight at things that are at about
face-height when kicking the ball, sometimes, when the foot is stretched
forwards, my kicking foot is visible to my eyes (peripheral
vision) at the moment that I kick the ball.
My estimate is that the best thing would be not keeping the eyes up,
or, keeping the eyes down, but rather, letting the eyes naturally
do what they feel like doing.
Today's practice provided further evidence in support of the theory
that doubt re matters such as whether the eyes should be kept up
or down, impairs performance.
Today I succeeded in remaining stoic throughout the workout.
Today 'Shank' came by to visit me, he caused stress and fatigue, but
the workout turned out well anyway.
Prior to the workout: I had, 1/4 tspn Korean
Ginseng & 1 tspn Siberian Ginseng & 1/6 tspn American
Ginseng in a double strength cup tea; a cup coffee; 6 oz of
the natural vitamin C containing Bolthouse Farms 'C-Boost' juice drink; I
had been awake 8 hours; the night before the workout I
had one 24 oz sinfandel wine, zero Melatonin
pill, zero herbal sleeping pill, 20 oz blueberry/rasberry juice
(skipped the half and half and cane sugar mixed in), a few oz of the
'C-Boost' drink. The day before the workout, was a day of rest which
seemed to result in more (approx 5 hours whoop-de-doo) sleep, more restful
sleep.
I am beginning to wonder if this kind of
air-dribbling fries my brain to the point where I cannot sleep until 12
hours have passed between the end of the workout and the time I go to
sleep.
Irrelevant(?)
Stuff:
The night before the workout I had a dream about the
Russian Prez Vladimir Putin. We met with each other, just
me and him. A key part of the meeting was this crimson or maroon colored
cloth that looked like a window curtain about 2 feet high and 2 feet wide;
it was the same color as the ties worn by Bush and Putin when they had
their most recent joint news conference. IN the dream I felt as if I was
in touch with Putin's personality. His personality was about what you
would expect it to be, watching him on TV and seeing him in photos; his
personality was friendly, attractive, simple, earthy, humble, Slavic-like
in a good way I guess. In the dream Putin produced a 'Zaftig' prostitute
for my use, she was white, about five foot seven inches tall, brown
hair sort of tied up at the nape of the neck, somewhat buxom,
strong-legged and wide-hipped, she wore blue jeans that had worn to
white at the points where the leg most stressed the pants, she was pretty.
In the dream, Putin and I sat side by side in a rail-car type thing, sort
of like the hanging cars skiers used to get from here to there, that
whizzed through what looked like gigantic storage areas colored in light
green and white with of course the accompanying metal colors of the metal
parts of the storage area. On and on we whizzed in the rail car through
the storage areas at like 40 mph. At the end of the dream there were some
details I cannot remember now. Faces in the Crowd: The gym
was empty tonight, except for the Italian lady sweeping the gym floor. I
feel like, Italy is supposed to be number one in the world in soccer, this
Italian lady does not pay me homage except for coy smiles as she watches
me sometimes.
Weight/Appearance: (repeat in small
type:) Before the workout I was ??? lbs. Like yesterday, I did
not feel like checking my weight in the locker room as I have been
sort of lazily neglecting to pump calories and protein into myself.
Between yesterday's practice and today's I
again ate/drank little (mostly organic/natural). Skipping the details on
this for now. |
Adidas Bracara Indoors Shoes with 1 layer
Propel Gel Padding;
Adidas Replique ball inflated to ??
psi
Forgot to check psi of ball before workout and inflate
to 7.5 psi; after workout ball was at 7.0 psi.
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Wednesday
April 9 08
Brilliant Analysis |
Analysis Regarding The
Drills of the Future
There are hundreds of drills that could
possibly be done in the future to further sharpen the air-dribbling
capability.
I have come to realize that moving on
to some new difficult drill produces more improvement than polishing up
performance on a familiar drill.
With regards to change of direction, the
first ones that come to mind are:
(L = kick with left foot; H=head ball; K= kick ball with
foot)
1
2
3
4
Beyond this change of direction stuff, there
are hundreds of possible combinations which combine fast or slow movement
between the various first four touches of the air-dribble runs, with
coming to a stop or continuing forwards at various points in the four
touches of the air-dribble runs.
On the LHKH straight pattern alone (no
changes of direction) there are 128 different possibilities when it comes
to combining various different alternatives with regards to stopping or
continuing at various points and going fast or slow between various
touches on the ball.
Faced with such a
multitude of choices, I concluded that: moving fast between touches
teaches more than moving slow between touches; and, coming to a stop at
various points is more difficult than, and teaches more than, simply
speeding ahead at the various points.
I also concluded that for the
purposes of simplifying things for scoring purposes and for practical
purposes, all the hundreds of alternatives should be narrowed down to the
following:
LL (close to each other as possible on the
field) followed by HH (close to each other as possible on the field)
followed by KK (close to each other as possible on the field)
followed by HH (close to each other as possible on the field).
Meaning, the LL, two kicks of the ball with the left foot, come while the
body is stationary as possible in terms of position on the field; the
HH, two heads of the ball, also come while the body is stationary as
possible in terms of position on the field; the KK, two kicks of the ball,
also come while the body is stationary as possible in terms of position on
the field; and, finally, the HH, two heads of the ball, come while the
body is stationary as possible in terms of position on the field. This is
all executed with maximum speed betwen the stationary positions. This LL
HH KK HH pattern can be executed with each of the change-of-direction
patterns described previously.
Thus I must
now admit that there are drills that will be done in the future that are
actually more difficult than the ZZ-L LHKH variant I am now
doing. However I still believe that I can attain
to a level of world dominance by mastering the drills that are less
difficult than changes of direction combined with fast movement
between stationary positions combined with two touches or a
'stationary' stop at the various points instead of one touch or forging
ahead at the various points of the runs.
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April 9,
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