and May is coming. Exam's around the corner.
I always think of dramatic titles, hoping to not get repetitive, sometimes.
One thing now I should keep my blog more organized, so instead of updating old posts, I should post one every entry.
A few things I've learnt from the past few days.
I got the diary for my trainings already, been written some things down. Its quite fun and good in my opinion as you will really work towards the goals you write on. But sadly, with my poor self-control, some day didn't went that well. I will be writing more things and get more strict with myself now, because like I said so many countless of times before, I don't want to keep regretting (this is fucking deja vu man). Yeah, just forget about that, it hurts me.
And blogging rocks, sometimes. Your writing skills are put into test.
Yesterday was quite weird, was a long day. Firstly it was exams, English was ok but Chinese was scribbled bullshits. But nevermind about that. After school when to castle and meet the newbies to train them. Well not exactly, but just look at them. Everything is ok until some Mats (or whatever you call them) came and fuck around, saying stupid things like "pro sia" and such to provoke us. Yeah yeah can't be bothered, but until when they act smart and say stupid stuffs like "don't do muscle exercise when you are young, later you grow up your body big arms small", and "jump down from here where got pain, i do so many times also nothing happen.", I started to get my shotguns ready.
Being stubborn and stupid like always, I can't tell them that they're wrong, as they are stubborn beings. Well when they go off I said NT to them, as a bad attempt to insult them, after them being so bitchy. As usual those stupid uneducated, sad-lifed, retarded and dumbass gangsters came and want to find trouble, acting big and all. Whatever lah, I just acted calm all the way and somehow the POD guy helped in settling a very stupid probelm. I don't like all this people sia, first thing malays, secondly gangsters, combination of both goes as well as veggies and shit for dinner.
Lesson learnt, never talked to this kind of people, just fucking mind your own business and let them do their stuffs, while we do ours. I admit its my fault to kinda insult them by generalizing NTs but it was out of anger, somehow. But they made it so big, because they are gangsters, and being gangsters, all this is expected, but not understandable. Forget about it, just don't care them and don't hang around them as much as possible. Not being a coward or what, but I don't want unnecessary and stupid troubles.
The portrayal of parkour in Singapore is still shit, see looking at 98% of the videos in Singapore parkour is pure bullshit, only a few of them show good portrayal of Parkour. Sad thing. Alot of people take parkour as a sport or hobby or pastime, and because of friends doing it. Just look, out of 10 of newcomers, like 5% if you are lucky, 1 guy stays and have good potential. There is also people who trains hard and seriously for the wrong reason. Well, how worse can that be. Oh and competitive mindsets, showing-off their poor skills, challenging one another, lol. And training because its cool? To fucking show off?
That is just part of it, and most of them trains anyhow, and hardly any of them strength trains properly. Some even don't do them at all. And then there are people who thinks parkour is very easy, and complain when their skills had deproved, and keep worrying so much of themselves, saying that they are so weak, their climbups sucks, and keep buggering other more experienced traceurs. Irritating assholes likes to keep asking traceurs when they meet just to see the crazy ass stuffs they are doing. Keep pestering you and ask you to do it again, and say WOAH! after every move you do. How you wish he can go home so you can train in peace! Ask you whether you can do this crazy precision jump of the world. And out of all of them, when you ask them to do something, like to climb this wall, they won't and they will give fucking stupid excuses, but not unexpected of them.
And then there is so many wannabes that keep following what people do, and copy every single shit you do. Probably trying to be competitive and wanna prove that he can do whatever you can do. Well now people thinks that whatever we do are so fucking easy and they expect to be able to do a muscleup in a month and some even a WEEK! Best thing is they don't even do anything but do stupid parkour movements only! HAHA. Well they don't know much hard training with put in every training and how many months of hardwork we spend on. And they expect that all this thing is easy and they can do it within like a few weeks, lol those assholes dont have a clue. Well they can continue lying and hiding, but its still an obvious fact that they are still competitive and training to impress, displaying those words with luminous LED lights flashing on their foreheads.
One word for those bitches, Fuck you. For those who is blind, that is one word, I don't care, because I'm a fucking stubborn asshole you will ever know/meet/think of.
Ok lets get back to normal training blogging.
Monday training made me sore all the way till yesterday. Lol, is that bad or good, but to me its bad, to high intensity, don't know if I didn't too many sets until like I'm training for endurance or what, but just a learning process. This is by far the longest time of soreness, 4 days. Not really actually, but its a rare chance. Wednesday was NAPFA 2.4km run, I got 11.02, wasn't first but was happy with it. I ran in a constant speed and I clearly didn't want to be first, but not trying to give excuses or boast or what, but I think I can be faster then that, but nevermind, I still got a very good timing. Shockingly people getting my time still wants to retest, just to beat their friends and show off to be the first, and reasons somewhere in the lines of that.
Along those rest days I spend 1hr and training rolls and handstands for abit, and I'm gonna train for my handstands, and I know its not easy, but lets continue to work hard for it. I'm unlike those wannabes who think handstands is very easy and I can get it very soon, and I don't do it to showoff. Rolls are getting better, getting the hang of it, now I must practiced getting used to it after a jump or drop. It will not be easy again, but some people might get it faster then me because people progress at different speeds. If you get it after 3 years, so what? At least there is 3 years of hardwork and no giving up, and you kept practicing, surely your roll will be better the one who got it after 3months or lesser of practice. One who progress the slowest is the best.
Yesterday, I did a long day of movements training. Which I think is not good, I shouldn't trained for so long, and I felt that those trainings is quite impactful. Shit man, lets stick to the right things. Although I did trained on what I wanted to train on, it was still too long, which means more impacts, = bad. Gym at night was good and bad. A few goods = Landed my aerial (rocks), landed lache to rail precision (crazily awesome to me). Bad = bailed the lache to rail precision (sucks), didn't stick to what I wanted to train (bad self control yet again). I decided that I should stick to a few tricks, and until I nailed and practiced it alot already then focus on a new trick or something. If I have like 10 tricks to work on at one time, I will never get them. So lets focus on one or two tricks, for now its aerial, backhandspring, OR backtucks. The rest I can put aside.
I think I could do a few tricks on normal days too, not tricks, just like basics one-hand-cart, and roundoff to aid my aerial. Handstands too, which is something I would really want to work on. But all those would be written on my diary. Lesson learnt for this week for trainings : Don't spend too much time when trianing movements, around 1hr 30minutes - 2hours, with a good amount of rest in between will be good. And for tricking focus on 2 important tricks that you want and work on it before progressing to a new one. And self-control, as always, needs to be worked on.
Nutrition nowadays is quite ok, eating quite alot and I think I've been eating more protein then ever. I can't be bothered to lose a few bucks from my wallet to get extra proteins and food for my good. Food tastes so good, and I also start to drink up alot. I hope that my puberty comes faster. I'm fucking slow, but is that good or not? Nevermind. Exams are coming too, I should spend less time on the computer, well nowadays I'm wasting alot of time on it, for nothing gained. And I claimed that I'm using the time on the computer efficiently. And start getting myself to do homeworks and start studying. Tomorrow I hope to use he comp less then 2 hours ad spend the rest of the time studying, oh and in between another 2hour on gyming. I must have selfcontrol now, all this or nothing.
This May video will a small but good video, again especially in terms of filming and editing, the main intention in all my videos now. But just hopefully. I also can't wait for the May meetup with Qayyim, and the filming. Once exams is over, I will train super hard. Hardwork is the key to success. Lets just see what is in stall for us.
Something I think that all my effort to teach, to help those newcomers whom I met through the net is quite wasted. I don't know why am I spending alot of time talking to them but see no purpose in it at all. Seeing that alot of people just wants you to help but you are never thankful for them, just really sucks. I don't know but am I being stupid? Lets see, I offer myself to help and everything but I get nothing in return, not even a single thank you, or a smile? I don't expect a big favour to be done or what, I don't mind helping out if you appreciate it in the end. Thanks to all the one who helped me paved my way to being here now. I realized another lesson learnt, is to again only help when needed, no need to elaborate so much just straightforward and to the point, and there is no need to become so despo or kaypo.
All that being said. I hope you anonymous readers have wasted your few minutes of your life reading this. And I know Zahid you are reading this, stop using the computer and go sleep lah.
I don't care about the spelling and grammatical errors in all of my post anyway. Its not meant for you guys to read anyway. And you are stupid, by the way.
Ok bye.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Art of Movements.
EDIT.
Lets see what is going on with my trainings.
I recovered from my illness and now I'm back training. Well, for two days in this whole week. Anyway, friday, my movements training day, wasn't too good, but its good too. I see progression with my upperbody, but then its quite minimal. Its time to take my upperbody training to the next level. Where now I really want to train for the planche en force, and going to start training on my OAC already. Handbalancing is another thing I wanna practice on, but I will leave that for free time. My landings and precisions is very very sloppy, I need to practice more. The rest are pretty much the same, and I couldn't care much.
Tricking at gym too, was quite a waste of time yet again. I think I'm wasting my precious time in the gym, which is a privilege to be in. Why am I not training and using my time at the gym to the fullest potential? Damn, I really should be training my flips and tricks much more seriously now, and not drift away after a few backflips. I need to have aims, goals, all planned and I will be headed in a direction, not aimlessly. I need a diary, a notebook to keep track of what I'm doing, and write my goals and achievements, planning, and stuffs that I can refer to, take note of, and emphasize on. Thanks for GPJ for giving the idea, although I long already thought of this, but lets really start now.
Strength training at gym today was shit. My standing presses are really gay, I don't even think they are correct in form, same goes for my deadlifts. I was doing everything in a rush, since I only have 40minutes, as the gym closes at 5, on sundays.. sucks. Today was a totally gay training day, I must start proper strength training from tomorrow, but fuck, exams this fridays, and next week. Ha, life has full or puzzles and mazes for you to solve.
I need a greater jumping power and landing strength. This will be damn useful for me in everyway, tricks, movements, almost everything. My quest for strength and power begins here, as I begin my journey to become stronger and more powerful. I need to start training more seriously now. For that I need self-discipline.
I should working towards my goal, but am I?
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It was a long time since I realize something new about Parkour and trainings, and stuffs like that. Mind training, which is something that I hadnt done for a long time, came naturally to me a few days ago. I realize some stuffs that might had made a huge impact to me. Sometimes when it comes to this kind of stuffs, you just really have to use your brain and think, and the answer will come to you. This is just 13months of trainings since I started, and I really think all of those training is fruitful, and I think it made what I am today. I could never say that all this is pointless at all.
Last few days I've been thinking, do I even practice parkour at all?
If parkour is "to get from A to B in the most fastest, efficient way as possible", then to me there is hardly anyone that practice parkour. I don't see the use of SDCs, standing precision jumps, individual movements, balancing, pointless stuffs, and stuffs like that. Whats the use of them anyway? But people are training that everytime, which in my opinion is pointless, if they are training for efficiency and for escape/reach purposes. That is what alot of people claim too, so that if I'm being chased, I could get away from them faster. Whatever.
And if I would want to train for efficiency and "true parkour", I should go train sprinting and running, real-situation runs, concentrate of 100% efficiency, and stuffs like that. 90% of the time you are running, especially even there is not much obstacles. I can tell you honestly traceurs are the weakest bunch of athletes, the way they train is purely based on what they think is good, but not on how things really work. And they don't do much training too, and the way they claim that they do "strength" training is really retarded. They don't even train properly, they don't even do researches. If they were to be compared to a sprinter, a rugby player, or even a basketballer, or simply put, any national athletes (not wannabes), a traceur will easily lose. Its a sad truth, even if compared to David Belle, a sprinter is much stronger then him. Bodyweight and debulking fanatics.
Come back to the real thing, I admit truthfully, I never once practice parkour, if parkour is "TGTATBITFAEWAP". I think, what I'm training is more of the art of movements. I like the joy to move, and I like the feeling of doing movements, its freedom, an art of expression. I don't do this to prove anything or to impress anyone, I do them because I want to, because I like it, because its me. To be able to move with such grace is a wonderful thing. Life is challenging, nothing is easy, but whatever I want can be done, with the determination and hardwork put in. And I'm not a traceur, I never practice parkour, but instead I am an artist of movements, practicing what the art of movements, and this is life, this is me.
I have the motivation and desire to be strong and agile, like every human should be, and this is my goals, my aims, my thinking. I train for myself, and nobody else, and I do what I want, and no one can stop me.
I guess you realize something every 2 or 3 months, and this is something that will come naturally and something that you cannot rush. And all this things are very hard to be put into words, because its something our your heart, conscience and mind can explain. As tomorrows keep becoming yesterdays, things will change, alot. I glad I came into this conclusion as now I'm more clear in my head of what I'm doing, and the purpose of it. Like I once said about what Sebastien Foucan said, "Without philosphy and purpose, action have no meaning". I also urge everyone to find out their true purpose and meaning, but this also take time, like I said stuffs like this cannot be rushed. Everyone trains for different reasons, and everyone should find their own individual reasons by themselves.
I having a headache and a mild fever now, and I feel very giddy and tired now (and throughout the day), and I have to shit everynow and then. This sucks, I get sleepy all the time, and very weak. I can't do much now but slack, and I have no choice anyway. I hope to get well soon as I have alot of trainings to do. And I better drink up more. Oh well, its hard to not get sick throughout one year, but I hope to do so in some time.
I can't wait to get stronger and more powerful, and I really like to strength train alot now. I guess I will fridays to do abit of technical movements and go to the gym and start seriously practicing some tricks, and the rest of the time I will be strength training (about 3 to 4 times), and by the end of the year I would love to see my progression. Weight training for the win! Now lets start to work towards my goals and train properly.
But on the other hand, exams are coming. I will continue to study hard and score well (except for Chinese, of course), and still train hard throughout. I wouldn't mind sacriface a short hour or two in the afternoon to train, and after dinner start mugging. I don't want to disappoint myself, neither do I want to give exams as an excuse, and I do know that studies have a much higher priority.
Also, nowadays I'm really wasting my time doing stupid things, wasting my time on the computers and basically wasting my time. Sucks man to be sick. I really need to find productive stuffs to do on the computer and when I'm not training. Hais. I think I should really stop wasting my time man, and wasting my efforts on doing nothing. Time is precious.. Also I should stop being so immature, cmon I'm already 15, why I'm acting like some primary school kids. Damn. But anyways....
I practice the art of movements, and I'm an artist of movements.
World records are set by holders after years and years of hardwork and sacriface, perseverance and determination, and they are not by luck or a miracle. Everything requires hardwork, and nothing is ever easy. And thats my message for today.
Lets see what is going on with my trainings.
I recovered from my illness and now I'm back training. Well, for two days in this whole week. Anyway, friday, my movements training day, wasn't too good, but its good too. I see progression with my upperbody, but then its quite minimal. Its time to take my upperbody training to the next level. Where now I really want to train for the planche en force, and going to start training on my OAC already. Handbalancing is another thing I wanna practice on, but I will leave that for free time. My landings and precisions is very very sloppy, I need to practice more. The rest are pretty much the same, and I couldn't care much.
Tricking at gym too, was quite a waste of time yet again. I think I'm wasting my precious time in the gym, which is a privilege to be in. Why am I not training and using my time at the gym to the fullest potential? Damn, I really should be training my flips and tricks much more seriously now, and not drift away after a few backflips. I need to have aims, goals, all planned and I will be headed in a direction, not aimlessly. I need a diary, a notebook to keep track of what I'm doing, and write my goals and achievements, planning, and stuffs that I can refer to, take note of, and emphasize on. Thanks for GPJ for giving the idea, although I long already thought of this, but lets really start now.
Strength training at gym today was shit. My standing presses are really gay, I don't even think they are correct in form, same goes for my deadlifts. I was doing everything in a rush, since I only have 40minutes, as the gym closes at 5, on sundays.. sucks. Today was a totally gay training day, I must start proper strength training from tomorrow, but fuck, exams this fridays, and next week. Ha, life has full or puzzles and mazes for you to solve.
I need a greater jumping power and landing strength. This will be damn useful for me in everyway, tricks, movements, almost everything. My quest for strength and power begins here, as I begin my journey to become stronger and more powerful. I need to start training more seriously now. For that I need self-discipline.
I should working towards my goal, but am I?
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It was a long time since I realize something new about Parkour and trainings, and stuffs like that. Mind training, which is something that I hadnt done for a long time, came naturally to me a few days ago. I realize some stuffs that might had made a huge impact to me. Sometimes when it comes to this kind of stuffs, you just really have to use your brain and think, and the answer will come to you. This is just 13months of trainings since I started, and I really think all of those training is fruitful, and I think it made what I am today. I could never say that all this is pointless at all.
Last few days I've been thinking, do I even practice parkour at all?
If parkour is "to get from A to B in the most fastest, efficient way as possible", then to me there is hardly anyone that practice parkour. I don't see the use of SDCs, standing precision jumps, individual movements, balancing, pointless stuffs, and stuffs like that. Whats the use of them anyway? But people are training that everytime, which in my opinion is pointless, if they are training for efficiency and for escape/reach purposes. That is what alot of people claim too, so that if I'm being chased, I could get away from them faster. Whatever.
And if I would want to train for efficiency and "true parkour", I should go train sprinting and running, real-situation runs, concentrate of 100% efficiency, and stuffs like that. 90% of the time you are running, especially even there is not much obstacles. I can tell you honestly traceurs are the weakest bunch of athletes, the way they train is purely based on what they think is good, but not on how things really work. And they don't do much training too, and the way they claim that they do "strength" training is really retarded. They don't even train properly, they don't even do researches. If they were to be compared to a sprinter, a rugby player, or even a basketballer, or simply put, any national athletes (not wannabes), a traceur will easily lose. Its a sad truth, even if compared to David Belle, a sprinter is much stronger then him. Bodyweight and debulking fanatics.
Come back to the real thing, I admit truthfully, I never once practice parkour, if parkour is "TGTATBITFAEWAP". I think, what I'm training is more of the art of movements. I like the joy to move, and I like the feeling of doing movements, its freedom, an art of expression. I don't do this to prove anything or to impress anyone, I do them because I want to, because I like it, because its me. To be able to move with such grace is a wonderful thing. Life is challenging, nothing is easy, but whatever I want can be done, with the determination and hardwork put in. And I'm not a traceur, I never practice parkour, but instead I am an artist of movements, practicing what the art of movements, and this is life, this is me.
I have the motivation and desire to be strong and agile, like every human should be, and this is my goals, my aims, my thinking. I train for myself, and nobody else, and I do what I want, and no one can stop me.
I guess you realize something every 2 or 3 months, and this is something that will come naturally and something that you cannot rush. And all this things are very hard to be put into words, because its something our your heart, conscience and mind can explain. As tomorrows keep becoming yesterdays, things will change, alot. I glad I came into this conclusion as now I'm more clear in my head of what I'm doing, and the purpose of it. Like I once said about what Sebastien Foucan said, "Without philosphy and purpose, action have no meaning". I also urge everyone to find out their true purpose and meaning, but this also take time, like I said stuffs like this cannot be rushed. Everyone trains for different reasons, and everyone should find their own individual reasons by themselves.
I having a headache and a mild fever now, and I feel very giddy and tired now (and throughout the day), and I have to shit everynow and then. This sucks, I get sleepy all the time, and very weak. I can't do much now but slack, and I have no choice anyway. I hope to get well soon as I have alot of trainings to do. And I better drink up more. Oh well, its hard to not get sick throughout one year, but I hope to do so in some time.
I can't wait to get stronger and more powerful, and I really like to strength train alot now. I guess I will fridays to do abit of technical movements and go to the gym and start seriously practicing some tricks, and the rest of the time I will be strength training (about 3 to 4 times), and by the end of the year I would love to see my progression. Weight training for the win! Now lets start to work towards my goals and train properly.
But on the other hand, exams are coming. I will continue to study hard and score well (except for Chinese, of course), and still train hard throughout. I wouldn't mind sacriface a short hour or two in the afternoon to train, and after dinner start mugging. I don't want to disappoint myself, neither do I want to give exams as an excuse, and I do know that studies have a much higher priority.
Also, nowadays I'm really wasting my time doing stupid things, wasting my time on the computers and basically wasting my time. Sucks man to be sick. I really need to find productive stuffs to do on the computer and when I'm not training. Hais. I think I should really stop wasting my time man, and wasting my efforts on doing nothing. Time is precious.. Also I should stop being so immature, cmon I'm already 15, why I'm acting like some primary school kids. Damn. But anyways....
I practice the art of movements, and I'm an artist of movements.
World records are set by holders after years and years of hardwork and sacriface, perseverance and determination, and they are not by luck or a miracle. Everything requires hardwork, and nothing is ever easy. And thats my message for today.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
April already.
April 12 Update.
Lets see.
I made a video yesterday, go watch it on youtube. The main reason for the video is to practice my video editing, not really my filming, not really on movements. Also its showing my training session yesterday, almost everything is very low impact, basic trainings, some railwork and other weird stuffs. The video editing was so-so, but lets just consider that a practice. I actually realize everytime you edit you will learn something from it, which is very good. After making a video you have more ideas to put in next time, and the more you improve after each video. I was also try to finish filming, editing and uploading all in one day, which was quite good. The video isnt so impressive but I didnt really care, the next one will be better, and better, and better. You get better in the stuffs you practice.
Tomorrow will be my last day of work until exams finish. Wow, seriously time flies fast as fuck. Exams already, and June holidays are coming soon after that, soooo fast. But yeah man I should really start studying, especially for POA, Physics, Maths, etc. Those subjects that I can score in. I shouldnt fuck up my exams thats for sure. Those working days probably should be used for studying. I really hope so.
I think I should start to fish for my music, its a really good way to refresh your mind and also its something that filmers do at least 20% of the time, to find good songs to use for their videos. I have decided to make quite alot of videos and films once I get my camcorder, around next year, and hopefully by then I have enough experience to make some good videos. And I will make monthly videos from now on to experiment with video styles, editing, music, filming and for fun. So many ideas, but there is no hurry. And those monthly videos are good for noticing progression. I should make a list of videos I want to make too. Fast-paced, creativity-based, editing based, experimental, tricking/railwork, etc.
I've been learning alot of stuffs about strength training, nutrition, how things works, weightlifting, human mechanics and stuffs like that. I still have so many hella things to learn but I really got to thank those people who helped me answered my questions and doubts, and guided me through. It really helps to have people like them, you learn more things, you clear your doubts and everything. Sometimes I'm even guilty to ask too much. I should help others too, that would make it fair.
I should control my thoughts now. I shouldnt overdo the things that I have been doing now, I think I'm being too much, somehow. I should stop the negativity right now, and only do when the situations arise and when needed. Lets not push it too far man.
And I just recently squatted 40kgs, great achievement, but not quite yet my bodyweight. I'm quite happy that I've been quite safe with the squats, kept practicing on the form and didn't pushed my limits too fast too soon. And I will be extra safe and I will probably film my deadlifts, squats and miscellaneous lifts and bar positions to get checked with the more experienced guys I know through the internet. I think I will stick to 40kg for quite sometime, and probably increase a few when I can do my max for 5 reps (or more). Deadlifts on the other hand is going great but I decided not to lift too heavy yet, around 30kg for max. The other lifts I'm still not too sure but I will take time to slowly learn them, other complex lifts like snatch, clean and jerk etc. is going to take some time but I have loads of time.
I think if I can training how I did yesterday for movements, it will be great. I shouldnt feel any stress in any mvements at all, and I finished the sessions without any bad thoughts. I was quite happy with yesterday's session. Nothing off limits, low impact, nicely done.
Nothing much to say really, so bye.
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April 7 UPdate.
Hadnt been too good this days.
I thought about some alternatives for my training nowadays, and this is what it looks like. I want to start training soccer, this time sensibly and seriously. I want to have another sport that I'm good in. I heard that soccer is quite impactful (although it doesn't look like), but I still want to train this anyway, and its definitely less impactful then Parkour. Probably I think I will have a few stuffs to train on.
Firstly, strength training. I will try to go gym like 2-3 times a week, and depending on my body, the schedule is not fixed. I trying to learn the power clean and olympic goodmornings now, and that will be something to work on. Squats is probably ok, but the tendency to wobble my neck is quite dangerous, something to clear up on too, and for deadlifts and still need more practice but I can say thats its not bad, but I better find someone to spot out my mistakes. For upperbody, I will do the normal stuffs like muscleups and weightedpullups as usual, but I think I should try some upperbody lifts like maybe standing press or something. And I'm thinking I should really really start training on handstands, because if I keep talking but not doing, it won't achieve it anyway. Same goes for planche en force, but I think more weighted pullups can do the job.
Now movements. Last Friday I trained movements and I wasnt too happy with it. Because I think yet again (without fail actually) I pushed too much and I didnt really train within the 60%-80% of my maximum thing. Stupidly as well. And I wasn't focusing much in my movements causing alot of failed attempts, which is stupid. I need to really train properly now, and stop thinking of getting the biggest sdc to precision of the craziest running precision or blah blah or else I will end up in a wheelchair some day. I've been taking more glucosamine but I think I should go get fish oil, which is proven to be better. My knee tendon probelm is weird, some say is osgood-schlatter while other say its a patellar tendonitis.. but whatever is I better stop jumping around foolishly and start training properly. I think my training will be around Marine Parade area as I guess it will be a good spot to train at. Just really basic vaults, small runs, climbups, some rails good for balance, probably training my rolls there too. I will try to control even landing and make sure everything is low impact, and within the 60% to 80% range.
Now tricking and other miscellaneous activities. Tricking is something that I like, and I told myself to start focusing on tricking too, but I can only train it at the gym, for safety purposes, until when I'm more experienced I will go to playground mats. I do have quite alot of goals in mind but yeah, I think it wouldnt be that stressful on cushioned floor and not on an regular basis. Yep, backflips and moonkick and aerials, etc. some key goals in mind. For soccer I will also train it like once a week so I will TRY to get some guys to play soccer with during school time (probably). And when I train alot probably I will use some wall or a goal post as a training tool. Time to pump my soccer ball at home, no air at all now...
So the schedule would probably be like this.
Monday: Strength training - Upperbody (either at fitness corner or playground)
Tuesday: Strength training - Lowerbody at Gym (squats, deadlifts)
Wednesday: Work, rest.
Thrusday: Strength training - Trying out new lifts (small training, mixed upper and lower)
Friday: Movements/Soccer (in the afternoon), Tricking (probably if there is gym). Filming day.
Saturday: Work, rest. Editing day.
Sunday: Strength training - Lowerbody at Gym (more squats and deadlifts)
Side notes are, probably I wouldn't train much on thrusday, its more of a "do not waste your time but there are still things to do tomorrow" day. Some small lifts is definitely good too. And also I will try to do research on that day. Its time to get some good books and read them, and find more music and watch good movies on the computer instead of doing nothing and slacking around. I shouldn't waste time, they are precious. Oh and probably I should get a soccer buddy(lol). And yeah filming day on Friday as like you know I need alot of practice on it, but probably not every Friday hahahaha. But I might make a video this friday, hopefully. And it will show honestly how I train on that day. Looks like 3 or 4 gym trips a week, and probably be still do some leg training on Thrusday as well, so with 3 lowerbody days a week, I think I will strengthen up really good each month. I can't wait to see my progression, but there is no rush. And the schedule is just something that I planned and I wish to stick to, but at times where I couldn't or there is a change in something, then too bad.
Nutrition really improved, I've been trying to eat alot more now, and drinking alot more milk now. Junkies are consumed every now and then though, but I think I will really take some time. I also consumed alot more fruits like apples, oranges and blah, but I need to try out other new fruits. Veggies on the other hand, is something I will never want to try.. Ah well this sucks.
Work is not bad, but only on Saturdays. Wednesday is quite a bad day as those good managers are usually not working and those bitchy managers are as usual being bitches. But recently I gotten alot of money because of not skipping work (lol), and I hope by the end of this year I can get some good cash, enough for a camcorder.
Studies, oh no. I really don't have mood for homeworks nowadays but I still have to do them anyways. I gotten 3 tests results today and English was a good one, but not Chem and Chinese (expected though). Chem got 23/30, some really dumb mistakes and I don't know. I'm not happy with the results and I know I can do better. Chinese is as usual disappointing. 15/50 this time, which is retarded. Everyone pass except me. Oh well, exams in like 3/4 weeks time, time to score well in all subjects in Chinese cannot make it.
Oh and today, I trained upperbody as scheduled. I wasn't the best of days as I think I wasn't fully fresh as muscleups and pullups seems harder. I don't know why but this kind of things comes and goes. Yesterday's training wasn't really hard enough, I think it could be better too. Tomorow hopefully would be a better day. Planning to push a little bit more for squats and asking people to check out my deadlift form. If its good I would try to add some weight, but if no I will stick to 25kg for max. But I don't want to push too much too soon, because like I said no hurry, rushing only leads to worser consequences.
And I think I'm spending alot of money of food and drinks now, and gym too.
I hope I can stop doing really stupid stuffs man, and really listen to my conscience and body and heart. Because I know myself what is right and what is wrong so I can't lie to myself. Sometimes we lose to temptation, yeah doing big stuffs is "fun", but will your knees like it when it suffers even before old-age? There are many things I planned to do but I can't stick to it because of my weak self-control. Something that I really need practice on.
So what do I plan to do now?
- Work on my rolls, balance, control, precision, fluidity, speedvaults and wallpasses.
- Keep every low-impact and safe, focus on every movement.
- Don't rush and push over my limits, keep within the "60% to 80% of max" range.
- Gym 3 to 4 times a week, and learn some new lifts and work on form.
- Sleep more, eat more and train properly.
- Have more self-control.
- Do more research, do not waste time on computer, and work and study harder.
- Start practicing tricking and soccer, and filming.
Long-term goals. (by the end of this year)
- A more SENSIBLE person with more self-control.
- Handstands and planche en force, straight-armed climbups.
- 2x bodyweight squats and deadlifts (but all progressively), 1/2 bodyweight pullups.
- Powercleans, highpulls, benchpress, standingpress, clean and jerk, frontsquats, olygoodmornings with good form.
- Land Backflip, Aerial and Moonkick consistently. (not much expectations in this)
- More control and fluidity in movements, better movements overall.
- Better nutrition, better sleep, and good study grades!
- A camcorder, and a better filmer (and editor) overall.
This is it, I will work hard towards them and a safe and incremental manner.
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Really man, time flies like no ones business nowadays.
This week is the start of training anew again. I started doing strength training as planned and I noticed great improvements in my deadlifts after reading up abit. But then I know I have alot of things to work on for it, and before I progress to powercleans and high pulls I know I should have the basics of the deadlifts. Squats is going great too, I feel quite strong now, and I think after a few more sessions I can slowly load up my squats already. Squats are quite good in form but then I should not be complacent. I can't wait to learn the new lifts, but I know I should get base strengths first. If I keep going to gym like 3 times a week, I'm quite confident I will improve alot in a month, hopefully to reach 100kg this year, but slowly.
I need to realize my nutrition. I know that I've been eating alot alot nowadays, but I should be watching out on what I eat instead of its quantity. Quality over quantity always. I've been eating junk food alot, because of macdonald, also because that I think that I should eat more instead of worrying what I eat. Now I think that in school I should eat healthier stuffs and screw the fast foods. Also I think I should stop being so foolish on nutrition and research more on it. Macdonalds will be the only time I will eat junk because I got no choice (until the day I quit mac), so I will stick to mcwings and milk/milo, and nothing else, that will be permanent for every meal. And I will wanna drink more milk, like 500ml per day (I don't actually think thats alot though).
I'm growing up now should I better start eating more and become more mature in what I do.
Movements training, which will be done on Fridays. I will make each session light training, like just one-hour-and-a-half of training, with every movement 60%-80% of my max, movements that I'm confident that I can nail 98% of the time. Also will drill more on my precisions, wall passes, runs, focus, movements that I better on, climbups, rolls, etc. etc. I must stop bailing and doing stupid stuffs. Too many repetitions will also affect your form and in turn injure your joints.
I should research more on strength training and jumps in nature, and of course study more in school lol. April already, like 4 weeks to exam, dam. I also realize that my training in parkour helps in other sport activity such as soccer and basketball. Knowing this, I cant wait till next year when I plan to start training soccer again, thats when I should be grown up and become alot stronger from weight training.
Working nowadays... sucks. But of course, no one likes working. I need to stop being greedy, stop making mistakes and make a fool out of myself. Like I said too, eat mcwings and milo/milk only. Then I should stop being so foolish doing stupid things, stupid mistakes, and stop being so greedy and take so many free milos, lol. The main thing now is the pay, thats all. June hols I will find new job.
The main thing is, I wanna train properly now and of course seriously, concentrate on get stronger and eat more (and properly), also to stop doing stupid stuffs when training movements, more self control, and stop killing my joints and research more on strength training and stuffs like that. Revision for studies too, and learn more about life. Of course filming and editing! And tricking!
I will start training more systematically, methodically and properly now.
This will the post for the whole of April, I think I will update it weekly to check my training. I know what I have to do, so I should not disappoint myself and regret again and again. Wake up now, I should be more mature for what I do, self control is important.
Schedule now.
Wake up
School
Work
Train
Gym
Trick
Eat
Drink
Have fun
Watch
Film
Edit
Enjoy
Listen
Study
Learn
Realize
Research
Stay happy
Be more mature
Explore life
Stop making mistakes
Cherish
Sleep
Lets see.
I made a video yesterday, go watch it on youtube. The main reason for the video is to practice my video editing, not really my filming, not really on movements. Also its showing my training session yesterday, almost everything is very low impact, basic trainings, some railwork and other weird stuffs. The video editing was so-so, but lets just consider that a practice. I actually realize everytime you edit you will learn something from it, which is very good. After making a video you have more ideas to put in next time, and the more you improve after each video. I was also try to finish filming, editing and uploading all in one day, which was quite good. The video isnt so impressive but I didnt really care, the next one will be better, and better, and better. You get better in the stuffs you practice.
Tomorrow will be my last day of work until exams finish. Wow, seriously time flies fast as fuck. Exams already, and June holidays are coming soon after that, soooo fast. But yeah man I should really start studying, especially for POA, Physics, Maths, etc. Those subjects that I can score in. I shouldnt fuck up my exams thats for sure. Those working days probably should be used for studying. I really hope so.
I think I should start to fish for my music, its a really good way to refresh your mind and also its something that filmers do at least 20% of the time, to find good songs to use for their videos. I have decided to make quite alot of videos and films once I get my camcorder, around next year, and hopefully by then I have enough experience to make some good videos. And I will make monthly videos from now on to experiment with video styles, editing, music, filming and for fun. So many ideas, but there is no hurry. And those monthly videos are good for noticing progression. I should make a list of videos I want to make too. Fast-paced, creativity-based, editing based, experimental, tricking/railwork, etc.
I've been learning alot of stuffs about strength training, nutrition, how things works, weightlifting, human mechanics and stuffs like that. I still have so many hella things to learn but I really got to thank those people who helped me answered my questions and doubts, and guided me through. It really helps to have people like them, you learn more things, you clear your doubts and everything. Sometimes I'm even guilty to ask too much. I should help others too, that would make it fair.
I should control my thoughts now. I shouldnt overdo the things that I have been doing now, I think I'm being too much, somehow. I should stop the negativity right now, and only do when the situations arise and when needed. Lets not push it too far man.
And I just recently squatted 40kgs, great achievement, but not quite yet my bodyweight. I'm quite happy that I've been quite safe with the squats, kept practicing on the form and didn't pushed my limits too fast too soon. And I will be extra safe and I will probably film my deadlifts, squats and miscellaneous lifts and bar positions to get checked with the more experienced guys I know through the internet. I think I will stick to 40kg for quite sometime, and probably increase a few when I can do my max for 5 reps (or more). Deadlifts on the other hand is going great but I decided not to lift too heavy yet, around 30kg for max. The other lifts I'm still not too sure but I will take time to slowly learn them, other complex lifts like snatch, clean and jerk etc. is going to take some time but I have loads of time.
I think if I can training how I did yesterday for movements, it will be great. I shouldnt feel any stress in any mvements at all, and I finished the sessions without any bad thoughts. I was quite happy with yesterday's session. Nothing off limits, low impact, nicely done.
Nothing much to say really, so bye.
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April 7 UPdate.
Hadnt been too good this days.
I thought about some alternatives for my training nowadays, and this is what it looks like. I want to start training soccer, this time sensibly and seriously. I want to have another sport that I'm good in. I heard that soccer is quite impactful (although it doesn't look like), but I still want to train this anyway, and its definitely less impactful then Parkour. Probably I think I will have a few stuffs to train on.
Firstly, strength training. I will try to go gym like 2-3 times a week, and depending on my body, the schedule is not fixed. I trying to learn the power clean and olympic goodmornings now, and that will be something to work on. Squats is probably ok, but the tendency to wobble my neck is quite dangerous, something to clear up on too, and for deadlifts and still need more practice but I can say thats its not bad, but I better find someone to spot out my mistakes. For upperbody, I will do the normal stuffs like muscleups and weightedpullups as usual, but I think I should try some upperbody lifts like maybe standing press or something. And I'm thinking I should really really start training on handstands, because if I keep talking but not doing, it won't achieve it anyway. Same goes for planche en force, but I think more weighted pullups can do the job.
Now movements. Last Friday I trained movements and I wasnt too happy with it. Because I think yet again (without fail actually) I pushed too much and I didnt really train within the 60%-80% of my maximum thing. Stupidly as well. And I wasn't focusing much in my movements causing alot of failed attempts, which is stupid. I need to really train properly now, and stop thinking of getting the biggest sdc to precision of the craziest running precision or blah blah or else I will end up in a wheelchair some day. I've been taking more glucosamine but I think I should go get fish oil, which is proven to be better. My knee tendon probelm is weird, some say is osgood-schlatter while other say its a patellar tendonitis.. but whatever is I better stop jumping around foolishly and start training properly. I think my training will be around Marine Parade area as I guess it will be a good spot to train at. Just really basic vaults, small runs, climbups, some rails good for balance, probably training my rolls there too. I will try to control even landing and make sure everything is low impact, and within the 60% to 80% range.
Now tricking and other miscellaneous activities. Tricking is something that I like, and I told myself to start focusing on tricking too, but I can only train it at the gym, for safety purposes, until when I'm more experienced I will go to playground mats. I do have quite alot of goals in mind but yeah, I think it wouldnt be that stressful on cushioned floor and not on an regular basis. Yep, backflips and moonkick and aerials, etc. some key goals in mind. For soccer I will also train it like once a week so I will TRY to get some guys to play soccer with during school time (probably). And when I train alot probably I will use some wall or a goal post as a training tool. Time to pump my soccer ball at home, no air at all now...
So the schedule would probably be like this.
Monday: Strength training - Upperbody (either at fitness corner or playground)
Tuesday: Strength training - Lowerbody at Gym (squats, deadlifts)
Wednesday: Work, rest.
Thrusday: Strength training - Trying out new lifts (small training, mixed upper and lower)
Friday: Movements/Soccer (in the afternoon), Tricking (probably if there is gym). Filming day.
Saturday: Work, rest. Editing day.
Sunday: Strength training - Lowerbody at Gym (more squats and deadlifts)
Side notes are, probably I wouldn't train much on thrusday, its more of a "do not waste your time but there are still things to do tomorrow" day. Some small lifts is definitely good too. And also I will try to do research on that day. Its time to get some good books and read them, and find more music and watch good movies on the computer instead of doing nothing and slacking around. I shouldn't waste time, they are precious. Oh and probably I should get a soccer buddy(lol). And yeah filming day on Friday as like you know I need alot of practice on it, but probably not every Friday hahahaha. But I might make a video this friday, hopefully. And it will show honestly how I train on that day. Looks like 3 or 4 gym trips a week, and probably be still do some leg training on Thrusday as well, so with 3 lowerbody days a week, I think I will strengthen up really good each month. I can't wait to see my progression, but there is no rush. And the schedule is just something that I planned and I wish to stick to, but at times where I couldn't or there is a change in something, then too bad.
Nutrition really improved, I've been trying to eat alot more now, and drinking alot more milk now. Junkies are consumed every now and then though, but I think I will really take some time. I also consumed alot more fruits like apples, oranges and blah, but I need to try out other new fruits. Veggies on the other hand, is something I will never want to try.. Ah well this sucks.
Work is not bad, but only on Saturdays. Wednesday is quite a bad day as those good managers are usually not working and those bitchy managers are as usual being bitches. But recently I gotten alot of money because of not skipping work (lol), and I hope by the end of this year I can get some good cash, enough for a camcorder.
Studies, oh no. I really don't have mood for homeworks nowadays but I still have to do them anyways. I gotten 3 tests results today and English was a good one, but not Chem and Chinese (expected though). Chem got 23/30, some really dumb mistakes and I don't know. I'm not happy with the results and I know I can do better. Chinese is as usual disappointing. 15/50 this time, which is retarded. Everyone pass except me. Oh well, exams in like 3/4 weeks time, time to score well in all subjects in Chinese cannot make it.
Oh and today, I trained upperbody as scheduled. I wasn't the best of days as I think I wasn't fully fresh as muscleups and pullups seems harder. I don't know why but this kind of things comes and goes. Yesterday's training wasn't really hard enough, I think it could be better too. Tomorow hopefully would be a better day. Planning to push a little bit more for squats and asking people to check out my deadlift form. If its good I would try to add some weight, but if no I will stick to 25kg for max. But I don't want to push too much too soon, because like I said no hurry, rushing only leads to worser consequences.
And I think I'm spending alot of money of food and drinks now, and gym too.
I hope I can stop doing really stupid stuffs man, and really listen to my conscience and body and heart. Because I know myself what is right and what is wrong so I can't lie to myself. Sometimes we lose to temptation, yeah doing big stuffs is "fun", but will your knees like it when it suffers even before old-age? There are many things I planned to do but I can't stick to it because of my weak self-control. Something that I really need practice on.
So what do I plan to do now?
- Work on my rolls, balance, control, precision, fluidity, speedvaults and wallpasses.
- Keep every low-impact and safe, focus on every movement.
- Don't rush and push over my limits, keep within the "60% to 80% of max" range.
- Gym 3 to 4 times a week, and learn some new lifts and work on form.
- Sleep more, eat more and train properly.
- Have more self-control.
- Do more research, do not waste time on computer, and work and study harder.
- Start practicing tricking and soccer, and filming.
Long-term goals. (by the end of this year)
- A more SENSIBLE person with more self-control.
- Handstands and planche en force, straight-armed climbups.
- 2x bodyweight squats and deadlifts (but all progressively), 1/2 bodyweight pullups.
- Powercleans, highpulls, benchpress, standingpress, clean and jerk, frontsquats, olygoodmornings with good form.
- Land Backflip, Aerial and Moonkick consistently. (not much expectations in this)
- More control and fluidity in movements, better movements overall.
- Better nutrition, better sleep, and good study grades!
- A camcorder, and a better filmer (and editor) overall.
This is it, I will work hard towards them and a safe and incremental manner.
---------------------------------------------------------
Really man, time flies like no ones business nowadays.
This week is the start of training anew again. I started doing strength training as planned and I noticed great improvements in my deadlifts after reading up abit. But then I know I have alot of things to work on for it, and before I progress to powercleans and high pulls I know I should have the basics of the deadlifts. Squats is going great too, I feel quite strong now, and I think after a few more sessions I can slowly load up my squats already. Squats are quite good in form but then I should not be complacent. I can't wait to learn the new lifts, but I know I should get base strengths first. If I keep going to gym like 3 times a week, I'm quite confident I will improve alot in a month, hopefully to reach 100kg this year, but slowly.
I need to realize my nutrition. I know that I've been eating alot alot nowadays, but I should be watching out on what I eat instead of its quantity. Quality over quantity always. I've been eating junk food alot, because of macdonald, also because that I think that I should eat more instead of worrying what I eat. Now I think that in school I should eat healthier stuffs and screw the fast foods. Also I think I should stop being so foolish on nutrition and research more on it. Macdonalds will be the only time I will eat junk because I got no choice (until the day I quit mac), so I will stick to mcwings and milk/milo, and nothing else, that will be permanent for every meal. And I will wanna drink more milk, like 500ml per day (I don't actually think thats alot though).
I'm growing up now should I better start eating more and become more mature in what I do.
Movements training, which will be done on Fridays. I will make each session light training, like just one-hour-and-a-half of training, with every movement 60%-80% of my max, movements that I'm confident that I can nail 98% of the time. Also will drill more on my precisions, wall passes, runs, focus, movements that I better on, climbups, rolls, etc. etc. I must stop bailing and doing stupid stuffs. Too many repetitions will also affect your form and in turn injure your joints.
I should research more on strength training and jumps in nature, and of course study more in school lol. April already, like 4 weeks to exam, dam. I also realize that my training in parkour helps in other sport activity such as soccer and basketball. Knowing this, I cant wait till next year when I plan to start training soccer again, thats when I should be grown up and become alot stronger from weight training.
Working nowadays... sucks. But of course, no one likes working. I need to stop being greedy, stop making mistakes and make a fool out of myself. Like I said too, eat mcwings and milo/milk only. Then I should stop being so foolish doing stupid things, stupid mistakes, and stop being so greedy and take so many free milos, lol. The main thing now is the pay, thats all. June hols I will find new job.
The main thing is, I wanna train properly now and of course seriously, concentrate on get stronger and eat more (and properly), also to stop doing stupid stuffs when training movements, more self control, and stop killing my joints and research more on strength training and stuffs like that. Revision for studies too, and learn more about life. Of course filming and editing! And tricking!
I will start training more systematically, methodically and properly now.
This will the post for the whole of April, I think I will update it weekly to check my training. I know what I have to do, so I should not disappoint myself and regret again and again. Wake up now, I should be more mature for what I do, self control is important.
Schedule now.
Wake up
School
Work
Train
Gym
Trick
Eat
Drink
Have fun
Watch
Film
Edit
Enjoy
Listen
Study
Learn
Realize
Research
Stay happy
Be more mature
Explore life
Stop making mistakes
Cherish
Sleep
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