Another Blogging Haitus

Going to take another haitus from blogging for a bit – The prelims are coming up and I need to prepare for them. I don’t think I’ll be posting for a while until maybe after the IB exams – crunch time is setting in. Argh. Good luck to all!

Moar gym logs

Mmmm numbers!

• Deadlift: 5×5 75KG
• Military Press: 5×5 25KG
• Pullups: 5×5 reps Bodyweight

Even More Post-exam Gymming

More numbers over here.

• Deadlift: 5×5 75KG
• Military Press: 5×5 22.5KG
• Pullups: 12 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 50KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 45KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 42.5KG

Managed to do a pistol this week – was pretty happy with myself, although I still can’t control my balance when I go down. However, learning the pistol has definitely helped me to get my back squat up 10KG, which is pretty impressive, even if I say so myself. I mostly did one-legged squats on a chair while holding onto my pullup bar to provide assistance with my arm. (Pretty weird setup, I know!) GTG’ed these assistance pistols for the better part of the week. So for those who can’t do a pistol yet – assisted GTG pistols is the key!

More Post-exam Gymming

Too tired to post on tuesday – here’s yet another log.

• Deadlift: 5×5 70KG
• Military Press: 5×5 22.5KG
• Pullups: 12 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 40KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 45KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 42.5KG

I’ll need to work on my barbell row – had to go into bad form for the last 2 reps.

Post-exam Gymming

Okay, another summary post over here. Back to the gym after my common test. Going light this week as I’ve not hit the iron for more than 3 weeks now.

• Deadlift: 5×5 65KG
• Military Press: 5×5 20KG
• Pullups: 12 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 35KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 40KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 40KG

Blogging Haitus

Going to take a haitus from blogging for a bit – Common test coming up.

Rock Climbing Again!

Woo, went climbing today at Climb Adventure again. It was pretty fun – went with the usual gang. The time was sent mostly attempting a particularly hard roof that I wasn’t able to conquer. (Gah!) I need to work on my one arm grip strength, especially the grip strength with less than 4 fingers gripping my support. The roof required me to grip on a hold which only had space for 2 fingers at most – bad news. Also tried several other easier walls. The worst part of climbing is when all the sweat gets on your hands and it becomes extremely difficult to maintain your grip – this is especially problematic when you’re paused on a point in the wall and trying to figure out the best way to get to the next handhold.

It was great fun though – can’t wait to do it again.

Gym Stuff XX

More gym stuff… I’ve been a bit tired lately so just updating my latest progress. Deloaded this week.

• Deadlift: 5×5 65KG
• Military Press: 5×5 20KG
• Pullups: 15 reps over entire session
• Back Squat: 5×5 35KG
• Bench Press: 5×5 40KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 40KG

More -te stuff..

Okay, after squeezing in time over the past few days for Japanese, I think I’ve managed to distill the following grammatical point:

-ておく – Used when something is done in preparation for some event. Differs from -てある in that -てある is used to describe a state of something when that state has been reached because of a particular reason. -ておく simply describes the act of preparation.

Will need to lookout for this in normal japanese – not too sure how to form complete sentences correctly with it yet. (Which is a huge problem!)

Will also talk more about -temo, -te kuru and -teiku next time: physics pract beckons.

More gym progress

Okay, back to gym after last tuesday’s absence, for a skin checkup. Numbers to crunch:

• Deadlift: 5×5 75KG (Woot! Above BW! )
• Bench Press: 4×5 45KG, 1×5 42.5KG
• Barbell Row: 5×5 37.5KG (Miscounted the plates. -_-)