The Chalk Pit.

So at work today, I was on the John Deer tractor with the forks on the back moving pallets of bricks and other stuff around.
Backed up to a pallet on a slight rise, with the wheels of the tractor a foot down in the mud, as the wheels turn they make a bit more of a hole to sink into, manage to just lift the pallets of bricks with the hydraulics, but as I try to drive forward, instead of forward the front of the tractor comes up 2 feet!
The hole the wheels are in acted as a ramp. Everything I did after that either spun the wheels and dug the holes deeper or lifted the front again!
I put the pallet down, drove out, filled the holes with old broken bricks then tried to lift the pallet again.
As I tried to drive out again, up came the Front again!. Now this is a large tractor so its a little scary.
Fine! Plan B.
Now using the forks and pallet as a wheely bar, I set the hight so that the front wheels could only come a foot off the ground! So that as I drove forward out of the hole I dragged the pallet with me, with one foot of air under the wheels.
Its o.k I couldn’t steer any way. One hand was on the diff’ lock and the other was on the leaver controlling the rear forks hydraulics, just in case I had to dump the load!
Once I was out of the hole and down the little rise, the front wheels re-met the ground. Then a 5 minute drive to the pallets new home and the adventure was over.
Daz wheelys a tractor!

so how was your day?

Been a Quite week at work. Clearing out the work sheds into containers so construction can start.

And then go home and do more packing… joy…

I have been feeling crap since sunday, was considering not training but past experience is that I feel worse not training, so lift’y lift’y.

Still on the light side as I get over the recent sickness. Hit all the right numbers without any difficulty.

.. and felt much better afterwards

Weather didn’t look to promising, turned out pretty good with just the odd bit of mist falling from the sky.
Not much training for me this week as got told Thursday that we have to move…
so for the third time this year I’m packing boxes…. yay…

so sunday, my mission was to talk less, train more.
Marcus, Sue, Ben, Janet and Janet’s son, (mental block on name, please insert here.) and me.
Started with all the flow drills, did some striking to pads, and I worked on combination punching with Marcus. We smash pads, Ug.. Good.
So got to do some of the drills with Marcus, he added on some bits to the Hitting, striking, blocking, one hand, two hand, spear, attack the attack drill we have been trying to teach the others.
Wonder if they have discovered its all the same thing.
The guard.
Sue got angry, forgot about hitting the pads, then smashed the crap out of them.
Ahhh thinking…. who needs it?
Sue smash pads! Ugg!
Nice…..

finished off with conditioning.
Not a good week for me. Was feeling every little knock. Then I almost fell asleep on the drive home, then once home did sleep for 2 hours then got up feeling like crap.
Took a iron tablet and a multi-vit, and am now feeling better. Must have been lacking something?

Now back to the boxes…

First night back lifting for a few weeks, so took it easy, backed off the wight and the reps, made it a “comfortable” nights lifting.

One step back for two steps forward…

Last of the cold is going, nose still runs a little, and the lungs have still got a little crap in them.

But otherwise feeling pretty good!

Next week will hit the 20 reps on the trap bar with 90kg and then will start pushing the wights back up again.

The dips and pull ups can just keep doing there own thing. I would like to be able to keep doing 10 rep sets, but will need to lower the reps to get the wight up. I’m just not a good rep’er and find with upper body stuff that anything over 6 reps gets VERY heavy, but with out the growth or poundage increase. Will see what happens. I have, in the past, done some good lifting on these two exercises so I feel I don’t have much to prove. What ever happens with my “higher rep” experiment” will be informative if nothing else…

But can I walk the walk?

Sunday in the park, Marcus, Sue, Janet, Ben and me.
Weather held out, which was a nice surprise after saturday!

Spent the most part of the 2 hours with Ben. So me holding pads, and talking way to much!
I guess Marcus and I did the same thing when I was trying to understand what he was on about…

Ben is making some good progress letting go of his trained “karateness”

We worked on power generation, striking and attack the attack. Basic holding your guard and keeping loose.

Then did something that Marcus called mutual confrontation night of the living dead. I wasn’t to sure of what he was after, so I just tried to get Ben to put all the little segments we have been doing over the last few months together.
Started at long range, throw a shot, close, shift, pass, strike, grab, and shut down the attacker, while I made life hard for him. I did my best to keep it slow on my part, then failed and just plain old cheated when I felt like it!
Ben got the idea, Quickly! Anything goes!

Glad everyone is wearing a cup these days…

finished with conditioning.

Me so happy to be well enough to train again! Looking forward to wednesday… and friday….and of course next sunday!

Come on weather be good for us…

Been sick all week, no training. Lots of work though.
Three straight days of chain sawing! My lower back and shoulders are killing me!
Power lines got taken out by a tree sunday night, it fell across the road, essentially blocking us in and cutting off the phone, power and water.
In a strange twist of fate my laptop could access the internet again!
until the battery ran out…
We got the tree guys in to handle the big stuff. ( they had to use a digger!) and we did the clean up.
Lots of fire wood!
But the power guys couldn’t get here until tuesday, So Natalie and I stayed at my Mums place for monday night.
Was nice with us all together, i went to work tuesday and left Natalie and Mum together for the day. Its the first time they have spent so much time together with out me to be the buffer.
Turns out they really like each other, and they had a grate day gas bagging.

So training this week has been cut out to try and get over the last of my cold, and to try and heal my sore body.
I am hoping the weather is good for sunday so i can get in at least something this week.

and yes the baby shopping continues, this week i bought a teddy bear! other than that i don’t know what the rest of that stuff is!

the adventure continues…

Still sick. No training this week. I have only worked two days. Got told to say away and not make anyone else sick!
So Naty and i have been suck inside coughing and hacking and blowing our noses…

Not fun…

also the internet is out… don’t ask how i posted this….

I’m not good at inside at the best of times, but this?

sigh….

yep, good and sick. doing my best to hack up my lungs. took the day off to sleep and maybe recover.

nope…

being sick sucks…..

Sunday in the park. Weather held out for a bit, then a bit of drizzle, so we hid under the trees and continued training!

Marcus, Sue, Janet and Me! No crappy family blah blah for me this week! Yay!

Worked on base, sinking, filling, striking, sticking, flowing, and general physical connectedness.

Not much then….

Then some conditioning to finish us off.

Pretty good session. Did seam like I was doing a lot of talking. Some of it kinda made sense to me, hope it helped somebody!

Good for me to go through all this stuff again. Seams like Marcus tried to teach me, I didn’t get it, started doing it, got better, and now I have to learn what it is I,m actually doing!

Strange process.

Can you only understand what your doing, after you have gotten good at what your doing?

Oh my head hurts!

Throat started to tickle this afternoon. Might be coming down with Naty’s bot .

Lots of Vitamin C and early to bed might be a good idea….

Been a easy week at work, not to physical, except today in fits and spurts as we collected the fire wood up.

Natalie has been sick all week, coughing and sneezing. And genuinely feeling like poo…

I seam to be fighting it off so far, but not blowing my self apart tonight seamed like a good idea.

I needed to pay more attention to the new movements anyway, so focused on technique more than balls to the wall…. except on the sprawls where i seam to have gone a bit nuts!

My upper back is still recovering from all the chain sawing we have been doing lately so missed out the rows again.

not a bad work out then. just need to keep the technique and get the numbers up at the same time.