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exalted United States. Oct 01 2011 11:26. Posts 2918

Just want to churn this entry out so I can move on and put it past me.

September has been mentally brutal. After my last blog entry, I didn't really make any changes to my diet or (lack of) exercise routine. I continued to maintain decent volume online but continued the standard "run bads".

My play started to deteriorate and I had small tilt bursts, specifically against shortstacks (where you can assuage yourself that the mistake "wasn't that bad"

There have been so many small but important things to take care of and many other little things that are "slightly life-tilting". But ultimately my life has slowly shifted to a suboptimal state. There hasn't been much for me to look forward to lately and I feel weak and powerless.

I'm going to state specific steps I will take to improve my situation. I tend to like to set grandiose goals and then never get to them, so one step at a time. I will at the very least maintain these and then step it up week by week.

- 20 pushups avg. daily
- play badminton 1x a week
- jog around neighborhood 1x a week
- take dog out walking 1x week (not my dog)

These are pretty pathetic even by American standards but one week at a time. I used to be pretty fit but I have to admit those days are long over. I'm currently 170cm/81.6kg so no more procrastinating.

That's about it. Finally, would like to discuss with Forex traders and enthusiasts so please PM if you're into that.

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exalted from teamliquid :o

dogmeat Czech Republic. Oct 01 2011 13:02. Posts 6374

ban baal

Last edit: 01/10/2011 13:04

Almebeast Sweden. Oct 01 2011 13:55. Posts 797

lol dogmeat that mountain graph is so ugly =(

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Carreira Peru. Oct 01 2011 16:04. Posts 154

kind of the same month for us exalted, feels batman.

ull pick it up, gl.

Your a retarded taco eating bad fuckin poker player. lolololo

aCa_ . Oct 01 2011 18:10. Posts 470

I almost recovered yesterday...

casinocasino Canada. Oct 01 2011 20:34. Posts 3346

20 push ups a day is very easy, take these simple lessons from batman everday and you will be a baller like bruce wayne

Eluflop Estonia. Oct 02 2011 03:52. Posts 3835

monkeybusiness graph u got there

PuertoRican United States. Oct 02 2011 04:26. Posts 13127

20 pushups a day isn't going to help you at all.

You need to do as many regular pushups as you can to see what your limit is, then start doing sets of those everyday.

If you're able to do 20 at a time, then you should be moving up to 25-30 pushups within a month, but you have to push your muscles. Lets say 20 pushups is your max at one time, that's not all your body can handle for the day, it's only how much you can handle in one run. Keep doing sets of 20 with 3 minute breaks in between and eventually your chest muscles will just not be able to push up anymore and feel a little sore. Like the old saying goes, "feel the burn". Once you know your max amount of pushups you can do a day, then you can set a real schedule and goal for yourself.

I'm 6'0 and skinny for my height, but I do at least 100 pushups 4-5 days a week. I do two sets of 40 and one set of 20, depending how I feel I keep going. Depending on the day, I just keep doing more. I've been lazy lately and haven't pushed myself, I should have set a 200 push up goal for myself already. I used to be able to do 60 at one time when I was 14 years old.

You should also be able to do a set of 50 for example before and after you take a shower, the water helps your body.

Also, if all you're doing is pushups and not working out your chest in any other way, you can do pushups everyday, so don't listen to anyone who says you need to let your chest recover. Your body will tell you when you need a break, usually during the first 1-2 months you will need to take a day off or even two days off every other week, depending on weak you are. Once you've been doing it fore several months, you will get stronger and not need any breaks at all. But then if you don't need breaks, that means you're stronger than before and you need to increase your pushups and sets, or else you wont continue to get stronger.

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Just saw your height and weight: 170cm/81.6kg = 5'7 / 180 lbs

If poker is your main source of income, you need to step up your cardio.

Rekrul is a newb

Last edit: 02/10/2011 04:30