Bathroom Deconstruction

For V-day, I bought my wife a very romantic $650 worth of bathroom supplies at Home Depot (lots of tile and glass blocks) then came home and, with my brother's help, removed the old, several hundred pound cast-iron tub from the room and ripped/pulled/broke up the concrete subfloor.

Winter League

I didn't play particularly well tonight, especially in the start of the game, but it was fun nonetheless. We had low numbers which meant lots of playing time (YAY!) so I get the best workout yet at Winter League. There might have even been one point tonight where I subbed because I actually wanted a breather!

Offense is fun and easy indoors. The turf is fast and all throws are possible. On the flip side, the small field and sharp throws make defense extremely challenging. Several times a night I find my man catching a disc when I would have sworn I had all the angles covered perfectly. That's good for me though since it allows me to really focus on tight, honest defense.

Tabata Workout

Warm-up:

1 mile @ 8.5 mph
Active Stretching

Tabata Sets:
Pull-ups:

15, 11, 6, 5, 5 w/ 60lbs assistance, 6 w/ 90lbs, 8 w/120lbs, 4 w/ 120lbs

Step-ups (reps/leg):

6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6

Push-ups:

39, 37, 25, 21, 20, 15, 15, 12

Squats:

29, 30, 30, 31, 32, 33, 32, 32

Russian Twists:

28, 29, 27, 23, 21, 21, 19, 18

Men's Health Circuits

Warm-up:

1 mile @ 8.5 mph
Active Stretching

I based the following circuits off a Men's Health article.

Circuit I:

5 rounds of:
0:40 treadmill @ 10mph, 10% incline
10 x Over-head squats w/ 2olb dumbbells
Round 1: 0:40 plank
Rd 2: 0:40 left side bridge
Rd 3: 0:40 right side bridge on right arm 40 sec
Rd 4: 0:40 plank
Rd 5: 0:40 hold bottom of a push-up

2:00 rest

Circuit II:

3 rounds of:
0:40 Mountain climbers
0:20 rest
40 x push-ups
10 x bent-over row w/ 2olb dumbbells

2:00 rest

Circuit III:

4 rounds of:
1:00 treadmill @ 10mph
5/leg x single-leg rotation squat
Round 1: 85 x crunches
Rd 2: 60 x right side oblique crunches
Rd 3: 60 x left side oblique crunches
Rd 4: 50/side x bicycles

Bathroom Deconstruction and Philly "Pick-up"

I spent the morning removing the toilet and the floor tile in the bathroom, then went to pick-up in Philly, then came home with enough energy/frustration to take down the bathroom ceiling.

Nothing too exciting to report, especially since Philly pick-up was a complete bust. What the hell? I drive 3 hours round-trip and end up bringing 1/4 of the players. We can only field 6's. We only play for an hour. And it's 65 degrees out? In February??!! At least I got in a good half-hour of throwing post "pickup" with Ross, Walt & Joel "the white Randy Moss" Wooten.

It was especially embarrassing to spend the ride down talking up Pike's dedication and show up and find exactly one Pike player in attendance. Hell, not counting me, we had 2 guys from Pike 2005 and only 1 from 2008. I definitely lost some credibility today.

Brumfis Pickup

It was warm and sunny, but unfortunately, 3 hours of warm weather weren't enough to melt the snow nor thaw the frozen ground. Even so, we had 10 brave souls come out for some durango boot. Sadly, my team went 0-for on the day, mostly because of my inability to focus and my lack of desire to run on such uneven frozen ground.

It wasn't the best workout for me, but I did go for a short but fast-paced run and got some decent throwing in. We were out there for 3 hours all told.

Snatch, Dips, SLS

Warm-up:

10:00 Rowing Machine (145 Calories)
Active Stretching

12-15-9 for time:

Right arm dumbbell snatch
Left arm dumbbell snatch
Dips
Total time: 5:59

Single Leg Squat Routine:

3 rounds of:
10/leg x Single leg squats
10/leg x Bulgarian split squats
10/leg x Step-ups

Bathroom Deconstruction and Winter League

I was back at tearing apart the bathroom tonight and, with a pipe wrench and crowbar on my hip, I carried out to the curb four more full garbage cans, a sink, a vanity, and a countertop. The walls are down, just the floor and ceiling to go. For those of you keeping track at home: Bathroom Remodeling 2009

Oh yeah, and I played winter league tonight too. I'd say more about that, but then I'd have to admit that Walt point-blocked me, which I'm definitely not going to do.

Snow and DDR

Just a light workout consisting of shoveling show and 562 Calories of DDR.

Old Fashioned Ass Whooping

Warm-up:

1 mile @ 8.5 mph
Active Stretching

Old Fashioned Ass Whooping:

Complete as many rounds as possible in 20 minutes of:
1 x 140 yard suicide (cones at 8 yds, 14 yds, 20 yds, 28 yds)
10 x push-ups
20 x body-weight squats

Total rounds completed: 16, with :20 to spare.

If you're wondering about the odd distances, I ran my suicides on a small basketball court and made my turns at the touch lines, the foul lines, and half court.

Compare to 12-22-2008