BB's battle log

[Legionary]

Hey folks, first time doing a log like this so let's see how it goes. I'm doing a monk ranger type hybrid, and my little training notebook isn't makin the cut anymore.

- I'm gonna try to post my training, and most of my meals (I sometimes forget what I eat because I'm a college student who don't cook most of my meals). 

- for training I do a little bit of martial arts almost every day. I do light cardio most days too, and I've got a schedule of calisthenics and lifting that I'll post eventually. I'm just trying to get as well rounded a training system as I can to support my martial arts. Speaking of I train in taekwondo (just got 1st Dan woot) as well as a little Hung Gar Kung fu and Judo because I like variety. 

 

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Day 1 November 7th I think, 

Breakfast- two cups of coffee

Lunch- Greek lemon chicken. Like 5 Oz is my estimation. A little tziatziki. Half cup of roasted squash. Spinach salad with white cheddar, Toasted almonds, I think there was cucumber, also olive oil and white balsamic vinegar. I also had half a cup of itialian wedding soup. All with water. I killed it for lunch. 

Dinner- two buffalo chicken quesadillas that I threw some spinach and fried banana peppers on. I also had pretty much the same salad as lunch. 

Beverages, water, tea, coffee *and about 2 Oz cheap rice wine. 

 

Training: I did about a half mile run this morning (it was a cold one) then I did my poomse a few times, taegeuk pal Jong for all the tkd folks, I've got tkd class in like 20 mins where I'm gonna learn koryu poomse and do some sparring I hope. 

-see you tomorrow, BB

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Day 2 November 8th: 

-Morning training, I tried to run, but only made it like a quarter mile before I burned out, I think I just got board, anyway I then went and did 3 miles on the exercise bike at an average heartbeat  of 140 which is a little low for me but that's ok. 

-breakfast was coffee (as per usual), 3 eggs over medium with sausage gravy, 3 strips bacon, half an orange, and two slices of dark rye toast with butter. Not a bad breakfast, but if anybody has a recipe for a sausage gravy that is more healthy (maybe sans flour) I would love to hear it. 

- At lunch I had a beef on a wrap with mixed greens, mushrooms, olive oil, and cheddar cheese. I also had broccoli with cheddar and almonds. 

-didn't have dinner just wasn't hungry. I just snacked on some apples at work (I'm a deli cook which explains all the sandwiches and wraps I eat).

Evening training was calisthenics. I warmed up, then I did: 

2 sets 12 pistol squats ( the second set was actually split squats) 

3 sets 35 pushup 

3 sets 36 situp

2 sets 20 lb renegade rows. For once I didn't rewrite my workout part of the way through which is good. 

I cooled down with some stretching.  

 

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Day 3, November 9th 

Morning training: I actually got a good run in. I did 1.5 miles in 11:50. My long term goal for 1.5 mile run is 9:00, but for now I'm working my way down to 11:00.

-Breakfast: a whole lot of nothing 

-lunch: small sweet potato with butter, tilapia with pineapple chutney, green beans and 2 small slices of garlic pizza. A little carb heavy for lunch but I hadn't eaten in almost a day so...

- dinner was awesome, I had about 6 Oz of medium rare London broil topped wit mango salsa. On the side was wilted spinach, some chunks of roasted red potato. A mixed green side salad with olive oil and almonds. 

Tonight's training was taekwondo class where we did targetin and movement drills. I also did a little sparring with another first Dan. 

-for drinks today I had coffee and water, I'm also gonna have a small glass of rice wine in a little bit. 

-BB 

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 November 10th, not my best day for training or diet, but not terrible either. 

-morning training: tried to do cardio on the bike, stair machine, and eliptical, didn't get far on any of them. I did do kicking drills and like 7 minutes of shadow boxing that wasnt bad. 

-breakfast was pretty good. I had two slices rye toast, 3 over easy eggs, 3 slices of bacon and two apples. 

-lunch could have been better, Lotta fried food today. I had fish and chips (not too many but still enough) with broccoli and a salad of spinach, arugula, carrots, cucumber,  almonds, and olive oil. 

- Fridays I train in the afternoon. 

Training was

-4 sets max pull up, I maxed at 8 for 3 and 6 for the last. 

-3 sets 8 push press 

-3 sets 7 squat 

-4 sets 60 count plank 

 

Dinner 

-5 Oz London Broil medium. Half a  roasted red potato, broccoli, and two vegetarian spring rolls made in house. 

After dinner snack: watermelon sorbet with fruit. I also had a small bag of cashews 

[Legionary]

No log on Saturday, it's my day of rest. Today is veterans day here in the US and I'm posting today to give a honest thank you to anybody serving in armed forces, and public service around the world. Why a person joins a military or other public service is their own reason, but the fact that they sacrifice their time, autonomy and sometimes their life is something to be respected. So in that fashion, once again I say Thank you, and keep up the good work. 

-BB

[Legionary]

Forgot to log yesterday sorry. 

I don't remember my food really. I think I had a blt with salad and a side of mac salad at lunch besides that I don't remember. I ran 2 miles in 17:00 yesterday morning and swam 550 yds in 12:10 in the evening followed by a kinda half effort calisthenics workout. 

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I'M BACK!!  Fell off the log wagon for a while but now I'm back. 

1/10/18 

I've been doing intermittent fasting throughout the winter so breakfast is just tea with a little honey. 

Morning training was some, warmup, stretching and combo drills in my apartment. Heading to the pool at 12 for laps. 

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1/16/18 

This is kinda hard to keep up on. New habits and all. Woke up using light calisthenics. Just pushup situps and squats. As usual no breakfast, just coffee.

Morning training is with my brother/training partner. Starts in a few minutes.  I've been teaching him tkd forms. So we'll do that a bunch. Probably do mitt practice with the kicking shield and maybe some stance work. We usually end training with five star iron forearm training to help with blocking ability.  

Did training, made a breakfast wrap for brunch with eggs, bacon, cheese, onions and mushrooms. I did some more calisthenics in the evening, no gym access at the moment. And dinner was itialian sausage with peppers, onion, mushrooms, and some everything bread. 

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1\17\18 

Breakfast: coffee. 

Morning training. Tkd forms, self defense training against punch and grabs. Iron forearm training. 

Brunch around 1040: two eggs over medium, I slice bacon, two slices toast[fresh bread] with butter. Whole orange. 

Afternoon training:

Three sets 33, 33, 34 reps of pushup situp and squat for a total of 100 of each. Followed by mace training: 

2 sets 20, 360

3 sets 20, diagonal cut

2 sets 20 spear thrust 

8 pound mace. 

Check this link for the specific  exercises:https://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/04/23/train-like-an-ancient-hindu-warrior-the-steel-mace-workout/

Dinner wasn't great, didn't shop so my brother grabbed a pizza after work. 

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1\18\18

Breakfast:coffee 

Morning training: a little scattered, but we did the usual forms. I also trained a specialised form my master showed me called "the breathing form"which is based on qi gong type movements. We also did kicking drills, and as usual iron forearm drills. 

Lunch: 

Homemade soup with sausage, vegetables, and additive free chicken stock (canned) that I had over rice. 

Afternoon training: 

3 sets 35 pushup, situp, squat. A couple variations on these three actually. Some punching drills, as well as hitting our makiwara (striking post) 

Post workout snack: salad with itialian dressing. 

Going bowling so dinner will probably be buffalo wings that the alley cook makes from scratch. 

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1/19/18 

Breakfast: yall can probably guess. Coffee 

Morning training: ran a friend of mine through some basic punch and block drills as well as a warmup. Then I did forms and iron forearm training.  

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1/20/18

Breakfast of coffee. 

Morning training, forms, sparring, ran some defense against punch drills. As well as iron forearms and iron shirt training. 

Brunch, went to an old school diner nearby. Had coffee, two eggs, bacon, home fries with onions, and rye toast. Love classic breakfast food, I have no idea why anyone would choose pancakes or anything sugary for breakfast but that's just me. 

Afternoon training is calisthenics.  I did a circuit workout of: 

3 circuits, 

30 situp

22 jump squats 

20. 30lb ammo can press (basically ohp but with a dumbell) 

50 mountain climbers

 Then I cooled down with tkd forms 

dinner is leftover beef and veggie sturfry I made myself

 

 

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1/21/18

I'm moving back to school today

Breakfast coffee. 

Morning training: 

Worked taegeuk Sam Jang (a specific form) with my training partner. Also did kick/punch drills. 

Lunch: from scratch pizza with pepperoni, pepperchini, onions, and mushrooms, with another cup of coffee. Dinner. Chicken wrap with cheese, veggies, sour cream, and a side salad. Had water for a drink 

Evening training. 

Warmed up. Did 3 sets 35 pushup, situp and squat. Then did cross training of. 

3 sets 10 lat pull 

4 sets 16 reverse curl 

3 sets 20 Russian twist 

4 sets 16 lunges 

Cooled down with forms 

Not too shabby for my first day back at school. 

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1/22/18

Monday has a heavy class load so it's my scheduled rest day from formal training. 

Breakfast:coffee 

Lunch: water, roast beef and spinach wrap with eggplant parmasian and some sweet potato.  

Dinner was kinda disappointing, I had a much shorter break between a class and a lab than I thought I would so I scarfed down a premade buffalo chicken wrap and sun chips with water. Next Monday I think I'm gonna pack my own dinner instead of risking getting out late again. 

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1/23/18

Morning training; light calisthenics, and a 1.5 mile run. 

Breakfast, first one in a while, coffee, 3 hard boiled eggs with hot sauce, two slices dark rye toast with butter, glass of whole milk. 

Mid morning training;

Warmup 

3 sets 25 clap pushup

3 sets 8 pull up 

3 sets 25 elevated situps 

3 sets 6 single leg squat each side 

2 sets 10 barbell curl 

Lunch: 

2 sweet itialian sausage links, peppers and onions, broccoli and a stuffed tomato 

Dinner: salad before training. 

Evening training; first taekwondo class in a while, I did all my forms before class, then we did a usual warmup and stretching routine. Finally we did a whole lot of kic, punch and targeting drills. 

After training meal: had a blt on wheat with sweet potato fries and water 

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1\24\18

Morning training: 

1.5 mile exercise bike

Light taekwondo kick punch combo drills. Active stretching 

Breakfast:coffee

Lunch:

Utica greens (a cny specialty)

A beef. Mixed green pepper onion and mushroom wrap on a spinach flavored tortilla. Chicken stock. 

Dinner. 

Mixed green salad. Olive oil and white balsamic vinegar and chopped almonds. Also had some chicken strips and fried jalapeños. Not ideal but not terrible. 

Post work training: 

Warmup

2 sets 80 bicycle 

3 sets 35 pushup

3 sets 15 leg and back raise 

3 sets 20 25lb renegade row  

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Returning from the weekend: didn't do bad, ate healthy food but too much on some meals. 

1/29/18

Morning training: 

Monday I rest so I did light yoga to stretch out my sore legs and back. 

Breakfast. Coffee 

Lunch; 

Chicken wrap with greens. Black beans, salsa and guacamole. Also had a cheese plate with fruit and some chicken broth. 

Afternoon: did some hand and forearm conditioning with a sandbag. 

Ate a snack of peanuts 

Dinner: 

Salad. Chicken curry masalla over rice. 

 

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1/30/18

Morning training. Biked for a warmup. Interval run for training.

Breakfast: 4 eggs over medium, with hot sauce,  two slice rye toast, with butter,

Lunch: chicken gyro on whole wheat pita with greens and fresh tzatziki. Also had salad with olives. Oil and other vegetables. Also had Italian wedding soup 

Dinner. Apples, spicy chicken tacos with greens. 

Evening training: tkd class worked on sparring, combos and I taught a new person some basics. 

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1/31/18

Morning training: 3 mile run. 25:15 was my time. I'm training myself down to a goal of 22:00 3 mile before my next pft. 

Breakfast:coffee 

Lunch: kinda just a pile of food. It was thin sliced beef over a mix of rice and sprouted quinoa, with it was greens, spinach, green onion, nuts and carrots. I also had grapes and tomato soup on the side. 

Dinner: it was a winner tonight for dinner, a winner dinner, heh 

I was a work (catering company), I grabbed some 6 in corn tortillas, put slow roasted pork on it with green onion, mixed bell peppers, and white onions on it and made some really good carnita esq tacos, I had a citrus coleslaw on the side as well as a bit of chicken soup. All these made a symphony of flavor and texture. It was awesome. 

Evening training: 

Warmup,

3 sets 40 situp 

3 sets 5 man maker 60 lb

3 sets 15 lat pull 

3 sets 15 jump squat 

1 set 60 count wrestler bridge 

I also got 18 sec of the assisted head stand I have been working on. 

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2\1\18 

Morning training. Mobility training, basically yoga and tkd stretches, also did 25 Pushup and situp to warm up. 

Breakfast. Coffee 

Lunch: beef, greens and mushroom wrap with olive oil . I also had a small plate of veggies and hummus, and two about 6oz bowls of chicken and rice soup. 

Afternoon training: 

Warmup then 

2 sets 18 wolverine curl (like super reverse curls, curl a dumbell to shoulder level, press up to temple or higher. Slowly bring bell down with knuckles up in a C motion in front of you , looks like wolverine puttin the slice on some fool. Kills the upper body) 

3. Sets 6 60lb split squat

3 sets 20 pushup + ren row, I used 25 lb

2 sets 20 med ball double chop. (Swing the ball kinda like a katana)

Meditation: 

Trying to get back into the habit of daily meditation,I got 10 minutes in this afternoon 8 of which were pretty solid, I'm always too fidgety the first few minutes. I think I'll make a meditation challenge for the next 4 week challenge, hopefully that'll help with habit building. 

Dinner: 

Fried chicken (dark meat) with a greens, veggies and nuts salad dressed with white balsamic and olive oil, also gad a small slice of garlic pizza for carbs and deliciousness. The chicken was served with my special "pink BBQ" sauce, it's just ketchup, mayo, and Frank's red hot, and it's great with most juicy meats. 

Evening training:

Tkd class was canceled :[ oh well Instead I worked on my hung gar stance work, some kick punch combos, active stances (the ones for fighting not for teaching/conditioning) and I'm typing this last bit up in horse stance to get a last little burnout. 

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2/2/18

Morning training: ran about .5 mile to wake up then did my taegeuk forms and koryu the black belt form. Also did some iron forearm training 

breakfast: coffee 

Lunch: 

Fish sandwich on rye with cheddar, small portion of Terrell brand "homemade" chips.  

French onion soup (no bread), with cheese. Spinach and cucumber salad. Apple and mixed berries. Coffee. 

Afternoon training: 

Warmup

Pyramid pull up 5,7,7,7,5 

3 sets 12 shield thing from the captain America workout. 

3sets 40 squats. I alternated Hindu and regular bw squats. 

3 sets 12 dips

Pyramid inverted situp 15,20,30,20,15. Getting better at situps which is good kinda plateaued on pullups but that's why Im changing up my routine with pyramids and stuff. 

Dinner: decent 

Had vegetable and white rice stur fry with 2 sausages, 1 hand made egg roll and a cup of soup

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2/3/18 

Don't normally log on the weekend but hey, changin it up. 

Breakfast: coffee, eggs with sausage and small amount potatoes, hot sauce. 

Lunch: was at a usmc OSS pool function all day, we had mre's for lunch, this was my first mre, not as bad as everyone says, I got lemon pepper tuna with tortillas so I used the cheese spread to make makeshift fish tacos, kinda salty but not awful. 

Afternoon training:

Land nav class, mostly just walking 

Dinner:

Taco salad with shredded chicken Pico de guillo and other stuff. 

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2/5/18

Morning training: first usmc officer group pt, 

Warmup, 

Part 1: 10 rounds 

- 5 pull up 

- .3 mile sprint 

Total 50 pull up and 3 mile run 

Part 2: 3 rounds 

30 situp 

30 4 count flutter kick 

30 bicycle 2 count 

30 mounting climbers 4 count 

30 knee huggers 

30 Russian twists 2 count 

Ps. Ow, this stuff is a new level for me and I love it. 

Breakfast: coffee and a peanut butter whole grain bagel. 

Lunch: 

Adobo crusted chuck roast, medium rare. Salad. Stewed lentils over rice. 

Dinner: chicken parm on whole grain roll, salad, slice garlic pizza, apple. 

Evening training: lots of mobility work, active stretching and yoga. Some sword training with my bokken just block strike combos. 

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2/6/18 

Morning training: another group pt 

Warmup then, 

Part 1: 

1 mile run 

Max pull up, 50 squats, 30 db lunges

1 mile run 

Max pull up, 40 burpees, 25 diamond pushup

1 mile run 

Max pull up, 50 bw lunges, 40 pushups  

Total 3 mile run and a whole bunch of other stuff 

Part 2:

40 extra pushup (for the luls) 

Max set crunches for 2:00 min, rest, 1:30 min, rest, 1:00 min, rest, :30 sec. 

2:00 plank 

Ps: ow (again) 

Breakfast: coffee 

Swimming: 

I did some around 10. It was nice. Also did my tkd forms in the water. 

Lunch: 

Soba noodle bowl with pork and veggies, bowl of rice, roasted vegetables salad. Fruit. 

Dinner:

Fresh chicken parm, salad, roasted potatoes. 

Evening training; 

Tkd class, worked on forms, targeting drills, and self defense.