Still waiting for the autodesk guy to come down and liscence my damn

3dsmax... waiting for Mark to come and go through my brochure design...


*sigh*

Weights training yesterday was fun. Did some plyometric twisting

exercise with Stephen. Then Tianhong, with some weight lifting book

which he borrowed from National Library suggested some new bicep

exercise. 10kg per side, did one set until failure - did about 30 with

some support at the end, same as Tianhong did, then we went to do some

lighter weight preacher curls to max out bicep. Was pretty skeptical at

first, but the tightness after that set was solid. May do that in the

future.

Tianhong will always be the senior which I respect the most. The only

one that I can truly call sempai. Ever since last year when I followed

him around for extra training during the holidays and even when the

semester started, he's been a role model, and friend. But what I respect

the most from him, is that even though he's fitness and strength and

physique is all there - he's not an arrogant pig. Not like some other

people in the team I know. I think that's a trait we both share now. We

both try to "act" arrogant at times, but inside, we're always looking at

things in different perspectives, and not just our own.

Sometimes I wonder if he's proud of me, for coming this far in weights,

that I'm even doing the same tonnage as him. I hate Jackson for making

that comment a while back: "Do you know why Tianhong wanted to train

with you so much since last year? Because you were no threat, because

you're standard was too far away from him." I think that only a truly

selfish person would have the idea that Tianhong would be training with

me so that he could feel better about himself? Although Tianhong would

have said stuff like "Haiyoh, your standard cannot make it lah" last

year, it was just to push me. We would train everyday during the

holidays, swimming and weights. His weights and stamina may have been

better, but I was always the faster swimmer. And through both our

strengths and weaknesses, we we rivals with each other, to surpass each

other in our individual weaknesses.

No, nothing selfish about his intentions, just two guys, sharing a

similar goal - to improve.





Anyway, I did 3 sets of front lat pull downs with Stephen.
15 reps at 115lbs
12 reps at 130lbs
10 reps at 155lbs

Then did chest with Tianhong. I was sad in a way, knowing that this

would be the last few trainings with my brother before he leaves for NS.

No more watching to see how much he does, then trying to hit that limit,

no one to look for to set the standard. My only regret is my running.

Had I only trained smarter, and not worsened my knee into runners knee

last semester, I would probably be able to run with him. But I have to

take glucosamine with msm twice a day now. Must look out for all the

juniors with knee pains this coming semester.

Flat bench press
12 reps at 20kg per side
10 reps at 25kg per side
8 reps at 30kg per side

Inclined bench press
12 reps at 20kg per side
9 reps at 22.5kg per side
5 reps at 25kg per side

Inclined flys
15 reps at 5kg per side
15 reps at 5kg per side
12 reps at 7.5kg per side

Then joined stephen for rear lat pull downs. lats really tight, but

persevered.
12 reps at 115lbs
10 reps at 130lbs
8 reps at 155lbs

I wonder if Stephen was dissapointed with me? We're supposed to be

training the same muscle groups, but canoeing training has thrown my

schedule with him out of the window. I guess Stephen is to me, what I

was to Tianhong last year. But Stephen is much more stronger than I was

back then. And the knowledge that I learned from not only Tianhong, but

the other seniors, and research, I have passed down to him. I believe

that he can truly excel - perhaps far beyond my peak next year.

Anyway, still did the stations that Stephen wanted to do, even if I had

trained that group the day before, and will have to do it again the day

after for canoeing training - I couldn't let him down.

Jeremy came in to do weights when we were halfway through. Found out

that he was the one I was with during the shot in lite years. Remember

now, we thought that that girl looked so fierce.

Ivan said something about 3 sets being enough than my usual 5 sets. I'll

have to do a little more research into this, but he seems right with

respect to the other areas which I've done research in.



Ugh... Pecs and shoulders hurt... today's training is going to be rough.