Basketball, Training, Nutrition, Life…

How we go…

1) I’m playing in a basketball league on Monday nights (35 and older league – that feels weird to say!).  Last night was the first round of the playoffs (we have the #1 seed, just sayin’) and we were told the game started at 7:30.  Well, it actually started at 7:00.  So the refs said if you don’t start in 2 minutes you must forfeit.  We had 3 guys there and another one of our players just happened to come watch… he recently tore his achilles tendon and was in a boot.  The rules state that you must start the game with 4 players, so he walked out on the court in his street clothes for the tip and just stood there ’til the first dead ball, then walked back into the bleachers to watch.  So that put us at 3 vs 5 for the first 5 minutes of the game until our 4th and 5th players showed up.

Our strategy?  Dribble around and stall as much as possible until the other guys arrived.  And it worked great!  By the time they showed up, we were only down 6-3 (and that counts the 2 point technical foul we got right off the bat as our player with the achilles injury was not in “proper uniform”).  We ended up getting the W, but it was much closer than the rest of the games.

Championship game in two weeks – I’ll let you know the outcome…

2) In a blogpost that I made the other day, I mention that I performed Bret Contreras’s,”The Sexy Challenge.”  It went well and I actually wasn’t as sore as I thought I’d be… until day 2’s DOMS set in!  I mentioned that I like to perform a challenge like this from time to time, but if done too frequently it can lead to set-backs.  I performed the challenge last Thursday and my training program had me scheduled to do legs that Saturday (2 days after the challenge).  Yeah right!  My hammies were killing me so I flip-flopped a day in my program and did upper body on that Saturday instead.  Sunday came around and I was still very sore.  So, I FINALLY got that leg day in yesterday (Monday).  This is exactly why I’m not a fan of doing this kind of “test” or “challenge” more than 2-3 times per year… it ends up messing with your program design and throws everything off for awhile (and has you limping around for days).  I’m still glad I did it, but again, I won’t be doing anything like this for quite some time.

3) My wife just landed a very good as the General Manager at Mario Tricoci (hair salon for those of you that don’t keep up on these sort of things ).  I’ll still be able to train clients in the morning out of my basement, give basketball lessons on the weekends, continue my social media obligations, and write training programs for my on-line clients.  BUT, I’ll be putting in a larger amount of time as “Mr. Mom” until we get day care ‘n all that figured out.

Going to be fun hanging with the twins, but if my hair is completely grey the next time you see me, now you know why!

4) Football is over, so it’s time for basketball to take center-stage.  Let’s hope Deng can stay healthy, Rip can GET healthy, and D. Rose keeps on killlin’ it!  I can’t wait for that Chicago-Miami rematch!!!

5) I’ve got some GREAT nutrition information to share with you all next week.  A few times I’ve given you a sample day of what my eating looks like.  Well, I thought it would be cool and beneficial to see a couple other examples from other people.  My good friends Marci Nevin and Michelle Adams agreed to share a food log of what they eat for a day.  It will be great for females to see what a couple other VERY healthy and very fit chicks eat while attempting to reach their health and physique goals!

And finally, I’ll be posting a nutrition interview that I did with Brian St. Pierre (one of my favorite “nutrition guys”).

So make sure you don’t miss all this great content – be sure to pop in next week to check it out.

Until next time…