Step Squats and reps - 20160525

7 rounds, ST timer
Oly Squat @ 115 x10
Step Squat @ 115 x10/135 x10/////
13 mins.

5/4 rounds, open timer, .45 RI
RDL x11 @ 113
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
12 mins.

Some ginching pain in the left lower back as a leftover from squatting the other day. All better 2 hours later though.

7 hours, 2230/0530. 25 loose minutes total. PE: 6.

PushPull 2 and 2 - 20160524

Did 10 mins of chins yesterday, so kind of a push focus here today.

4 rounds, open timer w/ 45 sec RI
Meadows rows @ 46# x12's
Press x11-8 @ 113#
12 mins.

4 rounds, HT timer
Ring Dip x7+
KB swing @ 2pood x10-12
10 mins.

6 hours - 2230/0430. 23 minutes total. PE: 6.

Squat & Assistance - 20160522

4 rounds, no timer
RDL x12 @ 133/11 @ 163#///
Hip Thruster x15+ @ 2 strong bands
11 mins.

- 3 mins -

6/5 rounds, open timer
Oly Squat @ 135 x8/205 x6/7/7/7/6
5x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
28 mins.

3x12ish 
Ab wheel rollouts
7 mins.

I've said this before, but this workout is the new bread and butter.

8.5 hours, 2230/0700. 47 loose minutes total. PE: 8.

Morning Watch : Ditch Watching.

Yesterday. Driving past the 99 and I-5 cut off, there was a young black girl walking north on the side of the freeway. Middle of nowhere, thin, dirty, amped up and walking fast like she was tweaking. Holding a bundle of her possessions with both arms, hugged across her chest. 12 miles from anything. I sped past and just burst into tears.

What am I supposed to do? I can't pick up a girl like that in the work truck. What if something weird happened? What if she was to scratch me up and say I tried to molest her?
All these thoughts. Anyway, I could not do nothing. I flipped around after Mettler and drove back on the frontage road. When I got to the Tejon outlets I turned around and came back north. She was speedwalking, obviously on meth. I stopped ahead of her, rolled down the window, and waited for her to walk up, trying not to look scary.

"Are you OK?"I asked when she got close.
"I am OK," she giggled and kept walking.
What else am I supposed to do? I can't make her get in and take a ride.

I, in retrospect, I think I was answered by a demon. I didn't address the young lady directly. I didn't forbid an evil spirit from answering me. If she was possessed by something more than addiction, that spirit is the one who answered me - yes, that evil spirit is more than OK – perfectly happy.
I prayed that someone, maybe a woman, someone more – I don't know, inviting? – could pick her up. I maybe wasn't the right person. But I prayed that someone would be.

Today: Morning watch: I got on the floor and began to pray. "What is on your mind, God?" 
I thought of the young girl on the freeway yesterday - and immediately cried, and cried out, "Yes, she is on my mind too."

I got an image – a razor sharp still image – of her, just a crumpled heap of black hair and rumpled clothing lying in the drainage ditch along the side of the freeway, on the traffic side of the barbed wire. It was a very clear picture. This made my heart frantic.
After some mental wrestling – "I can't be late for work. What if I find her? What am I supposed to do? Where am I supposed to take her?" – I realize that I had time to at least look. What if God was giving me this image because there was no one else to help her - no one else willing?

So I got in the truck, and drove so I could watch the roadside and the drainage ditch all the way south, just in case she had crossed over – and picked it back up at the Tejon outlets and drove north. I watched the ditch on the side of the road the whole way. 

I did not find her.
What does this all mean?

First, I was tempted to see this as a no-win situation. Mostly, because with such a clear word of knowledge picture, does not finding her show me that I cannot hear and cannot see? Today, yeah. I saw something, but not from God. ...Maybe?

Today's morning watch was spent in the truck, worshipping God by watching for someone down and lost in the weeds by the side of the road. It's really not such a sacrifice. 

There is a lot of win in this. One, she is not lying broken on the side of the road. Knowing that is better than not knowing, and wondering. 
Two, I demonstrated to the Lord and to myself that if I do have a picture, I am willing to act on it in obedience. There will come a day when I do see, and when I do, I will not only see, but I will see and act. 
Three, I am feeling. I have a better sense of the Father's heart – a heart of flesh, not a heart of stone. Win, win, win. 
And, win; my hope is that my prayer yesterday, that someone better than me would come along and pick her up, must have been answered in hope. 

Squat n' Assistance - 20160514

Really no timer at all today.

5/4 rounds, no timer
RDL x10+ @ 133
Hip Thruster x15+ @ 2 strong bands
21 mins.

- 3 mins -

5/4 rounds, open timer
Oly Squat @ 135 x8/185 x6+////
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
28 mins.

8.5 bad hours, 000/0830. 53 leisurely minutes total. PE: 6.

BW - Half a Day - 20160512

AM
HT timer
Chins x pyramid up to 6
then
5/4/4/4/4
alternating with incline push up x15-12 for 5 rounds
19 mins.

PM was supposed to be a squatfest, but just too tired.

8 hours - 2030/0430. 19 mins total, PE 5.

AMPM - Pull Push - 20160510

AM
6 rounds, HT timer
Chins, x maxreps (8-3)
7 mins.

PM
5/4/4 rounds, HT timer
Press/Push Press x5+ @ 133#
Ez out curl x10
Ring Dip x7+
16 mins.

6 hours - 2200/0400. 23 minutes total. PE: 6.

Squat and Assistance - 20160503

4 rounds, no timer
Hip Thruster x15+ @ 2 strong bands
RDL x10+ @ 133/153///
13 mins.

- 1 min -

5/4 rounds, open timer
Oly Squat @ 185 x7/205# x6/225# x6///
4x12+ Standing Calf DB singles @ 43
18 mins.

Hip thruster into squatting is the only way to go. I mean, there are other ways, but none betterer.

7 hours, 2130/0430. 33 minutes total. PE: 7.

PS. I've been doing BW work (Chins, Air Squats) on alternate days when there's no time to do true resistance work. Just not logging it. This BW work is a lifestyle, training doesn't happen until there's some clang and bang.