Cam's Log

[Cam Ogle]

20/10/18

Standing Press- bar x 10, 30 x 3, 40 x 3, 45 x 3, 50 x 3, 55 x 3, 57.5 x 2

BTN Press- bar x 15, 15

Reverse Fly- 4 x 12 @ 5kg DBs

Standing BB Front Raises- 4 x 12 @ 20

Upright Row- 4 x 20 @ 20

 

21/10/18

30 min walk with the pooch

[Cam Ogle]

Hapkido last night. Doing direction change work and tweaked my knee about 3 mins in. My foot stuck in the mats and the knee didn't. Just a minor sprain I think but pretty annoying. Pretty much sat the rest of the night out of the action aside from providing some instruction to the lower belts. Knee is a bit swollen this morning with only minor pain every now and than. Will take it easy the next couple of days and see how I pull up. 

[Cam Ogle]

On 10/19/2018 at 4:41 PM, Nathan said:

If it keeps you from staying healthy, isn't it a problem?  (Sorry, just a bit of tough love!) Good job on kicking it, though!

I've done some reflecting on this statement the last week or so. Not just with relation to drinking but on a broader perspective. I've had a Mark Twight quote stuck in my head the entire time too which is "to take an unsentimental view of yourself". I wrote about the standard of health before but maybe my definition of "health" should be different.  Is it healthy to repeat the same behaviours that lead you to not achieving your goals? Probably not. I've had this lurking away in the back of my mind for a while now but this is a good catalyst to finally attack it. The list of behaviours to change is long but very achievable if taken one at a time. Thanks @Nathan for provoking the thought and bringing it to the forefront. Now the rest is up to me.  

 

[Nathan]

32 minutes ago, Cam Ogle said:

The list of behaviours to change is long but very achievable if taken one at a time.

Good stuff! It's all about the journey 

[Cam Ogle]

I know I've said this before, but I don't think my body has ever felt worse. Hips, calves and quads are super tight and resistant despite a good amount of time spent stretching/mobilising. I'm rolling out more than ever and still waking up tight. Various theories for this but the main one is I need to change my training up and fix some postural/structural issues that have been hanging around forever. Need to fix weak glutes, tight everything, weak scap (especially left side), etc. This is the main track that I've started down before and never finished. I tried this a few years back when I tried to press the reset button and ignore the weight on the bar to fix my issues. Wrong strategy for me as there was no real goal at the end of the process. Am going to adopt a similar track with the starting again but this time I will chase progression when the time is right and with the full knowledge that I will be stronger than ever in a pretty short period of time. I say that as I'm not really that strong as it is right now. Also, I can only imagine what it would be like waking up and walking around pain free. Running and jumping pain free. Kicking pain free. The thought is tantalising. 

[SwissDanny]

That didnt jump out from your recent posts. You sound quite out of sorts my friend, and in some chronic pain, but also like you are being a bit tough on yourself too!

I sure the community here will be happy to help you with your strategy going forward; and help get to or validate the root cause of so much stiff and sore-ness. Be well.

[Cam Ogle]

47 minutes ago, SwissDanny said:

That didnt jump out from your recent posts. You sound quite out of sorts my friend, and in some chronic pain, but also like you are being a bit tough on yourself too!

I sure the community here will be happy to help you with your strategy going forward; and help get to or validate the root cause of so much stiff and sore-ness. Be well.

You're right. I think I have accepted that feeling this way is just normal for me.  Reading my post back it does sound a tad dramatic haha but it's really borne out of frustration at the same thing happening time and time again and I keep training the same way and expect something else to happen. My problem is conscious ignorance. I've tried nothing and nothing is working ?

On the pain side of things it's certainly not crippling (most days) and I'm not sure it's chronic but I honestly can't remember the last time I moved pain free. Knees, ankles, hips, etc. I still function as a normal human and can run, jump, do martial arts, swim, etc. I'm capable of pretty much everything. I just wonder what it would be like to do that without any pain. I think there's huge upside though once I put in the work that's required. 

Btw, I'm not upset of feeling down about any of this. Frustrated yes but I'm upbeat about the whole thing. 

[SwissDanny]

7 hours ago, Cam Ogle said:

Btw, I'm not upset of feeling down about any of this. Frustrated yes but I'm upbeat about the whole thing.

Good, I was concerned for a moment!

[Cam Ogle]

17 hours ago, SwissDanny said:

Good, I was concerned for a moment!

Thanks for your concern mate. It is appreciated. 

That post really was a brain dump for me as I'd been thinking about it a lot so I might title it that way next time haha

[Cam Ogle]

29/10/18
Light leg session

Peterson step up-
3 x 20 each leg @ bw

Long split squat
3 x 8 each leg @ bw

Seated good morning
3 x 10 @ 6kg

Like I said, light leg session. The split squats feel great and I think I can work up pretty well on these ones. The end goal is bodyweight for reps. 

[Cam Ogle]

I’ve been floating the last couple of weeks. Some minor training here and there. More stretching than usual which is good but finally put a plan together for the next month. So far I have two templates in mind depending on my work/life balance. The first is simply-

 

Push, Pull, Legs, mobility circuit every day + hapkido or social netball if I can play.

 

This is 3 days training plus a few extras. Pretty straight forward and pretty easy to adhere to.

 

The second is the ideal training week and this would involve-

 

Mon- Push + stretch/handstand

Tue- Pull + hapkido

Wed- Legs + netball

Thurs- Push + hapkido/stretch

Fri- Pull + run/handstand

Sat- Legs + hapkido/stretch

Sun- handstand

 

This is the ideal if everything lines up and would have all weight training done early in the AM with some lunch training and some night time work. Pretty straight forward and most of the stretch/handstand/run sessions would be 20-30 mins max. Even the weights sessions will be ideally around 45 mins plus warm up. The stretch and handstand sessions I’m hoping to do with the kids as well so they are getting some additional gymnastics training in. Like I said, this is the ideal and I’m going to push to do the sessions but am not going to beat myself up if I miss a few.

 

Goals for this block are to get my base level flexibility back, add some upper body mass and a 10s free standing handstand.

[Cam Ogle]

So far the plan is going ok but with interruptions.

 

Monday- Push + handstand + stretch

Tuesday- Pull + stretch

Wednesday- 14 hour work day

Thursday- 14 hour work day 

Friday- training this afternoon/evening

 

Obviously the plan I put together for myself was stellar in it's construction ? but I am toying with the idea of creating a more enjoyable/productive morning routine other than driving to the gym first thing in the morning. Ideally the overall structure would stay the same as I can train at home in the early evenings but am thinking of switching the stretching/handstand work to the mornings along some meditation/tai chi/martial arts practice or something similar. Going to set a goal next week of simply getting up earlier and walking the dog and I will build from there. 

[Nathan]

1 hour ago, Cam Ogle said:

Going to set a goal next week of simply getting up earlier and walking the dog and I will build from there. 

Perfect. Limber up for 5 minutes before heading out and walk the dog with mindfulness/awareness, and you've got most of the morning practice things you mentioned covered

[Cam Ogle]

1 minute ago, Nathan said:

Perfect. Limber up for 5 minutes before heading out and walk the dog with mindfulness/awareness, and you've got most of the morning practice things you mentioned covered

Yes good point! I always feel rushed in the mornings and it definitely flows through to the rest of the day.

[Kit_L]

On 11/9/2018 at 10:34 AM, Cam Ogle said:

So far the plan is going ok but with interruptions.

It's called "life", my friend, and it happens to everyone! Not a bad thing, either.

[Cam Ogle]

On 11/10/2018 at 1:50 PM, Kit_L said:

It's called "life", my friend, and it happens to everyone! Not a bad thing, either.

Yes it's funny how that happens isn't it. I just spent a long weekend in Shepparton with my wife and kids so there's more "life" as well. That kind of life is the good stuff though haha. 

[Kit_L]

On 11/12/2018 at 3:31 PM, Cam Ogle said:

That kind of life is the good stuff though haha. 

That's what Robin Williams said to Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting. 100% accurate, too.

[Cam Ogle]

Have had a bit of a virus the last 4-5 days. Spent the weekend away with the family as my wife did the Challenge Shepparton 70.3. Watching her standing there waiting for the call into the water for the swim still gives me anxiety thinking about having to swim that far with that many people. She has this virus too and couldn't keep any food down, lost most of her nutrition on the bike and only took in about 400ml of liquid nutrition for the whole thing. Finished in 5:37 so although she's disappointed with the time it's a great achievement.

I'm feeling almost back to normal and will gradually get back to training in the next couple of days. 

[Pat (pogo69)]

10 minutes ago, Cam Ogle said:

...my wife did the Challenge Shepparton 70.3. Watching her standing there waiting for the call into the water for the swim still gives me anxiety thinking about having to swim that far with that many people.

With you all the way there, Cam.

I've done a couple of very short "enticer" triathlons, in an attempt to overcome my issues with swimming and open water.  I am deathly afraid of deep and/or open water, so it has been a struggle.

That 400m of open water was the hardest, and most scary, thing I have ever done.  I suppose I should have been comforted by the fact that the lifeguards were circling me from around the half-way mark, due to my obvious distress/discomfort; but I took not the least bit of solace from it.

1.9km is ridiculous.

10 minutes ago, Cam Ogle said:

She has this virus too and couldn't keep any food down, lost most of her nutrition on the bike and only took in about 400ml of liquid nutrition for the whole thing. Finished in 5:37 so although she's disappointed with the time it's a great achievement.

Awesome!

[Cam Ogle]

9 minutes ago, pogo69 said:

With you all the way there, Cam.

I've done a couple of very short "enticer" triathlons, in an attempt to overcome my issues with swimming and open water.  I am deathly afraid of deep and/or open water, so it has been a struggle.

That 400m of open water was the hardest, and most scary, thing I have ever done.  I suppose I should have been comforted by the fact that the lifeguards were circling me from around the half-way mark, due to my obvious distress/discomfort; but I took not the least bit of solace from it.

1.9km is ridiculous.

Yep I did a short one too. My swim was only 250m and I struggled after the first 100 or so. I'm not so much afraid of open water as I am of having to swim in it haha. Give me a surfboard and I'm comfortable pretty much anywhere. What gets me too is there are people swimming over the top of you and she said there were a number of occasions where people grabbed her legs to drag themselves forward over the top. That would get me for sure. 

[Nathan]

4 hours ago, Cam Ogle said:

What gets me too is there are people swimming over the top of you and she said there were a number of occasions where people grabbed her legs to drag themselves forward over the top. That would get me for sure. 

That's just crazy!

[Cam Ogle]

13 minutes ago, Nathan said:

That's just crazy!

I would suggest that triathlon attracts the most A type personalities per head than any other sport out there. Still lots of lovely people but the sheer number of wanker executives is astounding. They'll do anything to get a slightly better time, including dragging down women in the swim leg. 

[Cam Ogle]

@pogo69 was watching this and thought of you. How would you handle a swim like this one haha

 

 

[Pat (pogo69)]

22 hours ago, Cam Ogle said:

@pogo69 was watching this and thought of you. How would you handle a swim like this one haha

No thanks!  Ever.

I would like to be able to build up to an Olympic Triathlon someday, but I have no ambition past that.  1.5km is well more than enough.  It won't happen until I can devote some serious time and energy to it.  I have made some mild progress in the past, but only by swimming regularly for at many weeks, without a break.  Even that has only every allowed me to swim more laps in a pool, with fewer/shorter breaks.

Swimming continuously for long periods of time remains out of reach, thus far.  During my two mini-tris, I switched between swimming and floating/paddling on my back.  Open water adds an element of fear to that which I feel even in the deep end of a pool.

It is almost entirely a mental block thing.  My technique is a long way from perfect, but during moments of calm, it isn't awful.  I'm reasonably fit.  But when the hydrophobic monkey mind kicks in, everything goes out the window.  Having enormous hair probably doesn't help, either.

One of these days, I'll back off on the trail running for long enough to hopefully accomplish other things.

But back to that swim.  He's nuts, but in a very good way.

[Cam Ogle]

On 11/16/2018 at 10:36 AM, pogo69 said:

No thanks!  Ever.

I would like to be able to build up to an Olympic Triathlon someday, but I have no ambition past that.  1.5km is well more than enough.  It won't happen until I can devote some serious time and energy to it.  I have made some mild progress in the past, but only by swimming regularly for at many weeks, without a break.  Even that has only every allowed me to swim more laps in a pool, with fewer/shorter breaks.

Swimming continuously for long periods of time remains out of reach, thus far.  During my two mini-tris, I switched between swimming and floating/paddling on my back.  Open water adds an element of fear to that which I feel even in the deep end of a pool.

It is almost entirely a mental block thing.  My technique is a long way from perfect, but during moments of calm, it isn't awful.  I'm reasonably fit.  But when the hydrophobic monkey mind kicks in, everything goes out the window.  Having enormous hair probably doesn't help, either.

One of these days, I'll back off on the trail running for long enough to hopefully accomplish other things.

But back to that swim.  He's nuts, but in a very good way.

I agree. I have the same goal as you but it's a long way down the list. Almost like an "if I had an excess amount of free time" type of goal. 

If you have time listen to the podcast. He does a terrific job of explaining why open water swimming is just so different. It's really fascinating as what may look like odd and ugly technique in a pool can be very efficient in long ocean swims. 

Hahaha. I have heard the quickest way to save time in a triathlon is to shave so you might be onto something there.