Month: November 2011

Three Seconds or Less

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I knew USCCA had published the KR Training “Three Seconds or Less” drill in their magazine, but I only just realized they also put it on their website.

It’s a great drill based around the oft quoted statistic that the average gunfight is “3 shots, in 3 seconds, at 3 yards”. While many say we shouldn’t train to averages, if you cannot perform to that average I’d say you should seek some professional instruction and further practice.

It’s a simple drill to run since the timer never has to be adjusted (3 seconds throughout), only 20 rounds, and it puts you through a basic battery of skills for defensive pistol use.

Go try!

Oh the pain

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I love Apple. You know that. Without Apple, I’m not sure what sort of life and career path I would have taken.

But… I’ve held off on upgrading to Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) and Xcode 4 for numerous reasons. One is because my day job’s requirements still need some older OS support so we had to hang back on Xcode 3 (which won’t work under Lion). But the other is all the reports of the hell, dreck, and problems in the upgrades.

I’m now in a position where I have to upgrade one dev machine to Lion and Xcode 4 in order to work on some cutting edge iOS stuff.

Oh it hurts.

The worst part of Lion is switching how scrolling works. I understand why it was done, but it still sucks. (Yes I know I can change it).

And then Xcode 4… oh, for all its improvements, all the changes are huge. It’s killing my productivity to make the adjustment. All day long I’ve been dealing with the New World Order of Lion and Xcode 4, and let’s just say I haven’t been all that productive… tho if I could count the string of obscenities spewing from my mouth as productive, then I guess productivity is at an all time high.

*sigh*

It’s just a matter of adapting and getting used to it all. I know. And if this is the worst problem in my life, then life’s pretty good.

Still.. just had to vent.

I keep saying it will all be better, that 10.7.4 or .5 will fix a bunch of things. That Xcode 4.3 will bring back User Scripts. But I’m not holding my breath.

2011-11-28 workout

/ hsoi

Blah. This sucked. 😦

“Week 1”

  • 5 reps – Squat (working max: 250#)
    • 2x5x45 (warmup)
    • 1x5x100
    • 1x5x125
    • 1x53x150
    • 1x5x165 (work)
    • 1x5x190
    • 1x5x215
  • Asst. #1 – Squat
    • 5 x 10 x 100
  • Asst. #2 – Leg Curls
    • 5 x 10 x 65
  • GPP – Sprints
    • Tabata style (20 sec. sprint, 10 sec. walk)
    • 4 “reps” (8 reps is one Tabata set)

Well, today sucked.

You can see on my work set that what should have been >5 reps was only 5 reps. I know why tho. You know how I’ve been having “light headed” issues when I pick up heavy weights? That happened. I’ve been trying to experiment to find ways to mitigate it, such as not doing any deep breaths before I get under the bar, deep breath, tighten up, lift bar, assume position, then breathe a couple of times to get my head back, then start reps. Well, I did that and thought things were well enough, but as each rep progressed I could feel my head hating it and things getting worse. I don’t know why. By the 5th rep I knew there was no way I’d make the 6th, so I racked it.

I’m annoyed, but I’ll live with it because it happened. Plus I have been debating backing off due to the addition of sprints. Given what happened today I am going to back off the rest of this cycle to the previous cycle’s numbers. I don’t need to exceed the numbers, at least work to meet them. Because again, I’m trying to ensure my body can adapt to the sprint workload. That’s a bit more important.

Or, I could make an excuse that I was lifting heavier today because I know I put on 5# from eating over the long Thanksgiving weekend. 😉 Yeah, I slacked on eating because I took the long week as a mental health break. It worked well, not only napping, but a bit of improvement in my sleep schedule (getting more sleep at night). The only reason I feel bummed today is 1. it’s back to the day job, 2. I didn’t get enough reps on that last set. But oh well.

And sprints today…. I’ll be sticking with 4 for a bit longer, tho oddly I felt like I could have gone 5. I only didn’t because I already had quite a leg workout and don’t want to push it too hard and affect recovery. I’ll try going for 5 on Wednesday.

Reason Magazine?

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Checking the mailbox on the way home from the gym this morning and I pull out a copy of Reason Magazine.

The label says the subscription ends in a year.

Huh.

I didn’t order a subscription, so I wonder why I have one. I’m not complaining, because I like Reason (and reason)… just wondering how it happened.

 

Incongruity

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There’s varying levels of outrage about police activity in regards to the Occupy protests. Some see it as “they got what they asked for”, some see it as massive police brutality. However you look at it, it’s generally being framed as “police are bad”.

What gets me then is these same people tend to be anti-gun. They tend to say that private citizens shouldn’t be allowed to own guns — and the police are there to protect us.

So, the police both brutalize you and protect you… supposedly.

Hrm.

Y’all need to do something about your worldview. Maybe stop relying upon others so much, and expecting others to provide for you.