back in action

right so there hasn't been as far as updates from me lately mainly do to a hectic and sporadic work schedule. sadly I have to confess that I have been as diligent in my training as I have been with this blog. however now that school has started things have slowed at work and I now have a very regular schedule with plenty of time to my workouts and fight training. As of two days ago it has been back on and in full force!

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Back to Business!

We've had a short vacation from training on account of dustin being in london, and me being sick. But we are back and ready to go full force.

This isn't however the first time we have trained. We did do some fight training last week, with a little help from Kris, I was able to get my ass thoroughly kicked. Sorry for the short post but the workout for tonight has yet to begin. I will post again afterward!

June Pictures

The Average Conditioning & Strength Training session

This video shows half of all the workouts Will does per session. Not included in the video are the Skill training routines and Skill work outs. But all sessions consist simply of a warm up, then Skill training, then strength training, then running with weight vest, finally laps in the swimming pool.

Working then work some more.

So Dustin is out of town and I am left to workout on my own. We started a new work out and I had to drop weight so that I could successfully finish the workout. My biggest enemy is my diet. I don't make much money so it is hard to eat right sometimes because at work all I can afford for my lunch breaks is McDonald's. I have however been able to go grocery shopping and got a bunch of vegetables and chicken breasts and lunch meat. Maybe eating better will help my progress. I took a night off yesterday and it looks like I'm not going to be able to do anything tonight because of the weather, also I am absolutely exhausted from my two days straight of 14 hour shifts at work. I don't have to be at work until 1 tomorow. I think I will do the warm up exercises and go running in the morning. for now I need sleep.

An economic slow down

Sense completing phase 1, training has changed from getting in shape to sharpening skills while maintaining shape.  Sadly his diet has hampered his improvement and slowed down his training.  He is more fatigued faster and for longer and his level of strength went from drastic improvements to little at all.  The weights used even had to be lowered under the weight he was lifting in Phase 1.  The evidence of this is seen through is loss of body weight (muscle mass) and increase in body fat.  Our hopes is that his diet improves so that we can get back to Phase 1 weight and start to see his stamina return to where it was and then see another drastic improvement before getting to Phase 3.

After the completion of Phase 1 he, on average, improved at an impressive 46.5%.  From the beginning of Phase 2 until now his improvement is only an average of 9.6%.

Summer Schedule

Average Session Routine:
1. The Haakshield Body Weight Warm up
2. General Skill training routine
3. Specific Skill Training Routine
4. The Haakshield Dumb Bell full upper body routine
5. Cardio & Conditioning work out.

Summer Session weekly Schedule (June - July):
Mon, Tue, Fri, Sat

Stat Graphs of Phase 1

From first record of his stats during Phase 1 level 1 to the last record of his stats after completing level 3.

his stats fluctuate more so because of a lack of a consistent healthy diet. Either way the routine has gotten the job done despite his unreliable diet.

Session 8 I am a bloated Cow

Or at least that's how I feel. And no not in the way skinny chicks feel when they have convinsed themselves they are fat. This is more of the I drank way too much disgusting shit after over exerting myself and now my stomach is stretched far past it's own capacity and I wish I had a second one (Much like a cow) so I could lay down and be comfortable so I can sleep. (Yes run-on sentence! I know! I'm not doing this to when any grammar awards!)

Speaking of drinking disgusting shit... I believe I have found the most horrible combination of post workout slop ever devised by man. Normally I would just have my normal Weigh Protein shake after my work out but I am out of the stuff so Dustin let me have a scoop of his "Horse Feed" which is like the equivalent of 6 scoops of the stuff I have been taking, but the baggy I had it in sort of exploded in my car. It kind of looked like a couple of coked up leprechauns had gotten into a tug-of-war slash interpretive dance match in my backseat. I'm not exactly sure how the stuff traveled so far. Long story short, or vise verse, I lost about half of the mix during transport. Sense my workouts have become more intense I decided that I should up my post-workout supplements as well. That means kiddos, that half a scoop just wasn't enough so I had to "Improvise." Good thing I had some free samples from Nutrition Depot Lying around. In my infinite wisdom I decided to go with an anabolic protein enhancer called "Dark Matter" instead of the numerous protein shake samples that I had at my disposal; mostly because it had a cool name (ahem DARK MATTER!!!) and said, "The Ultimate Post Workout Muscle Growth Accelerator!!!!" You just can't go wrong with a catchy slogan like that. At any rate the stuff definitely lived up to its name. I plopped the dark blue powder into my shaker along with 8oz of water and shook away. What resulted was this goopey, gross, dark blue slightly more liquid than jello stuff that felt like stuffing whatever that liquid stuff is that they put in some stress balls down my throat. My stomach wasn't keen on it either. I am still suffering from it. Right after downing that mush I moved on to my half a scoop of protein shake, which surprisingly enough felt like drinking sparkling mineral water compared to the fore-mentioned. After that tag team of horribleness my stomach has basically been giving me the middle finger. It's lasted about an hour now and I'm sure it will last another before I can finally get some sleep.

On the upper note I may have also found the tastiest most bearable pre-workout vasso drink. Take a scoop of SuperPump250 Orange by Gaspari Nutrition and a scoop of Super NOS Blast Fruit Punch by Body Fortress, and you get a tasty, effective Vasso that really gets you in the mood for some major pumping.

And for the results of the workout!

I finished all parts of the workout in under the time Dustin has set with time to spare which means if I can do it tomorrow as well I am done with level 3 and move onto a combined schedule of strength and fight training with a side routine that should maintain my current endurance.

I am ready for it!!

session 7 i am jello

Okay, so I have successfully completed session 7 and it was a killer. Sorry I didn't post after session 6 i basically passed out right it and didn't have time post the next day. We have started level three of the endurance and strength training. We've added even more weight and reps as well as leg and back exercises to the existing routine. We are still doing the swimming, which after the new workout is absolute killer. Needless to say it even hard to type this post. My hands are shaking and it is hard to hit the correct keys. Tomorrow is my final test for this workout. If I pass then we move on to dumbell training and begin fight training. If I don't pass we continue on at level three. I hope that I can complete it successfully, I am ready to start throwing some punches and kicks.

Q: How are you guys working out? What is your routine?

A: A page has been created giving a rough over view of how it works, called "Haakshield Strength Conditioning System". Enjoy.

http://teamhaakshield.blogspot.com/p/haakshield-strength-conditioning-system.html

Pre-Session 6

I'm ready for this. I was told Nick thinks I'm not training at all and that I'll be a pushover. He will be surprised!

HELP NEEDED: Swimming coach!!

Its Official, the weights suck

The Weight Vest!!

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Thoughts on Session 5 (level 2)

I was up for the challenge mentally. All I had to do was meet it physically as well. All things considered, I believe I was successful at that. Tonight was my first round at level 2 in which we added more weight and reps to the existing workout, ran with the weighted vest, and added a whole new exercise that changed the equation completely. We were supposed to add more weight and laps to the run but we decided to keep the run where it was and go with swimming laps instead. I've always considered myself to be a good swimmer, but I have never done it competitively or for fitness. My goal was to do 25 laps in 3 minutes. Neither [edited] or Me know anything about swimming so we guessed that 25 would be a good starting number, with me working my way up to 50 and so on as the training progressed. I wasn't even able to do half that. While my confidence was boosted by my ability to reach my goals with the rest of the workout, I was given another wake up call by the swimming exercise. It's no secret that my opponent is an avid swimmer, which means that his overall fitness level will be very high come fight night. In order for me to be a contender I'll have to continue swimming along with my usual workout until I am certain my fitness and conditioning matches and even overwhelms his. With that I am certain that, as well as the kickboxing training I am scheduled to go through, I can be successful in the ring.

On that note I am looking forward to Session 6 tomorrow, which could very well be my last at level two depending on weather I can complete the 5th round of reps under the time [edited] has set for me. He is confident that I can do it, and if so we will go strait into Level 3 of the conditioning training. I'm not going to lie, I am a little intimidated by what he has in-store for me.

Phase 1 completed

Will finally competed phase 1 of his training aimed at getting him in to the shape he should have been in to start with. 

Phase 2 starts on his 5th training session; increase in reps, weight, and stricter time standard will raise his physical performance so that he gets to phase 3 hopefully by training session 9.

So everyone can grasp his improvements while maintaining his training secrecy a point standard will be created to monitor his Physical health like body weight, body fat %, and Body Mass Index; along with a way to rate his Power, Speed, and Stamina.  Stay tuned for that.

New goodies

We got some new goodies to help in furthering and improve Wills physical performance.   I would post pictures and details about what they are exactly but then Nick will have an idea of what improvments Will is making and how hes doing it. 

Now your probably thinking "But you post videos of his workouts".  That is partly true.  The weights he is using, his times, duration, total sets and reps, and even the videos aren't showing the full workout.  The secrecy of his workouts and how he is improving so quickly is still only known by Will and Team Haakshield.

FIGHT NIGHT VI LIVE

Free TV : Ustream

Improved Media

Had some difficulty with some of our recording devices as you could tell from the crappy videos already. But now, a ton of issues have been worked out. The FlipvideoHD device is now working, and have a compact video campera for back up. The Iphone's issue about converting MOV to AVI or WMV file types and how it makes the video rotate has been corrected by a useful iphone video editor app. SO now that we can get better quality videos and we can also now edit them better, we don't have any excuse other than... we aren't pros a making videos.

*UPDATE*
The Iphone will no longer be used for videos. Despite rotating the video 90* to the right, then saving it, and then emailing it straight to youtube, for some reason still treats the video like it was never rotated. The FlipvideoHD and the Compact camera will work fine.

After rotating, saving, and emailing straight to youtube...

session 4

this was the last beginning session. I was able to do five rounds and round five was under a minute. I get 2 days off then we up the weight and the distance of the run and start over. I tested the new weight to see how difficult it is going to be, and this next week will be no walk in the park. I am confident though that next week will be just as successful as this one.

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The Weight Vest

pre session

waiting for the vasso to kick in

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6/15/10 - Randy Routine vid - 3rd Round

Stats for starters 6/10 - 6/15

Currently as of this post date:
Body fat % - 18.3%
Body Mass Index - 24.2
Body weight - 160.2
Diet Score - -8

At the beginning (6/10/10):
Body fat% - 19.1%
Body Mass Index - 24.4
Body weight - 159.6
Diet Score - -12

JUNE Schedule

The remainder of this month will simply be hard conditioning routines to get Will to where he should be; at an actual training starting point by July.  A few routines like The Randy Routine, The Randy Routine level 2, Kettlebell Conditioning Routine, and The Killer Body Weight Warm-up routines will do the trick in the next 15 days.

Crude and less than professional pictures and videos will be posted regularly as examples of what he does during his sessions but not in full so that our conditioning program(s) stay somewhat of a mystery to lil'Nikky.

Through out this whole process Wills stats will be recorded as a written record of his progression as well.  Everything from his running times and distances, routine times and weights, even to his daily diet.  This is also another way to factually see if our routines are working and how effective they really are.  As Will progresses we will be brining in other trainers that have with them a specific knowledge and skill to add to wills final performance.

I'll have 3 kinds of blog posts, Stats, Vids & Pics, Routines & Schedule.  So if you want to jump to a certain media like "stats" just do a search for "stats" for example.

S1

Session 1 -3 : I am pudding!

Session 1 was a complete wake up call. There is nothing like strait reps then running then burn outs with no rest in between to let you know just how out of shape you are. I literally felt so week after the intense work out that I could barely stand and almost puked. The best part is, this work out is a piece of cake compared to what I'll be put through in a few weeks. At this stage we are shocking my body back into a physical routine and working on my endurance and strength. We have a long way to go before I even start fight training.

Session 2 was pretty much like session 1 I progressed a little in that I am slowly learning not to let my mind defeat me before the work out does.

Session 3 is proof of my determination. I have over come the weakness of my own mind and am able to reach muscle failure with out giving into the want to quit. I have already doubled the amount of burnouts I was able to do in Session 1 which proves that I am now able to push myself to where I need to be in order to progress and be successful.

Introductions

Nick and I have a long history of fights and sparring matches. We used to be pretty evenly matched but I got out of the game and Nick progressed and became a better fighter while I just got out of shape and started to suck.


Recently Nick challenged me to fight that will be taking place in December, and I accepted. So now I have to get myself ready for that defining moment. With Nick training with Muay Thai masters in the Philippines I have my work cut out for me.

Videos and pictures as well as stats and personal commentary will be posted after each training session which will be labeled as  Session 1, Session 2, etc.

(Were not taking this too seriously, this is a friendly fight between friends, we're UFC wannabe or anything like that, just making the training process more enjoyable and entertaining.)