Category: Cass’ training blog – martial arts, weights, running
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Training Blog (as of May 9, 2013)
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Running, 1 mile Tuesday, February 5, 2013 Ran to the gym, half mile Cycling 20 minutes 7.3 miles 120 calories Chin-ups (military – overhand; counterweight) 50 Parallel pull-ups (counterweight) 50 Dips (counterweight) 40 Lateral pull-down 62.5 Seated leg curl 52.5 each leg Decline leg press 90 Squats 90 Chest press 8/8…
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Workout Day – Resurrection
It’s probably about time I resurrect my training blog. Although I haven’t been writing about my training the past few years, I have been trying to keep up with martial arts, running, and general fitness training overall. I have a few writing projects on the side that I’d like to work on, and that means…
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London 2012 Summer Olympics: Waiting for Taekwondo to Start
It’s Olympic time again. Like the last three Summer Olympics, I’m looking forward to the taekwondo sparring competition at the Olympics, which starts on August 8th (see the taekwondo schedule via the London 2012 site). While I wait to watch taekwondo, I decided to check out a few other Olympic sports that I never got…
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Allergies and Running in the Winter
Anyone else have allergies and also do running in the winter? I’ve noticed for a while now that when I haven’t been running regularly, then start up in the cold months, my allergies just kick my ass for running. It’s not that I’m tired or my cardio is bad (I have allergies year round, but…
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Some Personal Thoughts on Human Rights and Space Travel
I’ve been reading astronomy all weekend. I’ve kind of missed it since I first took astronomy in university (and with all the changes in spaceflight going on – space tourism, woohoo! – I think I’d better brush up). Somehow I got an A in astronomy (no, not just staring at stars all year long) and…
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UFC Hits Toronto Last Night and This Martial Artist is Not Impressed
Anyone else annoyed by UFC? Apparently, it was in Toronto last night. This is what turns me off UFC *eye roll* “@feyMorgaina Prepare like #GSP #UFC http://bit.ly/UFCTrain?=mtmz” (Some gimmicky ad about how you can train with less effort than you are now – I studied marketing in university so trust me, it’s gimmicky.) This makes…
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Reply to some random fitness blog
Nate showed me this little blog entry today – Five Pounds and Not an Ounce of a Clue and I just have to shake my head at this writer. He clearly knows nothing about being fit. So, I had to reply to his blog (not sure if he will accept the comment I left). Here…
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Toronto International Film Festival 2008
The TIFF started this week on Thursday. Since missing out on the film festival the past two years, I decided to order the popular 10-coupon passbook in advance. As luck would have it for me, there is a martial arts movie showing this year – Chocolate by the same director for Ong-Bak and The Protector.…
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Canada’s Sergerie brings home a silver in taekwondo
In an exciting match with South Korea’s Hwang Kyungseon, Karine Sergerie loses 2-1 and is awarded a silver medal. Hwang Kyungseon is the welterweight World Taekwondo Champion for 2007 while Sergerie is the lightweight World Taekwondo Champion. A little lighter and shorter than Hwang, Sergerie had to work hard to shorten the distance between her…
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Olympic taekwondo – Sergerie in the women’s 67 kg and Michaud in the men’s 80 kg
In women’s 67 kg, Karine Sergerie wins her preliminary match over Australia’s Tina Morgan by the Rule of Superiority. Although the score was tied 0-0, she was clearly the dominant competitor having scored a point only losing it due to receiving two warnings (kyong-go in Korean). Sergerie performed stunningly in the quarterfinals defeating Argentina’s Vanina…
Pneumatised! 