New year.. new beginnings..

So...another year just went by and the new year is here to many fresh new things. The previous couple of weeks were really a "holiday" mood for me as i was clubbing so damn often and slacking on gym. Im so gonna cut down my alcohol intake and late nights out for now only leaving all these for occasions or just a once in awhile kinda thing and continue to focus on my training. And what is my goal for now..? Its to do a weighted pull up with an additional load of 60kg? Ultimately of course i would love to do that with 90Kgs attached to me. Im at a bodyweight of 80+kg at the moment and my best is 10 pull ups with an additional load of 11 kgs on me. For a 1 rep max probably i'd be able to do it with 40kgs on me. For a long period of time.. about 3 months or so my training has been affected by a wrist injury. How did i get that you wonder. I got this from falling down the stairs on a dispatch trip.. how unfortunate. AND this affected my training... drastically. From doing 100s of reps of weighted pull ups with 11kgs on me a day to now just casually doing 7 reps or so of weighted pull ups with 11kgs attached for 3 sets spread throughout the day. Of course as i have preached to alot of people before that one shouldnt do a set of pull ups which is near or to the max of what one can do as this is bad for progress and i can gladly say i am following what im preaching. Those 7 reps are easy. Pretty easy. I'd be slowly going up to 8 ...9.. and then 10.. reps soon i guess.

Right now.. my left wrist is much better..but not a 100% still as im going for an MRI and check on it on Feb. I hope everything clears up by then. When that happens i'd be starting to train on muscle ups, heavier weighted pull ups and slowly work my way to a 1 arm pull up and 2 X bodyweight pull up. You rarely see someone of weight 80kgs doing all these now and what more someone with decent leg size doing those.

Anyway..after all my visits to the clubs i think that i can say the younger crowd of people espeically in phuture those "botaks" aka new recruits in the NS life are sometimes kinda like those trouble-makers you see around. Maybe its the alcohol ..maybe its just them .. that they are in the clubs trying to pick a fight when its a place whereby one just let your hair down and chill .. relax and enjoy the company of friends.. music.. alcohol.. getting to know new people.. etc.

What made me decide to write all these? well when i was at phuture the other time, there was this drunk guy who bumped into my friend and he happened to stumble back and hit onto this other fellow who then reacted violently and pushed my friend away and shouted "Bring it on!" . I turned around and was like "WTF is wrong with you kinda look" at him. His friends then started to calm him down and fortunately for him, he did calm down. Wouldnt wanna hurt anybody then.

You'll get to meet lots of people in these night spots.. and of course in army as well. ALL kinds i tell ya. Some good ..some bad. Well its up to you who you wanna mix with and im glad i found those whom i like hanging out with and got to know these people.

-Clement