Author: Matt

Work more, talk less

this is the way

Warm-up – 10 mins of:
5 air squats
10 banded shoulder pass-throughs
15 banded good mornings
30 Shoulder ROT/stability – 10 to horizontally to the chest, 10 semi-vertically front/down to clavicles, 10 BTN, then…

7 sets of:
6 goblet reverse lunges per leg
3 goblet step-ups per leg
3 goblet squats
6 SA KB Press per arm
6 SA KB Row per arm
6 SA KB Swing per arm

Martial skill work

45 mins of JKD and Wing Chun striking + short-range kicking and counter wrestling

Today’s studies included:
Linux: working toward mastery of the CLI & searching and extracting data from files and archiving. I also focused my practical network penetration testing studies to privilege escalation in a Linux environment.

Bipartisan Congressional War Drums Are Beating Again

The GOAT calls it a career — Tom Brady officially announced he is retiring today.

Training 1 DEC 2021

Today’s purification ritual

everyone LOVES the Assault Bike!

A1. Strict press 10, 10, 10, 10; rest 0
A2. Ys & Ts 10 & 10 x 4; rest 2
B1. Heavy laterals 15, 15, 15, 15; rest 0
B2. DB Shrugs 15, 15, 15, 15; rest 2
C1. Rear delt flies 15, 15, 15, 15; rest 0
C2. Anterior raises 15, 15, 15, 15; rest 0
C3. Banded upright rows 15 x 4; rest 2
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E2MOM for 10 mins
:10 second SPRINT
1:50 rest off the bike
covered a mile in :50 seconds – almost yacked. solid work again today.

Just Do Work

Get after it

Find it in you

Today I spent a few hours prepping for the Practical Network Penetration Testing certification.

Today’s course material focused on Reconnaissance. Topics included Passive Reconnaissance, Identifying the Target(s), Discovering Email Addresses, Gathering Breached Credentials with Breach-Parse, Hunting for Breached Credentials with DeHashed, Hunting Subdomains, Identifying Website Technologies, Overall Information Gathering with Burp Suite, Google Fu and everyone’s favorite Utilizing Social Media to find out about all of your friends and neighbors – should be highly informative.

But first! To get my mind right I was able to hit the gym again🤙🏽 — today’s training was:

Upper pressing and scapular stability work

A1. Strict shoulder press – 2 x 10 warm up sets with an empty bar
– then 15, 15, 15; rest 0

A2. Banded upright row 20, 20, 20; rest 0

A3. DB Shrugs 30, 30, 30; rest :90

B1. Strict DB press 15, 15, 15; rest 0

B2. Plate bus drivers 20, 20, 20; rest 0

B3. Front plate raises 20, 20, 20; rest 2

C1. Partial rear delt flies – bottom – 20, 20, 20; rest 0

C2. Full ROM rear delt flies 10, 10, 10; rest 0

C3. Partial laterals – top –5, 5, 5; – perfect controlled reps so you can feel the squeeze at the very top; rest 0

C4. Face pulls 20, 20, 20; rest :90

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5 sets of:

:20sec AB pedal at 80% effort

15pushups

10 swings

-rest as necessary