Wednesday 12-15-10

As always, last night's Toastmaster's meeting was great. I did not give a prepared speech, but I served the role of Timer. The timer is an essential role to each meeting and it is another opportunity to speak multiple times throughout the meeting. The 4 prepared speeches, however, were awesome and I learned from each of them:
- Any talent not exploited to its full potential is a waste
- All successful relationships center around 3 questions and your answers to them determine how succesful that relationship will be :
Question #1: Can I trust you? If you do always do what is RIGHT (ethically, morally) people will always trust you.
Question #2: Are you commited to excellence? Do your best. If you always do your best to be excellent whether it is with your relationships, friendships, career, etc., nobody can question you.
Question #3: Do you care about me? Follow the Golden Rule. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

- When you are angry there is a good chance you wil give the best speech...that you'll ever regret
- Chinese Proverb: Every long journey beging with the 1st step
- A father of 3 boys died and left his sons his 17 camels. In his will, he left the oldest 1/2, the next oldest 1/3 and the youngest 1/9th. After many arguments and deliberation they still could not come to an agreement as those fractions did not even out over 17 camels. They sought an unbiased 4th party for mediation and consultation. She said that the arguments had gone so far that there was nothing really that she could do but give them her camel. They now had 18 camels. The oldest was awarded 1/2 of them (9), the next oldest was awarded 1/3 of them (6) and the youngest was awarded 1/9 of them (2). That left 1 left over and they gave it back to the lady and everyone was happy. Moral of the story: sometimes a seemingly unsolvable problem can be solved when an unbiased person or group is brought in to consult or mediate and offer thoughts or ideas that haven't been thought of by the people with a disagreement.
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I spent most of the day tying up and finishing a lot of little projects that needed to be done before I leave for a small vacation. I'm going to visit my best friend and enjoy the christmas party he is putting on this weekend. Today also happens to be his birthday. Happy Birthday George!

Todays Training (Deload Week):

30 min run - Not fast at all just wanted to get some time in
TRX
- Ext. Rotations 2 x 12
- Rows 2 x 15
- Curls 2 x 15
- Pullovers 3 x 10
- Explosive Starts 3 x 10 ea leg
- Knee tucks>Pikes (Prone, feet strapped in) 2 x 8 ea
- Push-ups 2 x 10
- Flys 2 x 6
- Lateral Lunge 2 x 10 ea
- Single Leg Squat 2 x 10 ea
- Tricep ext 2 x 12
-Supine rows (feet elevated) 2 x 8

Weighted Back Extension 4 x 10
DB Shrugs 4 x 12

Foam Roll/ Stretch

Men's Basketball plays Troy tomorrow night to open conference play!

"Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win" - Sun Tzu