Mischievousjoe

Man, I would definitley bring some rehydration powder, pepto in pill form and immodium for the stray stomach probs you'll run into sooner or later. The rehydration powder is for the crazy amount of sweating you'll do if you plan on training, I got so dehydrated that I was cramping from any small movement ... definitley not fun. Oh one last thing, Heavilly DEET concentrated bug spray, I don't want to make you paranoid, but my wife picked up Dengue fever from a mosquito bite down there. Probly won't kill you, but from watching her I can tell you it sucks. A Lot. And will most certainly put the kibocsh on any training you planned. Have fun! PS. If you don't have lonely planets thailand guide, I'd highly reccomend it as well.

I can vouch that a bag hung from rafters will shake the surounding structure quite a bit - unless its a garage I'd go with either the metal bag stand wedged into a corner so it doesn't walk too much, or maybe a free standing bag with a weighted base if you aren't too much of a purist.

Yeah , you guys are right, I should probably at least get the heart end of it checked out - although I'm fairly sure its muscular pain it would be good to know for sure.

Hey all, just wondering if anyone here has experienced anything like this before. I realize I should visit a doctor, but was looking for any experience. So around christmas time I was training somewhat obsesively (bjj and conditioning stuff) after about 4 straight days of training, I was taking my rest day - but my wife convinced me to do a pilates routine with her. Me thinking, its only pilates, this can't screw up my rest too much right? Well about halfway through, doing some flutter kick type things my chest seizes up and I have to lay on the floor in pain for about 5 minutes. At first I thought I was having a heart atack - but it subsided for the most part. Now Several month later, the solar plexis to left central pectoral is still tender, and I'm just now easing back into training - twisting motions seem the most noticably painful, although direct pressure is bad as well. did I tear a muscle overtraining? crack a rib or something? this was really weird way to injure myself, and slowwww healing time. gahh very frustraiting, 2007 was the year of the injury for me.

There are several old threads discussing some of the various camps people here have been to if you do a search. I went to a training camp in phuket last summer for 2 weeks and must say it was a great experience. If you go you should plan on spending a few extra weeks staying at guesthouses around bangkok and maybe Chiang Mai. Get the newest lonely planet guidebook. The exchange rate is so affordable in thailand that once you are there, you might as well stay a while if you can get the time off of work.

exactly, so if they overturn decisions for Marijuana, then they should overturn them for steroids as well.

oh, this might be the kicker for me, my wrists are both pretty messed up right now. Can't put any pressure on the left one thats not straight ahead without it screaming. ahh well.

This is all true, and I agree it needs to be curbed, however the fact the athletic commision completely overturned a decisive submission win for nom performance drugs seems inconsistent with the treatment of steroids. Many fighters have tested positive for steroids, and not had wins overturned. Why should a recreational drug that likely decreases performance receive harsher treatment than something that more realistically could have changed the outcome of the match?

yeah that no decision stuff sucked - I personally don't think it matters if a fighter wants to toke or not, but thats just me.

Rainbow warior; can you go into more detail for the rotation move thing you stated? Do you mean for like power lifts (cleans, jerks stuff like that)

This is what I suspected - Been trying to convince myself that the standard would be fine, but probly for my lifting needs olympic makes more sense. (I guess this makes good logical sense - olympic lifts need olympic equip? heh)

I've recently been pricing a weight bench and set - and have been wondering whether it matters which of these i get - the olympic obviously takes up quite a bit more space - so i'd like to think the standard would be ok, but I suspect I'd regret it in the long run. anyone have experience with both of these to compare/contrast? can one do olympic style lifts with the standard bar still? (squats, cleans etc)

I experienced this over the summer as well - I was doing a pullup from a wooden beam that was kind of wide for my grip, and something just gave on me. My wrist was out of commision for most of the summer. Had to stop bag work and the majority of weight work, pushups were ok as long as I stayed on my knuckles. It improved over time, but took forever - I'm still not really sure what I did to it, or how. Wrists are fragile things unfortunatley.

I've never really been able to stomach the metal, so I usually stick to techno, or some faster paced indie rock

I've done it with 12 sets working my way down and it was pretty rough. I try to keep the rests to a minimum, just enough to mostly catch my breath (still probly at least 30 secs).