Cot damn Army of Two status. And I’m Rios, lol.

Well I gotta get ready for work so I’ll update this ish later.. Oh and before I go I’ll leave you with another courage wolf. This is the Samoan-Ninja signing off.. LAtEZ.

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I am now focused.

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I need to step up my fucking game Monday with watching what I eat and doing extra exercises on non-hiit days.

Sorry, no pictures.

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After random link clicking through Wikipedia I came across the band Street Sweeper Social Club. I’ve heard of both artists already with Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine and Boots Riley from The Coup but I never knew they had joined forces.

After reading about them in Wikipedia, I looked them up on Youtube and was impressed with most of their songs. Tom Morello comes with the greatness as usual, but with some tracks it seems Boots is trying to find his “voice”. When it works, it works awesomely but when it doesn’t, it’s awkward and sometimes makes the song feel like a early 90’s rap/rock piece.

Some people have a hard time accepting Riley’s voice saying the songs aren’t as effective (mood/message delivery) as how Zack used to make them. Honestly Riley holds it down with his style, and if it were to be Zack on the track then it would be a RATM song and that’s where the difference lies. You see this is NOT Rage Against The Machine, it’s Street Sweeper Social Club.

Last but not least about the album is that some songs seemed okay but when performed live it sounded waay better like they were  intentionally written to get the crowd pumped. My final thoughts is this band has a lot of potential. The talent is here BUT the chemistry is still being perfected. I hope to hear more stuff from them in the future.

Here are some songs by The Coup (Boots Riley):
Fat Cats And Bigga Fish – A great song with a good story twist.
My Favorite Mutiny – Nice beat, I hear it was featured in NBA LIVE 07

Street Sweeper Social Club song links:
100 Little Curses – First single released, niice song.
Promenade - Square dance rap w/ a siick solo. Do you hear Bloodhound Gang – MOPE?
The Oath – Album version sounds 90’s BUT when performed LIVE it works
Shock You Again – He’s finding his “voice”. Hella 90’s again. Reminds me of this.
Clap For The Killers – Siick song.

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Monday – Rest
Wednesday – Biceps & Back
Friday – Cardio (Punching Bag!)

I’m hearing that Josh made a bet with Reno saying that Team HIIT can automatically win if the Samoan-Ninja returns to his high school weight before the reunion. I’m assuming Josh meant the lightest weight I was in high school, and that was 260 pounds.

Well let’s do some calculations…

I currently weigh 352.
260 is the goal to hit.
That’s 92 pounds to lose.
There’s 4 months left till July.
Breaking it down even further that’s 16 weeks left.
I’ll have to lose 6 pounds (rounded up) every week till the reunion.
I’ll do it.

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“Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos.”
- The Joker

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Monday was an extra rest day because working out our back from friday caused all of us to have extreme pain. The pain was so intense on sunday that no matter what sleeping position I tried to be in there was the feeling of pins and needles all over my upper and lower back. I took a trip to “La La Land” by downing some pain killers, and even through the pills knocked me out the  pain was still there.

Wednesday was back to back HIIT of Triceps and Chest. It’s a nice burning combination and workout. You see we wore out our Triceps first, so when we HIIT Chest, our Triceps stood by to watch while our Chest did all the work.

Friday (Today). Sprints at a park. After I was done with sprinting and was laying on the ground gasping for air there was a scene from the movie 300 that popped in my head.

-Spoiler Alert-
You know at the end of the movie where it boiled down to the few Spartans against the Persians. Where King Leonidas threw the spear at Xerxes and while he was doing that Dilios (The Narrator) said

“His helmet was stifling, it narrowed his vision. And he must see far. His shield was heavy. It threw him off balance. And his target is far away.”
-Spoiler Alert-

Yeah that entire scene played throughout my head while I was trying to recover. Maybe I “blacked” out again, haha. I’m still trying to figure out why the hell this scene popped in my head. All I can say is the pain came from everywhere. It was the legs, ass, abs, chest, arms, shoulders, back, and neck. No muscle group was spared. Everyone of them was worked out hard.

Oh and a we started up a tradition after doing our HIIT sessions where we get a football and starting playing catch BUT if you drop the ball you either do 5 push ups or 1 burpee. The game always starts off fun and relaxing, then it eventually turns into everyone throwing bullet passes to make the other person put in work.

Last but not least starting week 5 I’m going to start cardio on my non-hiit days. I’m just going to walk it at first but eventually I want to start running uphill. I would try to attempt running the whole thing but downhill hella fucks up my knees and shins. Damn price of being fat. The best place to go running is on a track at my local high school but it’s Track and Field season and it doesn’t end until April or May so I’ll just wait until then.

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