What Makes You Tick? - Michael Berland and Douglas Schoen

Another week, another book down. An interesting little book. Basically a huge pile of interviews with 'successful' people from all walks of life. Covering where they grew up, schooling, their employment history and where they are planning to go.

Training - Wednesday 21st March 2010

Stuff
Floor Press: wamrups, 140(308)x4x3, 145(319)x4, 155(341)x4
Xtrainer: 20minutes (#4/70rpm)

Notes
Quick little session, shoulder hurt in the warmups/first set of floor press but fine after that. More warmups needed obviously. 155 was hard, but not a max.

Training - Monday 29th March 2010

Stuff
2board (paused): warmups, 190(418)x3x6
Cycle: 15minutes (warmup, 10x20:40 @10-12, warmdown)
Stretch

Notes
Bleh. Board work was OK, but the HIIT on the cycle killed me. Shoulder was feeling a bit wonky, but went through without too much issue.

Globality: Competing with Everyone from Everywhere for Everything - Hal Sirkin, Jim Hemerling and Arindam Bhattacharya

Final of the three books I have gone through. Different from what I normally read. Basically covers the increasing influence of developing markets on competition for large developed market incumbents. Increased competition everywhere for sales, b2b demands, employees, resources - everything, everywhere. Covers a variety of Indian IT outsourcing companies, Chinese Infant product manufacturers, Chinese cellphone companies, Nokia's expansion into China, Brazilian plane manufacturers Embraer, Brazil cosmetics companies and the likes.

Just been to the library so I have four other books to go over now.

Presentations: Proven Techniques for Creating Presentations That Get Results - Gary McClain

Another one of the three I have read. This is a pretty bog standard book on presenting, not the greatest I have seen, but I have a few others to read now.

iCon Steve Jobs: The Greatest Second Act in the History of Business - Jeffrey Young and William Simon

Been busily reading a few books over the last few weeks, including while travelling. This one is about Steve Jobs, Apple co-founder and all around weirdo. Interesting enough, even if it has a few inaccuracies...

Training - Friday 26th March 2010

Stuff

Board fun (paused): warmups, 1board - 1703(374)x3, 2board - 185(407)x3, 3boad - 200(440)x3, 205(451)x3, 2board - 190(418)x3, 1board - 180(396)x3

Treadmill: 25minutes whatever

Notes

Tired, hand, forearm and shoulder sore ish, but survived.

Training - Thursday 25th March 2010

Moar Bench
2board: warmups, 112.5x5, 135x5, 157.5x4, 170x3x2, 180x2x2, 190x2, 192.5x2, 180x2x2, 170x3x3, 157.5x4, 145x6, 135x8, 122.5x10, 112.5x12
Xtrainer: 20minutes hard(#6/70-80rpm)

Notes
Away yesterday, so did my pyramid session today. Felt reasonable. Right shoulder was a little funky on the early sets, but was fine by the end of it.
Xtrainer felt harder than it should have.

Training - Tuesday 23rd March 2010

Stuff
2board (paused): warmups, 180(396)x3x5
Xtrainer: 30minutes (#4/70rpm)

Notes
First session back after far too long off. Had my Flu Jab today, so I didn't go overly hard. 2board felt good and strong. No pain in shoulder today.

Training - Monday 1st March 2010

Bench
Closegrip (first paused): warmups, 170x2 stupid shoulder
Med Grip 3board(paused): warmups, 180x5, 190x4
Comp grip 1board+punderbench(paused): warmups, 100x3x3, 140x3, 160x3
Db Incline Flyes: 20x12x4

Notes
Godawfulday. Should have eaten before going but didn't. No matter the amount of coffee/V in my system, it wasn't gonna work without food. Shoulder is still being a pig. Worse on closegrip than wider comp grip, so I will stick with that once I am back from work trips.