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It has been a busy week, from the meet on Saturday to the FOUND Magazine show on Monday to playing the Dead RockStars Show at Old ironsides last night, I haven’t been blogging like I wanna.

BUT, Starting next week I’ll be posting regular workouts, following my cycle of conditioning training to get ready for whatever endeavor i want to attack next. I will also be working out a bit more in the evenings to join my team and get us organized for whatever meet we’ll be conquering in the near future.

Here’s this week’s newsletter:

Bodytribe newsletter:

Diatribe:

We’ve had so much going on here recently that recalling recent events will be enough to fill this newsletter. I’ll go backwards starting with recent chronology.

I got a frantic email from our favorite bike racer Michael Claudio, who has recently been transplanted to the East Coast.  Michael was popping the Prozac due to the rumored unholy union between Lance Armstrong and one of the Olson Twins (who cares which one).  I’m not sure which of the couple he was jealous over, but this news would’ve been best hidden from his little noggin. This has nothing to do with the gym, but it has taken up a fair amount of my time, as I am worried fro all parties involved.

Last night a local watering hole called Old Ironsides hosted the annual Dead Rock Star show, in which a collection of local bands cover songs from bands who have suffered a death during (or even after) the bands career.  Amongst the chosen were Def Leppard, The Who, AC/DC, Sweet, T-Rex and Queen. If only one of us had enough time to start working on You Light Up My Life, Robert Goulet style.  Next year I made a pact with my band that we’ll simply kill a member of our own band, thereby allowing us to perform our own songs at the show.  Again this has little to do with Bodytribe, more of a personal anecdote, really.  But I will say one thing: DAMN you musicians are out of shape!!  I triple dog dare you to come workout with us.

The Rothbart Brothers, Davy and Peter, joined us again for another heartfelt and hysterical performance on Monday night.  If you have yet to read FOUND Magazine, or see the traveling show, you’re missing out. Davy, the founder of FOUND, couldn’t do any more justice to the insightful readings he gives to each piece.  It’s no wonder he’s been a regular feature on NPR’s This American Life.  His brother Peter, who Davy considers both his favorite musician and the Greatest Finder Ever, creates musical landscapes to several of the Found pieces, writing songs based on the best finds.  If you’re not from Sacramento, maybe they’re headed your way.  Check here:

http://www.foundmagazine.com/events#current

(Davy of FOUND Magazine)
Saturday was our most recent APA powerlifting meet.  What started as perhaps our least trained-for meet turned into an overall success for all of the Bodytribe team members, teaching us, of course, that we should train even LESS for the next one, maybe not at all.

Even yours truly had the best meet of my life.  So I thank all the plate loaders, spotters and judges who freed up my mind and body to be able to compete sans too much other responsibility.  Many personal records were broken, a few state records, several division wins and Andy walked away with the Best Lifter trophy (again).

(Trainer Al benching her bodyweight)
The next meet will most likely be all RAW!  We were so thrilled with the turnout of raw competitors in this meet (not just our own team this time), that we want to promote raw lifting even more.

We’re also aiming to host a new style of meet called the Crossfit Total, which replaces the bench press with an overhead press, and is also a completely raw competition.

But we can go weirder.  I’ve contacted the USAWA (United States All-Around Weightlifting Association) about holding an old school physical culture meet.  We pick the lifts, the provide the rules.  How about it?  Ever think you’d do a bent press or Turkish Get Up competition?  I’m dead set on making it happen.  Check out their website at: http://www.usawa.com/

Workshops (and more news):

I’m canceling this weekend’s workshop due to several events that usurp the importance of it.  I’ll reschedule it for the near future, but Bodytribe trainer Camilo will be competing with his workout partner Chad in the NPC Bodybuiding Championships at Crest Theater, showing that the whackiness we do here at the Tribe can be used on the posing dais as well.  More info here: http://npcsacshow.com/

(Camilo vs. the tire.)

I’m also playing a benefit show for a local musician who lost a great deal in a house fire.  Here’s the info:

A friend and talented musician named Dre recently lost all her possessions and her kitty in a tragic midtown fire.  There is a fundraising party Saturday at 1pm.  It is a tremendous musical lineup even if it wasn’t a benefit.  But it is a great cause, so please come!  (I’ll be playing with Christian Kiefer earlier in the show)

Saturday, Nov. 3rd.  1:00 p.m.
1217 Rodeo Way, across from East Portal Park in east Sacramento
(roughly 52nd & M on the grid).

Parlour Dames
Radio Orangevale
Truck Fight
Nice Monster
Be Brave Bold Robot
Christian Kiefer
Mr. Hayashi
Ruebi Freyja
The East Portal Express
& more . . . .

$15 cover.
Raffle prizes.

Thanks for reading,

Chip

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