Making a living with STT SNGs

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Super solid advices - thanks bro!

I noticed this biking so far has just been maintaining my weight. Once I hit 1 hour a day cycling weight will go down.
Great idea on writing down (planing meals) and calories. I just plan day per day basis what I will eat and stick to it. In very near future plan to take out nights (after I finish all my priorities) to cook for the next days healthy meals (chicken and spinach for starters!) so it should be fine.

If I had to take rough guess, I would say now I don't take more then 1.8k calories per day - but that's only past couple of days. I am sure if I continue with this eggs/chicken/tuna meal thingy weight will go down in next couple of weeks by 2-3 kgs easy.
The rest of the kgs I will loose with increase of exercising so I am really looking forward getting to that 1 hour steady cycling.
Was also planing on getting a treadmill for my home to mix things up but right now don't wont to invest additional 450 euros for it + its nice and warm outside, I might start with running on a track close to my home.

Thanks for all the advices bro. Perhaps some useful website with calculator for weight loss (those where you put in your weight and height and get estimation how much you should eat daily and what type of calories per what) ?

You are pretty lazy for such a hard working guy bro

Google is your best friend you know

Calorie Calculator

When you come up with some plan, please share it here, there are more of us who want to lose some weight or you will just stick to the previous schedule you put above? It looks efficient too imo idk.

How is March going on poker wised?

Cheers bro,
Fran

Originally posted by Demonic226
You are pretty lazy for such a hard working guy bro

Google is your best friend you know

Calorie Calculator

That one ain't it bro!
I have that bookmarked for a while now.
Looking for the one which calculates from those calories how much % of protein, carbs and fat.

Can you find that ?

Originally posted by FFRRAANNKKIIEE
When you come up with some plan, please share it here, there are more of us who want to lose some weight or you will just stick to the previous schedule you put above? It looks efficient too imo idk.

How is March going on poker wised?

Cheers bro,
Fran

I will write some meal plans in following days. So far the routine I lay out in time management sample works well for me. I get back home latest by 8 or 9pm. In that time finish all my morning habits grind + coaching and healthy eating.
It seems to work now after couple of days. In 2-3 weeks we will see how my energy levels especially cause I haven't planed day off at all yet!

Poker going ok. Results wise running above EV which is always good I am more "mad" at myself for tilting in couple of sessions I played therefore decreased my EV. Also table selecting - highly recommended , my EV is after 700 games or so 5%+ easily.
Now with this challenge it will be just a bit more difficult to table select and play 100 games, but I will continue to do so no mater what - yesterday I didn't do it and from 350$ + up finished up 150$ or so cause of card distribution and some tilt plays.

Overall poker goals on track for this month (need no more then 400 games to meet my monthly goal of 2k games), just focusing more on healthy eating and fitness now.

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77

Originally posted by Demonic226
You are pretty lazy for such a hard working guy bro

Google is your best friend you know

Calorie Calculator

That one ain't it bro!
I have that bookmarked for a while now.
Looking for the one which calculates from those calories how much % of protein, carbs and fat.

Can you find that ?

I have an excel sheet that calculates that, I will send it to you on Skype

Originally posted by Demonic226

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77

Originally posted by ragney
Highly recommend the eating habits part. You'll feel much better.

We don't have Coke or fruit juice at home for like 3 years already, nobody here drinks them. We only drink water/thee/soup. I also eat very healthy during breakfast/lunch/dinner. Things like fried potatoes? Haven't ate those since 2 years ♦

And vegetables here during dinner is a fight, whoever comes late doesn't get any

GL with the challenge

Did not all this about you - well done for you man!

Perhaps you can share some meal samples from your regular day/week ?

I drink now coffee, regular and mineral water and using slow juicer those juices Was thinking of adding green tea cause I read some really good things about it for loosing weight.
Any opinion on green tea?

I mostly eat eggs, chicken and tuna (for now), but I will definitely start making my own meals soon. Stuff like spinach which is my favorite dish btw

Write when you get the chance about it all, I am very curious what works for you!

I don't know how much you know about losing weight and calories etc, but some advice. It's all about burning more calories than you consume. Is your goal just losing weight or are you also going to the gym to train your muscles? If you don't, I recommend you to do that, because muscles burn more energy than fat.

So what you need to do is bike every morning and make sure not to consume too much before that so you will start burning calories, and not carbohydrates, right away. Do this at 70% of your full capacity, your goal is to burn calories so no need to go full out. Also make sure to write down what you eat, how much calories it contains etc. And your goal is to consume as much calories as you would need to eat taking everything into account, except the biking. So the calories that you burn while biking will cause the weight loss, your goal should be to burn 500-800 calories with biking (this is about 1-1.5 hrs of biking indoors). You can find a lot of info on the internet about counting calories and calculating the amount of calories that you need.

(If you don't care about muscles and the loss of muscles than you can even consume less calories than you need)

Oh and try to cut out coffee and replace it with tea.

this is the most common knowledge my friend, i'd say there are more effective ways when it comes to reducing body fat %

I don't know if this is the sort of thing you're looking for, but here's what someone who's knowledgeable about nutrition recommended to me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mlashch.mydiet

Requires an android phone though..

Originally posted by Demonic226

I have an excel sheet that calculates that, I will send it to you on Skype

Looks good , will test it out let you know how it works for me.

Thanks bro!

Originally posted by BOBOsvk

this is the most common knowledge my friend, i'd say there are more effective ways when it comes to reducing body fat %

Perhaps recommending some would be a good idea?

Originally posted by pauln
I don't know if this is the sort of thing you're looking for, but here's what someone who's knowledgeable about nutrition recommended to me.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mlashch.mydiet

Requires an android phone though..

That looks very useful. I have android phone and will definitely give this a go!

Has it helped/worked for you so far?

No I haven't tried it yet, I don't have an android phone but I'm considering getting one just for this.

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Very glad you got the Little Wing down. Perhaps you can share that video - would love to see what its all about!

It's off this Lick Library DVD.
http://www.licklibrary.com/store/danny-gill/11105/learn-to-play-jimi-hendrix-dvd

I am going to sign up via pokerstrategy for a rake deal shortly, and that will make the PM tool work. I could send you it via that or email. It's a very nicely composed piece. The whole intro is only a 111mb AVI clip.
Here Danny Gill is performing it from the DVD.

Originally posted by pauln
No I haven't tried it yet, I don't have an android phone but I'm considering getting one just for this.

Interesting ♦

Originally posted by TheLandlordUK

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Very glad you got the Little Wing down. Perhaps you can share that video - would love to see what its all about!

It's off this Lick Library DVD.
http://www.licklibrary.com/store/danny-gill/11105/learn-to-play-jimi-hendrix-dvd

I am going to sign up via pokerstrategy for a rake deal shortly, and that will make the PM tool work. I could send you it via that or email. It's a very nicely composed piece. The whole intro is only a 111mb AVI clip.
Here Danny Gill is performing it from the DVD.

Awesome!
See what you mean now. Its just the intro riff.
How long in minutes did it take him to brake it down?

I got part of the repertoire for summer tour. Booking agent recently announced that we will be playing outside of Serbia also requesting English bios
Now with all the things that I do, have to find time to play every day. Perhaps every evening after all my things are done - start going over each tune one by one.

Will post set list when its complete!

Just got the very 1st draft of set list for performances. Final list will be updated as soon as every musician has their saying. As far as I am concerned, bring it on, love the challenge and this is definitely going to take me time to prepare (like for cruise ship gig).

I will go ahead and list out by genres here all of it. This means in next 3 months I need to take at least 1 hour a day (100 hours) to be perfectly prepared to crush these tunes.
Basically transcribing necessary parts of the songs, figuring out what to play where, ad lib, improvising, different arrangements etc.

Going to be quite a ride and from today will start readjusting my schedule working on 1 tune at the time.

List (next to the title is the key of the song)

Pop/Rock:

Riders on the storm - The Doors Em

Englishman in NY - Sting Bm

Light My Fire – The Doors Am

Little Wing – J.Hendrix E

Vodoo Chile – J. Hendrix E

Money For Nothing/Tush/My Sharona/Smoke on the Water (medley) G

Run Like Hell/The Wall – Pink Floyd D/Dm

New Country – Jean-Luc Ponty A

Human Nature - Miles Davis D

Standards:

Watermelon Man – Headhunters version F

Beautiful Love – standard Dm

Night in Tunisia - standard Dm

Billie’s Bounce - standard F

So What - standard D dorian

Milestones – Miles Davis G dorian

Midnight Voyage – M.Brecker Cm

Freeway Jam – J.Beck G

My One and Only Love - standard C

Impressions – standard D dorian

All this + 7 original tunes from my best friend = total of 30 tunes so far!
On top of this all we can all add our own original compositions which I definitely look forward to a lot. Have to make a decision how many of my tunes we will also play, redo the charts for drums , bass and keys as well as lead sheet for best friend to play some melody with me

Bunch of this tunes I have already played in my life and it won't be that hard to adjust. The tricky part will be redoing arrangements for most of them and making it sound much more in jazz/rock/fusion context then sounding like a copy cat.

That's all for this update, getting to cycling soon then some practicing.
Will post new daily sample with guitar practice in it as well soon.

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Awesome!
See what you mean now. Its just the intro riff.
How long in minutes did it take him to brake it down?

I got part of the repertoire for summer tour. Booking agent recently announced that we will be playing outside of Serbia also requesting English bios
Now with all the things that I do, have to find time to play every day. Perhaps every evening after all my things are done - start going over each tune one by one.

Will post set list when its complete!

Intro vid is 11 mins. He should have done a hyper turbo version for Berklee graduates........4 mins! ♦
I have the other sections as well, but the intro is the nuts. The verse is a few strummed chords, and the solo is very basic, technically. You will prob fit in learning it, while 5 tabling, and watching the TV ♠_biggrin:
The other sections are.....
Verse - 34mb - 3 mins 15
solo - 80mb - 7 mins

Tour sounds good. Remember to fit in Scotland ( or just Glasgow) , or send me a demo and I will try to find you some gigs to fit in with an England visit.

Originally posted by TheLandlordUK

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77
Awesome!
See what you mean now. Its just the intro riff.
How long in minutes did it take him to brake it down?

I got part of the repertoire for summer tour. Booking agent recently announced that we will be playing outside of Serbia also requesting English bios
Now with all the things that I do, have to find time to play every day. Perhaps every evening after all my things are done - start going over each tune one by one.

Will post set list when its complete!

Intro vid is 11 mins. He should have done a hyper turbo version for Berklee graduates........4 mins! ♦
I have the other sections as well, but the intro is the nuts. The verse is a few strummed chords, and the solo is very basic, technically. You will prob fit in learning it, while 5 tabling, and watching the TV ♠_biggrin:
The other sections are.....
Verse - 34mb - 3 mins 15
solo - 80mb - 7 mins

Tour sounds good. Remember to fit in Scotland ( or just Glasgow) , or send me a demo and I will try to find you some gigs to fit in with an England visit.

Haha awesome man you got it ♦

Intro is where its all out, later on is just add lib to the chord progression. Solo is just 1 famous line that he played and it ain't hard to do it.

Thanks for your very kind offer. I am not doing any booking myself for this tour, we have booking agent who is payed to do that sort of thing. I can connect you with him as he has all the press kit ready (videos, bios, pics etc) so he can proceed further.

Imagine if I was doing booking on top of all the stuff I do now - definitely no sleep ever

BTW I have never been to Scotland and would love to go there. England was great experience for me, would definitely visit it again - perhaps with this tour that could happen, we shall see

my favorite hendrix tune and some good jazz in there.. Wes Montgomery included in the set of course.. very nice!

I'm a jazz pianist, saving up some of my bankroll for a new keyboard or a fender rhodes. I'm also trying to teach myself jazz guitar but I'm not sticking to it as much as I should ♦

Originally posted by IvicaIliev77

Originally posted by ragney
Highly recommend the eating habits part. You'll feel much better.

We don't have Coke or fruit juice at home for like 3 years already, nobody here drinks them. We only drink water/thee/soup. I also eat very healthy during breakfast/lunch/dinner. Things like fried potatoes? Haven't ate those since 2 years ♦

And vegetables here during dinner is a fight, whoever comes late doesn't get any

GL with the challenge

Did not all this about you - well done for you man!

Perhaps you can share some meal samples from your regular day/week ?

I drink now coffee, regular and mineral water and using slow juicer those juices Was thinking of adding green tea cause I read some really good things about it for loosing weight.
Any opinion on green tea?

I mostly eat eggs, chicken and tuna (for now), but I will definitely start making my own meals soon. Stuff like spinach which is my favorite dish btw

Write when you get the chance about it all, I am very curious what works for you!

I mostly eat asian meals during the dinner, oriental (non fast food) asian meals are almost never "fried" meals. Luckily my parents does this for the time being. During the lunch I just eat bread/something quick.

Coffee is bad, you should try to slowly quit it imo. I remember schnitzelfish talking about it and saying its just a temporary fix but it doesn't solve the root of the cause. Alot of water/thee is good.

^ yeah, but here on Balkan we cant live without coffee ♦ I agree switching to tee would be great though..