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Seeing lots of fitness things on my dash that make me facepalm, so I’m requoting from my FAQ:
I don’t take my exercise lightly, and I never take it easy. If you can carry on a conversation during exercise, you’re not working hard enough. If you can manage to read a book or browse the internet on...
Doubles
Yeah yeah, I suck at posting here.
Started my doubles routine this week, yesterday actually. I needed an edge, which can only be cured by more work. Workout routines are at lunchtime, then about an hour after dinner. This morning I woke up in a lot of pain, good pain, the kind of pain that makes you hate life but you hope it doesn't mess up your next workout because you have to get back at it. During my lunch workout today I wasn't on my A game, but pushing through it I thought to myself "this is only a fraction of the work I would be doing if I joined the army and went to boot camp". It seemed to help me get through it, and I feel great.
For fun I'm mixing my normal routine with P90X.
Yesterday's routine: Lunch: Flat Bench, Decline Bench, Fly's, Ab Ripper X (I will call this core in the future because the name is horrible). After Dinner: P90X Chest/Back Routine
Today's routine: Lunch: Hanging Leg Raises, Farmers Walks (with 5 gallon water jugs), Weighted Walking Lunges After Dinner: P90X Plyometrics Routine
REBLOG IF YOU ARE 20+ (OR IN COLLEGE!) WITH A FITBLR! I WANT TO FOLLOW ALL OF YOU.
Holy Hell
Feeling the pain today. Changed up a little bit this week. I wrecked my chest completely on Monday:
Flat Bench, Incline Bench, Decline Bench, Around the Worlds, Pull Overs, Push Ups, Chin Ups, Dumbbell Fly.
Wrecked my legs on Tuesday:
Squats - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 <-- This, my friends, was a huge lapse of judgement.
Took yesterday off, and I still feel like I was hit by a truck. No rest for the wicked, cardio and back/shoulders today.
Man, that's a ton of sinus infections. I feel for you. The one I'm still getting over has been nothing short of brutal. I probably get 1 a year or so, but this is one of the worst I can ever remember. At least they give you the big guns with the zpack. I just got the standard stuff (take for 10 days). Feeling better but slowly. Nice job keeping up with the workouts and making progress, though. Your homemade power rack is awesome! Keep up the training man, you're doing great!
Yeah, it's a bitch. I usually take a couple of days off from working out when that happens, then jump right in with some Jack3d or Dark Rage to keep from petering out. My body seems to respond well to it. I just can't stay down for a week or more, it's completely depressing! The training it going great! The power rack is my pride and joy! haha I'm at the tail end of my recent sinus infection so I'm going to give it another week with my current routine, then really buckle down on some fat burning. I'm making nice gains, and seeing a slight bulk, but it's time cut the fat and let muscles show!
I suck at posting.
I also suck at hunting apparently. Three days in the woods, didn't see any deer, not even a squirrel. The deer are jerks. I'll kill those bastards yet.
On to better things this week.
"There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy." - Mark Rippetoe
Farts
They're part of life. They're definitely part of life for someone who manages to consume 200+ grams of protein every day.
While doing squats today, one slipped out. I'm never embarassed, I'm like a 13 year old boy, it makes me giggle. Which in turn, almost made me lose my squat.
Moral of the story - Don't squat and fart, it's dangerous and someone could be severely injured.
Hurry up and wait!
I started my new job exactly 1 month and 1 day ago, working for the government on an army base near my house. I still have yet to receive my network accounts. I know that there's lots of paperwork, lots of approvers, security, etc. But holy crap. I've literally done nothing at work. I haven't touched a server in 5 weeks.
Hopefully tomorrow I'll have my accounts. It's strange that they've paid me for 40 hours/week, for the past month and I haven't done a single thing. Most people probably think I'm crazy, but I'm hella bored.
Homemade Power Rack, just added the (removable) pieces on the safety bars so I could do dips effectively. The safety bars were too far apart.
Update! Update!
Yeah yeah, I don't have a lot of followers, I update for myself and no one else. However, I appreciate the followers. Thanks guys!
I've been thoroughly exhausted lately. I still can't knock this cold or sinus infection or whatever it is. Between family, work and school, even eating is a chore. I'm keeping a steady pace though. I officially cancelled my gym membership yesterday. Between the mini-gym I built in my basement, and the gym on the base here, it doesn't make sense to pay for something I never use anymore.
My eating habits have been challenging lately. For 1 - 2 days, I'm able to eat the appropriate amount of calories/protein/fat/carbs without shakes, and then for another 1-2 days it's a struggle to choke anything down and I'm relying on protein shakes to make it through the day. It really sucks.
I've been making decent gains lately, but am now starting to feel the wrath of a weak core. I bought some ab straps the other day, so I'll be rocking that out along with some good mornings and power snatches to really kick this into high gear.
Time Off
So, in the past I've noticed that if I work hard for 4 - 6 weeks, then take a week off, my next week on is amazing. I have good gains and unbelievable stamina, endurance and recovery.
So this week is my week off.
It sucks.
Oddly enough, my muscles are getting cramped up, especially my back and shoulders. I think a lot of stretching is in order, but this really sucks. Half way through the week, I'm almost there, the bar is calling me name.
It's more of a mind fuck not to work out than it is to sit under the bar telling yourself you can push it up one more time.
Over the Hump
My background in fitness is sloppy at best. I played basketball all through out middle school, and played street hockey religiously through out middle school and high school. Some how I was still the active but overweight kid. Well, not some how, my Mom's most excellent old school cooking is what did me in.
Somehow when I went to college, everyone else gained weight while I lost weight. I'll chalk that up to the tons of walking I did and zero money to buy food. I look back at old pictures of myself and they are quite embarrassing. But in and just after college I saw pictures of myself as crazy thin. Oddly enough, I really don't remember being thin, my mind still says I was over weight. Yeah, it's warped. So I got an IT job, sat at a desk, ate tons of fast food, and hit the dreaded 200 pound mark. Oddly enough, being 200 pounds is a current goal of mine, but not at 30% BF.
So, I got a trainer. Mind you, this was approaching a decade ago, she kicked my ass, she was awesome. She yelled at me and expected me to yell right back. When my food journal wasn't near perfect, we went outside and did suicide sprints until I vomited. I dropped the weight, became a little stronger and healthier. Then I quit the gym, and went right back to where I was.
For the last two years I've been in and out of the gym, consistent for a few months, then after not liking the results, quit for a month or two, then got back up and did it again. You know the game. It seems like everyone has the same story.
Currently, I'm 4 weeks in to a new program, and the results are making me really happy. I haven't changed much of what I've done in the past just grouped my exercises differently, and gained ideas and support from the awesome community at fitocracy. Lokkju over there really helped to fine tune what I've been doing.
My weight has been pretty stable, I dropped 15 pounds, and am hovering between 183 and 189, it fluctuates weekly it seems. This is do to calories, water weight, etc. The main thing that really has me geeked is my strength. In a matter of 4 weeks, my gains have been awesome. I've never experienced this in my workout travels. I'm not using any crazy supplements or anything right now, just trying to be as consistent as possible with my workouts and my calorie in take.
One thing I'm horrible at, mainly because it's boring and a pain in the ass is watching my nutrition. I eat well, I don't eat like crap. My diet should consist of 40/40/30 for protein/carbs/fat. I think I'm fairly close to that without actually tracking it in detail (I did for the first two weeks). I really should be better about it. My own little personal experiment is to workout, and eat healthy without counting calories, protein, etc. To just know what I need to eat and not think about it. The goal is to workout, get fit, and NOT micro manage my nutrition. Why should I waste so much time doing so. I think if I generally eat well, it will work out. So far, so good.
This long winded post is really about me just getting over the hump and staying positive. I really enjoy my workouts. Everyday something different is going on at our house, between work, school, and the kids, it's crazy. But the one thing I know that's always the same is that I can go downstairs and hit the iron, no matter what time it is, no matter how busy we are, I can always manage to fit it in.
1 Goal Down, Many to Go!
I'm weak. Lets face it, a lot of us are. I'm striving to not be weak. To, in fact, be better; be a warrior.
Benching 135 is something everyone should be able to do. It's basic. When you don't work out, or are weak, your first goal is to get those 2 giant plates on your barbell. To be able to start off your workout with that every time. Today I achieved that. I can push it nicely without feeling like I'm going to smash my face in.
Now to start working on two plates per side!
Deadlift PR
200lb Deadlift today. New PR. Feeling strong!
Wake-up!
So last week Monday I put in my two week notice at my job, clearly they're bitter and let me go on Friday. No biggie, I'm getting paid, new job starts next week. This is going to open so many more doors for my career. I'm really geeked.
So this week of vacation (I use that term very loosely) is my time to get some stuff done around the house, run errands, do a bunch of other random stuff. I'm so tired though it's ridiculous.
My body is all sorts of whacky right now. I was feeling pretty tired the other day, so I took jack3d about an hour before my work out. It didn't kick in until an hour AFTER I had completed my workout. What gives? That never happens. My diet has been pretty normal, no major changes, no junk for the most part. My workouts have been good, but they can definitely be better. I think I may start a cycle of CGT, maybe that will help. A buddy of mine has been reading reviews on T-Bomb and Dark Rage testosterone boosters. He's going to give it a try, and if he gets good results from it without killing someone or hurting his lady friend in the most private of private places, I might give it a go. The marketing on their product states "Increases Your Natural Production of Testosterone by 400%" which is laughable, curious, and a little frightening.
I was hoping to shoot the bow today after my workout, but the rain just won't let up. I know, I know, it's only rain. I hunt in the wind, rain and snow, might as well get used to it now since there's less than a month before bow season, but I don't really wanna. haha
Also, I have A.D.D. :)
Your Face is Funny
My son is 8, and is very interested in working out. He currently has a broken arm, but says as soon as the cast comes off he wants to lift weights like a pro. It's funny to watch him lift 5 pound dumbbells with his left arm. So I was working out yesterday - bench, squats, pendlay row, curls, etc - and he was very adamant about coming down stairs and watching me. I don't have a problem with that at all, except he talks a lot. He asks a million questions. That's good and bad. It's hard to answer his questions in the middle of a set. But once I was done with a set, I was happy to answer his questions. It wasn't until I got to the rows that he actually made me lose my concentration and stop mid-set. He was giggling and laughing, and when I asked him what was so funny, he said "Dad, you're blowing so hard it's like you're a giant fan, and you also make really funny faces."
I told him how important it was to breathe, and how important it is to concentrate. Sometimes when you're trying really hard, you make funny faces. But he needed to try to not laugh because it breaks my concentration. He did better after that, but you could tell he was trying as hard as he could to not laugh out loud.
