Gookfest

This is from Thursday.

I don’t know about anybody else, but when I walk into a room (especially a big room) with nothing but staff being all of the same visual ethnic background, it weirds me out. Even if I identify with the group (Asians, in case the post title wasn’t ambiguous enough) it messes with me. You know how I like to take my glasses off and look for “hey, that’s kind of a celebrity!” Well, I kind of now get that god-damn Liu Kang nickname for myself, especially after bumping into Shang Tsung and fearing for my [little brother's] life.

(Then I remembered I don’t have a little brother… Oh shi-)

Then I saw him do crossovers and I could see striations in his chest. Without glasses. I immediately fled to the other side of the gym and deadlifting amidst Chow Yun Fats.

Deadlift

1. 135lbs x 5 ~ Not bad from having been doing my warm-up sets from a hang. Could never figure out the proper height so I just did them via form back then. Whatever. Bumping weight.
2. 145lbs x 5 ~ Much more taxing. Still not HARD, just, my whole body felt “uhh… whoooa~”
3. 155lbs x 1 ~ My midback failed. I couldn’t draw my shoulder blades together at all. I did as much of a shrug as I could and put it down. Looks like it’s 150lbs. next workout.

Incline Bench

1. 45lbs. x 5
2. 55lbs. x 5
3. 65lbs. x 5
4. 75lbs. x 5 – Getting tougher here, but the bar hasn’t slowed down yet.
5. 85lbs. x 1 – Failed @ lower pins on the second rep.

Hi-Low Twists (each side)

1. 20lbs. x 5
2. 30lbs. x 5 – iffy on form, I have to pay attention to too many things at once for what is essentially an ‘isolation’ exercise.
3. 40lbs. x 5 – slowed down, but I felt like more/stronger was still possible here.
4. 50lbs. x 5 – slowed noticeably. I decided to stop a set before failure because I’m not really sure about ab work just yet, and I don’t want to torque my spine or something.

Body Weight: 156lbs.
Body Fat Percentage: 15.9%

I spent the  day after at the mall: Panda Express Lunch (shouldn’t have had the chicken egg roll, it was good but I had to force it down because I was full and didn’t wan to feel like I wasted the money… but I did, I SOOO did); doing job applications (Applebee’s, Footlocker, Bar Louie, Devon, Bravo!, LA Fitness [ha!], and Barnes & Noble); and reading stuff at Barnes. Really interested in that Clint Eastwood biography, and the Neil Gaiman one.

Popularity: 3% [?]