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Pretty Fast (P1C1WB1)

Posted: May 28th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Body | Tags: , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

Yeah, I settled on the silly notation.

I spent most of the day extremely pissed off because I was without a ride to the gym. Typically, when my mom goes to work, I go with because my gym is literally across the street from where she works. I had taken my now-typical preworkout power nap… and she left without me. It wasn’t a matter of fatigue, though. While I did sleep two hours past when I was supposed to be awake, I was ready to workout when I laid down. There was certainly no lack of motivation… just a lack of communication.

Anyway, she made up for it (kinda) by taking me to the gym an hour and a half before close.

This meant two things:

  1. I hadn’t eaten since roughly 7AM by the time I got to the gym. I don’t know how long I have to go without eating to become fasted (makes me want to re-read Eat Stop Eat, though) but it’s been at least 12 hours since my last meal. (Had I been there on time, this meal would have been just about three hours prior to workout.)
  2. I didn’t get to enjoy gratuitous amounts of rest between sets. In this whole workout, I essentially skipped rest for warm-ups (taking only time to change the weight or catch my breath) and only took a full 5 minutes of rest in preparation for deadlifts. I lingered a bit on the last warm-up and work set of pulldowns, just because I wasn’t in any danger of missing a lift due to closure. (Just gimme one more set, bro!) That also turned out to be, as expected, the hardest lift, and the only one I didn’t meet my rep goal for.

Workout B1 for Friday, May 27, 2010

Romanian Deadlift

  1. 60lbs x 5
  2. 90 x 3
  3. 120 x 2

Deadlift (overhand grip)

  1. 150lbs x 3
  2. 150 x 3 (If one thing made me happy this workout, it was this.)

This exercise took me 33 minutes (remember that I use RDL as warm-up for DL.)

Lateral Raise Machine

  1. 35lbs x 5
  2. 50 x 3
  3. 70 x 2
  4. 85 x 6 (Had to really grit my teeth and push for the last couple reps.)

This exercise took 8 minutes.

Leg Curl

  1. 25lbs. x 5
  2. 40 x 3
  3. 50 x 2
  4. 65 x 10

8 minutes again.

Leg Extension

  1. 30lbs x 5
  2. 45 x 3
  3. 60 x 2
  4. 75 x 10

10 minutes.

Pulldown

  1. 45lbs x 5
  2. 65 x 3
  3. 85 x 2
  4. 110 x 7 (FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF)

Missed a rep. 16 minutes for this exercise. I zoned out before the third set. Wasn’t TIRED, just had trouble SEEING THINGS.

Nevertheless, I’m going to increase all lifts for next B1. I had no reason to miss that 8th rep and I was very close, but very close doesn’t count.

Workout Time: 75 minutes (budgeted for 90, so I was happy with this)

Body Weight: 164.5lbs
Body Fat Percentage: Didn’t have time.

Condition: B-. Smoldering, smoldering rage.

Timing of Stuff
7AM – Last meal. PB&J sammich (and a peanut butter one on one slice), some organic corn chips and salsa.
12:40PM – EC1
5:20PM – EC2
7:50PM – EC3
8:27PM – Workout
10:30PM – 2 scoops EAS Premium Protein (in water)
11:45PM – 2 scoops EAS Premium Protein (in water)

I just really do not feel like stuffing myself full of carbs… yet.

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Chinatown Birthday Girl (feat. Eric)

Posted: May 4th, 2010 | Author: | Filed under: Love | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | No Comments »

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Yesterday I went to Chinatown with birthday girl Fairchild, her boyfriend Bobby, and our friend Roxy.

It was kickass.

The day started with Bobby and the birthday girl picking me up from Bayshore. I spotted a red tulip before the pickup. This is always the sign of AWESOME DAY AHEAD. If I still had my blog from 2008 this would be an awesome moment of thematic coincidence, but alas…

A red tulip

Warning: Awesome Day Ahead

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