Feversore

Believe me, nothing is trivial.

I am sick. First time this year. It’s destroying my diet.

I worked out anyway. Headcold I told myself. Whatever.

Workout for Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Pulldown

1. 45lbs x 5
2. 45 x 6
3. 50 x 5
4. 70 x 3
5. 90 x 2
6. 110 x 3 (form is good, weight stays)
7. 100 x 4 (form is good, weight stays)
8. 90 x 5 (EASY, weight increases)

Incline Press

1. 45lbs x 5
2. 45 x 5
3. 45 x 5
4. 60 x 3
5. 75 x 2
6. 90 x 5 (easy, increase)
7. 75 x 6 (good, increase)

Something I have to note, though, is that the weight jumps on the incline machine only go 15lbs. at a time. I really don’t think I’m going to be able to push 105lbs., but I also think 90lbs is too easy for this rep range, so I’ll just try to get in one or two more reps. I’ll set the ceiling for this lift at 8 reps at the present weight. A 15-pound jump would be an increase of nearly 16%, which would probably knock out like six reps from the previous weight. So I’ll wait until I could crank out at least two reps before I attempt an increase. My math kind of sucks.

Lateral Raises

1. 30lbs x 3
2. 45 x 2
3. 55 x 8 (easy, increase)
4. 50 x 6 (okay; increase)
5. 45 x 6.5 (was getting weak but still more than five reps, increase!)

I abbreviated the warm-up for this exercise because my shoulders are already pretty warm, generally, from the first two exercises. This turned out to be a winning idea.

I was planning on doing twists but these black guys were having a threesome under the pulleys so I decided against that.

Met this cool dude working his anterior delts next to me, name’s BRIAN. He’s like twice my age and his shoulders are the size of my head. I like that guy. He was black too.

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Training Update

I’ve been forgetting to update the blog, but I haven’t been forgetting to workout. Because I’m not gay.

9/25/09
Squat: 1 x 3 @ 170lbs.
Press 1 x 5 @ 65lbs.
HamChin: 1 x 5 @ 60lbs. offset (I don’t know how much I weighed this day, scale was DISAPPEAR)

10/2/09 – First Workout @ L.A. Fitness
Squat: 3 x 5 @ 185lbs. (almost failed the very last rep, BUT I DIDN’T)
Bench: 2 x 5 @ 80lbs. (also did 1×1@85, before these two sets)
Deadlift: 3 x 1 @ 185lbs. (need chalk, need big socks, form, etc.)

Weight: 168lbs.
Bodyfat: 17.4%

10/6/09
Squat: 1 x 4 @ 195lbs. (failed my 5th rep, looks like another week until 200, FUCK!)
Press: 1 x 2 @ 70lbs. (this exercise: I really miss having a mirror to check form it; felt like my abs were cleaning my pelvis)
HamChin: 1 x 4 @ 55lbs. offset (I almost want to count the 5th rep, I just SO SLIGHTLY missed it, but again: Not a faggot.)

Weight: 169lbs.
Bodyfat: 20.1% – disregarded; carb-loaded

HIGHLIGHTS

Gym Salesman “This is the squat machine–”
Me “Machine? No.”
GS “I know you said you don’t like machines, but in case you injure yourself–”
Me “I’ll wait on it and go back to the rack when I’m healed.”
GS “Okay, but when you squat, it puts pressure on your knees?”
Me “…Yes. [suspicious]”
GS “Right, when you squat down and your knee goes past your foot, you put tremendous pressure on your knee. This machine allows you to squat without that pressure, so you can keep squatting when your knees are sore.”
Me “I just squat with proper form and avoid this issue entirely.”

GS “So today’s Friday and you’re doing squats, so you probably aren’t benching today, but here are where the benches ARE.”
Me “So I see… what makes you think I’m not benching today?” (refer to my workout schedule above)
GS “A lot of people have their ‘chest day’ on Monday.”
Me “Oh, right. I forgot about that…”
GS “When’s your chest day?”
Me “The day I work my chest.”
GS “…”

So next to me, this black curlmonkey starts doing his barbell curls in the other squat rack. Fine, whatever, I only need one squat rack until I’m superhuman so I just rest it up while I watch him do push-curls (like a push press, only with curling… that uh.. sort of… “put your hips and back and drop your head into your shoulder blades like you’re about to cum” way of curling.) I look at his notebook and notice that this Friday, Mr. Monkey is hitting his biceps from all angles.

Monkey “You gots a notebook too?”
Me “A-yup.”
Monkey “Dats cool bro, you gotta keep track yo shit.”
Me “Shore do.”
Monkey “I do so many sometimes I fergit.”
Me “So many what?”
Monkey “Uh [checks notebook] …curls.”

Golden.

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