Went to the cardiologist today. I’m healthy as a bull but I’m getting put on anti-depressants/generic Zoloft to help with vasodilation or something. So, kind of lame but at least I’ll be feeling goooood, haha.
Physician appointment happens on Thursday, hopefully that will be a little more telling overall about what’s going on, but maybe not.
I just don’t want to be the next Lou Gherrig, considering everything that keeps happening to me could qualify as something else being wrong, but rules out something else. lol.
God, I really liked this get-up. The pants are charcoal/dark slate gray. I’m wearing this exact ensemble out this weekend, as so. It’s gonna get filthy.
Also - did sprints tonight. What’s hilarious is I think they were easier on me, still not adjusted back to the elevation than they were for my super ripped 140-lb trainer partner/roommate. Awesome!
I fucking worked out tonight and it was fucking weiiiird. Lemme break it down.
After my first heavy set of the dip machine my right arm went numb as fuck right down to the digits. It was very odd. It got even worse after the second set so I had to call it. My right arm is still slightly numb.
Plus, on the hammer curls my right wrist went totally limp and I couldn’t grip it after three reps. Still bloodflow? So odd.
So, odd.
[u]Arms[/u]
Tricep Pushdowns
175 x 11
145 x 15
145 x 12
Plate-Loaded Dip Machine
2+30pps x 8
2+10pps x 12
Dumbbell Overhead Extensions
70s x 10?
65s x 12-13
55s x 18
Preacher Hammer Curls
45s x 6 (left) / 3 (right, wrist)
35 x 10
25 x 15
HS Preacher Curls
1+35 plates x 8
1+25 plates x 8
Cable Reverse Curls (Emphasis on ball of forearms)
360 x 8
320 x 10
260 x 14
And then a fairly smooth 20 minutes of cardio, stair climbing. I’m going to try to get a sub-5 second 40 time, so I’ll sprinting twice a week and alternating days of cardio with intense and not. So, yeah.
[quote]spar4tee wrote:
No pain? Might have impinged a nerve perhaps.[/quote]
Very possible, actually. Started off with some numbness still early and it tapered off throughout the day. Looking big in the new avi my man.
Awright, so I picked up this fucking generic Zoloft today. I have a million reservations about taking it. I’m to understand it’s not the best to drink alcohol with it, as some people don’t respond well. Well shitballs, I’m playing on a double feature this weekend probably. Maybe going to be rough. ALSO… the GDA’s say to consult a physician prior to taking with anti-depressants… which means you know they won’t want me to. But whatthefudge. Taking a girl out this weekend, at least one. I actually have a few I’m half-ass talking to. 5 bitchez on deck burrr.
Went to REI today and picked up some sick shit - but more importantly a new and legit foam roller. I’d rather some PVC pipe, but it’s sturdy as hell and going to last for a while. It’s a bumpy one.
Um… I ran 3 miles in <24 minutes, which was my goal for under 200 pounds. So fuck yeah, and I’m still north of 215. I’m still thinking about seeing if I can’t hit a 315 bench, 405 squat and 500 pull (rack or DL) and a sub 5-second 40 under 200 pounds. Most people I talk to doubt it because of my height vs current strength levels. We’ll see.
Lastly, today was fucking GORGEOUS. Like 70 degrees and not a cloud in the sky at lunch. Had to go out and run. Probably walking tomorrow as well.
Suuup bru! Sorry I’ve been MIA from your log for a hot minute man. Some/most days I literally have but minutes to post my shit and book it. Hopefully things will be leveling out at some point.
So today was fucking BRUTAL. Here’s how it went:
7 am - 2 scoop HumaPro + 50 g protein shake + 1 oz almonds
10:30 am - 2 scoop HumaPro
10:450 am - 6 oz chicken breast + 65 g dry brown rice
11:40-12 - Fucking sprints. Somewhat higher elevation. Small hill. Fuck.
12:30 pm - 8 oz chicken + 65 g dry brown rice
4:00 - 2 scoop HumaPro
WORKOUT - BCAAs during
Post-Workout - 9 oz chicken + 65g dry brown rice + 2 oz almonds
And I’ll probably drink tonight. Maybe get buffalo wings if I can. Boo.
Workout looked like this:
[u]Chest and Back[/u]
Incline Press Machine (awesome)
3pps x 8
2+35pps x 9
2+35pps x 8
Decline BB
135 x 28
Flat Flyes
65 x 6
50 x 10?
T-Bar Machine
2+25 x 8?
2+10 x 10
V-Grip Rows
165 x 14
165 x 12
Underhand HS Pulldowns
2+12.5pps x 9
2pps x 10?
V-Grip Pulldowns
135 x 13
120 x 11?
90 x 19
DB Shrugs
120 x 14
120 x 12
120 x 10
Facepulls
210 x 18
195 x 14?
Reverse Pec Dec Flyes
105 x 11?
70 x 18? ? ? ? ? ?
And then I did 15 minutes of walking at 3.0 MPH at 15 degree incline, and finished with a cool down 5 minutes at 15 degrees.
Had a great night last night. Went to a club that was DEAD and was not feeling it. Waited around for an hour or so and shit popped off. I danced my ass off. Despite a shit load of food and drinks last night, I was around 215 today, so down in weight still.
This morning I took a walk/run hybrid mostly fasted.
Going hiking up in Boulder today.
Then… going to a gay bar tonight. Wearing the get-up I was wearing on Page 9. Definitely going to be a great time.
[quote]165StateChamp wrote:
My friends pranked me and tried to get me to go to a gay bar in Dallas once. I said ‘Fuck that’.
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my girls (straight) dad once took me and her out to one. weird. #wasnotcomfortable[/quote]
Yeah, I can’t really see the appeal. Cool, gay guys buy you drinks so you get drunk enough to forget that you’re straight. Too down low for me. No offense, SSCbrah, you know I luv you! haha
Hahaha. We have a friend in from out-of-state who’s gay, and he really wanted to go to one tonight. It’s looking possible at this point it may not even be an issue because we might not even go to one. I’m not complaining. I could roll with the punches easily, I’m not very uncomfortable with gay things as I’ve had a decent amount of friends in the past who were gay.
Although, I did get warning that it’s possible a dude would just come up and grab my junk. So, that would probably push the “uncomfortable” border a bit.
gays can be fun to hang around because some dont have a filter and say/do the funnniiieessttt shit, but when they all get together for a dry humpagrabathon it’s uh awkward.
Lol. I didn’t do shit last night. The hike yesterday wore me out, and I was tired, hung over and dehydrated from Friday night. I got super ‘mellow,’ got a pizza and passed out halfway through Apollo 18. What I saw was cool, though.
Um, took a huge fucking mostly fasted walk this morning. It was actually only semi-fasted, considering last night I had a piece of pizza before I passed out, lol. HumaPro shake this morning as well. Then I walked for… oh, about 1.5 hours. Felt great.
So, I forewent another hike today and opted to do shoulders instead. Plus, I have to clean the living fuck out of my room, do laundry, manscape, etc.
[u]Shoulders[/u]
Shoulder Press Machine
215 x 7
215 x 7
205 x 6
Seated Lateral Machine
222 x 9
195 x 9
160 x 12
110 x 18
100 x 20
Front Cable Raises
30 x 12
20 x 15
15 x 24
15 x 20
Reverse Pec Dec
125 x 11?
115 x 12
105 x 13
75 x 15
60 x 16 (partials)
Then I did a pretty great 30 minutes of stair climbing. Not really HIIT but intense nonetheless.
FML. Yesterday I did some sprints at lunchtime and definitely, definitely pulled my hammie. I took some corrective actions to make it better yesterday, and it IS doing better, but still sucks nonetheless.
Because of this, I decided to beat up my chest a little bit.
For the record, I’m only doing a chest day like this because of my training partner. He has pretty bad chest genetics (which I am COMPLETELY opposite,) so whatever.
[u]Chest[/u]
Incline Press Machine
3+10pps x 4+1
3pps x 8
2+25pps x 10
Decline BB
225 x 5 (Fucking hard after all those inclines, lol)
165 x 20 (mostly partials)
Pec-Dec Flyes
165 x 8
135 x 7
90 x 14
Low-Incline Flyes
50 x 10
40 x 11
And then a really rather easy 15 minutes of stair climbing so as not to perturb my hammie.
do keep posting on how that hammie affects your lifts. I find it interesting to see how people work around injuries. and I REALLY WISH my right biceps would heal already so I could go back to doing curls =( arms have been stuck at a tick under 17" for a few months
