bigmac, congratulations on your first law school acceptance. Bet that feels great.
Been slacking on my log lately, but still working out decently hard. Hope your training is enjoyable this week. What is your overall opinion of neurotism? Thinking about incorporating it soon if I get a good personal review.
Ok… I did it. I bitched out and started counting calories. Over the past week, I’ve been putting down roughly ~2750cals per day, which is a bit below my current maintenance level (estimated at ~3200). I also added in 3 hits per day of Humapro while fasting, so I figured I wouldn’t suffer from going a bit lighter on the cals since the training was much less tense than before.
I made a change for the past two days, and just went crazy with ~5500cals. I had a really crazy 48 hour period of midterms prior to Friday, then got back to working out seriously as well, so I figured the extra food would be good. Water retention is heavy, but muscles/vascularity are great.
I’m taking a clean up day today, and just running a 36 hour fast with Humapro (ending 1 hour preworkout since I’ll be eating to spike insulin). I’ll do some light metabolic work at home today and just drink a ton of water. No stims today, not even coffee.
I’ll have to use some wacky fast intervals this week because of the university gym’s break hours and my work hours. I’ll have to alternate AM lifts with PM lifts, so that will let me hit about 24 hours fasted between each preworkout insulin spike. Crazy spring break whooo. Lol, going to get back on a more consistent schedule once I get back to school- planning to lift after class every day I can, and just start sleeping in more (to account for jacking up the CNS late in the day).
Cals will be 3500 per day, shooting for gains. I’ll push it up as needed once I get a sense of what that gets me. Each day will look something like this:
Workout -90 minutes: 4 Indigo
Workout -60 minutes: 2 scoops whey isolate, 2 candy bars, coffee, 2 Neurostim
Preworkout: 2.5g creatine monohydrate
Workout: 1 scoop BCAA structured peptides
Postworkout: 2.5g creatine monohydrate, 1 Power Drive, 390mg DMAE, 2-4 caps fish oil
Postworkout Meal: 1 rotisserie chicken, 8 Brazil nuts, either 2 cups rice (uncooked measure) or a shitload of natty nut butter, 5 psyllium fiber, 8000 IU vit D, whatever else if still hungry
Before Bed: 3 ZMA
*2 hits of Humapro throughout the day before workout on PM lift days, and 2 hits of Humapro throuout the day after workout on AM lift days
P.S. Ate 12 double cheeseburgers Friday haha
[quote]bhopki01 wrote:
bigmac, congratulations on your first law school acceptance. Bet that feels great.
Been slacking on my log lately, but still working out decently hard. Hope your training is enjoyable this week. What is your overall opinion of neurotism? Thinking about incorporating it soon if I get a good personal review. [/quote]
Thanks man! It is great to have a degree of certainty in my life now as far as next year is concerned.
Glad to hear you’re training has been going well. I’ll be at school working at the campus job for next week, so I’m hoping to enjoy a nice uncrowded Davis Center so I can use like 5 bars at once for circuits haha.
I like Neurostim a lot. Throw a little coffee in the mix and make sure to take it with fats, and the focus is just great. I though DMAE was awesome even before taking the Neurostim, but the addition of vinpo/ani takes it to another level. It’ll be a staple for me for a long time, especially with law school on the horizon.
Today’s Workout: Power Work Week 1
Activation:
A1. Overhead Med Ball Throws 4x5
A2. Box Jumps (Highest Box) 4x5
A3. Ring Dip Catches 4x5
A4. Alternating One Arm DB Snatch From Floor 4x6
A5. Band Pull Aparts 4x5
A6. Heels-Elevated Front Squat 4x5
HFSW*:
B1. Iron Cross Partials
3x6
B2. Low Incline Pin Press (Low Pins)
185x8, 2x155x8 (dropped weight after first set, wasn’t explosive enough)
B3. Band Pull Aparts
3x8
B4. Trap Bar DL
3x275x8
C1. Ring Dips
3x6
C2. DB High Pulls
3x50sx8
C3. Skin The Cat (Advanced Tuck)
3x3
C4. Band Straight Arm Pulldown
3x8
C5. DB SLDL (Straps to help shift focus to feeling the movement in lats/hams/glutes)
3x80sx8
Isolation Work:
D1. Lat Pulldown Rope Face Pulls to Eyes (2 sec hold at peak) 2x12
D2. Lat Pulldown Rope Face Pulls to Mouth (2 sec hold at peak) 2x12
D3. Band Pull Aparts 2x10
*I hit at least 2 warm-up sets on each HFSW exercise before jumping into the circuits, as well as some extra band pull aparts after pressing sets. Not going to bother noting these, but they are happening
Notes:
This felt awesome today. Explosiveness was on, and I only expect it to get better as I get more comfortable with this collection of movements. I did make a couple changes:
Added depth to the activation circuit, so it accounts for activation, shoulder prehab, and quad recruitment. I’ve never really spent enough time warming up, so here’s my effort to actually do so
I decided to work the low incline pressing from pins to help de-emphasize the eccentric, seeing as that’s what really tweaks my shoulder. Keeping the weight light so I can worry about exploding and feeling the muscles do what I want them to. Shoulder is feeling good as of now, but I want it to be feeling STRONG before I make any tweaks.
I got in about 80 reps of band pull aparts today. I’ll be shooting for 75-100 reps per day to really baby this shoulder.
Iso work was pretty minimal. I’m just allowing it as an optional add-on this week in case any of my muscles don’t feel activated/pumped enough by the end of the workout- no necessary number of sets or anything, I’ll just work until I get a good feel in those muscles then cut out. The rings and HFS moves do a good job of hitting every muscle group, the optional iso is just there to give myself an MMC tune-up when necessary. Everything felt really well-activated except traps/rear delts, which felt like they could do with a little bit more work. So I just gave them a couple of extra sets then got out of there.
Made a couple changes to the nutrition because I thought better of doing anything drastic while still taking the antibiotic/recovering from last week’s bullshit. I’ll update on that a bit later, need to do some shit at work.
Ok, got another break at work so here’s what the deal is with nutrition:
I opted to not fast quite as intensely as I was planning to between yesterday and today. I ate yesterday at about 15 hours fasted, then fasted for about 24 hours before eating today. I just didn’t want to go 36 hours fasted while still taking antibiotics and trying to get back to good health (even though I feel awesome today, I’m trying to be smart).
I really didn’t like the idea of coming out of the fast at different times each day this week, but I was initially going to roll with it so I could spike insulin preworkout. I’m going to push the new nutrition plan back until next week, when classes are back in session and I’ll be able to eat and lift on a more consistent schedule. For this week, I’ll be fasting for about 20 hours each day while putting down a good number of Humapro hits within that time. I’ll eat about 2750-3000 cals per day, which is at a slight deficit. I’ll be having a lot of Humapro throughout the day in addition to that number, so I’m not particularly worried about shading myself toward a caloric deficit.
One other change I’m making is that I’m going to take a couple scoops of the Humapro powder around workout rather than using whey isolate. The pricing was pretty comparable, but I already get the feeling that the Humapro will deliver more results than the whey ever has.
Since I’ll still be lifting fasted this week, my workout nutrition protocol will look like this:
Workout-20: 1 scoop Humapro
Preworkout: coffee, 2.5g creatine monohydrate
Intraworkout: 1 scoop BCAA structured peptides
Workout+20: 1 scoop Humapro
Workout+40: 2 fish oil, 1 Power Drive, 390mg DMAE, 2.5g creatine monohydrate
Next week my protocol will look something like this (once I start spiking insulin preworkout):
Workout-60: 1 scoop Humapro
Workout-40: 2 candy bars, 1 scoop BCAA Structured Peptides
Preworkout: 2.5g creatine monohydrate, coffee
1/2 Way Through Workout: 1 scoop Humapro
Postworkout: 2 fish oil, 1 Power Drive, 390mg DMAE, 2.5g creatine monohydrate
Can you remind me… Is your goal right now to actively get leaner? or rather, are you trying to keep eating clean, incorporating fasts, et cetera, while increasing lifts and performance?
[quote]bugeishaAD wrote:
Can you remind me… Is your goal right now to actively get leaner? or rather, are you trying to keep eating clean, incorporating fasts, et cetera, while increasing lifts and performance?[/quote]
Well I was shooting to improve leanness for awhile, but over the past couple weeks I’ve had put that goal on the backburner and just work on maintenance due to being sick/having midterms. I haven’t been able to eat/train/supplement optimally, so up until yesterday I was really just trying not to lose muscle. Eating hasn’t even been very clean, but I seem to have held onto the muscle.
I’ve revised my goals a bit and will be working toward some size/strength increase for the near future. My goal is really to stay relatively lean while putting on some muscle where I need it. I have a thick ass waist and I need more in the quads/shoulder girdle to really look impressive while lean.
So I guess the short answer is that I’m gaining but trying not to get too messy about it.
Workout 3/6: Power Work Week 1
Activation:
A1. Overhead Med Ball Throws 4x5
A2. Box Jumps (Highest Box) 4x5
A3. Ring Dip Catches 4x5
A4. Alternating One Arm DB Snatch From Floor 4x6
A5. Band Pull Aparts 4x10
A6. Heels-Elevated Front Squat 4x5
HFSW:
B1. Iron Cross Partials
3x6
B2. Low Incline Pin Press (Low Pins)
3x155x8
B3. Band Pull Aparts
3x10
B4. Trap Bar DL
3x275x8
C1. Ring Dips
3x6
C2. DB High Pulls
3x50sx8
C3. Skin The Cat (Advanced Tuck)
3x3
C4. Band Straight Arm Pulldown
3x8
C5. DB SLDL (Straps to help shift focus to feeling the movement in lats/hams/glutes)
3x80sx8
Isolation Work:
D1. Cable Crossovers (w/ peak holds: r1=15sec, r2=11sec, r3=9sec, r4=7sec, r5=5sec, r6=3sec, r7=1sec)
3x7
D2. BB Curl (2 sec peak hold)
3x12
D3. Band Pull Aparts
3x10
Notes:
Fasted so deep before this lol. I think I was 24 hours fasted when I set foot in the gym. Ended up having 4 hits of Humapro throughout the day, not counting the workout nutrition. Still an awesome workout.
I ended up pounding the decaf Brain Candy yesterday at work because I was bored and had the workout coming up. Pretty cool stuff, chilled focus and such. Don’t know if I LOVE it as a standalone, but it was good. I had small cup of coffee a half hour after taking it and had good energy, but nothing too crazy. Once I ripped my preworkout Humapro, I lost my mind though. I more or less marched to my car like I was walking through brick walls while shooting lasers out of my eyes due to extreme focus lol. Looking forward to trying the caffeinated variety.
Not too much to say about this workout, more or less went as planned. I did tighten my grip on the incline pin press by about one finger (now pinkys are on power rings) because my shoulder was still not loving them. This was perfect, zero shoulder discomfort.
Here’s a shitty phone shot from post-WO:
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Leanness is coming back. I’ve dropped a lot of water already this week, but some seems to be sticking around the lower abs. I’m pretty sure that’s related to the antibiotics I’m taking, though I could still be working cheeseburgers from last week off haha. I finish up the antibiotic today, so I’ll find out in a day or so I guess. No fucking clue what my scale weight is. Trying to get away from frequent weigh-ins, since I really don’t care at the moment.
Today’s Workout: Power Work Week 1
Activation:
A1. Overhead Med Ball Throws 4x5
A2. Box Jumps (Highest Box) 4x5
A3. Ring Dip Catches 4x5
A4. Alternating One Arm DB Snatch From Floor 4x6
A5. Band Pull Aparts 4x10
A6. Heels-Elevated Front Squat 4x5
HFSW:
B1. Low Incline Pin Press (Low Pins)
3x155x8
B2. Band Pull Aparts
3x10
B3. Trap Bar DL
3x275x8
C1. DB High Pulls
3x50sx8
C2. Band Straight Arm Pulldown
3x8
C3. DB SLDL (Straps to help shift focus to feeling the movement in lats/hams/glutes)
3x80sx8
Isolation Work:
D1. Cable Crossovers (w/ peak holds: r1=15sec, r2=11sec, r3=9sec, r4=7sec, r5=5sec, r6=3sec, r7=1sec)
3x7
D2. Band Pull Aparts
3x10
D3. Cordova Extensions (2 sec peak hold)
2x12 LR (dropped after second set)
D4. BB Curls (2 sec peak hold)
2x12 (dropped after second set)
Notes:
Had to lift early today due to shiesty break gym hours. Wasn’t working on much rest at all, so I cut the ring work and kept the iso work very minimal. It was mainly exercises to loosen up the elbows/shoulders a bit. I threw in some chest because my current pressing game is very weak and it’s more of an intellectual lift (focus on form/MMC/explosiveness) since I don’t want to overwork my shoulder.
I won’t be lifting again until tomorrow night, so I’ll have a pretty substantial rest period between now and then. I was planning to go heavy on Friday, but I feel like I’ve accumulated enough volume over the course of the past three workouts, so I’ll just get weird tomorrow and try to really destroy my muscles with some extended sets for 15-20 reps and such. That will give me Friday morning to hit an in-gym activation workout, along with any iso/ring work I feel up to.
BTW, I’ll be hitting rings 2-4x per week. For this week and next, when rep count is higher and I’m getting volume there, it will probably be more like 2-3x. As the rep count drops later in the month and I start leaning more toward strength and explosiveness, I’ll let it creep up to about 4x a week if I feel up to it.
Well, after reading CT’s new discussion of jumps in today’s livespill, it looks like I need to tweak my activation circuit a bit to optimize.
He suggests no more than 14 jumps per workout, so I’ll be reducing my box jump reps to sets of 2, 2, 3, 3 in the activation circuit.
I’ll incorporate some weighted jumps for singles in within my other circuits as well, hitting 3-4 sets of those to cash in on the activation/metabolic boost.
Ok, more activation circuit revisions after reading CT’s discussion of throws as well.
Going to keep box jumps to 4x2 and overhead med ball throws to 4x2 as well.
Weighted vertical jumps (singles) will be included in an HFS circuit… B most likely.
Seeing some really cool shit as far as picking up leanness goes, and I’m not really even trying lol. Have I said that I love this kind of training? I ended up taking a low protein day yesterday, since work volume was down. I upped fats/carbs to maintain the cals, and had 2 scoops of Humapro around my workout in addition to 3 doses of 5 tabs throughout the day. Going to fast fairly deep today and go to battle tonight after work.
Today’s nutrition is going to look a bit different, since I’m
a) getting down on dat Brain Candy
b) trying out the preworkout insulin-spiking protocol
c) stimming once more
Here’s what it’s going to look like:
6:00AM: 2 HOT-ROX
7:00AM: 5 tabs Humapro
7:20AM: 2 Neurostim, 2 fish oil
9:30AM: 5 tabs Humapro
12:00PM: 5 tabs Humapro
2:30PM: 5 tabs Humapro
3:00PM: Brain Candy
3:30PM: 4 Indigo
4:00PM: 1 scoop Humapro
4:20PM: 2 Twix Bars, 1 scoop BCAA structured peptides
5:00PM: 2.5g creatine monohydrate
-Workout- (1 scoop Humapro intraworkout, start sipping at ~5:30)
Postworkout (at least 20 min after Humapro is gone): 2.5g creatine monohydrate, 1 scoop Power Drive, 390mg DMAE, 2 fish oil
Postworkout Meal: 1 rotisserie chicken, 3 Chobani Greek yogurts (blueberry), Brazil nuts, psyllium fiber, 8000 IU vit D
Lots of water all day. This is the most complicated my nutrition planning has been in a long time lol. I don’t usually go this regimented, but with the Brain Candy, HOT-ROX, Indigo, and Humapro in the mix there are a lot of supps that can’t be taken with others.
BTW, I really think the Humapro is amazing for holding onto muscle size/fullness. It seems to work just about as well as MAG-10 did on that front. Lacks some of MAG-10’s versatility since it needs to be taken alone and separated by 20 min from other supps, but you get twice as many servings for about $20 cheaper. So until I start getting a real ass salary and can afford to install that MAG-10 fountain in my hypothetical mansion, I’ll be using Humapro and supplementing with it the way I wish I could with MAG-10.
This morning nutrition rant brought to you by HOT-ROX.
3/8 Workout: Week 1 Power Work Heavy Day
Activation:
A1. Overhead Med Ball Throw 4x1
A2. Weighted Vertical Jump 4x1
A3. Band Pull Aparts 4x10
HFSW:
B1. Trap Bar DL
135x6
225x6
315x6
365x6 (straps from here on)
405x8 (got cutoff at 8 by one of the workers at the gym… apparently making noise while setting weights down isn’t allowed, aka teh ghey)
B2. Band Pull Aparts
5x5
B3. One Arm DB Power Snatch from Floor
5x1 LR
C1. DB SLDL (straps)
25x6
50x6
65x6
80x6
100x15
C2. Band Straight Arm Pulldown
5x1
C3. Overhead Med Ball Throw
5x1
D1. DB High Pull
20x6
35x6
50x6
65x6
75x15 (straps)
D2. Ring Dip Catch
5x3
D3. Band Pull Aparts
5x5
E1. Low Incline Pin Press
45x6
95x6
135x6
155x6
185x12
E2. Band Pull Aparts
5x5
E3. Box Jumps (highest box)
5x1
Isolation4Days: (just hit a ton of iso work until I got bored lol… lots of 2 sec peak holds and slow reps- don’t remember reps/sets since I was just going by feel, using low weight and working on MMC)
F1. DB Incline Squeeze Press
F2. Neutral Grip Incline Machine Press
F3. Band Pull Aparts
G1. Rope Face Pull to Forehead
G2. Rope Face Pull to Mouth
G3. One Arm Cable Laterals LR
H1. Cordova Extensions LR
H2. One Arm Cable Curls LR
I1. Unilateral Leg Extensions LR
I2. Leg Extensions
Notes:
Pretty awesome. I adjusted my activation circuit and use of jumps/throws following CT’s newer guidelines, and liked it a lot. I loaded the level 3 jumps into the activation circuit (since those supposedly give greater activation) and then hit the level 2 jumps within HFSW circuits for neural recovery.
First workout with the original Brain Candy. Really cool focus and I had this zen master shit going on where I was full activated but really calm and not cracked out at all like I usually get when extremely activated. The stuff probably kept me from killing the gym desk worker who came and bitched me out for making a little noise on TBDL’s. He interrupted me mid set on the TBDL’s and felt the need to go beyond just asking me to be quiet, and went on a rant about how I needed to choose another exercise or lower the weight and use more control, “which is better for you anyway.” Dude is 6’ and weighs 170 at best. I was in zen master mode though, so while I obviously didn’t have the happiest body language due to his shit etiquette I managed to not keep it real and tear into the guy for being 100x more of a prick than he needed to be.
I like the NG incline machine press a lot and I don’t seem to be able to inflict any shoulder pain with it, so I’ll be subbing those in for the incline pin press. Yeah it’s a machine which is kinda bitch, but I figure if I hit every rep from a dead start and explode like I would with a bar, I’ll still see some size/hardness improvements in the chest without taking steps backward in shoulder recovery by tweaking it with off reps every so often. Also going to swap the TBDL for heels-elevated front squats because I’m tired of the horseshit with making noise on deads and am afraid I will kill someone if I get interrupted mid-set without dat Brain Candy.
Today’s Workout: Bonus Ring/Iso Day
Full Iron Cross Attempt #2, Last Box Jump
Activation:
A1. Overhead Med Ball Throws 4x1
A2. Weighted Jumps 4x1
A3. Ring Dip Catches 4x1
A4. Band Pull Aparts 4x10
Ring Work:
B1. Ring Dips
5x3
B2. Band Pull Aparts
5x10
C1. Iron Cross Series
1/3 Partials 2x6
2/3 Partials 2x3
Full Attempt 2x1 (not terrible)
C2. Box Jumps (highest box)
6x1
D1. Skin The Cat Series
Advanced Tuck 2x6
One Leg Extended 2x3 (switching legs between sets)
Full Lever Attempt 2x1 (getting way better)
D2. One Arm DB Power Snatch From Floor
6x1 LR
Isolation Work:
E1. Incline Plate Squeeze Press (~3 sec eccentrics and concentrics) 2x12
E2. NG Incline Machine Press (reps as slow as I could manage) 2x8
E3. Rope Face Pulls to Mouth (2 sec peak hold) 2x12
F1. Rope Face Pulls to Forehead (2 sec peak hold) 2x12
F2. One Arm Cable Bent Over Raise (2 sec peak hold) 2x12 LR
F3. One Arm Cable Lateral Raise (2 sec peak hold) 2x12 LR
G1. One Arm Straight Arm Pulldowns (2 sec peak hold) 2x12 LR
G2. Cable Crossovers (reps for 15, 11, 9, 7, 5, 3, 1 sec holds) 2x7
H1. Cordova Extension (2 sec peak hold) 2x12 LR
H2. One Arm Cable Curls (2 sec peak hold, slow reps) 2x12 LR
Notes:
I ended up not going out last night, so I just decided to eat all night following the heavy workout lol. I ended up having only 2 of the Chobani Greek yogurts, but added 2 cups of rice, Mexican style with half a bag of shredded cheese, half a jar of salsa, and half a tub of sour cream thrown in OM NOM NOM. Ate at least 5lbs of food. Recovery was thus balls awesome, so I had plenty of energy for rings. I also think the modification of the way I was incorporating jumps and throws is doing crazy things for activation/neural recovery. CT’s methods continue to deliver.
I’m realizing that I need to widen the rings out on STC, or else my triceps hit my lats and I can’t go very far back. Got some decent depth today by widening them out a bit, but I think I need to widen them out a little bit more. I seem to have the core strength for full front/back levers at this point which is nice.
Back at home for the weekend. Going to pop out of the fast now and eat as much as I can for a couple hours. I’ll fast pretty deep tomorrow and hit some explosive metabolic shits. Carbs will be low over the weekend and I’ll be cranking down mad HOT-ROX. Leanness is much improved and water retention is getting back to normal. I think I may turn the corner over the next couple days and not look like a fat piece of shit anymore.
Quick explosive workout today. Looked like this:
A1. Weighted Vertical Jumps 4x1
A2. One Arm DB Power Snatch from Floor 4x1 LR
B1. Neutral Grip DB OHP 8x1
B2. Vertical Jumps 8x1
Just trying to jack up my metabolism/insulin sensitivity and activate/take care of neural efficiency maintenance. Ate a shitload last night, so I need it. I ended up crushing about half of my mom’s homemade pizza, then destroyed a ton of seafood (lots of shrimp and some bangin cioppino). There was also salad, pita chips and hummus, dessert, and some chicken sausages involved. I actually got my mom to do those circuits with me since she’s been asking for some weight work to get started with.
Going to fast extremely hard into tomorrow. Cranking down full doses of HOT-ROX (2x2), and other than that I’m just taking down nothing but Humapro and a couple caps of fish oil for the Neurostim. Trying to clean up in a serious way since I won’t be lifting fo realz til Monday. Might as well get back into class looking a little sessier.
Pretty happy with the extended fast/Humapro/HOT-ROX deal. I’ll probably continue to crank down 3000-4000 cals on workout days, then just run some extended clean-up fasts with fat burners like this on weekends. I think I can actually maintain a good amount of mass and leanness gains running my weeks like this. I like this idea, since I won’t have to sacrifice eating to gain on training days and won’t look too grim/bloated walking around lol. Also will help me avoid fat burners MOST days of the week- I should be able to get by on just Brain Candy in the AM and maybe a coffee preworkout if needed Mon-Fri. Always refining/adjusting, but this seems pretty good for now.
Same explosiveness/metabolic work as yesterday:
A1. Weighted Vertical Jumps 4x1
A2. One Arm DB Power Snatch from Floor 4x1 LR
B1. Neutral Grip DB OHP 8x1
B2. Vertical Jumps 8x1
Also, found out my mom had a foam roller from rehabbing an injury a few years back that she isn’t using anymore. Score. Going to start hitting the Agile 8 in the mornings before class. Might do it today when I get down to school as well. If I work on hip mobility enough, I might actually be able to get some back squatz in without making rape of my knees. Wouldn’t that be lovely.
Ended up eating way more than intended last night lolz. Put down the 3ishlbs of steak I had, as well as some cioppino my mom sent down with me. I was still hungry as balls (justifiably so, I was ~41 hours fasted at that point), so I had some chipotle, Brazil nuts, and several Twix bars (one of the bad parts about having them around to Spike insulin preworkout :/).
I definitely hit a new level of leanness/dryness last night before I came out of the fast. I was certainly on the flat side, but very lean (for me). Even after eating so much yesterday, I’m looking very solid today. Definitely the best balance between fullness/leanness/reasonable water retention that I’ve seen on a Monday, if not ever.
I did the agile 8 this morning, and liked it a lot. Will be doing it once a day from now on- great way to invest in my physique development even on days when I need an off day from the gym.
I noticed a cool thing while driving this weekend- for the first time ever, I didn’t get crippling lower back/quad pain. I guess this means my mobility is improving. I’m guessing it’s due to the jumps/DB snatches as well as the rings. I’m definitely getting a level of athleticism and general comfort that I haven’t seen before. Hopefully the addition of the daily mobility work will help me to take it to another level. Will be incredibly amped if I can actually back squat heavy.
Locked and loaded for a good workout tonight. About five hours til I cut out of the fast and head to the gym. Still rolling 2x2 on the HOT-ROX today. Got one 2 cap dose left after that, so I’ll probably have that plus Brain Candy tomorrow (assuming my order gets here then, which it should based on typical Fedex practices).
There have been some new developments to the social calendar, and this week is apparently going to be flat our weird. I now have social commitments (literally no choice, seeing as several of them will be at my house and I’m someone’s date for another one) Wednesday night through Friday night. St. Patty’s day is Saturday as well, and that doesn’t help. Kinda down with a fun week though, seeing as I worked all of spring break.
Even if I don’t drink much or at all for some of those events, people will be at my house until very late and my sleep is not going to be great. I’m going to plan for the absolute worst and assume that I won’t be able to get serious workouts in Thursday- Saturday. I still want to hit 5 sessions of HFSW this week, so I’m going to CRANK between now and Wednesday night- I’ll get 5 sessions in between now and then (1 tonight, 2 tomorrow, 2 Wednesday). That way any sessions I get in between Thursday and Saturday will be bonus work, and it won’t be a big deal if I need to limit myself to some mobility/explosive work at home.
Mini-overreach, letsgo. At least I’ll be able to fully test the social aspects of Brain Candy this week.
God, why?
Nice iron cross … London 2012?
