GOOD JOB LADY!! THat’s awesome news!
Congratulations, they are lucky to get you!
That is great news. Good luck with the new job.
THANKS GUYS!!! I am so excited! ah hah ha!!! :D!!!
Yesterday I did chins–8 sets of 5 with some glute activation and some misc whatever at home
today
fs 135, 180, 195, 145x10, 165x8, 185x3
back extensions and glute activation
slow slow way back I guess.
But yes!! Now comes the time to go apartment hunting :{ not to thrilled about that > I have until then end of october here in my place now, but it takes me forever to find apartments. I might end up at my parents house for a bit…which I am very grateful for but its hard to live with my parents!! They are nice and all, but I’m pretty independent and …well we’ll see. Apartment search begins!
The last few days I did some misc stuff but nothing of note. Last day I lifted was friday I believe but it wasn’t worth logging. My back is wonked but I’ve also managed to get a flu/cold form my stress I guess so no go for now.
I did do pull ups monday
4 sets of 11, 3 sets of 10, 9,8,7
No lifting until my muscles get on board and then it’ll be a whole new game. I’m going to start from scratch I guess and I will also start back squatting again. SUPER light though, I am just way unbalanced with my muscles.
Apartment hunting is horrible! I hate it! Wholly distracted my lifting is on serious side plates for the time being–like that last four months!. I did see the gym I would be lifting at when I move–the 24 hour fitness in the new town I will be in and its…well its what it is --has two squat racks just like every other 24 hour fitness. There is a gym that I might check out once I get my feet back in the water for lifts that has all the fun stuff 24 hour doesn’t. Its expensive though so we’ll just see.
well I did some very light lifts today, the first time with wt’s since the last time with wt’s. Next week I 'm starting with 50% of whatever max I think I posses at the time and doing a week of that for lifts, then 60% next week etc. Back felt 100% since Saturday and I hope today’s light stuff won’t mess with it. I shouldn’t!
Monday I start my new job and new time of being awake…DAYTIME. I’ll be waking up at 6am or so which is…typically about 2 hours after my usual bedtime now. A transition. My new job is a trek from my current apartment so I will be doing gym stuff on whatever lunch break I get, also new thing for me- Lunch breaks!
I REALLY don’t like commuting though 
But I have no choice until I find a new apartment closer to the new job. Which is not even easy. I won’t even begin on the frustration that is finding a apartment that is within my price range and not in the ghetto. I very well might end up camping at my parents for a bit until I find someplace…which is great but also very hard for me, I am very independent! And also way lucky to have a backup.
Anywho, lots of stuff going on for me. Also had a friend pass away suddenly this week–not a super close friend but still a friend who was young and healthy and a really good guy. Just puts a new perspective on so many things I circle around endlessly in my mind everyday. What really matters, what is not important. Wake up call.
I have been doing my pull ups. Monday’s pull ups
5 sets of 11, 3 sets of 10, 8, 7, 3
then I did some “sternum pull ups” x3. I did em again today and like how they feel sore the next day. Basically a pull up with an arched back so your sternum hits the bar, you feel in in new muscle. I did 3 x3 today with my light wts.
Good luck with new job!!! Dayshift, I am quite jealous. Hopefully it brings you more happiness and sunshine. Be careful on the commute, I would not want to commute in Denver traffic ever again.
Sorry for the loss of your friend. Like you said it provides perspective. Even when they are not close it still hurts. best of luck
Thanks HKD! His passing I think has effected a lot of us–but in some productive ways. He is still giving even after he’s gone! 
Commuting…I don’t want one bit. I have trouble driving as it is since I see really bad!! And…no! I’ll pay more to live close! Also day time means more people…that kinda makes me feel stressed out. I like the off hours I work now just for that reason, less people crowding and crowding.
In a way being around more people has always made me feel anxious and quite lonely–for many reasons. I don’t like the feeling. But yes…I hope to avoid the crowds…I’ll sneakily live as a day dwelling vampire and be creative in my movements. And maybe hope to get transferred to a swing shift after a few months
My back didn’t react badly to yesterdays light wt’s but it did tighten up- lower thorax to mid lower back kinda clenching. It wasn’t painful just confusing. I couldn’t figure out how to stretch it either, as it feels as if slouching–which I don’t do–stretches it? How is slouching good? hA! But it seemed to help. Also a modified cat stretch did–bazaar.
This morning it was tight again so I thought benching might help and it actually did. I have no bench skills so the wts mean nothing to anyone but the set up of getting an arch seems to stretch out my back in a good way. I kinda do a back bend over the bench to get in my “arch” position" and that did the trick to help un clench my back. So I benched a little.
barx3, 65x3, 95x3, 115
did some pull ups too
I also though hey maybe some snatches will help, so I did bar only snatches and they DID help! Nice! I’ll be doing broom stick snatching in the morning and the evenings now to unclench the tight back.
50% x5 x5 today
deads 185x5 x5 sets
some mp’s
some snatches of bar, 65, 75, some chins
50% x5 x5 today
deads 185x5 x5 sets
some mp’s
some snatches of bar, 65, 75, some chins
Yay for lifting!
I’m going to give it a try this week.
If I can find a gym to use while I’m out of state
YEP 2b!
This week has been a few very small lifting session and a small pull up party. I’ll list the stuff I remeber, but I think I only lifted a total of 2 days this week. I decided to use my belt today because I just can’t get this strain under control. It popped up again after back squatting 135. :{ so…I got some tinkering to do. Or not do.
fs 45, 135x3, 160x3, 185
glute activation stuff and stretches
deads 225x6x4 sets
bird dogs, glute activation, ohs and snatches bar only
I benched here too–no need to list the wts!
pull ups 5 sets of 7
lunges 65x8, 85x8, 105x8
belted gm’s 95x8, 115x8 x2 sets
belted anderson zerchers 115x8 x2 sets, 135x5
I also benched .
glute stuff, bird dogs, streches etc, bar only mps too, some bar only ohs
Lunges felt totally fine on my back . So We’ll do those again. The belt helped with the gms so I’ll use it again. I’ll get it figured out eventually.
first week of the new job went really well as far as I am concerned. I am still in training so my schedule is a bit all over the place. The main thing I’m not enjoying is the commute. My drive takes anywhere between 35 mins to an hour and 15 to get where I need to go depending on traffic. :{ Some days i zip on is and end up way early, others just in time. Its annoying! I am now very very aware at ow commuters can get road rage and just beat up from simply driving ! Its such a time drain!!
But I found a place and just need to hear the final word on whether everything went thru. If I get it less than a mile from the new job! And has a jogging trail really close by so I can walk that Mossimo! Only thing would be its not available for two weeks into Nov and my lease is up at my place now the end of this month. So I’d be at my parents…with a 30 mile commute. but no way around it. And it’ll only be for two week. I hope i get the place!
As it stands …I have to get up 4am tomorrow to get to work by 6. Yippe… :{
I hope rolling out at 0400 went alright. That is really early. Good luck with the relocation.
Hope you get the place, Brute!
Thanks guys! I did get the place! Won’t be ready until the end of nov,so I 'll be at my parents for that entire month.
I’ve been so tired! This week wore me out! But it was good,a good week at the new job! Just really really tired form commuting and all the changes going down.
I did pull ups yesterday 4 sets of 10, 2 of 8 , 2 of 6,2 of 5, 2 of 4 and then a set of 3 while packing up my stuff.
I’ve figure out my injury—self diagnosis but it seems fairly spot on is a quadratus lumborum strain. Which from what i read sounds like my thing–a deep long ass muscle that is hard to injury and hard to heal up :{ So I’m letting it heal. BLUH. Works out ok being exhausted as I am. MEGH. I have no access to a ghr which I feel would make it heal up a bit easier and better but i just don’t have a place to use one. Add to the list of things to get done i guess.
Today I started the odessy to reload my body for wts.
Humbling experience with some circuits.
circuit was mp, fs, back squat, gm,lunges
bar x5 per lift etc,65, 75, 85
Then back extensions, glute activation, bird dogs.
Yay!
Circuits are always humbling.
Totally 2b!! HA! Yeah, barbell complexs are alwyas a humbling reminder of …weakness and cardiovascualr health!
I did them again tuesday same thing so 5 push presses this time, 5 front squats, 5 squats, 5 lunges per leg, 5 gm’s
did bar, 89, 109, 116 and that was that.
today was pull ups 8 sets of 8, 7, then the remaining in various sets to get to 100 .
Felling ok about moving along with the complexes for a while. i need to improve my cardiovascular health substantially! And I do enjoy them as I’ve not done them in a long long time.
The week ahead will be me working “training” in my new position but no more training in other areas of the hospital that I won’t be set in. The last two weeks have been me just learning how the various departments go so I did surgery, internal medicine, lab, front desk, phone room, lab, gp stuff…yeah…just so I have a basic concept of the work flow there. Also here and there some treatment stuff–my hired on position so I feel ok about just jumping in. I actually REALLY just want to jump in to get my own groove down. I am a self motivated task motivated worker and do far better I feel once my leash is off. I’m itching to impress them with who they hired
The new job is similar and dissimilar to my old one, basically the same kinda stuff but far lower volume–less patients, less triage’s, less busy but still the same kinda medicine…Just not as crazy and over whelming for techs. And also FAR more organized and better managed. I’m impressed by that in itself.
Also I’m now in the day time so there is more people around–administration, head honchos, just more people, then what I’d have to deal with on my er shifts the last few years. But It’ll be ok. …I just need to watch my mouth a bit! I’m never insubordinate or anything like that…i just …can have a potty moth when vomit and angry cats start happening. In good fun but …I have a sailors mouth potentially to a higher up’d mind maybe.
Also need to move in sooner at my parents then I wanted too just for scheduled stuff to vacate my apartment and clean and crap. Its going to be an interesting time for me in the next month…could very well either get refreshed…or pull my hair out…or yeah. Mom ok’d the pull up bar so that is good enough for me.
The lame tour continues :{
Unmotivated! And…just timid with this back. Of course my plans of gyming on my lunch breaks at work didn’t happen…and of course I have the day off today except for my other job tonight, to gym it and I do a stupid lame session. sigh
I’m frustrated with myself. No need to explain or excuse it. Frustrated and unmotivated. Its my last week at my apartment so there’s that going forward, this time next week I’ll be at my parents and maybe more frazzled and willing to push myself in the gym even slightly!
today clean to push press 89x5, x6, x7
fs 89x10, 115x8 then my back clenched up like an angry fist >:(
An I gave up. And I did quit
I’m not sure if I’m supposed to go forward when I feel the badness or stop–its a confusing kinda sensation in my strained area–no pain, not discomfort but a stricture, well i guess its a 50% mix of pain and 50% discomfort…and nothing will improve until I get my support muscles in action…/and I’m too lazy to do that. and timid…scared.
what a whiney ass I am! I do feel the frustration making me short tempered too! And just willing to give and stop like a quiiter! It will pass, It must pass! >:(
Sounds like you are going through a rough time. Sorry to hear about that. Best wishes on a quick recovery. You do have a lot of change going on all at once. If I had to move and start a new job I would not be able to do anything else but those two tasks.