Today
Malibu Walk before the sun comes out to fry us all!
Gym stuff
fs 45x10, 135x4, 175x8 x 4 sets, 195x3 x 3 sets
ez bar zercher squats empty x10, bar plus 50# x 30 x 2 sets
monster walking lunges x 100 feet or so
zercher gm’s bar plus 50# x 15 x 2 sets, plus 70# x 15
zercher carries bar plus 50# x around 100 feet, bar plus 70# x around 100 feet
snatch grip rdls 45x10, 95x10 ss csr x20 x 4 sets
oh tricep extensions x 25 ss push ups x 5 ( yeah I thought I would and I do still get shoulder pain on pushups 
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iso incline press machine 10 reps both arms, 10 reps one arm, 10 reps the other arm, 10 reps both arms x 4 sets, added 2.5# each set - I am THAT weak on my pecks> I never train them and that’s what happens!
back extensions x 25
glute stuff x 25 - donkey kicks, heel raises, clams
back extensions x 25
NICE!
I started doing the snatch grip stuff because I have noticed a massive energy leak on my dead lifts. I don’t tighten up my lats, or my upper back, I end up being all hammy/lower back-- I can just SEE the crumple upper body.
I dead lift at 24 hour fitness now, in front of a mirror looking dead ahead at my dead lift. Its VERY obvious! I could get a lot more out of my body if I learn to control my upper body more and actually cue it when its time to do the dead lifting.
I have high hopes that adding some exercises to make me think more about it will help. It worked for bracing! Now I am much better- still not 100% great, I’d give myself a B- still- at using my abs on dead lifts. But its better then it was!
It all made me very thoughtful about energy leaks in general. In my non gym life for sure. People you are around that are difficult to deal with. People that I have permitted to let my reactions to be so very exhausting and draining.
You can drop people from your social sphere once you figure out that
its too emotionally expensive to deal with them and that kinda thing. And to set boundaries that you won’t permit anyone to cross and live to tell the tale. At work you can’t get away from them completely. Not in my type of profession where team work is the only way to get anything done.
Its been around a month or so without the lameo coworker who sucked the air out of the room everywhere she went. The one who I had a close friendship until I figured out it wasn’t a healthy one. She is gone. Its so much better! EVERYTHING IS!
I surprise myself often realizing the real stress of my environment I put myself in or end up in. I don’t even know it until l’m out of it. My jobs, my relationships with people, my training, my …A LOT in retrospect gets a clearer idea of the degree of lame or ill-advised when I am in a better space. Distance and time, lack of having to actively combat that stressor makes a world of difference.
I am sure that’s everyone’s experience. It happily STILL surprises me more often then not! Its a added bit of frosting on the cake to be thankful for too. Figuring that out is always a nice surprise!
OH well!
