You look great dude!!
Seems like what your doing is working. Seem to hanging right around 200lbs. Keep up the great work!
This! (It’s worth repeating.)
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5.29.25 weight: 198.8
Lots of stretching and ab stuff. Second day in a row that I haven’t woke up with pretty bad back pain. All of sudden, for the last two nights I’ve been able to sleep on my back. I haven’t been able to do that for years. I think that is probably helping the back.
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5.30.25 weight: 196
A. Bench Press 5x6
B. Hammer Strength Seated Row 3x10
C. Pushups 2xF
D. Straight-Arm Pulldowns 3x12
E. Inc DB Curl 3x12
F. One Arm Reverse Grip Pushdowns 3x10
Second time benching since 2017, and rep 4 of the last set something felt like it was starting to tear in my right pec. I felt like I had 3 more reps in me when I shut it down, but I wasn’t gonna mess with it. It was still really tight feeling doing the pushups. I’m probably done with bench forever. I’ll work in floor presses.
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6.2.25 weight: 197
Bunch of stretching and abs.
Was supposed to do Chest/Back, but my chest and shoulder are still feeling whatever I did to them benching last Friday. Thought I’d take another day to let them rest up.
Edit: My weight has been dropping, but I don’t know if it is diet related or because I quit taking the extra testosterone shots 2 weeks ago. Either way, I’ll take it.
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6.9.25 weight: 194.8
So I fucked up my shoulder worse than I thought I did the last time I tried to bench. It was a really stupid thing to start benching again, and God has smote me. I’m just gonna baby it for a while and see how it goes.
A. Pulldowns 3x8
B. Hammer Strength Seated Row 3x10
C. Straight Arm Pulldown 2x15
D. Pushups 25/25/20/15/15
E. Hammer Strength Preacher Curl 10/8/8
F. Rope Pushdowns 3x12
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Have you noticed any change in your desire to drink with the semaglutide, @doogie?
Hope it gets better soon!
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Massive reduction in desire. I used to drink a lot. At a minimum every weekend, usually until I feel asleep. Now I’ll have a drink or two every 3 or 4 weeks. Never more than 2. When you consider what my life is like right now with my wife in prison and my boys with their crazy bio father and all of the stress that comes with that, it’s pretty amazing.
Even if I tell myself, I want to have a couple of drinks on a Saturday, when the time comes I usually just won’t want to. I think the effects of the alcohol are different in some way as well. I don’t know how to explain that exactly.
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Thank you! That’s what I’ve been reading.
6.10.25 weight: 195.4
Bunch of ab stuff and stretching. Tried to move my shoulder through a full range of motion between sets. It hurts. Making sleeping difficult. I’m an idiot. Should have never tried to bench again. Just no need, other than ego. I used to have a decent bench (315x6), and I just wanted to see if I could get it back up, and show off to the stupid old people at my gym at 5:00AM. Dumb.
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Sure, ego gets us stupidly hurt, but on the other hand, ego is what gets us to the gym in the first place generally. So it’s a wash, IMO.
I thought about it some more. I honestly think it probably takes the pleasure it it a lot of stuff. Eating, drinking, video games… You just don’t get the same pleasure from any of it.
Interesting. I had a high functioning alcoholic patient years ago who tried naltrexone, and her response to it was that “it’s taken my joy away.” She stopped it and then stopped drinking without anything.
I have joy to spare, I think. Which is one of my problems - I’m SUCH a social drinker and eater. I just get all hopped up on enthusiasm and then my risk aversion takes a giant dive. Generally it’s pretty strong. I can usually - not always, but the vast majority of the time - ignore the alcohol and chips and candy at the house and continue along my straight and narrow. But if it’s determined that there’s going to be a long hike and the question arises of “what are we taking?” I get all “YAY LET’S BRING BEER AND SIT ON A GOOD ROCK AND MAYBE SMOKE POT AND KISS!”
I’m so interested and excited about this trial. I can’t wait to see what it’s like for me.
Editing to add that all of this is in the context of an adulthood without weight struggles or problem drinking. My age is making these enthusiastic joinings-in problematic.
I realized last night, this could also very likely be depression at this point.
6.11.25 weight: 193.8
A. Goblet Squat 3x12
B. Reverse Lunges 3x8
C. Leg Extensions 12/12/10
D. Seated Calf Raises 3x10
E. Pushups x 100
I can move my arm straight up from the front and from the side, but if I’m doing like a fly motion it pops about the time it gets straight out to the side. I’m trying not to sleep on it, and I think that is probably helping some. I ordered a brace yesterday. It should be here today.
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I had something similar and a chiropractor fixed it. He had me put my affected shoulders hand on my hip, while sitting. He then came behind me and placed his hand on my stomach, while reaching through my arm. At this point my elbow is touching his forearm. He then told me to push back against his arm with my elbow as hard as I could. I heard an audible pop, accompanied by instant relief.
He said the bicep tendon ties in really high and has a ridge that it rides in that it sometimes pops out of. Really common he said for people who do OHP, incline bp, bp, etc.
Might be worth seeing a chiropractor, or get your spouse to try it out on you.
Son of a bitch. I just tried it in my office chair and it popped. It feels better than it did, but there is still some slight popping when I do a fly motion. I’m gonna try it on my chair at home. I think it might work better.
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Hopefully it continues to get better.
I was really surprised at how easily it fixed mine. I actually shared it with my uncle, who lifts weights and had shoulder pain for a long time. Did it to him and he had instant relief.