02/20: Hungry Hungry Muscles
A. Bench: warmup, then 135x10, 145x7,6,5
B1. Incline Bench: 50sx10,9,9
B2. Prone Trap Raises: 2.5sx12,12,12
C. Pronate Cable Rows: 60x12, 65x11,10,9
D. Wide Lat Pulls w/ Holds: 40x12,50x10,10
I think I need to step up the eating a little bit. Waking up in the middle of the night with hunger pangs is getting to be a PITA.
02/22: Slow Down There Hoss
The back isn’t feeling quite right since the trap bar deadlifts. Must’ve been rounding a bit to get all the way down to the floor. Still no excuse to miss a session- just have to adjust a bit.
A. Front Box Squat, High Box: 120x10, 135x8,8,8
B. Rack Pulls, Below Knee: 155x8,6,8,8
C1. Static Lunges: 20sx10,10,10
C2. Band Pullaparts: 3x10
D. Leg Curls: 35x9,8,5ish
E1. Reverse Crunches: 9,9,6
E2. Hip Flexor Stretches: 3x8
Got to remember to keep those abs braced. I keep forgetting to do it.
02/24: Salt of the Earth
According to a couple gymgoers, Sin City the movie isn’t an accurate film adaptation of Sim City the video game. Who knew?
A1. Reverse Crunch, holding med ball: 9,9,6,5
A2. Band Pullaparts: 4x10
B1. Dead Bugs, arms overhead: 3x10
B2. Pushups: 15,15,12
C. DB Rows: 55x10, 60x10, 65x10,8
D. Lat Pulls with holds of 12,9,7,5,3,1 seconds: 40x3 sets
E1. Curls for the WMDs: 20sx6,6,6
E2. Standing External Rotations: 5sx10,10,10
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
02/24: Salt of the Earth
According to a couple gymgoers, Sin City the movie isn’t an accurate film adaptation of Sim City the video game. Who knew?
[/quote]
That’s damn funny.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
02/24: Salt of the Earth
According to a couple gymgoers, Sin City the movie isn’t an accurate film adaptation of Sim City the video game. Who knew?
That’s damn funny. [/quote]
Wow! It must have been awesome to be in the presence of such outstanding film and video game aficionados.
Playing Catch Up
I skipped last Thursday because I was on day 11 of working 12 in a row and was worn out. So yeah, I pussed out. So I did what I could to make up for it on Friday
02/27
A. Bench: 135x10, 145x9,7,5
B. Split Squats: 20sx10, 30sx10,8,8
C1. Chest Supported Rows: 30sx12, 35x10,8
C2. DB RDLs: 30sx10,10,10
D. Reverse Crunches: 9,9,5
03/01
A. Split Squats: a bunch of sets using 20s and 30s at home while watching Resident Evil again.
B. Swiss Ball Leg Curls: 3x8
03/03: Never Go Full Retard
I learned this after looking at my credit card statement and seeing the ridiculous amount of shit I bought in the past week. Looks like I’m going to be spending a lot of time at UPS sending things back shortly. Dumbass.
Oh yeah, this is supposed to be about training. Anyway, at the last minute I was invited to the MD/Wake Forrest B-ball game last night so I had to do an impromptu upper workout at home in all of 25 minutes.
So,
A1. Pushups: 100 total over 10 sets
A2. Band Pullaparts: 8x10
A3. Doing various domestic duties in the kitchen so I don’t eat complete garbage the next day.
Then it was off to the game. MD lost, again. Coach Williams needs to be fired. They don’t have size and talent, which there is plenty of in the DC area so it’s inexcusable.
03/10: Back Attack
A1. Reverse Crunches, holding med ball: 9,7,6,5
A2. Dead Bugs: 4x12/side
B. Cable Rows: 10x5 with weights varying from 60-90#
C. Lat Pulls: 10x5, same deal on weight
D. T Bar Rows: As many reps as I could get with 45 in 10 minutes. Think I got about 80.
Buy anything good at least? haha
[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
Buy anything good at least? haha[/quote]
My big purchase was a “spare” upper receiver for my AR-15. After seeing the statement I realized “you know, I really don’t need this” and shipped it back. Good thing too, because I had to suddenly dump $1600 into my car otherwise it would fail emissions and I couldn’t re-register it. 
Damn my New York Nazi gun laws
Smart move on the car though.
03/12: Bizarro Workout
I got 4 hours sleep early thursday morning and after working all day, this session was all about slowly moving and doing little stuff until I no longer felt like ass. Didn’t help that my upper back was super tight. Anyway…
A1. Reverse Crunch holding med ball: 9,6,6,5
A2. Pushup Holds: 4 sets around 20ish seconds
A3. Split Stance Hip Loosener Thingies: 4x8
A4. Roll The Livin’ Snot Out of My Neck With Ministick: 4 sets 'til crying began
B1. Leg Curls: 4 sets with 35#. I forget the reps
B2. Miniband Pullaparts: 4x10
C. Rack Pulls: Used 135 for some sets of some reps, can’t remember.
Then off to home to curl up in a ball and sleep.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
03/12: Bizarro Workout
I got 4 hours sleep early thursday morning and after working all day, this session was all about slowly moving and doing little stuff until I no longer felt like ass. Didn’t help that my upper back was super tight. Anyway…
A1. Reverse Crunch holding med ball: 9,6,6,5
A2. Pushup Holds: 4 sets around 20ish seconds
A3. Split Stance Hip Loosener Thingies: 4x8
A4. Roll The Livin’ Snot Out of My Neck With Ministick: 4 sets 'til crying began
B1. Leg Curls: 4 sets with 35#. I forget the reps
B2. Miniband Pullaparts: 4x10
C. Rack Pulls: Used 135 for some sets of some reps, can’t remember.
Then off to home to curl up in a ball and sleep. [/quote]
Your exercise descriptions sound…sleep deprived.
Get some rest!
03/14: Here’s An Idea- How About Doing It Right?
A1. Reverse Crunches: 4x5-8 reps
A2. Pushups: 4x10
B. Lying DB Pullovers: 25x6, 20x6,5,5,5
C. Chest Supported Rows: 60x8,8,8
D. One Arm Curls: 20x7,7,7
I decided to dust off the old fashioned pullovers to see how my back/shoulders would respond. I stopped doing them for awhile because my shoulders hurt and it felt like my triceps did all the work. Whodathunk focusing hard on using my back would make this more effective?
03/15:
A1. Reverse Crunches: same deal as day before
A2. Blackburns (consult Inside Out DVD for specifics): 4x3 reps
A3. Lunge Stretches: 4x20sec/side
B1. Back Extensions: 4x8-10
B2. Med Ball Halos: 6,5,5
C1. Step Ups: 3x10/side
C2. Cable Pimp Slaps (scour previous entries of Maximum Strength book for description): 15x8,8,10
03/17: St. Patty’s Day Edition, aka Magically Excruciating
A1. Reverse Crunches: 9,6,5
A2. Blackburns (seen here - YouTube ): 3x3 hard for me!
B1. Pushups: 10,9,8
B2. Behind Head Band Pullaparts: 3x8
C. DB Pullovers: 20x6,6,6,6
D. Cable Pushdowns: 40x10,10,10
It doesn’t look like much, but this really wore me out. Doing those blackburns sure makes me realize how tight my shoulders are, as I cannot do more than 3 correct reps without having to stop.
Oh yeah, no corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, or alcohol yesterday. I was a bad Irish Catholic.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
It doesn’t look like much, but this really wore me out. Doing those blackburns sure makes me realize how tight my shoulders are, as I cannot do more than 3 correct reps without having to stop.
Oh yeah, no corned beef, cabbage, potatoes, or alcohol yesterday. I was a bad Irish Catholic. [/quote]
The blackburns look pretty interesting.
As long as you felt guilty about something, you’re still a good Irish Catholic.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
The blackburns look pretty interesting.[/quote]
Yeah the trick is to keep the upper back tight whilst getting rotation at the shoulder joint. I used to cheat and let the shoulder blades slip and slide all over the place. That way makes it easier, but there’s not much benefit.
You mean you’re not going to punish me for my sins? Fine then! 
The campus dining hall St. Patty’s dinner was absolute heresy.
The lamb tasted like beef and I thought the corned beef was ham until my last 3 pieces.
[quote]IronAbrams wrote:
The campus dining hall St. Patty’s dinner was absolute heresy.
The lamb tasted like beef and I thought the corned beef was ham until my last 3 pieces.[/quote]
Ew, sorry to hear that. I bet the kitchen staff was wearing orange yesterday too.
PSA- Supplement Follies
I ran out of Grow! whey and had to get some ew Designer Whey from GNC yesterday. Talk about a downgrade- paying just as much money as Grow! to get less product and lesser taste.
And of course, the store is sold out of Grow! right now so I have to spend more money to get Surge and then lo carb MD for morning smoothies. Craptastic!