[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
My right forearm was a little jacked up from masturbating last Saturday, so I tried doing a lighter kind of curl. I guess I should’ve used a lighter weight. My wrist seem to be the weak spot on these curls, so I might stick with them for awhile.
Inneresting.
I’m a lefty for that so the joke’s on you.[/quote]
I’ve found a lot of men in the age of the Internet are righties for everything but that. Must be the mouse.
[quote]pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
My right forearm was a little jacked up from masturbating last Saturday, so I tried doing a lighter kind of curl. I guess I should’ve used a lighter weight. My wrist seem to be the weak spot on these curls, so I might stick with them for awhile.
Inneresting.
I’m a lefty for that so the joke’s on you.
I’ve found a lot of men in the age of the Internet are righties for everything but that. Must be the mouse.[/quote]
No mouse here. 
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
pushmepullme wrote:
Doug Adams wrote:
My right forearm was a little jacked up from masturbating last Saturday, so I tried doing a lighter kind of curl. I guess I should’ve used a lighter weight. My wrist seem to be the weak spot on these curls, so I might stick with them for awhile.
Inneresting.
I’m a lefty for that so the joke’s on you.
I’ve found a lot of men in the age of the Internet are righties for everything but that. Must be the mouse.
No mouse here. :P[/quote]
Now I’m curious. How do you navigate pron without a mouse? Feel free to PM me.
Eww, pr0n is icky. I just use my awesome imagination…
You + chenky + jello + midgets = WIN!
05/14: Gonna Need A Mulligan
Warmup with various ab activation movements.
A. Stepmill- 25 minutes at varying speeds
B1. Pimp Slaps: 15x10,10,10
B2. Cable Curls: 15x10,10,10
C. Back Extensions: 10,10,10,9
And that’s about it. I’ll do a full body workout Saturday to make up for my laziness in this workout. The stepmill did kind of kick my ass though.
05/16: The Alzheimers Is Already Kicking In
Forgot the gym clothes and I hate doing any lower body stuff in jeans, so it was upper only yesterday. My hamstrings were/are tight as fack anyway so it’s all for the best.
A. DB Bench: 55x10,9,8, 45x8
B. Nautilus Lat Pull: 90xeasy12, 140x10,10,9,9
C1. Standing One Arm Cable Row: 40x10, 45x10,8,8
C2. One Arm Pushdowns: 20x10,10,10
D. Seated Cable Row: 65x10, 60x10,8
E1. Laying External Rotations with Tubing: 10,10,10
E2. Pushup Holds, Halfway Down: 2x15 sec
My damn right forearm is still kind of stiff when extending all the way, but I can still lift so I guess it’s ok. I’ll just ice it when I can and keep going unless it starts getting worse. On the plus side I’m feeling all the pulling stuff in my back way more than I ever have.
05/18: Bleh
A. Straight Arm Pulldowns: 40x10x4 sets I think
B. Nautilus Horizontal Row: 90x10,8,8, and then a few more of 8
C. T Bar Rows: 80x10,10,8
D. Face Pulls, Prone On Bench: 5x10,10,10
E. Lat Pulls: 140x a bunch of crappy reps.
F. Pushdowns: 50x a few sets
This isn’t fun anymore. A small part of me still wants to get stronger and more athletic, but the rest of me just tolerates this so I don’t become a wad of bubblegum. It feels like a job-I don’t like it but I have to do it. Couple that with my new and shittily improved work schedule, I’m generally feeling like a bag of asses about 75% of the time. Anybody who reads this thing has probably noticed the decline in humor. Well that’s why.
Thoughts/comments/questions/suggestions? I’m all ears.
[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
05/18: Bleh
A. Straight Arm Pulldowns: 40x10x4 sets I think
B. Nautilus Horizontal Row: 90x10,8,8, and then a few more of 8
C. T Bar Rows: 80x10,10,8
D. Face Pulls, Prone On Bench: 5x10,10,10
E. Lat Pulls: 140x a bunch of crappy reps.
F. Pushdowns: 50x a few sets
This isn’t fun anymore. A small part of me still wants to get stronger and more athletic, but the rest of me just tolerates this so I don’t become a wad of bubblegum. It feels like a job-I don’t like it but I have to do it. Couple that with my new and shittily improved work schedule, I’m generally feeling like a bag of asses about 75% of the time. Anybody who reads this thing has probably noticed the decline in humor. Well that’s why.
Thoughts/comments/questions/suggestions? I’m all ears. [/quote]
Try something different. When I get bored, I do things like sprints, oly lifts, etc. It changes things up and makes me remember why I love lifting.
And sometimes you will just tolerate it. We all have shite days like that.
I’ll see what I can do. Thanks for the advice. 
07/11: Updates, Discoveries, and Other Miscellaneous Musings
For the past few weeks I’ve done some different stuff and found out a few things.
I was getting too much extension from the high lumbar/low thoracic area and no extension from my low lower back down near my butt. This obviously came from being hunched over at my desk. Now from either sprinting or overhead pressing I somehow got my back lined up right and now everything seems to have clicked. My body feels like one unit now instead of upper and lower halves loosely glued together. I’ve never felt my abs, low back, and glutes work like they’ve worked lately.
Since this update is useless without some kind of log, here’s what I did yesterday.
A. High Box Squats: 135x5, 155x5,5,4
B. Reverse Lunges: 40x8(per leg), 60x8,7 On that last set I took a break between switching legs.
C. Natty Glute/Ham Raises on a BOSU Ball: 3x3
D. Pallof Presses: 40x10(per side), 10
It ain’t much, but I was D.U.N. done.
07/14
A. Seated Overhead BB Press From Bottom Position: 115x3*, 125x3*
*10 second pause betwixt reps
B. Seated Overhead BB Press, Regular-like: 115x4, 125x4, 135x3
C. Push Press: 95x5, 115x2,3, 105x3,4
D1. Cable Rear Delts: 2x10
D2. Cable Ext. Rotations: 2x10/side
I still have some work to do in transferring power from my lower body to upper body in the push press, but it’s getting better.
Glad to see you updating this again Doug. Do you have any goals at the moment?
Just get stronger without running into aches and pains like I have in the past. That’s really it.
07/15: You Have To Work Twice As Hard, When It’s Honest
A1. Swiss Ball Leg Curls: 3x10
A2. Prone Bridges: 3x30seconds
B. DB Reverse Lunges: 8,8,8,6/side w/ 30s
C. Box Squat: 4x5 w/ 135
Sweet Jesus. Shakes, abs fatigued, eyes burning, sweating puddles…doing this stuff right is bullshit! lol
I did this session in reverse because the racks were all occupied with people rowing and curling. So really it was business as usual.
07/17: Half Blood Prince of Back Lifting
A. Rack Pulls From Knees: 155x5, 165x5,5,5
B. Nautilus Lat Pulls: 140x8,10, 160x8,8,8
C. Cable Rows, w/ Holds of 12,9,7,5,3,1 seconds: 40x3 sets
I’m trying to get in as much lifting as I can the next few days, as I’m going on a trip to Caleefornya (Cali in Arnold-speak) and am unsure of the facilities at the hotel. Tomorrow I tentatively have shoulders and guns planned, and then probably legs on Monday with maybe running on Sunday.
07/18: Where’s The Ringmaster For This Circus?
All kinds of fun sights in the gym this morning:
-A Trap Bar deadlifter who must be used to a gym where you have to deadlift within the confines of a rack, as he acted like he was stuck in a forcefield while doing his lifts.
The Frat Boy Preacher Curl Superset where you curl a 30# bar while sitting in the preacher curl station, then get up and curl some more while leaned over the pad in the opposite direction.
A guy trying to set up the squat rack for chain suspended squats, but was making it look so difficult you’d think he was working on the space shuttle. He was there for about half an hour trying to get it together and when I left he was still messing with it.
And speaking for clowns, here’s what I did.
A1. Standing BB Overhead Lifts: warmup and 95x4,4,3,4,5
A2. DB Side Raises: 15s x 8,6,6,6,6
B1. Close Grip Bench: 135x10,9,7,7
B2. Bent Over Side Raises: 5s x 10,10,10
C1. Seated External Rotations: 5x10,10,10
C2. DB Curls: 30s x 6,6,5,5
Yay, glad you’re back here.
I think the reverse preachers are called spider curls?
The guy’s arms certainly looked like spider legs!
Oy vey, my core/ab/trunk like area is trashed today. In a good way.
07/20: One Giant Leap For Mankind Bitches!
Happy 40th anniversary of the fake moon landing…I keed I keed! I’m beyond positive it was all real, and not just because Buzz Aldrin would track me down and kick my ass for thinking different.
Anyway, I did some total body-ish type workout today since it’s the last one before my trip.
A1. Swiss Ball Leg Curls: 3x10
A2. Tubing External Rotations: 3x10
B1. Cable Rows: warmup+ 100x5,5,5,80x10,12
B2. Pushups: 3x15
C. Rack Pulls: 135x10, 165x5,5
My grip was throwing in the towel near the end there, otherwise I would’ve done a couple more sets. I am noticing my hands are getting a little thicker from gripping the bars and such more forcefully. This pleases me. Now off to pack up some more stuff.
07/27: Back to the Grind
A. Pulldowns: 140x10, 160x8, 170x8,6
B. BB Overhead Press: 65x10,10,10,9
C. Cable Rows: 80x10, 100x10, 110x8,6
D. DB External Rotations: 5x10,10,10
My feet and low back are worn out from walking around the San Diego Comic Con for 5 days so I didn’t want to go heavy on anything. I’ll get back to squats and deadlifts in a day or two.