I'm the Guy Who Does His Job. You Must Be the Other Guy

[Spock81]

Today

SSB squats
105lbs x 15
110lbs x 11

Front foot elevated ssb split squats
75lbs x 14 per leg
80lbs x 10 per leg

F me, both of these destroyed me

Elevated hip thrusts
175lbs x 10
130lbs x 14 + 14 BW sumo squats directly after

Deficit stiff leg deadlifts with controlled descent
120lbs x 10
120lbs x 10

Banded pull-ups with slow negatives
X 11

Done.

Definitely a suck it up and try not to think about it session. Most unpleasant indeed.

I had a fantastic dream about beluga whales last night.

I’ve ordered some bone broth for night shifts. I keep trying to come up with things that won’t give me a tummy ache, but I feel like it will be very limited because everything gives me a tummy ache even in the best of conditions, lol.

Oh well, pick your life’s discomforts, right?
Not exercising is more uncomfortable than a torturous leg workout and being extremely isolated and unemployed is far more uncomfortable than being on a night shift with a tummy ache.

Anyway, wow. I can’t believe I got my 300th subscriber to my youtube. That means there are 300 people in the world that somewhat enjoy me doing the same six exercises over and over again with audio that is basically just me talking to myself, hahah.

Here’s my vid for today

Super Saturday workout!

[Spock81]

Ok, shit. I am doing an “emergency” log entry before my workout today.

I have a lot of random ramblings on my youtube and some guy commented saying he felt similar to me and would love to email on occasion.

He emailed me a fucking picture of his penis. Like, why?
EMAILED
A WANG PICTURE
FOR NO REASON

Why can’t normal shit ever happen, lol.

We’re complete strangers!!! Ahhhh

Ok, yes.

Going to do shoulders now.

EMAILED!!!
And it wasn’t like so zoomed that it was just a small part of it.
It was the whole thing!!!
“This might be of interest to you” was the subject.

No, it wasn’t!!!

Ok…
Bye

[Spock81]

Ok, post shoulders

Face pulls
35lbs x 8
30lbs x 20
25lbs x 29

I am not sure why 35lbs felt like 100, haha.

Hammer strength shoulder press machine
55lbs per side x 12 per arm
50lbs x 13 per arm
Well, this was absolute failure. I missed the 13th rep on my right arm and had to wait a second to be able to do it.
Dammit, the weak arm is just whichever arm I pick to do secondly!

Leg ext.
90lbs x 11
75lbs x 11

Leg squisher
165lbs x 12

Cable rear delt fly
Higher setting x 25
Drop set to lower pins x 30

Db Lateral raises
12.5lbs x 14
12.5lbs x 11
Drop set
5lbs x 15
It felt like my arms were moving independently from my body for my drop set, lol. Very weird. Like i dunno how they were lifting it, but they were.

Ez bar upright row
35lbs x 10
35lbs x 10
Db rear delt fly while I waited between sets
5lbs x 20

Ez bar tricep ext.
35lbs x 18
30lbs x 19

Ez bar cable curl
20lbs x 19

And done.

I saw a suggestion on reddit to get black out curtians from amazon to put over top of the blinds to help with sleeping during the day, and BOY, let me tell you!!
My room was pitch black. I had a solid 9 hour sleep and I woke up having no idea where I was, hahah. What a magical slumber.
10/10 would recommend.

Well, I’m goiing to make some egg cups for my breakfasts and some chicken and veggies for my suppers for the next few days. Gotta get atter!!!

Obey the shirt!!! No shitty reps : - )

Happy Sunday, y’all!!

[simo74]

No bad reps AND love the smile. Keep smashing it.

[Spock81]

[Spock81]

Ok first day = crushed it!!!

!!

I went to bed at 8pm and slept perfectly until around 4:15 am
After showering and having breakfast I arrived to police HQ around 30 minutes early, lol.

Bad day for the first snowfall though :-/.

Went to the gym after a long ass day. What a busy, chaotic environment. Why would anyone prefer to workout after work?!?! Every machine was in use. But I gaver every damn thing I had to prove to my ocd that none of the stuff I usually worry about matters.

One arm lat pulldown held at the bottom and slow to the full stretch at the top
35lbs x 19 per arm
42.5lbs x 11 per arm

Leg spreader w/long side ass pause
115lbs x 15
100lbs x 16

Straight arm pull down
35lbs x 22
30lbs x 23

Overhand barbell row- strict and controlled on all reps
85lbs x 17
90lbs x 13

Some guy was squatting a million plates beside me, it was wild. I’ve never seen anybody at my gym like that. I almost hit him with a colllar because it was up too high on the squat rack and I couldn’t reach it, so I had to bat it down and it flung around, hahah.

Hammer strength low row
45lbs x 13 per arm
35lbs x 20 per arm

Ez bar cable curl
25lbs x 15
20lbs x 20

Hammer curl
17.5lbs x 10 per arm
Drop set
12.5lbs x 12 per arm

F YAHH. Killer workout, killer first day, and I should be in bed again by 8 tonight to do it all over again tomorrow!!

There was a little “getting to know each other” time in class and the trainer asked our favorite candy.
Uhg, I hate candy, lol.

I said “umm this is weird, but I would just prefer chicken and cabbage.”

People were confused and thought I was joking. I said “I just don’t like junk food.”

Of course now everyone thinks I’m some kind of freak of nature and I get all nervous and chatty so I go on to say :

“Sometimes on special days when I have a really hard leg workout I let myself have chicken thighs instead of breasts and I put on my favorite pjs and watch Frasier and it’s like the most amazing night in the world.”

Oh man. They asked if I’d ever compete in bodybuilding and I said I’d feel weird wearing a swim suit in front of a ton of people, but I’d do it if I could just wear my pjs. I think I look pretty good in pjs. Hahaha

I am now known as the weird chicken, cabbage girl and I am very much okay with that, LOL.

Nighty night

[heretolog]

@Spock81

Uhg, I hate candy, lol.

If one is what they eat then you hate approximately 37% of me

[Spock81]

Ok, killin’ it - day 2

40 minute power walk
45 minutes foam rolling/yoga

Got a little stir crazy sitting so long today. Coming home, all I wanted to do was to crush a leg workout.

But why? Was it time for leg day? No.
Have I fully recovered from the last leg day? No.
Is this urge in alignment with my goals? No.

I felt anxious and wanted to explode from sitting all day.
That is not why I leg day.
I leg day to achieve maximum muscle development.

I power walked and had a wonderful yoga session instead.

Tomorrow I will likely do my leg workout. I am off on Thursday, but I am planning on hitting shoulders then. I hope I will feel energized enough if I do a leg workout at 530pm and a shoulder workout the next morning. It shouldn’t be too bad, I just usually have 24hours between workouts.

But, fuck it. I’m superwoman and I’m incapable of slacking during a workout.

I’ll be with my squad next week and already answering the 911 line.

The staff sergeant of ecom came to introduce herself today, and MAN. This lady is my idol.

She’s been on the beat, in sex crimes, undercover, promoted in everything, and has been with the PD for 25 years. She’s so full of life and energy. I love her and I want her to be my life mentor.

Anyway, learned a lot today. Met some great people and I’m ready for what tomorrow holds!!!

Have a good night, all. ~~~

[Spock81]

Wheeewwf, another one in the books.

My first evening leg day was a success .

SSB squats
105lbs x 16
110lbs x 12

Front foot elevated ssb split squats
75lbs x 15 per leg
80lbs x 11 per leg

Elevated hip thrusts
160lbs x 14
110lbs x 16
X 16 Bw elevated glute bridge right after

Pin good mornings
65lbs x 11
65lbs x 11

Done.

Every set felt like a massive release of stress from a day filled with not enough exercise. I had zero intrusive thoughts during the whole thing. I was on a completely focused lifting mission.
And I’m already looking forward to tomorrow’s workout!

After my shift on Friday, I have a few days off so that my schedule
can align with my assigned squad.

But I like how they are easing me into night shift. Ill be working 6am to 4pm for two days and then from 4pm to 2am, and 5pm to 3am. That seems less daunting for the first time doing it. I should be able to schedule 3 workouts over those 4 days very easily.

OHH! I get to go on a ride along! Woo! How fun! I’ve always wanted to do that. And they strongly encourage it so that we can have a better understanding of what’s happening on the other end of things. Maybe I can ask to go on them all the time, hahah.

Who’s that?
Oh, that’s just Jenn. She comes with us every week for no reason, LOL.

Have a nice evening, folks!

No frills leg workout

[Spock81]

Great session again today!

Face pulls
32.5lbs x 12
27.5lbs x 23
22.5lbs x 31

Cable rear delt fly
X 26 + drop set by moving the pins lower x 27

Leg ext.
100lbs x 11
Drop set
55lbs x 9

Hammer strength shoulder press machine
60lbs per side x 10 per arm
50lbs x 13 per arm
Didn’t miss any reps this time

Leg squisher
165lbs x 13

Db Lateral raises
12.5lbs x 15
12.5lbs x 12

Upright row
35lbs x 11
35lbs x 11

Ez bar tricep ext
42.5lbs x 9
Drop set
30lbs x 14
Straight bar
20lbs x 20

Db rear delt fly
5lbs x 35

Step mill x 10 minutes

Done.
Haven’t missed a beat all week!

8 hours of sleep nightly
All to failure target reps achieved
No workouts missed
No panic attacks
No alterations in diet

Weekly rating = 10/10
I am invincible!!!

Well, ask me that when I’m coming home at 3 in the morning, LOL.

Ok, this is dorky, but I’ll add it here anyway.

Some muscled up fitness dude kept trying to add me to IG and i kept saying no because I thought he was going to try to sell me a program or something, hahah.

But I accepted him by accident the 3rd time, and he dmed me saying he stumbled upon my youtube and wanted to tell me my personality was too special to ignore.

I was like wtf don’t you have like 5000 babes on your arm all day, Lol.

He said maybe those types of women aren’t his type, and if I lived in Texas he’d be taking me out on a date right now.

Hands down one of the most confidence boosting, nice random things that ever happened to me.

Some totally shredded youngster with 98k followers made a real effort just to give me a genuine compliment.

I couldn’t believe it.

I literally mean that. I sent screen shots to 3 people asking if I was being scammed, hahahah.

Anyway, made my week. And by week i mean year.
…

And by year I mean decade, LOL.

Not sure if I’ll do back after work tomorrow or if I’ll rest. I’ll have tons of time to lift over my days off, so I might just do back Saturday morning and avoid the 530pm insanity at the gym.

Have a good day everyone!!

[Spock81]

Okay this is so fucked up!!!

*I’M updating my log for no fitness reason.

Oh, I did some yoga. Okay, there.

Anyway,

This is so fucked up!!! This pile of muscles person is still messaging me a week later and said if the timing were right, he’d totally come to Alberta and bring his Nintendo switch so we could match up stardew valley farms, lol.

Like, wtf, why?!?!? This feels like a poorly written romantic comedy.

Super awkward chick stumbles around love when all of a sudden some bodybuilding hunk notices her and likes her for some strange reason.

This doesn’t happen in real life!!! This only happens in movies and some TV shows.

Ahem, yes.

Sorry, I was just freaking out there, lol.

But ya, wtf.

Ok, spock OUT.

Byeee

[simo74]

@Spock81

My first evening leg day was a success

Looked like a solid session too. Nice work.

[StifflersMom]

I can’t imagine what would make packing up and moving to Alberta with a Nintendo based solely on a 3 minute YouTube video anything but extraordinarily creepy.

Just having a ‘vibe’ isn’t going to go very far. You could always quantify it… but you probably should really consider something else… I’m sure such people probably do exist, but I would have no idea what planet they are kept on.

Creeps are usually just looking for a reaction. All they want is to win. They’re combative and insecure, and they want you to come back at them. So by responding you’re just adding fuel to the fire. You’re giving them more ammunition. By ignoring them, you’re shutting it down before it escalates into something more contentious and not feeding into their behavior in any way.

[Spock81]

No, no. Just visiting me, not moving, lol. That would be insane, hahah.

He doesn’t seem creepy at all, tbh.

Yes, I’m a horrible judge of character…

I’ve also put a lot more on my youtube than 3 minute lifting videos.

He never messaged me anything pervy. He said he loved my personality and said there was something different about my that he couldn’t ignore.

I know zero people other than me believe this is a legitimately nice person who just randomly fancies me, but oh well.

[StifflersMom]

Oh, I’m so sorry. I must have misinterpreted it… it was leg day today!!

I suppose a visit throws a whole different light on it.

[Spock81]

Lawd have mercy

Today I opted to rest

40 minute walk
40 minutes yoga/foam rolling/ab wheel roll outs

Was a bit stressed today worrying about all of the testing.

But, it was a waste of energy because I passed everything from training.

Passes the final, passed the call evaluations, and now I don’t have to fret about a damn thing.

I actually had a lot of fun today. We were doing mock 9-1-1 calls and for whatever reason we were all kind of giddy and everything was cracking us up. I don’t remember the last time I laughed that much, lol.

I realized my first night shift will fall on day light savings. Curses world!! shakes fist

2am, woo.
NOPE, back an hour.
NooooOoo

Excited to meet the rest of the team next week, anyway!

Gonna have a killer back workout tomorrow, who00p.

Night all!

[Spock81]

Ok, today was great.

I will now savor every workout where the gym isn’t busy AF.

Leg spreader w/pause
115lbs x 17
100lbs x 18

Seated leg curl
50lbs x 19

Straight arm pull down
*I used the easy bar this time and it felt wayyy better than just a straight bar
35lbs x 23
30lbs x 24

One arm lat pulldown held at the bottom and slow to full stretch at the top
42.5lbs x 8 per arm
35lbs x 13 per arm
Drop set
20lbs x 23 per arm
I’m not sure why I was so strong on this last time. I think it’s because I got a shot of adrenaline that the machine was even available to use, haha. But, to make up for fewer reps achieved, I did a drop set.
The burn/mind muscle connection on my last set was insane. Very lost in the zone there.

Over hand barbell row strict form
90lbs x 14
90lbs x 14

Hammer strength one arm low row
50lbs x 11 per arm
40lbs x 17 per arm

Rope curl
25lbs x 13
25lbs x 13

Ez bar curl
35lbs x 15 - narrrow grip
35lbs x 14

Great.
My weight is around 124.8lbs
Well, I say around, but that’s exactly what it is LOL.

Exactly what I expected and totally on track for my muscle building phase. I’ll be ok slowly going up another few pounds over winter and can plan out my cut maybe late January or Feb.

We will see.

Well, I have nothing else to report.
Bye bye ~~

[Spock81]

And here we go:

I decided to alter how I do my ssb squats to make them more quad dominant.
My strength wasn’t that different and it felt really good

SSB squats
100lbs x 15
105lbs x 12
105lbs x 10

Front foot elevated ssb split squats
80lbs x 12 per leg
80lbs x 12 per leg

Elevated hip thrusts
180lbs x 9
160lbs x 11
Drop set
90lbs x 17 + immediately into BW sumo squats x 17

Deficit sumo deadlifts
100lbs x 15
105lbs x 11

Done and beat.

My lats are super sore from yesterday smile

Bye bye

Another boring workout video

[Spock81]

I’m going to post a couple of “progress” photos before my workout because I’ll be too tired to do it after.

I know, realistically my lats won’t have changed in two weeks, lol, but I do think something miniscule is happeing : - ).

Also, before when I said I was going to continue to slow gain over winter and cut in January, I wanted to clarify that I consider right now to be winter because there’s snow and it’s fucking cold, LOL.

I’ve decided I dictate the seasons as I see fit. I put cozy pumpkin stuff up in August and I have started wearing Christmas pjs in October.

Thx.

Byebye

[Spock81]

Ok, killer shoulder session today.

All revved up and nowhere to go!

Except the gym, heh.

Face pulls
35lbs x 12
30lbs x 21
Drop set
20lbs x 26

Hammer strength shoulder press machine
60lbs per side x 11 per arm. Had to do a rest pause for the 11th rep on the left arm.
45lbs x 15 per arm

Cable rear delt fly
7.5lbs x 22
7.5lbs x 18 - lower pin setting
Drop set
2.5lbs x 18 rear delts on fire by this point

DB Lateral raises
12.5lbs x 16
12.5lbs x 13
Drop set
5lbs x 15

Upright row to glasses height
(Or bare eye height for those who can see)
35lbs x 12
35lbs x 12

Ez bar cable tricep ext
42.5lbs x 10
35lbs x 13
Drop set with rope
20lbs x 10

Ez bar cable bi curl
25lbs x 16 part way through the set and I forgot to uncurl slowly. SLOW DOWN * note to self.

Done and fantastic.

I made the background of my phone a nice picture of Elvis with the text “it’s worth it”.

Elvis is the eye candy…
But the “it’s worth it” reminds me everytime I look at my phone that what I’m doing is worth it.

Those last torturous reps are worth the discomfort.

Those early mornings or late nights at work are worth it because I’m doing something meaningful.

“It’s” meaning anything that isn’t necessarily easy, but rewards me in feelings of accomplishment and a full and happy heart.

Like that last stupid rep on the shoulder press machine, LOL.

Take care, all.