It's true homies, eagles don't roam in flocks

It’s always hard to lose a friend and a member of the family like that.

I hate that for you. Its never easy putting down your buddy though I always promsie mine that I’ll give them every good day and no bad ones.

well, the vet gave us some strong arthritis meds, try them out for a week and see if she does better. so no funeral yet

gun show

pressdowns 5 x 15

db curls 40s/50s/60s/70s x 8

cable skull crushers 4 x 8-10

dbell hammer preacher curls 4 x 10-15

rope down/ext some x some
cable conc some x some

wrist curls 3 x 15

elliptical 25 min

Hey Pete I hope you and yours are doing well.

You coming down to chicago at all any time soon?

Rick

[quote]FISCHER613 wrote:
Hey Pete I hope you and yours are doing well.

You coming down to chicago at all any time soon?

Rick[/quote]

Hey Rick

No traveling this year, had all the Chicago folks (or a subset of them) up here last weekend. Sometime in spring will be down, hopefully look you up.

a.m. 1 mile walk with gaseous 9 year old american bulldog. not really cardio, as he wanted to sniff everything but still got me moving
25 minutes elliptical

later: company party, watched everyone drink and bowl for a couple of hours, then decided to sneak out. still had a couple of hours to kill before gym time, so hit up best buy, did a little bit of christmas shopping for me. then headed to gym, still had time to kill, so decided to go into mall of america. just realized they have a Doc Marten store, and sure enough, they have the original version of the shoes I have wanted, and priced reasonably as well. then I b-lined out, as it was like a two mile walk from where I parked.

got to gym, felt fit and limber from earlier in the day activities so did the following

spider cambered bar to foam on box: 80 x some, 170 x some, 260,310,350,390,440,490,530,580 x 3, well 140lbs up from last week, lol. getting more used to way weight is displaced on this bar. reps kept getting faster with each set it seemed like.

hlr 4 x 8-10
rev hyper 4 x 10-12

Pete,

It’s always nice to read the “recovery” numbers of someone and see they still crush me, thanks for that. Your Doc Marten vignette made me nostalgic, so I popped open an old footlocker of mine and found an old (25 years) pair of 8 eyelets DM’s that I used to wear when I would go bar hopping in the city, and apparently when I would go to the beach, as they were filled with sand. I am pretty much done growing I guess, since they still fit.

quick one today, short on time, kind of DC inspired back work

bent row, warm ups then 365 x 6, 315 x 14

rev grip pulldown warm ups then rest paused 265 x 8+4+2

dbell shrugs 125s x 40

stand calve, abs

pressing/bench rehab

shoulder/rotator stuff x a ton

hammer strength incline lots of warm up, then 3 x 8 heavish

cable flys, from bottom 5 x 12-15

ring push ups 5 x 12

dbell bench, 5 x 10, ending with 100s, post injury PR, pathetic as it is

diamond push ups 3 x 15

elliptical 25 minutes

pretty happy with how all things felt today

Heavy rows and healthy recovery work is always good to see.

sinus infection snuck back up on me, plus about 18 inches of snow

yesterday shovel snow 3 hours

today shovel snow 3 hours

then gms worked up to 405 x 5 sans belt. felt fine aside from being beat to shit from shoveling snow for nearly half a day

leg press worked up to 24 plates x 10

had to leave, to get kid to bring to sports sampler, which was canceled due to weather. didn’t really need any more anyway

gms were first time with straight bar on back since elbow issue, no real pain, just a little tightness

Lots o’ shoveling there. My back always cries out when I shovel. Which probably means I should do it more.

I’m a doc marten girl myself. Just bought myself a new pair of boots for my birthday. They rock.

another work from home day, sinus infection plus shitty driving

face pulls, probably 4 warm up sets then 3 x 12 with stack

laterals 25s/30s/35s/40s/45s/50s x 10

arnold press various light weights 10-15 reps little rest

alt cable front raise 4 x 12

cable abs 4 x some
calves 4 x some

bad elbow shot from shoveling, probably lengthen rehab, but who knows, might ultra compensate

last night:

ez bar curls 75/95/115 x 10, 3 x 10 w/135

pressdowns 4 x 15-20, 3 x 12 w/stack

hammer curls 60s/70s/80s x 8

tricep dip machine 4 x 8, 1 x drop set

seated cable curls 4 x 15, 1 x drop set

rope down 4 x 10

dbell preacher curl 40s/45s/50s x 15

wrist curls 3 x some

Good work

squat night

still sick as shit, need to get nose surgery done before next winter

speed work with spider cambered bar, warm ups than box squat 440 x 8 x 2, 20 sec rest between sets

ghr 5 x some

strong band standing abs some x a hell of a lot

rev hyper 3 x 10, then decided I still felt like crap with sinuses so went home

got home and wife was a mess. she took a spill on the ice walking 6 year old to bus stop this morning, in the morning she acted like she was fine, by tonight she was not so fine. I think her collar bone might be fractured, and forearm as well. of course she confessed to me that her first thought was ‘shit, I still have to get to they gym’. wonder where she has learned this deranged behaviour

some back stuff tonight

tbar rows 2pl/3pl/4pl/6/pl/7pl x 10, 7 + 25 for 6

rev grip pulldowns 5 x 6-10, top set 300lb stack for 6

hammer strength yates row 5 x 10-12

db rows 3 x 12 w/125

shrugs 315/405/495/545/585 x 10

sinuses slowly improving, need to get back to some conditioning work tomorrow

Nice work in here. I Hope the wife is doing better. That’s bad-ass though, thinking about training with a busted-up collar bone.

7 weeks post tricep tear and elbow blow out

rotator/shoulder warm up, light pressdowns, stretching

close grips bar x 50, 95 x 10, 135 x 10, 185 x 10, 225 x 10, 275 x 4, 225 x 20, 275 was a post injury PR, was not to failure but felt pretty heavy, which considering a year ago I was circa 405 x 5 sucks, but that was before this slew of injuries

db bench 65s/80s/95s/105s x 12 post injury PR

rolling tris 45s/55s/65s x 10, 75s x 8

hammer strength incline 4 x 10

ring push ups 4 x 12-20, from various heights

precor machine chest press 3 x some, to finish shit off and work on range of motion

incline treadmill 25 min, heart rate around 130 most of the time

I have been a dipshit with a lot of stuff last seven weeks, not paying enough attention to lower recovery and foam rolling, etc, plus waves of the worst sinus shit ever had turned my appetite to shit for good food. plus the reliance on a lot of machine work for upper stuff I think has really decreased my calorie burn. feeling too bloaty and unhappy about where I am at. Adjusting right away, and will get back on track.

Good time to get on track for the new year. I’m fighting some sinus shit right now. Infection must be bad cause it gives low grade fever, constant localized headache and everything tastes like wood chips. Seems to slow recovery too. I’m seeing the doc Monday. Two weeks is enough for me.
Tricep must be close to 90% by now. Nice work.