I’d definitely skip them. If you aggravate the problem it’s just gonna limit you further in weeks to come. If it were me I try to find exercises that will work for you. You’ve mentioned a few times that your simply trying to maintain the legs at this point.
If you want a tough one look at my leg routine I did on Wednesday. That was brutal. But awesome
I wanted to do snatch grip rack pulls for my back. And I really can’t do anything pain free these days. I’ve modified or eliminated everything I can and I still have pain or tight, aching muscles. Complete rest didn’t help either. I’m just trying to hold it together until I find a solution.
I could swear someone around here was doing this recently and quit because he felt awful. I just can’t find it in the logs.
Apparently, the first week is the breaking-in period. But I wouldn’t be able to shit if I ate all meat and no veggies.
I just watched a bit of What the Health on Netflix last week. I’ve seen it before but it reminded me how poisonous American foods can be. I’m paranoid about eating an all meat diet now. The Anabolic Diet encourages mass consumption of the same foods that are linked to cancer and discourages some of the leaner options.
And what about micro nutrients from fruits and veggies? I’ve started eating two bananas as a snack. That’s over 40g carbs right there. I’d die on that diet.
Fruits are pretty unnecessary, and veggies don’t actually have any carbs or calories. I avoided fruit for months, haha.
One of my dad’s friends is about 6’4" 260, covered in tattoos. One of the coolest guys I’ve ever met–only ever met him twice, but seriously. The muscles and tattoos combined with a friendly demeanor are a great recipe to win respect from other dudes
Edit: What the Health is the biggest load of bullshit I’ve ever seen in my life. Claiming that eating a breakfast sausage is the equivalent of smoking a bunch of cigarettes? asinine
The goal was to make everyone go vegan. He went over the top with his comparisons but there’s a lot of good stuff in there too. It’s like any other lopsided presentation. Take the good and ignore the bad.
WARM UP
5 min bike, L8, 1.30 mi, I’m getting slower
BARBELL ROW
45 x 10
155 x 10 x 5 sets
A little body English on set 3, a little more on set 4, a lot on set 5.
HAMMER STRENGTH ROW
180 x 10
200 x 8
220 x 6
240 x 4
260 x 6
the fun part - dropset
280 x 5
260 x 4
240 x 5
220 x 6
200 x 6
180 x 10
SA DB ROW
80 x 12, 10 ea
My lower back was cramped or had a minor strain here. Either way, I called it.
REV CABLE FLY
40 x 8, 8, 6
20 x 20, 16
SMITH SHRUG
195 x 12, 10, 10
3 sec hold at top
CONDITIONING
Elliptical, 17 min interval, L6/I6, L13/I13, 2:1 min ratio
I didn’t experience a lot of burning tonight but I still enjoyed the workout. Even the dropset lacked a lactic buildup. The back has a lot of meat and some days it’s difficult to get the burn and pump. I think it was still a good session. As you can see, no rack pulls.
Excellent exercise choices all around! When I have a gym membership, sometimes I like to use only machines for a few weeks - let the steel, oil, and rubber hinges be the primary fulcrums for the mechanical stress instead of my joints.
That looked like a good workout J.
Keep at it man, if nothing hurt, it was good on your hip and tendon as well.
On the dieting note, everything in nice proportional sizes. If somebody tries to say that some kind of food (that’s been here forever) will kill you if you as much as look at it, then I’m shutting down immediately.
I like a good sausage, and haven’t died yet.
Woke at 212.4 lbs, a little bit of a rebound but I guess I can’t lose weight every day.
We (Americans) eat a lot of food that is just flat out junk. The nutritional breakdown compared to the calories consumed is bad. I can’t really argue that processed foods have any healthy component. This includes our lunch/deli meats, and a lot of the store bought sausage, bacon, hot dogs, etc. I’d like to think the bacon and sausage I get directly from the meat processor isn’t “processed” like the grocery store food. They get the pig from the farmer, cut it up, and process it for consumption. It’s just the meat from the animal. They can smoke and cure it and that adds a bit of extra but I can’t imagine it’s the same as what you would see in lunch meat.
The lunch meat I bought at the local place has a sign advising you to eat it within five days because it’s lacking the preservatives that we’re used to having in the grocery store stuff. That’s a good sign, right?
In the voice of Freddi Mercury, “looks like you might need a friend”. 
I had to rethink my statement about bananas yesterday. My initial thought was something along the lines of “taking bananas two at a time”
DB INCLINE
50 x 10
55 x 10
60 x 10
65 x 8 0 reps left in the tank so I stayed with this for another round.
65 x 6
70 x 4
75 x 4
INCLINE BENCH 1.5 REPS
115 x 6
95 x 8
95 x 7
95 x 6
BARBELL CURL (350 set)
45 x 25, 20, 20
PUSH UPS (like a 350 set but waaaay short)
20, 12, 11
REVERSE CABLE CURL
90 x 12
90 x 7F/5T/5B
60 x 10F/10T/10B
CABLE FLY
40 x 20
50 x 12 x 2 sets
HAMMER STRENGTH BENCH (LYING VERSION)
90 x 10 mTor reps w/ 15 sec stretch
Stretch was only 15 seconds. I was ready to go much longer but I got sent to a call and had to answer the radio.
I’m pretty sure I’ll be sore from this and that means I’m causing damage and growth, right? I’m really struggling to get a good MMC with certain lifts. Both incline exercises felt good. I didn’t really feel much in my pecs on push ups or fly’s though. That’s why I added the last mTor set.
I also pissed off my biceps tendon with the curls and it made the pec movements a bit more tricky. My shoulder is definitely affected by the tendon issue, even before I aggravate it with curls. I have less stability and strength on my right side. I probably ought to get that fixed. Even with the improvement, I think it’s the right thing to do since I enjoy lifting so much. I plan to do this the rest of my life. I can’t imagine avoiding things because of pain or dysfunction. I know that once I start doing that then other dysfunction will follow until I’m unable to do much of anything.
Well I knew someone would made a statement like that… so it’s okay jack I can handle it.
Sorry couldn’t resist. I watched bohemian rhapsody when I was sick
Woke at 211.0.
Tonight is date night so I get to go hungry most of the day. I’m planning to have a double shake mid morning and afternoon. Lunch will be pulled pork that I’ve taken to work every day but not eaten. It’s so fatty that I haven’t been able to work it in my diet while still hitting my protein goals. I’ll also have 200g of pasta with that.
I think I’m going to go do a leg circuit during lunch so the meal will go to good use afterwards.
Dinner will be at IL VICINO. They have good little wood fired pizzas that aren’t too greasy or fatty.
I had to check out the website, that place looks delicious. I have the urge for a cannoli now! Enjoy date night.