My stomach has not been happy since I woke up yesterday. I went to bed last night with a fever and I was certain I was about to spend the night puking my guts out again. Thank, God, it didn’t get me…yet.
I still don’t feel very good. My stomach is volatile and I’m tired even though I slept decent for over 9 hrs. I need to do my PT, and go to the gym, and do PT again, but I’m struggling to find the willpower to even stand up.
Man, sounds like you’re struggling a bit brother. Try to get to PT for sure and listen to your body. You may have a little bug along with the recovery from surgery so take it easy.
I feel like ass. I’m running a very low fever but I’m also on aspirin around the clock to help prevent blood clots. I’m not sure if that helps with fever or not. Either way I’m cold, achy, weak, and tired.
I did some PT exercises this morning. I’ll try to do more later. I’m staring at my hydrocodone wondering if it will help. At the very least I might go numb for awhile.
So far, so good. My fever broke for the moment and I just knocked out a few sets of PT. I would love to take some hydrocodone but I know it’s addictive and I know I might have a tendency to get addicted to things. I guess in this case my strength comes from knowing my weakness.
Big J take it easy. your body is recovering big time, you seem to have a slight fever/infektion, let the body do the magic.
Eat wise the next few days. Have some garlic and other helthy food for choice, google wich is good for recovery.
I make a Ginger drink thats awesome: 2 L water, 400 g Ginger sliced, 30 grams turmeric root sliced, 2-3 lemons sliced and organic (not sprayed), 2 apples in pieces. Put it all in a pot boil for 2 hours. Cool down over night, Take everything out of the water, squeeze the remains. Lastly put honey in to sweeten it a bit. Every morning take a shot
If you like Chilli put one in it as well. Helthy and good for everything.
Weighed 220.4 lbs in shorts only. I’ve been weighing myself in sweats and a t-shirt but I didn’t think it added 4 lbs. I also ate a lot of junk yesterday. Oddly enough when my stomach wanted food it craved carbs.
This is probably off because I ate an unknown amount of my mother-in-law’s party mix. It’s a homemade version of Chex mix with pecans, cashews, peanuts, and Brazil nuts. We have the recipe but we’ve never made it. It calls for 8 sticks of butter. I imagine it’s pretty calorie dense.
I need more protein to help my body repair but we don’t have anything in the fridge. Protein shakes are beginning to irritate my stomach. I’m wondering if it’s the whey part or it. This has happened a few times before my stomach bug so it’s not new. It typically only happens if I take two scoops at once.
I know, don’t take two scoops, but one scoop has started bugging me with this bug. I might switch to vegan powder to see if that helps. My wife probably needs it too. She’s mentioned adding upper body muscle mass to help her reach her ideal running physique. All I heard was that she’ll be lifting weights!
Sounds like you’re on the mend a bit and you’re obviously in tune with your body so I have faith you’ll figure out some good protein sources.
Ahh, getting the missus involved in the training regimen! Sounds like fun but can also complicate things. My wife and I go to the gym together but rarely do we train together.
Just order food to be delivered to your house problem solved. Dont know about you but here in aus can get food delivered by the large supermarket chains
My wife did the heptathlon in college and we both have exercise science degrees. We learned that we can’t train together a long time ago!
Our grocery stores don’t deliver yet - - - only the good stuff like pizza, Chipotle (basically a burrito place), and one sandwich place. I think Uber will now pick up your food and deliver it too. I’m cheap though. I won’t even do delivery for pizza. I’ll call it in and pick it up to save myself the $1.50 delivery fee and tip. If I’m going to retire a millionaire then I can’t be giving money away!
I like the burritos but I can keep it around 600-700 calories with a bowl. It goes up to 900-1000 real quick when I add cheese and sour cream. There’s something about the creamy texture of everything when you mix in a cup of sour cream (cause we all know how generous they are).
Pull-down
90 x 10
110 x 10
130 x 10
150 x 17-6-5 double rest/pause
Lying Leg Curl Slow Eccentrics Right Leg Only
50 x 8
50 x 8
50 x 9 to failure and stretch while loaded as long as possible Slow eccentrics done with 4-5 sec eccentric
Row Slow Eccentrics
85 x 10
85 x 10
115 x 15 to failure plus stretch
Incline DB Curl Slow Eccentrics
15 x 10
20 x 10
25 x 8 to failure plus stretch
Ab Crunch Slow Eccentrics
50 x 10 x 2, no stretch at the end
Don’t get me wrong, I’ve gone double white rice and double meat plus extra cheese and sour cream on a number of occasions and eaten it all in one sitting. That’s probably why I had an extra 12-15 pounds hanging off me that I managed to acquire before leaning out on the V-Diet and now starting to once again monitor and care about my nutrition.
I’ve been blessed with a high metabolism. If not, I would be 5’8" 275 by now with the crap I put into my body the last 3-4 years.
I’m going to lay out the plan details here and probably copy and paste them into each day so everyone knows what the hell I’m doing.
Rest Pause:2-3 sets of 4-6 reps, then 1 set to failure plus as many set as it takes to double your total with 15 secs between sets. Example: 6 reps on last set plus as many rest/pause sets as it takes to get 6 more.
Slow Eccentric (aka mTOR sets):1-2 sets of 8-10 reps with slow eccentrics (5 sec) followed by 1 set to failure (preferably 8-10 reps) using slow eccentrics and finished with a loaded stretch as long as you can stand it.
Myo Reps (Fiber Fatigue):1-2 sets of 10-12 reps (regular tempo) followed by 1 set to failure. After hitting failure, rest 15 sec and perform 3 more reps, then repeat until you’re only able to get 2 reps. If you get more than 5 cycles of this then you didn’t truly go to failure on your last full set or the weight was too light.
Arm Ergometer
20 minute sprint interval, 3.28 miles covered
Machine Bench
65 x 10
110 x 6
130 x 6
150 x 6
190 x 6-2-2-2 rest/pause
Leg Extension (R leg) Slow Eccentric
70 x 8
80 x 8
90 x 10 (failure), unable to get a stretch in the machine
Machine Lateral Raise (myo reps)
40 x 10
50 x 10
70 x 12 + 6 sets of 3 with 20 secs between sets (too light)
Rev Cable Press-down (myo reps)
140 x 10 x 2 sets
160 x 9 + 6 sets of 3 with 20 secs between sets
These workouts are extremely short and sweet and it’s messing with my head. I need to do more but that’s kind of the point of the program. Low volume, high frequency with lots of time under tension. I think it’s a good program to try while I’m recovering. I might even be able to improve some aspects of my body while I’m sidelined. I think I can even use that weird Hammer Strength Deadlift thing that most people use for shrugs to do a single leg deadlift. I’m going to play with the Smith to see if I can come up with a single leg squat that doesn’t put pressure on my left leg or flex my hip past 90 degrees. I don’t have any restrictions for extension so hopefully I can put my left foot behind me and not put any weight on it. I might just be using the bar when I start. The Smith will give me the ability to not fall over while putting all of my weight on one leg.
I impulsively stopped by the liquor store for some beer but couldn’t find anything that sounded good. I ended up leaving with a 4-pack of Stoli ginger beer and some vodka instead. I’ve never paid any attention to the ginger beer but it turns out they have well over 100g of sugar in each can. I drank three mixed with 2 ounces of vodka (each) while watching Bright.
If that wasn’t enough I caved and got into the snacks last night too. It was a shameful evening.
Training BDW2 Wk 1 Day 3
Hammer Strength Row (rest /pause)
270 x 6 x 3 sets
270 x 12-3-3-3-3 + about 15-20 sec of a loaded stretch
Single Leg RDL
BW x 20 x 3 sets with my good leg
Straight -arm Pull-down (myo)
145 x 20 x 2
160 x 12 - 3-3-3-2
Seated DB Shrug (mTor)
50 x 12 x 2 sets
75 x 13 + stretch til grip failed
Cable Curl (myo)
85 x 12
115 x 10
130 x 12-3-3-3-3-2
