Softball got rained out which was kind of a bummer. I’m sure we would’ve lost our first game and been done, but it would have been nice to try. The same team shut us out two weeks ago.
I weighed 226.2 lbs so my decisions didn’t defeat me! I got to enjoy some things and stayed on track.
I ate a late breakfast and it wrecked my stomach again. It’s been 6 hours since I ate so I’ve been experiencing pain for about 5.5 hours. I went to immediate care and they drew blood. I’m waiting on the results. I experienced relief for the first time of the day when I sat down to get my vitals checked, but I was soon doubled over in pain again. It’s been intermittent since then (about 1:15 pm). They gave me a cocktail that was a 50:50 mix of Maalox and lidocaine. It’s supposed to stop the pain almost immediately and last 2-4 hours if the problem is digestive like an ulcer. I was told to go to the ER if the pain gets severe and it was getting pretty close about 15 minutes ago, but everything is pretty mild now.
I kind of figured it would subside by now like it did earlier in the week. Nothing hurt when they poked around so I don’t think it’s anything to do with an organ like the gall bladder or appendix. The doc brought up h pylori bacteria as something that could be involved. I’m really looking forward to that phone call with the lab results. It’s been a long day and I’ve done nothing but sit around. I even had to bail on my flag football coaching duties for today’s game.
Doc called and said my lab work looks fine except for the elevated creatinine. I laugh because it’s always high and I’m sure many of you have the same issue from weight training.
I’m about to jump into my spreadsheets and plan out the rest of the school year. I have time to finish Strength & Conditioning and then run three to four weeks of Con Clavi Con Dios. That gets me to the end of the school year where I can take advantage of the school weight room and do the main lifts as supersets.
The summer break will probably see Spinal Tap High School Years because it looks awesome and is very similar to the Con Clavi Con Dios template. Two days of lifting, two days of mobility, and two days of conditioning. The assistance work is part of the mobility sessions. Seems like a good way to keep sessions short and hopefully keep myself feeling fresh and accomplished instead of sore and stiff.
Edit: I had them mixed up. Con Clavio Con Dio is the superset template and will need to be run while I’m still in school.
Well that’s good. Although not overly helpful in finding the source of the problem. I would seriously at least do a food diet. If it’s really bad you could try elimination diet.
I don’t know where to start. The reactions are kind of random. I’ve identified a couple possible triggers so I’ll cut those out. I know I’m not supposed to drink coffee but I did yesterday and today. My stomach hurt before I drank all my coffee yesterday. Yesterday was a breakfast sandwich and today I ate the rest of the scrambled eggs and then made a roast beef sandwich (which I ate Friday without an issue). And to really make it confusing, I ate a double smash burger covered in queso yesterday and it didn’t phase me.
The good news is that I think it’s finally calmed down (6:40 pm so about 8 hours from the onset). I’m even hungry, but probably won’t eat even though I really want to.
Maybe try dropping eggs for a week or two also, they seem to be involved in each meal prior to pain and intolerances can develop over time. Eggs and dairy are two of the most common things I’ve seen this happen with.
I’m glad the labs came back looking good. H. pylori or SIBO are possibilities that aren’t picked up on routine labs - so, those could be things… Keep us posted and I am here to help with an elimination/re-intro plan or anything else you need in the nutrition department.
Yeah, as much as I hate it, I’m going to take a break from the eggs. My instructions are to follow-up with my primary doctor. I’m not sure if they do anything with GI issues, but they can refer me to the right people.
Where do I start with food tomorrow? I’m quite confused since the reactions seem to be inconsistent. But now that I think back, I had boiled eggs twice and scrambled eggs twice on the four meals that I had a significant reaction immediately after eating. I had fried eggs and extra egg whites Wednesday when I was experimenting and I felt like there was something going on, but nothing hurt and it was pretty short lived.
So we’ve established that eggs are out. I guess that’s a start.
Woke up hungry but actually feeling pretty good. No food or drink other than water and tea since 10am yesterday has me feeling pretty cleaned out. I know it won’t stay but the scale said 224.2 lbs this morning. I’m hungry but haven’t eaten anything yet (8:15am). I brought two hamburger patties for lunch and I’m tempted to drink a protein shake at some point in the day. I drank one last week with no adverse effects.
I finally figured out how to describe the pain I was having. It was like having a hot fire poker stabbed into the top middle portion of my upper stomach.
Hopefully all goes well today so I can train after school.
Today was good in terms of gut health. I ate two plain hamburger patties, two bananas, and a protein shake. The shake caused my stomach to bloat a bit, but no pain. The foods were spread out, too. Burger around 10, shake around 10:50, burger at 12:25, banana at 1:15, banana at 2ish.
Warm-Up
Dynamic w/u on the basketball court and then I forgot to foam roll. I did 3x6 on jumps, though.
Main Work Superset
Bench
135 x 5
170 x 5
195 x 5
225 x 5
195 x 5 x 5 (SSL) Front Squat
95 x 5
115 x 5
135 x 5
150 x 5
115 x 5 x 3 (FSL)
(Took about 22 minutes for all that.)
Assistance Giant Set
RFESS
20 x 10 ea, 40 x 10 ea, 60 x 10 ea Wide Cable Row
170 x 10, 10, 10 45 Deg Back Ext
50 x 10, 10 Hanging Knee Raise
20 ea alternating in place of 3rd round of back ext Skull Crusher
80 x 10, 10, 10
(need to get more consistent with this part) Assistance Totals
Push: 30
Pull: 30
SL: 30
Core: 40
I’m hoping to hit the sled tomorrow for some “hard” conditioning. These circuits still feel like conditioning. The program isn’t written that way; I just don’t have time to sit around and do these one at a time. But I kind of like it. I leave feeling good.
Sled
Tank M4 L3 Sled
Alternate pulling 25m/pushing 25m x 5 ea
Time: 8:52
That’s the fastest time for any sled workout with 10 total trips. I blame a variety of factors - sled only and no lifting being a big one. And perhaps I underestimated myself because I haven’t done this workout in over a week. It seems to be specific and if I take a break, it whoops me. I guess it’s time to throw the extra 45 lb plate back on.
I went back to school and shot 100 three pointers in about 15 minutes. Made 42 so not too shabby. I invited my son but he turned me down. I let him slide but still made him go practice his baseball skills during my daughter’s softball practice.
I also mowed the front yard between basketball and softball. I think that took about 20-25 minutes.
Food has been more of the same - burgers and bananas… And some cheese. I felt a little bloated after the cheese but nothing major. I can tell my stomach has been wrecked but no flare ups again today.
Warm-Up
Rolling, stretching, and 50 lateral hops. Squat Jumps
5, 5, 5 mixed in with OHP
OHP Giant Set
OHP (with axle)
75 x 5
100 x 5
115 x 5
130 x 5
115 x 5 x 5 (SSL) with Pull-Ups
BW x 8 x 4
BW x 7, 7, 6 45 Deg Back Ext
BW x 20 RDL
165 x 10 (last two were warm-ups for cleans)
Hang Power Clean
165 x 3
185 x 2
205 x 2
225 x 2 - slow, ugly, grind, awful switch to Hang Clean Pull
225 x 5, 5 Need to figure something out here. Drop the TM or the lift. I think this is the first sign of lost strength since cutting and it had to show up somewhere. I probably won’t notice it on legs since I just switched to a lift I hate and am basically starting from scratch.
Assistance Circuit
RFESS
30 lb DBs x 8 ea x 3 sets Push-Ups
20, 20, 20 DB Crunch
50 x 12 x 3 sets Switched to doing left leg, push-ups, right leg, crunches on the 2nd and 3rd rounds.
Assistance Totals
Push: 60
Pull: 51
Single-Leg: 24
Core: 56
and add 10 to wherever RDLs fall
Time for OHP circuit and cleans: 31 minutes. Time for assistance: 10 minutes. I was curious how splitting OHP and cleans would affect my time and I think it’s pretty close since I was able to superset some other stuff. And once again, this feels like conditioning. Average HR 114 bpm, max of 149 bpm. Chart from my watch makes it look like my HR was 140-150bpm during the last 10 minutes.
I don’t know how some of you do it - training every day even if it’s just a little bit. I’m worn out.
My daughter had her first track meet and of course it starts as soon as school is out. I had to sneak out a bit early so I could get out of the parking lot but I made it. She competed in the long jump, hurdles, and open 100m. They cram the events together way too much. Her long jump was great. They combine 7th and 8th grade into one ‘middle school’ group. Her second jump was 13’10" and broke the previous school record of 13’2". Unfortunately, her 8th grade teammate beat her on her last jump with 14’0". My daughter scratched on her third attempt and she was gassed. She did her first jump, then ran to the other end of the track for her hurdle race. Finished 3rd in her first ever hurdle race. Completed her second jump and ran from the sand pit to the other end of the track for the 100. I don’t even think she’d caught her breath before they started the race. She walked off the track and right back to the long jump pit for her 3rd jump and I could tell she was tired. Not exactly a great set-up for someone like her competing in all the first events of the day. On the plus side, she finished quickly and I was able to get home at a decent time and I finally have a free evening.
Holy cow! Poor kid. Middle school track is rough. We had similar problems with my boys. High School is a bit better because they kind of start to specialize. Then they aren’t all over the place.
You’ve had a rough week. The egg thing alone would have thrown me off my game entirely.
Is there a better feeling? I hope you enjoy your downtime.
The egg thing was rough, but my body has been cooking all week. My last three weigh-ins were 222+, 221+, and 222+. I just barely broke the 227 barrier last week. I think a day of pain and suffering really bumped up my caloric burn there, and following it with minimal eating out of fear of a flare-up has really pushed me into new weight territory (for this phase of life).
My dinner tonight was two chicken thighs and two “slices” of extra sharp cheddar. Bite one, then the other, and repeat. Lunch was two burger patties and two bananas again (one of each at 1030 and again at 1230). I joked with a co-worker about doctoring up my before and after photos and trying to sell my new program. I’d call it:
The Killer B’s Diet: Burgers, Bananas, and Beer. How I lost 25 lbs and got shredded in my 40s.
Or some nonsense like that
And I’m enjoying the evening by sitting down and not having the pressure of being somewhere at a specific time. There’s nothing between me and bedtime.
Weighed 224.0 this morning but not surprised. I ate some roast beef and ham a little later than I should last night. It also kind of upset my stomach. It wasn’t the same pain as Sunday; more of a bloating kind of feeling. This keeps happening when ham is present, so I think I’m going to cut that, too. The downside is that we still have a couple pounds worth of the stuff in the fridge and I hate throwing food out. Looks like my kids are eating ham this weekend.
I’m due for my front squat workout today. It’s “week” two weights for 5/3/1 and I’m not exactly feeling recovered from my previous two workouts. I went from the heaviest front squat workout feeling the best last Wednesday (week 3 weights) to the lightest workout feeling terrible on Monday. Maybe today will surprise me and feel better. I’ll be backing off on the single-leg work with the hopes of being able to get in a couple basketball games tomorrow morning. I also dropped my power clean TM 20 lbs. Hopefully I’ll be able to stop grinding reps and build that back up. I’ll be back later to post the session.
The downside is that we still have a couple pounds worth of the stuff in the fridge and I hate throwing food out. Looks like my kids are eating ham this weekend.
If you have a vacuum sealer, it freezes well. I like having stuff like that on reserve for when I want a filling for an omelet. But given that your GI has effectively hit the reset button on itself, I can see how introducing cured meats could be upsetting it.
I laugh because it’s always high and I’m sure many of you have the same issue from weight training.
