Thanks for the encouragement Joe, I need every ounce of it I can get!
MJ I take a 30# dbs and attach then to the bar with my rubber bands. I like the crazy bell bench. I’m going to work it into my routine more.
Steve, I’d like to get to aimless and lack of direction… I dont even have that in my training.
Finally got back in the gym. I hope I can find a way to put the life funk in its own corner and resume training on a regular basis. I need to; I feel like shit when i don’t train. Going to try a little 5x5 action with my squats. Legs were nice and rubbery as i walked out of the gym today.
I went by my grandparents old house the other day. In the 70’s during the oil crisis my grandaddy had a truck load of coal dumped behind his garage. I asked him, “Grandaddy, why did you buy all this coal?” He looked at me and said in his “hoigh toider” outerbanks accent, “Oi ain’t gonna depend on no Richard Nixon to keep me warm”… What a thought as I watch gas hit $3.15 a gallon…
JW’s morning thought: A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
Thanks for the encouragement Joe, I need every ounce of it I can get!
MJ I take a 30# dbs and attach then to the bar with my rubber bands. I like the crazy bell bench. I’m going to work it into my routine more.
Steve, I’d like to get to aimless and lack of direction… I dont even have that in my training.
Finally got back in the gym. I hope I can find a way to put the life funk in its own corner and resume training on a regular basis. I need to; I feel like shit when i don’t train. Going to try a little 5x5 action with my squats. Legs were nice and rubbery as i walked out of the gym today.
I went by my grandparents old house the other day. In the 70’s during the oil crisis my grandaddy had a truck load of coal dumped behind his garage. I asked him, “Grandaddy, why did you buy all this coal?” He looked at me and said in his “hoigh toider” outerbanks accent, “Oi ain’t gonna depend on no Richard Nixon to keep me warm”… What a thought as I watch gas hit $3.15 a gallon…
JW’s morning thought: A little bad taste is like a nice dash of paprika.
I remember when gas jumped to 50 cents and we went to odd/even system for awhile. People were lined up at the pumps. 50 cents sounds like mothing now but I was making around $1.50 and hour in 73.
Hope things get worked out for you. Lift when you can, bitch when you feel the need.
Crazy bell bench? Where do yawl get this stuff? Now I got to look it up and try it.
Wilson - things WILL get better, just keep on pluggin’ away and get into the gym to do crazy shit once in a while it will help more than you know, Trust me on this one!
Joe, I’m gonna do the same thing. Thinking about putting a small wind mill in as well.
Harry, I can remember my dad going out at 11 pm to meet our neighbor that owned a gas station. He would let my Dad fill up when he closed the station. I remember the odd even days too. My Dad had gas pumps at the mill but couldn’t get them filled up.
Thanks George. Life isn’t so fun right now. My big escape does happen to be the gym.
Dateline: Saturday 5:30 am
Crazy bell bench: 3x195x8 super set with Hammer Incline: 3x70x8
Flat bench: 4x255x3, 185x10
Rev grip JM in the Smith: 4x205x6
Triceps push down: 3x180x10
Dips: 3xBWx3
Had a pretty good training day. Went by quick with little distractions. I don’t know what I’m going to do next, every day is an adventure! Thought I would train on Sunday but what began as a bathroom cabinet replacement has turned into a wholesale bathroom gut and rebuild… At least its an inside job. These Arctic days are about to kill me! Oh joy!
JW’s morning thought: After I had my eye surgery I realize how ugly I am.
I think you might like the 5x5. I really did and have put the scheme back into my training. Just get in the gym and do something. After a while the fog will lift and you will see a direction.
Back to the gym after an emotional hell hole of a week. I’ve decided to do 5x5 with my squats. 205 was probably a little low for a start off point. Since they were easy to do today, next squat session I’m going for 210.
Looked at myself in the mirror last night and I hit another low. So I said to myself “Self, get your ass in gear and get back on the program.” I’m going to bench tomorrow, and do my back stuff Sunday. Monday its Squats and tread mill. Tuesday - Thursday it will be complexes and treadmill. Friday will be more squats. This is my grand design. I hope I can carry it all out.
JW’s FB status borrowed for his morning thought: After listening to the President’s State of the Union address, why doesn’t he get Congress to pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting business, creativity, and entrepreneurship? If it works as well as prohibition did, in 5 years Americans would be the most productive people on Earth.
Nice to see you getting some work in, Wilson. Sorry to hear about all the shit going on. Life does that, as you know.
What Soldog said, though. It WILL get better! Something will change, with you, or the situation in general. Either way, things never stay bad. Of course, they never stay good either…lol. Oops…sorry…I guess that doesn’t help.
I burn off most of my negative stuff during my workouts. Whatever is left, at week’s end…I put the kids to bed, leave the wife in the living room, mix up a BIG ass Jack and Coke and login to Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings) and kill shit. There is something to be said for a world where 99% of the problems can be solved with piss, vinegar and a two-handed sword. Virtual carnage for the win.
[quote]LittleStrick wrote:
Nice to see you getting some work in, Wilson. Sorry to hear about all the shit going on. Life does that, as you know.
What Soldog said, though. It WILL get better! Something will change, with you, or the situation in general. Either way, things never stay bad. Of course, they never stay good either…lol. Oops…sorry…I guess that doesn’t help.
I burn off most of my negative stuff during my workouts. Whatever is left, at week’s end…I put the kids to bed, leave the wife in the living room, mix up a BIG ass Jack and Coke and login to Middle Earth (Lord of the Rings) and kill shit. There is something to be said for a world where 99% of the problems can be solved with piss, vinegar and a two-handed sword. Virtual carnage for the win.[/quote]
I’ve been using Asuma in my son’s Ninja Storm xbox game for this. I’ve kicked the ass of every character in the story.
Thanks for the encouragement guys. I’m trying. I gotta do something to restore some sanity in my world.
Dateline Saturday 5:17 am
Bench day
Crazy bell bench press on the decline: 135x10, 3x215x8
Bench Press: 3x245x3, 185x10
Incline DB press: 65x10, 75x7, 85x4
Rev grip incline JM press: 3x205x5 205x3
Triceps push down 215x6, 2x215x4 super set with OH ext. 160x8, 160x4, 160x2
I felt like I had a fairly intense workout. Nothing real crazy. I did the workout with very little rest. I suspect by the time i got around to my tri’s they were blasted from all the pressing. I guess my mirror gazing motivation didn’t go far. I missed my Sunday training retrieving my daughter from a failed sleep over. I just got lazy as hell and didn’t make any time Sunday to head over to the gym. Then last night I slept like crap up until the point my alarm went off. I seem to have an uncanny knack for sleeping through an alarm when I really need to be up training of late. I may try to go tonight and squat. Also My world kinda went sideways when I received my unsolicited AARP card in the mail. That really kinda knocked me into a reality funk. Thankfully I have a few months yet before I can be an official member.
JW’s stolen morning poem:
There’s quite an art to falling apart
As the years go by,
And life doesn’t begin at 40.
That’s a big fat lie.
My hair’s getting thinner, my body is not:
The few teeth I have are beginning to rot.
I smell of Vick’s Vapo Rub, not Chanel #5;
My new pacemaker’s all that keeps me alive.
When asked of my past, every detail I’ll know,
But, what was I doing 10 minutes ago?
Well, you get the idea, what more can I say?
I’m off to read the obituary, like I do every day;
If my names there, I’ll once again start -
perfecting the art of falling apart.
[quote]JoeGood wrote:
When do they send out the AARP card? Cause if they send me one they are going to get a HIGHLY aggressive phone call.[/quote]
Joe, I will be 50 on May 20. I think you have to be 50 before you can be a member. It was a kick in the crotch… Had to curl up with my blankie and suck my thumb for a while!!
They’ve been sending me the darn things since about 50. I treat them like any other piece of junk mail–fire starter. But then. maybe that’s why I’ve never had all things revealed to me like Harry said would happen when I turned 50?
Nice work, Wilson. And I didn’t know that your b-day was so close to mine (May 29th). But it is far enough ahead of mine that you are one of those hard-headed Tauri. Of course, you are on the cusp. So you might have a tad of the Gemini flightiness that I revel in.
To hopefully add a bit of levity… My wife just IM’d me and told me that my son (just turned 5) was sitting on the couch with his chicken nuggets. Out of the blue he says, “Those chicken is bad. I will kick his ass!”
So much like his dad.