Maybe changing your sheets? Whatever the problem, it’s most likely related to your slumber quarters. Heh heh, I don’t really say “slumber quarters”, it just amuses me.
Forced breaks sucks, but that’s all I’ll say so you don’t end up worrying for nothing =)
Wow, super training in here as always. Love that you got seduced by the gym twice on Friday. That happens to me sometimes, you get that feeling like you just haven’t had enough. The fact that I really don’t have much of a life outside of my job and have no kids/spouse probably has something to do with it. And the quiet empty Friday night gym scene is quite alluring.
A few years back I was running a program with scheduled double sessions. Did it in late spring/early summer which is my highest energy time of year. The purpose was partly to balance my energy, partly because beach season was about to commence, partly for mental clarity/boost because things were dismal at our practice- my boss had leukemia and all of my time at work was spent working on patient retention. Hitting the gym first thing in the morning and again before I went home to bed provided a great sense of security for me during a tough time.
[quote]Kristoph wrote:
Oooh, Africa! Never been, but heard good things. [/quote]
Depends on where you go. Unfortunately, they send me to the DRC. 
Well, when I went the first time, I was working 12 hour days and got quite sick twice. I brought bands with me, but it’s hard for me to get into them. I want weights! Also was in a place where I didn’t have a whole lot of room in my hotel and didn’t want to touch the floor (seriously not recommended). Obviously I’m going to have to suck it up with the bands and I think my plan is to bring a yoga mat so I can do those things on the floor I wouldn’t last time. Given that food is an issue there, I’ll be bringing lots of protein powder. If it goes through… Looking like a go but not confirmed. “Crazy ripped.” lolz Ahh, if only!
This reminds me, I need to revisit that article (training in the jungle, or something along those lines) about replacing the anti-malarials with turmeric or whatever it was. However, oddly enough, antimalarials are one of the things I take regularly for lupus.
Cal and Nikki, thanks for the advice. My test was this weekend when I visited a friend overnight. Still had the cold symptoms. So it’s not my room! However, that does mean it’s me. Hmph. But! When I woke up this morning, I didn’t have much of a sore throat. Perhaps it’s over?
Hey, Veg, thanks! Yeah, ditto, no spouse or kids, and I do love an empty gym!
I’m interested in knowing how you scheduled your sessions (and I’m really sorry about the dismal situation that prompted it). Were they both lifting? Did you work the same body parts each session? About how long were your sessions? etc (Thanks!) I’ve been toying with the idea of starting some double sessions in the near future.
So I did cut my session short on Saturday. Was in for about an hour. Nothing too exciting, farmers walks, incline bench, straight leg sit-ups… I did try some weighted dips for the first time. I just went the “hold a DB between your ankles” route, which is definitely logistically less sound than a belt, but I didn’t feel justified making a scene for 20 lbs. Maybe that’s another Friday night gym thing.
My hamstrings were (and are still!) sore from that capricious sprinting on a track. I did get another “So are you training for something?” when I walked in. It’s not a statement I take offense to, I just usually say “not at the moment.” This was a trainer who sees me all the time, so he said, “Oh, well, I just see the way you lift, so I thought you might be a powerlifter.” I don’t see why I shouldn’t take that as a compliment.
This morning I felt like it was going to be a hard day, but ended up pretty good, actually. Will post the numbers later. I have to think about how I’m going to change up my workouts this week, since I’ll be missing one on Friday because I’m flying home for the weekend. I’ll train with my dad on Saturday, though.
The question is whether to take my usual Wednesday off, do some light lifting, or power through 4 days in a row of the lactic acid training. Hmmm… Not sure if my body will be able to handle that this week! We’ll see how I feel about it after tomorrow’s workout.
Yay for being compared to a powerlifter. That’s an awesome compliment. Just a short version of saying that you’re strong and have good form =D
Congrats on your first weighted dips, I don’t have a belt and don’t want to bother others for theirs. DB between the ankles is still kewl though
Keep us updated with the sleep issue, hopefully it’s something that will pass. I’ll hate for you to be allergic to yourself.
haha, thanks, Nikki! I would hate that, too. 
This just in: I recently told my coworker about doubling the protein in my shakes, and he just told me he decided to try it, too, and put on 2 lbs of muscle in the last ten days! Perhaps I have also put on 2 lbs of muscle and haven’t realized it yet?
Just noticed I forgot to post my workout last night. I’ll have to post both tonight!
Monday
Dec push-ups 56 28 23 18 19 17
Lat Pull 70x28 70x18 70x16 70x14 70x14 70x13
DB lunges 20sx28 20x22 20x20 20x18 20x22 20x16
DB step-ups 15sx40 15x36 15x30 15x30 15x28 15x26
Lat raise 7.5x30 7.5x20 7.5x18
DB calf raise 30x54 30x42 30x34
Cable strait curl (I did 19 reps before getting interrupted, so I discounted that set) 30x35 30x25 30x21
Cable tri ext 60x40 60x23 60x15
Tuesday
DB floor press (all the 30s were in use so it forced me to go up in weight, which was probably appropriate)
32.5x34 32.5x24 32.5x17 32.5x17 32.5x15 32.5x14
Low row (got one set in before I had to switch to something no one could cut in on…) 60x33
One arm row 32.5x26 32.5x20 32.5x17 32.5x16 32.5x15
DB squat to OH 20sx26 20x18 20x16 20x15 20x15 20x15
SL DL 60x32 60x24 60x20 60x17 60x17 60x16
Bradford press 25x30 25x30 25x24 (I had to do the first set at a different type of bench so it was a little harder… today was a tough day for equipment.)
DB calf raise 30x61 30x46 30x41
DB curl (again, had to go up based on what was available) 15x25 15x13 15x12
DB tri ext 27.5x30 27.5x19 27.5x17
Why were there so many people at the gym this morning?! I’m so spent. Time for bed. Carb load tomorrow night, so hopefully that will energize me. I won’t say anything more about that since I’m trying to be positive!
Squat to OHP are killer. Awesome training.
And don’t let people interrupt you =D
Ok, I can’t resist saying it. Carb night always makes me feel terrible! Seriously. Like physically ill. I ate pasta and fruit, and I still hate how it feels. The only carbs I ever lust after aren’t the ones I can eat anyway. If I didn’t know there was a benefit to my metabolism (supposedly…) I would probably carb like once every two months, tops. I better have a damn good lift tomorrow!
Also souring my mood is the news that my trip to Kinshasa is supposed to be 5 weeks. 5 weeks?! That’s a hell of a long time away from a real gym and good sources of meat and veggies! Protein powder forever. Maybe I can get some cardio in. Problem is that I can’t go anywhere by myself, so I have to have someone accompany me. At least this time I know what to expect and will be better prepared. And maybe I can talk them down to 4 weeks… Have to focus on the good things.
Oh, and thanks Nikki. Those are killers! Eventually I can’t even get the OHP part in.
Usually I wouldn’t let people interrupt my training, but with the no rest supersetting, I’d rather just work around them. I can’t afford to waste time, and I’m a girl of very little patience when it comes to the gym!
Thursday
Dec push-up 58 26 22 19 19 18
Low row 60x38 60x25 60x20 60x19 60x19 60x18
DB lunges 20sx40 20x26 20x22 20x24 20x22 20x22
DB step-ups 15sx40 15x34 15x30 15x30 15x26 15x28
Lat raise 7.5x35 7.5x22 7.5x20
DB calf raise 30x80 30x55 30x49
Cable strait bar curl 30x44 30x25 30x22
Cable tri ext 60x45 60x22 60x19
So at least the carbs did help pull out some more reps. I had another trainer ask me what I was training for today. I’m going to switch my Friday workout to Saturday while I’m home, but I’m getting a massage tomorrow. Yay! Looking forward to working out with my dad, hopefully picking up a few new things from him.
I’m in the same boat with the carbs 
Or maybe it’s just the large dose at once that I can’t tolerate.
I’m going to soon switch to smaller amounts of carbs daily(an apple, oat bran, rice cakes,etc) with weekly free meals(if desired) weekly. Which is basically maintenance for me. But hopefully with the heavier lifting and added cardio I can still shed the BF, without being super restrictive with the diet.
Refeeds take a long time for me to recoup from…shoots the weight up a few pounds and takes another week, to get back to where I started 
sorry, got to rambling!
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Usually I wouldn’t let people interrupt my training, but with the no rest supersetting, I’d rather just work around them. I can’t afford to waste time, and I’m a girl of very little patience when it comes to the gym! [/quote]
I was actually referring to this…
Working out with your dad sounds fun, enjoy!
I’m glad you had a good workout from your sluggish carb day. I believe in carbs and metabolism whole heartedly, my body heats up after a week of dieting and just going crazy with carbs. Last night I had a very bad, unplanned cheat of 8 choc chip cookies. But my body felt like a furnace and no bad mirror-image this morning.
I’m sorry it makes you feel sluggish though, only bad thing I can say about carbs is the water weight haha
Spoken like a true carboholic
Annnnnnnnd I’m back!
I’ll get to posting my weekend workouts after work. It was fun to be home and workout with my dad, but we only really had one complete one together. He never ceases to impress me, knocking out pull-ups with 90 lbs and whatnot. Now that he’s a professional trainer, it means less time training with me, but I’m really proud of him. Anyway.
I have no idea what was going on this morning, but I hit way more reps than usual, especially with the step-ups. My legs in particular have a really hard time getting a burn before the muscle fatigue anyway, and especially with the b-alanine. Didn’t carb yesterday, didn’t up any doses of anything. But I’ll take it!
This is exactly what happens to me, MiM! Even if it is water weight, I still feel awful. Although this weekend, my carb seemed to go a little better, so hopefully eventually my body will get the picture of what it should be doing! (Feel free to ramble any time! ) The way my body fights weight loss, it would be me and the cockroaches at the end of the world.
Nikki, now I see what you’re saying. I wasn’t thinking of that one because it was partially my fault. I had asked someone for an attachment that I thought might’ve been in the back room, but because I can’t wait long between sets in my training, I just proceeded with a different one. It was a trainer coming over with the other attachment that was my interruption. So given the trouble he went through, I switched.
I swear if I ate 8 chocolate chip cookies, I’d gain 20 lbs, possibly just from looking at them. Maybe I’m just not very objective looking at myself, but I think I can tell that I look worse after a carb up. I’m totes jeally of your metabolism! haha
Saturday
DB floor press 30x48 30x29 30x22 30x18 30x17 30x17
Lat pull 70x36 70x24 70x20 70x16 70x17 70x15
Squat to OHP 20sx27 20x24 20x20 20x18 20x19 20x17
1L SL DL 20x31 20x26 20x22 20x22 20x22 20x20
Bradford press 32.5x31 32.5x20 32.5x17
DB calf raise 20sx61 20x46 20x44
DB curl 15x30 15x15 15x13
DB tri ext 30x27 30x18 30x15
(Then I hung around the gym with my dad while he trained someone, tried to Russian hamstring curls, some weighted dips, chin-ups, worked on DL form…)
Sunday (with Dad, unfortunately we didn’t have much time)
Smith machine floor press 15x10 65x10 105x10 105x10 105x10 105x10
Chin ups 3 3 2 1 1
SA DB row 40x10 50x10 50x10 50x10 50x10
Wrist rollers 10x30 20x30 25x30 25x30 25x30
Tuesday
Dec push-ups 60 26 22 19 20 18
Low row 60x41 60x22 60x18 60x17 60x17 60x16
DB lunges 20sx40 20x28 20x26 20x24 20x24 20x24
DB step-ups 15sx60 (um, what?) 15x52 15x42 15x34 15x36 15x34
Lat raise 7.5x34 7.5x22 7.5x20
DB calf raise 15sx83 15x49 15x50
DB curl 15x30 15x15 15x14
DB tri ext 27.5x33 27.5x20 27.5x20
My schedule is all messed up this week. Haven’t figured out what the plan is yet, and it’s my last week of the lactic acid. Have to talk with my dad about what I’ll be doing the next couple weeks before I set off for Africa. In the meantime, I’ll have to start brainstorming an actual routine of bw and band exercises… not too excited, but maybe once it’s planned, I’ll get motivated.
LOVE all those decline pushups! Good stuff!
I’ll be interested to see what kinds of stuff you and your dad figure out for the bw/band training while you’re in Africa.
My schedule is also messed up this week so I can sympathize. Hang in there.
Carbs aren’t what ruin me, that time of the month does. Ugh, I feel like a pregnant goat 
Aww it’s great that you had some quality training time with your dad.
BW stuff isn’t that bad, it’s just as challenging too.
Maybe you can add some HSPUs to your training repertoire, no?