Well, I haven’t posted in a week b/c it’s been a horrible week. My stomach problems just wouldn’t go away. I had a hard time eating. I had about 8 days of liitle-to-no training and to try to “heal up”. BUT…I’m back at it now.
Sunday: Went swimming in a lake. It was awesome but kicked the shit out of me. Pretty weak, but the first “workout” I had in awhile.
a1) one arm DB snatch (30total) 30lbs DB rest 45sec
a2) clap push ups rest 45sec
a3) Forward lunge (30 total reps) 115x1, 45x1
rest 90 sec and repeat (I really rested about 3min)
Jumping rope 12min
Wednesday Morning: Tabata burpees
home Weigh-in: 179.5
Tonight I will do the “official” weigh-in for the “pink hat challenge pt2.” It’s been 4 weeks and my goal was to lose 4lbs. Given that I was sick for over a week, I don’t think I can take much “credit” if I did accomplish my goals. But that said, I’m “feeling” a lot leaner since the start of this and my belt has moved up a couple of notches. I’m going to do “part 3” this month and (probably) part 4 next. Then I will (probably) re-evaluate. My goals for this month are consistency and adequate rest.
Pink hat challenge pt2 won. I weighed in at 181.6, almost 7lbs less than 4 weeks ago. Starting part 3 now. 5 weeks now. I kinda want to shoot for 175lbs…we’ll see how it goes.
Knife stuff for a longer time.
Bear crawls 5 laps…had to walk. Still not at 100%
Celebratory beers while we solved the world’s problems.
Thursday:
Mobility complex
10x3 (or 4 on 1,3,5,7,9)
Deadlift 225 (cut the weight 'cuz I was feeling pretty low beforehand)
Dips BW+25s
pullups BW
Jumprope 10min …felt fine aerobically, but I couldn’t get a rhythm going at all. I must have looked foolish, hopefully in time it’ll look better.
Friday morning: weigh-in: 181.0
Tonight I’ll probably do some tabatas or bike sprints…I’ll decide when I get home from work. I finally have my appetite back, but I’m still not feeling 100%
Pic posted for the Aug check in.
Right now I’m sitting around 180 (weight fluctuates between 177.5 and 179.5)
Goals:
Stay healthy and “happy”
Get stronger and have fun when lifting
Eat healthy and allow body recomp. Probably try to get my weight to gradually fall to 175/170ish. Not too worried about weight loss, but I don’t want any weight gain right now.
Damn, I let this log go too long w/o posting.
Lately I haven’t been on a particular program. I’m just doing “what I can” with “what time I have.” A lot more rest has been involved. It’s been working REALLY well. I’m feeling a hell of a lot better. I’m stronger than I’ve been in a long while.
Lately I’ve just been doing what I feel like when I get to the gym (with some thought as to when I can go workout again). I’ve been focusing on resting appropriately. I’ve been mandating and “scheduling” 8hours a night and normally getting around 7.
For example: this week I did an upper-lower split on sat (upper), Mon(lower), Tues (upper), Wed boxing/joint manipulations (cardio), Thurs Knife stuff and stretching/foam rolling, Friday total body and swimming because I knew I probably couldn’t go to the gym today. Tomorrow and Monday are both “maybes” for getting into the gym. Thursday I completely took off (save some knife stuff" b/c my shoulder had given me issues on Wednesday. It felt fine on Thursday, but I took 'er off b/c I was sore in general and b/c I told myself wednesday I would take it off. A buddy wanted to do bear crawls and it was damn hard to say no…but I did. Then Friday was a good day in the weightroom.
For me, I’m putting up good numbers.
Tuesday I benched 5x5 with 225
Tuesday I squatted 5x5 with 275, yesterday I worked up to 315 (225x8, 275x5, 295x5, 315x5, 315x5, 315x3)
Tuesday Romainian Deadlifts 275 3x5 I think
Tuesday pullups (bw 180ish) 5x8, yesterday cable rows +pullups 3x5.
Basically, higher numbers than I have been able to do for awhile. I’m feeing good about it. I’ll try to post more.
Thanks man. I’m not even sure what RT means (re-tweet?). I’m not a big twitter guy. But I see you have 2 posts. I hope you stick around here and/or post more.
Tuesday: Squats. Worked up to 345. Something like 135x5, 225x5, 275x5, 315x5, 345x3.
I must have been more affected than I thought though, b/c instead of moving on to good mornings as had been my intention. I started benching. I realized what I was doing and stopped. I then swam until I was dizzy (unexpected). So I went home. Felt a little “off” today too. Slight fever. So I took things a bit easy.
