Disgustingly bored of hotel workouts. Did some treadmill and cable stack stuff today.
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You have any breaks from travelling coming up? Or could you look to use local gyms (close to your hotels) instead when on the road? I’ve done that before and it’s good but gets expensive on day passes.
Once this week is over I’m home for two weeks, so that’s hopefully a bit of a reset.
You’re definitely right that I need to find local spots. I’m always time-crunched, and I feel like the hotel gyms are a good change of pace when I’m traveling. That works when it’s a few days here and there. When it’s a month-plus, I’m bored and a bit sloppy (that’s my lack of dietary discipline though).
How’s your new gig?
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I’m still working my notice period (barely working though) until the start of December. Its been quite nice actually to just take things easy at work for a month of so. I’m way less stressed already and enjoyed more times with the kids and got some gardening done i put off.
Thanks for asking.
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I forgot you have to serve out a whole sentence to leave a job there! That’s kind of fun, though; I never enjoyed my old job more than during the two weeks I knew I was done. Hopefully you can manage the start of the new one to still be home with the kids through the holidays.
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I feel that if hotel gyms even had everything my regular gym did, I still wouldn’t get a good session in. Something about familiarity just makes me more ready to attack.
I guess there aren’t any branch-type gyms that you regularly see in the places you travel to? Would be cool if you could pay a fee that gets you into all of them.
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I could…
I’ll explain something in here Monday afternoon that changes things anyway.
Meanwhile… what to do in the gym today? I might look at the old I, BB stuff. That was fun
So my bank offers this thing called “active & fit,” which is a multi-gym membership like you suggested @cdep89. I signed on for that today and went to a different gym that was kinda fun.
My wife just started at this incredible concept that’s a gym and hotel and sports complex with an events center and restaurants and everything. She’s on their first leadership team, which is huge for career opportunity for her, and the gym part should open in November. Obviously that’s where I’ll go then; I’m excited for her and for what the place will bring to the town (it needs it).
I started the CT I, BB thing, but then just wasn’t having fun at all. I went straight back to a MD leg workout with no ragrats. Not lifting consistently and planes, trains and automobiles have caught up - everything felt terrible. I was maturerer than normal and backed off a little. I’d also just finished a 5-mile dog walk, so maybe that tightened my legs up rather than loosened them.
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Top 1/2 OH Press from pins
Worked up to 225/3 -
Incline
Did a few sets of 3 and just wasn’t into it -
Seated Leg Curl
40/20
70/10
90/8
110/6 + 80/4 + 60/5 -
Squats
This is where everything fell apart
45/8
135/6
185/6
225/6
275/6 —> felt absolutely awful
135/ quite a few. Just working to get my legs feeling solid under me. I think I got it there after awhile. -
Leg Press
1pps/6
3pps/20 x 3 -
RDL
135/10
185/10
235/10 -
BFR Leg Extension
1 w/u, then 4x15 w/ 30s rest -
Adductor Machine
3 x 10
Felt like this was the problem on squats, so I want to address it. Do I do it before or after squats is the question??
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You sound like you need a bit of a reset and break to refocus. Hopefully get your head and mojo back.
Just an observation, but maybe it’s all the travelling etc.
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You, sir, are 100% correct. There’s a couple other things that have my head not completely right, and the travel has been absolutely brutal the last couple months. Hopefully we’ll get back right moving forward.
I really appreciate the big picture check-in.
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Depends on how you use it IMO.
If you simply need to warm these muscles up, use it before. If it’s a weak point (which it sounds like it is), then probably afterwards… don’t sweep the bad leg, ya know?
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Great point. It’s definitely weakness, so I’ll use it to build some muscle later in the session
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Oh what a tease
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I have been using Cossack squats as a warm up instead of using the abductor machine and they seem to loosen me up really well. I do love the machines but I like to grab the squat rack when it’s free so so all my warm ups in there on leg day.
Have you been doing more sitting than usual or any change in normal patterns? Might be causing stiffness.
But try unweighted Cossacks to warm up with and see how they feel.
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Definitely a ton more!
The Cossack squats are a good idea - thanks. I’d totally forgotten about those, but they could certainly be helpful. That’s something I can play around with with my kids at home too.
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Ok, team, don’t worry: I’m still freaking awesome.
I’m intrigued by the body part specialization stuff lately, and @Andrewgen_Receptors just wrote that he’s looking on a similar track for arms, so that’s what I’m playing with.
Got a day of logging to catch up on. Not written, but always happening, is 45+ minute dog walks. These are training walks, so it takes some effort, but it’s not terrible. I am adding a weighted backpack because I can’t get my heart rate up anymore; basically I’m just barely no longer the least healthy person on the planet.
I’m counting Saturday’s leg workout for this week, so we’re in good shape there. I won’t be able to lift tomorrow, so that caught that day up.
Back
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Meadows Row
-/8
25/8
50/8
75/8
85/8
100/8 -
One-arm BB Row
50/8
75/8
85/8
100/5 -
Straight-arm Pulldown
80/8
100/10 x 2 -
MAG Pulldown
Focus on stretch
100/12 x 3 -
Leg Raise
4 sets -
Calves
10 + 10 partials + 10s stretch x 3 sets
Tibia raises in between
Chest & Shoulders
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Machine Press
40/8
60/4
80/4
100/4
120/8
140/8
160/8
180/8 -
Incline
45/8
135/8
185/8
205/6
165/15 -
Low Incline DB
75/8
75/8
75/6 + 60/6 + 50/6 -
Incline Pronated DB Flye
25/8 x 3 -
DB Rear Delt
20/20 x 4 -
DB Lateral
25/8 x 4
45s rests
So our last few weeks have been weird:
- I’ve been on the road for 5 weeks, which is a bit much.
- A dog got into our yard, and our dogs were not kind to it, which wasn’t good. We were stressed about it but got them signed up for some training that will hopefully help; they are not aggressive dogs but they are huge and are starting to “resource guard”.
- The bigger dog also has something going on that’s making his face swell up. Prednisone helps, so no surgery for now.
- My wife got an awesome new job at a giant gym/ event center/ hotel concept that’s opening, and may even be able to absorb an additional role under her. It’s awesome for her to see what she’s capable of.
- Someone I used to work with made me an offer to build something exciting at his new company. I simply could not refuse. I had no intention of leaving the job I’m in, and really like the team, but here we are; I turned that resignation in yesterday. It should at least be a little less travel.
- Most scary, my kids are starting to sniff around at puberty; I am grossly unqualified for this next phase!
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Seems to be going around these days… Congratulations!
This too—we’re not that far away here, I fear. Let me know when you get it figured out, huh?
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You too on the job? I missed that! Where ya headed?
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I moved from a small, 450-employee company to a large, 25K+ multinational about a month ago—doing similar work at the end of the day, but with a potential for much greater impact!
It’s been a pretty smooth transition, all things considered. Here’s hoping you have a similar experience as yours gets underway!
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Excellent! I’m actually going the opposite direction: to a smaller, younger company. Time will tell
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