Sweat Rag

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[quote]mojo75 wrote:
It’s so good to hear about someone who’s happy with life in general. :slight_smile: Ya know I do believe you and mylissa have an important day coming up soon? If i remember correctly ya’ll met on the 28th of this month, correct?
That just so happens to be my B-day as well. :slight_smile: so happy ya’ll are so happy.[/quote]

Ahhh… February… the month of memories…

My ex’s Birthday
Valentines Day
Speed Weeks @ Daytona
My Divorce Day
My Oldest Daughters Birthday
Lissa and I’s first cup of coffee… 27th…

and now… Mo’s Birthday…

This month is getting kind of crowded… and expensive… :slight_smile:

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LOL awww you’re so sweet but really you don’t have to get me anything!!! well nothing sparkly anyway!!! LOL
it is a busy month for you huh…hopefully the good outweighs the bad.

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Monday morning… blah… started out with a bang… traffic held up on the way to the gym due to a head on collision on the bridge with fatalities. So we arrived late and the gym was cold as hell… no heat, so I decided to make some of my own… arrived at work and none of my online accounts work anymore but this blog… seems my old Comcast email account has been deleted so everything is bouncing back with errors… sounds like a fun time wading through all my accounts now… Monday is coming at me hard but it best take it’s best shot because this weekend, we go racin’…

Monday Leg Warmers

Warmup
Stretching

Giant sets
Good Mornings - 135, 135
BB Squats - 135, 185
1 Leg 45* Press - 6P, 6P
Bulgarian Splits - 135, 185

Triset
Good Mornings - 185, 185, 185
BB Squats - 225, 316, 365
1 Leg 45* Press - 8P, 10P, 12P

Superset
Leg Extensions - 175, 205, 220, 235
Leg Curls - 175, 205, 220, 235

BB Calf Raise - 8P, 10P, 10P

stretching on empty sled… another week begins

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Monday, Monday…Nice job on the intense giant set work Rick, that’ll produce some heat. Hope you get the online accounts sorted out, what a pain.

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[quote]Led wrote:
Monday, Monday…Nice job on the intense giant set work Rick, that’ll produce some heat. Hope you get the online accounts sorted out, what a pain.[/quote]

Yeah… sucks… wouldn’t be so bad but I did all this a month ago when we moved…

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There are days when I enter the gym and it would make no difference either way whether I went straight to the shower or straight to the bar… this morning was one. I usually am confident in my back routine, but this morning I found myself looking at every bar with doubt… wondering if I should just short count it… or drop the weight… take longer breaks.

I looked around and everyone was standing around talking between sets… no intensity, just middle of the road work… enough work to make the trip worthwhile, but not really investing anything to the iron… I have two new friends that have started asking questions of my routine and diet… they are younger… stronger… one just coming out of surgery for a rotator cuff injury…

I suppose I should be thankful that was him and not me… but as I looked around, saw the herd… I realized, I stand out… I am not one of them… in the gym I am a loner… I am there to work the iron… I pay my dues… I give honest effort most days… rarely am I not pushing my limits… it is the discipline I suppose… it follows me out of the gym to the table… I eat like I train… it shows… where they make no progress, over time, my body is changing… slowly…

I have developed the patience to wait on it… trust the training and trust the diet… for me it works… so with that realization weighing on my mind, I went to work… and the sweat rolled off my brow. It was good effort… and I was satisfied… for today.

Tuesday Back Breaking routine

Warmup
Stretching
Rev Pec Dec - 100 x 20
Dead hang WG Pullups - 5, 3 with side obliques

T-Bars - 2P(15), 3P(12), 4P(10), 5P(10), 6P(8), 7P(4)(PR)

Superset
BO BB Row(6-8) - 135, 185, 225, 240
Stirrup Pulldowns(8-10) - 160, 160, 180, 200

Superset
Seated Row(6-8) - 180, 200, 220
HS Iso Pulldown(6-8) - 225(10), 315, 365

BB Shrug(10) - 2P, 4P, 6P, 8P(Drop), 6P(Drop), 4P(Drop), 2P

HS Iso Press Burnouts - 4P(8), 4P(8), 4P(6), 4P(5)

sweatin like a pig…

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That’s an unusual gym you go to. Every gym I’ve ever been to, lots of other guys are bigger and stronger than me. They lift twice the weight I do, and it’s so easy they don’t have to struggle at it. I work very hard, but it’s very rare anyone asks my advice.

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[quote]cavalier wrote:
That’s an unusual gym you go to. Every gym I’ve ever been to, lots of other guys are bigger and stronger than me. They lift twice the weight I do, and it’s so easy they don’t have to struggle at it. I work very hard, but it’s very rare anyone asks my advice.[/quote]

Small town commercial gym with mostly machines and cardio cows… small section on one end with free weights… but it is open 24/7 so when I get there between 4 am and 4:30 every morning, it is mostly empty except for the same crowd doing their thing… I would say there are probably 3, maybe 4 serious lifters in our gym… and by serious, I mean consistent… I have yet to see anyone other than myself pull 400+ off the floor or squat with 400+ on their back… a couple will bench 315… but that is mainly because that is all they work… that and curls…

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Train insane or remain the same

Gym resolutioners are starting to stick around this year… lot of fresh blood swinging and swaying all over the place, jumping around doing circuits, and tag along trainers following a few… I am mostly oblivious to this, but sometimes you catch bits and pieces of conversation, or see something so flagrantly wrong that it breaks the concentration.

I am having a lot of trouble with my phone/pandora of late and it is starting to become a distraction in and of itself… I helped a couple guys today with a diet plan… the one guy that is interested is a police investigator who is built like a tank, but could stand to lose about 40 or so… He seems genuinely interested so I gave him a printed copy of the Scivation cut diet… maybe it will stick…

Sweated like a stuck pig this morning… I can feel the delt getting stronger by the week, although it has one spot in it that is a shooting pain if I am at the wrong angle… I brought back my DB bench and started leaning on it a bit to see where we can establish a foundation… upper body gets renewed focus… The crossovers is what brought the attention to the delt… I was able to reach down and pin 65 in the stack on each side today… the control and focus was pretty solid… it surprised me a bit

Warmup
Stretching
Rev Pec Dec - 100 x 20

Superset
BB Bench - 135, 185, 225, 245(4)
Crossovers - 100, 100, 130(PR)

Incline Bench - 185, 185, 225(6)
Decline Bench - 225, 225, 275, 315(2)

Flat DB Bench - 55, 65, 75, 85

Flyes
45* - 45, 45, 45
Flat - 45

Superset
Crossovers - 100, 100, 100
DB Pullovers - 80, 90, 100

Pec Dec - 175, 205, 220

Smoked…

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Beat the dog crap out of my shoulders today… had a major sweat going on by the end. I started out slow because I was weak and shaky like my blood sugar was low and I forgot my XTEND at the house, so I was sucking down the water and as I started warming up, I kinda just grew into this workout… Lots of work up top today… not as heavy on the Military press, but a lot more time under the bar… 44 sets in all… I think I left my arms hanging on the bar this morning.

Warmup
Stretching
Rev Pec Dec 100 x 20 x 1
HS Iso Press - 100 x 10
Military Press - 95 x 10

Triset - 8 reps per
DB Side Lat Raise - 25, 30, 30
BB Front Raise - 40 40, 40
DB Rear Delt - 45, 45, 45

Standing Military Press(8-10) - 95, 95, 135, 135, 135, 155, 135, 95, 135, 135

Triset (8-10) per set
Rev Pec Dec - 100, 130, 130, 145
HS ISO Shoulder Press - 200, 200, 250, 250, 200, 200, 200
HS Iso Pulldown - 250, 250, 290, 340, 340, 290, 290

Burnouts
DB Pullovers(10) - 80, 90, 100
BB Shrugs(2 sec. Hold) - 225, 315

Smoked shoulders… Just in time for Speed Weeks… 81* on Saturday for the Bud Shootout…