Bring the pain
It has been awhile since my last post so I figured we would recap the happenings first. New Years was as good as expected in a deployed location, pretty boring. Got to call home ansd talk to my girl and my kids, which is always awesome. Been still hitting the gym, little harder than usual though. This week I have been doing my normal workout and adding a burnout to it. For instance Monday (chest), my partner and myself did what we call the crazy eights, flat bench at 135 for 13 stes of 8, only resting while the other was on the bench. Killer pump and exteme burn. Tuesday (bicep), I did ran through my norm adding a quadruple drop-set on my dumbell preachers, same affect as Monday. Wednsday (tricep) quadruple drop-set of v-bar pushdowns. Thursday (LEGS), my favorite day, leg press drop set, ran twelve plates for eight down to only six plates…..almost fell over when I stood up, but its all good. Yesterday was shoulders and traps. My partner and I changed things up a bit. We superset front and side raises on the cable tower. From there we did four sets of dumbell presses, going over to the smith rack we did four sets of behind the neck presses. Then we did some bent over cable laterals for the rear delt, ending shoulders with rope pulls???? I dont know what they are called ecactly, saw them in a magazine. Now for the real fun…traps. We decided to go fro the trifecta…front rear and side shrugs. Front we started at 135, increasing every set, ending at 405. Rear shrugs we stayed at 225, going for slow movement and a tight squeeze at the top. After that we finished with dumbell side shrugs. Started with 100’s for two sets, going to 110 for the next and then 120 for the last. As soon as we completed the last rep we drop the weight in half and repped out until we could go no longer.
Let me tell you right now my traps are barking, God I love the feeling. It has been awhile since I have done any burn outs and let me tell you it has been a pleasure. Just what I needed to get the year and new growth to start. My goals are in sight and I am focused and ready to kick some ass. All I know is that in order to grow and move forward we sometimes have to think outside the box. Pain is unavoidable and even a neccesary evil. I say "bring the pain", its the only way we can truly overcome our barriers and plateus. My buddy always tells me that pain is fear leaving the body, which if you think about it, he’s right. Too many times we hold ourselves back because we dont want to hurt or feel the pain. This is true in and out of the gym. I know that it was true for me…..until I learned to embrace it and kick it ass into submission.
Pain and hurt will always be a part of our lives, how we choose to deal with it is up to us. We can play it safe and steer away from it. Or, we could battle it head on and be better for it. The choice is yours….but remember this, without pain there is no pleasure. To become what we strive to be we have to take the good with the bad, the pleasure with the pain. That is the only way we can look back and say " I gave it my all and I am happy with the results"
Think about it….Keep pushing and stay Tuff
