ahhh, what a morning.
dit da dit dit dit, this just in: the wind in the D is blowing at ~40mph as the temperature has dropped in the last 12 hours from 50 degrees to 9 degrees. This is not pretty, but makes me glad I’m not driving a big SUV to work anymore. I saw several bigger vehicles veering all over the road every time the wind blew. That is all for your local BB.com weather forcast.
The power went out temporarily at some point during the night, so I didn’t know what time it was when the cat woke me up. The clock was blinking 1:30am. I assumed I was probably going to be late to the gym. I was actually 15 minutes early. Not bad for a cat without a watch! Well, she was probably waking me up because she needed her morning dose of Xtend and didn’t want to go catabolic. Unfortunately for her, I didn’t spill any this AM, so she’ll have to break into my whey stash while I’m at work.
When I did get to the gym this morning, I think I was a bit tired. I’ve been doing incline and flat bench on alternate weeks. I sat down on the flat bench and started warming up with some light reps. Then, I realized I was supposed to be doing inclines. Fortunately, no one was around that early so I wasn’t overly embarrased to switch to inclines after doing one light set of flat bench. "No, really, I was only planning to do one set - wooo, I feel buff now."
After that, I went on to some incline excitement. I was struggling a bit with the final set. Because I was early, there wasn’t anyone around to spot me. On the final rep, I got about halfway up before reaching that "oh no" zone where I realized that there was no way I was getting the weight back up to the rack and the only hope was to rest the bar on my chest. I dropped the bar gently onto my sternum and tried to recoup enough for that last rep. After about 15seconds of rest, and with awful form, I was able to push the weight up and rack it. Luckily, no one was watching yet (that I am aware of).
The rest of the workout was uneventful - working to failure on a lot of sets.
