Week 27
Measurement week for the month. The progress continues for the most part, but my arms continue to be a disappointment in the measuring. This month they’re down a quarter inch from last month when they were up a little from the month before, and I thought that this month was the best month I’ve had so far with my arms. I’ve gone up a bit on the weight for some of the sets and thought it was making a difference. It sure looks like it in the mirror. Frustrating.
Other measurements are looking OK. Hips are down another half inch, waist is around the same, maybe down a bit; I was getting a couple of different measurements for my waist. Most everything else has stayed where it was. No gain, no loss. Again, frustrating. I thought I was having a good month. I guess I am just not going heavy enough, but I am going as heavy as I can manage at the moment. It looks like I am in a plateau, which is certainly proved by my weight, which has remained about the same all month, give or take a pound or two.
Took some progress pix and my back is looking better, I think. I made myself a home-grown chin-up bar last week and have been using that. Before that I was chinning myself on a beam in the basement. That worked, sort of, and I have been doing that only the last month or so. The homemade bar is a 3-ft length of half inch black iron pipe that I mounted to some floor joists in the basement. Simple, yet effective. And I also suck at them… It’s been years since I did any kind of pullups and it shows. I am embarrassed to say how few I can manage in one go. Like the other lifting, just have to keep at it.
