A Peek into the Mind of GeminiJedi

Yes, leg day with the new torture routine (super sets, dropsets, and tempo torture tossed in a bed of iron) has caused some major DOMS for me.  And lucky me gets to sit all day in class.  Calves are still tight (they’ve been that way since we did them), hams are cranky, and glutes are still tender.  Last night after work I was really feeling my rhomboid from the seated rows.  This morning it’s not as bad–we’ll see what tomorrow brings.  Traps are feeling it more than my delts–but we haven’t directly worked traps via shrugs in a while.  So, yea….DOMS two days later is more fun than I can handle lol.

It’s official.  Yesterday I declared that I’m sick of salads.  And I am.  Yet here I am, eating yet another one for lunch.  I forgot my tuna packet at home, so I’ll have to find something on campus.  Unfortunately it will probably be a 8-pack of Chic-fil-a nuggets.  They’re lightly breaded, and cooked in peanut oil, so they’re better than they could be, but still not great.  Boy are they tasty though!  lol  And I won’t give in to bagel cravings today.  Taste-wise it hit the spot, but really wasn’t very fulfilling.  *sigh*  That really sucks.  OH! and I forgot my eggs with breakfast this morning, so protein intake is low today, so I really should get some of those nuggets.  Otherwise food has been pretty good.  My jaw hurts from chewing so much gum yesterday.  Or should I say, chomping gum yesterday.  I figured it was better than munching, and is a bit of a stress reliever.  And the new, purple packaged, Mixed Berry Trident is FANTASTIC!  Hits the sweet spot, but is sugar free.  Hooray!

Online homework.  Not so bad, meaning I didn’t have to buy another calculus book (I have 2 already), but bad when the server goes down.  Stayed up until 11-something last night hoping it would come back up, no dice.  Woke up at normal time to see if it was back up, no dice.  Still no workout, though.  Not a bad thing, since now my legs are FRIED, though it would have been chest/biceps, but still.  Nothing like an extra 2 hours of sleep

I know, I live in Colorado.  It’s supposed to snow and be cold and actually have a winter.  I actually do like winter (moved to Tucson briefly to get away from winter, came home for Christmas, decided  I actually missed it, and moved home 2 weeks later–just long enough to give work enough notice lol) but I can grumble when it’s been pretty mild up until my wedding day :/  Yes, right now we’re getting DUMPED on with some light fluffy stuff, but it’s kind of slick seeing as CDOT forgot about the roads again.

This morning’s workout was fine.  I wasn’t horribly grumpy or cranky this morning.  Had a very nice wake-up call, though.  It always helps to start the day off right.  ANYWAYS, here’s today’s workout.  We skipped abs since we got there late and I went in to work early to help the sick boss out a bit.

2-0-2, Pec-Deck Rear Delt (Flat/Prone Grip) - 4×12: 30/30/30/20 (poor little delts got tired!)
1-0-1, Partial Dips - 3xFail: BW×12, 12, 13 (HOORAY! never been able to do them before )
A: 2-0-2, BB Bent Rows (Supine Grip) - 2×12: 65/75
B: 1-0-1, BB Shrugs - 2xFail: 65×15/75×12
1-0-1, DB Shoulder Press (Palms In) 3×12: 20/20/20 (in each hand)
A: 2-0-2, Seated Rows - 2×12: 60/60
B: 1-0-1, Drop Set/Partials - 2xFail: 50×12ish/50×7
A: 1-0-1, 1 Arm DB Overhead Tri Ext - 3×12: 17.5/12.5/12.5 (yea, no shoulder stability)
B: 1-0-1, 1 DB Tri Kickback - 3xFail: 10×15/10×12/10×12

Soooo….yea.  I’m pooped.  Work sucked with the floater who was horribly ditzy, and the computer died (the one we use most often, of course) and it took the Help Desk 6 hours to tell me that–I already knew that, and is why I called, but whatever.  I’m really feeling my traps right now.  And rear delts.  Time for food and a hot soak I do believe.

Now that I’m better fed and more rested (thank you calculus and crappy 10mins-at-a-time nap afterwards…) here’s a real recap of this morning’s workout, with thoughts as I can remember them.

Supersets as A/B
A: 2-0-2, Standing Calf Raises - 4×12: 80/80/90/90 (what, you mean super setted?  so not in the mood for legs…)
B: 1-0-1, Seated Calf Raises - 4×12: 50/50/55/55
A: 4-0-4*, Seated Leg Curls - 3×12: 60 (wussing out)/75/75
B: 4-0-4*, Seated Leg Extensions - 3×12: 40/40/40 (4 tempo makes my quad feel like it’s balling up too much and it hurts.  I get a much better burn with 3 count.  And I do not want to do two days of these…)
A: 2-0-2, Smith Hack Squats - 2×12: 50/70 (not so bad…70lbs is good…Oh that’s a new spot.  me likey)
B: 1-0-1, Smith Hack Partials - 2xFail: 50×20/70×14
A: Close Stance Leg Press - 2×12: 205
B: Close Stance Drop Set - 2×12: 180 (I am NOT doing another one of those…)
Cable kickbacks–3×12:35/35/30 (better range of motion with 30lbs)
*will be done as 3-0-3 from now on.

So yea, not so bad.  I was in a pretty cranky mood until the Smith machine hacks.  After leg press ickiness I stood with my back against the cold mirror for a long time before I got that deadlines and goals thought and finished the workout.  I seriously thought I was done.  Kind of proud of myself for fighting through, in all honesty.  I really wish I didn’t feel as sick.  My boss called out sick yesterday with the same crud.  I was fine at work until about 5:30 yesterday and felt miserable again.  Not feeling terribly hungry still, but I know I need to eat.  Geh!

Disclaimer:  partial thoughts (like partial reps) is all I’m capable of at the moment.

I was all set for back/tris today, but no.  "It’s been 3 days since I’ve done legs," he said.  "Yes, you," I replied.  "I would rather do back."  We didn’t do back.  I was so not in the mood for legs today.    Did the new leg workout.  Meandered through it.  Smith hacks are the best part.  I don’t want to do 2 days of slow extensions with the other routine and this.  Squat and press till you puke.  Still not feeling 100%.  Owie glutes, in a good way.  I really didn’t want to do cable kickbacks at the end, but I have goals and deadlines, so I did.  Damn this better work.

So our latest round of torture involved lots of "owie biceps" but I wish I hadn’t worn long sleeves afterwards to work because the pump looked so good!  lol  I suppose making this the "strength day" is acceptable, and still using the slow tempo days of this old workout.  It’s 10:30pm, workout started (late) around 5:45am, ended at 7, and my biceps still hurt.  So now that my brain has been fried by orthogonal vectors and unit vectors and intersecting and parallel planes (anyone any good at third semester calculus?  "Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi [Calculus Master], you’re my only hope!") I’m going to sleep so I can say "owie triceps/yay pump!" in a few hours.

I’m hoping tomorrow is a better day than today.  Yesterday at work I felt blah and came home and slept.  We meant to go hang out with some friends, but I started a nice fever, so that was quelched.  Woke up queasy and had every intention of working it out with a leg day, but once I started getting dizzy that put a stop to that plan.  Called in sick to work, too.  SOOO here’s hoping it’s just a 24 hour bug and that tomorrow will be a better day.

Hubby is contemplating how to kill me next…ok, not really.  He’s just writing the next workout.  Honestly, I’m liking this one now.  Really.  It’s just fine, thanks.  Sometimes I don’t think he gives enough time per routine, but that’s just me, and the fact that his body really likes to stay where it’s at so he has to change it up all the time.

This has to be part of my cat’s grand evil plan to get rid of me.  But then who would feed him?  Certainly not Hubby!! Oh no, he’s put the cat on portion control. Granted kitty is super lovey dovey now, but I know it’s just because he wants more food in his newly downsized bowl…

Pretty good workout this morning.  I bumped everything, which was good, but I think I was a bit zealous with my left shoulder.  It’s my small one (visibly.  It’s from being right handed and using my right shoulder a lot at work) so it felt good to bump the weights, but on the last exercise–skull crusher/pull-over superset–it rolled a bit and was done.  We changed high pulley lat pull downs to regular lat pull downs (before the roll) so I think it was just worked differently and was tired and that’s why it decided to be stupid.  It doesn’t feel like it’s horribly hurt, just cranky and done.  BUT, we made it through the workout, so that’s good.  Legs tomorrow so the shoulder has a rest day.

This year has started off pretty darned great.  We’ve been uber consistent with our workouts (maybe not going 6 days in a row, but going 4 or 5 then day off then back on track) and I’ve been pretty good with my diet.  Ok, that first week I had a cheat item daily, but last week and this week I’ve had 3 cheats total.  And closing out this week I really don’t want cheats anymore.  I even managed to walk down the ice cream novelty isle in the grocery store today without being tempted!  Cooking ahead has actually started to grow on me.  We didn’t work out this morning, though, because I meant to cook some last night, but we watched Family Guy’s "Blue Harvest" (aka Star Wars spoof!) and fell asleep instead so we slept in a smidge and went to the store to get eggs and milk so I could cook food for today.  I have new pairs of dress pants for work that are size 1 and perfect   I’m really excited, and quite proud of myself for sticking with this.  It’s been long enough now that I’m really starting to see results.  I’m not as squishy as I thought I was, though there is more than I need for shoot/show.  I don’t base my progress off of what the scale says, though I definitely have a preference for where I want to be.  It’s been moving to the smaller numbers, but my strength remains so that means that I’m losing fat and not muscle.  YAY!  In the next year or so I’m definitely wanting to gain more muscle so that when I compete next year I will not be a stick.  I know this comes with time.

Also thinking that the workouts aren’t going to be exactly the same anymore  It’s nice in that we can keep workout times reasonable and spot each other, but as he said in his blog, our goals are starting to change a bit.  I’m jumping into competing faster than he is (he has a year more than I do of working out) so while I’m working on dieting down, seeing where I’m at and competing, getting feed back, and going from there, he is still focused on building more before he starts dieting down for competition.  It’s ok, though, because I may just start following Doneker’s workouts more, or doing what she and I have done in our workouts.  The higher reps I think would be good for me, but Adam tends to lose size when doing more than 12 reps.  I’m excited to build my own workouts.  He’s been trying to get me to do it for some time now.  Yes, another good idea on baby’s part ;P
Time for class now, so I’ll pop back on in a couple hours.