Husker12’s BodyBlog

I tore my achilles tendon last night playing racquetball.  I was stretched out for a shot in a doubles game and another player stepped on the back of my leg, just above my ankle, and it just snapped.  Surgery is set for Friday.  The doc says I should be back to 100% within 3 months of surgery and will only have to do one month of rehab during the second month of recovery.  Here we go all over again, just 7 months after my ACL reconstruction.

Taking a week off.  Will probably still play some racquetball.  The knee is feeling pretty good although I did make some contact during a racquetball game today and it tightened up and was sore afterwards, feels better now, though.  The 4 weeks of strength-style training I think added some mass and strength, so I’m happy with that program and will probably use it again.

I like the new routine.  The first 5 weeks are almost identical to my favorite workout I used to do in college.  Week 5 is a half-volume week, and I was dead tired all last week thanks to New Year’s, so I think the timing is perfect.  I’m definitely looking forward to going to heavier weights and lower reps for the next 5 weeks because I feel like my strength, everywhere except my legs, has been stagnant for about 6 months now.  The surgery is mostly to blame for that, at least I’m back to my pre-surgery weight basically.  I have gained some fat from the holidays, but nothing 2-3 weeks of my regular diet won’t fix.

I need to start running - so I am.  I hate it and don’t plan on doing anything more than 10-15 minutes at a time or I’ll have a hard time building muscle.  The main reason for running now is that the doctor cleared me to start normal athletic activities with my knee.  Flag football league starts in June and I need to get back in shape if I’m going to play QB.  We’ll see how it goes.  So far, so good, ran 10 minutes post-workout today and felt fine, actually could have gone longer but didn’t.

Started my new routine.  I was pretty tired today but I thought the workout was kind of easy.  We’ll see how I feel tomorrow.  I did forget to perform one exercise - SM split squat - but I have that in as a burn-out type exercise anyway - something to fully fatigue my legs at the end of the workout.  I’ll make sure to do it next time.  Squats felt great, my knee is definitely progressing.  I even skated around yesterday at the rink across the street, screwed around with the stick and puck.  I’m way out of practice, that’s not like riding a bike, but I’m sure it’ll come back.

Taking a break.  Feel like I have a cold and I don’t think the full body program has been doing much for me lately.  I’ll start my 3-day split on Sunday.

So I’m up to 166 pounds now.  A good thing, really, although I would like to have my bf % a little lower.  I wonder if the weight gain was due to the holiday festivities, my decrease in volume over the last 2 weeks, or a combination.  I weighed in at 166 on Sunday, however, I never enter my body weight onto my stats unless I weigh myself at the same time I usually do, which is around 5:15 PM on a work day just before my workout.  I actually expected to be lighter today than I was Sunday, but I’m happy that it wasn’t a fluke (at least for the time being).

My right leg is being stubborn as hell to put some muscle back on, but I am making progress.  The squats feel better every workout and I am consistently increasing weight - slowly but surely.  The last thing I need is to mess up my surgery.

Anyway, I’ll be switching to a 3-day split in less than 2 weeks.  I love 3-day splits, although I’ve never tried this particular routine.  It is quite high in volume.  I even toned it back from what I originally planned.  We’ll see how it goes.

This last two weeks on the fully body routine should be good, except today I did the 3 sets of 18 reps workout, and man does that wear you out.  My heart was really pumping after every exercise except bench.  My shoulders couldn’t handle that number of reps and I failed to hit 18 on the last set, but I felt like it was a good workout.

Enjoying some planter’s punch right now, just got over a small cold and the OJ can’t hurt

I don’t know if it’s because I still can’t play any sports, but I just can’t seem to get rid of the last bit of fat over my stomach.  I can’t stand cardio and since my knee isn’t fully recovered, I can’t play racquetball or flag football or really do much of anything.  It also doesn’t help that I’ve been slacking on my diet. Nothing too bad, just not as strict as I used to be.  It’ll only get more difficult over the holidays to eat healthy (I can’t stop buying egg nog, love the stuff!).

I bought a pair of skates, though, and will be getting back into roller hockey.  Hopefully the doc will clear me to skate in a couple weeks.

I’m looking forward to ending this full body program, too.  I seem to love it at first and then get bored with it very quickly.  I’ll stick it out and finish the full 8 weeks, though.  I think I will create a program similar to what I used in college after I’m done with that - probably a 3 day split.

That thing is pretty cool.  Some bugs though, wouldn’t let me edit exercise #10.

Recumbent bike 5 min @ lvl 12

Flat BBBP 175×8x2; 175×6x1; 155×7x1

Squat 115×8x4

Chinup 8×3; 6×1

Lying Hamstring curl 100×8x4

Preachers curl rope hammer grip 60×12x3

Seated BB shoulder press 95×8x3; 105×8x1

Incline row to external rotation 5×12x2

Kneeling cable crunch 65×15x3

Recumbent bike 5 min @ lvl 12

Squat 135×5x4

Flat BBBP 195×5x2; 195×3x2

Chinup 35×5x3; 35×4x1

Seated BB shoulder press 135×5x3; 135×4x1

Seated calf raise 25×10x10

Incline DB hammer curl 20×8x2; 25×8x2