Ludlum3k’s BodyBlog

Despite being down in the dumps for various reasons, I was able to pull off a crazy back workout which left me more pumped than ever. Thanks to my Shock Therapy, which always gets my mind set right for the gym, I was able to temporarily forget about my troubles and work my back harder than ever. Rather than attempt some terrible pullups like I did last week, I decided to go about it a different way; by doing heavy lat pulldowns that will hopefully help bring me back up to standard so I can do pullups in the future. I was able to do a few straight heavy sets, but on my last set, once I reached failure I did a rest-pause and then flipped the grip and banged out a couple more reps. Next was bent barbbell rows, which were great. I forgot to mention that in almost every exercise today I used the rest-pause technique, as I’ve discovered it works well for my back. Barbbell shrugs were next as usual, followed by wide-grip seated cable rows and finally straight-arm pulldowns.

Friday, September 14, 2007
Shock Therapy
Pulldowns
2×12x80
6×150
2×6x160
4×140 -> 4×160 (r.p)
Bent BB rows
2×10x135
2 x (6×135 -> 4×135)
BB shrugs
4×15x225
20×135 -> 20×135 (r.p)
Seated cable rows
2 x (10×100 -> 8×100 -> 6×100)
Straight-arm pulldown
3×15x40

I’d like to just say a little bit about how I feel about things right now. Although I’m in a very depressed mood right now, I find comfort in the fact that I can always count on the gym to help me out. I know it’s corny, but even when I’m feeling lower than ever, once I enter the gym, I feel like it’s my temple, where I can forget my troubles of the outside world, where all I have to worry about is completeing my sets, getting stronger, getting better, feeling better about myself, clear out my aggression, and feel like I belong. Many people don’t understand it, they just think I’m a gym rat who just wants to get bigger to support an ego, they think that of everyone in the gym. But I don’t give a ****, I’ve learned to leave the ego at the door, I don’t care what others think of me there. When I’m in the gym, it’s just me and the weights, the other people there are just obsticles, some who wanna judge me, but I don’t bother caring about that. The weights are my friends, the ones I can always count on. I can slam em down, do whatever, and they sit there waiting for more. Like the sayin from the famous YouTube video "Bodybuilding: A Life Style" ‘friends may come and go, but two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds’ - Henry Rollins. I believe this, and it’s why I never want to quit this lifestyle. No matter how much pain I suffer from it, how much time it takes, how much money it takes, or if people close to me don’t like it, I LOVE IT!!! And I wanna thank the whole bodybuilding community, including everyone here at BodySpace, for giving me this feeling, and especially those who know how I feel, Thak You all…

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