SquirlzEdge’s BodyBlog

I moved up to Northern Virginia!  So the new gym is taking a while to get used to.  Lost motivation during the move but I am sure it will come back.  Right now I am enjoying a nice vacation so maybe next month I will go on a real cycle.

this week was hard on the body at work.  Skipped all kinds of workouts.  but for some reason I was sore by Saturday.  Switching to a new protein…. FREAK FIX.  So far the first time I took it it was too intense.  I don’t think I will stay with this one. 

This was a light week.  I avoided the gym most of the week, going in maybe twice.  Today was a good workout though.  The chest workout revealed some pain in my left shoulder.  Deadlift cut up my hands too much so i didn’t finish all the sets.  I put a huge pump on my bicep today after speeding through tricep pulldowns. 

I forgot how much I have neglected some other exercises.  Today was a pretty decent workout.  Went light on seated cable rows for three sets of 12. Deadlift was ok … 135×8 275×8 315×6 365×2.  I was hoping for at least six reps on 365 but it just didn’t happen.  Ran out of gas.  next was reverse situps and side raises.  Then dips for three sets of 10, then pullups variations for three sets of 10.  On the last set of pullups I could feel the lack of training in the muscles.  And deadlift took too much energy from me.  So I had to stop my workout.  But verall I was pleased with todays workout. 

Geez, there’s just not enough time in the day.  I spent a good hour at least in the gym today.  I got the butterflys in and the deads, but that was pretty much it.  Hey, by the way, I ordered some shirts from Gaspari Nutrition,  should be in by the end of the week. 

for the last few weeks I have been scrambling to find gym time now that my semester is over.  So far I have managed to get it in after work about twice a week.  But since I am working nights I have a hard time making it in on the weekend because the gym closes at 5pm.  Oh well, at least I can get into the gym a little.  My workouts have degenerated into maintenence workouts.  Its cool though because I work hard for a living.  I managed to keep strength with less reps and heavier sets.  But I won’t do more than 3 or 4 sets of one exercise.  And the workouts are only 30 minutes at the longest, to include at least three different exercises. 

for the last few weeks I have been scrambling to find gym time now that my semester is over.  So far I have managed to get it in after work about twice a week.  But since I am working nights I have a hard time making it in on the weekend because the gym closes at 5pm.  Oh well, at least I can get into the gym a little.  My workouts have degenerated into maintenence workouts.  Its cool though because I work hard for a living.  I managed to keep strength with less reps and heavier sets.  But I won’t do more than 3 or 4 sets of one exercise.  And the workouts are only 30 minutes at the longest, to include at least three different exercises. 

for the last few weeks I have been scrambling to find gym time now that my semester is over.  So far I have managed to get it in after work about twice a week.  But since I am working nights I have a hard time making it in on the weekend because the gym closes at 5pm.  Oh well, at least I can get into the gym a little.  My workouts have degenerated into maintenence workouts.  Its cool though because I work hard for a living.  I managed to keep strength with less reps and heavier sets.  But I won’t do more than 3 or 4 sets of one exercise.  And the workouts are only 30 minutes at the longest, to include at least three different exercises. 

Friday was a work day so I went to the gym today, saturday.  I wasn’t able to visit the gym this week so I just used the equipment I have at the house.  But today was a good indicator that I need to switch gyms.  The owner’s sister shut off the lights and locked the locker rooms claiming that the gym was having septic problems.  But she let people work out.  eh… ok.  So i was able to deadlift and do a few sets of butterflies before I left.   deadlift was 135×10 225×6 275×6 300×6 320×6.  butterflies 25×10 35×10 45×10

Okay thursday I was too preoccupied with hunger to even think about working out when I got back into town from work.  So Friday i go in and do deadlift 135×10 225×8 275×7 300×6 and I felt like jelly the whole time.  This tells me that I need a midweek workout.  Then I go and do three sets of dips.  The seated butterflies were absolutely menacing!  I could barely finish a set of 10 at 70.  But I struggled through 3 sets anyways.  Then the tricep pulldowns were painful.  My tendons felt like they were going to pop.  I did 90×12 110×8 130×8 140×6.  Then I did seated rows, three sets.  the machine has numerical settings 1-16.  I did #8×10 #10×8 #12×8 #14×6.  I honestly felt out of shape the whole workout.  But I surprised myself with the deadlift.  I honestly didn’t think I would make it through that one.  So saturday I did curved barbell curls, dumbell lateral lifts, dumbell frontward lifts, dumbell overhead press, machine seated press ups, cable butterflies, and ran two miles at 9 minute pace for cardio.  My back is sore from Friday.  I don’t know if I will work out on sunday.