TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

it’s funny how the doc’s don’t beleive me and need to do all the workup and x-rays, then it is bronchitis.

then I say, "so, i’ll need a scripp for a z pack" and they are looking at me like "who’s the doctor?"

hey, when you get the same thing every year for 15 years (that’s how long I’ve been married - I used to get that once every 2 years, but we figured that is where the kids come from, so now we don’t do that anymoe) you start to know the answers.

lead article on yahoo this morning.  Michael Phelps worksout 30 hours per weeks and typically eats 12,000 calories per day. 

DAYYUM!  I feel like puking at 3500 calories.  that’s just plain nuts.

hope he learns to adjust when he retires, otherwise he’ll need our encouragement to get back down to lean.  (I have to say, we a bb.com have a great record so far of helping folks get the fat off and get happy about their bodies - and booties [you didn’t think I could blog without mentioning sex did you?])

yup, I am now an "indefinite deferral".  high hemoglobin.  actually off the chart.

usually the cause is iron.  so I started to think about it.  where was I getting iron.

at the store, I was picking up my normal stuff and checking it for iron.  most seemed normal stuff.  maybe when you put it all together, it might add up to be too much.

then, there it was.  frosted mini wheats.  they are very good for you: fiber, complex carb, etc.  but the iron is 90% of the RDA for a 2000 cal diet - close to mine.  that’s a deal breaker.  after eating that, i can’t eat anything else for the rest of the day, because it’s too much iron already. 

so now instead of rotating 3 cereals, I will be rotating only 2.  I thought the raison bran would be high in iron, i thought the raisons had iron, but it’s only 25% of the RDA.  Cheerios is only 45%.

Remember, it’s only a problem if you have high red blod count, or hemoglobins.   if you are normal, eat some mini wheats for me.

the one in the avatar is from Oct or Nov last year. 

recently, everyone at the gym is asking me to spot.  well, the pic in the avatar does not look like someone you ask to spot.  I looked at the pic we took yesterday, and now I get it.  I ripped it up a bit.  Now I am seeing what everyone else is seeing. 

Mom, look what I made. 

I still see where there is a lot of work to be done, but it is better than it was 9 months ago.  I will post, hopefully tomorrow, a new avatar (forgot my camera chord)

the one annoying thing about the pic is that it is after I shaved my head.  so there is a white spot at my head.   I’ll either darken it up, or crop it.  it looks bad, I need a tan.

yup, I took it all off.

stripped down, stood in front of the mirror with the clipper in my hand.  closed my eyes, brought the clipper up and ran a line across the back of my head.

once you get past the initial moment of no return, it’s easy after that.  I mean you can’t walk around with a clipper line across the back of your head, so you might as well shave the rest.

it’s still a bit stubbly as I settle in to shaving over the next couple of weeks.  and it isn’t the same color skin, so I look a bit like ben stein. 

it’s weird, every cool breeze of air is like ice.  an when I put my head back on teh head rest in the car, there is supposed to be something there other than skin.

well it’s done now!

… for Bernie Mac

Amen

started on the arc trainer - 5 min at 45 resistance = 87 cals.  good to get the heart up, but not too much

bent over db rows 10 at 65, 8,8 at 70

flat bb bench 7 with quarter reps at 135, 4,3 at 155 with quarter reps.  damn, the quarter reps really shorten your workout.  if you do quarters, you get the same workout, but you are in and out fo the gym in no time

db shrugs 10,10,10 at 75 - i guess it’s time to switch to 80.  I was going to do a set, but can you believe it, there was a line waiting for the 80’s - 3 deep plus the guy using them

hammer curls.  went for volume, didn’t get much.  10 each arm at 30, then 5 and 3 each arm at 35  - it must have been the bench and rows that wore me out.

db raises 10, 10 at 45

laying tricep extensions. 10, 7, 6 at 80 bb.  working to get the triple 10 and then move up to 85.  maybe I should add some volume reps at a lower weight.

abs.  a superset of lumberjacks and declined leg lifts. lj 30, dll 18 with twists, lj 21, dll 9.  at this point I was definitely done.

went to smokin’ joe’s cigar shop puffed a St Loius Rey for a couple of hours

holy crap!  I learned a new way to create a burn.  it’s awesome.  get to that later.

Squats : warm up 1×5 at 135, 1×5 at 225.  then 3×7 at 315.  315 is getting easy, my spotters look board.  I am working on form and getting that last centimeter to get the quads level.

then I dropped to 235 and did 2×10.

Total weight lifted was 13, 125 lbs on the squat rack.  here is the kicker.  how to get a burn.  last time at the gym a guy was doing quarter reps.  he was doing db presses.  1/4 rep, then full rep. repeat.  I had to ask.  he said it’s awesome and really tears up the muslces.

so i did it on that last set.  holy crap!  i dropped down, did a quarter up, came back down, and then all the way up, repeat. when I got to number 8, I was burning.  quads, hammies, lower back, forearms holding the bar, calves.  everything was on fire.  2 to go.  down, quarter, down, up - my mind was screaming to stop.  down, get that last bit low- full level quad, quater, down, get to level- that last little bit, heave up.  it was awesome.

bb standing calf raises.  2×15 at 180.  this was the biggest i’ve ever done. and with the squats, I was on fire.

went to the benches.  lower back was dead.  no standing anymore, no bending anymore. 

so I did laying extensions at 80, for 10, 9, 8

wrist curls at 80 2×15

that’s it.  I left it all on the gym floor.

home

btw, I won the election.  I voted for myself.  needed one vote to win.  small towns…

… those weights aren’t going to lift themselves.

Back to the squat program.  Last week was 12,170 lbs on the squat rack.  This week, going for and additional 315×5 = 1575 lbs for a total of 13745 lbs all in a half hour.

All I have to do is make a phone call, head home, vote (hopefully I will vote for me), head for home, eat dinner and head to the gym.  then off to the grocery store, and back to the township hall, get the election results, then back home to e-mail the county party of the results from my corner of the world.

In the mean time, tonight at the gym will be the aforementioned squats plus, calf raises, soe hammie excercises (haven’t decided what yet) and I missed some tricep stuff last week. 

I’ll get back to the gym later in the week and get back on schedule.  3 day weekends are relaxing, but they sure do screw up a schedule.