TDetroit’s ramblings and nonsense

The girlfriend suggested some changes to the living room.  It required a table from the basement game room.  So then the game room has a big hole in it. 

 I decided to clean the game room and then got the idea to put all the excercise equipment the wife brought home over the years into that room.  (for those not up on things, I am not LDS, the wife passed last year). 

Well, now that the machines are in there, why not bring down the weights and floor matts from the bedroom.  Tada!  I have a workout room.

I christened it yesterday with some heavy upper body work.  Volume sets.  40 lb db inclined presses -8X10, 20 db inlcined flies -10X10.  Bicep curls, rowing machine, pullups etc.  then an hour of roller blading and back for some repeats. 

This is going to be cool.  I still have a lot of work to do to get the room in order, but it is useable now.  There are some toys to get out, and the drywall needs to be taped and painted and there is still some board to hang.  I plan to use the big mirror from my bathroom for the wall, and get two smaller mirrors for my bathroom.  Oh, plus I get to put a desk in my room to get my personal stuff out of my office.

It was right after therapy.  I swear the woman breaks me down intentionally.  It’s 10 minute drive to the gym from her office, I was still crying when I got there.  She told me that at my next Doc appointment, I need to ask for a higher dose of anti-depressants.  Apparently, breaking me down is too easy.

So I was there in the wrong frame of mind.  Sadness can make you weak.  You should try it sometime.  Hold your arms out (make a T with your body), think the saddest thought you can and then have a friend press your arms down to your sides.  You should try to resist while you think these thoughts.  Your frined will find it easy to press your arms down.  Then do it again while thinking happy thoughts especially thought about when you did something your are proud of.  Your frined will not find it so easy this time.  I saw a weak old man do it to Derek Engler.  He played fo-line or the New York Giants when they won the Super Bowl in 2000(?) or 99.  His positive thought was the touch down play that went through him.  O don’t remember the weak thought, but the old man pressed this giant’s arms down like the giant wasn’t even trying.

So, here I am in the gym, with teary eyes trying to lift.  I was embarrassingly weak.  Shit stuff I did for warm ups I couldn’t do the sets for a real work out.  I was doing 3×10 squats at 225 with a quarter rep between each rep.  (that’s a serious work out with those quarters)  All I did was 1×5 at 205 with quarters.

By the end, I had left it all on the floor, but these were not the lifts I was doing 2 months ago. 

The good news is that a bunch of the new tunes came up on the iPod.  So that cheered me up.  Hungryy for Heavan by Dio.  If you only knew…  No, I don’t want to die, I just want to go see Audrey.  It would be nice if there were visitation rules or at least a phone call once a year.

Surfacing by Slipknot.  F*** you all!  that will pump you up.  It’s an angry song.  I believe that song ws playing just before the Premier took his oath to enslve all of us in equal poverty.  You goot alove that Joe the racist Biden was actually in charge for 10 minutes.  He’s the handler you know.  There are no elitist democrats who honestly believe a black man can hold the White House efficiently.  Not like us conservatives who have a dozen that we have lined up only to get shot down by dumb liberal voters.  Michael Steele was being groomed for the Presidency, but he MA idiots who vote blindly voted against him and derailed the dream.  The good news is no one shot Obama before the oath.  Could you imagine Biden in the big chair.  We would all have to move to Australia to escape the hypocrisy, and elitism, and aristocracy - and don’t forget he’s a racist.

Anyway, these are the thoughts in my head my head while trying to work out.  I was embarrassingly weak, but…. I was the big in the gym.  The DB’s at my end of the rack were all mine, no one elses.  The other guys were working out with light weights.  I didn’t see anyone breaking a sweat.  Then there are the lifts that I do.  These guys have apparently never seen bent over DB rows before.  Or Arnold Presses.  The squat rack was a bit confusing, but they have a sweet neck pad, it is so nice, it makes the changes of gyms more worth while than the money.  It actually has a valcro strip to hold it on.  Lifetime had these pad the just sor tof hung there.  I would spend so much time trying to keep them on the bar, it was a real pain in the ass.

The dead lift rack keeps the bar too high though, so I had to drag it to the middle of the floor to be able to get low.  I saw one guy doing DLs with 95 lbs.   When he was done, I warmed up at 135 and then did 205 for 2×10. 

By then end I felt good about myself and my weak work out.  I wonder I will run iinto any big guys on the weekends or nights when I go?  It was good to be the king for an hour.  I went home and got depressed for a couple of hours.

My gym membership at Lifetime expires in 4 days as planned.  I wanted to change gyms anyway.

The last few days, I’ve been using my DBs and the Perfect Pushup to start up again.  Today, I will hopefully finish 1 workout with the Perfect Pushup.  Half way done already - typing between sets - hold on…

Over the past few days, I’ve been doing DB bent over rows and DB raises with 40 lbs each.  Just seets here and there.  Looking and Bert Landry’s profile helped get me thinking right last night.  JeddiBB.  I was showing hiw workout to a friend - those are some amazing numbers.

I am not to the point of kicking my own ass like I used to though.  My mind is not right yet.  There are no consistant concentrations to keep me going.   Hold on…

It probably doesn’t help that these windows gadgets on the right of my computer screen include a slide show of just Audrey.  People are already trying to get me out there and seet me up. Like duh!  I am so not ready to think about other women.  Take your top ten BB.com model wanna be’s and bring them here for a strip tease - there would be no reaction - I don’t want them, I want Audrey.   Not that I would turn down the strip tease.

I am down 15 lbs.  Not too much to worry about, the 5 above 180 were just hospital food.  What a gig they have there.  When visitors come to visit the patients, the cafeteria turns the visitors into patients thus creating a never ending circle.  I talked to a lot of hospital personnel down in that basement over the two weeks I lived there.  They didn’t care much for the healthiness of the food either.  It’s like McYuckels with more variety and less expensive - so you buy more unhealthy food and cement your future-patientship in your arteries.

Hold on, time to do the first set of close position pushups - these are the hard ones, first set is 20…

2 sets to go, 12 and 8.

My head is spinning, wasn’t ready for this workout.  Maybe typing this blog is the distraction I need.

It’s my birthday today.  First happy birthday came in at midnight from Ultimate-Guitar.com  the second was from bb.com (10% off at bb.com store). 

There is a party at Audrey’s best friend’s house tonight.  Ev told me it’s just like last year where the kids all get to play and the adults sit upstairs.  Trouble is, I am not stupid, there was no party last year.  Audrey put Ev in charge of me.  Ev is supposed to get me hooked up and married right away so that I won’t be lonely.  That hurts to type it, you should see me when I say it.  I am going to have to have lunch with Ev, she needs to know that this is a promise she is allowed to break, since fulfilling it will only cause me pain.  My new paid friend told me I am in deep doodoo with women.  Apparently I like the mental abuse, if I married Audrey it must be true - this is the shrink talking here - because no one would date Audrey that long and maarry her for 15 years and refuse to get divorced unless that was true.

don’t blame Audrey, she was sick.  She needed me to help her, but I didn’t understand.  Not smart enough to figure it out.  I get to spend a lot of time in a small room talking to nice lady about my childhood.  Oh it sounds like so much fun, and it only cost $30 copay per hour.

hold on…

Damn, I get a lot of arm work from that close setting.  Head is spinning again.  Probably from not eating for a week and a half.  Just protein shake in the morning and a sandwich in the afternoon.  sometimes a later snack - slice of pizza or a muffin or a cookie.

The church sent a year of food to the house on Christmas Eve.  That will help the grocery bill.  I don’t have a place for this food though, it is stacked in boxes on top of the fridge, the kitchen table - I always wanted an island countertop in the kitchen, now I do.

Christmas presents everywhere.  With four kids and 2 churches and a set of friends and the school adopting our family, you bet.

Last set…

Sorry ladies, time for me to get dressed now.  Show’s over.  It was nice to wave to you.  Bye.

Well, there is no mom anymore, and I can’t be 2 poeple.  My son wanted to make some soup.  He boiled the noodles, but couldn’t strain them because the pan was too heavy.  So I strained the noodles, but to the weights we went.  You need to use these 8 lb orange ones here.  When you curl, make sure you get your elbows in front of your hips, etc.

Then my older one was playing on the computer.   He was hunched over.  time to take a break kid.  let’s hit the weights and talk about bent over DB rows.

Today my friend from high screwel came over to give me outlet.  Gave her a hug, I could feel she needed her back adjusted, so I did it.  She said "wow, how did you know that was hurting?"  I just do.  You need bent over DB rows, at 2 different inclines.  90 degrees bend at the waist to hit the mid rhomboids where that adjustment is at, and 25 degree bend to hit the upper rhomboids and improve posture.

Where did I learn all of this?  It just keeps coming to me as I train my own body more and more.  come here to look things up, and go to other websites to learn physiology and endocrinology.  I can tell you about supplements.  did you know Enzyte is a perfectly logical supplement.  If it doesn’t work for a man, then he has a problem that needs a doctor.  It is an estrememly logical pill.  the target is the niacin.  they want to increase the niacin for the sexual health, the zinc helps metabolize that, but zinc inhibits the metabolization of copper.  the copper inhibits the metabolization of the zinc.  so, they came up with an idea.  overload the zinc and copper, add a bunch of niacin and pray the body repsonds.  it’s a cool idea.  it should work.  then to make it expnesive, they added a bunch of useless stuff.

do you think I am over researching everything I do?

I’be been too busy to blog, but I did a few sets of situps.

Monday was 200 and Tuesday was 300 = 500

So I am at 2680.  Still have wednesday workout to go, so day 11 is not done yet.

I finally did it.  500 situps in one day.  that makes 2180 since I started 8 days ago. 

I feel great, but I will stop for tonight anyway.  I can do 500 more tomorrow. 

will it take only 14 days to do 6000?  I don’t know at this point, but I will still try to make it.  If I can do 500 per day for 6 more days, that’s 3000 so I will still be short by 820.

still need to step it up.

I finally did it.  500 situps in one day.  that makes 2180 since I started 8 days ago. 

I feel great, but I will stop for tonight anyway.  I can do 500 more tomorrow. 

will it take only 14 days to do 6000?  I don’t know at this point, but I will still try to make it.  If I can do 500 per day for 6 more days, that’s 3000 so I will still be short by 820.

still need to step it up.

I’ve done 250 so far today.  doing sets of 50.  really getting tight in the abs. number 49 is a killer and 50 takes it all out of me.

I have to go to a dinner soon, I’ll try to give it a go for a few more when I get back - would be nice to get to 350 for today.  Then tomorrow, I’ll get some done in the morning, and have to go to work on a basement for the better part of the day.  My cousin lives across the street from that house - they are having a birthday party for one of the kids at 4 pm - can you say taco bar?  I am there–

did 360 so far.  may do another set in a bit.  did 140  last night too.

so that is 930 +140+360 = 1430 to this point.  about 1/4 of the way through.  at this rate, it will take a whole month, but I got a slow start, and will finish much sooner than that.

more tomorrow

well, the wife was sick this morning, so I had "kids get on the bus duty".  Amid all the interruptions and speed cooking for my lunch, the microwave bit the dust, and my daughter gave me a whole lot of trouble regarding brushing her hair.  In the end, one of my sets of 60 was interrupted at 30.  Due to an appointment at work, which I ended up being 15 min late for, I only got in 140 instead of 170 or the wishful thinking 180. 

So, 790 + 140 = 930.  That’s where I stand on the morning of day 5.  If I can make up the 30 and get a 180 tonight, plus to 3 sessions each day of the weekend, I’ll be looking good to finish 6000 in 14 days.

I’ll have to wait 1 month to do it again and try to beat 14 days or wherever I finish.