September 30th. Back.
I had a really good back workout last night. I was talking to this little buff asian guy about deadlifts. He seems to keep his legs a lot straighter than I do, but he is also much more flexible than me. The fact that I am not at all flexible hinders me in a multitude of ways, and has long been a concern of mine in regard to potential injury when training or doing cardio. One of my new years resolutions this year was to become more flexible, but I still haven’t done anything to lead me in that direction. My sister is a yoga instructor, so I think that back in January I thought I would just take her class occasionally and work on it, but I never did. So now when I try to deadlift, I have to bend my knees just to get any kind of range of motion, and I’m not sure if it’s better to bend my knees to have a better range of motion, or keep my legs straighter and use the motion that I’m capable of. In any event, becoming more flexible will be the best solution, but that isn’t going to happen overnight. I have never touched my toes before, isn’t that sad?! I’ve always claimed to be the least flexible person in the world, and there are some people who know me that would probably agree lol. But my workout was good nonetheless, and I feel like my back is really getting thicker, wider, and more detailed. My lats are really starting to come in and insert pretty low, and I’m happy with the progress I’m making, but still not satisfied with the finished product.
Barack Obama is here in Reno today, right across the street from my house actually! I can look out my window and see him doing his speech in the quad on the UNR campus across the street, so it is packed here! I was supposed to be working at the rally, helping to sell Obama towels and memorabilia, but it didn’t work out. The guy told me he would call me at 10pm last night, and to plan on meeting him at 530 this morning to get it all set up, but he never called last night, and didn’t return my call at 1030 either. Then I woke up this morning and tried again, but couldn’t get in touch with him, so finally I just went back to bed. It seemed silly to be going over there at 530 if nobody was going to be there. Of course, once I was asleep they FINALLY tried to reach me at about 715 this morning, but I was out!!! So I missed the opportunity, which is a bummer. It was just a one day gig, but they were going to pay me pretty well for working for a few hours, I would have gotten to be a part of history, and be on tv, and if I did a good job I may have been invited to go on the campaign trail for the last 5 weeks to help out at the rest of the rally’s leading up to the election. So it would have been a great opportunity if I could have communicated better with the organizer, but I know he had a million things going on, so it was really my fault.
This week is very stressful, but working out is making me feel better, and my diet has been really clean since last Thursday. I still need to do ab work, but maybe tonight I will do it when I go to do my shoulders. Consistency and dedication are everything, and I need to be better about both.
