b.spencer’s BodyBlog

It’s been a pretty good month all things considered. 

I was on vacation for about 10 days.  Even so, I still cut my BF% a few tenths, while gaining some muscle.  While my actual size additions have been barely noticable (1/8" or so on everything in the last month), almost everyone in the gym noticed that my vascularity is much more pronounced since I changed to my current set of workouts.  I’ve also noticed that I tend to use more weight with the same number of reps that most guys my size at my gym, in most lifts.  And they’ve been doing this for a very long time.  (Well, everything except for chest, which seems to be my nemesis.  I’m focusing in on it for the next month.  Gonna work it hard and see what happens.)  I’m gonna up my calories a but too and see if I can gain more.

I just got back from the ortho docs office who reviewed my lumbar scans.  In short, they are confident that this will heal completely without intervention beyond an NSAID.  I may even be able to add above chest presses, standing shoulder sets, and squats back to my routines in 6 mo-1 year if I work hard on abs and lower back strength in the mean time.  It’s a big, big relief.