Azul’s BodyBlog

Everytime I leave this site…
…something pulls me back in, for that which I’m grateful!

Joining 2 new bodygroups will do that for you. ;D

Now onto that epiphany. Settle in cause you know (or shortly will) how I like to tell a story.

My mp3 player has been missing since Sat’s workout.  I made it through sunday’s because it was only back and I had the early closing of Gold’s to keep me moving. And of course my large can of Bookoos, a local Monster wannabe that i’ve come to rely on since I’ve gotten off the sauce, NoXplode, for the ‘required’ 4 week period. (i’m still dubious of that and always open to new evidence that contradicts that. lol.)

Anyways, I got through sunday’s workout telling myself that that player would eventually show up - my post workout routine Sat nite allowed for plenty of chances for it to get misplaced. I’d grown quite attached to it as it was my new fav item - my brother recently had me research new players for workouts and after finding that one I was so impressed I returned my year old player to BB (see, i’d bought the extended warranty - 2 years for $20 for a $150+ player? uh…yea! And no this isn’t the first time. shhh!) and upgraded from 2 gigs to 8gigs.
For those taking notes at home, it’s the samsung p2. Their first touch variety, with radio, text, video, etc. and bluetooth! Yea, u can sync your phone to it and anytime a call is received it’ll pause and play it through your headphones. Like I said the best non-ipod player i’d found for less then $200 to date. Bonus, when I sync my playlist from Media Monkey (best non-media player…er…player. But only music, no video playback) it copies the album art as well as the songs.

So yea, best ever to date. So again sunday I told myself, no big deal. I’ll be cool. Worst case I can use my blackjack and headphones till it pops up tho the headphones are proprietary and hard as hell to stay in your ear when you get sweaty.

So Tuesday rolls around and it’s leg day. I’d had a decent prep for it. I’d hydrated well. Decent meal a few hours before. And finished the Bookoos on the drive over.  For the most part, I was working my way through the squat fine and didn’t use my blackjack, content with the background noise of the GymNetwork on the overhead flatscreens.

But I began to notice a lack of… or absence. I’d worked up to 315 on squats, performed 2 sets of 8, searched my body for stress, and added 25’s after some thought. Got under that and worked a set. Thought about it some more, and swapped the 25’s for another 45’s and worked that set.

The oddity was that it took me an extra sec or two to get started on those last 3 sets.

My squat routine consists of stepping into the shadow of the box, touching my hands and chest to the bar, and pushing back. I’ll do this one, 2, 4 times sometimes till i’m amped up.

And it works.

By the 3rd or 5th time i’ve stepped up to the bar, I no longer see my hands but the HumanHammers of the Red Hulk (if you been keeping up with Marvel - you know by now that there IS a badder meaner Hulk). It is this Rulk that steps under the bar and bends it against his broad back as he drives it towards the ceiling.

That didn’t happen this time.

I even tried to delve into the eternal rage of the Punisher (what you think WWE is the original source for over the top caricatures?) and I came up with a shadow of Frank Castle’s dark stare - more like a Ronald McDonald frown.

I then moved on to LegPress thinking there’s an exercise that allows for emotional engagement cause you can’t do heavy legpresses half-heartedly.

I worked up from 5 to 7 plates on each side and…blah. So then I thought, "Man, I don’t really feel like doing Romanians…" So I did something I can’t recall EVER doing.

I left.

Now this happened on Tuesday.

The Monday before I’d actually looked online to see how much it would be to replace the P2 if it didn’t turn up as expected.

BB wanted $179 for the 8gig. "Ouch!"

Amazon big savings bring it down to $156 tossing in free shipping. "M’kay."

But my old buddy Newegg has it for $139 free shipping. "Sounds nice but again this is only a last resort." I still have my Blackjack after all.

After tuesday’s mental collapse, I got online and pointed/clicked that sucker first thing in the morning.

Package arrived Thursday afternoon at work. Because there’s very little difference between my work pc and home pc as far as musical library, i had the P2 charged and uploaded with the very-necessary selection in no time.  While browsing the library, i selected videos and noted the video of Beyonce’s Single Ladies joint still on the PC.  So I uploaded it to check the quality - since I never attempted to do so on the other P2.

Even at medium quality of conversion, you could still see how smooth her shiny thighs were on screen (oh don’t act like u didn’t notice). Then I saw that Pumping Iron was still on this PC.

And I uploaded it to my gym player. Ha.

Seriously, I’m not sure what to expect from this but considering I can tap forward to different parts of the movie, I figured it’d atleast make an interesting conversation piece in between sets besides videos of Luda and Tpain. LOL.

So yeah, that’s the latest milestone to my gym fascination/obsession.

Could be worse. I could have videos of Ronnie or Cutler on here.

But nah… that would be just plain nuts, right?

-Azul

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