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As I write this at 3pm in the afternoon, I don’t know if I’ll get to the gym today.  We had a huge dumping of snow yesterday, our two vehicles are blocked in and our snow plough guy doesn’t know what time he’ll get to us.  I spent an hour shovelling pathways to our two back doors, normally would take much less time but the snow was heavy with a hard icy crust.  I shouldn’t complain though, we’ve had a lot less snow this winter than most.  It’s just a pain to get so much snow this late in the season after having nothing on the ground for all of March.  So as I wait for the plough I’m doing some work in my office getting ready for a two hour drive in the morning and then client meetings all day.

I haven’t been too sore from my chest/shoulder workout Friday night.  Although I did a lot of sets for chest, I hit the pecs from all different angles so maybe that’s why no soreness?  THE PLOUGH HAS ARRIVED!  I’ll be able to get to the gym!  I’ll stop this post for now and get my work done so I’ll have plenty of time for my workout….

…I’m back!  I worked for an hour in my office followed by another 15 minutes of shovelling to tidy up a little, then I headed for the gym.  It was not a great workout, but not a poor one either.  I started with pullups, did sets of 8,7,8,8,6.  Pretty decent I guess.  I did 7 sets of barbell shrugs for traps, and 4 sets of light seated cable rows.  In between some of these sets I managed to bang out 3 sets of clean and press x6 with 90 pounds including the bar.  At the end I did 9 sets for abs, and during the workout I managed 430 jump rope reps.  By the end I was totally drained.

This was one of those days when I could have easily skipped the gym based on general fatigue and the justification that I’d done something (the shovelling) and deserved a rest.  But I just couldn’t do that.  It’s impossible to feel on top of your game going into every workout, sometimes you just gotta suck it up and get on with it.  It’s these workouts that really make a difference in the long run.  When it all comes together and you have an intense and strong workout, or lift that new personal best, you remember days like this and know that in spite of how you may have felt you were building the foundation for your future success.

Al’s motto applies to this workout more than any other I’ve done lately, so I’ll borrow it and end by saying "Just getting to the gym IS a successful workout!" ;) How true! 

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