dman12’s BodyBlog

I am now doing a large and small muscle group each lifting day (which is what I have been doing), but am not ramping up weights and no more 12, 10, and 8 reps. Will be doing 3 sets of 12-15 reps with a lower weight and super setting the small muscle group with the same reps, have done chest and tri’s Sunday and did Legs and shoulders today and back and bi’s Thursday, so far it appears to be pretty intense.

Today after the gym I stopped at the hospital to have my protime done (which is a finger prick to check how thin your blood is).

So when finished I thought I would go down to Cardiac Rehab to see the nurses that work there and they were the ones that got me started on this road to fitness. They taught me about Heart rates, Blood pressure,and exertion, not your typical looking fitness folks to say the least. I stop in once and while to say Hi but when I walked in, no familiar faces, they were at meetings. I introduced myself and said that I was a "Graduate" of this program and the one nurse looked at me and I could just tell she was thinking WTH this guy was in cardiac rehab 8 years ago as she was looking at me and said "It looks like your doing well for yourself". Now the other patients in there heard the conversation and were now looking at me too.

When I left I thought maybe one of those patients will "have the light go on".

Had my 6 month check up and Cholesterol was 114 lowest it has ever been! The weight well that is different, that was 226 up 10 pounds since last August, but I am not worried my belts are all used up including the extra hole I put in and jeans are getting looser.

Last week on Chest and tricep day I did 70 pound DB’s on DB press on my third set 8 times.

To see if it was a fluke I did it again today and put the DB press last of my chest exercises, 7 and 8 weren’t pretty but got them anyway. Now I am still stoked even though there was a guy next to me doing 85’s, I am thinking he was a bit younger than me, but he had more gray hair than me, hell he even had a lot more hair than me.

But I am pleased with my progress, it has been slow but everyday is an improvement , somewhere.

Oh my Doctor says it is time to have that 50 year old guy procedure done, oh boy.

I just wish I could eat a little better, I am just fortunate that I Work hard every day and work out even harder, now if I could just keep my hams and glutes from being so darn tight .