Transformer in training

Today was my first day back after a week or so that just flew by…man here comes the winter and here comes dnsigma’s lazieness!!! To be honest, I don’t really think it’s laziness…these are just really stressful times…my teachers act as if 99 percent of my doctoral cohort doesn’t have full-time jobs and families at home.So, often times I have to decide between the gym or school work…and school work wins…as it has for most of the week. So, I am going to be tuning down the motivation factor for a while until I can get some sense of normalcy again.

Maybe I should go and get hypnotized into being confident about all of these things I am trying to do?

Anyhow, happy lifting.

One of my faults is that I tend to question many things, if I verbalize them or not is another question. I guess that’s why I am the perpetual student?!?!?!?!? Anyhow, some people in the gym? I just wonder why they are there and what are they doing. For instance, you have the cruisers….people who cruise around the gym as if they are like the ultimate muscle man…but they cruise around the gym to see what everyone else is doing and looking at the weight they have or are lifting.Then you have the ‘Wait I got a message people’ who check their cell phone after every set as if it has a timer on it or is telling them the next thing to do. Then you have ‘I can out beat you’ people who will see you working on something and come up next to you (ALL IN YOUR SPACE) and workout doing the same exercise as you as if they look or can do better.

Seriously…..and you are doing this because of what?????

Today was a chest day in the gym and I usually use the smith machines as a guaranteed spotter for me…but nooooo I had to focus on the neuro response development of my chest muscles by using the free weights this time. Well it went some thing like this 2 sets of the bar for 15, 225 for 10 rest 225 for rest….135 for 15 then I push 245 for 3…I rested and asked a dude to spot me and told him that I could get it up off the bar it was later on of getting it off my chest I was worried about….and so I go 1……2…….3(I feel it)…..4(Mannnnn this is getting to me!!) 5…(Oooo crapp its going to stay on my chest) and so this dude is over with his finger on the bar like ‘push you got it push you got it’. I wanted to say ‘NO MF I DONT AS YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE’. Then? I thought about whopping his a#$ for potentially letting this heavyweight fall on me and next thing you know? The weight was up in the air!!!! Then the dude says…’I made you work for that one!’ and me being Kosher said ‘Sure did…thanks man!!!!"

Lesson for today: Good things can sometimes come from bad. Of course this is a very isolated circumstance but the quote applies! Happy lifting!

Excuse me sir,  I noticed that you are probably attempting to exceed your 1rm by picking up some super heavy weight. How did I know that? Your face expression, along with your constant movements of trying to keep the weight in your hand tell me so. Also, sir if you could just move slightly away from the dumbbells that you are guarding,breathing and sweating over as you attempt this….others would like to also get some dumbbells and work out as well.

Well, the end of summer has come, actually its tommorow…but it’s close enough. My goal? Was it met? Well not really…well maybe it was. I did meet a sub-goal….get stronger but can never reach that elusive goal off being lean…like competition type lean. Then…as I drove through the city, I figured I would stop in to Vitamin Shoppe. I was tempted…really tempted to by the nice shiny bottle of Hydroxycut Black label or rocket pills or Lipo6 Ultra…I stood there just contemplating whether I wanted to spend this mere $40.00 bucks to have those striations crawl across my body as if it they were the pieces of thread delicately keeping my body tight or if I wanted to remove that layer of fat to see the muscles that ache so many days after training?

Then I thought. HELL YEA!!!!! But, I want to be alive to see all of that too! So, I think I will just continue to diet and run and I left the store!!!
But it was soooooo sooooooooo tempting!
Whatever, we can’t all get what we want can we? Well most of us can’t at least!! Happy lifting folks and this blog does not mean that I have something against you because you use these products.

Often times, it seems really weird to me that I see people saying this in the gym (LITERALLY) or raising up their shirts in the gym after doing an arm workout….but their in the mirror,by me!!!!!, flexing their abs and then….omg…then….you have people on bodyspace who have all of these super creative pictures with these crazy lighting effects and titles. Is it me?? Am I just being to critical of some people and things? I don’t really think I am.

Now, let me just say what really gets me and I guess this comes from my lack of playing on sports teams. But, why do people in the gym seem like they want to compete with you? Is this some manly gene that i don’t know about. Why is that people act is if, while I am in my corner of the gym working out, that you need to come AAAALLLLL the way over where I am….load up some heavy weight and go to work? I’m not impressed! As a matter of fact, there are many things that I am not impressed with. What I am impressed by is people with hubris,tact,drive,a sense of reciprocity,excitement. If you can find a way to do that, even thought you are not looking for me to respect you, then plenty of people will respect you as hardworking honest man…not some weird show off!!

Okay…I’m off my bandstand!!! Man…I feel much better after this blog.

Peace!

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That it was important to rest. It may have been a bodybuilding magazine…but I am pretty sure I read it in the bible somewhere too.So, my latest workout regime and ‘dieting’ has brought me up in weight a cool 6lbs.Sounds good right? I think so. Over the past few days, I have been waking up every morning just aching…chest aching,legs aching…tendinitis of some sort in my elbow. I am literally over here tearing my self down.

Well, today? I decided a no gym day was going to be a good one.So, I took a break…well actually I had a busy day at work and meetings for most of the night and I have to study (That’s the real reason). But, I must give myself credit when I can.

Simple tactics,simple ways…doing what bodybuilders have been doing for years….Lesson # 1 - Rest

So, yesterday while sitting in class and listening and learning about terms like de novo…I, of course, thought about weightlifting. Am I turning into a meathead??? Hopefully not.Anyhow, my professor…an attorney for the university tells me of how things should not be approached as if it was new. Then ‘Ding’ I thought about how I have tried all of these new things and make up stuff to achieve this ‘ideal physique’ when people have been doing this stuff for years….Duuuuuuhgggggghhhhhhhhh!!!!! Time for me to get back to the drawing board…find out what a maverick bodybuilder would do…and do that!

Today, I finally hit the pool again after ripping my shorts a couple of weeks ago. I did about 40 lengths / 20 laps and that was that on that. I am really pleased with my current progress and not taking fat burners!! I seem to be keeping the fat off by using my core muscles heavily during all other exercises.But, I have a question…I need some suggestions on any types of routines people do for mass building. I think I have tried almost every combination and I don’t want my body to get use to them.So, if you have some suggestions…please offer. Thanks in advance!

Usually, when I work out, especially after lifting heavy weights, that body part is sore the next day or so.But today? It’s sore all in the same day. Today was a back day…lat pulls at 260….pull-ups,dumbell rows,seated rows,dumbell flyes,back extensions….man…I just got home from work and I am sore!!! No pain no gain right????Sure….

Today was my first day actually lifting towards the goal of getting ‘bigger’. I used bigger in quotations because, of course, its relevant to what you define. i define it as being 6′0 about 215 to 220 with lean muscle. So, today I did a good leg workout and did good an actually hit another personal goal: 235 for 6 on ATG squats…Well, I was excited about it? After 6 sets of squats…I was exhausted.

So for now…it’s a slow and steady road…

Happy lifting folks.

Yup that’s what I am trying to do all the time ‘Either learn or leave’. This is a personal note that I seem to be making some decent gains…POWDER PROTEIN. Over the past few months or so…three to be exact..I haven’t been able to spend the extra money for protein.So, I have just been winging it. It’s kind of bad though because…I am now just imagining the possible gains if I was taken it?!?!!? Whatever….I’m learning and I’m not leaving.

Today I was talking with my coworker outside and she was slurping down this smoothie that her husband(The trainer) made. I then thought to myself…Why haven’t I been making smoothies? See when I think about smoothies…I think about smoothie King…and I know I probably can’t make those..BUt me being my self tried anyway…a little strawberry daiquiri mix(I know I should not have used it)…a banana.and some ice in the magic bullet?!?!?!?!? VOILA…very nice strawberry banana smoothie…Man I’m hooked already…off to the market tomorrow to get some fruits!!!

Anybody got some recipes I should try?

Yesterday was the first day of class and I had a later workout than usual. Since school is back in session the gym now closes at 10:30pm. So, I am like "Cool nobody will be there it will be great". So while I am in class learning about holdings,dicta,Stare decisis et non quieta movere,  and how reasoning - facts = rules…I also pondered on the time I have spent trying to upgrade my physical health. As a result of that, I decided this morning to review past journal entries that have marked my trials and tribulations and success during this awesome quest over the last few years. If you look to a previous blog…I have always seemed to have this uncanny knack to say some of the dummest and sometimes funniest things! Speaking of that…let me try again today….

I know that everyone has to start somewhere. Yesterday, the gym looked as if most do after the New Year…crowded as heck!!! Man, people where in their playing on the cell phone, hanging out in there as if it was a club, talking about fighting and beating up people,yelling across the gym about how they are just hitting light weights today..when some of them were clearly struggling, and others who act as if we are on the prison yard and they mug you around the entire gym (You move to one machine…they move to one next to you, mug you and when you are finished with that machine they go check out the weight  and see if they can increase it or not and so on and so forth)and then you had the ones who were just starting to hit the gym. You know, those who seem to be intimidated by the crazies I mentioned above.

So, yesterday? It was a an interesting one…but tonight? I gotta feeling it’s going to be a good night!

Peace out folks and happy lifting.

I was reading my blogs from a while ago and came across this hilarious statement on the subject of me swimming.
Swimming

I think I swam another mile or so yesterday. Many times, I am in another world while swimming, so after I count to the 36th lap I just let my mind wonder about things like sex, math problems, current world issues, the doc program I am trying to get….just random things. Then comes the realization,***HELLO SIR, THIS IS YOUR BODY AND IF WE DON’T STOP SOON YOU WILL BE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS 15FT POOL!!!****and I get out of the pool.