hdjedi1’s BodyBlog

I have frequent dreams about cigarettes.  I wake feeling guilty … like i threw the time and pain of quitting away, and then suddenly think … "keeey rist, it was just a dream"! So the dreams are still odd, but not the technocolor, over the top weirdness that they were a few weeks ago.  Thank god.

I am still doing "Mass Attack" and it is working.  BF came down a lil bit, strength continues to climbs and every week is a new pb for bench or legs.  I think the progress picks show some improvement and I’ve gotten nice comments from on wearing red … not that there is anything wrong with that…

I know that full body 3x a week might seem a little bland at first, but i def think i will keep it up for awhile and then have a rest and start it all over again and add and subtract some more focussed stuff.  Its hard to argue that 45 minutes you are doing and you really know you have worked.  Sleep has been great on this program!

To all that wished me well on the smokin thing, thanks again, I won’t let you (or me) down. Best Rob.

Title says most of it but Im happy to say that the personal best lifts keep coming and I’m still off the smokes.  Swimming yesterday was excellent, good laps, good breathing and everything works pretty well.  I did get a rotator "warning" and cut back.

Thank to all who well wished on the the no smokes.  You have made it easier, cus i just couldn’t let Suds, Mojo and BBD down!  I see the doc thursday about the A.D.D. and agree on some trial of treatment.  Bigggest surprise of not smoking is realizing the ADD was back and I really hadnt noticed it because them I got disctracted I went for a smoke.  Now I’m realizing i was getting distracted … well there are worse things to realize!

I finally benched 200+ pounds.  Infact i repped 200 3 times and pyramid down to 180 for 5. This is a 20 pound improvement for me in two weeks.  Mass Attack and 5×5 really seem to agree with me.

And I could eat a freakin horse right now … my god i was stuck in the car coming out of Manhattan today and by the time I got home I was dyin.  And I had a 23 gram bar during the drive! This is a killah workout! 

Made it another week.  2 house parties with family … and a 12 hour drive with 2 children.  But I made it.  However, lesser evil is the food available wasnt the bst and ate stuff i havent had in ages and ages.  Pizza twice (I know, the horror!) and a couple of fast food drive by’s.  I should have planned better.  I will burn it off this week. 

Still doing MASS ATTACK and it is workng.  I am getting bigger.  I have also tweaked my protien upwards and I believe that is helping.  I think the pics are looking better and the change is definately visible within the week.

Thanks to all the ex smokers out there helping me through this.  It making a huge difference, I don’t want to disappoint you!

I made 4 weeks.  Yea me.  However, the pangs are still kinda nasty and frequent.  I’m hoping they subside soon.  Everything else seems to be coming back to "normal", concentration, seeing things that aren’t there, you know the drill.

The Mass Attack workout is good and I start week 2 tmrw.  Had a good swim today with my son, empty pool at the Y.  All good.

The no smokin thing goes strong… into my fourth week and i really do feel better every day.  I can smell better now (not always a great thing!), i’m breathing better and I have much better "stayin power".  All great.

Yesterday was my first attempt at "Sumo Squats" a variation I hadn’t tried before.  It is quite a quad and hamie/glute killer, I would recommend an attempt to all.  There is a good explanation if you search under "Sumo" on BB.com for how to do it.  This really nailed my quads well.  I’ll be doing the second of 3 of the whole body thing I mentioned yesterday.

Thanks again to all the well wishers on my non smoking adventures, Luv Ya all for it. Best