Dave’s Body

 I woke up this morning in pain… the good kind. You know the kind of pain that lets you know you had a good workout the day before. The kind that makes you feel like people are staring because you’re walking funny. I worked legs yesterday so all day my butt and quads were paying me back for pushing them. I actually do like the pain though. Does that make me weird? To me it makes the shortness of breath, light headedness and even nausea of leg day well worth it.

 I’ve decided that this week will be a recovery week for me. I will still train, but just enough to get the blood flowing. I’m hopeful, that by taking it easy this week, my hip will feel better. The funny thing about this is that I have no idea when or how I hurt it in the first place. It just hurts. I can squat with little discomfort but going up and down stairs is painful. Oh to be young again when aches and pains were gone before you even realized that something hurt. I will be hitting it hard again next week. Hopefully I won’t have much pain to have to work through. 

 I just wrote a post yesterday about being a hardgainer. Then this morning I woke up and was .4 Ilbs less today than yesterday. UGGHH!

I know that I shouldn’t just rely on the scale but my original goal was to gain 10 Ilbs of muscle in 6 weeks. I’m just going to have to increase my caloric intake a bit but not too much because I’m trying to not add too much fat with the muscle gain.

 I was always what you would call a hard gainer. It was easier for me to lose fat than gain muscle. Just the way my body type is. It seems though that now that I’m older (38 vs 15 when I first started and 27 when competing) hardgaining has been taken to a new level. I set a goal 2 weeks ago to gain 10 Ilbs of muscle in 6 weeks. So far I’ve gained 2 Ilbs with no increase in bodyfat. Which means I need to step it up to reach my goal in 4 more weeks. 20 years ago that would have been fairly easy but now I’m questioning whether I should have given myself more time. At any rate 1 Ilb a week is pretty good. When you think about it you can’t perpetually gain 1 Ilb a week or you could gain 52 Ilbs every year! I’ve added amino acids to my supplements to see if that jump starts the gain in size because of right now I’m weighing less than my competitive weight of 11 years ago. Just as a side note for you older guys, the amino acid arginine is called the "natural viagra" so I’ll post later if I see any developments in that arena.