Going to be scarce for a bit…
Hi everyone…I know I know, I’ve not wrote a blog for a bit but between the last month of school, my sister is having her baby and all her baby crap going on lol, my mom’s health problems, all my friends are leaving so we’ve been doing the good bye hang outs constantly, work, rehab, etc… I’m flippin strapped. I’ve been doing pretty good keeping up still but getting real run down. The knee is doing better. I will give an update when I can, but it may not be until next month after finals. So if you have commented me, messaged me, etc…I sincerely apologize for not getting back to you. I only have time for a few minutes on here when I’m on.
As far as exercise…I’ve been lifting 4x/wk, I split up my routine and then 3-4 days of stuff for my knee. 2x of that is lifting for it, and 2x is jogging and agility drills now, which by the way I started about 3 wks ago. So weird to teach yourself how to run again but now I’m up to 10 min straight. This week I’m trying 15 min and maybe pick up my pace. I’m about 4.5-4.7 mph…I can’t quite stride out yet because it hurts. I got this bionic woman type brace now that helps. I do agility drills such as basketball slides, cariocas, mini jumps (some plyos and such). Stepping down stairs is still real hard so I practice that at least 2x a week too. I’ve been biking on the wkends sometimes fridays. During the summer it’ll be at least 4x a wk. I want to compete in the El Tour de Tucson come Oct or Nov I think…its about 100 miles maybe or there is one at 70…who knows. Lets see my upper body is getting stronger. I am now to 40s dumbells on shoulder press. 55s for incline and 65s for bench. I decline benched 135 for 4×10 the other day which I haven’t been able to do in years. Everyone last week was hogging the regular bench so I’ve not checked that yet…but last time I did 2×125x10 and then 2×115x12. My upper back is going well…I’m up to 120 on pulldown for 10, but I know machines aren’t the same everywhere. Seated row for us here I’m up to 85/95 x10 which is probably 110 or 120 anywhere else, its a little harder at our gym in my experienc. Bentover row is 95 for 10, and the assisted pull-up thing I’m down for 4×10x50 which is about 72% of my weight mind you is right around 166 rt now. So not bad…I hope to be able to do some pull-ups on my own real soon but I can’t jump up to grab the bar yet with my knee.
I wish I could say my diet was still real strict but with everything going on I have been bad on the weekends. I do alright during the weekday but still so busy that I think I’ve hit subway up like 15 times in the past 2 wks. I think I’m still holding steady though at about 166-168 which is still better than where I started at 172 or so. I can’t wait until school is over…I"ll have so much more time. Anywho alrighty that is a quick update. Hope all is well w/everyone! take care
