justtryn’s BodyBlog

Wow - how time flies, considering my last blog entry.  It’s been a busy, stressful few months for me.  But I’ve kept up with my training, but I did decide to drop out of the IMPC at the 1st of June.  I know that to compete in anything, your mind has to be in the game just as much as your body.  My mind wasn’t in it.  Too much stress at home and work to make it worthwhile.  Training has always been my stress reliever.  But with a "competition" in the back of my mind, it became a new stress to an already overloaded life.  I didn’t need that.  I wanted to enjoy my gym time.  I wanted to enjoy a cheat meal when ever I darn well pleased - and not feel bad about it.  So, I dropped.  We’ll see how things are next year.

I’m back to a five day split, hitting each muscle group hard and heavy - typically 4 sets of 8 reps, moving up in weight when that last set is a good clean one, with no, um, cheating on those last two or three reps.    Some things I pyramid up, and end up doing multiple sets - typically this is on leg day.

I got a tattoo on the 1st of July, on my left shoulder.  I decided to give my upper body work a break for a week while it healed.  This allowed me to hit my legs three times in a week for a bit of a shock.  This week I’ve started my upper body work again.

So, nothing earth shattering to put in the blog.  I just wanted to keep it going.  Hopefully I’ll find something more interesting to write about and keep this thing more up to date.