kylepounds’s BodyBlog

I was and am very tired today. Like how you feel after a 200 mile bike ride. No sore muscles though, so that is weird since I was lifting weights yesterday. I ran out of recovery suppliments and I think they help so I will buy more tomorrow. It seems that I don’t deal with recovery problems when I take them. I still lifted for 2.5 hours today though. I forgot to say that yesterday I drop setted one of the nautilus press machines and my chest was sore today. Barely sore.

 In the gym today I ran 5 k in a half hour. My calf was in better shape than yesterday but still hurt. I stretched for a half hour. Drop setted the whole weight down to like 100 lbs so 200-100 on the cable multi machine where you get on your knees and pull it down. I like that one. Then I did 50 leg ups. I drop setted the curl and the bicep machines. I think that’s it. Interesting how all of that took two and a half hours. I must have been lolly gagging it. I hope I feel good tomorrow.

I had four days off. I went into the gym for running and stretching but I took four days off from lifting because I got into a candy eating and drinking binge which destoyed me for the next day. I made sure to eat well last night and eat well today even though I slept most of it before I went into the gym and thankfully had a great four hours again. I didn’t do much on the lower body though.

I went in and ran a mile but could barely do it from lack of energy and then did like 15-20 minutes of stretching before giving up and sleeping for a couple more hours. I had ensomnia until sunrise and had to get up prematuraly at noon today for a meeting with Steve. I think I’ll have more to eat tonight just in case come to think of it.

 After sleeping I went back and hammered. I drop setted pulldowns from 210 down to 100 or something and then drop setted the pullup aided machine but that’s all the upper body I did today because I got into legs until my four hours was up. I don’t like going over four hours because it gets boring after that and I have a life to live and a job to keep up with. I could go six hour a day without over training though.

I did ten sets of 10-20 leg extensions followed by calf followed by sitting leg curls. The calfs were with three 45’s and the legs were on 175.  I was strong today.  Then I did five sets of leg scissors out and in and the but swinging machine. The butt machine was on maximum for 30 reps at like 250 which is still light. That must be a machine for girls or something. The scissors in and out were on 150 at sets of 20.

 I’m psyched for another four hours tomorrow doing my totally fresh upper body and core and leave the legs alone, although my legs feel fresh now. I guess that means I’m in shape. Cool. I didn’t do the hot tub today. Felt like it was a waste of time. I ran 5 k also in like 26 minutes. My calf was on the brink of injury for the second half of the run so I just brought it down to 6 and ran on my heel with no spring on the left side. I guess I’ll just continue like that and see how it goes. No pain no gain right? Even with the tendons. Booya!

I did about an hour today. I ran 5 k and did one stretch routine and went home. My body was clearly in recovery mode today. I did four hours for the last two nights but I was too tired or forgot to write what I did. I think I’ll be OK to do four hours again tomorrow. I’m having fun with all this lifting. 

 I started running again starting last night. Last night and tonight I ran slow at 6 on the treadmill on my heels making sure not to spring on the left and injure myself as I felt I was right on the edge of getting hurt. I remember I had that same exact problem as a little kid and that was why I always knew the legend of Achilles and what the Achilles tendon was.  My tendon just has trouble running at this weight I think. No biggie. I wonder if I’ll be able to run without any Achilles problems by November. I sure hope all this lifting is for something, meaning to say that I sure hope Tony grows some balls and decides to go ahead and do the kayak trip this year.

I put five hour in today but that included a trip to the supermarket and I was dilly dallying around a lot. I drop setted from 125 down to the bottom in increments of 5 on the Nautilus overhead press machine which was a duzzy. I’ve never done that one before. Then I did drop setting from 200 lbs I think on the Flex fitness I think row machine but the handles were too wide and I couldn’t hold on easily so I will do light weight high reps on that next time. I went down to like 150 or something before I lost interest and did the row on the Flex Fitness multi machine cable row from 210 drop setting down to 150 or something. I did 30 reps at 200 on the calf machine inbetween the rowing too. I also drop setted from the max at 200 on the cable ab crunch on the ff multin machine and then did 50 leg ups. I did 40 minutes I think on the hand bike and ran a little but my calf hurt. I was wondering why because I haven’t run for like a week but now I think it is from all the recent lifting activity. I did two stretch sections today. that’s about all I remember.  I did like 20 minutes in the hot tub again. I like breaking it up with that. I bonked from not eating enough over the last couple days and not sleeping well. I had ensomnia until noon yesterday. it’s almost four now. I bought melatonin though. I’ll eat a ton tomorrow before I go to the gym.

In case anyone wants to know here are the machines at 24 hour fitness at the Hancock Center in Austin. I decided to take the inventory so I could know what machines to list in my journal and to learn the names.

First row - 1) Cybex Arm Extension 2) Life Fitness Bicep Curl 3) Flex Fitness Dip Machine 4) FF Bodydip 5) FF Pullup, Bodydip, Legup 6) FF Leg Up 7) Nautilus Abdominal C Hip Adjunction Inside 9) N Leg Press 10) C seated leg curl

Second row - 11) C Arm Curl 12) C Overhead Press 13) LF Shoulder Press 14) Hammer Strength Abdominal Crunch 15) Free Motion Chest 16) FM cable cross 17) FM row 18) C Hip adjunction out 19) LF Leg Extension 20) N Prone leg curl 21) HS biceps curl 22) C Lateral raise 23) LF lateral raise 24) N incline press 25) HS incline press 26) HS high row 27) HS MTS row 28) Body Masters multi hip 29) N leg extension 30) C leg extension 31) LF triceps extension

Third row - 32) BM selectorized chin and dip 33) BM flat back and situp 34) BM incline back and situp 35) N overhead press 36) C chest press 37) N vertical press 38) FF deltoid fly 39) C front/rear delt 40) FM calf 41) LF seated leg curl 42) LF seated leg press 43) HS iso-lateral-incline press 44) HS iso-lateral-bench press 45) HS iso-lateral-decline press 46) HS iso-lateral-high row 47) HS iso-lateral-front lat pulldown 48) HS iso-lateral row 49) HS iso-lateral super incline press 50) FF standing free curl pad w/ BBs 20-90 lbs 51) FF siting free curl 52) BM free calf

Fourth row - 53) FF 3 bench presses 54) FF 2 incline bench presses 55) FF decline bench press 56) FF 4 benches 57) FF 3 adjustible benches 58) FF 2 upright benches 59) FF adjustaible decline bench 60) DB’s 5-125 lbs

Back left corner - 61) FF angled leg press 62) FF hack squat 63) Body Masters angled leg press 64) FF free caged squat 65) FF free squat 66) FF get flexed smith machine

Flex Fitness Multi Machine - 67) FF multi machine with 2 rows 68) FF multi machine with 2 standing pull down on belt 69) FF multi machine with standing 4 pull down on cable 70) FF multi machine with 3 sitting pull down 71) FF multi machine with 2 pullup 72) FF multi machine with pull down row

Cardio - 73) Life Fitness 22 treadmills 74) LF 12 fitlynxx hand and leg treadmill 75) sci fix pro 1000 hand bike machine 76) 12 Precor EFX 546 leg treadmill 77) LF sit down bike 78) bike life cycle 79) 4 precor 100i leg and arm treadmill 80) 6 Stairmaster free climber 4600 pt 81) 4 SM steepmill 700 pt 82) Air balls 83) Weighted Balls 84) Rollers 85) 4 Abench 86) half airball

Other - 87) Pool 88) steam room 89) hot tub 90) sauna

I’ve been going to the gym about four hours a day lately. That’s with like a half hour or an hour of stretching. My routine is about a half hour and sometimes I do two routines. Lately I’ve been doing twenty minutes or so in the hot tub a half hour in. I’ve been listening to mp3 educational stuff the whole time which is a whole lot of fun. I’ve been doing around a half hour of cardio too.  I’ll try to list what I do every night now that I’m in a good rythm.  I don’t think four hours a day, or two and a half to three hours of actual lifting is too much. Once you get into shape there are always muscles that are fresh.

what I did tonight (what I can remember anyways):

 10 sets of 10 leg press machine at 300 lbs

10 sets of 10 leg press machine two at 250 lbs

10 reps deadlift at 315

10 reps deadlift at 225

Drop set curl machine from 110 lbs going down in increments of 5 lbs

leg scissor machine at 130 six sets

10 sets of 10 calf raise with two 45’s

two stretch routines

25 minutes of arm bicycle machine. 5 at 20, 5 at 15, 5 at 10, 5 at 5 and 5 at 0 difficulty at around 100.

5 minutes of rowing machine around 1000.

20 minutes in the hot tub.

 I LOVE big gyms!

I’ve been going to the gym about four hours a day lately. That’s with like a half hour or an hour of stretching. My routine is about a half hour and sometimes I do two routines. Lately I’ve been doing twenty minutes or so in the hot tub a half hour in. I’ve been listening to mp3 educational stuff the whole time which is a whole lot of fun. I’ve been doing around a half hour of cardio too.  I’ll try to list what I do every night now that I’m in a good rythm.  I don’t think four hours a day, or two and a half to three hours of actual lifting is too much. Once you get into shape there are always muscles that are fresh.

what I did tonight (what I can remember anyways):

 10 sets of 10 leg press machine at 300 lbs

10 sets of 10 leg press machine two at 250 lbs

10 reps deadlift at 315

10 reps deadlift at 225

Drop set curl machine from 110 lbs going down in increments of 5 lbs

leg scissor machine at 130 six sets

10 sets of 10 calf raise with two 45’s

two stretch routines

25 minutes of arm bicycle machine. 5 at 20, 5 at 15, 5 at 10, 5 at 5 and 5 at 0 difficulty at around 100.

5 minutes of rowing machine around 1000.

20 minutes in the hot tub.

 I LOVE big gyms!

it’s been more than a month since i wrote in this. wow. i goned into the gym yesterday and today to update my lifting stats because i found out  you can do that on the smith machine without a spotter. the weight on that is a little heavier than normal but not much i imagine. i’ve been stretching a half hour a day and running that much too. my achiles tendon is hurting me in the morning but I don’t think it’s getting worse. i should remember to do the rowing machine though instead in order to avoid possible injury.

it’s been more than a month since i wrote in this. wow. i goned into the gym yesterday and today to update my lifting stats because i found out  you can do that on the smith machine without a spotter. the weight on that is a little heavier than normal but not much i imagine. i’ve been stretching a half hour a day and running that much too. my achiles tendon is hurting me in the morning but I don’t think it’s getting worse. i should remember to do the rowing machine though instead in order to avoid possible injury.