monk01’s BodyBlog

The title of my blog speaks the truth. I am just plain tired. It is not because of lack of sleep either. I have so much going on right now that I am totally run down. Anyway, at least my workout went good today.. Have a good weekend everyone.

I am so glad it is Friday. It has been a long week. This blog is going to be of some random thoughts. I finally added a new profile picture. It has been a really long time since I changed it up. I guess I need to add some new progress pictures as well. Maybe next week. I keep putting it off, because I know I haven’t really gone through any noticeable changes. If anything, I put on some more weight since my last photos. My strength is progressing well, but I am not leaning down any. Today was the first day that I did standing shoulder or military presses. Wow, what a difference from seated. I had to drop my weight way back. It felt good though. I hope everyone has a good weekend.

I am having a real hard time making the decision to keep pressing forward with my heavy routine or to go a little lighter. I just can’t seem to want to give up going heavy. For instance, today I set another high on my squat numbers. I did four sets, 10 x 185, 8 x 225 , 6 x 295, and 6 x 315. I think I should strive for my November 1 goals, which means staying heavy, and then rethinking things a little.

Yep, another year has past, as today is my 33 birthday. I cannot believe how fast time flies by now. It feels like only yesterday that I graduated high school, and that was over 15 years ago. I totally blew my diet this weekend. I had my sisters wedding this weekend, and I drank a lot, and ate horribly. I also had a huge piece of ice cream cake last night. I just could not turn it down…

I had a pretty decent workout this morning. I ended up changing my days up a little. I ended up doing back today instead of chest, because I have noticed that I am a lot weaker on chest exercises on Monday since I started doing tris and shoulders on Friday. I figure that this will give them another day’s break so maybe I can really push tomorrow.

 I am off to see the Foo Fighters tonight. It is my birthday present from my wife. I cannot wait…

Did any of you ever get a really weak and shakey feeling after a workout? I actually had to sit down for a few minutes today before I hit the showers, because I felt like I was going to pass out. I guess I may have pushed it a little today. I did go pretty heavy on the squats, and I mixed biceps in with legs today. The only other thing that I could think of is that I waited my normal 60 seconds between leg sets, but dropped the time to 30 seconds between sets when doing biceps. Oh well, the feeling is finally going away now that I had something to eat and drink again.

After a very weak workout yesterday, I felt good today. I actually did four sets of eight of unassisted pullups. It made me feel great, because it is the first time I could get that many. I also did three sets of eight of one arm dumbell rows with 90 lb dumbells (another record for me). I guess I was down for nothing yesterday. It must have just been a bad day.

I don’t know what happened today, but I was very weak at the gym this morning. I could barely do my normal workout. I almost dropped the bar on my chest twice, because my arms gave out. The only explanation that I can come up with is that I helped move my sister-in law, and there was a lot of heavy work involved. Oh well, tomorrow is another day.