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Archive for May, 2008
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Well… Last saturday was the first posing class of the season… And, got my bodyfat measured… 20%… I was confused, but not so confused… I’m way lighter than I was at this time last year, more vascular, more defined… But the huge bulge of my lower abdomen told the true tale… I’ve been hitting the cardio ( 2 sessions daily of 45-50 min of walking with the pups on hill terrain, and 45 min on the Dreadmill on days I’m at the gym…) I’ve been killing my abs (Granted my lower abs should be called flabs, but the top 2 rows aren’t toooo bad…) So, that comes with a new dietary breakdown, and news that nearly crushed me… Carbs are now broken down to a 50/50/75/100 split… So, 2 days in a row of 50, then a day of 75, then a day of 100 and repeat… But the "KILLER", was the news that I can’t even have Coke Zero… Due to the artificial sweeteners… Well, we all have our crosses to bear, and have had our perceptions of reality shattered… So, the only thing I can do is work harder, and nail it this year… BTW, 07 June my wife will be taking some progress pics of me, which I’ll post even if I look like crap…
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Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Well, tomorrow, I will hit that milestone of "turning" 40… Whoopdeedoo… *L* I got to thinking a bit introspectively and retrospectively and came up with my mindset… Who gives a rip…? *L* Seriously though, I’m no different than any other day… No "overnight transformation" No reason to cut back on my training, because I’m "older"… It just happens to be the anniversary of the day the world was "graced/cursed" with my prescence… *L* The only thing I don’t like about this particular B-Day is having to go and have that "special" 40 year old physical… "Congratulations, you’ve turned 40… Now drop your drawers and bend over, so the nice doctor can take her finger and put it up your butt…" I mean with all the fantastic advances in modern medicine and a finger up the butt is the only way to "truly" check for an enlarged prostate…? And what is so magical about turning 40 that it suddenly requires that…? Another mystery of the universe…
But looking back on my brief life, I wouldn’t change a thing, except for training harder and more consistently in my "youth". Otherwise, it’s all good… Bring on 50…!!!!
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Friday, May 9th, 2008
Chest:
Decline Bench:
20 reps at 140
15 reps at 160
10 reps at 180
10 reps at 230
Flat Bench:
30 reps at 90
25 reps at 105
20 reps at 120
15 reps at 135
10 reps at 150
8 reps at 165
30 reps at 90
Cable crossovers:
20 reps at 45
15 reps at 55
10 reps at 65
8 reps at 85
Tris:
“V” bar pressdowns:
20 reps at 90
15 reps at 100
10 reps at 110
10 reps at 150
Rope pressdown:
25 reps at 70
25 reps at 80
2 sets of 20 at 90
Machine dips:
5 sets of 10 at 260
Traps:
Calf machine shrugs:
1 set of 30 at 190
4 sets of 12 at 400
Delts:
Seated millitary press:
5 sets of 15 at 100
Lateral machine raises:
1 set of 20 at 60
1 set of 15 at 70
1 set of 10 at 80
1 set of 10 at 110
High Cable Rear Delt crossovers
4 sets of 10 at 50 per side
Immediately after last set:
45 min of Dreadmill with the incline at 7
AM and PM:
2 sessions of 45 min puppy walks
Posted in Training
Sunday, May 4th, 2008
Okay… Normally we all put in how much we lifted, what we ate, etc… Well, this time, I’m going to add some “normalcy”… See EVERYONE here has things they have to do outside of the gym… The gym is where we may spend an hour or two, depending on what we’re doing… Diets do crazy things to us… Trying to get that PR can make us ignore some things… You know, we do a LOT of things outside the “norm”… Well, this weekend had me stop and think… What is the “NORM”…? Go to work 9-5…? Eat 3-7 meals a day…? Lift ungodly weights, or eat ungodly amounts of junk food…? Go to the gym or play video games…? Kiss the wife or husband, and come home to the 2.5 kids…? I mean REALLY!!! What is the “norm”…? Well, I can tell you what my “norm” is… I wake up between 4:00 and 5:00 am, take the pups to go do their business… Feed them, exercise them, take them out again… Get my own self ready… Take the pups out again… And drive an hour to an hour and a half to work… Deal with co-workers that are there to get a check, deal with patients that are there, because it’s there right to have free 81 milligram aspirin, even though they just drove over a hundred miles to get it… Or, show up an hour after their appointment, and demand that they be seen, regardless of the fact that they missed the entire appojntment… Do the “regular job” routine… Drive the same route home… Take the pups out for their business… Take them for a walk, and exercise them… THEN… AND ONLY THEN… Can you go to the gym… You see brothers and sisters… What goes on isn’t just the gym… Now cut your carbs down to 100 or 50, add cardio to that… And, all of what I’ve written, gets forgotten by the “norms”… Because “all we do is lift weights…” This is what makes us outside the “NORM”…Remember… Life happens… Peace, brothers and sisters… I will explain the crazy weekend, tomorrow…
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