thorra’s BodyBlog

-There is a cheese danish ring in the refrigerator.  I have no craving for it, but since it’s there, I want to eat it. 

-There is a bag of shrimp in the refrigerator.  I think it’s been there for a long time, yet I’m still thinking of using it to make sweet and sour shrimp.

Yup. 

I think it’s going to be a long night.

I just didn’t have my usual mojo today.  I got a decent workout in, but I was lethargic through the whole thing.  I think I spent more energy trying to drag my sorry, logy butt out of my sorry, yet warm bed this morning (or was it mid-afternoon? I don’t know).

Anyhoo, started my workout with seated barbell presses.  Felt pretty good.  I began with some warm up reps and ust kept working my way up in weights until I could only get four reps in (15,12,10,8,6,5,4).  No complaints here.  I even managed to add five pounds onto my personal best (seated).

Moved on to side laterals, which really put a hurtin’ on my shoulders.  I did five sets (12,12,11,10,10), before draggging my butt on to upright rows (10,10,8,6).  Man, I dragged ass on these, but managed to feel my shoulder’s burning at the end.

Finished off shoulders with rear laterals (15,12,11,10).  Not too much going on with these. 

I decided to throw some triceps work in.  V-bar triceps pressdowns (extensions? whatever?!?).  These felt great and managed to put a little spark into an otherwise listless workout.  Five sets (10,10,8,6,5)

Traps.  Now we’re on to traps.  I did some front barbell shrugs (12,10,10).  I did some back barbell shrugs (10,8,6).  I didn’t feel a thing.  BOOOO!

I didn’t feel tired.  I wanted to be there working out.  I just couldn’t get it together.

Oh well.  At least my shoulders are aching in all the right places. 

Finished off with 16 min on the bike (heart rate 164 BPM)

BLAH!

-Now that my new equipment is put together and the bleeding has stopped (I suck at all thing’s handy), there’s nothing left to do but sulk about today’s crap-happy workout. 

*Sulk*  *Sulk*

-Shoulders and traps tomorrow.

If I’m done sulking by then.

As usual, I’m behind on my drinking and playing catch up.  Other than that, no problems.

Time to get my lazy butt up and make dinner.

Time to get my lazy butt up and make dinner.

Time to get my lazy butt up and make dinner.

I’m going.  I’m going.

Quit nagging.

Damn It!

Today I went to pick up some more weights.  I ended up buying a new olympic bench, squat rack, and lat tower and three hundred pounds of weights. 

I suppose I should feel bad (maybe a bit guilty?) but I don’t. 

If you’re crazy enough to send me into a fitness store unsupervised, you get what you deserve.

Today was an okay back day.  I was rushing, trying to get out of the house without getting caught with the stupid ****-eating grin that wouldn’t leave my face (I knew in advance what I was planning on doing!  Sue me!!)

Started off with close grip pull-ups.  My close grip was a bit wider than usual, but well in the range of close-grip.  I had nothing!!

My first bodyweight set I could only muster 7 reps.  With just a bit of weight I couldn’t only get five per set (four sets).  And I couldn’t even go down all the way at the bottom.  Finished off with three more bodyweight sets (7,7,6) and moved on.

My form was crappy on close grip rows.  Every set, it took two or three reps to get both sides working together.  Four sets (8,8,7,6) and time to move on.

Rack pulls.  Same problem- one side wanting to dominate.  This was a bit easier to fix and it didn’t set me back too much.  Four sets (6,5,5,7).

I did some sets of dumbbell rows (10,10,9,7) to finish off the lats and then just some weighted hangs for about 18-24 Scobby-Dooby-Doo’s before calling it a day.

No time for forearms.  I think my wife was getting supicious as to why I would keep turning away (to not get caught with the stupid ****-eating grin, don’t you know!?!) whenever she came around.

12 Minutes on the bike (heart rate 160 BPM) and I was good to go.

Crappy workout.  Great day because I updated my gym.

-My chest and shoulders are feeling pretty good right about now.

-I didn’t think I was going to get my daily allowance of fiber in today.  Thank Bob I saw that piece of apple pie in time.

-Back and forearms tomorrow.

So far I’ve managed to avoid all of the treats that are lurking about in the kitchen.  But I must be careful. Just looking at some of those things could add inches to my waist.

Though this has yet to be proven as fact, I feel it is only a matter of time.  I just have to be patient and wait for Science to produce someone as bright and as enlightened as me.

YUP!

Anyhoo, I decided to drop my milk consumption down a bit and eliminate the apple from my good night shake.  I’ll make up the protein with either an extra scoop of powder or with some tuna.

Now that the holidays are over, I’m getting that old feeling again- the urge to cut my calories, up the cardio. 

This year I want to try and ignore those old feelings for as long as possible.  While I’ll lower my calories a bit (not much at all).  I want to try and stay away from overdoing it with the cardio, so I’m going to keep doing what I’m doing.

That being said, today was a good workout (though I suppose any workout I walk away from without dropping something on my head or foot is a good one).  I started off with incline dumbbell presses.  I felt really good and suffered no ill effects from my three days off or poor eating.  Six sets counting warm up (15,10,6,6,4,3) before moving on to flat dumbbell presses (7,8,9,9).   Finished off with incline flyes (12,10,8,8) before calling it a day on chest.

Calves were up next.  Barbell calf raises (held in front) led off the routine (15,12,10,10,10) followed by single leg calf raises (10,10,8,6,6,6).  I almost considered calling it a day, but decided my calves just weren’t hurting enough, so I grabbed some heavy weights and did a few static holds on my toes, super setted with some body weight calf raises.

YUP! Now they’re fried.

24 minutes on the bike (heart rate 172BPM). I wasn’t paying attention and went a little too hard on the cardio.  Damn it!!

FIN

-Today was a good day.  I enjoyed every minute of it, especially the food.  Somehow I managed to make it through the day without stuffing myself silly.

But now the day is done.  Time to get back to work.

-Chest and calves tomorrow.

Below is a list of all the healthy things I have eaten today.

Happy Holidays!!