xueimelynnad’s BodyBlog

only away for 2 months this time, too much car trouble and motorcycle trouble and wedding planning and carting aroung kids, I slumped completely, I was pretty worn down when I let off too, just hitting some highs.  but now I am back and aiming to skinney up for the wedding while increaing density wherever possible.

dug my bike out from behind the snow (ice) bank yesterday and got her running.  about 3′ high of fallen and piled slabs of ice cemented in with thick plowed up snow that was like concrete.  I’m taking today off to let my back rest.

bike ran well and I had a blast

monday I worked up to 1,000lbs on the leg sled, tuesday I worked up to 200lbs on the smith machine bench press (though it felt not nearly as hard as 170lbs barbell) and yesterday I worked up to 300lbs deadlift, everytime I lift hard I always think I could have gone just a little harder, well this week I have so far, and today I am resting cause I am really sore, my chest, legs, and back all definately got a workout.

I’ve been going lighter and with more cardio, cause, well I’ve been lazy and wanting to maintain instead of grow.  so it really suprised me today that I hit a couple records on major lifts.  170×4 bench press, and 255×7 deadlift.  I had done a couple lifts before, oddly strong on the slight incline db press and isolation curls too

on the leg sled, 16-45lb plates, 810lbs, no knee pain, real happy today

this weekend we went sledding and I was running up and down the steep hill all day, and now my left leg is very sore and needs to rest, plus I forgot to take my gym bag out of the car since friday and it was quite very frozen

I havent posted in a while and I havent posted any workouts in a while but I’ve still been going everyday, just more random as far as what I want to do when I am there, I am going by feel, whatever isnt sore, that gets trained till its tired or I run out of time.  I am admittedly doing less volume and probably less overall since I am not really pushing myself as much, but I feel better everyday, less debilitating soreness and more just good strong sore but happy kinda deal

though I dont know if its from the water bloating from the creatine in the NO shotgun, or the more dramatic use of light and pose, I see a thicker chest in my progress pictures (and profile pic) and I like.  ok sure I played a bit with the contrast and brightness of the photo, but thats just to make things stand out better and I didnt doctor it aside from that, its all me.

anyways too much rum this weekend made yesterdays and todays workouts pretty rough and weak, hopefully I will have recovered by tommorrow

the program says my 1 rep max for bench press is more than I weigh, so thats actually a big goal right there, now I dont know that I can actually lift how much I weigh and I dont feel like finding out and my next goal is 250×5x5 on the bench, but I can call this a goal met

a mini goal, not really something huge, but its good for me.  I got the big plates on the bar while squatting today.  now generally this isnt all that huge a deal, since on the smith machine (which I hate vehmenantly) or in a squat cage I can throw a couple plates on no big deal, but at my current gym I have to clean and press the weight out onto my back, so I throw that weight over my head and rest it on my shoulders, and I did that with the big plates today.  which means, for all but the actual clean and press (which I dont snap up or such since I wanna use my shoulders to press it up instead of throwing the weight with my legs) I am using the big plates for everything, and I COULD clean and press with big plates if I didnt wanna do them slow and with my arms