Felt physically empty the past few days. Today just did an easy BP w/o.
Yesterday I made a super simple wrist roller that seems to work well. It’s my first step to, if not Popeye forearms, at least not Olive Oyl’s.
Reminder to self: This black mood is partly winter and not enough sunlight.
Make sure you get your supplemental vitamin D in at this time 
Yes, you reminded me to take it 
I’m thinking I may have to move. It’s great having a power rack in the basement but my roommate (landlord) is being more of an ass all the time. Our personal relationship is now nonexistant and our official relationship keeps getting worse. I’ll check out a rental I found out of the city. It’s clear that this will just keep getting worse and my mood is getting worse by the day.
Training has suffered in the last week due to something idiotic I did. Hopefully now I can get into a good routine. These damn couchsurfers are a pain too, one that has disrupted my routine the last few days.
Heading out for a short walk. It’s 31F but pleasant since everything is quiet and there’s no wind. Snow all weekend and me inside with this couchsurfer who won’t STFU. Joy.
This just in: After 30 minutes outside, 20 of it walking slowly, my tendon is uber-tight. Must watch this carefully. I will have to let it warm up for --?? before doing anything harder than sitting in a chair and a high one at that.
Shoveled snow for warmup but just did some easy DLs and Presses.
20 minutes of snow shoveling for warmup. Then 10 reps DB C&P w/ 40s. Then BP, 165x5 and ran slam out of steam on the second set (2 reps). Totally an energy thing but I was also feeling it CNS wise. Nowhere near my muscles 5RM but I’m not used to doing anything w/ the upper body with much at all. It’ll come. Just have to be persistent, patient and progressive.
Oh, yeah – tendon tight as a drum so I’ll sit here in the warm for awhile before contrast shower and espom salt bath.
Last night the snow was mostly frozen solid so I skipped the shoveling. BP 185x5 for 2 good sets, felt like I could have gutted up a 3rd set but did 165 for that instead to avoid bar slowage which was good since I lost oomph on the 5th rep. Tried some close grip after but lost coordination and bagged it. Felt cooked after but OK today.
BP --easy 3 sets of 7 w/ 115 for active recovery.
Just some Press and curls. Press will just be w/ 95 for now. I can do more but I feel I’m getting a bunch of good out of it at 95. I will slowly move it up but no hurry.
BP – 185x5 for 4 good sets. Bar speed went down a lot on the later reps of each set.
Took a long walk on a muddy trail Sunday. Tendon was tight as a drum after which I surmised might be due to the soft surface I was walking on. Walked a few minutes on the paved parking lot right after and it seemed to help. Something to keep in mind.
BP – 185 is now part of the warmup it seems 195x5 for 3 solid sets. Did some sort of JM presses after w/ 135 but the shoulder felt tight in the cold-ass basement so I bagged it. Will figure out what exactly I’m doing for triceps since I clearly felt that to be a weakness in the 195s that I hadn’t noticed before.
Can’t do press the day after BP it seems. One set and ye olde CNS told me not to do more. Did light BP for recovery from yesterday.
Workout for today was going up and down the stairs (3 floors ) to the basement over and over to work on the damn plumbing. Burnt.
I let the damn plumbing job derail me from training. Back at it today.
Note to self: Do extensions first.
Then bis and tris before presses or whatever, since I never want to do jack once I finish my top set of whatever my main lift is.
Today was
Press 5 decent reps w/ 115
BP 2x5x185 Bar was slow though, not real slow but no speed. Will do 175 next time.
I didn’t back out with the presses – just took it off the hooks and back in without moving my feet. I greatly prefer this and will practice it. It is a must to increase the weight.
Am also cutting cals since I’m not shedding fat fast enough. Basically I’m keeping protein high while cutting down on fat. We’ll see.
Extensions and RDLs. 165 felt too heavy so dropped to 5x135. Big difference btw 115 and 135 – even though 115 feels light, maybe it should be my set weight to build up ease and number of reps. This is the way to go – I need to build speed and ease of movement and not get slower and more sluggish.
Mood sucks. Must get out more and do more.
Yet another plumbing problem has occurred, and again I’m spending lots of time in the freezing basement, making me less inclined to train down there, and so I’ve blown another week :rolleyes:
Quite naturally I had no strength so BP was just 135x10 for 5 sets.
It really does cook me to try to do both on the same day so I’ll focus on plumbing later today and lift Saturday.
Oh, and extensions sucked. Will get plenty of stairs training hauling stuff upstairs to build a wall with.
The cold has had me not inclined to go down into the freezing basement to train, and now the landlord has demanded either no more heating or an increase in rent. So now I’m cold all the time which makes me even less inclined to go freeze since I won’t be able to warm up afterward. I’ll see about a gym membership since I don’t want to turn to goo until April.
The lack of training is further blackening my mood. I am really trying to do positive things. My default mood though gets worse weekly. There is no end in sight. There seems to be no relief from the cold. There is also no fun, no joy, no life. I know part of this is the winter but it’s still there.
Went down to lift but realized right away that I had nothing today. I’ll prep well and get one in tomorrow. If I’m going to feel crappy anyway I can at least get in shape.