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For the second night in a row I had one of those weird sleepwalking things which disrupted my sleep. I decided not to go to the gym in the morning, and instead did it later in the evening. Needless to say, it went quite well, despite me being in a rush. I should just make time to go to the gym in the evening.
Deadlift. 6@255, gonna go to 275
Lat Pulldown. 15@160 rest pause.
Seated row. 20@110
Pull-ups. 13 bodyweight. I don’t know why this one didn’t work so well, given that everything prior to this point was quite good.
Face pull. 15,12@90. I love face pulls.
Reverse Grip BP. 8@140. Gonna go up to 145.
Close grip BP. 20@100 rest pause. Accidentally did too many, wasn’t paying attention. Gonna go up to 105.
Rope extension. 20@35.
Dips. 12,13@bw.
Skipped ab circuit. Hey, I should do that now. (It’s the 24th today, as I write this.) ….. Aight so I got 8, and then 6. The v ups kill me. For my last set (due in 60 seconds), I’m gonna go for another 6 (as normally I can only do 4, if even any)… Yay! So that makes 8/6/6. This is a long way from 15-20 each set, but I don’t mind.
So in yoga today the instructor person, at some point, mentioned that toxins would be released according to some way of holding your arms or legs or whatever. I couldn’t help but notice the irony, that I was in fact holding in a certain sort of toxin, if you get what I mean. Cardio went okay, although, apparently, I spent like 40 minutes changing. I should make a thing of being quick in the change room and shower and stuff, but it’s really nice just relaxing.
So I normally have caffeine before I wake up. Like, I wake up, grab a lil caffeine tablet, and then go back to sleep. When I am stressed, and this has happened before, I sometimes do this in the middle of the night. I think I did it at 2 AM last night, and then woke up at 3 realizing that I pretty much had a large coffee. Surprisingly, I was able to get back to sleep, although it was some pretty half-assed sleeping.
Surprisingly, this did not affect my performance at the gym. I think maybe it made me sleep in overdrive, so I got double the rest. That’s how it works, right?
Today was Shoulders and Legs
Shoulder Press. 6@100lbs. I think I’ll go up next time.
Seated Military Press. 12@85lbs rest pause. I accidentally put too much weight on. Well, it was more like I didn’t want to take the weight off, so I just did it anyways. It went well.
Lateral Raise. 17@20lbs. Massive weight. I have finally gone up from the plastic dumbbells. Some people in the gym use a lot more weight, and look funny when they do it. I think I have my form right.
Squat. 4@255lbs. I don’t get it. Why am I not going up on squats? I guess maybe I should sleep properly!!
Leg Press. 20@430lbs rest pause. At least I am getting better at leg press… 
Leg Extension.17 @”9″.
Good Morning. I accidentally did not use enough weight. I did 100lbs instead of 135. Unsurprisingly, I got 12,12@100.
Leg Curl. 12,9 @ 75
Calf Raise. 200lbs stretching. Once again, I forgot to set the shoulder pad low enough and I think for the first 3 minutes I was only holding up like 150lbs. Next time though, I’ll get this. I did all 7 minutes!
I was going to meet someone at the gym today to show them starting strength, but they called me and said they had been drinking and so couldn’t make it today (”maybe some other time”). Sucks for them I guess. Today was chest and biceps; I like how it’s a fast day.
Dumbbell bench. 6@120 lbs. I am going to move up to 130 next week, although I will need a spotter I think.
Incline bench press. 18@95lbs rest pause. I’m getting better at this. I didn’t go to failure either, which is an accomplishment for me. Apparently you aren’t always supposed to go to failure, but I have a hard time not going for one too many.
Barbell flat bench press. 17@85 lbs. It’s really light, but I end up looking like I am benching in slow motion at the end.
Cable flyes. 14, 9 @ 40lbs. I did them right, but they are hard when you do (and given the above).
Incline dumbbell curls. 8/8 @ 25lbs. I did a bonus 3 reps on each side for fun. See? Why do I do this?
Body drag curls. I only got 14@30 (last time I got 17), but I blame the above.
Skipped abs since I did cable crunches yesterday and want to do an ab circuit tomorrow.
I smoked a bunch of pot and had a bunch of beer and also pizza last night (like more than a half of one, it was delicious and I do not regret it at all), and so I decided to sleep in. Thus, I went to yoga first before I showered or anything. Someone there asked me if I knew her because apparently I looked familiar. Why does this happen so often, all of a sudden? It’s because I’m amazing.
Alright, so yoga was okay, had some weird pain stretching going on in my peripheral lower back area, I presume from doing “heavy” deadlifts for the first time in a while. Then I did cardio, and then I went home. I got to work an hour late (nice).
This story is filled with success.
Today went well at the gym. Today was back/triceps/abs.
Deadlift - 6@225lbs. I hurt my wrist awhile ago and it has been slowly healing. Now that I have bandaged it when I have been in the gym, it’s in pretty good shape and I am able to do deadlifts again. I suppose the other exercises have helped with this since I struggled with 225 a couple months ago when I did deadlifts last. I am going to go up 10 each week until I get less than 6 reps, then I’ll proceed as normal.
Hammer grip lateral pulldown – 14@160lbs rest pause. This was about what I did last time, but I’m OK with that.
Wide grip seated row – 11@120lbs rest pause. I only got 11 surprisingly, which is worse than last time. Both last time and this time I wrote that my form wasn’t great. Looks like I’m going back to 110.
Pull Ups – 16 bodyweight. Same as last time.
Face Pulls – 14, 11 @ 90lbs. Last time I did better! But last time I had a lot more rest since I was showing my brother the exercises, and it was also in the evening.
Reverse grip bench press – 7@140lbs. Same as last time. I swear I’ll get 8 next time!
Close grip bench press – 18@100lbs rest pause. I may have been able to do another, but I’m going up by a dinky 5lbs next time.
Overhead rope extension – 17@35lbs. I love this one, even though I’m the onlyguy who I’ve ever seen do them.
Dips. 15, 8 @ bodyweight. Where’d the 8 come from? Very little rest between sets, I guess.
Ab circuit (sprinter sit ups, v-ups, toe touches, hip thrusts). Did one set of 8, one of 6, but then I couldn’t even do the exercises after that, so 0. I love that.
I got there late today, so I only really had 20 minutes to do the cardio. What did I write last time about my heart rate? Because, I only really hovered around 160-165 the whole time. In any case, I did yoga right afterwards. That was pretty interesting; apparently the class involves lots of concentration on breathing or something. I did find it kind of relaxing and I enjoyed it. The only difficulty was that I arrived late to yoga (maybe I should have done 15 minutes of cardio) and so I got this spot in the corner and couldn’t see what we were supposed to be doing. I think I got it mostly correct
I saw a bike parked in the alley. It was not locked up as the lock was wrapped around the seat, and so it would be easy to steal. I really could use a bike, and a free one would be great. Therefore I decided, naturally, to flip the bike vertically such that it is just sitting there upside down. Why, yes, I have had a few beers, and yes, I think it’s hilarious. I smiled for at least a few more minutes during my walk home.
Tomorrow I am going to do yoga — that should be interesting. Beforehand I plan to do some intense something or other at the gym, most likely the stationary bike since that’s not some fancy machine and it is not running. God I hate running. I love going to the gym. I look forward to it literally every night. I hope to keep something like a heart rate of 160 during the 30 minutes, as usual. I have no idea whether that’s good or not, but a cursory glance at google suggests that it is surely enough for someone just getting into cardio.
Had some strange craving for pop last night, had a ton of it, couldn’t fall asleep (the caffeine adds up apparently). Then I woke up and I was alright. My hypothesis is that during those 2 hours of rolling around in bed I actually was practically asleep, so it still counted, or something.
Once I got to the gym things went well.
DB Seated Shoulder Press. 6 reps at 100lbs. I am thinking about going up next time.
Seated Military Press. 11 reps (rest-pause) at 80 lbs. Easy, but I will stay at this weight.
DB Lateral Raises. 21 reps at 15lbs. I initially had way too much, but now at least my form is right. Gonna do 20lbs next time.
Squat. 4 reps at 255. I had this weird but familiar pain in my waist, but I decided I’d just warm up a ton and see if that let me avoid injury this time. As it happens, it did, so there! I was kinda leaning to the right on my way up though, so we’ll see how this goes next time.
Leg Press. 17 reps (rest pause) at 440lbs. I will soon need to borrow plates from other racks to do this exercise.
Leg Extension . 17 @ “9″. I don’t know what the 9 means, maybe 90 pounds? Probably not though.
Good Morning. 10@135, 10@135. That was fun, but someone was staring at me when I did it. I wonder if I am doing th exercise too slowly.
Leg Curl. 12@75lbs, 10@75lbs. I like this one because I get to lay down between sets, but I feel like I’m going to die between sets so I don’t know.
Calf Raise. 20@175 lbs (20s stretching between reps). Fun as always, going to go up to 200lbs.
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