Our Physical Fitness

[Scribe]

Another 178.6 morning. I got a Van, loaded it up with what I thought was quite a bit of stuff taking up space, and hardly dented the storage unit, very nice.

Taking a quick tea break to then get another load into my car this time, and get more stuff out of here.

Then its clean up the disaster I've made and...yeah keep on keeping on.

Monday Upper, Tuesday Legs, Wednesday...move my son, Thursday tear out floor/toilet, and just keep on going.

EDIT: AAAAAAND done cleaning for the day. Its just stupid how much stuff has accumulated in my house over the 18 or whatever years we've been here.

 

[Scribe]

178 at the gym, so probably 176 this morning.

Upper was good. Everything went pretty good except the guy who decided to hog the squat/incline press rack for 40 minutes. Eventually a guy asked if he was still using it and he got really weird so...ok buddy.

Otherwise, all good, live goes on. Busy rest of the week coming.

 

[Mannahnin]

Got back in last night for the first time in the week. My brain is stressing about stuff and I was hoping it would break me out of a rut. It did help a bit.

Tuesday 4/21:

• Smith inclined barbell bench 105x12 +100x3, 105x12 +100x3, 105x8 +100x2, 100x5 +95x2. Some regression here but close.
• Machine biceps curls 75x23, 75x19, 75x20. (-2 reps, +1 rep, +2 reps). Basically steady.
• Rear delt flies: 90x15, 90x15, 90x15 (-3 reps, steady, steady). This felt a little harder than last time. Maybe a seat height difference.

Tuesday 4/28:

• Smith inclined barbell bench 90x18, 105x9 +100x1, 100x9 +95x3, 100x7 +95x3 +90x2. Some more regression here. Most likely just need to get back in more often again and keep my eating and sleep on target.
• Machine biceps curls 75x22, 75x18, 75x20. (-1 reps, -1 rep, steady). Not bad.
• Rear delt flies: 90x18, 90x15, 90x15 (+3 reps, steady, steady). Holding ground, still straining on those last reps.
• Triceps push-down 110x22, 110x20, 110x20. Lost some ground from last time (a few weeks ago), but pushing hard on those last couple of reps/going to failure while keeping form, so I can be proud of the work, at least.

 

[Scribe]

176.2, I'm not really sore, and I didn't have a great dinner. So...I'm guessing we didn't hit the gym hard enough yesterday?

I blame the guy hogging the rack so I missed Incline bench.

EDIT: No gym, moved a bit of my sons stuff, had cleaned out a room that has a bit of a dip in the floor, made the mistake of looking up what that could be. Already have a lot on my plate, not sure I can deal with getting joists fixed.

Tomorrow, I finish tearing up the bathroom, its going to be a day.

Looked into joists further, house is certainly settled but I think I'm going to have to get the floor pulled up and this joist repaired.

 

[Scribe]

Yeesh, 172 this morning, dehydrated, was out in the sun all day yesterday, didnt eat well.

I only got to the gym once, its been a mess of a week, but we got the new floor in the bathroom after I ripped out my old one, there was work under the tile I didnt even remember doing, but in fairness its been almost 20 years.

So we have a usable bathroom.

They finish the downstairs next week, Wed/Thur, but I'm going to go do Upper tomorrow, probably.

More house work today, keep smashing folks.

 

[Evaniel]

Got my sessions in this weekend, though the diet has still been a disaster. Stopped by the Injury Care office where they have grad students in exercise science and PT get supervised practice on actual people and had them take a gander at my knee. It looks like my pain is not structural but rather the result of really tight hamstrings, IT band, and quads. So, I have a bunch of new stretches to practice. I'm feeling...optimistic (?)...about it.

 

[Mannahnin]

That does sound like good news. Stretches are good!

 

[Mannahnin]

I've apparently been not eating too much, as I'm down under 168 again. No gym since the 28th; mildly active. Weather looks like it's turning warm again after the last couple of cold weeks. Going to try to get back to the gym tonight and/or tomorrow.

 

[Mannahnin]

I did get back in last night.

Monday 5/4:

• Smith inclined barbell bench 95x15, 100x10 +95x4, 105x8 +100x2, 105x76 +100x2 +95x2. Basically steady. Trying to keep my sleep and nutrition decent. Given that I lost a little weight, holding pretty steady on strength is fine.
• Machine biceps curls 75x22, 75x13 +65x5, 75x16 +65x3. Lost a little.
• Rear delt flies: 90x20, 90x15, 90x15 (+2 reps, steady, steady). Holding ground, still straining on those last reps. RoM suffering a little.
• Machine pec flies 90x15, 100x11 +90x2, 90x8. Pushing a little more volume for the chest, seeing if I can get a little soreness/drive some more gains.

I'm also trying out a probiotic. My digestion is usually pretty good, I think, but a family friend (anecdotally) reported significantly better energy levels on one, getting more out of his food, evidently. And I've felt lately like I don't have as much gas in the tank, so it seemed like a healthy/safe thing to experiment with.

 

[Scribe]

Took son to his gym yesterday to offer some guidance.

175 Monday.
173 this morning.

Boys, I'm so spoiled by my gym lol

We did a modified version of Upper, but it was essentially.

Curls, stretch triceps, bench, pull-ups, BoBR, Incline press, Dips no belt, single arm rows.

It was decent. Way warmer, so I'm burning up fluids every night.

Today, more house work.