Our Physical Fitness

[Evaniel]

175 at the gym, post travel, poor sleep, pooe diet.

Upper.

Was fine, bit weak on Bench, but I'm just trying to maintain while in this disrupted phase of life.

Sucks that the renos and everything else are messing up your progress. What's bench looking like for you at the moment?

 

[Scribe]

Sucks that the renos and everything else are messing up your progress. What's bench looking like for you at the moment?

Same, 3 plates a side but down to 5 reps. I'm then dropping one 45 to a 25 to get in a bit more work.

I was able to get 9 hours of sleep, so I'm going to load up food and go Arms/Legs Monday Tuesday, rest to Friday and see what happens with Upper.

 

[Evaniel]

Same, 3 plates a side but down to 5 reps.

For me, three plates is the dream.

 

[Scribe]

For me, three plates is the dream.

When I was bulking up, eating way too much and sleeping well it just kept going up. I think I was at 9 reps max and even went to increase weights, but I just cannot keep it going.

90's for 10 though still at the end of my workout.

 

[Mannahnin]

Got in last night May 7 for a little chest, bis, tris.

• Smith inclined barbell bench 105x13 +95x4, 105x8 +95x4, 105x8 +95x3, 95x7 +1. Trying a slightly larger drop on the drop sets.
• Machine biceps curls 75x22, 75x20, 75x15 +65x5. Mostly steady.
• Triceps push-down 110x23, 110x21, 110x21. Still not where I was last month but added a rep each set from last time. Trying to keep form tight.

Sleep is ok. Probiotic is ok (doesn't seem to be making much immediate difference for me, but we'll see). Got this annoying intermittent cough, which I should probably see a doc about. Trying to schedule a new patient appointment with my new PCP I picked in November, but I've just been able to leave voicemails so far. :/

After Thursday night the 7th I didn't get back in until Friday night the 15th.

• Smith inclined barbell bench 105x12 +100x5, 105x10 +10x3, 105x7 +100x2 +95x1, 95x8. Pretty steady, maybe a slight improvement.
• Machine biceps curls 75x20, 75x15 +65x5, 75x15 +65x5R 4L. A bit of a drop, but not too bad.
• Rear delt flies: 90x16, 90x16, 90x15 (-4 reps, +1 rep, steady). Lost a bit, but I also did a moderate warm up set and probably hit the first working set a little too fast; no worries.

So still on roughly a 1x/week kind of maintenance on my main lifts schedule at the moment. I was surprised to get a bit of tricep soreness after this. And a little in my chest, which is also unusual.

On Sunday I helped a disabled friend's elderly mother move a bunch of furniture and boxes, as well as hauling my window air conditioners from basement storage up to my second floor apartment, so that was some extra work, and felt good. Still happy to be big and strong enough to be useful for and able to do these things for myself and others. Even if my stubborn chest makes me feel like 2 plates is a distant pipe dream.

It finally got hot here over the weekend, too, which meant time for the ACs. Definitely a bit challenging sleeping last night, finding the comfort zone between temp and AC noise. I'll need to fine tune that a little bit in this new place (moved in at the end of December).

 

[Mannahnin]

Went back Monday night 5/18 after work. Not sure yet whether I can get my frequency back up to a few times a week, but it still felt nice.

• Smith inclined barbell bench 105x13 +100x3, 105x8 +100x3, 105x6 +100x2 +95x1, 95x8. A little worse than Friday.
• Machine biceps curls 75x22, 80x15 +70x5, 80x13 +70x4. By the numbers a bit better than Friday, I would say, since I bumped up weight on the second and third sets. Though I think my ROM suffered a little, so maybe not. Still, I like the idea of putting more effort/higher weight on this one and dropping the reps a little.
• Leg press 257x12, 347x15 + 20 calf raises, 437x12 + 20 calf raises, 437x10 + 15 calf raises. Not as deep ROM as I used to get when I was doing these regularly (last time looks like it was Feb 8th), and I strained my lower back a bit despite being SUPER careful not to let my butt roll up. My lower back was complaining all last night and I took ibuprofen before I slept. I think I should probably stick to hack squats and leg extensions, which I had basically replaced these with. I used to love leg press, but straining my lower back is absolutely no bueno.*
• Seated dumbbell lateral raises 20x15, 20x12, 20x12.

*(Part of the problem I think is the Matrix machines PF has, compared to the nice Hammer Strength one I had at my old gym- that one had a second set of good solid handles to help hold myself in the seat, and I think the angle was better).

 

[Scribe]

174 this morning. I didnt get to the gym Monday, was out most of the day, eating junk lol

Legs today!

Felt really good, even added 20 lbs to the Squat for laughs (I did not laugh, 20 lbs feels pretty heavy at the top end of my max) and got through everything, even felt better on abs.

Taking a few days off, Upper on Friday unless I end up moving my son out, and then Legs again Saturday if I've recovered.

 

[Scribe]

175 this morning. Poor sleep, likely inflammation.

Its a real shame my diet before was objectively not great for me. I was putting on a lot of muscle, I was seeing a lot of strength increase, and my hair was flowing.

Not so much anymore.

 

[Scribe]

Still 175, weirdly.

Real hot here last night, or I just have not yet acclimatized to the warmer temp.

Upper body after work, going to make it a long one and hopefully sleep better tonight, allergy season is also hitting hard at the moment so my body is a bit unhappy all around.

 

[Scribe]

Upper was great. Either I've been over training (nope) or just cannot recover with this less...gross, diet.

So I probably need to dial in a better diet with some more calories that also won't kill my liver?

Hmm.