Our Physical Fitness

[Scribe]

Sleep and nutrition continue to be pretty good.

My sleep SUCKED last night. Crazy sore, felt like my bed was solid as a rock.

183.6 this morning, no workout today, should probably go for a walk at some point after work.

 

[Scribe]

182.8 this morning.

Sleep sucked, but Upper yesterday was pretty good. I had an allergy test done yesterday (and surprise I have deviated septum) and as I told him before he stabbed me. "I've got grass, tree, and cat allergy for sure."

My forearm is still red, it swelled up pretty good and was still hot to touch after 8 hours.

 

[Mannahnin]

Friday night 9/95

• Left (harder) machine triceps press downs 130x34 +120x10, 130x26 +120x7, 130x22 +120x6.
  Steady 1a and1b, steady 2a +1 2b, steady 3a and 3b
  ...but on a machine with at least a little more resistance than last time. Exercise order might also have helped, this being first up. I wanted to start with machine overhead press but a couple had that machine occupied until the end of my session.
• Rear delt flies 100x20, 100x17, 100x14.
  Steady on everything, though it was difficult. Holding ground on that weight increase.
• Machine overhead shoulder press 55x13 +45x4, 55x12 +45x3, 55x10 +45x3
  -6 reps 1a steady 1b, steady 2a and 2b, -2 reps 3a steady 3b.
  I tried to do seated dumbbell lateral raises before this, but got a serious pain around my left elbow the first two reps and bailed on that exercise. I was hoping that was some kind of lingering side effect from my double vax the night before, but it may be some sort of injury. :/ As a silver lining the couple finally got off the machine overhead press machine, so I was able to regroup and hit this exercise instead. My opening set sucked a bit (probably mostly due to the issue on my left side), but I was able to power through the rest of the sets with minimal pain.

 

[Scribe]

182.8 again, I need to get my diet under control, but dont really care enough to do so.

Should be Upper today, I've got an appliance repair guy coming in today, my arm is still itchy/inflamed, with 2 slightly infected (maybe?) dots where the tree and grass pollen was injected.

I have some thoughts on that whole process lol

 

[Scribe]

So I've mentioned elsewhere, that I'm "hippy adjacent" when it comes to natural supplements/solutions.

Well I read here that tylenol could block gains, and a bit of poking around the net says yes. I also have a headache because we have a storm coming in it seems.

Solution? Take salt. It can draw the pressure away from the swollen tissues due to the pressure change, and let me tell you boys, I can breath SO MUCH BETTER through my nose right now, as it was swollen all day and getting worse as this storm approaches.

A handful of Salt and Vinegar chips is all it took, instead of Tylenol. I never knew.

 

[Scribe]

A handful of Salt and Vinegar chips is all it took, instead of Tylenol. I never knew.

So, this was the truth. I was able to breath better by far for the last 2.5 hours.

Upper was great, pushed everything I wanted to except missed on Cable fly, it was in use and I had been there long enough.

Legs tomorrow, I'm going to try this salt thing before bed too, see how that goes.

 

[Mannahnin]

I'll have to give salt a shot!

I almost never take acetaminophen (Tylenol) because I've historically found it just inferior to ibuprofen (Advil) in effect, and there's also a substantial danger of liver damage if you have any alcohol (which I used to drink more regularly). 600mg of ibuprofen, OTOH, has a good reliable anti-inflammatory and analgesic (pain relieving) effect which comes in clutch if I have a badly cramping muscle or soreness which is, for example, bad enough to interfere with my sleep.

I don't take ibuprofen as regularly as I once did, in part because my PCP wasn't a fan, and for the same reason as you- hearing that inflammation is one of the triggers for hypertrophy, and not wanting to sabotage my gainz.

Monday night 9/28:

• Smith inclined barbell bench 120x6 +110x5 +100x5, 120x6 +110x4 +100x4, 120x4 +110x2 +100x2, 100x6 +1
  -1 1a steady 1b steady 1c, +1 rep 2a steady 2b +1 2c, steady 3a -1 3b and 3c, +1 rep set 4
  Mostly holding ground, maybe a tiny progression.
  
  
• Machine biceps curls 100x16 +90x3
  -3 reps each 1a and 1b.
  Pain has increased on the left side to the point that I discontinued. :/ I was actually getting a little pain in my left bicep just switching around weights on the bench press. Ugh. Gotta figure this out, and I should probably lay off this exercise until I do.
  
  
• Hack Squat 105x14, 130x11, 130x9
  +2 reps set 1, +1 rep set 2, steady set 3.
  My quads didn't entirely stop hurting until at least Friday last week. But again, pretty gentle on my back. I want to try to lock in on these.

 

[Scribe]

184 this morning, I even did a walk last night so I've added a pound or 2 for sure in the last month or so.

I almost never take acetaminophen (Tylenol) because I've historically found it just inferior to ibuprofen (Advil) in effect, and there's also a substantial danger of liver damage if you have any alcohol (which I used to drink more regularly). 600mg of ibuprofen, OTOH, has a good reliable anti-inflammatory and analgesic (pain relieving) effect which comes in clutch if I have a badly cramping muscle or soreness which is, for example, bad enough to interfere with my sleep.

I lived on Advil for several months to wrap up the destruction of my knees and football 'career'. So yeah I try to avoid that stuff as much as I can now.

 

[Scribe]

Leg day was good mostly, knee a bit wobbly but whatever. I want to lose some weight, but I dont want to commit to it, and I dont want my hair to fall out like last time

Going to try and end dinner earlier, and fast from 7pm to 7am, and see how that goes, and...probably cut out a bunch of treats that I snack on.

 

[Scribe]

182.6, wife wanted to do a walk last night after my legs....rough lol

slept great, smash shoulders and arms today.