Yesterday

deadlift:
390 x 5
415 x 5
440 x 5
The belt cut into my injured ribs on every rep.  Hurt like piss fire.  Not to mention I'd nearly forgotten how to do the exercise.  Bit sad but I got through it.

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And a BIG GIANT CONGRATS to C for making it through the myriad of classrooms from hell!  Now, on to the bloody stuff.

AND GO!!!!!....again.

Hard to puke out whats been going on the last few weeks.  Shouldn't take long though.  Let's see...I've been doing nothing healthy and everything deadly.  Saturday night I found myself lying busted up in a cotton field at the end of a three week binge.  Could'a been worse but it had the right effect.  A lot of pain and the realization that I somehow crammed my head up my arse and forgot to pull it back out.  Same old crap.  Oh well.  I'm sick of whining about it to you, my family, and anyone else who cares enough to listen.  I'm back to abusing myself the right way.  And I've gotta say, hammering out the last two days with terribly bruised ribs wont be soon forgotten.

Monday:
Military press:
5 x 180
5 x 190
5 x 200  (Thought  I was going to piss blood)
12 x 95 x 4  supersetted these with rear latterals.  20lbs dumbells.  same sets and reps.

Barbell curls
45 x 10
65 x 5
85 x 5
105 x 5
105 x 5

some preacher curls I think.

Tuesday: Ran 2.5 miles in 27:45.  Went out into 25mph headwind and barely touched the ground coming back.  Horribly slow, but I didn't stop or puke or die, so I'm OK with that for now.

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Viable

I drug my butt outta bed this morning to slop out some kind of exercise.  I did a cool sled/farmers walk session Tuesday morning, but this turned out to be less cool than that.  Plus, by the time I cursed myself out of the blankets, I had like five minutes to workout. I decided to go for volume because I'm lazy.

Bench:
bar x 20
95 x 10
135 x 10
185 x 10
225 x 10
225 x 10
225 x 10

Did 15 pullups after the first set of bench and then 6 to 8 pullups in between each set of bench.  Came out to around 50 pullups.

Fried Day

Got up early this morning amped about doing something active.  Wasn't even sure what I was going to do.  In fact, I put on my cleats to drag the sled and ended up wandering into the gym.  I'm freaking loving these warmer mornings.  I decided on some heavy pressing.  haven't done military presses in a couple of months.  I've been doing incline presses instead to switch things up a bit.  I was interested to see how bad the overheads were going to suck.

Military Press:
Bar x 10
65 x 10
95 x 10
135 x 8
155 x 5
175 x 5
195 x 1
215 x 1
235 x 1 (easy 10lbs PR)

Happy Weekend!

Energizer

I went out yesterday with every intention to hurt myself.  I figured that would be the only acceptable excuse to continue not being healthy.  I had some inflammation in my left knee to begin with.  I'm not sure where that came from as I haven't actually used it in about a week.

Squats:
95 x 10
135 x 10
225 x 10
315 x 8
365 x 5
405 x 3
455 x 1
475 x 1
515 x 1 (new pr)  This was encouraging and painful.  It changed my attitude and my ability to see anything but stars for a few minutes.

Box squats:
315 x 10
315 x 10  more stars.  they're pretty.

a bunch of pull ups.

All in all I felt better about life when I left the gym.  Strangely, my knee hurt worse after the session.  Ibuprofen seems to be doing the trick.
-chow