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Originally Posted by PhiSigPhi
I dont want to get old and stiff and stuff.
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Best reason to get back to it!
Ugh! Slow painful start for me today. I've been having a biotch of a time sleeping, so last night I broke down and took one of my herbal supplements. I did finally sleep well last night...but I woke up to some serious body and sinus pain.
(Years ago my specialist taught me to rate my pain on a scale of 1-10 with 1 being normal daily pain and 10 being 'on the way to the hospital pain'...I'm at a 7 today. Hopefully I'll be loosened up and in less pain by the time I head to the gym. I will be really ticked if this interferes with my progress so close to my scheduled rest/break.)
Well, well, well! What a pleasantly surprizing day for me! Aight...so here is how the training went today:
AM Tai Chi - boy was I ever stiff! I had a tough time getting through the first few minutes...but I finally started to loosen up...and went on to do my yoga stretches
AM yoga stretches - 25 minutes. A bit tough, my upper body was really, really 'crunchy'. That was making me a bit nervous about facing my squats today. Upper body 'crunchy' does not usually bode well for my training.
I ended up with the drowsies to boot! Now that frustrates me no end when that happens and it's directly related to my fibro. So on the way to the gym I stopped and bought myself an 'AMP' energy drink by Mountain Dew. Now normally I don't do anything more than have a cup of coffee prior to any early in the day lifting. I do have a 'Monster' from time to time before my hikes...but I didn't want a whole freakin' can of 'Monster'. 'AMP' is about half the size.
Anyhow, my drive to the gym is normally about a half hour. I ran some quick errands today to give the 'AMP' some time to work...if in fact it would. About the time I arrived at the "Y" I could feel a bit of a 'buzz' from the caffeine and figured well hellz...at least I won't be groggy doing my squats. Upper body was still hurtin'.
I timed my arrival well.
No one was playing in the squat rack! So I strapped on my knee brace, pulled on my gloves, slid those plates in place, secured them, and got down to business.... and pulled off the first set of 20 reps without a rest!
I even tolerated the bar across my trigger points without feeling nauseous or light-headed.
Took a 15 second rest and got back to work. Put in 10 reps. Needed a 15 second break and finished the last 10 reps. My face was red and my ass was whooped...but I did it...and inspite of the pain. The knee was majorly cranky today so I did NOT dare do my leg extensions.
But! The successful two sets of 20 rep squats was not all I pulled off today!
So here is my workout in full:
Squats
Set 1 - 20r/100#
Set 2 - 10r/100# 15 sec. rest 10r/100#
Leg extensions skipped today
Seated calf raises 12r/140#
Calf machine 12r/140#
Back machine 12r/120#
*up 5
Plate hypers 12r/10#
Lat machine #5 12r/65#
*up 5
Lat machine #19 12r/65#
*up 5
Seated alt. DB press 12r/20#
Incline db raises 12r/10#
*up 2
DB bench 12r/20#
DB flyes 12r/10#
Concentration-curls 12r/20#
*up 5
Incline alt. DB curls 12r/15#
Triceps machine #7 12r/65# outter setting
*up 5
Triceps machine #16 12r/40#
*up 5
I still hurt...the pain is finally down to a 3 and I'm still very 'crunchy' in the upper body tonight. But I had one hellz of a workout today inspite of it all.
PM yoga stretches - 25 minutes
PM Tai Chi