6/29 -- 251 lbs.
Bench Press 5x185, 235, 2x5x210, amrap 7x210
Pullups ladder 1->6, 6->1 (42 total)
Dips ladder 1->5
rehap Deadlift 4x8x150
rehab Squats 3x12x125
Had some low back pain for a couple days, so just working light pain-free weights yesterday on the lower body lifts. May just work that upward for a bit. Misloaded Bench Press and didn't realize until after the second set so just went grey's gull on it. Pullups feel embarrassing but if I were at my old bw and doing this with a 25 I'd probably feel fine. Dips are just going to be light work for a while--I find heavy dips are something I need to warn my body about weeks in advance.
Haven't really been counting calories or targeting the last couple weeks other than ensuring adequate protein. While my weight hasn't gone down, my belly has shrunk from 45.5" to 44" and my belt is now only appropriately difficult to get on using the last loop, woot woot!
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On an unrelated note, wife is home and recovering from the pneumonia pretty well so far. She's on oxygen but already stays over the "dangerous" threshold when we take it off and they tell me her lungs sound quite good. We've brought in a palliative care company (which is not the same thing as hospice) and that basically gets us a scheduled housecall every two weeks, another couple housecalls each month as needed, and makes it much easier and faster to get new equipment when we need it, but we continue "curative" treatment and active rehab. Physically, it's an enormous setback although we hope once the pneumonia fully clears in a month or so she'll snap into better shape. No real sign yet that the chemo is working. I've been trying to get out more and more; gym, yoga, library, museums, coffee shops, restaurants, strip clubs, crack houses, etc. Still trying to make it to see 'Dark Phoenix' (one of my all-time favorite comix stories when I was a kid) but of course this is Spider-man (my favorite character) week so we'll see. I know everyone is sick of comic book movies well, screw you guys, to me they are just things that happen to me and I just need to know, OK?
On another completely unrelated note; I believe I've finally completed my lifelong endeavor to understand women! Yesterday when reading a book ('the Happiness Project'--humble brag, look at me indulging in "me time") by a female author I came across the following passage (there's no missing context or explanation of meaning and I'm pretty sure she means it):
Quote:
I wasn't living up to my own standards of behavior, and then, because I felt guilty when I behaved badly, I behaved even worse.
Yep--that was exactly what I was missing. I feel so fulfilled.