Face your fear. It’s not like you’re gonna die. Are you in control of your stomach, or does it control you?

No, you don't.

Solid progress, stick to what's working.

Alright! I'll take all this under advisement.

Got out and lifted today. Just got back in town last night so I did a more Monday style lift:

HBBS to pins 235x5x5
HBBS from pins 235x5x5
Paused bench 190x3
Paused bench 135x3x3
Paused bench 135x5x5
Dips BWx16x3
Barbell rows 95x12x3
Hammer curls 30x10x3

Actually all of it felt really good. Happy to be healthy-ish. Not sure about the long term health of my shoulder but I'll see where I'm at by Summer's end.

Life is good, WIM

Another solid lift today. My lifting schedule this week if off, but I'm getting out and moving weight and that's all that matters.

FS to pins 190x5x2
FS from pins 190x5x2
Narrow Grip Bench (TNG) 155x3x6
Barbell rows 95x12x3
Overhead trip extensions 35x6
Overhead trip extensions 25x12x2
Hammer Curls 25x16x3

Life is good, WIM

What are overhead trip extensions?

Got to train both bis and trips.

I’m on my phone otherwise I’d post a pic of what tricep extensions are. If you google it it’s the first result. Kind of like a standing skull crusher in reverse I guess. Skull crushers are way too painful for my shoulder in its current condition.

I def want to train tris more but have to be super careful with my shoulder.

Feels good to be getting back into a WIM rhythm. Great workout today. Had to get to the gym because it was raining. Don’t like it in general but I made it work:

HBBS to pins 240x5x5
HBBS from pins 240x5x5
Paused bench 195x3
Paused bench 135x5x9
Barbell rows 95x13x3
Cable pull-downs 50x15x3
Hammer curls 30x12x1
Hammer curls 30x10x1

Squats are easy, happy with bench. Top set was heavy, final volume set was pretty heavy. As much as I hate coming to the gym, it’s nice to have cables for pain free triceps work. The hammer curls were weird, was expecting to hit 12 for all three sets and it felt like it was gonna happen right up until the final 2 reps. Oh well.

Life is good, WIM

You said “trip extensions”. I wasn’t sure whether you meant “trap” or “tricep” or something different entirely. That’s why I asked.

Hahaha didn't even realize it. Didn't catch it at all in any of the places, kept seeing it as tricep. That's how bad my reading comprehension it.

Got out and lifted Wednesday:

FS to pins 195x5x2
FS from pins 195x5x2
Tempo Bench 115x5x6
Barbell rows 95x12x3
Overhead tricep extensions 35x12x3
Hammer Curls 30x12x3

And again today:

LBBS to pins 275x5
LBBS from pins 275x5
Narrow grip bench 135x5x6
Barbell Rows 95x12x3
Hammer curls 35x8x3


Tuesday+Wednesday I screwed up my calories. Was in a pretty bad headspace. But I feel like I'm steady now, good yesterday+today.

Life is good, WIM

Having a rough go of it. Could barely get out of bed Saturday. Really lethargic today as well but I forced myself to get out and lift even if I had to cut it short.

Here is what I knocked out today:

LBBS to pins 245x5x5
LBBS from pins 245x5x5
Bench 200x3 (paused)
Bench 135x5x10 (paused)

All I had in me today. Gonna try and get some field work in but I'm really not feeling that great.

I’ll tell you what’s really been helping me is some coffee before/during the gym...and trying to remind myself how much happier and better I will feel post session.

Part of me worries that your lethargy is a result of the ridiculously low amount of calories you’re taking in that you think is a good idea...but I am not sure of that.

Anyway, love ya pal...hope it gets much better fast.

Yup, you're right. I actually realized that I was trying to eat way less and drastically cut my caffeine consumption at the same time. That's a recipe for no energy.

I'm kinda at a cross roads. I def need to be eating at a deficit but I also need to scale my caffeine way back and it's just so hard to do both and get anything done.

Had a good weekend last weekend, played my first A Tier DG tourney. 3 days, tee times, the whole deal. Really happy with how I played.

It's a world class course, extremely difficult. To put it this way, after 2 rounds, there was nobody in the field under par in the entire tournament. The rounds took about 5 hours and went up and down the Santa Cruz mountains.

My current rating is 935 which is the recommended minimum for playing in advanced division. My first round was 947 rated, my second round was 966 rated and my final round was 979 rated. I had only played the course about 3 times before so I felt like I got better each trip through. Really happy with how I putt this weekend especially. I actually had a monster round going the final day and took a really tough double bogey on the second to last hole to finish at -2 for the round (easier pin placements the last day). I was a little upset go from -4 to -2 but it happens. I had good breaks earlier in the round so it evens out.

I got out and lifted monday:

LBBS to pins 250x5x5
LBBS from pins 250x5x5
Bench 205x1 (paused)
Bench 140x5x6 (paused)
Barbell rows 105x8x3
Tricep extensions random amounts
Hammer curls 40x6x3

Life is good, WIM

Great job buddy!

Thanks!

Got out and lifted again today:

LBBS to pins 225x5x2
LBBS from pins 225x5x2
Tempo bench 115x3x6
Barbell rows 115x8x3
Overhead Tricep extensions 35x12
Dips BWx12x2
Hammer curls 35x10x3

Life is good, WIM

Lifted Saturday. Lifted again today:

LBBS to pins 255x5x5
LBBS from pins 255x5x5
Bench 195x3 (paused)
Bench 145x3x6 (paused)
Dips BWx12x3
Barbell Rows 105x10x3
Hammer Curls 35x10x3

Life is good, WIM

Alright back at it. Solid workout today:

LBBS to pins 270 x 5 x 5
LBBS from pins 270 X 5 X 5
Paused Bench 195 x 3 x 1
Paused Bench 140 x 5 x 6
Overhead Tricep Extensions 45 x 8
Overhead Tricep Extensions 45 x 4
Overhead Tricep Extensions 35 x 10
Barbell Rows 115 x 9 x 3
Hammer Curls 35 x 9 x 3

All my lifts going up steadily except for bench. Pretty standard with my training history.

Life is good, WIM

Back to back lifts. Feels good now that it's finally warm out and not raining.

Here's what today looked like:

LBBS To Pins 240 x 5 x 2
LBBS From Pins 240 x 5 x 2
Tempo Bench 135 x 3 x 6
Barbell Rows 105 x 12 x 3
Seated Dumbbell Curls 35 x 10 x 3
Dips BW x 15 x 3
RDL 225 x 10 x 2

Everything felt pretty good.

Life is good, WIM

Had a good workout yesterday. My squat keeps going up but my upper body stuff has really stalled out. Busto recommended a reset and said the level of output I was doing was likely hurting recovery and not helping me. So here is what yesterday looked like:

LBBS to pins 275 x 5 x 5
LBBS from pins 275 X 5 X 5
Paused Bench 185 x 3 x 1
Paused Bench 135 x 5 x 3
Overhead Tricep Extensions 35 x 10 x 3
Barbell Rows 95 x 10 x 3
Hammer Curls 25 x 12 x 3

Pretty happy with it, although the upper body stuff was all super easy.

Life is good, WIM

Plo still off the charts around there?
Any Vegas trips this summer?

Games have been good (I've had a really tough run of cards last few months, tho ) but the PLO action is pretty hit or miss.

Forgot to update my log last week. Lifted well, ate too much.

Tuesday:

LBBS To Pins 245 x 5 x 2
LBBS From Pins 245 x 5 x 2
Tempo Bench 135 x 3 x 6
Barbell Rows 95 x 10 x 3
Seated Dumbbell Curls 35 x 10 x 3
RDL 225 x 10 x 2

Thursday:

LBBS to pins 305 x 5 x 1
LBBS From Pins 305 x 5 x 1
Narrow Grip Bench 135 x 3 x 5
Dips BW x 15 x 3
Barbell Rows 95 x 10 x 3
Hammer curls 25 x 12 x 3

Life is good, WIM

Back at it today. Here is what my lifting looked like:

LBBS to pins 280 x 5 x 5
LBBS from pins 280 X 5 X 5
Paused Bench 190 x 3 x 1
Paused Bench 135 x 5 x 4
Overhead Tricep Extensions 35 x 10 x 3
Barbell Rows 95 x 10 x 3
Hammer Curls 25 x 12 x 3

Life is good, WIM

Quick update from today's lift:

LBBS to pins 235 x 10 x 3
LBBS from pins 235 X 10 X 3
Paused Bench 195 x 2 x 1
Paused Bench 135 x 5 x 4
Overhead Tricep Extensions 35 x 10 x 3
Barbell Rows 95 x 10 x 3
Hammer Curls 25 x 12 x 3

Mixed up the squat stuff a little. Bench was too hard. Upper body just getting weaker every today.

But I'll get it figure out, Gonna crush the last 6 months of the year.

Life is good, WIM

A good lift today.

LBBS to pins 235x5x5
LBBS from pins 235x5x5
Bench 175x3 (paused)
Bench 135x3x6 (paused)
Barbell rows 85x12x3
Overhead KB tricep extensions 35x10x3
DB Hammer Curls 25x12x3

Life is good, WIM

Alright, I'm mixing it up, hence the log title. Obviously.

Basically:

Focus more on a split routine since I think my recovery has been screwy with what I was doing. Bang out a lot of lower body stuff Monday, upper body stuff Tuesday and follow it up with another lift or 2 later in the week.

Also gonna be shooting for 250g protein every day. This has a double benefit of making sure I get enough protein in my diet and making it almost impossible to eat too many calories during the day.

I've been holding strong right around 190 BW (slightly under today) and would love to run this for the next 6 months and see where I'm at. Maybe do a little cut in March/April.

I lifted yesterday, I did:

LBBS to pins 225x5x5
LBBS from pins 225x5x5
Calf raise holds 225x5x10
Deadlift 225x5x2
RDL 135x12x2
Crunches 25x2

And I lifted today as well:

Paused bench 135x5x6
Narrow grip TNG bench 135x5x3
Barbell shrugs 135x10x3
Barbell rows 95x10x3
Triceps dips BWx15x3
Triceps overhead extensions 35x10x3
Hammer curls 30x10x3
Forearm curls 20x10x3

Time to eat more protein.

Life is good, WIM

Glad to have you back pal!