Gym Today

Power rack was in use so...

Flat bar curl 2x10 60 1x8 60

Hammer curls 1x8 25 2x6 25 R 2x10 25 L

Rack not in use

Squats 3x5 185. After my second set my hamstrings were killing me, so I did the third set and they pretty much hurt the whole time, and my legs feel totally dead now. Oh well. In preparation for my DOMs, here's some DOM, have a good day everyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrcLdY1sxAY

Awww yeah, DOMS is so sweet. I mainly just posted to say I forgot the whole milk in the mashed potatoes, otherwise it would have been pretty lol.

All right, last month was a nightmare. I'm posting my goals here so they're much easier for me to find, and this is the only place where anyone cares about them.

1. 13+ workouts this month
2. 5+ of them hockey related
3. Do a fine job dieting
a. No insane cheats besides Thanksgiving
b. No fast food until after Thanksgiving
4. Down at least 5lbs. from the 224.5 I am today.

Should be relatively easy. Definitely got ****ed out of a hockey practice today though. So upsetting.

Gym day today.

Squats 3x5 205, felt better than the 185 last time, and I feel like form was better. Saw a couple juicy tidbits in the beginners or form check section about high bar squatting, tried to implement, think I did a decent job. Bottom line is I need to get videos up so I can get some confirmation on this.

Bench 2x10 135 1x6 135

DL 1x3 245

Let's see how this feels tomorrow, looking forward to it.

Gym Day.

Press 2x5 125 1x3 125

Neutral chins 1x2

Back extensions 3x15

Hammer curls 2x10 25 1x6 R 25 1x10 L 25

Neutral chins 0 fail

Ultra Late/Super Early Gym Day

Squats 1x5 205 then after the set as I was waiting for the next one my back started to feel badly, so I took the weight off and did 135 1x5 and that didn't feel good either, so I moved on.

Bench 3x5 165

DL 1x5 245

Was really weak as I had hardly eaten anything and I think my squat form is sheer buttsauce. :-/

Gym Day

It sucked though. The gym I went to is remodeling their free weights/power rack/strong people area, so all I could do was garbage machines, oh well.

Shoulder Press 3x10 80 (each arm)

Pec Deck 3x10 130

Low back machine 3x10 90

Decline bench machine 3x10 40 (each arm)

Dickless, have to go to another gym until this remodeling is complete.

Gym Day

Press 2x5 125 1x4 125. Had to go to a different gym than I usually lift at because of above post, and the bar that I used for my press had like a hexagonal handle. Not a big fan. Anyone else experience this?

Chin ups 1x2

Back extensions 2x12 20lbs. 1x8 20lbs. Thought I was crushing my balls, didn't want to explode.

Chin ups 1x2

Alternate arm incline curls 1x8 30 1x7 30 1x6 30

Chin ups 1x1

Gym Day

Decided not lifting heavy until I get a new belt so as not to ruin my back again

Squats 3x6 185

Bench 2x5 185 1x3 185

Decline Bench machine 3x8 100 each arm

Might dig into books and put new routines together, gotta do something.

Gym Day

Old gym is back in full effect

Press 3x5 125. Finally got you you bastards.

Chinups 1x2

Flat bar curl 3x8 60

Back extensions 3x12 25

Hammer curls 3x10 25

Chinups fail doing 1

1.5 hours of iced hockey!

1/8/12

1.25 hours of iced hockey.

Reaggravated old shoulder injury. Might need a doctor to look at it this time. Not good.

Sorry about the shoulder injury. Brutal.

This may be a OT comment...but do you feel you might suffer from clinical depression?

(I've been skimming a range of logs, seeing if I can start an interesting one. Not stalking you or anything.)

No, not anymore. I saw someone like ten years ago for a minute though, and have experienced depression before.

Anyway, 1.5 hours of iced hockey yesterday 1/17/12. Breaking in new skates, killing my feet.

1/23/12

1 hour and 20 minutes of iced hockey.

What's an OT comment anyway? Though I know this guy probably isn't going to respond to this as this is old stuff now...

off topic

Oh, I'm a regular H&F lurker now...OT = off-topic as HalfSlant said.

Anyways, when I was depressed it was difficult to exercise consistently, because I couldn't enjoy small successes and my setbacks were amplified by self-loathing. That's why I was wondering.

1 hour 30 minutes of ice hockey today

I don't remember my depression with regards to working out. All I know is now, when I work out, any time I hit the gym, or ice, or run, whatever, I feel way better than if I don't mentally. I think that's pretty consistent among most people, but I can't imagine working out often now and being depressed at the same time. Even if I'm bothered by setbacks/injury, my mental state is still pretty good when exercising.

Also, for future reference, my log is all free form, there are no off topic questions here.

1 hour 40 minutes of hockey today, so beat, just want to sleep.

1 hour and 40 minutes of ice hockey today. Worked real hard out there. I can't imagine my shoulder not needing surgery :-/

Thinking about lifting like Friday maybe, kinda worried though...

Went to the Doctor on Monday and got my shoulder diagnosed along with my chest/back. The chest/back issue he said there's nothing to really worry about, things like that can take 6 months+ to heal or become pain free and that lifting and otherwise exercising won't make it any worse. So that was good. My shoulder issue was actually a biceps tendon problem and he gave me three options on fixing it, physical therapy, a cortisone shot, or surgery which he said he preferred as a last resort. PT was probably not a great option because I've had the issue for 2+ years now, so we ended up going with a cortisone shot, and he shot me up and told me not to do anything for a few days and then go light with higher reps as opposed to more weight for a while and if I was still having issues in 3-4 weeks come back and we would do an MRI and go over some surgical options. So today I finally went to the gym for the first time in 1083439y2572457 years. Yeah, there's a y in there.

Squats 3x5 155 My legs were totally ripped apart even before my third set. Sad. But not as sad as I'm going to be trying to move tomorrow.

Bench 3x5 135. Second set my left elbow was feeling a sharp pain, then for the third set I made sure I had good form and there was literally no pain whatsoever, so I'll have to stay focused on that.

DL 1x5 185. :-/ So concerned with form on this. Need some film. Also will have to replace my lost weight belt too.

Hour and a half of ice hockey today. Was really tired, played like dog**** felt like dog****...hopefully better next time.

Gym Day

Squats 3x5 185

Press 3x8 75. Doctor said higher reps lower weight on the shoulder for a while so...yeah

Hammer curls 3x12 20 see above

Swiss ball crunches 4x20