Awesome that July is a "go" Bro. So what's been up in your world. I miss seeing your logging in this thread. :-)

How's the training been going? :-)

Here's to a kick-ass July, Frank! :-)

Just been busy with work and kids. Training is moving right along. Didn't think anyone missed my gym posts lol.


Thx bro.:-)


Game plan is to dump 10lbs over the next 9 weeks. Then cut 10 going in. Not sure what my openers will be. Luckily for me, I hold a ton of water. My weight jumps almost 6-8 pounds from when I wake up to when I train. Between food and a gallon + I guess it adds up.

Full body today.

Squat - been a couple of weeks since I squatted, tried to push the weight and couldn't get up on the second rep. Dropped the weight back down quite a bit and finished out my sets.
225x5 3 sets
270x1 failed on the second rep.

Power Clean - really enjoyed this today
115x5
125x5 3 sets

Flat Bench - no spotter, so I dropped the weight back a little
175x5 3 sets

Deadlift
225x5
235x5 -new PR

Very good workout today, and felt great even after dropping the bar on the safety rack.

I love the crashing sound of the weight hitting the safety bar. :-)

Hit triplex push-pulls, shoulders, bis, and abs today. Shoulders consisted of high face-pulls and low face-pulls. Kept upping the weight until I couldn't hit 5 anymore. It was interesting. Followed that up with a few sets of super-setted flat bar and rope hammer curls. My forearms and biceps felt like they were gonna jump out of my skin. :-) Finished things off with 4 sets of pull-down abs to failure (10-8-7-8).

All in all, I felt trashed. :-) Mowed the lawn 2 hours later, too. :-)

Sounds good.

Did some arm work today. Bar curls, suicide tris, preacher curls, and dips. Good stuff.

Arm days are a bit different, but when I have tried to do large muscle groups recently and not picked up a barbell, I really don't feel like I've worked out.

Bench + support day for me

Did a lot of reps of flat bench. I was really just trying some things out. Intended to do "speed bench"; but didn't quite do that. Followed that up with some incline barbell. My left tris were aching a bit during/after this; but I decided to keep pushing.... First some tate presses. Tris were still hurting. Decided to do some v-bar and straight bar press-downs. Still was sore; but I worked up to personal bests (which was very surprising to me) on v-bar ... up to 170 x 5.

Anyway ... followed that with two circuits of close-medium-wide grip t-bar rows, supersetted. Then I called it a day.

My focus and intensity felt a bit off today. I just had a really hard time getting into things. I think part of it was being sore from yesterday, part of it not eating enough, and part of it just doing a bit much lately.

Hope the Admiral had a good day back in the gym, today! :-)

Back to the gym indeed, Dokk....kept it short. Breathing is still far less than 100%, but the strength was not compromised at all. Actually had a better day than my last "well" day, just the frustration of coughing between sets and having everyone in the gym looking at me like I was Typhoid Mary. :-)

Back tomorrow will be a real test of how much crud is still lingering in my lungs. :-)

If it's anything like I had Tom, your looking at hacking crap up for 2+ weeks...

Glad u had a good day aside from the coughing, Admiral. :-)

Thanks Dokk...I think tomorrow will be telling as to how much the infection has left to go. Gulp.

hope it goes well tomorrow, Tom. I've been studying pretty much straight since 11:30 this morning with no plans of stopping any time soon....hope my energy isn't too low tomorrow. However, I did remember to take creatine this weekend on off days :-)

Hope the studying pays off Brother!

I am hoping I am better by Saturday, haven't smoked for a week and am still a ways off from feeling like I can. :-)

Feel better Tom.

Bit of jogging this morning for me, did about 2 miles. - Haven't jogged since December or so, so working back into it. I think it's going to be happening on most of my non-lifting days.

just some support stuff today ... as I was in dire need of some rest. guess I'll rest when I'm dead. :-)

10 minute/2 miles recumbent warmup
pull-down abs 3 x 10 @ 200
pull-throughs 2 x 10 @ 170, 1 x 9 @ 200
tate triceps press 12 @ 30, 10 @ 35, 6 @ 45, 5 @ 45
curlz 4 teh grrlz 4 x 10 @ 80 (cable curls)



actually ... this will be my last day in the gym for a while. I'm a little bit worried about that. I just don't feel right when I don't get in the gym. :-) I leave tomorrow for a trip out west to see the PNW boys and my family. I get back *late* saturday night ... then leave for Texas on sunday. *hopefully* I'll get to lift in TX (taking my belt and straps with just in case); otherwise, I won't be lifting again until the 15th. :-)

Yup, can't miss ANOTHER WI MoB herf! :-)

Thanks Pete! :-)

Have a great trip, Dokk, sometimes a few days off can be a good thing. :-)

I hope not to, Jim, just need to get better this week. :-)

Deload week. Boring but needed. Hope it clears up quick Tom.

I may get to lift on wednesday. Exams all tomorrow and looking at an all nighter tonight....so not to sure how my energy level will be. I can sleep for the next 3 months after this finals week though so whatev.

Bring home the grades, then sleep, lift and eat Jimmy! :-)