Deadlifts

Monday - 9/24/12
Deadlifts - 4 sets
135x8
225x5
285x5
275x5
275x5
225x5

Dumbbell Flat Bench Press

All 3 regular flat benches were taken...

Friday - 9/22/12
Flat Bench Dumbbell Press - 3 sets
55x10
70s x8
70s x8
65s x7

Dumbbell Bicep Curls
30x10
40x8
40x6

Squats and Bi's and... books?

Thursday - 9/20/12
Squats - 3 sets
135x8
185x5
245x5
235x5
235x5

Dumbbell Bicep Curls - 2 sets
30x10
40x7
40x8



Also finished reading War of the Worlds, by H.G. Wells.  It was a good read, and especially interesting because it was written in 1898.  The style was just so different than most of what I've read.

For those who don't know, I'm an avid reader.  Mostly Sci-Fi and fantasy, but some autobiography's and mystery/thriller type books too.  In recent months, I've somewhat strayed from the volume of reading I usually do.  In part, it's because when I found out my wife was pregnant, I immediately began reading financial and fatherhood books I guess in an attempt to better prepare myself and my family for the upcoming months.  A good thing, but I think now I'm ready to come back to my bread and butter.

I have a blog, I might as well double down on both lifting and reading.  I don't expect to get too crazy, but I'll pop in from time to time with what I'm in the middle of reading, or what I just finished reading.

So, as I said. Just finished War of the Worlds.  I also just bought the last book of the Steven Erikson series, Malazan Book of the Fallen.  I've read through the series twice now, but the final book only recently came out.  It's been over a year since I read through the entire series, up until the second to last book.  I'm either going to re-read the 2nd to last book to catch up, or find some cliff notes online to refresh my memory.

Bench Bi's Tri's

9/16/12 - Sunday
Bench Press - 3 sets
95x10
135x10
165x9
165x8
155x7

Dumbbell Bicep Curls - 3 sets
30x10
35x10
35x9

Tricep Rope Pulldown - 3 sets
42.5x10
50x10
57.5x8
50x9

1st deadlifts in over a month

Wednesday - 9/13/12
Deadlifts - 3 sets
275x5
275x5
275x5

Shrug Machine - 2 sets
1 plate on each side - 12 reps
2 plates on each side - 15 reps

Tricep Rope Cable pulldown - 3 sets
50x10
57.5x8
50x9

My scab didn't rip open, but it fucking hurt like hell on the last set of deadlifts.  It's actually sore today, that one spot on my palm.

It's been a while

It's been a while.  I haven't posted for a lot of reasons, most of which revolve around me being too busy and even just plain being too lazy.  Rest assured, I have indeed been going to the gym, and while I haven't been doing anything fantastic, I've been at least keeping up with squatting and benching.  And some sprinting.

But, I haven't been keeping track of my lifts.  I tried backing off of bench and doing lighter weight for 10 reps.  I guess I'm still kind of on that kick, but I just can't bench more than 165lbs for 10 reps.  It kind of sucks.  I've been squatting too, steadily increasing from jack shit to jack shit plus a little bit.  I'm doing 245 low bar squats, going down as far as possible and coming back up.  It's nice.  And finally, I sprinted twice over the past month or so.  A couple of sessions of 10-12 sets going all out for short distances, with the walk back to the starting point as my rest in between.

I haven't done much pulling at all, because each time I've tried, my wart scab rips open and puss oozes out.  This happened twice while doing rows with a bandage on it.  So I stopped even trying anything pull related for 2 weeks.  I did sneak in some biceps here and there.  Today, I still have a scab, but it's much smaller.  I'm going to try deadlifting.  Maybe RDL's.  Light weight, nothing too crazy.  Just enough to get me back into the mix again.

Anyway, here are my sets from Monday.

Monday - 9/10/12
Bench - 3 sets
165x8
165x7
155x8

Dumbell Bicep Curls - 3 sets
30x10
40x8
35x12

My life has become very busy lately.  I've been given much more responsibility at work, and I've been working more hours.  My wife is almost 8 months pregnant now, and time has been scarce.  When I get to the gym, which has only been maybe twice a week the past few weeks, I can only spend about 20-30 minutes.  As such, my output has decreased.  And my eating has sucked.

My plan is to improve both.  For now, I'm going to continue posting without all the filler.  Just a quick log of what I lifted and for how many reps.  If I can get in 3 sessions a week I'll be very happy.  I'll let you all know tomorrow how things went today.

Cheers,
Chris