Alright guys I am here and ok. Been a rough and stressful week. Not all bad though. To start with the bad my son has had problems with one of his ears his entire life. Lots of surgeries and he had one late last year. He had an audiogram appt 1.5 hours away Monday. We found out he had dramatic hearing loss and would eventually need hearing aids for life in the near future. This was pretty crushing for us but he took it in stride. We obviously didn’t let him know how we were feeling about. Then the next day the surgeon office called and the surgeon wanted to see him asap because he wasn’t expecting this at all. So he had another appointment yesterday an hour away. Thankfully we got some potentially good news. He possibly just had some left over fluid build up post surgery that got infected and the antibiotics didn’t get rid of. So he’s trying to get that cleared up and hopefully that was the cause of the hearing loss. That was a huge relief because we were stressing pretty bad.
Now some good things. I had to take a test Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I passed the first 2 but won’t know about the third for a couple weeks. These are required for my next big career step so good things happening there. Got one more next week to take.
Left elbow has been bothering me still. I still hit chest Monday though.
Incline hammer press: 70x15 80x12 90x10 100x6 (elbow wasn’t like the 90 or 100 pounds)
Machine fly: 4 sets 15 reps 100 pounds
Incline dumbbell fly: 4 sets 20 pounds 15 reps (couldn’t do more than 20 because the elbow)
Tricep push down: 4 sets 15 reps 100 pounds
Wanted to do dips but figured that wouldn’t be good for elbow.
This morning I got up early and was feeling really good. Getting the potential good news about son yesterday was a huge stress relief. Did legs today.
Leg press: 300x12 320x12 340x12 360x8
Calf raise: 215x20 215x20 215x16 215x17
Leg curl: 4 sets of 20 120 pounds
Leg extension: 135x20 135x20 135x16 135x14
Romanian deadlift: 4 sets of 12 at 135 pounds
Elbow felt great. Thinking it is 100% now. Planning to do shoulders and arms tomorrow but I also might decide to go back today and do shoulders then just do arms tomorrow.
Well it’s been a great day and it got even better after my second workout of the day. Hit shoulders pretty hard. One thing to note is I believe my joints and tendons were getting pretty beat up. Believe they just needed some time to catch up to the weight. My left shoulder felt great today. I believe it has possibly caught up and maybe even surpassed my right shoulder strength wise. Wild because at the start of this, I had a major strength disparity with the left being much weaker.
My whole body just felt so good today. I think the weights increased probably too fast during that first 4 weeks and my joints weren’t ready. Some of you here told me to slow down but I was having too much fun so I didn’t listen. Well now I know! Feeling awesome!
Alright guys I am here and ok. Been a rough and stressful week. Not all bad though. To start with the bad my son has had problems with one of his ears his entire life. Lots of surgeries and he had one late last year. He had an audiogram appt 1.5 hours away Monday. We found out he had dramatic hearing loss and would eventually need hearing aids for life in the near future. This was pretty crushing for us but he took it in stride. We obviously didn’t let him know how we were feeling about. Then the next day the surgeon office called and the surgeon wanted to see him asap because he wasn’t expecting this at all. So he had another appointment yesterday an hour away. Thankfully we got some potentially good news. He possibly just had some left over fluid build up post surgery that got infected and the antibiotics didn’t get rid of. So he’s trying to get that cleared up and hopefully that was the cause of the hearing loss. That was a huge relief because we were stressing pretty bad.
Now some good things. I had to take a test Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. I passed the first 2 but won’t know about the third for a couple weeks. These are required for my next big career step so good things happening there. Got one more next week to take.
Left elbow has been bothering me still. I still hit chest Monday though.
Incline hammer press: 70x15 80x12 90x10 100x6 (elbow wasn’t like the 90 or 100 pounds)
Machine fly: 4 sets 15 reps 100 pounds
Incline dumbbell fly: 4 sets 20 pounds 15 reps (couldn’t do more than 20 because the elbow)
Tricep push down: 4 sets 15 reps 100 pounds
Wanted to do dips but figured that wouldn’t be good for elbow.
This morning I got up early and was feeling really good. Getting the potential good news about son yesterday was a huge stress relief. Did legs today.
Leg press: 300x12 320x12 340x12 360x8
Calf raise: 215x20 215x20 215x16 215x17
Leg curl: 4 sets of 20 120 pounds
Leg extension: 135x20 135x20 135x16 135x14
Romanian deadlift: 4 sets of 12 at 135 pounds
Elbow felt great. Thinking it is 100% now. Planning to do shoulders and arms tomorrow but I also might decide to go back today and do shoulders then just do arms tomorrow.
Well it’s been a great day and it got even better after my second workout of the day. Hit shoulders pretty hard. One thing to note is I believe my joints and tendons were getting pretty beat up. Believe they just needed some time to catch up to the weight. My left shoulder felt great today. I believe it has possibly caught up and maybe even surpassed my right shoulder strength wise. Wild because at the start of this, I had a major strength disparity with the left being much weaker.
My whole body just felt so good today. I think the weights increased probably too fast during that first 4 weeks and my joints weren’t ready. Some of you here told me to slow down but I was having too much fun so I didn’t listen. Well now I know! Feeling awesome!
This morning I got up early and was feeling really good. Getting the potential good news about son yesterday was a huge stress relief. Did legs today.
Leg press: 300x12 320x12 340x12 360x8
Calf raise: 215x20 215x20 215x16 215x17
Leg curl: 4 sets of 20 120 pounds
Leg extension: 135x20 135x20 135x16 135x14
Romanian deadlift: 4 sets of 12 at 135 pounds
Elbow felt great. Thinking it is 100% now. Planning to do shoulders and arms tomorrow but I also might decide to go back today and do shoulders then just do arms tomorrow.