Thread: Man of Steel

Oh. And I weighed a whopping 196 today.

Thats a whole 5.5 lbs more than yesterday. I guess I enjoyed too many ribs and wings yesterday.

Day 2 was Pull and Legs day.

Before jumping under the bar, I weighed myself to see what was, after that glorious 5.5lb weight gain from the day before.

189.5 was the damage. A 6.5lb difference from 30hrs prior. I mentioned this to one of my buddies at the gym and he said it was impossible. I explained I felt it was all water loss as my diet from the Saturday was horrendous and my sodium intake likely caused me to retain more water on Saturday. Thus causing the jump in weight, when I weighed myself on Sunday. 189.5 is only 1lb lighter than what I was on Friday, so all is good.

On to the workout.

I started with squats. DId I mention how much I hate doing squats on CKD??

Squats:
12x225
I could have done more, but had I, I'd have had problems on the next sets.
6x295
6x295
That last rep almost buried me.

Heavy SLDL's:
10x205
Really felt these in my hams. I try to concentrate on bringing the bar down my legs...keeping it about an inch away from my leg the whole way down. I also use a box so I can really get low.
8x255
Didn't feel these as much in the hams. A little harder to control. Maybe next time I'll go 235 and see how that goes.

Chins:
8XBW
8xBW
6XBW

Very pleased. Chins are a weak area for me. SO being able to do that many after squats and sldl's was great.

SM Underhand Grip Rows:
10x135
8x185
10x185
I would have done regualr BB rows, but somebody was curling in the 1 rack while another curled in the 2nd.

Either way, I really felt these rows. The key was lining my belly button up on the same plane as the bar and pausing for a second at the top.

BB Curl:
12x85 -easy
10x95 - cheated on rep 10

I did some miscellaneous calf work. I started off with standing CR, but I wasnt really feeling it, so I used a leg press machine and did lots of 1 leg CR's reps. Then 3x the weight and repped out with 2 legged CR's.

Finished the workout with 20mins of Interval training on the stairmaster.

Diet was excellent today.
Breakfast(7am): 2eggs w/ pepper
Morning Snack(10am): approx. 50g Cheddar Cheese
Lunch(noon): 2 Chicken breasts, Diet Coke
Afternoon snack4pm) 1 can of tuna, 3 tsp. of Real Mayo.
Dinner: 2 salmon fillets.
Post workout: Protein Shake
Pre-sleep. 2 tsp. Peanut Butter.

Till tomorrow,

Day 3.

Did some ab work with 20 minutes of the treadmill. Mostly a brisk walk on a steeper incline, but threw in a few hard runs for short period of times (1-2 minutes).

Ab work was half leg raises and half weighted crunches. 4 sets of each.

Bodyweight: 186.5

That's a 9.5 lb drop since Sunday. Mostly water I am guessing.

All of this seems a little less important today.

My prayers to the victims and their families. And my thoughts to the 1000's of rescue workers, May they be safe.

Just checking in.

Yesterday before my Push workout I weighed in at 185.5lbs. A 1.5lb increase from the day before which was my carb-up/refeed day. Not bad I guess.

I'll post specifics of my depletion workout and my latest push workout when I am at home and have my log in front of me.

All I know is that I wasn't nearly as strong on my push routine as I was last week. A few things likely contributed to this.
[list=1][*]I drank the night before [*]Had a little soreness from the Depletion workout[*]Depletion workout too close to this workout[/list=1]

Hopefully next week, I'll have a better push workout.

More details to come later tonight.