Monthly Archives: May 2007

Victory is mine!

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I’m not sure if I ever wrote about this when it happened, but one day I left my lock at the gym. I checked several times with the lost and found, but it never turned up. I’m not sure I really expected it to turn up. I left the key in the lock. I was pretty upset about it, mostly because I kept forgetting to bring another lock with me for a few days.

I always figured that the guy that swiped my lock may have a similar workout schedule to mine. Today I was proven right. When I finished working out, I headed for my locker. As luck would have it, I noticed my old lock on the big locker closest to the big locker I was using (Gold’s Gym has a horrible locker arrangement, but that’s another story). I could barely believe what I was seeing. I foresaw this day when my lock never turned up. You see, I had two keys to that lock. The lock has returned to its rightful owner. And now I know who took it. He came out to his locker while I was getting dressed after my shower.

That was a great ending to a decent day of legs. I went extra low on squats. It’s probably the first time I have ever gone as deep as I should. I’m going to try to keep going that deep in the future. I also pushed hard through my first time back on leg press. I did overheat and almost puke, so right there you know it’s a good workout.

Weight: 260.4

Squat:
225/12 (all the way down) 275/8 315/2

Leg Press:
580/20 670/12 760/6

Standing Calf Raise:
395/20 395/12 395/12

Week 2 Chest 20070507

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Here we go again now. Last week my strength was pathetic. I started off a lot better this week, but quickly ran out of steam. I really like the 20-12-8 pyramid we’re doing. I think it’s moving me in the right direction.

Travis said he had to be back by 1:30, but it turned out that he needed to be back by 1:00. Luckily we ended up getting back at 1:09.

Weight: 258.4

Flat Bench:
185/20 205/12 225/8

Incline Bench:
135/20 185/12 205/8

All the adjustable benches were in use when we finished Incline Bench; they were still in use after our Bar Dip routines, so we wound up skipping Incline Bench today.

Bar Dip:
3 (pathetic)

Treadmill:
10 minutes – 0.95 miles

Swimming on Thursday 20070503

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Travis came in and said we were swapping today’s workout with tomorrow’s lunch. It doesn’t work quite that easily for me. I like going to lunch with the group and I couldn’t swap everyone’s schedule like that. So I wound up going to the gym by myself, and that means swimming instead of back and biceps.

The pool was empty when I arrived at 12:30. But almost as soon as I started swimming (before I finished my first 50) a fairly large woman got into the slow lane to swim. Next a very skinny woman got in the fast lane and complained about how warm the water was. Actually, now that I’m writing this down I wonder if she was complaining about it, or happy about it. Either way, she mentioned that the water was warmer than usual. I hate it when the water is warm, so I automatically took it as if she was complaining. A minute later a guy about my age got into the slow lane with the larger woman and started swimming. Then about 2 laps later an older couple came out and started getting into the slow lane. At this point the larger woman got out. That’s pretty crazy. None of them ever tried to share my lane, which is a good thing, because I was in a fairly angry/aggressive mood… and that made for a pretty good workout.

Swim:
300 Free warm-up
100 Kick
8 x 200 Free: 2x (2:00, 2:15, 2:30, 2:45) coming in at 1:15
6 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in at 0:50)
200 Free warm-down
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1700 yards

Shoulders and Swimming 20070502

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As I sat here eating my Double Western Bacon Cheeseburger (970 calories) from Carl’s Jr and sucking down my Hand Scooped Chocolate Malt (780 calories) I realized that I hadn’t written up today’s workout.

Swimming is very shoulder-intensive, at least the way I swim. So on days when we do shoulders, I like to just swim. I didn’t feel right about leaving Travis to do shoulders on his own, so we came up with a compromise. I did military press with him before jumping in the pool. It seemed to work out pretty well.

Weight: 258.8 (again)

Military Press:
135/16 155/12

Swim:
300 Free warm-up
200 Kick
8 x 100 Free 2x (2:00, 2:15, 2:30, 2:45)
200 Free warm-down
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1500 yards

Some legs, some swimming 20070501

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Well, I talked Travis out of finishing our leg workout. We were competing for resources with several other groups of people, and we didn’t have much time. I had to get back to work for my 1-1 with Martin, so we couldn’t just sit around and wait for the others to finish their sets. We got in some good stretching while waiting for the squat rack to open up, then we did standing calf raises while waiting for the leg press to open up. But we were not the only ones waiting for the leg press, and the other group started before we were done with our standing calf raises. This gave me the perfect chance to talk Travis out of more leg workouts. I don’t think I’ll be so lucky next week.

I still wanted to get some cardio in before we left, and there was no way I could run with my jello legs, so I hit the pool. There were 2 other people in the pool already. They must have been training for something, because they had a bunch of equipment and were pushing themselves pretty hard. I was faster, of course, but I could only swim for about 20 minutes before it was time to go.

Weight: 258.8

Squat:
225/12 275/10 275/4

Standing Calf Raise:
395/12 395/12 395/12

Swim:
400 Free warm-up
5 x 100 Free descending (3:00, 2:45, 2:30, 2:15, 2:00)
100 Free warm-down
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1000 yards