I wasn’t looking forward to it, but somehow we ended up going to the gym on legs day. I had an important meeting scheduled for 1:30, so we wrapped things up quickly.
Weight: 248.6
Squat:
225/20 275/10 315/5
Leg Press:
580/20 670/10 760/5
Standing Calf Raise:
395/20 395/20 395/16
Hamstring Curl:
110/12
Leg Extension:
170/12
Things kept piling up that had to be done before lunch. Eventually it was 12:30 and I couldn’t stand it anymore. Travis and I talked Joey into coming, but only if it was a “lightning quick” workout. We all wanted to be back by 1:30.
Weight: 246.0
Flat Bench:
185/19(+1) 225/8(+2) 245/3(+1)
Incline Bench:
135/20 185/9(+1) 225/3(+1)
Incline Fly:
50/20
Including drive time, changing time, and shower time, we barely made it back by 1:30.
Instead of going to the gym during lunch, a bunch of us piled in my car and headed to Betos in American Fork to meet up with Joe. He seems to be enjoying his new job. Of course, going to lunch isn’t the same as going to the gym, so I decided to swim after work.
I had forgotten that the whales do their water aerobics on Tuesday and Thursday nights. I had also forgotten just how many whales show up after the beginning of the new year. I think they set a record tonight. There were about 30 whales dancing in the pool when I arrived at 7:30. Trying to swim through their waves was very much like swimming in the ocean… except instead of salt water I had to put up with perfume, deodorant, and hair-spray water. I would choose salt water any day.
Swim:
300 Free Warm-Up
8 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in between 1:15 and 1:20)
100 Free easy
6 x 50 Kick @ 1:30 (coming in @ 1:00)
100 Free Warm-Down
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1750 Yards
In a futile attempt to work some of the acid out of my legs and chest, I decided to swim today. If it works, I’ll probably do this every Wednesday from now on.
Swim:
500 Free Warm-Up
10 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in @1:15)
5 x 50 Kick (the clock died again so I couldn’t get my times)
100 Free Warm-Down
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1850 Yards
I’m getting sick of all the broken things at Gold’s Gym. I keep toying with the idea of documenting them on a blog somewhere. Here’s a quick list of the things that upset me today:
1- The pool clock stopped working again
2- Everything is so dirty that it’s really disgusting
3- The drain in the shower doesn’t fit the hole anymore and has sunken in, causing anyone that steps on it to cut their foot
4- They don’t have enough lockers (ok, this is a design thing, not a maintenance thing)
5- The swimsuit spinner is broken again
I want to bring my camera to document all of it, but cameras are restricted in certain areas, such as the locker room, for obvious reasons. Those areas seem to be in the worst shape and the dirtiest. Coincidence? I doubt it.
I was half-way through convincing myself that I should swim or not even go to the gym today when Kyle asked if I was going and what I was doing. When I said it was a legs day, his reaction told me I wasn’t getting out of it.
Kyle ended up heading to the gym before I grabbed Travis to go over there. We signed up with ADP to do our payroll and yesterday was payday. ADP does one thing, payroll. Unfortunately for them and everyone that uses them, they don’t do that one thing very well. ADP can’t figure out how to do a direct deposit in under a month. They think they need a full 6 weeks before they can directly deposit our checks into our bank accounts, so we’re stuck with paper checks for at least a month. Yesterday the first batch of paper checks arrived. The entire stack had to be tossed out, because they had messed up everyone’s 401(k) contributions. They responded by sending out a new batch of paper checks today. Once again, they messed up many of the checks, including mine. I was presented with a check for less than I’ve made in a long time, which meant that my tax withholding and 401(k) contributions were also messed up. It took about 20 minutes of discussion with our office manager to figure out the right solution (make ADP cut me a third check, hoping they can pull their head out and do it right this time). That made me about 15 minutes late leaving for the gym.
I didn’t see Joey at work today, so I figured he was still sick. We saw Lindsey at the gym and she said their whole family is sick. That doesn’t sound very fun. She said their baby is the sickest of them all and has been throwing up multiple times every day. After today’s workout, I was a few seconds from throwing up. Luckily, I made it out the door and into the 15 degree weather in time to cool off enough to keep my breakfast down.
Weight: 247.0
Squat:
225/20 275/10 315/3(+1)
Leg Press:
580/20 670/10 760/8
Standing Calf Raise:
395/20 395/20 395/20
Hamstring Curl:
110/20 140/10 170/5
Leg Extension:
140/20 170/10 200/8
Seated Calf Raise:
315/5 225/10
Joey was working from home today, but I told him that was no excuse to skip the gym. I CCed Travis on the mail I sent him. Travis got a good laugh out of it. Needless to say, Joey didn’t show up at the gym. But Kyle did. He did shoulders while Travis and I did chest.
Weight: 246.8
Flat Bench:
185/20 225/8(+2) 245/5
Incline Bench:
135/20 185/10 205/5
Incline Dumbbell Fly:
50/20 70/10 80/5
Bar Dips:
4 6 6
Incline Sit-up:
20 20
I worked fairly late last night getting things ready for a demo I have today. I didn’t get home till 10:30, so it was after midnight by the time I was settled down enough to sleep. But I still got up this morning and swam a little. Once again, the pool was quite crowded. No military people this morning, just a bunch of old people and slow swimmers. I’m going to have to find a better time to swim, because morning isn’t it. The old people are nice enough, but they cake themselves with perfume (before coming to the pool?) which then gets into the water and makes everything taste bad.
500 Free warm-up
5 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in at 1:20)
5 x 50 Kick
200 Free warm-down
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1450 yards
It’s been a while since I’ve driven in early enough to swim before work. I didn’t sleep very well last night, due to some big things that were going to happen at work this morning. Those things did happen and we’re about to have a meeting about it, but I doubt very seriously if I am allowed to write about it. But I found myself staring at the wall for over an hour this morning, so I decided to drive in and swim.
When I began walking around the pool enclosure, the water seemed very calm. I started thinking that I would have the pool to myself, but then I saw a few ripples coming from the slow lane. No big deal. Someone is going slow in the slow lane. That’s fine. But then I got to the end of the pool near the locker room and saw something I haven’t ever seen at Gold’s Gym. Four or five men in regular swim suits (non-speedo) were standing at the end of each lane of the pool. There was a coach (or similar) in street clothes giving them instruction.
My only hope was that they were almost finished and I would soon be able to swim. I was wrong. They did consolidate down to just two lanes, but only because there were several old “walkers” (as opposed to swimmers) that had gotten in the pool. So I got to share the slow lane with the walkers. It wasn’t enjoyable, so I got out quickly and came to work.
200 Free warm-up
2 x 50 Free @ 1:30
100 Kick
100 Free warm-down
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500 yards
Well, we’ve all agreed that we need to speed up our workouts so that we’re not gone from work so long. Today we had 4 guys doing back and biceps. After the first set of dead lifts, we started doing super-sets, which means we would do a set of one exercise, then a set of a second exercise, then back to the first exercise, etc. This made it easier to keep at least 2 people exercising at once, speeding up the time it took to complete all of our sets.
Dead Lift:
95/12 115/12 155/12
Preacher Curl:
55/12 55/12 55/12
Lat Pull-Down:
170/12 180/10 190/8
Bent Row:
135/12 135/12 135/12
Hammer Curl:
30/12 35/8 35/6
There was a big group at the gym today. Joey was setting Kyle up with the girl that has started working out with Joey’s wife. Scott led Joey and Kyle in a back workout. Joe did a shoulder workout. And I swam. If I had known that nobody was going to be working out with Joe, I would have skipped the swimming and worked out with him. But by the time I saw the hose pouring nice cold water into the pool, that was all I could think about. It’s not often that the pool is as cool as I would like it, so I try to take advantage of it when I can.
500 Free warm-up
8 x 100 Free @ 2:05 (coming in at 1:15)
200 Free easy
8 x 50 Kick @ 1:20 (coming in at 0:55)
200 Free warm-down
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2100 yards