Return of The Dragon

I was ashamed... chagrined... weak... and it was all due to my lack of focus along the road. Lengthy nights of web designing and other things kept me from the gym days at a time. What was even worse than that was the diet... daily Steak and Cheese sandwiches from Subway coupled with a double shot of oatmeal cookies had my gut actually hanging over my belt.

That was a month ago, but I regained the path... I am back, the diet is good, the training is consistent and the martial arts are back in my life.

It feels good.

Pain and Solo Shoulders - Tuesday

Recently I've been feeling like complete garbage: My right leg twitches sometimes and gets a numbing feeling as if I am not getting enough circulation in it. There have been nights when it has kept me up and at a LAN party last week I laid down clenched in pain for about 15 minutes from it. One thing I've noticed however is that it goes away whenever I am actively doing martial arts or running (yes odd I know). so add this in with the forearm pain I get from curling and my lack of energy daily and you get one sorry S.o.B.

In an effort to overcome my issues, I've decided to go harder at the gym. Pulling up monster weight to overcome the forearm pain, Squatting heavy and running daily to keep the twitch down andd going more days during the week to stifle the lack of energy. I will also be picking up some multi-vitamin to supplement my eating.

I chalk it up to age, athletes detiorate physically when they stop and I am beginning to see it whenever I get lazy. Anyway on to the routine:


Shoulders
Arnold Dumbell Press: 60x12 • 60x12 • 65x10 • 65x8
Dumbell Shrugs: 110x11 • 110x10, 110x10
Reverse Dumbell raises: 30x10 • 30x10 • 30x10 (It burns, it burns!!)
Front Dumbell raises: 30x10 • 30x10 • 30x10
Lateral Dumbell flies: 30x10 • 30x10 • 30x10
Finisher
Dips: 14 • 12 • 10 • 10 • 10
Treadmill (Isos): 20 Minutes


Today I feel alot better, I have more energy, I am ready to go lift again and my leg isn't hurting me :)

Heavy Chest - April, 2

Well I had a week's hiatus to get used to a new job and also to build "Kyleen" - my Dual Core AMD Athlon 4400 powered beast. Having accomplished both, I set out yesterday to continue the path to perfection and as you can see in the following, I brought the hammer not unlike the glorious charge by king Theoden in the Return of The King.

Chest
Bench Press: 135x16 • 135x14 • 225x10 • 315x6 • 365x2
Inclined Bench Press: 80x10 • 80x8, 80x8
Declined Bench Press: 225x8, 225x8, 225x8 :(
Finisher
Cable Cross-Overs: 80x10 • 80x10 • 80x10


Not bad but not good either. Gonna have to step up my game even though the diet is a monster. New pics coming soon. Holla!

Broke Back Monday - Carbing Works!

Yesterday I ended up at the gym a bit late after a long boring day at work and some movie watching with Star Wars Galaxies as a chaser. I arrived at roughly 10:40 pm and proceeded to fire off a back routine since the past saturday we worked on chest and shoulders. Taking the advice of some gurus on the art, I had taken a shake laced with oats for a carb-fix an hour before. It seemed to work since I wasn't my customary tired self, I was exploding with the weights and did the damn thing right.

Lateral Back
Lat Pulldowns: 120x10 • 140x10 • 160x10
Seated Cable Rows: 120x16 • 140x14, 170x10
Deadlifts: 315x2, 275x5, 275x5, 275x2
Finisher
Dips: 16 • 14 • 14

Legs/Biceps and Pretty Boys

Well yesterday I destroyed legs with my boy C-Diesel. I was trying to explain to him that "warming up" was a thing for noobs, and that real iron men hit the ground running. Needless to say he wasn't feeling me on it so we started with those boring old Leg Extensions. For yours truly its all about the squat, those other exercises are barely sides, it's like picking at some fries before tackling the huge quarter-pounder with cheese. Just gimme the damn sandwich and a drink, done! But most people need the fries to feel "full" so who am I to civilize the savage? Anyway the nightly trio of metro-sexual fakers were there last night, taking up space, dropping their pixie dust on the weights and being annoying to anyone in there trying to get big. I swear these guys should take their act to SHAPES or something because the true iron guys are getting tired of waiting on them to dance and flutter around a rack, wasting time for us to get on it. Anyway, today I am hurt and tired, which isn't an indication of growth but it feels good anyway, wanna know what did it? Just keep reading.

Quad-focused legs
Leg Extensions: 120x10 • 140x10 • 160x10 • 180x10
Parallel Squats: 315x8 • 315x8, 365x6, 315x8
Leg Presses: 590x10, 590x10, 590x10, 680x6
Bicep
EZ-Bar Curls: 75x10 • 75x10 • 75x10
Preacher Curls: Burnout Pyramid Sets - 70lbs: 6,5,4,3,2,1
Seated Dumbell Curls: 40x10 • 40x10 • 40x10 • 40x10
Finisher
Dips: 19 • 15 • 15

Sugar and A New Workout

Today I started a new workout that I read on the WBBF. It was very cardiovascular and I topped it off with a few rounds on the heavy bag. I know I am out of shape when it comes to the Martial Sciences but whew I was limping home today sucking down the two containers of "Lean Body" shakes. It felt oh so good :).

Back
T-Bar Rows: 180x10, 205x10, 205x10, 205x10
Seated Pulley Rows: 280x10, 280x10, 280x10, 280x10
Dumbell Rows: 80x10, 80x10, 80x10, 80x10
Chest
Flat Bench Press: 135x16, 225x10, 315x4
Inclined Smith Press: 225x10, 185x10, 185x10
Cable Cross-overs: 80x10, 80x10, 80x10, 80x10
Finisher
Dips: 11, 10, 9
Heavy Bag Kicks: 15 Minutes