Deconstructing the Meme

Weight: 143 (ugh) That’s +5.5 from yesterday. Carb load went OK. I did more than I’d planned. I orginally was intending to do 10g carbs per kg/lbm as I was afraid I hadn’t depleted entirely.

Given the puke fest I then figured I’d better do the minimum 12g to make up for whatever didn’t get digested Friday night.

Ended up doing 14g which is middle of the road.  Waist and belly measurements are up an inch. Hips stayed the same. Thigh is up half an inch. Biceps same. Caliper measurement at hip is + 1/2 - 1mm.

I didn’t go nuts carb or calorie wise so I’m blaming the fructose. Damn red grapes are like crack to me.  I’m also still not “regular” and I’m getting irritated. It’s been probably 3 weeks I’ve been having issues on and off, mostly on. I’m ready to start smoking again. That’ll fix things.  So, that may very well be what’s up with measurements being up so much.  I’ve seen it before. Though that says nothing about the caliper #. We’ll see what Tuesday, day 1, brings.

Here’s todays workout:

DL: 2×5x165, 1×5x175
Leg Press: 1×6x260, 1×6x280, 1×6x300
BB Row: 1×4x95, 1×5x95, 1×6x95
Glute Ham Kicks: 1×6x9 plate, 2×5x10 plate
Low Row: 4×6x9 plate
Calf Raise: 4×6x190
Incline DB Press: 3×6x70
Flat DB Fly: 3×6x60
OH Wide Grip Assisted Pull-up: 1×6x12, 1×6x11, 1×4x10
Pec/Bi Dip: 2×6x8, 1×6x6
Tri Dip: 1×6x8, 2×4x4, 2 unassisted
Chins: 2.5
MP: 1×6x55 (machine) 1×6x50 (DBs), 1×3x60 (DBs)

My weight in the a.m. was 137.5. Not great but hey at least lower. I felt fine. Not tired. Not foggy headed. Good even. Did 40 minutes on the Arc before breakfast. Went home. Ate. Started feeling queasy, tired, oh so very tired. Stayed that way the rest of the typical low cal, low carb day. Counted the seconds until pre-work up mini carb up.  Had a bannana, whey, and a high fiber English Muffin. I’ve decided I don’t like those anymore. Zippo flavor. Cardboardy.

Weighed myself again pre-workout. Still 137.5. Cool. Didn’t get my usual 2-5lb afternoon gain.

Go to the gym and did 20 more on the Arc pre workout as I figured I would probably blow it off if I waited until after.  Did the final depletion workout. I was surprisingly strong. Stronger than last workout. Carbs are wonderful, wonderful things. I also had 5g creatine as well. I’m sure that helped. Did 3-4 sets for all but calfs, bi/tri, and abs.  Though arms probably ended up getting more work than anything else as usual.
Left the gym and went to the grocery store ot buy my uhm, “carbs”. Pretzels, non-fat ice cream, and caramel turtle brownie mix. OH and my M&Ms!

Opened the pretzels as soon as I got into the car. I love pretzels. I love salt. Sometimes I get the urge to buy a bag of pretzels just so that I can suck the salt off of them. Sick, I know.

Got home, had my PWO shake which wasn’t my usual PWO shake because I didn’t have any vanilla EAS whey. I only have the slow casein/egg stuff. So, I had to use the chocolate Designer Whey which tastes like crap to me.

Had some grapes. Maybe 20 or so. Had some more pretzels.

Went to Target to get a belt for the kid. Eat my M&Ms while I’m waiting for him. I couldn’t wait any longer for those M&Ms. Well, I coulda. I just didn’t wanna.

On the way home I stopped to buy Freihofer’s chocolate chip cookies because kid doesn’t like the brownies I bought. They had nuts. God forbid. The kid will eat a jar of peanut butter in one sitting but put a few walnuts near him and he freaks.

Freihofer’s taste nowhere near as good as I remember them tasting when I was a kid. In fact, I kind of didn’t even like them. I shoulda bought the damn pink Hostess Snowballs. Oh well.

I ate 6 of the “these taste like crap” cookies while I was sitting in the car filling out my Mega Millions lottery card.  Did I think they would taste better if I kept shoving them down my throat? I dunno.  Oh, and no, I didn’t win the 145 million. Again. I wonder why I never win that damn thing.

After cookies I stopped to pick up take out. I ordered the Veal and Peppers which came with pasta. Yummy pasta. Really yummy pasta. And sauce. Which was apparently more oil than sauce.  I ate maybe a cups worth. A cup including veal, peppers and pasta. I had about 2.5 ounces of bread. I was stuffed. Started feeling dizzy. I had to go lie down.

Watched some Tivo’d “Workout”, the Bravo reality show.  Started feeling like that pasta tasted way too good for me not to eat some more. So I did. Couldn’t fit in much more before I got that stuffed sick feeling again.  I should probably mention here if I haven’t already that I’d been constipated for 3 or maybe 4 days by this point. Stuff just wasn’t moving. So, I go lie down again. I think I fell asleep for a bit. Watch some more Tivo.

I’ve still got the ice cream and brownies waiting for me.  First I have more pasta because damn that stuff is good.  All told I probably ate about 2-3 cups over the course of the night.  I decide it’s too late to be baking brownies and I didn’t really feel like eating an entire brownie sundae anyway.

So, I just get me some ice cream. Because I’m hungry? Uhm, no, not quite.  In fact I’m stuffed. I can’t fit anymore food. Ice cream is supposed to help digestion isn’t it?  That’s why they give it to sick people.  Right?

I eat about a cup, if that.

Then it happened. Things started moving. I had cold sweats, I was in pain, my entire abdomen was engorged, swollen, hard as a rock. I looked to be about 4 months pregnant.

I quickly became unconstipated. I quickly became nauseous.  I so, sooo, SOOO, badly, I can not tell you how badly, wanted to stick my finger down my throat but I couldn’t as I was too busy being unconstipated. I literally thought I’d OD’d on food or sugar or something. I quite honestly began to think I should call 911. I was in that much pain. It wasn’t just the nausea - it was my entire abdomen feeling like it was going to explode!

And then I puked. And then I went to bed.

I woke up and am the same weight I was yesterday. How that happened I dunno.  I guess it had something to do with things getting “moving” again. Or I just puked up all the carbs/cals/fat/chemicals/poison? No way to tell. I don’t know what got digested and what didn’t. If it takes 3-4 hours to digest then I doubt any pasta or bread was digested. Certainly the ice cream wasn’t.  I dunno how to go from here. Maybe I’ll just count half the pasta & bread.  I didn’t even vomit all that much, considering the amount of food that felt like it was sitting in my stomach. Felt to be, oh about a ton. Give or take.

A few days before this past Christmas there was a water main break in a pipe at the end of my driveway.  Since then the resulting hole large enough to swallow my car times two has been temporarily filled. What that really means is that the end of my driveway is several huge pot holes. I drive a Mustang.  Mustangs don’t off-road well.

So, the town is out there right now. They’ve already started digging. One of the guys comes to my door and asks if I need to get out of my driveway.  Uhm, they’ve already begun to dig. There’s a least a foot drop.  I didn’t really understand the point of him asking.  And, to answer the question, yes, I do need to go out.

I’m stuck. Oh well. I guess I’ll have to do absolutely NOTHING. Problem? I’m not tired today! Though I did have trouble falling asleep and then staying asleep. So, I overslept. I actually would have been out of here had I been up on time.

When I started Ultimate Diet 2.0 I was 139.5 lbs.  That was up 3.5lbs from the prior week. I’d been doing maintenance which turned out to be a bit over maintenance. I was at 2400 average daily kcals for last week thanks to two “cheat days”. One unplanned. It was more like a conscious out of control eating thing. Over the course of about two hours I ate half a box of some sweetened version of Total cereal.  I knew all the carbs would be with me on the scale the next day, and probably on Tuesday my weigh in day. I didn’t care.

It’s now what, Thursday, Total pigout was Sunday. I’ve been doing 1200 kcals for the past two days, a little below maintenance on Monday, kicked my ass hard at the gym and I now care.  I’m stuck. I’m still 139.5. My legs are KILLING me. Well, not killing but I haven’t been this sore and tight in a long time.
I’m almost thinking I won’t do the carb up. I don’t get this. How can I not be dropping water weight? I am a bit oh let’s say irregular. Been two days now. Or, maybe it’s PMS?  Hard to say. I have this nifty little IUD that makes my cycle irregular, or nonexistent, or well, at least really hard to track.  I’m really starting to get paranoid.  How do I not lose anything with no carbs? This actually shouldn’t surprise me given I only lost maybe 5 lbs the first two weeks I did South Beach and that was coming off Weight Watchers aka the High Fructose Corn Syrup Diet. (I say that because the food they pimp at the meetings is pumped full of the stuff)

So, I can’t eat. I can’t go anywhere. I’m supposed to be out of the gym today though I think I’m allowed to do cardio (I’ll have to “read the fucking book” again and check). Looks like rain, though I might be able to squeeze in some yard work. That might be useful in keeping my mind off of those ymmy OMG I sooo need to eat them M&Ms. Then later on I’ll probably have to escape to no carb no cal Norrath.

I slept at least 8 hours last night.

I woke up tired.

Low carb sucks.

I guess the only plus is that I’m not all that hungry. At least I’m not as hungry as I thought I’d be. I usually do 1700-1900 kcals. Ultimate Diet 2.0 has me doing 1200.

I’m really worried that I’m not getting in enough depletion during these workouts. I just can’t seem to match weight with reps and time under tension on some stuff. If I go lighter I get no burn. Heavier I fail. I dunno.

Did cardio this morning. I didn’t think I’d feel like doing it after today’s lower body workout. I actually probably could have gotten through it. I was just kinda bitchy and cranky so I’m glad I did it this morning. Then again, now I’m sitting here at 6:30 and have only like 300 calories left for the day. I was hungry by the time I went to bed last night, which was about an hour after I ate.

Nights suck for me. I just want to go to sleep but I can’t because: A) it’s too early and B) my daughter is coming home from college tonight. And that’s another thing!! She is an eater. Eating, eating, all the time. And she never shuts up. She’s gonna stress me I just know it. I talked to her earlier today and she’s like, “Let’s do something tonight, I wanna go to the movies.” Sure, she’s gonna get home maybe 8 or 9pm, we have to unload all her crap and then go out? I WOKE UP TIRED!! I just want to sleep!!!!! Not to mention the fact that I have no money or debit card and the movies cost like 8 gazillion dollars AND they have that stinking popcorn I hate HATE HATE saying no to! AND I’M HUNGRY!!

Bah. First thing I’m eating Friday night is M&Ms. I’ve already decided. No, second thing. First thing will be my pwo shake. They’ve got one of those candy machines in my “gym”, candy machine in the gym? hence the quotes, and I have to look at the M&Ms in it every time I leave the gym, when I’m starving, and can’t have my pwo carbs. I swear I only workout so that I can have my crack dextrose/malto/whey afterwards. I love that stuff. LOVE it. I put it in the blender and it gets all foamy and thick, almost like a milkshake but better than a milkshake.

I’m too tired to do a workout log. I need to do more calf sets and I should be good, at least #of set wise. Who knows if I worked hard enough. Yeah, I got dizzy, especially during DLs. I dunno what made me think that would be a good idea but I did ‘em. 4 sets @ 95lbs.

Well, at least my knees don’t hurt. At all. It’s amazing. I didn’t do lunges as that’s when I first felt the pain. I may try them next week. I couldn’t do step ups. Gym was too crowded today. Couldn’t do back extension either, again couldn’t get near it. I’m really tired of the crowds.

And, I’m so sick of the walking pheromone and his hot/cold crap. I dunno what that’s about. He’s either super shy or doesn’t think I like him, maybe both. I’m shy too, so grrr I dunno how to do this. I dunno. I dunno. I’m about ready to just tell him to ask me out or something. This is getting INCREDIBLY frustrating. And every once in a while he won’t show up for a week. I start thinking I missed my chance to, I dunno, tell him I love him and want to marry him?, OK just that I want him, badly.

Kid just called. They are out to eat. She’s having chicken parm. I whine, bitch, and moan. She says, “I’ll bring some home for you!”

Oh great, and there’s the damn ice cream truck with it’s loud obnoxious music.

Or food even.

OK Day 1 of Ultimate Diet 2.0. I was doing great until I worked out. I ran out of steam pretty quickly. Like uhm halfway through the first super set. I was shocked. Especially after the kick my ass killer workout I pumped out yesterday.

UD 2.0 workout requires 10-12 sets per body part. 15- 20ish reps per set. I did upper body today. Tomorrow is lower.

I had issues. A set is supposed to take 45-60 seconds. Well, for like bent over row, I used 20lb DBs first set. I’ve been using the 40s for 6 reps. So I figured 20 should do it. Not sure if they were too heavy or too light. I did 20 reps first set and only took me maybe 30 seconds. Did 25 the second but that was almost failure. By the fourth set I had to drop to 15s and still I couldn’t get the set to take more than 40 sec. So, I dunno. I had similar issues on other exercises. Maybe I’m supposed to drop set? If I do this again next week I’ll try that maybe.

Don’t think I got in enough chest work. I tried to doing push ups very last just to get in a couple more sets. Couldn’t do it. First set I got maybe 10 if that. Second I used the bench and got 7 on an incline. I’ll see if I can do a couple tomorrow.

I did chin & pull up negs to start. Eeked out 1.5 close grip chins. Depletion workout took over an hour. Then I did 30 on the Arc. I can’t believe I actually did the Arc. I was ready to fall asleep during my last couple of sets. I didn’t get nauseous during the workout. I did get a little dizzy early on so I eased up and took some longer rests - like longer than the 10 secs I’ve been doing!!

I’m totally spent now. First thing I wanted to do when I got home was inhale some sugar. I’m drinking coffee now - with light cream even(!) so as to avoid those pesky milk carbs! I’m pretty sure Dunkin Donuts coffee is God’s gift to humankind.

OMG LOL I just checked my kcals for today, I’m at 845 kcals and 47 grams of carbs. I get 60!! I might have to go get McDs or sumthin. Jeez!!

I thought the low cal was gonna be tough. Aside from post workout it really has been almost too easy. I shouldn’t say that. I’ll probably be famished tomorrow. Oh wait, I’m famished now!! I’m gonna eat and crash.

…….and since I just finished what is probably the hardest workout I’ve ever done, I’m not even going to try and flex my brain to come up with a decent title for this post. And anyway, it’s just a log so who cares.

Did a full body today. It’s Sunday, the gym would be empty, I can’t do cardio, and so I wanted something to get the heart rate up. It worked.

A crap load of stretching and some activation stuff - Peterson Step Ups, Hip abduction static and dynamic, glute-ham raise, no not like Mr. Norton’s YouTube, the standing cable kickback things. Though I did try the real thing today. No, I can’t do ‘em. Feels like my hams are gonna rip outta my knee. They probably would if I forced it. So, I’m either doing it wrong or I just don’t have the strength. Probably both.

Did this GBC style. 6 exercises per super set, alternating upper & lower. 10 sec rests between exercises. 2 minute rest between super sets. I was in the gym 2.25 hours. I’m not sure how long the actual workout took, but it was at least 60 minutes and I’m not sure why given the short rests. Did take me some time to unload all the plates from Set 1. I dunno.

Set 1
SLDL - 3×6x135
Low Row - 3×6x8.5 plate
Leg Press - 3×12x180 - coulda gone higher. Probably better that I didn’t though.
Push Up feet on bench - 3×12
Step Up - 2×25x40, 1×25x30.
DB Standing Military Press 1×25x20, 2×25x30

Set 2
Back Ext - 3×6x50
DB Bent Row - 3×6x80 - This really is too heavy but I’m an idiot
DB Squat - 3×12x60
Incline DB Press - 3×12x60
Marching Bridge - 3×25
Bent DB Fly - 3×25x5

Coupla things - My knees did not hurt at all. I felt some odd sensation during step ups but it was in a different location. It didn’t hurt. Felt more like just fatigue or a tightening above the knee. Dunno what that’s about. I didn’t feel the tendinitis pain in the shin though. I’m thinking it’s because I’ve stayed off the Arc since Thursday or Friday.

I had zippo zero water pre workout and wow was I feeling it. That’s why I hadda drop the weight on the last set of step ups. The prior set left me nearly heaving and dry mouthed. Not good.

Those bent over DB flys are still tough to get through by the third set, BUT not nearly as tough as when I started, what 3 workouts ago? Nice!

I guess that’s it. Abs tomorrow. Was gonna do some cardio too but I think I’ll save my knees for UD 2.0 depletion - if I do it at all. I’m hesitating now. I only have 3 weeks, not sure if it’s worth the suffering to lose just a couple pounds. Maybe my focus should just be rehabbing the knee, fixing the imbalances, and maybe improve upper body strength. I forgot to do my chins & pull ups today.

Oh, wait, I already have.

I always say the older I get the dumber I get. I swear ya lose half your brain cells with each pregnancy. So, that would make me, uhm, braindead?

I have the last two workouts scribbled on a ripped up piece of paper. So, I’m really just here to get them to “hard copy.” How times have changed! Hard copy used to be paper. For me it’s a hard drive. Preferably not one I can mess up.

I need a secretary to keep me organized. Earlier this week I lost a $300 check. Add that to the money my daughter took accidentally last week, and that leaves me scrambling big time to cover the mortgage payment being automatically deducted on the 1st.

THEN, because I need more money issues aggravation, yesterday I go to the ATM and take out $20. Head to Dunkin’ for my coffee. I’m getting ready to go food shopping. Need coffee. Get coffee. Stop at Target first. I need workout clothes. And hairspray. And, and, and….I always end up with armfuls of stuff every time I go into a store for one or two things.

So, I go to pay. I have no debit card!!?? HUH? Where’s my card? I JUST USED IT!!!!!!!!!! (This is the story of my life. I just used something therefore it must get lost.) This is the second time I’ve lost my debit card in the past 2 or 3 months.

OK fine, it must be in the car? Nope.

Uhm, in the ATM? I go to the bank, (thankfully it’s still early and bank is open - it’s Saturday!! - and I withdraw cash), nope, didn’t leave the card in the machine either. OK fine. Go over to Dunkin, check around on the ground, ask inside. Nope. No debit card.

So, now I have a V8 on empty, and about $12 cash after going food shopping. I gotta quit this eating thing. I can’t afford it. EAS whey was 13.99 a month ago. Now it’s 18.99. I didn’t buy it. Used to be it was cheaper for me offline. And more convenient. OK enough bitching and moaning, here’s the workout:

Friday May whatever…2nd???

Glute activation stuff

GBC Set A
SLDL (because I forgot what my previous weight was because I don’t have a secretary to keep me sane and organized) 1×6x105, 1×6x125, 1×6x145.
Leg Press - 2×12x160, 1×12x180
Step Up - 1×25xBW, 1×25x20, 1×25x30 - still too light, though 40 might be too much.

GBC Set B
Back Ext - 1×6x40, 2×6x50
Lying Hip Abduction - thought I’d try these for VMO but didn’t work out so well. I did with 20lb dumbbell first but it was more of a workout staying balanced. Then I did them on a stability ball with no weight. Still I’m not getting the lactic burn with just 12 reps, so these are gone.
Marching Bridge - 2×25xBW. Wow, I likey these.

I have nothing to say. Yet. If I sit here long enough I’m sure I’ll think of something to complain about.

Wednesday, 4/31 - Back/Chest/Shoulders

Chin & Pull Up negatives. 3×8ish seconds. God they hurt. Couldn’t manage a chin. I think because last time I was using the smith bar and so I had to bend my knees. I think that’s why it was easier. Dunno. I’ll try it on the smith next time and see what happens.

GBC Sets:

Set A
BB Row - 3×6x85
Inline DB Press - 2×12x60, 1×11x60. Damnit!
Shoulder Press Machine (beause there were only 5lb DBs or 30s. I have no idea where the rest of the DBs were I wanted the 15s.) - 1×25x25, 1×20x30 (ouch), 1×7x25. Shoulda kept it at 25lbs no doubt.

Set B
Low Row - 3×6x8.5
Push Up (feet on bench) 3×12
Bent over DB Fly - 3×25x5. These kill me. I likey. I must be a sadist. I seriously can not wait for the UD 2.0 depletion workouts. I love getting my butt kicked. Makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something.

OK then I did some other stuff. What? Oh -

Dips - 2×10x12 plate. Whatever that is. I forget. I should know since there is a chart right there on the machine. Who cares? I stuck the pin in the 12 plate and that’s all I need to know.

Pec Dec - 3×12x45. I need to go 5 heavier on these. Somebody remind me. Man. I gotta put this stuff in a book don’t I?

And today’s Ab workout:

Planks (feet on ball) 3×120 seconds.
Hanging Leg Raise 3×10
Horizontal Woodchop 1×12x2 plate
Woodchop (high pulley) 2×12x2 - need to go heavier next time.
Jack Knife 2×12

I’m thinking it would be better to combine abs with upper. I dunno. Was going to yesterday but it was getting late. I should really have time for both though. The GBC sets should only be taking me maybe 20 minutes, plus 10 for negs plus 10-15 for more chest stuff. OK, next time I’ll focus on getting abs in with upper. Eh, never mind. UD 2 workout has already been written for me.

OHHH and I did Arc today. 20 minutes. Woulda gone longer but I had to tan. AND my knee didn’t complain once today. Not once. I’m psyched. Still gonna rest it but I’m really happy. My glutes need to be slapped around a bit lot. Can’t do that if my knees are being bratty and are in a time out!

I went to see the Doc yesterday about my bitchy knee. I saw a new Doc in the practice. She asked me how I lost the weight. I just laughed at her and said, “How do you think I did it?”

So, she just looks at my knee, just looks at it and says, “You have patellar tendonitis.” Hmm, well OK it feels like that, is probably that; but I don’t know how she knew by
just looking at it. So I made her touch it, just to make me feel better.

And that was it. Oh, and “Don’t do whatever makes it hurt.”

So, basically, I’m left treating myself. I know my hamstrings and calfs (or is it calves?) are super duper tight. I know my quads look like shit, and they shouldn’t given all the lower body work and running and arc training I do, so I assume underactive. I know for a fact my glutes don’t work. When I was doing kickbacks I was holding at the top and could not even feel the glutes flexing. I don’t know. I can’t seem to get them to kick in. It takes more concentration and maybe strength? than I seem to have. So I guess I shouldn’t even bother trying this:

So, bad knees means limited lower body work. How bad does that suck? Bad. Very bad. Very very very bad!!!! No squats? No lunges? No step ups? No, no, no, no!!!!!!!! You know what else this means? No cardio. Yes! Yes!!!! Yes!!!!!!!!! :)Actually, despite how much I hate cardio, I still need to do it. So, not having anything in my gym for cardio that doesn’t involve too much knee stress makes things a bit difficult. Even more difficult if I’m going to try UD 2.0.

I tried going low carb from Monday - Tuesday dinner. I did it sorta kinda. Not low low carb. More like moderate low carb. I’m usually around 45%. I was at 32% Monday. Including cheat - pizza and brownie sundae (no sugar ice cream) I was still only 46% Tuesday. 3000ish calories but hey who’s counting? Oh yeah, I am!

By Tuesday afternoon I was bitchy and light headed. I need to stay out of the gym when I’m bitchy and lightheaded. I had a super crappy workout out. Went something like this:

Wait 15 minutes for three guys to get done doing their cable crossovers. I was not even going to attempt doing any lower body without getting my activation work in first. No way, no how.

I didn’t know they were 3 teaming. I asked one kid if he was using the pulley he said he was and “It’ll be quick. Only doing 3 sets.” He must be an English major. 3×3 does not equal 3.

I am sooooooooooooooooooo, sooooo, sooooo sick of guys, it’s always the boys, taking over the cables for sometimes 30 minutes at a time (literally) to do crossovers. I mean come on, there are other people who would like to use the equipment. Get some damn dumb bells and a bench!!!!!!!! I betcha if the cables weren’t two feet from the mirror I’d get to use them any time I wanted. Spending too much time in the gym makes me wonder why I like men at all.

OK so I do my stupid useless girly barbie weight why are you doing that activation stuff. I was probably there maybe 6 minutes? After about 4 minutes I’ve got ‘em circling me, closing in, ready to pounce as soon as I bend over to remove the strap.

Then I try to set up for my GBC shitty can’t use my knees workout. I didn’t have a plan going in because I didn’t have time between Dr and gym to work it out. And I’m not real creative on the fly. I’m not real creative period. So, I try some leg presses. They don’t hurt. OK I’ll do those for my 12rep exercise.

Straight Leg Dead Lift 6×105 - coulda gone heavier but I tried 145 and that was to much so, I gotta find a number in between. I was just sick of loading the bar. Plus my knee starts bitching when I squat too low (no rack in my “gym”) which I sorta have to do to load the bar. God. I feel like a cripple!

Leg Press - 12×140 - felt these nicely in the quads! Yay!!

BW Squat for 25. 2nd set I got in 12 before the shin started aching. Dunno why I thought these were a good idea given I can’t even squat to load the bar. I blame in on the low carb thing. I really was ditzy.

After first full set, kid comes over and asks me if I’m using the leg press. I told him I was super setting but that he could work in. I do one quick set, out of order just to get it in and give him time - and I guess because I kinda had a feeling what happened next would happen. Seemingly nice kid, a friend (oops stupid me, gotta double/triple/yeah even sometimes quadruple team every piece of equipment in my gym is the law apparently), proceed to park their asses there for oh I dunno, 15 minutes. Apparently they don’t know what work in means.

Fuck!

Fine. I can’t squat, now I cant leg press, so I might as well just screw this and move on to the next superset.

3x for all:

Ham Curl - 6×80
Back Ext - 12×30
Bridge - 1×25 on bench, 2×25 ball. I think I should stick to the bench. Ball seems to involve more hamstring than I probably need.

Oh and I did an ab workout Monday. Same as the previous. Well, no,

Planks 3×120 sec - these totally totally SUCK without an mp3 player.
Ball Crunch 3×12x15
Horizontal Woodchop 2×12x2 - I don’t know what these plates weigh. I’m thinking they’re 5lbs
Lateral Flex because of course I can’t use the pulley but hey I got in two sets so I should be ecstatic right? 1×12x20

And 30 minutes on the Arc with no music. That was the longest hardest 30 minutes of my life.

I found a copy of UD2 accidentally. So I read it. When I got to the part that I have to do a 50% calorie reduction for 4 days, I cried. I’m going to try it. I’m going to do another week of “maintenance” though. I actually don’t know where that is yet. I’m still losing despite my average daily cals for the last month being nearly 2100. Losing slowly. Still losing though! Down 1% bf. Guess that counts.

So, UD 2.0 is intense. The workouts also are apparently intense. I’m going to give it a try. After I eat some more as suggested for dieters. Though jeez, my metabolism doesn’t seem to be all that sluggish if I’m losing at 2100. Hmm. Well I think I’ll wait till next week anyway just to be safe AND so that I have a chance to plan and shop etc.

OK workout for today. Nothing special.  Couldn’t do cardio because my knee/shin was bitching.

OH I DID A CHIN UP!!!!!!!!!!!!! ( I didn’t even know I could do one.)  I was doing negative pull-ups. After the negs, I tried to do a regular and maybe moved an inch. I’ll try the regular way first next time. Then I switched to chins. I did one negative and then tried a regular and I actually did it!!

Uhm eesh I didn’t write things down, going from bad memory:

Set A
DB Row - 2×6x80 - almost too heavy, probably was, form sucked, not getting full ROM though that may also be due to the fact that the weights are HEEEWWWWGGG!
Incline DB Press - 2×12x60 - just right
Standing Military DB Press - 2×12x eek I forget, it was either 20 or 30

Set B
Low Row - 2×6x9 - too heavy, though the 8 would have been too light.
Push Up (feet on bench) - 2×12xBW
Bent DB Fly - 2×25x10. OMG this killed me. Barbie weight and all I still barely finished.

Despite some intensity, I barely broke a sweat.

Then I did:

Pec Dec - 2×10x35, 1×6x45. I think those were the weights. Jesus. I really suck at this. I know where I put the pin though, so it’s not like I don’t know. I know. I just don’t know what the numbers were!
Reverse Pec Fly - 2×12x30, 1×12x40