Onwards and Upwards

THERE are some positives to training till you feel like puking. For one thing, it reminds you you're still in the game. You suck at it now, but you're still in there. It also reminds you that, if you have to force down a shake before training (because you literally haven't eaten anything all day except a protein bar and a couple of swigs of some god awful tasting 'cake batter' flavoured Muscle Milk), maybe you shouldn't also chug a litre of water and do high-speed, higher volume sets of leg press. 

Yeah. Leg press was too hard core for me. If I'd squatted, puking would have been a definite.

Three training sessions in two weeks is pretty, well, lazy actually - even for a guy with one working arm - but it is what it is. I've been in a strange place mentally. Weeks after my surgery, I experienced what has been explained as an effect of the large quantities of anaesthesia I'd received. I'm a pretty big guy, so I would have required a high dose to begin with. I have a lot of liver enzymes thanks to my years of being a 'high functioning' alcoholic, so that would have required more anaesthetic. And (under advisement) I was given a local 'nerve blocker', too (my right thumb is still a little numb and the nerves feel weird). All this resulted in my brain chemistry getting seriously fucked with, to the point I had paranoia, insomnia, and depression. Wooooo. It was pretty messy.

But onwards and upwards.

Wednesday March 6th

1-arm DB bench press

10 reps @ 20 kgs

10 reps @ 30 kgs

10 reps @ 35 kgs

10 reps @ 40 kgs

12 reps @ 45 kgs

Leg press

12 reps @ 165 kgs

12 reps @ 205 kgs

12 reps @ 245 kgs

12 reps @ 285 kgs

Saturday March 2nd

Squats w/safety bar

10 reps @ 30 kgs

10 reps @ 50 kgs

10 reps @ 70 kgs

10 reps @ 90 kgs

8 reps @ 110 kgs

1 reps @ 130 kgs

Good mornings

10 reps @ 50 kgs

8 reps @ 70 kgs

8 reps @ 90 kgs

1-arm Seated rows

10 reps @ plate 10

10 reps @ plate 12

10 reps @ plate 14

1-arm Tri-push

10 reps @ 50 lbs

10 reps @ 50 lbs

Saturday February 23rd

Squats w/cambered bar

10 reps @ 30 kgs

10 reps @ 70 kgs

8 reps @ 110 kgs

5 reps @ 150 kgs

3 reps @ 170 kgs TPR

10 reps @ 120 kgs

Good mornings

10 reps @ 70 kgs

3 reps @ 90 kgs

1-arm Seated rows

10 reps @ plate 8

10 reps @ plate 10

10 reps @ plate 12

10 reps @ plate 14

1-arm Pinwheelz

10 reps @ 20 kgs

10 reps @ 25 kgs

Back at the Pit this saturday for another session. Maybe my coaches will let me put a little bit more weight on the bar.