Shaved and Soaked After Chest Day (Part 1) – Mad Chaos: November 14, 1998

Trouble Over the Modeling Shoot

Once again I’ve waited a whole day to write for a day and please, spare the big introduction paragraph because I’m here for business, chronology. Listening to some ‘Warren G’ the new edition I’m about to get straight down to business.

Having myself a great sleep my slumber (As it usually is) was interrupted by Lyssa at midday. Lyssa was upset for the fact she rang the modeling agency and the woman she talked to started yelling at Lyssa about how she was ruining their reputation by not turning up and how Lyssa would fuck everyone up including other models for the day. Not only was I angry that Lyssa was yelled out by someone that was employed and in my mind for a bid only to get their money from Lyssa but Lyssa’s friend at work, Devon and her mum were also pissed off.

Lyssa told me that she had to ring the photographer and tell him that she won’t be showing up and I informed Lyssa that this was only a way to get Lyssa tied up so they could have more time to make her feel guilty and persuade her. My advice was for Lyssa to have the lady ring the photographer and forget about them completely so we could have a great day in the City buying clothes for Lyssa but Lyssa had different plans. Lyssa’s emotions made her start to cry about the whole ordeal and that made me angry knowing that the people were fucking with her mind and I was being a bit arrogant.

Told to Say No

Lyssa told me she would now call and ring me back on her Reception time so I went to sleep. Nearing 1:30 p.m. Lyssa gave me a call and informed me that she was now going to the modeling agency because she had no choice. That was our argument for the next ten minutes as I told Lyssa she had all the choice and she should learn to say “No, Who Cares”.

Lyssa hung up on me because I was being persistent and arrogant about my belief that Lyssa had a choice not to go but she just didn’t want to listen. Lyssa never really listens to me or believes in what I say to her when we speak. Lyssa is more prone to listen to anyone but me, Devon, Lyssa from work, even her mum.

I say that because for days I’ve been telling Lyssa to try and change the time that she has to do her photo shoot for later so that I won’t have trouble getting up with her in the morning and she could sleep in but she never listened. Lyssa had her mum call the agency (She said because it was a motherly figure) and with that Lyssa’s mum changed the time of day to midday today. That pissed me off and it was also another topic that we argued about.

Hanging Up and Making Up

When Lyssa hung up on me I called her back thinking it was done by mistake but as she told me that she had hung up I done the same to her in disgust. Lyssa called me back in a couple of minutes and that’s when I started to turn in my voice but we sorted out our little problems. Nearing 1:15 p.m. Lyssa had to jump off the phone because she was going to call the agency back, I was just disappointed that Lyssa didn’t have enough courage and pride in herself to stand up to the modeling agency and stand up for herself.

Nevertheless, Lyssa told me she was still coming over my house with her skirt and shaving her legs for me. No longer was Lyssa able to sleep over and when that had happened I knew that my weekend was starting to crumble. Having Lyssa change the plans on the last day I started to get angry but she couldn’t really help it, she has no balls like all guys do.

Off to the Gym

Waking up around 2:00 p.m. I had myself a shower, something to eat and prepared myself for a day at the Gym respectively. My body wasn’t showing any signs of energy as I ate a carbohydrate meal but I hoped that would change as soon as the mood differed in the Gym. Around 4:00 p.m. I traveled to the Gym and for the next hour and a tiny bit I had my workout pouncing upon those weights with all my glory hoping to make some records, none. Rather, I worked my muscles hard and reaped some rewards out of it still weighing just a touch off 80 kilos. Here now is my workout…

Chest: After my two minute warm-up on the bike and then some stretching I started on my warm-up sets for Chest. First was Peck Deck Fly’s and with 50 pounds I performed 20 reps. Moving to Seated Machine Bench Press with 60 pounds I performed 12 reps. Next was pullovers with 35 pounds atop of me, I slowly fulfilled 12 reps.

My Chest was filling with blood as I done some more stretches and loading up the Bench Press with 160 pounds I had confidence in what I could do. Getting some assistance from this real big Samoan guy that I knew from Feelin Fit I performed 9 reps before getting a little assistance on the last rep. He only had one hand loosely in the middle of the bar and only spotted on the last rep.

Forwarding myself to the Dip bar (The one without weights) I performed 8 reps easily before finishing 2 more reps with some stress. Moving to Peck Deck Fly’s I moved the weight to 130 pounds and performed 10 reps without buckling, a new heavy weight. Taking down the weight to 120 pounds I performed 10 more reps.

Stepping off to Seated Machine Bench Press and with 160 pounds I performed 5 reps, down to 140 pounds for 3 reps, 100 pounds for 5 reps and then 70 pounds for 10 very debilitating reps before conking out. There was also one set done on Incline Dumbbell Press with 60 pounders where I performed 5 reps. My last set was on Pullovers and deciding to take it easy a bit I picked up 55 pounds and achieved 12 reps.

Biceps Back and Abs

Biceps: Warming up on Standing Cable Curls with 30 pounds and 12 reps I moved to Standing Dumbbell Curls and performed 10 reps with 35 pound dumbbells. In between my sets I performed a set of shoulder shrugs with the same weight. The next set was Standing Cable Curls with 60 pounds where I achieved 10 reps. Not sure if I had done another set but I’m pretty sure I done an extra set of Standing Dumbbell Curls.

Back: Beginning on Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns with 40 pounds I pumped out 12 reps. Placing the weight to 80 pounds I performed 10 reps with relative ease considering I strain easily under this weight. Moving to Close Grip Lat Pulldowns with 120 pounds I performed 10 reps. Moving to Seated Cable Rows I placed the weight to 60 pounds warming up with 12 reps then increasing the poundage to 120 I performed 10 reps. Once more I completed a set for 10 reps with the same weight on this exercise. When I started working my back my energy had almost been depleted so I felt this would be enough to keep me going.

Abdominals: Just before starting I talked with Redd who was waiting for his training partner. Apart from our conversation being good I got myself a good rest before starting my crunches, more on him later. Machine Ab Crunches was the desired weight placing 30 pounds on the stack and performing 30 reps. Doing another set with that weight and turning side to side on some reps to work my obliques I placed the weight to 60 pounds and performed 20 hard reps. That was my entire workout, cool.

Redd the Future Cop

Redd and I talked about bodybuilding mainly but he also told me how he wanted to be a police officer and join the academy to work in Wollongong one day on beat. Taking a glance at him I could see the officer in him and thought he would make a good beat cop. Asking Redd if he was going to the beach this summer he told me that he was concentrating on working his body so I made some complementing remarks being sarcastic.

If Redd and his girlfriend ever went to the beach together Redd can say “Yep she’s with me” and smile when guys look at his girlfriend and vice versa. That’s a smooth way of complementing Redd’s girlfriend without sounding demeaning.

A Very Freaky Phone Call

Coming home I gave Tatton’s house to see if he was there before having myself a bath. Picking up the phone and dialing the number at first the phone was busy. Doing it again I was interrupted at the door as I pressed the last button and picking up the receiver end I was curious to know why it didn’t ring. The phone was silent and thinking it was my dad I heard him hanging up.

Saying hello as they picked up again there was a girl on the other end that also said hello and then asked who I was. Asking who she was first she sounded familiar and then I knew it was Yazmin when she said “Is this Tony”. For the next couple of minutes we just talked about how freaky that occurrence was, her phone didn’t even ring, she picked it up straight away. Yazmin was trying to call her ex boyfriend Astor so I made fun of that and telling her to inform Tatton that I had called I said goodbye.

Shaving and a Long Bath

Something remarkable happened to me, rather I done it to myself and it isn’t remarkable. I shaved my very light moustache yesterday and considering I had been trying to grow it for the last six months or more and it hadn’t changed in shape or size for that whole duration, it was time to let it go.

Running upstairs I filled the bath up with water and finally (Probably after a year of absence) I finally had myself a relaxing bath. Scrubbing my body all over with soap and taking a deep breath I was bothered after half an hour in the tub by Ralf knocking on the door downstairs. Dressing myself I told mum to let him into my room and noticing the time was 6:30 p.m. and Lyssa would be calling me soon I was wondering what he was up to.