Lifting Heavy And Overthinking Saturday (Part 6) – Mad Chaos: December 17, 1998

A Back Day Breakthrough

Before leaving for my big workout I had myself a single peach that my dad gave me, it was enough to get me through the day. My workout was great today even though it was for the body parts I consider less dominant in overall strength. The turn came in my back workout when I broke out of the rut of stopping on a certain number of reps and just taking a couple of sets to the limit as well as dropping weight on sets to keep the lactic acid burning.

With Creatine working more efficiently in my body now most days I don’t feel like I’m working out as hard even though I sweat as if I was in the dessert for hours. My muscles don’t feel the lactic acid burn as much and because I can lift more weight for longer it doesn’t seem like my sets were all out when they were actually over my previous maximum. It’s weird but I guess it’s working. Off that note and onto my program let me now explain my Gym day…

Pulldown Sets

Back: Beginning on the bike for two minutes I jumped off and warmed up on Lat Pushdowns. My first real set started on Neutral Grip Pulldowns and starting with 140 pounds which I thought excessive I completed 10 reps without much importance to form. Form can’t be that dominant when you’re trying to lift heavier weight. What I find is usually the case is that my hands tend to lose grip easier, I sweat much more and I lose heaps of form due to these heavier weights.

Anyway, I put the weight down to 120 pounds and with that I performed another 10 reps. Moving to Close Grip Lat Pulldowns and against my best interest I loaded up the rack with 140 pounds and began a debilitating set with 10 reps. Pausing for a needed rest I picked up 130 pounds once again and performing 10 half hearted reps I dropped weight for a couple more. Moving now to Reverse Grip Lat Pulldowns I loaded the weight up with 130 pounds and finishing 10 reps I kept going and ended up forcing out three more reps, gut wrenching and muscle building reps.

A Second Sweep For My Back

Now for the second sweep for my lats in the broadening process now I started with One Arm Dumbbell Rows for a chance. The weight was taken up to 80 pounds and I knew I would have trouble with it. Starting with my right hand first I performed 12 reps having to stop twice to re-grip with my hand but despite that they were good reps.

Taking the weight down to 70 pounds I performed another 10 reps and then pushed out three more with some force. Seated Cable Rows was next for character building and starting with 130 pounds I easily managed to perform 10 reps while arching my back as should be done. Keeping the weight at the same volume I once again pounced on my reps and completing 10 reps I took down the weight to 100 pounds and completed 6 more full reps.

Triceps And Shaking Hands

Triceps: Once again I wanted to top a record even if I had to give up some form in the process. Warming up with 40 pounds on Triceps Pushdowns for 12 reps I paused for my large set. Pausing is my biggest worry as I get anxious about the large weight I have to lift and in the end I find out it isn’t that hard at all. Placing the weight up to 75 pounds I performed 12 reps as my hands shook on each and every rep.

Walking to Overhead Dumbbell Extensions I picked up a 60 pound Dumbbell and knowing this was my heaviest so far I performed 10 reps. When complete I downed the weight to 55 pounds and with that performed 10 more reps to complete work for my Triceps. There was one last set done however before I jumped onto Abdominals. Upright Rows with a cable extension and 50 pounds I began my new odyssey into the unknown and managed with a very bad grip that was loosing upon the bar to complete 10 reps.

Abs, Reluctantly

Abdominals: For some reason I started to lag for my abdominal area as I only completed three sets and 70 reps but maybe that had something to do with my first set. Starting on Low Ab Crunches I managed to complete 20 reps by changing the position of my legs now and again so they wouldn’t get tired.

After that set I was stuffed from previous energy loss and the fact that I hadn’t done it for centuries. Moving to Machine Ab Crunches with 40 pounds I performed 20 exhausting reps. I was set to go home leaving only this done but walking back down the stairs with second thoughts I completed one last debilitating set with 30 pounds resistance and 30 reps.

Big Plans For Next Year

You can see that I have been progressing in my workouts and I’m always reaching new highs in my exercises. With all these steps I’ve done so far the obvious next steps are to increase my efforts on caloric diets and stepping up on training four times a day splitting up even more my body parts. Most importantly, gaining enough courage and enthusiasm to include my legs into my body’s adventure. Gaining knowledge about supplements and different sorts of workouts and exercises could also be an advance for me. My prediction, this year was a year of basic nothingness apart from my poetical flair that has been here for mostly the whole year.

Next year will see a rise in my bodybuilding potential and I will be much larger and more prouder to be a bodybuilder. On top of that I might or might not have a job and that will greatly affect the length of my Diary, the days and times I work out and my poetical flair. Next year will be plenty of fun but also next year I will have myself a car, this I vow to be true.

Weight, Injuries And Hope

Now that I’m back home from the Gym I’ve had myself that big meal that mum prepared. Today I weighed just under 81 Kilo’s without having eaten much so I expect to weigh around 82 Kilo’s or just a little higher by the end of this year. With this weight will obviously come more lean muscle and with this lean muscle I will obviously see a gain in the weights I can pull or push along.

These gains I am still making as I work around my injuries. Injuries I say as I have now two that have branched off the one. Firstly my Chest that has been slightly ripped from the tendon has not been showing much signs of hurt but it is much more tense than my other arm when I try to stretch it.

For that reason and also because my shoulders appear to be lopsided my right shoulder blade hurts near the trapezius. This is either due to the fact it has been rubbing up on muscle, bone or simply due to the way I sleep on it at nights. Whatever it is I’m going to start posterior shoulder exercises and some trapezius work which I accomplished today. The end of this year should eradicate these problems, let’s hope that happens anyway.

Saturday Night Gets Scripted

Tonight I should be going out to the City with Keith and whoever else to see Noah coming back but seeming the time is 8:00 p.m. I’m not sure if they are going or if they will ring me. This always happens but let’s not hope the reverse happens tomorrow and they ring me up asking me to come out when Lyssa is here. Saturday night is a planned thing, from the curled hair right down to the job at midnight we will endure.

Lyssa also wants to rent ‘City Of Angels’ so we can both watch it at my house, who knows how it will all fall into place. I can see us renting the movie, eating our bought food and then near the end of the movie making out. Because of this Lyssa won’t want to go out for a job as planned so I’m going to try and sneak it in before the movie or hold my coital ambitions until after the jog.

Lyssa’s hair is going to be curled, well maybe curled but I’m just wandering what it’s going to look like. I’ve never seen Lyssa with curly hair and can’t imagine her but it was my idea of fantasy to see Lyssa with curly hair on Saturday night and here it will come true. Lyssa and I are also going to try some moves out of her cosmopolitan magazine for both our pleasures, it’s going to be a very long lasting night with much satisfaction for the both of us.

Doubts About Being Fair

On the point of oral stimulation for Lyssa, I’m not sure how I’m going to feel on the night but I would like to slow down on that certain action I give to her basically because it’s only fair. Lyssa stopped giving me oral months ago because she didn’t want to and I’m stating to develop the same symptoms as her. Let’s just see if Lyssa is going to have a big cry about it if it does happen or if she will take in on the chin like I did and hope to god that I do it again some day soon.

When that stops my finger and my bigger finger are all that will pleasure Lyssa, can she handle it or will she look somewhere else. Hopefully she will start giving me full pleasure again realizing how trying it is not to be treated like a princess after all that time and learning to commune with the peasants. Maybe Lyssa will start on me again and I will start on her again but this isn’t a punishment if it does happen.

Who’s to say that I will want to go back down on Lyssa if she ever does show me more affection in the long run, maybe I won’t. The way Lyssa is I can almost say with one hundred percent surety that Lyssa will get annoyed with me, think that something is wrong and then completely forget about her love life that is associated with me because of her pure selfishness. But hey, that’s just me and my opinion, prove me wrong.

Plans Change When Jett Arrives

Alright, the night has now been worked out as Jett came in the last five minutes. I’ve turned my computer off since then but I didn’t see a reason to start a new chapter. The time is 8:17 p.m. in case you wanted to know. From what I heard everyone is going to the Catholic Club for Noah’s coming back party. I gathered that we were going to spend the night in the City but I guess I am wrong.

To see if anyone calls me tonight or not won’t be my main agenda because Jett doesn’t want to head anywhere tonight and instead is coming back in a couple of minutes with a movie, his Playstation and some food for himself to eat. I guess we’re going to make a night of it as we kick each other’s ass on Worms and then we do the same on Gridiron. Tonight I guess is going to be like tomorrow night less the girl and the sex, maybe even the jogging…