Fun session! Was lethargic cause Oak pollen is MASSIVELY heavy right now. My car is tennis ball yellow/green LOL!!!! It's not really messing with my allergies, just can make you feel lethargic cause the pollen count is so stupidly high. Didn't hit any rotator work because I'm planning on hitting Shoulders today. My Grip also fried out after the Expand Your Hand Bands =) Soooooooooo that just means.....YOU GUESSED IT, G A I N Z!!!!!!!!!!
Seated Behind the Head Overhead Press (Used Bench Grip, stopping bar at knot on back of skull)
**Add Wrist Wraps**
135 Pounds - 12 Reps
135 Pounds - 11 Reps
135 Pounds - 10 Reps
Band Pullaparts (Used Light Band)
Light Band - 20 Reps
Light Band - 18 Reps
Light Band - 16 Reps
GET SOME,
ALTERED BEAST
P.S: Back is up today, but I'm draggin from all the damn pollen in the air (there's literally a film of light green covering the city in the air LOL! You can see it when you look out a window) and had a busy day at work today. We will see how I feel when I get home, still have some things to do when I get home.
Well I discovered what has been messing me up for a year or two now. Turns out my supplemental BP med that has been super helpful has been making me cripplingly drowsy!!!!!!!!!!!! Been thinking it's been other things but no it's been the damn medicine. A L W A Y S something!!!!!!!
Fuck fuck fucking fuck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tired of this shit!
Medications suck. There’s always a trade off. Hopefully they have an alternative for you
Agreed! Yes sir and it's working good thus far.
Originally Posted by moparguy55
Older i get the lessi trust modern medicine. Atleast you know now.
I couldn't agree more! Unfortunately, it's part of living in the modern world. I'm hoping at some point I'll be in such good shape I won't need the supplemental medicine (it's the one that can cause drowsiness).
YES! Solid session! Pushed the weight a bit. Wanted to do more but my muscles were fried and it was getting late! Felt good to throw on my belt and hit some appreciable weight =)
*Forgot to hit Submit Reply last week LOL!
Pre-Workout:
Band Upper/Lower Stretching
Pre: Pump
Post: Nitro, Creatine & Glutamine
Rack Pull vs Bands (Used Stiff Bar and Short Light Bands, 150 pounds at lockout. Pins set at lowest point just off of the ground)
Bar + Bands - 10 Reps
135 Pounds + Bands - 5 Reps
225 Pounds + Bands - 3 Reps
**Add Power Belt**
*275 Pounds + Bands - 5 Reps
*295 Pounds + Bands - 5 Reps
*315 Pounds + Bands - 5 Reps
*335 Pounds + Bands - 3 Reps
*355 Pounds + Bands - 3 Reps
SS Yoke Bar Good Mornings (62 Pound Bar)
**Add Power Belt**
242 Pounds - 5 Reps
262 Pounds - 4 Reps
282 Pounds - 3 Reps
Bent Barbell Rows (Used Stiff Bar WiT DeM STrApPZZZZ!)
275 Pounds - 10 Reps
295 Pounds - 8 Reps
315 Pounds - 6 Reps
Good session Thursday. Didn't hit anything else over the Easter Holiday. Pretty quiet Easter without the kiddos but we celebrated the previous weekend. Looking to get an Accessory Day in today and Legs tomorrow!!!
Going to go see a Cardiologist Thursday morning and get all of this figured out! One of the meds I'm taking makes me drowsy and causes dry mouth/skin. SICK of the damn sides! I imagine he may want to perform a myriad of tests but we shall see.
*Got busy at work and forgot to post this!
Pre-Workout:
Band Upper Stretching and KB Rotator Work
Reverse Band Close Grip Bench Press (Used Mini Bands and Texas Power Bar. Each Rep Paused for a 1 count)
**Add Wrist Wraps**
275 Pounds - 15 Reps
295 Pounds - 12 Reps
315 Pounds - 9 Reps
335 Pounds - 6 Reps
EZ Curl Bar Skullcrushers vs Band (Use Light Band under the Bench attached to the bar collars. These H U R T!)
25PS + Band - 10 Reps
25PS + Band - 9 Reps
25PS + Band - 8 Reps
Did a bunch after work and still got this in! Wore me out with everything I had to do but felt I needed to get it in! Was wanting to hit Legs today, but energy is zapped. CAN'T WAIT for Thursday (seeing a top notch Cardiologist)! Gotta bite the bullet and take care of this, no more pride. So sick of one of my meds. It works extremely well but it dries out my skin/mouth and makes me drowsy! Can't wait to be back to normal so I can get shredded! Going to get nicely lean this summer and hope that too will also help with my blood pressure issues. I'm also going to find out the root cause of it all too, this Cardiologist is really top notch and can help with that as well amongst other things I'm sure I'll find out LOL!!!!!!!!! Ah well, like I said, NO MORE PRIDE! Can't fight genetics, gotta get healthy and stay that way. Can't have these issues when I find a new lady either!!! CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW EMBARRASSING THAT WOULD BE??????
What drives me nuts is my body is responding very well to the reduced calories and all of the exercise, I just need to get the damn BP/Meds situation in order and the training will be FAR more consistent and often! It's also effecting my sleep which is FURTHER impacting DEM GAINZ!!!!!! Can't wait to be me again!!!!!
*Didn't hit any KB swings as I thought I'd be hittin Legs today.
No training yesterday. Saw a Cardiologist and am trying new things. Experienced some STRONG side effects from new meds yesterday! Feeling better and am dropping water weight =) Bodyweight is almost in the 250's!
Training will commence next week as I have the kiddos this weekend (the next weekend too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). Hopefully my body will adjust and everything will be back to normal soon. The dryness and drowsiness are gone =) =) Feeling super energetic once again!
You’re going to be tearing s%#t up real soon. Your training is already off the hook and you’re not 100% yet!
Thanks =) I hope so CD! I quit taking the new supp medication my cardiologist put me on. Side effects were AWFUL!
Not seeing him until next Tuesday and getting his nurses or anyone on the phone at his office is a damn nightmare as well. BP is up and I've been taking old meds in larger doses on top of the new base medication just to try to keep numbers down. Some days it works some days it doesn't.
I'm going to have to be REAL frank with the doc next time I see him. Time to fix this stupid bullshit, I ain't gonna be no lab rat. Sorry to be so aggressive but this has become beyond frustrating! I want my life back..
Thanks =) I hope so CD! I quit taking the new supp medication my cardiologist put me on. Side effects were AWFUL!
Not seeing him until next Tuesday and getting his nurses or anyone on the phone at his office is a damn nightmare as well. BP is up and I've been taking old meds in larger doses on top of the new base medication just to try to keep numbers down. Some days it works some days it doesn't.
I'm going to have to be REAL frank with the doc next time I see him. Time to fix this stupid bullshit, I ain't gonna be no lab rat. Sorry to be so aggressive but this has become beyond frustrating! I want my life back..
Right there with you. It really is a game you have to play for health care. I can’t even call my doctors office. I call the office number and get some answering service who then relays my message to the office and then I have to wait for a call back. Why can’t people just talk to each other anymore? All this technology and everything is more complicated instead of easier
Strength doesn't come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will. -Gandhi
You cannot dream yourself into a character. You must hammer and forge yourself into one. -Thoreau
Right there with you. It really is a game you have to play for health care. I can’t even call my doctors office. I call the office number and get some answering service who then relays my message to the office and then I have to wait for a call back. Why can’t people just talk to each other anymore? All this technology and everything is more complicated instead of easier
It just gives them a reason to be worthless and not perform the frustrating parts of their jobs. My cardiologist is at another more prevalent location m/w/f, I'll be going there from now on. The office manager answered both of my messages within an hour! I even told her their office is FAR more professional than the other =) Not sure if it was a recorded line and that message somehow made it to the other office because all of a sudden that office starting returning my days old messages, LOL!
Technology is a joke. We are essentially apes still now we just press buttons at desks and are still apes LOL!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing will change, simply a control grid nothing more in depth about technology and OH HOW they love to make it seem so much more important don't they? They've even got "dumbphone" companies now that are making a HUGE comeback in the US, UK and Australia. Basic good ole flip phones that can SMS text and that's it! One of the top 3 phone makers in the UK is a dumbphone company and is looking like they will move up higher. Just goes to show you how pointless technology really is.
GENTS!!! I'M BACK!!!! Got the right meds (am taking one base med only with a supp if needed but odds are I won't ever need it!) and I corrected my liver which has helped the problem immensely! No more BP spikes =) I also feel like swinging axes into peoples heads all day again =) =) That is how I DEFINITELY know that I'm back LOL!
May get in some accessory work today, have stuff going on after work. FEELS GOOD!!!!