So we had sxsw. That was sick. I got my workout in during sxsw , early in the week. someone asked me what i did that day and i recounted my day and "then i worked out" was in there, and it was like, i knew it gave me energy for the whole week. It was a cool spot to kinda be in my focused mode where I "manufacture some time."
When sxsw was over, I had this intense desire to go hard in a workout. It was pretty sexy. I worked my upper back alot with this full-range motion exercise I kinda invented. Its like the extension that you would do with your arm for a jumping jack (just on one side) to full extension, and then coupled with a tricep thing at the very end, sure why not. There was a lot of rest. I am pairing that motion with the Michael Phelps thing (5 lb free weights). I grabbed a spot from George on my bench, and did a set of 10 at 125, then a set of 8 then a set of 6 at 135!! For those keeping score at home, 135 is a major milestone, because that is the same as a regular bar with a 45 ("a plate") on each side. I will feel like a hoss once I am benching regularly there, and as an added bonus I could. I did a 3x7 with squats, going up weight to maybe 60 I think. That was cool too, because I could use the bar as 30s for doing bicep curls with a barbell. That will be a really sick plateau once I can get to 30s on my bicep curl. For the squats I think i did about 3x7 for sets. Bicep curls I did use the bar at least once.
It was a great workout and actually I took a few days to lay in bed and chief up. I worked out on the Thursday, and then I waited tables Saturday and Sunday. By the end of my shift Saturday I could really feel the squats I had done, hahaha. I think I am getting to the point where before the end of the semester I am going to get involved with deadlifting. Then I think we are in a good wheelhouse. It feels like I have finished with the "laying a base" stage on my upper chest and arms and that I am at the early stages of being a novice, which is pretty cool. Its probably a good time to start laying a base with deadlifting, and if a year from now I am a starting novice with that and a mid-late novice with some of the chest and arm stuff, that will be totally badass.
Its Sunday now, so last time I had a workout was a week ago Thursday when I went super hard like that. From what Ive been reading the thing to do is to go back down and ease into it again, and then maybe in a week and a half or two Ill see about ramping up, maybe getting a jump on 125 (where my bench is at for repping) and maybe see how much of the 30s bar we can work in for the biceps.
I think probably a good idea to stick with some on the forearms, and hopefully soon can get a day in with Dann at the rock climbing gym and get on the assisted dips, which is like my favorite machine ever.
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