It always seems when you are in a hurry to get to the gym you get behind someone going slow as hell, and they make every turn you make.
-Conventional Deadlifts: 495 x5, x5. Expected this to feel heavy after 20 days off, but it wasn't. Pretty easy. I am using straps (God, don't tell the grip gurus, I will never hear the end of it!) but the straps keep my body in line as I can go double overhand. This eliminates any and all hamstring and hip pain.
-T-bar rows: 180 x10, x10, x10, x10. These smoked me. Minimal rest.
-Super pullovers: 200 x10, 180 x8, x8, x6. Stomach started cramping up EXTREMELY bad on these. Fucking colitis rears it's ugly head again. Wanted to do 1-arm rows, but the pain in my guts was killing me, so I went right to low rows to finish.
-Underhand seated low row: 195 x10, x10, x10. Had to quit at 3. Gut pain had me hovering over the trash can, though didn't feel like I had to puke, just cramping and heaving.
The saga fucking continues. If I can only be lucky enough to have this all summer. I am going to start slamming the yogurt every day. It is going to hurt my total carb consumption but I can't fucking take shitting myself everyday. I am going on 4 week with this...
Saw the coolest thing today when I arrived at the gym. Some yahoo was wearing a ball cap backwards, sunglasses, those wrist wrap/gloves, a string tank top, and those baggy bodybuilder pants. (note to self: gotta get some of them!) He was doing bent over rows with 135 and screaming and hollering like it was 600, and he cheating like hell to get the reps. He was also standing on 4-45s to do them? I walked past him and into the small room that houses the deadlift platform (which, by the way, has no air moving in it so if I dare to squeeze one out, it smells for about 10 minutes).
After some warm ups, I go out to fetch some more 45s and his are the closest, so I ask if he still needs the 4 he is standing on. He says no, (yes, he is still wearing his sunglasses inside) and I take them. He comes in and says, "oh, deadlifting huh? I can't do that, I have a bad back." I nodded a "uh-huh" because he chose to ask me if I was deadlifting in the middle of repping 495. I finished my first set and walked back out to get some air and he was gone.
Dammit. I wanted to get some back training advice from him...
Time to eat some Activa and read my new FLEX magazine. I am so ghey...
-Rick
I love that guy! Or the guy with a million plates on the calf press rack bouncing the entire way without working a thing!
Posted by: Mike | July 17, 2008 at 07:56 PM