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Lessee here... been hanging pretty consistently at just over 200 lbs.



Friday i tore it down in the climbgym. Was one of those inspiring sorts of days wherein it all seems possible (precisely the opposite of today, it turns out). i hooked up with this feller i met a long time ago there. we climb at just about the same level, but he's gotten a tad better. He dragged me onto just about every v4 in the place, and as yet i do not climb v4. At any rate, i must'a' put up 100+ tries on some of 'em. Came pretty darn close on one or two. Since then, i've had this feeling of revelation, like, "Ahh, that's what it feels like!" and i've been wanting to get back in fresh and send some. So Friday's workout consisted of utterly teerashing my bitty forearms and most of the skin on m' hands. Very motivational.

Sat. was almost entirely dedicated to a kid's birthday party, followed by heavy drinking.

Sun. i did an o.k. upper body workout in the gym-of-metal-things. To classify it by the standard of Workouts With Metal Objects Past, i'd hafta say it was decidedly weak; but i didn't do a workout last weekend (we were in CO), and i didn't do it two weeks prior to that. So i've been averaging an upper body workout once every two weeks for a month or so. i truly believe i'd see some progress here if i stuck with it consistently-- and that is the plan. Here it wuz:

Pullups:

BW x 23 (neg. on the last 'un)

Narrow Cable Rows:

10 x 165
10 x 180
8 x 210
6 x 225
6 x 225

Last coupl'a sets i just melted down. Noticeable loss here.

Flat DB Bench:

Rehab with 2 sets of 14 with 25s

Incline DB Bench:

10 x 60s
10 x 60s

Felt kinda good to push a li'l weight again on these. i'm surely not so strong here, but my shoulder didn't tweak.

DB Shrugs:

14 x 90s
10 x 100s
10 x 100s
8 x 110s

Didn't do the next set of 8 as i was losing consciousness to hunger pangs.

Dips:

3 sets 10 x BW

Pec Deck:

Sundry weights. couldn't go as high this time.

Comments:

i sabotaged this workout cuz i didn't eat before i went in. i had forgotten how long it'd been since breakfast, and by the cable rows i was getting shaky. Pain tolerance was at ca. 50%, and i had no concentration. In spite of that, it was a good workout after having laid off for so long.

Monday (today) i actually woke up at 05:00 and went running in the foothills. That was kind'a nice. After work i went in for a hard seesion at the climbgym, but it was a wretched failure, and i left early. i wrote up my workout for the week, but it has a lot o' flaws-- one of which was scheduling a hard boulder workup the day after the upper body iron workout. i'll post my general plan (with some modifications) on here soon's i have time. it's amazing what having a written plan can do for the ol' motivation level.