Shuffling toward the light

In less than two weeks this quarter will be over.

May darkness and deep shadow claim it once more;

may a cloud settle over it;

may blackness overwhelm its light.

Until then there is little hope of remaining healthy. School is its own species of cancer. 

Having said that, i did get a li'l chest workout in. Did the bench on the power rack as you suggested. That was a fine idear. Actually pushed my weights up a li'l with the extra confidence. Other than that, i have concentrated on packing on as much bloat and poison as i can squeeze in.

After this quarter, methinks i'm gonna try a tweaked version of that Green Faces diet. i'm gunna try to mix a li'l of that paleo thing in with the more stripped down GF thang. Mostly i'm interested in cutting the dairy, wheat, and ETOH/Skoal outta my diet. i like the idea of doing the exclusion diet for a bit. i really wonder how it'd feel to cut that stuff out... i mean i really wonder if i have some adverse reactions to food that i'm just not aware of. SO: meat, eggs, green, and beets for me shortly.

Fibrectomy

i'll once again record my meager workings-out for the previous week. i've grown fatter, and must squat this extra girth each time i stand from sitting. It's an even more potent workout when i'm sitting on the ground. i expect that i'll soon have diabetes II, and will thereafter die (with huge quads) as the most amazingly large bag of fertilizer. May a large, stalwart plant feed long on my rich tissues, and may it more than scour the earth of my carbon footprint.

i competed in a bouldering comp on fri. Fun. i climbed like a mammoth, but there were some cool routes that made me think that were i but 20 lbs. lighter, i'd have had a lot of fun sending. Picked up a raging case of biceps tendonitis, and re-tweaked my flipper-offer finger; so really, i blamed my bad climbing on all that. But i am just fat. i've gotta start running again.

Did a chest workout on sat. Not a bad workout, but definitely not inspired. Very tired and sluggish. Didn't do my back workout yet. Haven't slept well in a month or so, and it's starting to get to me. But i did order more Z-12. That'll hopefully come in today. me want sleep tonight.

the world is a wampyre

Thought i'd jot down the contents of the week just so's not to forget 'em, even though i'm pretty much to the next week's workouts. Super hectic couple o' weeks at school, so i didn't get last weekend's workouts in 'til mon, at which point i tried to cram two days of workout into one. Plus i was very tired. So it didn't go over so well, but it was a workout. i think i climbed for the second time in about two, maybe three weeks yesterday. Actually went off pretty well, all things considered. As much as i loathe not workout out more often, and as fat as i'm getting slouching around staring at a computer screen for ten hours a day, it is giving my tendons time to heal, and it feels way mo' betta' to crimp now. If i can whittle the lard and poisons out of my diet, and get back on some kind of exercise program again soon, i might actually come back into it climbing strong. Other than that, i've pretty much been drinking too heavily and  not sleeping and dipping, and am generally just tying to survive this dumb semester.

i talked to C'lyn today. They found a lump in her breast that she's going to have to have opsied. That's got me real down. Please pray for her. Please.

Minority Report

Nigh on had th' gym to m'self this afternoon. Mighty fine atmosphere, that.

Meme and mama are here for the week. we'll see how that works out. i've got midterms all this week, so we'll see if Steph still retains her sanity by next weekend. On the bright side, i made it though a weekend with daddy for the first time in a while without having a dip. i'm determined to make it through the week without one. Never done a week of tests without one, i think. Also, i didn't get to climb, so it will have been nearly a week since last i clumb (at least) even if i sneak in on wednesday or so. That's a good thing for my beleaguered flipper-offer finger.

Did back and abs today. Hadn't gotten that workout in for about three weeks now, so i had low expectations. i know i've slathered on some blubber in the meantime. At any rate, i clipped off 24 clean pullups for a warmup. Only worked up to a double with 80 before i was fragged, but it could'a' been worse. Very much to my surprise, i worked up to a triple with 305 on straight leg deads. The rest of the workout was a li'l stale, but those are the meat and potatoes of my workout, so i'm happy.

As i was doing deads, i noticed the only other guy in the gym doing rack lockouts on squats. He followed that up with bench squats. So i asked him if he competes. i mentioned that i'd yet to see a brotha' doing such at our gym. He said with some disdain that it's because it's a bodybuilding gym. But he doesn't compete. i was just amped to see someone in it for the power. And i thought you'd think it's nice to know there's more of you nutcases out there in the world.

Also got in chest, etc, on fri. Not a super motivational workout, but i'm still working on my form on bench. And you'll be pleased that i've pretty much stopped doing more than 5 reps per. And my shoulders, at least, are getting a li'l bit stronger. i so think it'd be mighty fine to have a spotter. Mighty fine.