Pharmin'ton

So i thought i'd do a li'l updatin' here. Hasn't been a super active week, really, on the workout front; but i did squeeze a few workouts in. Got a month's membership at Defined, which is one of those big Borg Cube Fitness Centers like 24 Hr, where your workouts are spectated by a terraced hillside of Golgafrinchans on ellipticals rocking out to Kylie Minogue videos. i find it irritatingly hard to get in touch with The Pain there; yet She and i did indeed cross paths for a few sets, and in fact, she's moved in for a protracted relationship with my hamstrings after hitting straight-leg deads like i was still good at 'em. But it never does fail to boggle me how you can get that much machinery in that large a building without having a single useful piece of equipment. Ah well: if you can get a bar far enough away from the crap it's attached to, turns out you can constructively damage yourself anyhow.

Did overhead presses on mon or tues. That went fairly well. Don't recall the weights, but it was whatever was on my piece of paper, and i did 'em all. Wed was the killer though. Did 3 x 3 p'lups with 80, 85, and 90 strapped on. Those are especially a load of fun smack in the middle of the gym on the cable-cross machine (which, for reasons that elude me, happens to be one of the more popular places for blokes to do obscure biceps curl variants). Then i did the SL deads. Those things just rock. They have a specially built platform, apparently just for SL deads--which was nice, 'cuz i was gunna be pressed to think of a way to drop the bar to my feet otherwise. i'll go through my whole warmup, etc, because i think you should do a cycle with 'em. i did 20 toe-touches, then 20 with the bar, then 14 with 95, then 10 with 145. Then the working sets: 8 x 195, 8 x 215, 6 x 235, 6 x 255, 4 x 275, and 4 x 295. Only i didn't get the very last rep of the last set 'cuz the bar was sweating outta my hands. i haven't really gone up with these ever--- it's the same workout whether i'm strong or weak. Only change is that if i feel good i'll keep the same progression further, and if i'm weak i'll stop at the sets of 6 somewhere. But i don't really bump my numbers up (unless i do more sets) because i'm paranoid about hurting my back. The progression works. And i gotta say they felt a lot easier after a few cycles of doing heavy deads. So i'd like to segue back to heavy regular deads again next, and see if these help me out in the low back.

Then i did bent o'er BB rows. 12 x 135, the 2 x 6 x 185. Like them thangs. Then SL lifts. 2 x 30 then 1 x 15ish. That hurt, so i went home. The dorsal erector set had some trouble supporting me the next day in surgery. Speaking of which: i gots to find me a job doing that. Surgery rocks.

Came home fri evening, so i didn't do chest/triceps yet. Planned that wrong. Gunna try to get it in on mon.