Scirocco's Vroom Vroom Journal

Hit the gym again tonight. Avoided any exercise that involved me pushing with my shoulder, or even most pulling. That ruled out chest presses, overhead presses, and my favorite compound row machine. I hit everything else, as well as the bicep and tricep extension machines TWICE. I hope my shoulder gets better soon.

GOOD day at the gym today. It was crowded, but somehow I just flowed through the crowd onto all the machines I wanted. I challenged myself, and dropped 10lb on the assisted chin-ups today (down to 50lb assist), and it wasn't any harder than doing it with 60lb last week. I am officially down below 33% assist, another personal goal! I'm moving down to 40lb for the assisted dips next week, that doesn't seem like it'll be too bad, I'm better at the dips anyway.

Blasted through all my other exercises as well, after biking 2 miles on the bike machine in the cardio area as warmup. With the exception of the vertical and incline press, nothing felt too hard.

After that? SUSHI with family! Hooray!

Back to the Y today, for a full post-illness workout. Just about back up to my just-before Xmas weights. No dizzy spells, no feeling like vomiting. Just hard work and heavy weights.

I got a total ego boost on the circuit today. I was being followed down the circuit by two teenage boys, probably 13- or 14 years old. After I worked my way down through the leg machines to the incline press, I set it for my weight, and gutted out my set of 12. As I finished, I looked over and one of the boys was standing there looking at me. He asked, "How much weight was that?" "180lb." He said, "Holy Crap, man, you're hardcore." I explained how I'd worked up to this over the past 4 months, and that I'd started doing about 50lb. "Just keep working at it, you'll improve too."

I gotta admit, that felt kinda good. :)

Time for protein shake! Om Nom Nom!

The Indigo Girls album, "Shaming of the Sun" is 13 years old this year. I swear, THAT ALBUM JUST CAME OUT, WHAT THE HELL. "Shame On You" is NOT A THIRTEEN YEAR OLD SONG! ARGH!

I've been slacking over vacation. I need to hit it hardcore on Wednesday again. I also need to work on cardio until at least up to the point I take my snowboard trip to Montreal at the end of January. Someone, MOTIVATE ME!

I have muscles now where I have not had them before, mostly in my arms and shoulders. Some of my clothing is starting to fit oddly, as my body is apparently changing shape. The weight-level on all the machines I'm using at the gym have gone up significantly in just the few months since I started back to working out regularly. It's been hard some weeks to make sure I stick to my mandatory "twice-a-week" schedule, but I've made time, even on the days when I haven't felt awesome. I am enjoying pushing my body to the point where it simply CAN'T lift that weight anymore. I love the feeling of being all wobbly because I've exhausted my muscles, and then the next time, really feeling that weight be EASIER to lift than the previous session.

It's fun to watch where this is going. My current plan is to continue on the use of the Circuit machines until I reach a plateau where I can't increase my lifting weights on my own, and then shell out for the 10-week power-lifting course at the gym to get past the plateau point.

Where will I stop? I don't know yet.

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