So as we near the finish line on the Wicked / Hippie PUSH challenge, Dr. DOMs has found his way back into my life today, HARD! To set the stage; Tuesday evening, while running my machine at the side job, I grabbed a 25 LB bar of stainless steel stock & proceeded to perform 100 overhead presses every time I started another 10 minute part & by the 16th set I could “BEARLY” get’er done & driving home I was OHHH so glad yesterday was to be leg day!
Due to counseling trainer Sam Tuesday evening while PUSHing, regarding his personal swirl that sounded EVER so familiar, okay playing bartender without the booze more than counseling, Tuesday NIGHT turned into a re-visit of Insomnia Island due to reawakening recently caged demons as mentioned yesterday, but Griz being the thick skulled, bull headed bruin he is, went ahead and ground out 84K LBs of hammy & calf iron yesterday then last evening while again running 10ish minute parts I grabbed our digital remote readout package scale, placed the readout on the top of my machine, placed the scale base on the diagonal face of it & proceeded to measure the PUSH LBs of incline / leaning pushups with the balls of my feet as far back as possible while remaining on the safety mat I stand on. The readout ranged from 60 LBs at launch to 40 LBs coming back down so averaging that at 50 LBs & stroking out 25 reps for 20 sets, one set per part, managed to rack up an extra 25K last night towards the challenge & reminded the whiney shoulder it can still be done, low weight / high reps just like Ms Iron Talons demanded!!!
This morning when the clock radio ended my 5 hour nap I BEGAN to rise only to be greeted FIRMLY by Doc DOMs!!! OMG! My hams were tight as snare drums & my claves were drawn up tight, tugging my lacking Achilles tendons like a rope climber with his athletic supporter fully ablaze!
I grabbed my dresser & proceeded to stretch out the calves & ankles for a couple minutes then went on to bend forward trying to refind my toes, which for Griz is an event all its own LOL! Finally got the hammies stretched out and ankles motivating, dressed, choked down my 2 morning boiled eggs in a fiber enriched flatbread slathered with 2 tablespoons of natty peanut butter (think peanut butter & egg burrito) & washed it down with a cup of 1% milk, grabbed the gym bag & out the door I went!
Arriving at Helga’s House of Pain, I headed in for back, shoulders & biceps, again noticing trainer Sam’s absence. Poor dude is going through some shiz & it’s really playing hard on both his head & heart to which I can SOOO totally relate!
PUSHed 49,750 LBs of UBWO iron, hit the showers & headed (gingerly) out to the commutermobile. Had a nice phone call on the way into the day job where, like every Thursday, I hit the door with 4 hours of project / staff meetings already eating up half the day before anything else even adds on.
Tomorrow, wrapping up our PUSH challenge will be core iron & cardio so, provided I follow my plan, complete all the reps in all the sets on my spreadsheet, I should just break the HALF MILLION POUND mark for this week towards the final tally! Now, I know I’ve had bigger weeks in months past, before entering my recent personal flat spin & before restructuring my work to more closely focus each day on just a couple muscle groups, but this has been BY FAR the best week in recent memory for hitting the rack at the end of each day feeling like I’ve really PUSHed the envelope physically like I used to every day!
I’ve ALWAYS tried to do my best to “be there” for friends when they’ve needed an ear & don’t plan on changing that approach anytime soon BUT I have to admit sharing my struggles with trainer Sam while listening to his has really made this a tough week. I had recently mentioned painful psychological realizations leading to at least a type of personal closure, allowing me to stop torturing myself every waking moment about February’s relationship failure, but the past couple days have been a revisit to those wounds which obviously are no where NEAR healed, & unfortunately may never really be, but I guess this has been a good exercise since going forward this struggle isn’t likely to get ANY easier on its own so learning how to deal is mandatory, like it or not.
Rock on pals! One more day in the PUSH challenge & the rest of our lives to keep after it, whatever “IT” is for each of us!!!
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