Happy Friday gang!!! Had my typical Thursday meeting marathon with a couple extra thrown in for good measure. While driving to the side job last night got some bad news on the commutermobile. It seems the initial $419.50 didn’t go deep enough into the bowels of the AC & to get it fixed is now actually going to cost another $414 just in parts so guess Griz is gonna keep driving hot a while longer GRRR!!! Shortly thereafter though had a great phone call with a dear friend that just made my day! Have you ever just chatted with someone & hearing happy in their voice just melts your aggravation away?!?!? Unbelievably awesome!!!
Got to the side job & worked LATE on some parts designed by some buffoon who’s OBVIOUSLY never made or even worked on anything beyond the world of theory & CAD! It should be against the law to let educated idiots design anything that they have NO IDEA how to produce! Unreal!!! This instrument has 28 components, many moving, and given it’s range of motion & the leverage involved with the design it will fail during its first use, no doubt! They’ve done the math, ran the numbers, done the CAD finite element & stress analysis stating it’s good to go so we’re building them a pair to print then when it breaks, and it WILL!, we’ll offer to make one the same only different that works & they’ll end up paying for the parts twice AND the design consulting fee rather than just listening up front for free & buying the first set that work & last! We’re SOOO sure it’ll fail we’re making 4 of each component that will work but only their ordered 2 of the bad parts LOL! Got home, cleaned up & crashed for 5 hours. Awoke REALLY slowly, dragging tail for the first 30 minutes.
Downed my morning lean protein (2 hard boiled eggs) & a Monster Rehab low carb lemon energy tea on my way out the door then downed a quart of XTend drink on the way to the gym for leg day, usually my favorite which also helped “kick” things off! That’s when Griz collided with Helga in her house of pain & the fur started flying!!!
Got my locker situated then mounted an upright lifecycle for a 60 calorie HIIT warm up cardio session then hit the iron arena for the following leg work:
Calf / Ankle press, 500 LBs for 9 reps then 11 more, then 13 more wrapping up with a final 7
Incline leg press sled, 500 LBs for 9+11+13+7
Seated leg curls, 150 LBs for 9+11+13+7
Standing glute kickbacks, 150 LBs for 24 left leg, 24 right leg, 16 left leg, 16 right leg
Hobbled over to the dreadmill for 100 calorie HIIT hill climb / stretch fest
Standing glute kickbacks, 150 LBs for 24 left leg, 24 right leg, 16 left leg, 16 right leg
Seated leg curls, 150 LBs for 9+11+13+7
Incline leg press sled, 500 LBs for 9+11+13+7
Calf / Ankle press, 500 LBs for 9 reps then 11 more, then 13 more wrapping up with a final 7
Gimped back over to the Lifecycle for a final 60 calorie cool down dropping from 90% maximum recommended pulse rate back to 75%
Man the pump was good! Legs & lungs where on fire & the sweat was ROLLING! Grabbed a quick hot shower followed by a nearly ice cold rinse, changed & headed for the day job.
Hit the road in THE VERY BEST mood I’ve experienced in weeks, if not months! The enjoyable phone call from last night followed by an AWESOME leg fest where everything just felt RIGHT for once set this Friday off in the stratosphere!!!
I’ve got a shoulder follow up with the orthodoc this afternoon so taking a half day at the day job & by golly I’m taking the night off from the side job too, grabbing dinner & a movie somewhere. I’m thinking Genghis Grille, a Mongolian hibachi affair where you pick your poison; meats, veggies, spices, sauces & starch, then they fix it on a giant circular flattop manned by about 6 or 8 cooks each having their triangular slice of the grill! It’s coo!!!! Probably going to check out the final Harry Potter flick tonight too. I hadn’t seen any of’em until I think the 4th one came out then I borrowed the DVDs from a pal to catch up & have enjoyed them as a decent “escape from reality” kind of experience ever since. When I was in Jr High School I’d read all of J.R.R. Tolkien’s works & loved the Lord of the Rings series of movies when they came out, even though they’re each horribly long, so Harry Potter isn’t a horrendous stretch. I remember when the Harry Potter flicks first came out there was such a big stink about Wicken & leading kids to Satanism, witchcraft & sorcery but I’m sorry, if you’re SOOO weak minded that you can’t enjoy a fiction fantasy flick without getting all twisted about it you probably better just stay home & for heaven’s sake NEVER turn on a TV or play a video game then either!!!
Rock on pals! I’m hoping to nurse this excellent attitude as long as possible even though there’s a MEAN thunderstorm raging outside & I have another meet up with Doc Ming & his Magic Needles first AM tomorrow I’m thinking there’s hope for a SOLID weekend, side job work & all LOL!
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