Happy Monday gang, WAIT!!! Mondays blow! Happy August!!! I decided to head downtown for a break Friday night & had a great time! Won a couple CDs & a couple free frozen drinks playing “Name that tune” with the Eric Hughes band at Wet Willies after having been a good boy & passing on the Mai Tai at BB Kings with my grilled salmon & shrimp dinner while enjoying the Will Tucker Band. Eric Hughes is just a good ol’boy who LOVES the blues. Dude plays a wide array of music & instruments & the rest of his band has as much fun watching him carry on as the crowd! Will Tucker is also an amazing performer. This kid is only 17 years old but MAN can he sing & play a guitar like CRAZY! What’s funny is that being a minor, his dad has to come to the shows with him so he can even get in LOL! Stopped in at Rum Boogie Café nearing Midnight for an unsweetened iced tea & a few songs from Patrick Dodd on the way back to the parking garage. Check him out on YouTube! He isn’t blind but watching him perform you would almost think he is as he gets into the music SOOO deeply that his facial expressions & mannerisms lead you to believe he looses himself totally in the music but his performances are amazing!
Anyhow, visitied Doc Ming & his magic acupuncture needles first AM Saturday again & when he hooked up the electro stimulator he flipped a switch wrong & I SWEAR he was trying to electrocute me!!! Afterwards grabbed a quick bite of brunch, headed to the side job & worked way later than expected machining some extremely difficult surgical instruments needed by mid week. Sunday is normally one of two leg days weekly but given the need for those instruments I headed straight for the shop & spent all day finishing them up then celebrated on the way home with one last Megarita at MiPueblo’s with some grilled chicken, brown rice & queso cheese. I had been avoiding alcohol nearly altogether since early 2007 but the personal swirl & lack of sleep early of this year has found me partaking about once a week just to tranquilize the Griz’s brain into at least one long hard night’s sleep & occasionally it’s been a couple times in a week depending on the events & stress level of the week.
Well, revisiting everything fitness related, trying to get progress back underway, especially given the October 7th BodyBuilding.com Panama City Beachfest goal, Sunday’s Megarita was a farewell to alcohol once again until PCB in hopes of reigniting the furnace. I realize “All things in moderation” are supposedly fine (all things legal anyhow) & the alcohol itself isn’t REALLY all that bad but since Griz doesn’t like anything bitter or sour, the flavors required to go along with the alcohol usually involve WAY too much sugar especially in the PM so for now it’s just better to use the “Just Say NO!” attitude for a couple months as a tool towards progress. Also, per trainer Sam, Doc Ming, Marine & others, I’m focusing in on sugars & simple carbs, especially past Noon, as being evil derailleurs of progress. It’s been one of those deals where, yeah, I know they’re bad but just a little here & there’s okay…WRONG! As Al has been saying for months, diet is 80%+ of the progress & as Marine has said 100+ times, you simply can’t out train a bad diet so time to focus additional intensity there.
Just picked up my XTEND drink supplement this weekend & have begun replacing daytime fluid intake with that, working towards 1 gallon per day BUT I have to admit their dosing seems NUTS! I ordered the “New Formula” so I’m not sure how it compares with the original but they say 1 scoop (smallish scoop) per 8 Oz of water but 2 scoops is PLENTY (flavor wise) for 32 OZs so I’ve settled on 10 scoops per gallon instead of the recommended 16 & we’ll see how it goes. I downed 32 OZs of GRAPE with my 2 boiled eggs this early AM (loved the flavor) 30 minutes prior to 240 HIIT cardio calories wrapped around 72,600 LBs of core iron, then had 26 OZ of Dymatize Elite XT protein immediately following. Working on my 2nd quart of XTEND now (Blue Raspberry which is GOOD!) & getting ready for some baked chicken & brown rice in a few followed by some SPICY ground sirloin jambalaya & quart #3 (Watermelon, yet untasted) mid afternoon then 6 OZs of tuna & drained Rotel with the 4th quart early evening (Grape again) at the side job by 7PM.
Since receiving the great feedback about ZMA naturally aiding in sleep & seeing the Isatori IsaTest I’ve been taking across the day has it, I’ve been taking all 4 caps about 30 minutes pre-snooze time instead & I must say it seems to be improving the quality of sleep & even to some extent the quantity seems improved as well but I’m crediting that part to the SLOW process of nailing a lid on the personal swirl that’s been driving me nucking futs most of this year.
Have to admit that’s all still FAR from in the past but at least I don’t hear the train whistle EVERY time I see a light at the end of the tunnel these days…just once in a while LOL! I had been focusing on burning through the summer, with PCB as a break then shooting for a cruise from Christmas until New Years (both of which still may occur) but this weekend, I’VE DECIDED!!! Griz needs a break!!! Something, somewhere, sometime this summer, sooner rather than later. There’s an AWESOME blues & rock event over in the Ozarks, in conjunction with the 2nd largest motorcycle rally in the U.S. (2nd only to Sturgis in sheer numbers) & an awesome hot rod show but it turns out this year they’ve moved that to an end of summer festival THE weekend before PCB so that won’t work. Gotta find something sooner, maybe Labor dayish, somewhere within reasonable driving distance from Memphis to just get away, even if just for a long weekend, so Google is gonna be my new best friend for a couple days unless y’all know of something! Anything involving rock or blues, motorcycles or hot rods, fresh air, whatever! I’m open for suggestions! Meanwhile, rock on pals!!! Summertime’s slipping away; make sure to grab a slice of life before it passes by!
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