Happy Monday pals! So this weekend was supposed to be spent cranking long hours at the side job but that effort got derailed by human error as the buyer planner somehow sourced the wrong grade of material for a hot job SOOO had the vast majority of it off. Spent some time Saturday walking the hills & hollers of the Grizzlyhood before stopping in to catch the tail end of my beloved Razorbacks near miss with Ole Miss LOL! Also flipped in & out of the Vols VS Bama game hoping to see somebody finally knock Bama off their pedestal & for the first half it seemed there might be hope but once again the depth of Bama’s bench prevailed GRRR!!!
Awoke Sunday & decided not to let the day go to waste even though it was a gloomy one. Knowing that at lunchtime today I’m heading for a 2 day supplier audit 4 hours away in Arab, AL I decided to hit UBWO, LBWO, Core & HIIT all afternoon yesterday, figuring I could possibly catch the Detroit Lions beating those crazy yard birds from Atlanta on the gym TVs but I could only catch them during my 10 minute cardio intervals as all the iron arena TVs were either tuned to NASCAR or the TN Titans game GRRR! Oh well, turned out just as well since my loveable loser Lions decided to return to their roots anyhow LOL!
Warmed up with 105 HIIT calories on a 5K spinbike program then progressed through a thorough upper body beat down. Next I hit the evil elliptical for 130 calorie jaunt which then led to a complete lower body thrashing. After beating the getaway sticks completely I took a 110 calorie hill climbing dreadmill stroll to spread the acid built up in the quads, hammies & glutes evenly then moved onto my final core sets closed off by a 95 calorie upright bike cool down, still keeping the pulse above 80% maximum recommended heart rate for such an old Griz. All of this had Griz good & soggy sweaty but feeling great for having set a new single workout total tonnage PR of 203,400 LBs of iron ground across 140 minutes grind time averaging 0.73 Tons per minute which isn’t anything spectacular BUT having held that average basically across 3 hours with HIIT mixed in wasn’t half bad!
Arose this morning REALLY feeling it in my lower back, from (180) reps total, across 3 sets of 60 @ 240 LB each on lower back extensions, & lugging a set of lead arms to boot into the shower! Now, having arrived at the workplace, I’m killing time prepping for the 4 hour trip, printing off all the required checklists, previous audit findings & Standard Operating Procedures to keep me occupied tonight at the hotel. I’ve been told this is a gorgeous region and my hotel supposedly sits on the banks of Lake Guntersville which is part of an AL
Actually kind of looking forward to this trip & dreading it all at the same time! Travelling & evaluating company’s processes used to be a BIG part of what I did when I worked for the German grinder company but in the same breath that brings back lottsa uber fond late night memories long gone that I really don’t need piling up on me right now. Oh well, life’s a series of ups & downs, good & bad, happy & sad, an industrial roller coaster of sorts. Gotta learn to make it all work one way or another!
Rock on pals! Being a Hampton Inn, not sure if they will have any kind of fitness gear or not but as Al would say, it’s 80% diet anyhow so I WILL do my best to behave on the road food & catch y’all Thursday if not before!
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