So much has happened in the past few days and I am trying to collect my thoughts! I am a terrible rambler and I have been actively working on decreasing my word usage. Not really sure if I am making much progress :)
Saturday I headed down to Tucson for a lifting seminar by Paul Carter. He has a website, Lift- Run- Bang where he offers training tips, thoughts and advice and shares his thoughts with the world. Having followed his page on and off over the past 8 months or so I knew that he had a good eye for spotting people technique failures. Some people just have that knack. They can watch and tell you exactly what you need to do differently to be better, Paul is one of those types. Given I struggle with my form on every lift and have never had the opportunity for anyone to watch me in person to tell me what I needed to fix, I figured it would be good to go. Also, having committed to lift at Relentlesss Detroit, it is very important that I get things figured out!! I am way too prideful to show up and fail as those kids are way too important!
I was only going to be able to attend on Saturday so I was blessed enough to have few people who personally know Paul to tell him to be nice to me and I asked him if I could come in a bit early so he could work with me on my deadlift form. He was very accommodation and I was able to be there an hour early for some awesome one on one training.
This was the first lifting seminar I had ever been to and I have to say, I am not sure I would ever really want to go to one again. I would rather try and find someone that would work with me one on one because Im needy and want my issues addressed in private :D My introvert self doesnt like the whole public thing. The best part for me was the time I had before that was very one on one because I could ask all the questions I needed to without feeling like a retard in front of other people. After that I pretty much just sat back and watched and did my rounds when made to and it was all good.
On the way home I got a call from my best friend and they had had a tragic event in their family and the rest of my weekend was spent trying to support and help in any way that I could.
I didnt sleep great last night and it was tough getting out of bed. While there saturday I asked Paul if he would do my training program to prepare me for Relentless and amazingly enough he agreed. So I am waiting for all of that to happen so I just winged it today and worked on my form which I am still not getting my ass low enough!!
squats
warm up on dreadmill with stretching
squats
*45# for 3 sets of 10
*95# for 2 sets of 5
*135# for 5
*155# for 3
*175# for 8 sets of 3
just worked on foot position and trying to break at the hips
working on low bar squatting
front squats
*135# for 2 sets of 8
pullups
*8,6
incline situps
*45# for 2 sets of 22
It has been an interesting monday at the clinic. I met with my financial adviser first thing and got things figured out for last years IRA amounts and then what can be done differently for next year to set more aside given that I am a small business owner and have employees etc etc.
We were so very slow on surgeries this morning and there were tons of walk ins as is the usual. We had two dogs come in that needed blood transfusions. It is awesome to do stuff like that. It makes such a difference in their survival plus it is just awesome to be able to save them. Surgery will always be my favorite but life saving medicine is good too.
Graham was the first donor. He is headed to New Jersey in a week but had great RBC so we let him save a life before he left us.
The first receiver, a cocker with AIHA. She had a RBC count of 1.0 and a HCT of 8. She would have been dead by morning without the transfusion. The second donor was one of the kennel helps great dane. I am so happy to have another big dog around because Finn and Angel are total blood donor failures with low counts.
the second recipient a hound that was bit by a rattlesnake and has pretty severe bleeding issues because of it.
The afternoon was busy and went by pretty fast. Just finished with a castration and waiting on an emergency to show up. I cant wait to go to bed tonight :)
