I think maybe Paul has given up on me :/ Three days of non returned emails so apparently he thinks I am a lost cause. Which I probably am as I am getting no where quickly and it is making me cranky with myself. It is a struggle trying to be realistic and balance ones capabilities with ones desires. My desire is to be way stronger and lift more than what I am currently doing, you know, pull 405, bench 200, and squat 315. Realistically, never going to happen with my current work schedule of 10+ hours a day at least 5 days a week. Im too old and too tired and it is making me too frustrated.
Anywho, it has been a very boring week so far at work. We have been busy enough but nothing very exciting or interesting has come in. Well, I guess that is not entirely true as we have a grand champion black and tan coon hound that has some unknown illness. The owners wanted an exploratory surgery done on him and that just revealed a small section of bowel that was inflamed but everything else was normal. The dogs temp was 105 and we have been doing supportive treatment for him. Today his temp is normal but he still isnt eating or acting right.
We also had a dog come in today that had been run over by the owner 6 weeks ago. Nothing like rushing it right in. It has a dislocated radial carpal joint and since it is their number one cow dog they decided to do surgery on it. I am going to try and fuse the joint but it isnt going to be easy. I wish people would bring in injured animals when the injury happens and not weeks to months later.
Ok, so blah blah blah and up this morning reluctantly at 3:50 and off to the gym. The one thing I dont like about the three day a week workout schedule is that what I am doing each day is never the same on the same day. Before it was always squats on monday, bench on tues, fronts on thurs and accessories on fri. Now it is just random and I dont like random.
Accessory work
incline bench
*45# for 20
*65# for 10
*95# for 5
*105# for 3
*115# for 1
*95# for 15, 15, 12, 15
It was only supposed to be the 95 for AMAP for four sets but that just didnt seem like enough so I added some stuff.
db bench
*40# for 10,10,8,5
paul has me doing these with a different grip and it is amazing how much different they feel and how much harder they are and well, they are just different. I dont really like it because it makes me realize how weak I am but I suppose the only way to get less weak is to do things that make you feel that way and work on doing them better!!
db rows
*55# for 3 sets of 20
bb curls
*45# for 30,20
I was toast by this point. We have been getting some monsoon rains and the humidity is a killer to us desert dwellers. That and a client of mine has started going around the same time and he wanted help with his deads so I spent about 15 mins going over that with him.
incline situps
*2 sets of 20
I am so fat right now but doing some ab work makes me feel better.
Just finished up with afternoon appointments and I am ready to be done. Emma has karate tonight, I think, so I had best get things finished up and get ready.
