Addicted much? hope so =P

My work outs have been getting increasingly more intense! My aches and pains seem to be slowly disappearing and my numbers are bouncing back/up, I have not been pushing overly hard on the bench lately but i have been keeping good numbers, getting 3 smooth reps @ 205 lbs without a spotter, and 185/195 on the incline, and everything has been feeling really good! I have not been spending as much time critiquing myself lately as i have been, partially because my numbers aren't as good as iv wanted, iv lost a few more pounds, and i have been just struggling. But i have been noticing quite substantial size gains in almost all of my muscles and have been having increasingly more issues getting clothes off so it all seems to be going in the right direction.

Had a pretty killer work out today, back unto 225 lbs on the flat bench, but only hit 295 on my dips, had some fantastic chin ups and just a great overall workout! Now for some uni practice =D

Had a pretty good workout, my numbers were good and everything but my right shoulder was just SO tight it was making everything very difficult. I spent tons of time stretching and trying to get it to crack so i could get some relief but had no luck. I did some light leg press today thinking i shoulder try and stretch out my legs after my ride yesterday and boy was i tight! I could barely get 1/4 of a rep compared to my usual so i just took it easy on the weight and stretched myself out enough to be able to get some smooth and clean reps.

The bike ride was AMAZING! I went with a group of 7 people to Albion Hills, and we did 25 mms in just under 3 hours. We had a very new ridder with us so there was lots of breaks and a decently slow pace, but it was a GREAT ride! Super fast and flowing, lots of variety and some awesome technicals with real tight winding through the trees!

Its been a goos shitty day... Things have been rather amazing with my girlfriend, she is quite a phenomenal young ladie but... she left to kingston for school (3 hours away) so i am feeling lonely and semi depressed about it but we will get rhoguh it. I managed to turn my sadness into rage and rage into a great workout! I pushed and hit some great numbers! I will not be posting photos this month although i did take them, i am going to give it another month, i have not had to many great work outs lately so i feel like i don't deserve to share my progress, so give me another month and i'll have them up!

My car died... so i traded it in for $300 and got myself a 2006 Envoy =D its pretty awesome!

I feel like i am being dropped down a well.... My girlfriend moved to kingston for her third year in engineering, which she has done for the past 2 (i was not a part of her life during those years) and it has been kind of tough on me. I am not an emotional personal... i do not enjoy showing emotion or get emotional about just about anything... I put my cat down of 12 1/2 years and it was one of the hardest things i have EVER done but it really didn't get me blue, he was suffering and i could not bare to watch. But her leaving has sent me through a loop... My past 2 workouts since she has been gone have been much better, i am getting more sleep and turning my depressive attitude into rage and destroying my body as a result. Due to a lack of ambition i spent most of sunday loafing around and in result my back was extremely tight and sore today, so it was a tough workout. I hit all my numbers and some and really got to release some frustration while turning some heads at the same time. Its going to be an interesting fall/winter/spring.

I have been having increasingly better workouts, getting caught up on some sleep, and charging hard at the gym again! I have decided since my girlfriend moved 3 hours away for school that i would start to attend the gym every day, lose some belly fat and maybe even bulk a bit, get rid of my grossness... I will keep the same idea with an intense workout every other day, but to help keep me primed i am going to do and hour or so between days doing lighter weights more reps, lots of stretching and more cardio, it can't hurt >_< Just been working on the whole separation thing with my girlfriend and its been kind of depressing me... but i am working through it as always >_<

Hey hey, its been a while... it have been mixing this up and having some fun with things. So i have decided to start attending the gym everyday, only for an hour or so on none gym days for stretching and lighter higher rep weights, and my real workouts as usual. I headed for kingston friday night to spend it with my girlfriend, and we hit the gym both saturday and sunday.

Saturday - we went to the Kingston YMCA because i am a members and they are usually pretty nice... usually... it was rather disgusting... the facility was super run down and old, the equipment was super old and generally useless... There was like and inch of dust around the bottom of every machine, basically no spray bottles or cleaning clothes, and the ones that were there was always a walk and a half.

Sunday - We went to the arc, which is the queens university gym. I was told very good things about it by people who really don't know much about weight lifting and i had a good feeling i would be disappointed. Sure enough i was... They have a brand new massive facilities on like 6 floors, with a insane amount of equipment, with a large variety and large quantity, but it was in weird groups all over the place i i was on every floor like 9 times trying to find different equipment... and they did not have 1 incline bar bell bench press... i even asked..... they had no idea what i was talking about.... how do you have a gym of any sort without it? IT was such a piss off...

Monday - left kingston at 10 pm on sunday and got home at 1 am on monday and i was exhausted from working all day so i skipped the gym.

Tuesday - had a very awesome workout and destroyed a very satisfying amount of weights, although i pulled my hip exiting the gym by tripping on a buckle in the mat... I finally got some muscle pump going and really destroyed some stuff.

Missing my girlfriend.period.

Hmmm.... good workout, was having focus/drive issues, but i pushed some decent weight. My shoulder was acting up, my body felt achy and i was tiring quickly... i need sleep....

is that a unicycle in your pic?

yes it most certainly is

heres a video of me doing it =D (a while ago though)

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150256458441759

Well what can i say... i am in tons of pain.. and i managed to pull a workout out of thin air... I took my frustration and loneliness of my girlfriend being gone and channeled it, i was having sever pains in my right shoulder, left elbow, left fore arm, lower back, and right hip. It was to the point i could not bench 135 lbs, or even do a none weighted dip as of saturday and sunday, but today i put lots of lakota on and i got a very large amount on adrenaline going and pushed through all my target numbers for the day. Hopefully over the course of the week things will start to feel better.

Had a bit of a PUSH day, i really wanted to hammer some stuff out, it was alright i spent a lot of time talking and cruising around, i got some decent numbers but nothing over the top it was just a okay day >_<

My log has been on sick leave >_< I got a nasty cold last thursdya... nasty... i was not congested even the slightest bit but my ENTIRE body ached so back i could not sleep, eat or do anything, i was really dizzy and had an insane headache... that was the entire cold... and it was brutal. Had 2 gym days with it and they were okay, i never had an issue with my strength, it was my head throbbing that killed them...

First day back, back to work and i tried for a real workout, i had decent success some mores then others but a good overall workout. One of the trainers there is always trying to challenge me so he comes up with workouts and then we compete at them... today was one handed push ups on a sideways turned 50lb dumb bell and hopping back and forth from one arm to the other... i was a little intimidated at first but i got 16 consecutive so it did alright =D It was a good burn and works your core very intensely.

Weighing my one hand push ups

Arm extended to lock out (for measuring purposes) - 78 lbs

Full rep (hand touches shoulder) 93-98lbs

i weighed in at 138 pre work out.

Had a weird couple weeks, got very sick and missed a few days, then my girlfriends came back for thanksgiving weekend and well we were "busy" ALL weekend, then i had our 3rd annual campout to attend so i have missed my last 3 gym days and have not had a workouts since last tuesday, its extremely frustrating but i am planning on hitting it hard tomorrow, its a short day so i can recover form working all weekend so i am hoping for a great workout, if nothing else it has given my shoulder some time to rest =D

OOOO BOY does it ever feel good to get back in the gym, we got the day off today so we could relax and recover from working the camp out so i went to the gym well rested with the intent on having a good gym day, hit all my numbers and some, had some incredible stretching and just felt amazing the whole workout. Pretty excited for the next work out, going out on the unicycle later so that should be fun =D

Had a pretty good workout, hit 305 on my dips, and 205 bar bell flat bench. I ran into some issue when doing my standing bar bell shoulder press, i pushed for a fifth rep @ 145 lbs and my leaned a bit to far back and i felt a huge crunch in my back. I had the weight maybe 12" off my chest and immediately racked the weight and went to stretch it out. I am not in pain and nothing feels abnormal, it just feels insanely loose and thoroughly stretched, i have no idea what it will feel like in the morning after my muscles have relaxed and my adrenaline has calmed down.... kind of worried...

Resurected... i feel like i have died... i have had a weird workout schedule for bout 4 weeks now, i was sick one week, camping the next, in kingston the fallowing weekend and in kingston last weekend... my only decent-good workouts happened in kingston on saturdays when i was with my girlfriend, theres something about this girl that really makes everything in life 100000x easier. We have been dating for 2 1/2 months now and it feels like a year, i have a slight suspicion i may end up marrying her =D yes she is that awesome >_<

Got sick again... i feel okay, but its still early been pounding the vitamins and working through it. I had a decent workout today and hit most of my numbers, i have been working on some neat new workouts which i will post more details of later, life is getting so much better but is fighting me tooth and nail at the same time...

I am starting to enter the recovery side of my cold and took today off work to help assist that, i went to the gym... although my father would murder me... i am kind of addicted to the way i feel so i went anyways...

I had a pretty good workout, was nice and smooth in my reps, and it most of my target weights. I was having some issues with the leg press, my arthritis was acting up and my hips felt extremely tight so i just did 4 plates + sled. I have been doing one arm push ups on a 50 lb dumb bell turned on its side and alternating back and forth, i do not count reps i just go until i cal apse on the floor and it gets me insanely pumped. While i have the dumb bell there i will do some hand stand push ups on it, i must admit that its kind of sketchy.... if i jerked one way to quickly the dumb bell would likely tip and send me into a face plant.

I am approaching the 3 month mark with my girlfriend and we have had some interesting arguments and some absolutely amazing times, our arguments (even about the most intensely personal things ie. religion) are kind of funny... neither of us like arguing so no one yells or just gets super defensive we just talk it out. I feel like 4 months pass for every one that do, and i have been having these massive urges to get married... its kind of amazing and i am falling madly in love with this girl =D

I had mentioned some stupid incline press... yeah it pissed me off... I did 1 rep with my handles horizontal and 5 with my hands on the lower grip.

Had a crappy drama filled day... i was not in the mood to go to the gym but i got ready and went anyways, it was a pretty good workout nothing over the top. I was laying in bed last night... not sleeping... it was depressing because i was so tired.... and it hit me! I have been doing a new core workout when i am on my hands and knees and my girlfriend sits on my mid/lower back and i lower my back as low as possible and then raise and hold while flexing my abs as tightly as possible. It feels really good and i get a very deep core burn with no actual ab burn. My girlfriend lives 350 kms away for the next several months so i had to work out how to get weight attached to me so i can do them on a regular basis. Putting weight on my back would not work because it would fall off but to hang weight i am not long enough to lift it off the ground, so i put 2 benches together and hung the weights that way, so i would raise and hold it for 5 seconds counting one thousand two thousand etc, then lower it and if i bend my arms a bit i can completely let the weight off and the plates rest on the floor, this was comforting incase i needed to quickly relieve myself of the weight if i some how sustained injury. Its basicely a yoga pose... but amped up for some serious results. I did 45, 90 and 135 lbs for a few eps each and it felt amazing! The belt dug in a bit but it wasn't bad considering how much weight i had. I will be doing this for a few weeks to see the results.

Try the TRX.

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Try the TRX.

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I am not sure what that is?

I had a pretty beast workout of wednesday, i smoked out my dips with 135 lbs hanging i did 2 sets 5, 4 reps. I was talking with a young guy there, maybe 17 years old... now that i think about it haha i am only 22 so yeah.. anyways he was super depressed after he watched me do my dips and was asking a billion questions about my workout and lifestyle >_< haha and my cousin was there, it was weird they were so impressed and i was rather disappointed i didn't get the 5 th rep on the second set.... After talking to them its kind of clear that there ideals in life just aren't overly ambitious and pushing for more and needing more just isn't a necessity.

Todays workout had its moments, my chest was really sore yesterday and today as well, i could not get it to loosen up no matter what i tried and i only got 2 reps @ 225 lbs on the flat bench bar bell, you win some you lose some and I'm ready to win =D Got 3 and 1 rep @ 3 plates while doing my dips, and my head was feeling buggy, i have been battling a cold for the last 2 weeks and i am very pissed off about it... being sick shows weakness... and i am not a fan of that... My girlfriend is coming home this weekend so some cuddles should make me feel better =D Life in the broader spectrum is amazing at the moment, its just fighting the hell out of me in the day to day....

Had a fantastic workout! I am still sick and my breathing/oxygenation was not good but the workout was =D Hit all my numbers, my ongoing injuries are feeling really good, did lots of stretching and manages to stitch out my extremely sore muscles which completely failed to recover from mondays workout, but thats life of being sick... Did my new ab workout again.... OMFG i am loving it! gives a fantastic burn and does not touch your abs =D Did cardio... i have not done any cardio since the beginning of september... i have been on and off my cold and having the girlfriend... but i did it today, got 6 miles in 12 minutes if you work the math through thats averaging 50 km/h, which is satisfactory =D i will probably work that up to 30 minutes and kick some butt this winter, plus i am looking into spandex pants so i can unicycle in the cold... ooo yeah!

Minecraft is officially released this friday! SO EXCITED!!!! been playing it since early alpha and like may/june ish of 2010 there was about 40 000 purchased copies when i joined, nows there over 4.1 million and 15+ million registered users, this game is going to be insane!

Unicycling in winter= brain injury.

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Unicycling in winter= brain injury.

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Under regular circumstances yes, i will be wearing my snowboarding gear though... $160 burton helmet, Anon goggles, and a bandana for the face. If i attempted it with a hat i would over heat and destroy my noggin....


Had a decent workout, nothing overly exception, was having a lot of breathing issues from my cold and flem build up in my throat. I did 11 miles on the spin bike at a cool 50 km/h average which includes warm up and cool down. It was a decent day.

There seems to be a weird shift at the gym... For some unknown reason all the regulars that have been there far longer then i have, have recently started noticing my hieght vs my weights, and have been asking me for rather in depth details on different workouts and how often i do it and they are always disappointed... Apparently hitting top weight every other day is weird, and expected that kind of performance out of yourself is weird, and wanting to push for much more is also weird. I don't get it... i am there to get shit done. I used to idolize these people and was in awe of there size and strength, after a while of body building and seeing my own progression none of them seem impressive anymore, there lifting form is weak, there quite un even and a lot of them are jerks... I am going to keep on keepen on =D

Life is such a weird thing... People seem to really take note when someone is giving off a positive vibe, i have been a bit depressed lately with my girlfriend begin so far away and not being able to help her from day to day with what ever, i have been sick for 4 weeks, and i am just feeling generally down... but if you look at the whole picture my life is starting to come together at an alarming rate and i am extremely happy, so i tell people, if i am complaining i am just getting to picky.

MY workout today went well, did some negative @ 305 lb dips after my 2 successful reps, did 5 really nice clean reps on the flat bench bar bell @ 205 lbs, did my new core workout, i have been trying to name it... i believe the yoga pose is called the cat stretch or something, so maybe i will call it the lion stand >_< It is the epic version after all =D

Todays workout in one word... CARNAGE!!! I wasn't feeling overly ambitious... nothing special, i forgot 1/2 my shorts (the inner spandex liner in the laundry...) and figured it out about 5/8 of my way to the gym so it was a 10 minute walk back, and then restarting... So i got there later then i wanted to, with my hip now feeling achy because of all the walking... I got stretched and it was all going well, i felt pretty good but nothing over the top and i was kind of tired if anything... I started with some flat bench which has become a usual warm up for me and i did 2 sets 3 reps @ 205 lbs... which is no record but i didn't even almost feel it... I did not have a spotter and no one around i trusted so i just moved on to the bench machine. I have even fighting this thing for 2 months and hovering around the 250 top weight and sometimes hitting 270 with 290 as stack. I really wanted the stack... and today i got it >_< 3 reps @ 290 lbs... It was a beast effort! But my arms just were not warming up... So i then hit dips... did 3 reps at a warm up with 3 plates and wanted the 4th... i have been dreaming about 4 plates for months... working so hard, through injury and disappointment... i had a valiant effort at it. I do not consider lifting myself into a up start position a rep although i do lift myself, so according to my standards i got 1/2 a rep... i got down and 1/2 way back up before i lost it, i was not able to lift it after that so i did some nice and easy 6 seconds negatives with the 4 plates, 4 reps, and called it for that, i dropped to 3 plates and did a set of 5. I did my 10 mile sprint in 19:45 which is a FANTASTIC time for me seeing as my previous best for the year was 20:10. I was forgetting to breathe because my legs were not tiring... and forgetting to drink water because i was barely sweating... i think i may have broken this 5-6 week cold and i could breathe, which seemed to make everything easy... so i made it hard >__< I had a request today to film and yotube a few of my workouts because some people were rather impressed, and not just randoms but some big guys that have been at this A LOT longer then i have O_O it was rather flattering =D

Monday, had a decent workout nothing over the top... had issues getting a pump going, was stiff during my cardio but still got 10 miles in 19:43.

Wednesday, had a MUCH better workout, i had not recovered from monday and was feeling really stif and sore but i pushed through it, my cardio felt weak and sluggish but when i got to the 10 mile marie and check my time... i almost passed out... i did it in 19 minutes even... i have NEVER gotten 10 miles in the time. Just had a great all round workout, chatted up some people and showed some young guys some new workouts with the dip belt. It was just a good day.

Did not have an outstanding workout, i just lacked the pump... i tried and tried and tried, and had some great sets but just couldn't get myself into that "zone" I did my 10 mile sprint in 19:30, it was okay? Sunday i will be taking ym girlfriend so it should be a better workout =D

Sounds like you're getting burned out from always pushing maximal weight.A cold shouldn't last that long.Injury is around the corner with those dips.

Depsite my best attempts i just had a fail workout... I had a good sleep friday night, and a decent sleep saturday, but saturday after noon i had a nap with ym girlfriend and she fell asleep on my arm funny and it basically just re ignored my right shoulder... i don't know if its actually re injured or just aggravated but it killed my workout, i couldn't stretch it very well and it was extremely sore. I did my 10 mile sprint in 19:43, 3 plates on my dips, 185 flat bench, 145 shoulder press, i tried my best but it just wasn't working....

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Sounds like you're getting burned out from always pushing maximal weight.A cold shouldn't last that long.Injury is around the corner with those dips.

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I find going to gym helps me work through my cold, my aunt was sick for like 8-9 weeks, my best friend was sick for 6 weeks and went in for mono testing, it's a hell of a cold... my dad and brother have gotten it, and they have been weeks with it... just a pain in the but and i have done the best out of anyone i have talked to and i am feeling much better now!

The dips are thing >_< i can push 165 (added weight) every other day and not cause injury or burn out on them? I love them because i can push SO hard all the time and never need a spotter, i am very careful with them though! If my shoulders sore i don't lift more then 135 lbs and even then i base number of reps on how i am feeling, They are my all in one of death... =D I want to film me doing them, and some of my crazy push ups, maybe over the xmas break when my girlfriend is home.

Saturday - Meh i tried my best... it was a decent workout but nothing over the top

Monday - ROID RAGE!!! A trainer walked up to the machine i had been patiently waiting for and just told me i would;d have to wait because they were showing someone... if she wasn't so over weight and knew what she was doing i wouldn't be raging so hard... and she made me wait like 10 minutes while they discussed this guys sad sob story about why he is fat... I WAS PISSED. So i went into my dips fuming! I was on my third set and was ready to load up 3 plates when this chubby girl walks right in front of my onto the dip rack and starts doing crummy leg raises... waited another 5 minutes... I am more then courteous when doing my workouts, yes i occupy machines for a while, yes you may work in as long as you ask, and you let me do my sets between your sets... nope she just stood there like she owned it... My workout other then that was pretty decent, cramped up at the 8 mile mark on the bike but still pulled into 10 miles at 19:13 and had a good over all workout, working on some new fore arm exercises and just starting to feel much bigger, ym gloves are getting much tighter and just feeling good =D My shoulder is slowly starting to feel better and XMAS is COMING!!! Got my girlfriend a pretty sweet little gift =D If she reads this she will smack me but I try to make holidays and special occasions special =D

Wednesday - Meh, it was a workout, my shoulder was bugging me a lot so not a lot happened.

Friday - Started my christmas holidays and the gym was closing at 5 for there christmas party so i was out the door at 8 am >_< got a solid 4 hour work out in and feel AMAZING! My shoulder was feeling a lot better! My cardio went well, lifts were smooth and almost pain free =D my GF comes home on wednesday so i am prepping for that =D Life is good >_<

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got a solid 4 hour work out in

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4 hour workout?? what the hell are you doing in the gym that takes 4 hours??

45-60 mins is all it should take to get your workout in...

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4 hour workout?? what the hell are you doing in the gym that takes 4 hours??

45-60 mins is all it should take to get your workout in...

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flat bench
flet bench machine
dips
incline bench
one handed push ups
shoulder press
arnolds
chin ups
cardio (20 minutes)
bicep curls
fore arm curls
vertical rows
cable rows
push ups

core between every workout
30 minutes of stretching throughout the entire workout usually 10 of it to before i start working out

60 minutes work outs barely gets me warmed up >_<

Just one of those days... iv been in a weird mood lately... kind of the same vibe i had when i was 14... kind of depressing and unmotivated... Its an interesting state and being i am a number of years older and slightly wiser it just feels unhealthy... I have been putting a rather large amount of effort and time into the holidays this year, money is tight so i am using my time as a substitute... but its kind of been squashed... and has made me really want to sleep through the holidays... I don't know... winter is my season, and its coming really late this year, xmas is my holiday and i just want to be left alone... I have a feeling i will be spending the next few months living at the gym...

Sunday - My workout was decent, forgot my lakota on my shoulder and tretched and did a set of dips (unweighted) and my shoulder was actually feeling pretty good, did some decent weights and reps, had great form and am baby the shit out of my shoulder (my way) after 1 1/2 hours i was just not able to be there anymore (mentally) i was just all over the place and needed to settle down. I watch a 14 ish year old kid almost drop a 50 lb cheater bar on his face while doing a shoulder press... i was about to say something but he racked it and walked away... he was like 2 seconds from his arms calapsing...

I think your shoulder needs a rest from heavy dips.

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flat bench
flet bench machine
dips
incline bench
one handed push ups
shoulder press
arnolds
chin ups
cardio (20 minutes)
bicep curls
fore arm curls
vertical rows
cable rows
push ups

core between every workout
30 minutes of stretching throughout the entire workout usually 10 of it to before i start working out

60 minutes work outs barely gets me warmed up >_<

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imo you are way overdoing it and with not nearly enough intensity. if 60 minutes barely gets you warmed up then you need to seriously re-evaluate your training protocol.

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I think your shoulder needs a rest from heavy dips.

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I have been trying, i usually only get 2-3 reps, my shoulder starts feeling the itch so i call it early, and have not made a second shot at 4 plates in a few weeks, but that will be soon =D

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imo you are way overdoing it and with not nearly enough intensity. if 60 minutes barely gets you warmed up then you need to seriously re-evaluate your training protocol.

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Hehe, i am yet to meet a single person who can keep up, i have no recovery issues and push max weights every other day with that workout, plus i add one handed push ups for about 15 reps per hand, and some "man pus" ups >_< which i have been requested to film and youtube... haha it takes me 20 minutes to get to the gym (walking) i am going to get my workout in, its not enough for me to look fit i have to be able to perform =D 6 hours on the mountain is exhausting >_< If you ever wanna check out my workout your more then welcome to =D

Put a fork in me because i am done haha =D I had a pretty good work out today, 2 hours plus walking time, had a super smooth set 5 reps 185 lbs on the her bell bench, shoulder was feeling great, got 5 reps 3 plates on my dips and shoulder was feeling great, did like 25 man push ups and was feeling super pumped, my hips have been really achy lately and i think its due to the mass climate fluxuation... 10 degree highs and -10 at night seems to be causing me issues... i did a 5 mile sprint on the spin bike in 9:40 which was satisfactory, got me warmed up and my hips moving. Had a friend come with em who is going to school to be a personal trainer, he was not happy with my bench form, and when i tried it his way it felt super weird and powerless, basically P would have smacked him... He commented that i do very "manly" workouts, do lots of bench, dips and aggressive workouts that involve grunting haha >_< no arguments there =D I am now weighing in consistently at 139-140 which tells me i may have gained a pound =D I am starting to feel like a truck, all the cardio has made my legs feel like machines extremely toned machines >_< haha my girlfriend comes home tomorrow night for 3 weeks!!!! i am ecstatic!!!! haha i am almost ready for the holidays, i have been ready the forum "body builder friendly meals" and omfg.... i am picking up eggs and making some of those recipes.... i may even try horse meat... >_< haha