Exerbabble for 3-27-6

As should be obvious, I had a little trouble falling asleep last night. I was in bed after 10 PM, fine, but it was past 11:30, and I was still restless. So I got up and posted, cleared my mind. And, I reset my alarm. I knew that if I didn’t get a full night’s rest, it would have rippled through the rest of today. I set my alarm two hours later.

It’s a simple logic. If I’m paranoid about falling asleep, I’ll find it harder to fall asleep. But if I give myself enough time, I’ll fall asleep faster and end up getting more sleep (and effectively being able to get up earlier.) I said to myself, “Okay. Just sleep. Get up when you get up.”

I found myself waking up and rolling over at 4, 5, and 6 AM, successively. But I told myself, “Rest.” If it wasn’t obvious, I was intending on skipping weight training this morning. Sleep is the most important factor to body and mind recuperation. Working out when your body isn’t rested is detramental to the goals of lifting.

7 AM rolled around. I found myself awake enough to have a mental discussion.

I suppose I could just get up now, wash my armpits, GOTO school, and deal with scrotum-shaving later on. Or, if I ditch weight training, I can GOTO the Y between C++ and Child Psych. GOTO the café afterwards and have a tuna-related sandwich. That could work. Hrm. 7:10. I always give myself so much time. Why exactly can’t I get up right now? Class is at 8:30. I always leave early, so long as I’m out by around 8 AM, as I’ll need time to change, I’ll be on time.

If I keep arguing with myself, of course I’ll never be able to leave. Why don’t I just get up and shower, and I’ll see how much time I have? I know I take long showers, but shaving my balls and my ass won’t take forever. I eat time in the morning downing liters of water and eating breakfast slowly. I can get out of here faster if I really wanted to.

Or something like that. Yes, my interior monologue is that long first thing in the morning. So I concealed my nudity with my bathrobe and showered. Ah, I haven’t peed in the shower in a while. I can’t say I showered at a fast pace. When I finished, I checked the large clock in my room, it displaying, “7:50” to me. Ten minutes. Told myself, “Okay, get your clothes, get your bookbag set, and down some instant ass.”

Have I mentioned I always set my clocks fast? I was in the locker room by 8:20. Oh. Part of the reason I get there so early is so I have time to #2 right beforehand. And part of the reason I #2 beforehand is because I prime my system with food. I still haven’t #2ed yet. I know, important information, eh?

Today’s Workout:

Squat: 3×7 @ 155 lbs
BB Overhead Press: 8, 7, 4, 3 @ 75 lbs
BB Bench Press: 3×6 @ 95 lbs
Pull-up: 6, 6, 4, 3
Back Row: 6, 5, 5, 5 @ 55 lbs
Seated Calf Raise: 9, 8, 8 @ 250 lbs
Crunches: 3×15
DB Incline Press: 10, 6, 5

As I said, I let myself sleep. So I was feeing really good. I started with the overhead press, and really surprised myself. That’s a dramatic increase over Saturday. I matched my bench press for Saturday, making sure I wasn’t cheating my range of motion. I’ve mentioned my emphasis of my deltoids over my pecs.

I did back rows before pull-ups, so that might have effected that. For once, I didn’t cheat range of motion as much.

*yawns*

Bench press was the second-to-last thing, so my arms did a little less for the DB Incline Press than I’ve done before. No matter.

I suddenly feel at a loss for anything to say. I had a good workout? I broke a sweat, but otherwise felt awesome. A clean sweat, which is what I like. Peter spotted me. When I came into the cardio room to warm up, he was pounding away at the machines. Peter’s this older guy who likes emoting how much like likes getting into shape. I asked him how long he had been on the machines. He said, “Oh, since they openned at 7:30.” That means he’d been working out for an hour before class even started.

He said, “I like to wear myself out.”

I told him, “You have to give yourself a rest period. When you’re lifting, you have to give each muscle about 48 hours to rest.”

He retorted how he’s been in better shape than he’s ever been. I told him of my own experiences with overtraining. I’m more rested now, and my progress has been more steady since I took rest periods seriously. I told him he can do his cardio anytime, but you have to have a rest period in between lifting.

I said my shtick, it’s up to him to recognize his limits.

C++ went okay. Grabbed a hockey puck to snack on while I attended a meeting with my Systems Analysis group. I just posted my workout. Believe I’ll switch up my C++ book with my child psych book, flip off any vultures that want my spot, go pee, eat lunch, maybe write a little, and maybe even open that child psych book. I’m out.