Lifting for 4-9-9

Finally deposited the check that the ATM wouldn’t eat. I haven’t been inside a bank during normal hours in ages. I’m rarely free when the bank is open. I prefer depositing my checks at the ATM before I hit the grocery store, usually around 9-9:30 PM. This is a relatively safe area, so I don’t have to worry about anybody mugging me for a measly paycheck. I had direct deposit with my last job, but honestly, I like SEEING the money I’m making. It makes it more real.

While I was in the bank, I got forty dollars in $2 dollar bills. :: smirks :: Still don’t know when I’m going, but if I’m going to a strip club, gotta be prepared. Amusingly, the majority of the $2 dollar bills are already stamped Smiles 2. Yes, that money has been in a girl’s asscrack. Thankfully, I’ve been to the club before, and the girls looked extremely clean. Or, at the very least, extremely shaved. Gee-bus.

I didn’t have much get-up-and-go this morning. It occurred to me that I tend to be more Rise and Shine when I wake up with Candi. I cut myself some slack, as I don’t NEED a lot of time to study. I just need to make sure I do study. Plenty of time. Just relax. I scanned my CPR card and emailed it to my First Aid professor, as per syllabus instructions.

NROL, Fat Loss I
Day A, Workout IX

Rest: 45 sec between exercises (-15 seconds)

Alternating Sets
BB Squat: 10, 9, 6 @ 155 lbs (+10 lbs)
BB Bent-over Row: 10, 8, 7 @ 110 lbs (+10 lbs)

Alternating Sets
Supine Hip Extension: 3×15 @ BW
DB Push Press: 3×10 @ 40 lbs (+5 lbs)

Alternating Sets
Rotational Lunge: 3×12 @ 25 lbs (+15 lbs)
Swiss Ball Crunch: 3×15 @ 25 lbs

Metabolic Overdrive: 3 rounds on elliptical (1 minute hard, 2 minutes recovery)

It’s weird what low rest will do to you. I can normally knock out 155 lbs for sets of 12. Or more. But with low rest, the weight just felt heavy. I didn’t want to risk my form going to shit, so I stopped when I felt like pushing myself further would incur bad form. I guess I’ll grind a little bit next time. After the first pairing, I was sucking air.

The second pairing isn’t so much sustained torture as it is acute torture. Supine hip extensions on a swiss ball are a freaking recovery compared to push presses. Leg drive, I had no problem with. But towards the end of the last set, it was taking all my mental concentration to use my upper body to get those dumbbells up. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t have hit full extension and they would have dropped like a rock. It’s hard as hell to control something eccentrically that you probably couldn’t have pushed as hard concentrically.

I held a 25 lb plate for the rotational lunges. Made me feel all hardcore because it made my shoulders and my arms pop out. Ha ha. All while I was sucking air. I made it through, yes, but there’s no way in hell I’m increasing the weight.

I had nothing left for the metabolic overdrive. I consider it a finisher, or at the very least something to tax your ananerobic systems. They were freaking taxed, alright.

Stretched. So weird how by the time I get back to the locker room, I’m completely cooled down. Which is a good thing, of course, it means my cooldown is effective.

Feel great.