Well, you got a little dental work done. It's not a full blown tooth ache. Hopefully you've never had the kind where it shoots through your neck, shoulders, ears, and down your spine. It's pretty ****ing brutal. Pain pills are a crap shoot.

I know what you're talking about though. That dull pain that is constant and doesn't go away for 1 second.

I've never had kidney stones thank God. I've heard they're brutal.

Yeah, never had that.

Kidney stones are indeed brutal. Only had them once, but I was puking into a plastic cup because the pain was so bad.

I'm about to be loving them, too lol

Much like sick days... pain pills really aren't much fun if you honestly need them. ;)

Came back from the gym and had a few Cheez-Its and two string cheeses.
After googling "healthy post workout" foods, I had a turkey sandwich with a glass of apple juice.

I'm having some really good jalpeno cheese along with some crackers and a glass of cabernet and erbs. The excersise of the day was biceps and triceps and some step ups. Then I cleaned the dog pen and raked the yard. Gonna make some spag and meat sauce here in a bit. The key is just don't over eat. I can eat all the spag.......but I'm not gonna.


PhilFree:arrow:

I've got one day of my 3-day workout rotation that's a monster weight day. Just do some really heavy weight, low-rep work (by my standards at least). I've noticed that after these days, I seem to just be starving for the next 24-36 hours. Much more so than any other day of the week. Is this just in my head, or is there something physiological that's happening on these heavy weight days that's not happening on other days?

A ha!

Maybe that's my problem then? I squat 90 degrees and don't go below parallel.

Thank you very much sir for clearing this up with me. I need to squat below parallel.

But one thing, how much below parallel should one go? do you reccommend going all the way down? Or just slightly below 90 degrees?

I go all the way down (Ass To Grass aka ATG), personally. You may not be able to do that until you develop the flexibility in your hips, though.

So no gym today. I sat home watching basketball, bored because I can't see without my contacts to even drive anywhere and decided to do an aerobic workout via Comcast On Demand.

Up comes Jillian Michaels and she proceeds to beat the shit out of me for 30 solid minutes. I'm not flexible, and I'm not very good at a lot of this shit. That is really enough for me to probably start doing it everyday probably in the evening to get some extra activity in.

For you burpee pros, you would've laughed your asses off. It was comedy gold.

Last night I did Back/Bi's/Legs/Lower back. It is normally two days for me, but I am taking off Saturday most likely and I wanted to get all my work in. I worked out on Weds, which is normally an off day. I am working my chest/triceps again tonight. I am REALLY disappointed about how my bench press is going. It has been months and I am stuck at my current max. Seriously, it's been since December. I have read different things, but I don't really want to work my chest every day because of how it fits into the rest of my workout. I just have to be more diligent about my routine. I am doing some heavy sets at near my max, but only getting a rep or two. I don't think it is doing me that much good. So, I am going to drop down and crank out five sets of six reps and just start going up 5lbs every workout. I just have to break through this plateau.

Alright, I have done well eating for the last two days.

Lord knows I'm an idiot on bench press, because I'm similar in being stuck at 195 for my working weight (the difference is that I'm not currently obsessed with my bench press and not working it that hard)... but have you tried other chest presses to supplement? Dumb bell, incline, decline, etc...?