First Workout Log in a While

Wednesday (9/15/2010)

Had an hour of racquetball today.  Shoulder started to act up halfway through class, took it easy for a few minutes and was able to finish without any problems.

Also walked a mile to and a mile from lunch, in addition to other walking done throughout the course of my day.

Thursday (9/16/2010)

First class of the day was weightlifting.  I don't really have a program I'm sticking to right now, so I'm just going with what he says we're going to focus on in class, even though we don't have to do so.  Today's focus was "shoulders."

I start with a couple warm-up sets of strict military presses.

1x10 with the bar (45lbs.)
1x10 with 65lbs.

Then I proceeded to do 5 working sets:

5x6 with 85lbs.

After this I moved on to front raises.  Due to an old shoulder injury, certain movements cause me some discomfort, this movement is one of them, so I went very light.

2x8 with 15lb. dumbbells (this is for each arm)

Even though I thought I was going fairly light, I had a little pain in my shoulder after the front raises.  I had expected it to happen, but it wasn't unbearable.  My plan is to slowly ease back into these movements that have caused me pain since I hurt my shoulder, so I can try to regain some of the mobility in these areas that it is lacking in.

Lastly, I did facepulls with a rope handle on the cable row machine.

3x8 with 50lbs.

My shoulder felt much better after this, and didn't bother me at all the rest of the day.

So Here's How It's Going to Work

Instead of feeling like I'm spamming my own blog with an unnecessary amount of posts, I plan on consolidating multiple days into single posts, most likely I'll do two days for a log post.

In addition to this, I'll have a weekly "check in" going over some stats and such.

Monthly I'll try and do a "strength test" and check my 1RM in multiple lifts, to see if I've improved.

Scattered throughout this all there will occasionally be short topical articles.

I'll start with the log tonight! See you then!

Let the Torture Continue

Hey! Look! I'm doing it again, another "It's been a while since I last wrote something, I promise to do better this time" post.

Nope! No promises this time! Now, time to cut the chit-chat and get down to business.

Currently I'm taking a racquetball "class" on Mondays and Wednesdays.  This is part of my attempt to get back in shape as well as have a stress free (and relieving!) class.

But that's not all!

I'm also taking a weightlifting "class" on Tuesday's and Thursday's! Amazing, I know!

The reason I put "class" in quotes is because, to be honest, all we really do is play racquetball and lift weights.  Sure, we talk about things for about five minutes when we first show up, but after that, we're free to do our own thing.

It's fantastic!

Over the summer, I took several classes, and was able to lift fairly regularly.  Now though, I'm practically forced to train, and I love it!  I'm still not as strong as I used to be, but I'm coming back quickly and I plan to surpass the old me as soon as possible.

Now, there are lots of sites on the web where you can get information from people much smarter in this area than I am, so for the most part I won't be writing actual articles.  Instead, I'll be using this as more of a public training log.  As I can, though, I'll keep things interesting by posting information on topics that I want to learn more about myself, and learn about them through the writing.

That's all for now!

Getting Back Into a Rhythym

A common theme around my training blog seems to be departing from blogging and taking the time off of my training as well. This trend continued the last time I stopped blogging when Torture Training was hosted elsewhere.

Since the last time I blogged many things have changed, I've gained a lot of weight, lost a lot of muscle mass, and ended up a lot more busy with a lot less free time. Compound that with not working at the gym anymore, and well, I just haven't had an excuse to blog about my training, since it was nonexistent.

I'm working to change this though! This semester/year one of my new years resolutions was to get my health back under control. Last semester my health and everything else seemed to deteriorate at the same time. I have a workout partner this time around, so he's keeping me motivated, and I just got fed up with getting out of breath climbing the stairs to my room.

We're only on our second week of working out so far, but I feel we're off to a good start. I haven't kept track of weight or sets/reps the past three workouts, but here's a general rundown of where we stand:

After A Long Break, Time for the Resurrection

It's been a long while since I've done anything with this blog (not that much was done in the first place!), but it's also been a long time since I've blogged anything at all anywhere. Lately I've been mulling over in my head what to do, and decided I'd like to bring this one back and give it another shot. Seeing a post on Crackberry about the new Blackberry Wordpress Appication cemented for me that I wanted to start blogging again, especially since I can now blog on the go as well, which will make it much easier for me.
This blog started off strong in my mind, I was consistently receiving a few hits, spiking when I got mentioned on bigger blogs, and I had a vision for what I wanted it to be like. At the time I was also working out constantly, staying fit, getting stronger, and eating right. Since then, I, like the blog, have started drifting away. The blog was removed from Wordpress for a time, because I had posted some affiliate links, and while the site was dead also happened to be when I didn't work out for a few months straight.
I've gained weight, I've lost strength, and I don't feel near as healthy. This blog for the foreseen future will be chronicling my journey back to health, and hopefully I can help out some other people along the way.