Ahhh...good to be home, good to be home. Oh, who am I kidding. I wanna go back on vacation!!!! We had a great time out on the west coast. Just me and the wife, no rug rats!
We spent the first 2 days out in San Diego. Great scenery out there and awesome weather. Each day out there was around 68 and 69 degrees and mostly sunny. We spent the first full day there running around the down town area, then out to Coronado Island. We too the ferry out to Coronado which was awesome passing all the air craft carriers. We visited the Coranado Del Hotel, which is an awesome place. It's right out on the beach. We took some pics out on the beach, and of course got our feet out into the ocean, and it was sooo cold.
The next day we checked out of our hotel and went to Sea World. In hindsite, we could take or leave Sea World. Totally over priced (which all of those places are) and for us not a ton to see. We left there around 3:00 and headed to Pacific Beach to have dinner before heading to L.A. The restaurant was right on the beach, and it was gorgous having dinner and watching the sun go down.
After dinner, we headed to L.A. Anaheim, actually. We checked into the Desert Palm hotel, just down the street from Disney. This was Saturday night, so we just crashed until the next day. We made reservations for Sunday evening to take a plane ride around L.A. at night. Since Cali is 3 hours behind Indiana, we elected to drive out to a mall to have lunch and walk around for a while. We went back to the hotel and rested up for the plane ride. The plane took us all around the L.A. area and out to the harbors and such. We got back to the hotel around midnight California time, which was really like 3:00am to us. So, needless to say we crashed big time!
Monday we took a tour bus out to Universal Studios. This was a blast. Running around the park acting like teenagers again (man, we're getting old!) After the park closed at 6:00pm, we strolled around the shops outside the park waiting for out tour bus at 8:00. The bus then took us down to the Walk of Fame outside the Chinese theater. This was great to finally see the walk of fame after seeing it on TV all my life. The bus then took us around the Sunset Strip, Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills, etc.
While at Universal Studios, we got free guaranteed tickets to the Tonight Show for Tuesday. We decided to do this instead of Disney (sure was cheaper). We drove down to Burbank after figuring out directions and had lunch at the WB cafeteria. We headed over to the NBC lot and got in line for the show. The Pages got everyone who had the guaranteed tickets off to the side, and after figuring out how many others to let in, let us in and showed us to the seats. We sat over by the band, basically to the left of Kevin Eubanks. Leno came out and warmed the audience up. He really seemed like nothing but class. The guests were Courtney Love and Brad Garrett. He was hilarious, and she was actually coherant
After coming out of the Tonight Show, there was a guy asking if people wanted to go to Last Call w/ Carson Daly. We said sure, and headed over to that studio. We had awesome seats there, sitting in the second row. I was on the end, and when Carson came out I literally could have reached out and smacked him (hehehhe.) He actually was taping two shows that night, so we got two for the price of one. He last guest was the musical guest, it was a rapper called Xhibit, or however it is spelled. Of course, neither of us had heard of him. They wanted people in the front rows to stand in front of the stage and dance and cheer and stuff as this guy performed. So, here we were, these two country music listening, square midwesterners, on national tv standing front and center trying to dance to rap music. It wasn't pretty
That was pretty much it. The next morning, we packed and checked out of the hotel, then headed out to LAX for our flight back to Indiana. I won't start back on my workout program until Monday. I sure have a lot of work to do to get my diet back in place since California basically destroyed it
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Well, back to the gym this morning. I weighed in, and it looks like the vacation put about 5 lbs on me, which was about what I expected. So, since my last thread got deleted with the outage a couple of weeks ago, let me restate my plans as of now:
Since I'd been doing mostly full body workouts this year, I am going to temporarily do a body split program called HSS-100, designed by Christian Thibedeau(sp) over at T-Nation.com. Basically, each day you start out with doing a heavy movement for that body part, followed by a superset which includes a compound movement and an isolation movement. Then you do what he called a special movement, and you finish it up with one set of 100 reps on an exercise. I fudge on the last and do only 50-80, but will workup to the 100. So, here was the routine this morning for quads:
Back Squat : 4 x 6
Superset :
Hack Squat : 3 x 8
Split Squat : 3 x 9
Low Cable Squat : 3 x 8
Leg Extention : 1 x 80
My plan is to work my kcals up to get my metabolism working again. I'm currently going to take in around 2400 on training day, and 2000 on non training days. I want to work up up to around 2800 on training day by the end of January. I'll try and stay on the body part split until then, then around the first of February I'll go back to Waterbury style full body workouts and dropping kcals again in order to cut some.
Hope all had a great weekend. GO COLTS!
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
This morning was supposed to be back day, but the alarm refused to go off this morning. Akkk! I was scrambling to get me and the two boys ready on time this morning. No worries, Thursday is a build in off day, so it just now becomes a workout day. The quads are sore after yesterdays workout, so I will try to take a long walk to day to try and loosen them up some. Have a good one folks.
Burning Fat Cells One Rep At A Time
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
This morning was supposed to be back day, but the alarm refused to go off this morning. Akkk! I was scrambling to get me and the two boys ready on time this morning. No worries, Thursday is a build in off day, so it just now becomes a workout day. The quads are sore after yesterdays workout, so I will try to take a long walk to day to try and loosen them up some. Have a good one folks.
Ah yes, an alarm clock catastrophe (Dunkin Donuts commercial in our area). Maybe the alarm clock is still on vacation?
No doubt the legs will be reminding you you worked them out hard for a day or two.
Ray
"Take heed to yourself and to the doctrine. Continue in them, for in doing this you will deliver both yourself and those who hear you." --1 Tim. 4:16
Ray: Ha ha...you're right about the legs...they are still pretty sore. It's one of those things that the sorness feels great, but after a while it kind of becomes annoying.
This morning was chest day/shoulder day in the world of HSS-100. Here was the routine:
Bench : 4 x 6
Superset:
Rear Delt Raise : 3 x 10
Incline Bench : 3 x 8
Cable Side Raises, round style : the set/rep scheme for this is a bit wacky. You do a set of 6 raises for one shoulder, then you do the other. Do this 4 times, and this round is a set. Done for a total of 3 sets
Peck Deck : 1 x 100. Believe it or not, although I did 100 reps, the weight was too light for even that! I underestimated
So that was this mornings workout. I now return you to your regular scheduled web browsing.
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
Cardio today, and it was 30 minutes of incline walking on the treadmill. Nothing too taxing, just enough to get the engines reving for a while. Hope everyone is having a great week. The weather here in the Indianapolis area has been aweful the last couple of days!
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
Morning, Hoosier! I've never tried doing 100 reps of anything, though I've read it's a good shock to the system. I wouldn't have a clue which weight to choose on a given exercise. I guess it's a trial and error kind of thing.
Hey, we made it to Friday!!!! I'll be doing back work later today, and tomorrow will be the hammies! It's amazing, my legs are still a little bit sore from Monday's workout. Must be old age setting in.
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
Well, back at it after the weekend, and it was quad day:
Squat : 4 x 5 - PB as far as weight for 5 reps
Superset :
Machine Hack Squat : 3 x 9
Split Squat : 3 x 10
Low Cable Squat : 3 x 8
Leg Extention : 1 x 80
A bit of a rant here...why is it that a whole gym can lose all of its 2.5lb plates and half of its barbell collars? I spent 5 minutes looking for both of these before I could start my squats. Arggg!!!
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
Well, I actually had no problems this morning finding collars or 2.5lb plates. The gym I go to is pretty inexpensive, only $20 a month, so I guess I have to figure I get what I pay for. Anyway, here was the plan today:
Bench : 4 x 7 - I was able to increase reps this week!
Superset:
Rear Delt Raise : 3 x 10
Incline Bench : 3 x 8
Side Raise, Round Style : Do 6 reps with one shoulder, then 6 with another. Repeat this a total of 4 times without rest, and this is a round. I completed 3 "rounds"
Pec Deck : 1 x 100
And that was this mornings program. Please thank your usher on the way out
Last edited by HoosierHardGain; 11-21-2006 at 01:48 PM.
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
Oh man, what a morning. I go and do my workout, and as I am walking out the door, my cell rings. It's my wife and asking when I am coming, because baby hoos is out of control. She had woken up, and only wanted me. I get home, and the little girl becomes attached to my hip. I can't get more than 2 feet away from her or she go bananas. I was about 45 minutes late for work because we had to move things around so I could get the little thing calmed down....yep, she has me totally wrapped around her little finger
The workout: Chest/shoulders
Bench : 4 x 7
Superset :
Rear delt raises : 3 x 11
Incline bench : 3 x 9
Side Raise, muscle round style : see previous post for explanation. 3 sets
Leg Extention : 1 x 100
I keep working on the diet too. I'm basically trying to raise my cals about 100 cals a week, getting up to around 2700, which is more than I've used. I'll try to keep that up through January, then start dropping in February for fat loss. Hopefully this should get my matabolism reset to a more normal level.
Burning Fat Cells One Rep At A Time
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
I keep working on the diet too. I'm basically trying to raise my cals about 100 cals a week, getting up to around 2700, which is more than I've used. I'll try to keep that up through January, then start dropping in February for fat loss. Hopefully this should get my matabolism reset to a more normal level.
Good luck on increasing you cals it's tough when you are eating clean
Rosanne (CM)
Only she who attempts the absurd can achive the impossible
If you think that little girl's got you good now, wait until she's 16 and has REALLY learned how to manipulate her daddy. LOL! Looking good on the workouts, bro!
jag
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If you think that little girl's got you good now, wait until she's 16 and has REALLY learned how to manipulate her daddy. LOL! Looking good on the workouts, bro!
jag
Ohhh no...I can imagine when she's 16, me waiting outside the door with a shotgun waiting for her to come home from her 1st date.
Originally Posted by mom24boys
hoos' she is absolutly adorable..i can see why she gotta ya in a tailspin all the time
Thanks mom...she's knows which buttons to push, that's for sure.
After a day off yesterday, this morning was back/traps:
BB Row : 4 x 7
Superset:
Straight Arm Pressdown : 3 x 12
Deadlifts : 3 x 9
Bent torso low cable row : 3 x 9
incline DB Row : 1 x 50
DB Shrug : 3 x 9
Incline DB Shrug : 3 x 12
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"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
Hey all, it's Tuesday and I'm still feeling a bit crappy. With the weather changes, my sinus and allergies are going nuts. I skipped the quad workout yesterday due to not feeling well, which I coudl afford due to having worked them harder than any body part lately. Today was chest/shoulders:
Bench : 1 x 7, 2 x 8, 1 x 6
Superset:
Rear delt raises: 3 x 8
Incline DB Bench : 3 x 8
Cable Lat Raise : 3 sets, muscle round style
Burning Fat Cells One Rep At A Time
"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it." - Nelson Mandela.
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I guess it's a trial and error kind of thing.
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