BABY!

Tonight I absolutely crushed chest and back. I was looking at my upper torso's silhouette on my basement wall after the last set of pushups and the angle at which the single lightbulb cast my shadow against the Brick backdrop made me look huge. Ultra v-taper, bulging delts, everything. It was all I could do not to run upstairs and find a camera to take a picture of my silhouette until I realized what I was about to do and sort of got a little embarassed. I quickly transitioned to Ab-Ripper X...



One extreme positive I've taken from tonight's work is that I can't remember feeling this exhausted or out of breath in either of my first two weeks of Chest/Back. I'm chalking it up to knowing that tonight was my last go-around on these specific exercises before recovery week and really wanting to go all-out in order to get the most work possible from my muscles (The muscles that sometimes still seem to be on Hawaii-time). I hit 40 pushups with good form and then proceeded to bump the reps/weight on the next several exercises. I may have gotten a little bit ahead of myself since it wasn't until the dreaded repeat round that the wheels started to come off. Not realizing that my reps weren't ultra-high, my intensity level and Range-of-movement was better than ever before and while grunting out the exercises with superhuman intensity, I hit the wall with a resounding squish. The whole last quarter of my workout was a bit of a mess, but the pinnacle "fail moment" was during the Dive Bombers pushups when I scraped my lips twice on the gross rubber weight-mat that covers my basement floor. Since my body was caught halfway between exhaustion and wanting to crank out more reps (The body was weak) the low point of the Dive-Bomber pushups movement (And subsequently my workout) proved to be my undoing.

Anyway, I'm full of protein now and enjoying the evening on my couch. I busted out the entire Fifer Scissors portion of Ab-Ripper X and now have the "Heels to the Heavens" portion to whine about on my blog.

Thanks again for reading. Do your best, forget the rest!