Not retired

Just sick like a dog. About 2 days after the last post I came down with a "viral intestinal infection" which I think was a fancy way to say stomach flu. Either way, I hit the motherlode of illness; fever, chills, sweating, aching, headaches, dehydration, nausea, diahrerra. And those were the highlights. I slept for four days at one point. And one month (and twenty-two pounds lighter) I started training again. It was everything I could do just to get out of bed. I had no energy and the smallest effort left me drained. It was so bad at one point that I was "forced" to go to the doctor's office. His good news was I was not dying. The bad news was this crap could linger for several weeks. And it has.

Around the fifth of August, I drug the sled (light) approximately 20 times over 200' using upper and lower body lifts. On the sixth, I got married. (Which someone nameless suggested I should be well prepared for via all the sled dragging I was doing.) That was a wonderful day in the midst of it all. I now have a beautiful bride and an ornery 14 year old! We are quite the crew ;-)

On the ninth I started  training again (offically I guess). Sled drags for (upper) conditioning then some jumps, squats and pulls. On the tenth; more sled work (lower), speed bench 45% for seven sets of five reps and chin-ups in between. Some corrective shoulder work with a mini band and band pushdowns to finish it off. On the eleventh, more jumping.

August 12, 2011 ME Lower
Upper sled work 6x150 feet w/ 70
Lower sled forwards/backwards 6x100 feet 135x2, 180x2 and 225x2 (both forwards). All wearing a weight vest; started with 20 pounds and worked up to 40 by the last trip

Walked approximately 0.50 mile wearing a 60 pound vest and ankle weights

Crunches on a stability ball 4x20 and Reverse hypers 5x15/90, 140, 180, 230, 270 (used foot bar)

August 13, 2011 ME Upper
Trained with Andrew
Fat bar benchpress-medium grip worked to 275x5 then 295x3
Low incline Fat bar benchpress 3x10/175, 195, 225
Pin press (#13) close grip with fat bar 3x10/225, 255, 275x7 and BB curls with Fat Gripz 3x12/45-65
DB concentration curls w/Fat Gripz 3x10

And watched movies at the drive-in Saturday night!

Stay strong,
Ed T.