And you know what is embarrassing? With a 3XL Tall as short as I appear, If I lift my arms above my head or even just out parallel to the floor, stretch out my torso, or lean forward in a butterfly stretch on the floor my stomach and back will often show.
So my workout week. I tried a new split and was trying to avoid the 3 day push pull legs that I always default to or the upper/lower or just whole body which works better if I am trying to work cardio and weight loss more.
So Mon normally just chest was chest, anterior delt, tris I threw in neck this day too
Tues normally upper back and or upper and lower back, I did upper back with posterior delts
Wednesday normally legs, I did abs
Thursday normally shoulders and tris were medial delt, trapezius and biceps and forearms
Friday normally arms I did legs and lower back
I did go walking and see some animals Sunday. Everytime I do this I pick up odd genetics and looked you couldn’t even match my face from the picture. I really don’t care how I look as I tend to look different from one moment to the next, although I looked like some odd orangutan carrying too much weight. But i felt I really made progress this week due to 2 things, The first was the walking SUnday I went up and down the same hill about 4 times and had a strong powerful stride when others looked like they were waiting for the current to change to move in the opposite direction. I say that though because suddenly I felt so weak and and could almost look into myself and see light. I started shivering and felt my energy draining and my leg muscles felt like glycogen depleted strings. I did muster up and kept going strong, but it was like walking as somebody who expired in life.
The next thing was thursday’s training where I tried some new stuff for side delt and traps. I have huge trapezius muscles but you can’t tell sometimes. Well anyway to get one out I did some shrugs and side delt movements one arms at a time and pulled my head and neck as far as I could in the opposite direction. I also did some overhead trap work, by not pulling up a weght but pushing up a machine arm to full extension with my arm locked and then pushing with the trapezius muscle. That really killed it for my neck and cervical vertebrae. But I can feel the muscle creeping over and it is like I was able to pop a head out of wooden stocks or a yoke. Some of my stuff is showing up a lot better now and I can really feel my shoulders lower. So low I can feel the attachments. It felt just like having somebody removed from my person.
I had to get legs in despite my cervical and some of my thoracic vertebrae. I just barely started beating this leg weakness issue where it feels like I can’t raise up from going down on one or both knees without lifting a ton. It feels like total defeat at times. Like I lost my legs to a automobile or crawling out from under one.
I didn’t do any overhead presses today. I did front raises and a lot for a warm up. I think cleared a training plateau but my arms feel like snapped shoved into the anterior delt. So lots of front raises underhand grip two hands on a straight bar. Lots of pec fly variations on a machine including one I made up standing with the whole stack that looks like a sword move crossing the hilt across the chest. I want to go heavy but not today because I am getting too many aches and pains again and my body just feels coupled wrong. My neck and cervical and thoracic vertebra have been getting better and slowly aligning and popping like a zipper, not like a bunch of peanut shells. But anyway I was cautious to bench after all the other work Idid for front delt chest and triceps already. So I just put on a pair of 45’s for 135. Now I have strong neck but sometimes it feels terribly inferior as well as the thoracic vertebrae of the spine from just one plate moves like the bench or the leg press. When I lowered that 135 it felt a lot like a heavy 315 and my front delt and neck and spine felt like I had just woke up from a coma after 10 years with no activity. I just had to brace everything else. I think it’s the only way to solve this problem and finally be able to work my body out more, Working out as if working out others who just won’t move on their own.
Not a good feeling when you want to to feel your sturdiness of frame and strength and you just have jiggly laziness giving up.
NObody cares about your futile workouts.
That I’m thankful of. That they still seem futile. Don’t know if I’ll make today a rest day. Stiff and sore all over and worried about bicep connections.
That was the kick in the pants I needed. I just booked for a 3 pm slot of gym time. Time to disinfect my face with a rotating brush and and cream, and not just rely on a clean mask.
You inspired me today. Today I couldn’t use much weight but by far I had the greatest weight and gravity. My body was nothing short of the mass of an elephant seal and it was obvious the gravity as people were more than careful of their step about me.
Maybe you know the attitude you have and the anger about what a beach body should be like and what a true Beach Master is. But yeah I lifted today purposely with the bulk of my stomach as priority in all movements.
But I’m trying to do something with my body. Not trigger some pourable cancer with radio frequency like somebody put a milkshake and vienna sausage in a blender.
I told you what I think of it. I think it is a price you pay for something, like eating crabs. I’m given the challenge of the claw. I keep my head and limbs and my thick waist doesn’t literally split my body if I talk about a split workout. I work to gum it up, to gain its power and leverage, to have a good pinch strength. Movements are painful to me and it hurts seeing the freedom of movement of others and greater weights they use. But I feel that pinch like a plow or yoke or stocks. That’s real.
If you can separate those claws like Samson or Hercules of whomever that’s a real hero. If you can stop that mechanical motion by or wrest it free to add to your physique it is quite the accomplishment. But I’m not impressed even by combatants caught in its crush.
It’s not being much of survivor if all your going to do is slip through like a milkshake over and over again.
It’s not being much a survivor. It’s really not putting up much of a fight.
Just so you know I can breathe. I don’t mean my chest rises up and down with the weight of a pillow on it. I mean I can belly breathe with my full weight balanced on a medicine ball. That’s what I did today. 10 minutes after eating 2 crepes and diet coke I worked out. I balanced my whole weight on a medicine ball with now hands or feet touching the ground. And I breathed. Up and down.
I really don’t want that stuff as credit for diy projects others made.
I’m always happy to inspire.
I kind have to weaken my back to train it better. Especially an are of the upper back where the rhomboids connect and is covered by the trapezius. It feel like something was missing. Not something like grizzly hump which is just like massive chunk of muscle giving them more front limb and shoulder power. This was something like a weak human spinal connection that would only accept a human musculature. I got the muscle to feel like a piece of bubble tape and gradually connect better and hold the spine less rounded in the upper back. I did it on a seated cable row and with just dumbbells and kettlebells.
What I did was like a rounded back deadlift for the upper back only. Overtime I was able to drive the vertebrae in like a dagger by muscle alone and strengthen that area. Now I have that underlying muscle I can heap muscle on top of.
Makes as much sense as trying to win at chess with using only 3 pieces on the board.
Erector Spinae. They just didn’t seem like they went up high enough until I started wearing suspenders.
Of the 3 it’s the spinalis I was talking about.
Of course it is.
The other 2 being the iliocostalis and longissimus
Not Lomborum, Thoracis. A full spinae on somebody with greater height than me doesn’t even reach the thoracic area on what should be my back.