After the gym last night I got a Subway footlong turkey-cheddar omelette sammich, and some groceries. Between the workout and a pint of Steel Reserve, I was conked out by 9PM. When I prepped my minifridge at the Waterways for the landlord to sell, I got rid of the bottles I'd been using to store cold water (the two medium-size Gatorade bottles were strangely fogged from the inside from Tang), so this morning I washed out new empty V8 bottle and discovered it doesn't fit under the faucet to fill in my bath sink. So I ended up filling a food storage container and dumping sloppily into the bottle. Anyway, this should help undo the chronic dehydration going on lately.

When I started off my upper-body routine on the overhead press last night, something very uncomfortable popped or grinded in my right shoulder. Kind of disappointing, because I had determined that if I start out the set on that machine, I can press a full set of 12 reps at 50#, and that was my first goal - being able to step through 12 reps on each of the 4 machines at 50#. 2 full sets at that weight would be great. I was already pushing ahead on chest press to 70#, and ab crunch to 90#, but my overhead press and arm curls are lagging.

But after that scary popping sensation I decided to pay closer attention to keeping my upper back muscles back and tight to protect the rotator cuff, and stepped down to 30# on that machine. Which is OK, I guess; I still don't have a lot of endurance on that machine and I typically stall a few reps short of a 12-rep set on the second set even at 30#.

This morning I popped in the gym again for another 2x upper-body circuit. Seems the gym is getting to be busy all morning, and all evening. When my housing situation and workload settle down, I hope to get back in a routine of leaving the office around 4:30 so as to have the place mostly to myself for the machine part of the routine.

1st set:
Overhead press: 15x 30# (easy until the last couple reps)
Arm curls: 15x 30# (easy)
Ab crunch: 12x 90# (woooo)
Arm extension: 12x 50#
Chest press: 12-15x 70# (routine, 90# is still beyond me)

2nd set:
Overhead press: ~10x 30#
Arm curls: 12x 30# (easy)
Ab crunch: 12x 70#
Arm extension: 12x 30# (easy, just for endurance)
Chest press: 12x 70#