Life, Lifting, and loads of Debauchery

Sorry for the lack of updates...

2011-01-19T09:30:00.000-08:00

Been busy getting everything ready for the second semester, I go back on Saturday. I'll think of something cool a little later today, don't worry :). I'm gonna spend some time hitting everyone back too, love the active community the misc's been building, good amount of serious blogs :).

Have a good day (afternoon) everyone, will do a writeup on something later!

My random musing on music in the world of lifting

2011-01-17T19:32:00.000-08:00

When I'm in the gym, aggressively fighting off my gag reflexes during the brutal sets of curls in the squat rack that I perform nearly every workout (to increase my amount of testosterone flowing through my veins), the only thing that keeps me from going postal is my music.

Music is the perfect gym companion for anyone from the casual fitness seeker to the most aesthetic blob of muscle in existence (ie: Houssein Rezazadeh). After all, it does have a lot of psychological benefits ranging from minimizing depression to helping us sleep deprived college students finish that final paper 15 minutes before it's due. But most importantly, music unleashes that cell-tech infused monster lying within all of us, well only those lucky enough to be born with a y-chromosome.

For our safety, we can just pretend this heavenly blessed beauty is a card-carrying member of the y-chromosome club...

As far as lifting is concerned, any type of music that can give you a solid rush of adrenaline or extra stamina should be considered good lifting music (unless of course this includes anything enjoyed by 12 year old girls). But for me, there's really only one genre that gives me that intense rush of adrenaline allowing me to feel like I'm conquering the iron like a champ (or finishing my set of bosu-ball squats). The genre I'm talking about is metal, which probably comes as no surprise to most. I generally abide by the rule of- the more brutal the music, the better. I can't speak for bodybuilders, mostly because I'm a skinny pos, but every strength-athlete that I've known seems to agree with me that metal's the only genre powerful enough to allow you to piss in the cheerios of gravity.

Ronnie Coleman destroying his quads like a man

The not-so-local powerlifting gym that I go to when I'm home from school also seems to agree with the notion that metal rules in the world of lifting. My first time entering the dungeon of the iron-empire (literally) (http://www.theironempire.com/joomla/), I was welcomed to the refreshing soundtrack of blood pumping, testosterone infused metal- it was heaven on earth considering it was my first gym experience lacking the ear molestation via estrogen ridden top-40 hits that most commercial gyms force upon you.

A few of my favorite lifting bands include: As Blood Runs Black, Metallica, Bring Me The Horizon, Parkway Drive, Amon Amarth, Isengard, Opeth, Float Face Down, Immortal, As I Lay Dying, Katatonia, Gorgoroth, and many more. One odd thing that I've noticed: I can't usually enjoy most of these bands unless I'm lifting. Maybe they're too brutal for me and I'm a bitch? Or maybe it's because I'm on the verge of being a pompous audiophile, either way, in the right time and place <3 metal.

Unlike this guy and this girl (http://voe.blogg.no/ <3), I'm not Norwegian which might explain a lot

What bands do you guys like to lift to? Why?

My Routine

2011-01-16T23:14:00.000-08:00

This is what I've been doing. When I get back next Monday though all lower body's gonna be cut out until further notice :(.

An ab circuit is done everyday as a warmup: 3 Sets of...

Side Bends with 40s for 10
Decline Sit-ups for 10
Reverse Hyper for 10 <3
Spread Eagle Situps for 10
Reverse Crunches for 10
+ Assorted forearm exercises
Sunday:

Military Press
Weighted Dips
DB Bench
Weighted Pullups
Skullcrushers
BB or DB Curl
Pushups til failure x 5 sets

Monday:

Squats
Zercher Squats
Leg Press
Walking DB Lunges
Box Jumps

Wednesday:

BB Bench
Low Cable Row
Weighted Chin-Ups
Chain Pushups
Curl Variation

Friday:

Power Cleans
Deadlifts
Weighted-Sled Drag to end of the gym and back. Forwards one way, backwards the other.
Prowler Pushes
Jump Variatons
Foam Rolling

First Post...

2011-01-16T19:42:00.000-08:00

OK I've never written a blog before but I'm bored and this is free- so yea. For now this is just gonna be my workout/recovery log, but if all goes well I'll probably end up making it a life blog in general too. To my brahs (<3) who followed my log on bb.com: this is gonna be pretty much the same and I'll try to stay as consistent as possible.

I guess I should start off by giving some background first in case you're interested...

Started lifting about a year and a half ago and made some pretty decent progress:

Start/Current (as of early dec.)

Weight: 140-180 @ 8-10%
Bench: 85?/190
Squat: 125/355 :)
Deadlift: 190/445

I got into a powerlifting style split and started going to a powerlifting gym last year during late-spring/early-summer which helped a ton, but I had to stop going because I started college. Anyway, that's my lifting history, now for the second part of this blog...

In September I hurt lower back during my deadlift warmups probably because I wasn't paying close enough attention to my form or some shit, so I took a one month break from deads. I felt better so I started back up with them and all was well, until out of nowhere my back started hurting again. Except this time, it hurt way worse than it did when I first pulled it. I'm now at the point where doing everyday tasks is painful so I need to do something about it obviously. I still have a few more days before I go back for the second semester, so I'm gonna go to a chiropractor and hopefully that'll help. In addition to that, I'll be doing some exercises given to me by my aunt who's a physical therapist. Anyway, I'm back to hardcore lifting starting next monday, so if you wanna follow the workouts feel free (comment mofos).

So yea I think that's it, I'll be logging everything about my workouts and recovery shit and we'll see where this blog takes me. Oh and you follow me = I follow you. Nomsayin?