3-09-16 HY: BB-Bulk: Shoulders + 0-6 Abs- P2: L13 + Splits + TCF.

3-09-16 HY: BB-Bulk: Shoulders + 0-6 Abs- P2: L13 + Splits + TCF.

After yesterday, I was just really tired today. I got up, had breakfast and got hooked on watching the CNN coverage on the voting reports from Michigan, my home state. After that, we had lunch and started to catch up on American Idol. We're way behind. Then my daughter was invited to go and play basketball, so she left and my son and wife started to watch a program they watch together so I decided to go ahead and start my workout. I was feeling a lot better and rested.

I should have done Build: Legs, but wasn't feeling the vibe for legs today after yesterday, so I went with Shoulders, one of my favorite routines in the Bulk set of routines. When I started out with the warm up, I was feeling really good, so I thought I would up the weights a bit. So I raised the weights on a few moves. The first Super Set, move one, I stepped up one plate, so 3 to 4, 4 to 5, and 5 to 6.25kgs. The Arnold Press was a burner. My shoulders were on fire from the medium weight. I had to really muscle through on the Drop Set, still 17 then 15.75kgs. Since I don't have an EZ Bar, I tried to do the Progressive set as programmed, with no rest. So I finished the ascending grouping about a minute faster than Segi. But Going down, again, my shoulders were so on FIRE! the crew caught up to me. I had to take several mini-breaks. On the last light set, I had to take a quick break every two reps, but really, just a second to gather myself. I also raised the weights on the first move of the next Super Set, the Alt. Front Raise. 4 to 5, 5 to 6.26, 7.5 to 8.75kgs. That is the heaviest so far on that move. But I was able to control it pretty well. On the next Progressive Set, Reverse Fly, I went up one plate 4 to 5, 5 to 6.25, 6.25 to 7.5kgs. That might have been a bit heavy, because I was really feeling the muscles activate like never before. But today, my shoulders really got killed and I really felt it burn.

Abs were good. I really tried to keep my back down and it was very tough. Every time I feel good, I move the weight further over my head and it kills again. So I'm doing it harder and harder each time. Pushing to the edge.

The Splits were really good. I am almost to the ground on the left side splits. For some reason I'm more open on that side. Straddle splits and Right side splits are still higher, but lower than last month. Flow was smooth and clean.

In the end, I torched a good 700+kcals. But I felt the BURN more than usual.

I keep forgetting to talk about this, but last week, I did Bulk: Arms on Thursday. No big deal, right? Well, for the first time EVER, I was feeling the pump for longer than just immediately after the workout. I was feeling the pump all the way into Sunday. Every time I even bent my arm to grab, hold, carry or lift something, my biceps were pump flexing without me even thinking of it. It was still a little there on Monday, but I was still feeling the affects of it up to yesterday, whenever I moved my back from one shoulder to the other. I was like, "What in the world?" Has that every happened to you? What is that?