Day 4 Vanilla Chocolate Sundae
Nope, I didn't eat one; I was one. We arrived in Bali late Wednesday night. After a late wake-up, a morning work-out and lunch, we were shuttled off to a spa for a comped treatment. Two hours of foot bath, calf massage, full-body massage and full body scrub down with your choice of exfoliants. I went for the chocolate, to which some kind of grit was added. After a whirlpool bath and a shower, I was "shining like a new dime". I could get used to this corporate wife gig. :p
Meanwhile, the workout turned out all right, although the hotel has pretty limited facilities: a rack of dumb-bells, a flat bench, an adjustable bench and an old Life Fitness three station machine: bench press/shoulder press (in your dreams); lat pulldown/low cable row/cable curl; and quad x/ham curl. I managed to beat myself up pretty good on the pulldowns teamed up in giant sets with dumb-bell lat rows and hammer curls; supersets of quad extensions/ham curls; and giant sets of front, lateral and reverse delt dumb-bell work.
Still great pumps, despite the carb depletion - apparently a hold-over from the tren cycle I ended about 10 days ago. I also started my carb reload a day earlier than planned - couldn't pass up the goodies at the company garden party dinner last night :rolleyes:- so I'm very curious to see what the effect is on today's workout.
Cleared for Action; and the Problem w/ Abs
Had my annual physical this week and, thanks to my status as corporate wife to the CEO who sends all 300 of her employees to the same clinic for their company-paid check-ups, managed to get the results pronto.
Liver and lipids are all within normal parameters; no other red flags, so I'm GTG for another run. Started my second flight of parabolan today @ 100. Only 1 vial on hand, will keep it to 200/wk until my resupply arrives; then, depending on how I feel, may go back up to 300.
An amusing tidbit from the physical. Instead of a gastric endoscopy, here one can get a less intrusive and unpleasant gastric exam from a sort of x-ray gizmo that I've never seen anywhere but in Asia. You drink something fizzy to gas you up, followed by some liquid chalk to coat your guts, then climb onto a sort of vertical sled that is then moved around and parallel to the floor, then up again, so the machine can take pictures front and back and from various angles. The climax is when the machine extrudes a robotic arm with a sort of blunt-nosed cone on the end that is pressed into your gut at various places/angles. This year it took the technician forever to get the shots he was aiming for with the arm. And afterwards he said something to the effect that next year I may need to get the regular endoscopy because my abs were "too thick" for the machine to generate good pictures of what's behind them. LOL.
The Tren God is Speaking to Me.
Today's back workout:
Deads
20x20, 40, 60, 80, 100, 120 kg
Seated Cable Rows
20x47, 57, 67, 77 kg
Triangle Pull-Downs
20x47, 57, 67, 77 kg
Standing Cable Pull Downs
20x15, 20, 25, 30
Still had a lot of gas in the tank, so
Inman Shrugs
10x20x20 kg
Ham Curls
20x32, 39, 46, 53 kg.
Quad Extensions
20x 46, 53, 60, 67, 74, 81 kg.
Adductors
20x32, 39, 46, 53 kg
To be fair, I think this is not just the Parabolan, but also the carb cycling, which provides me with a lot more fuel than the straight out keto I was doing before.
