Work Out Log 10 May 2010

Today, it should be noted, marks the 30 day mark before my flight to Washington (that is to say in 30 days, 30 June 2010, I will be arriving in Washington for my pre-flight orientation before we come to Oman, which will last two days, at which point we will then depart for Oman).

Now as to the log, yesterday the work out had to be cancelled due to Mother's Day related issues. Today I ran 4 miles outside and got in a very good work out on triceps and pectorals. I made the run during the heat of the day, around 2 O'clock and was surprised at how much the heat sapped my strength and slowed me down. I was also surprised to find that I had received a somewhat mild sunburn on my shoulders and part of my chest, which kind of puts my plans for getting a tan on hold.

Now as for my weight-routine, I was somewhat disappointed on chest today, as initially I was only able to put 275 twice on the flat bench, and required a good amount of help to get to six reps. In my defense I had completely run out of supplements, had had nothing to eat since breakfast (I started with this exercise at 5:15 in the afternoon), and my spotter was not very good IMHO (no offense to the man, he seemed very nice but not to knowledgeable about weight lifting etc.). On the bright side, I managed to put up 225 on both the incline and decline benches subsequent to the flat bench, did very well on dips, and managed to lift more than 100 pounds on skull crushers. In addition to all of this I also found that I had dropped weight to 207 (despite my sister's delicious carrot cake and all of the extra icing that she made yesterday!). I will continue my progress tomorrow, in shaa' allah, with another good run (for the time being completely indoors....) and also a good biceps and forearms routine.