OK, I am feeling better, more or less. My lungs are feeling better. Although I overdosed on some medication that had me in trouble for about 3 hours on Monday. I apparently used way too much of an Inhaler called Combivent. More on that later. Anyway, I pushed through the session and used more weight, but because of my reaction to the medication, I had to do two fewer exercises.
For the time being, workouts will continue to be devided into two sessions: A (low rep session for core strength lifts like squats, stiff-leg deadlifts and bench press) and B (higher reps, for assistance exercises that strengthen arms and shoulders) Here is how this past Monday went
05/22/06 Monday 12 Noon Training Session 2A (core strength)
- Strict Military Press 95 lbs x 5, 4 , 3, 4
- Squats 165 lbs x 4, 4, 4, 4 (Rock bottom, with 2-3 second pauses)
- Stiff Leg Dead 165 lbs x 4, 4, 4, 4
- Bench Press 150 lbs x 4, 4, 4, 4
All of this took an hour. I waited 30 minutes and did some creatine and glutamine, as I did last week. I amm low on food though, and Monday my diet was not terrific. I will be keeping better diet records in the coming days. Again, all exercise were done with slow and controlled, deliberate movements. Very little congestion, but because of my drug oveerdose, I was really having a lot of pain in my lungs and I was in trouble. I probably should have not trained. But after I finished training, I didn’t use my inhaler and about 1.5 hours after I worked out my lungs were feeling fine.
05/25/06 Thursday 7:00 PM Training Session 2A (core strength)
I decided to do another 2A session tonight. I wanted to hit soome heavy weights again. But First I did some grip work then I went into the 2A session. (Lungs were doing fine by the way. No wheezing to start with, and I confess my diet blowed chunks today. All I did was drink milk and eat brown rice. I was out of protein and food.)
- Grip Work – Supinates, pronates, crickets and reverse crickets all with dumbbell and 1 collar. Also, 2 sets of 5 on the grippers afterwards
- Squats 175 lbs x 4, 4, 4, 4 (Rock bottom, with 2-3 second pauses)
- Stiff Leg Dead 175 lbs x 4, 4, 4, 4 (no straps here, and no alternate grip either. Double overhand grip and no straps, to get better grip strength)
- Bench Press 155 lbs x 4, 4, 4, 4
Definately getting stronger. This end of the day workout brought out some congestion, but that is a good thing. Breathing was OK, and little wheezing, but I had to stop to get up some stuff between sets. I think I am definately improving though, as well as getting stronger. I am drinking a lot of milk, because that is all I have, but my body seems to be tolerating it just fine as long as I use enzymes. I did eat some Mac and Cheeze (organic)
05/27/06 Saturday 12:00 PM Training Session 2B (Assistance) with Rope Jumping
I incorporated some rope work with my Boa rope. I have a strange way of doing this that is medically motivated. Here is how it works: the idea is to do 1000 rotations minimum. I break them up into sets of 100-120 rotations. I do this exercise this way for teh express purpose of expelling anything from my lungs that should not be there. The rep scheme and breathing pattern is very calculated. I invented this on my own, but it works quite well for me and burns off soome good calories while giving me that cardio I want. I end up doing a total of about 10 sets x 100-120 reps or so.
- Sets 1-5 x 100 reps. This gets me my first 500 rotations, with 500 more to go. I use relaxed breathing during these sets, with relaxed diaphram to facilitate the vibration on the lungs. If I step on the rope, I just start over again counting from where I last stopped. If I need to clear an airway, I do it.
- Sets 6-10 x 100 reps. This eventually takes me to 1000 rotations. It takes a total of around 25 minutes to do this, but the time whizzes by. Here is where the breathing changes though, and trust me it is most unorthodox. The idea is to fill my lungs with as much air as they can hold. Then, I simultaneously expel the air and start my rotations, making as many rotations as I can with the objective of not stopping until I have squeezed every last bit of air out of my lungs, which is usually around 35-40 rotations. The odd thing is that as hard as it sounds (because your body is working out and you are not breathing in and out as you normally would), by the 35-40th rotation, I am not winded. I have to stop, or course, and expel from my lungs what needs to be expelled, but I am not winded like I would be if I were breathing normally. It is really interesting. I think that something must be happening in my blood with the exchange of Oxygen and resulting creation of Carbon Dioxide. When I am forcing the air out, I am also forcing out lots of CO2. The response from just holding my breath would, in my view, be vastly different because in that case the CO2would stay in my body and I would start to have trouble. In that case, I believe the cell respiratory mechanism would be affected differently, and I also believe my blood pressure would spike, I would get dizzy and pass out. Just a theory, mind you. I would like to get a study done on this. My approach causes no headaches, I don’t get dizzy or winded, but of course I eventually reach a point where I can no longer force air out, and at this point I push just a bit harder and squeeze the last ounce of air out. Then I stop, expel, and start again. The end result is that I have much cleaner lungs and I have a good workout. It usually takes me 3 mini-sets of 30-40 rotations/expulsion of air, followed by expelling anything I need to from my lungs. Then I polish off the next 10-20 rotations to complete my set of 100-120 rotations.
Now for the 2B session: I wanted to use heavier weights but still stay with high reps. I was able to do this. Lungs were doing great. The rope work is really a good adjuct to the progressive resistance. No wheezing and what congestion was there came ouut easily.
- Neck 35 x 15, 10, annd a static hold of 6 seconds.
- Upright Row 50 lbs x 15, 15, 15, 15 (Good work here
- Narrow Curls 55 lbs x 15, 15, 15, SSlow 7×7 x 3.5 reps
- Close Grip Press 110 lbs x 15, 10, 9, 8
- Camber Curl 40 lbs x 10, 8
- French Press 25 lbs x 20, 20 , 20 (Light weight here to facilitate joint strength)
Great pump here. Body is responding faster. Getting stronger, too. I am rebounding nicely from the pneumonia. No more antibiotics at this point I am still drinking a lot of milk.
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