Hello, it's been a while. I told you I am bad at logging my training.
It's been a few months and I have been lifting and training very well through it all.
Recently I have changed my workout routine. I am working on a 5 week program. I just finished day one of a three day split in my second week of 5 weeks total. Things are going well.
Poverty and homelessness is not keeping me from training, in fact it only adds to the purity. I have no place to charge my MP3 player anymore so I lift without music.
I carefully measure out protein, creatine, staminade and multi vitamins in the back seat of my car before a work out. I have an endless supply of fresh milk at work. The gym is my sanctuary, lifting is the religion, pay homage to the grind.
Today was Incline bench 5x5 @ 72.5 k
Seated Cable row 5x5 @ 75% of maximum lift but more like 90%
Flat dumbbell bench 2x10 @ 30kg dumbs/ (superset) One arm row 2x10 @ 30kg
Dips one set maximum failure at 1x31
Inverted row one set maximum failure at 1x 30
Abs for 15 minutes
Every time I lift one of my split days I am awake for 24 hours. Such as today. It will be a 28 hour day.
My days off are clean up days. Usually a mix of cardio, including boxing, swimming and power lifting. My clean and jerk is at a solid 70kg. The snatch is at 40kg. My squat is 120kg. This is done without a lifting platform, which is a shame because I imagine my numbers would increase. If I didn't have to put the weights down so gently I would not have to limit the weight.
These last few weeks have really made me understand more fully that no matter what the circumstance, no matter how ugly the world gets, health and fitness is a beautiful thing.