I kind of dropped the ball
This morning I woke up very anxious and excited to workout. I haven't had a morning workout since last Spring Break! So it's been MONTHS. I woke up, took my Blue GENE and knew I had to wait at least 40-50 min before I headed off to the gym. About 30 min into the morning, I started to make a good solid breakfast. Spicy Kimchi & Rice for carbs and a sweet peanut drink. The Chinese stores sell like this sweet peanut milk, its peanuts ground into a drink with some added sugar, It tastes good as hell and its packed with good fats and 12g protein per serving.
Following the anxious completion of cooking breakfast, I tasted my Spicy Kimchi & Rice and it was nasty. If I’m going to eat 50+ grams of carbs, its better be worth it. It wasn’t, so I dumped it down the drain in frustration and decided to grab a yogurt, frantically inhale it and head off to the gym. Yogurt is normally packed with a healthy amount of kcals, including plenty of carbs, sugars and some protein.
Later, I come back from my workout to discover that the yogurt I chose were the super low fat, low everything, 100 kcal per serving yogurts. Not the most effective thing to eat prior to an intense workout, this 100kcal yogurt explains a lot of what happened in today’s workout. OYE!!!
CHEST
Flat Bench
225lbs x 10 reps (this felt waaaaay too heavy for 225)
225lbs x 10 reps (again, it still felt uncharacteristically heavy)
275lbs x 5 reps (yeah…..)
275lbs x 5 reps (lightening didn’t strike, I’m having a horrendously off day)
Incline Bench
185lbs x 10 reps
205lbs x 10 reps
225lbs x 10 reps
245lbs x 8 reps
Smith, Flat Bench
(Smith…Flat Bench? Does this guy know what he’s doing? Yes; Sometimes I’ll count the Smith as one of my machine criteria(s). Chest Machines are just pec stimulators that attempt to mimic the bench at some modified and simplified position. I figured what better “machine” then the Smith, which mimics the bench with the most intimacy.
225lbs x 10 reps
245lbs x 10 reps
275lbs x 7 reps
Dips
BW x 15 reps
BW x 12 reps
BW x 10 reps
Needless to say, my performance was subpar. I have no other explanation other then the critical one I described in the intro. 100kcals to pull a 214lbs man out of a fast perpetuated catabolic state, no bueno.
Mentally, I had more in me, however, in terms of energy, I was drained by the end of dips. I sat at an incline machine, wishing for the drive to manifest so I could hit this thing, but I couldn't do anything explosive if I was holding a grenade.
However, not all was lost, I did experience some interesting symptoms of a Stim Effect to note.
To my Stim Junkies: You know when you're on a POWERFUL stim, like the very beginning stages of an ECA (or ECY) experience. Your eyes feel as though they're being forced open and something is pushing your eye out of the socket from behind. In that state, I get intensely focused (or just weird, I don't know), but if I look toward a direction, I feel like I'm intently staring and whatever my direction of view is, its like a frame of pure focus in that particular direction, or whatever direction I look at (i hope I'm making sense here). Today, about 2 hours post ingestion of the Blue GENE, that intense focus and wide eyed'ness hit, but without the sensation of my sockets feeling like they're being pushed out of my head. Also, no fast heart rate or physical restlessness, just that intense, STIM focus and mind frame like you're in your own world, and the staring that makes you feel like you could stare a hole right into the wall. If this is something only I experience, then this paragraph was just weird and useless, but I hope I was able to communicate the STIM symptoms in a relatable manner.
Post workout I ate-a-plenty, I may return to the gym for a second round to make up for the less then optimal first.