It was absolutely no race car, but I had a slightly lowered 5 speed accord as a daily when in college, and upgrading the sway bar made an amazing difference in the handling. That’s definitely worth upgrading, for the relatively low cost, IMHO, if you want a tighter corner.
Yeah, I am probably gong to go ahead and get one. I spoke with a guy who owns a company that specializes in water / methanol injection, and he told me he really suggests I avoid running methanol at 100%. Too many ways to blow up the engine. He said a lot of the time the methanol isn't distributed properly and will make some of the cylinders on the banks run lean while others are running rich. Which can cause the engine to blow. He said unless I want to use a direct inject set up which will get very expensive very quickly that what I want is the air-cooling. He suggested 3 locations we could inject the 50/50 water methanol into the system and have the intake air temp always down in what he called boost weather levels. Which I totally understand because not much better than a nice cool and dry day to make your turbos feel like they were upgraded. He said if fuel was my issue and I wanted to get into really pushing timing off of octane the safe way to go and best way would be the e85. Which is pretty expensive, but might be worth it especially after I have the air cooling taken care of. So, that is likely where I will go with that. Then again another part of me is like sell the methanol kit, add that to what I already have put back, and save a little while longer to get the e85 modifications done. Then if I still want air cooling after that I can toss on a water methanol setting. This would probably make my wife happier because it would make keeping the 3rd row in the Flex a reality which I know she wasn't happy about. Oh the things we have to consider eh...
Back & Hamstrings - Saturday, Feb 03, 2024
Seated Leg Curl (Machine)
Set 1: 65 lbs x 20 @ 7.5 rpe - Up 5lbs
Set 2: 85 lbs x 15 @ 8.5 rpe - Up 5lbs
Set 3: 100 lbs x 10 @ 9.5 rpe - Up 10lbs
Set 4: 75 lbs x 17 @ 10 rpe [Failure]
Rack Pull
Set 1: 365 lbs x 12 @ 7.5 rpe
Set 2: 365 lbs x 12 @ 8.5 rpe - First time back on these. I was doing 365x8 @RPE9 before my back tweak too. I have definitely gotten stronger
Seated Cable Flexion Row - Wide Neutral Bar Grip
Set 1: 110 lbs x 15 @ 7.5 rpe
Set 2: 120 lbs x 10 @ 9 rpe
Set 3: 120 lbs x 10 @ 9.5 rpe
Single Arm Cable Row
Set 1: 50 lbs x 16 @ 10 rpe
Set 2: 40 lbs x 15 @ 10 rpe - Failed to reach target reps on both sets, but definitely good work.
Arsenal Bilateral Lat Pulldown
Set 1: 50 lbs x 14 @ 10 rpe
Set 2: 50 lbs x 3 @ 10 rpe
Set 3: 50 lbs x 2 @ 10 rpe - Got an amazing connection with lats on this one.
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Arms = Sunday, Feb 04, 2024 at 4:02pm
SA Triceps Rope Extension
Set 1: 40 lbs x 20 @ 8 rpe - Up 10lbs
Set 2: 40 lbs x 15 @ 9 rpe
Set 3: 50 lbs x 10 @ 9.5 rpe
Set 4: 30 lbs x 20 @ 10 rpe
Triceps Kickback (Dumbbell)
Set 1: 20 lbs x 12 @ 8 rpe
Set 2: 20 lbs x 12 @ 9.5 rpe
Set 3: 20 lbs x 12 @ 10 rpe - Bumped weight up and lowered rep count
EZ Bar Skullcrusher
Set 1: 65 lbs x 15 @ 8.5 rpe
Set 2: 65 lbs x 12 @ 10 rpe
Set 3: 65 lbs x 8 @ 9.5 rpe - Increased volume in exercises preceding this cause lower weight to be used here.
Diamond Push Up
Set 1: 10 reps
Set 2: 8 reps
Set 3: 6 reps
Single Arm Preacher Curl
Set 1: 30 lbs x 10 @ 8 rpe
Set 2: 30 lbs x 10 @ 9.5 rpe
Set 3: 30 lbs x 7 @ 10 rpe - +2 reps = failure
EZ Bar Biceps Curl
Set 1: 40 lbs x 10 @ 9.5 rpe
Set 2: 40 lbs x 10 @ 10 rpe
Set 3: 40 lbs x 8 @ 10 rpe - Biceps were blown out already here. The burn was excruciating and biceps aching from the pump.
Increases are definitely getting harder to come by, and biceps might be pushing into overtraining. I have been noticing my second exercises tend to drop in performance harder lately. I may just be pushing the first exercise harder, but trying to get a read on the situation. Since changing back to mornings it is a bit hard to figure out what is just less food in my system in the AM, and what is a sign of things being pushed too far to fast.
2/5/24 - Fasted Weight 215.6 - I seem to be hanging in this zone a little more but definitely softened up a little. Almost expect a pullback since we had to pull back on gear.
I did not make training this morning, sleep has been horrible the last 2 nights. I think I crossed a threshold into Sleep Apnea land. I have woke up a couple times the last two nights from what seemed to be unexciting dreams. Definitely not disturbing anyway. However I wake up from them in a start, heart rate high enough I can feel it beating, and breathing like I am trying to catch my breath. I think it is being exacerbated by the fact whatever has been going on with the weather, my allergies have been acting up and sinus closing up on me before bed which forces me to sleep with my mouth open. I have been seeing this mouthguard that is made for sleep apnea online recently. I think I am going to give it a shot to see if it will work for me. It basically just pulls your lower jaw forward and holds it there all night. That way the jaw doesn't relax and fall back closing the airway. Seems to have a lot of good reviews and if it actually works seems like something I could do much easier than a C-Pap mask. I mean I already wear a night guard to avoid grinding my teeth off.
When I build the deck to cover where the seats were and put the WMI there, I will see how much room I have for a box then start figuring out what I want to do. Main goal keep the back flat for cargo for larger items. When I told my wife I wanted to get rid of the 3rd row she got a little flustered but I reminded her that I wanted a 4 door high performance sedan and she insisted on an SUV because of family size, and Sage's Color Guard gear. However now all the kids have graduated, and have cars. None of them want to sit in the 3rd row anyway. So no reason to keep it in right now. Otherwise, I would happily trade it in for a performance sedan meant to be quick already. With that in mind she was like yeah go ahead and remove if you want. LMAO!
