Made it to the gym tonight, even though I honestly didn't feel like going. Started with 20 minutes on the treadmill and then did 20 minutes on the recumbent bike. My cardio keeps getting better, which for a fat man like me simply means that it hurts less each time.
I moved from that into lifting - arms and chest. While doing some closed grip bench press I felt what I suspect was a blood vessel break in my left hand. We'll see in the morning I guess, but it's a bit tender at the moment. I didn't let that stop me & finished my workout. I'm 99% sure I'm going to be sore tomorrow.
An interesting thing about my body is that I've always been sorest 48 hours after lifting hard, even when I was playing college football and moving impressive amounts of iron.
I used to lift a lot. My best bench press was in 2002 when I got 395lbs up. I never did hit my goal of 400lbs due to a strain in my left pectoral muscle. I strained it, had to take it easy for a while, and then moved nearly six hours away & enrolled full time in Seminary where I never managed to get back into regular lifting while living on campus. In college I squatted 720lbs which was a school record at the time for a running back (I was a fullback). I never was all that good at dead lift - the third of the "classic" competition lifts. My all time best was 425lbs, and I'm not sure I locked it out long enough to count it.
I'm hoping to lift more as I progress in this thing called "working out". I used to be called "Big Chris" because I was strong as an ox, not like now where it's because I'm overweight. While I might not return to those aforementioned glory days, I'd love to be strong once again.
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