So today was my rest day, which is supposed to be tomorrow, however after hitting it really hard at the gym yesterday, I struggled to stay awake past 11AM today and so slept till around 1.. Bad times I know!
After getting sick of preparing each meal separately I decided to cook around 3-4 days worth of food today – Have to do something with the free time right? Took a good hour or so, I’m crap at multitasking in the kitchen (I even have to draft in my sister as an assistant!) So I’ll definitely be on top of the diet for the next few weeks! However, not much else happened today so I’ll indulge you in a little story.
Last night it was a Lads night in at a mates, He had recently purchased a simple “Home Gym Kit” which consisted of a few light dumbbells, a bench and various barbell weights. Now let me get one thing straight, the host is a bit of a dick when it comes to fitness, he will out right lie about what he can do and when you prove him wrong he will manage to find an excuse as to why he couldn’t do what he said. With that said, lads + weights = All wanting to have to a go.
To start with me and my gym bud started to ask what he could do, Deadlifts, Squats, Bench etc, and seeing as nobody knew what the other two were, we set about seeing who had the biggest bench. Instantly the Host jumped on, maxed it out and with poor formed managed to squeeze out… 3? If you count the other shockingly performed 2 then 5. To which he stood up and said “I can usually do another 30KG and I usually go for 5 x 15***8243; I couldn’t help but let out a small chuckle, this obviously put me in the firing line for next up. Now we had around, 65kg on the bar, which is pretty much my personal best, so I was obviously hesitant at first going straight in. So I said I’d do a quick warm-up and stretch and to let someone else have a go before me (I always stretch now, after hearing some horror stories about people that didn’t) which got a laugh from him as I knocked out some quick press-ups and stretches. To my surprise once I hopped on (And again, got some laughs from the Host when I was trying to set up my posture right – Arch Back, Squeeze etc) I knocked out 10 easily, and according to my gym bud, with fairly decent form!
With that everyone else hopped on, and with the exception of one, most failed to even un-rack it. This lead to me and my gym bud asking if we could use the bigger bar and put more weights on. He said sure, we knocked out a 3 rep Personal Best at 75KG, we were stunned! Sadly, as the Host failed to un rack it, we weren’t allowed to use the weights any more, so went back upstairs for more drink and pizza.
There not much moral to the story, just thought that I’d rather write something than nothing, but I guess is there was one it would be not to underestimate yourself – Especially if you have a good spotter!
