Day 3: Sick and Sad Again

Props if you get the lyrical reference in the title.

So, woke up this morning, still sick.  Little bit worse than yesterday actually.  It certainly didn't help that I only got like 6 hours of sleep - see, for school this entire year I had to wake up at 6:45/7 AM from Monday to Thursday because all of my classes were at 8:30 and I had to eat breakfast, catch the bus, etc.  Because of this, I basically slept 7 or 8 hours every night; the side effect to this is that my body is now programmed to not sleep any longer than 8 hours, and on weekdays I usually wake up at least once around 7 - it's a little creepy really.

Anyways, despite my increasing sickness, I still worked out today.  Cardio was fine; popped in the second disc of Evening with Kevin Smith 3 and I was on my way.  I find that when I'm watching something entertaining it makes doing cardio a lot easier and less mind-numbing.  Unfortunately, while I have tons of TV shows and stuff that I haven't gotten to watching yet, I'm running out of things that will make good "exercise viewing"; something tells me that Samurai Jack's atmospheric, often mostly silent episodes won't make very good workout watching.  We'll see.

So, as I said yesterday, I decided to switch around the muscle group combinations, so Day 3 is now Shoulders and Back.  Here's the revised workout:

Day 3: Shoulders and Back ***revised***
- Shoulder Shrugs - 3 X 15 - 35 pounds
- Dumbbell Overhead Press - 3 X 12 - 17.5 pounds
- TVOs - 2 X 10 - 7.5 pounds
- Ref Calls - 2 X 10 of each section (this is a superset, so you use a low weight and basically do 40 reps in a row of various exercises.  Ask for details if you want them.  Sick exercise!) - 7.5 pounds
- One-Armed Rows - 3 X 15 (each arm) - 15 pounds
- Dumbbell Lying Rows - 3 X 15 - 15 pounds (I wasn't too sure about this one - I feel like my form is off.)

I lowered the weights for some of the shoulder exercises, but I think at least for the Shrugs I should be able to go up in weight by next week.  Also, still looking for one or two more good back exercises.  I didn't look up barbell stuff so I'm going to do that in the next few days.

I've decided that it makes way more sense for Thursday to be my break day, so that in-between each set of 3 days I'm able to just rest and let my body recover.  I came to this conclusion because my entire body is aching today; my biceps and triceps still need some time to recover and my abs and chest are throbbing.  Furthermore, tomorrow is the day of my jury.  For those not in music (i.e. all of you), you do a jury when you take private lessons as a course - basically, you go into a room and there's a "jury" (hence the name, hardeeharhar) of 3 people on faculty, and you play the material you've been working on throughout the year for 5 minutes or so.  It's worth 50% of your private lesson mark; I'm not worried as I've been prepared for about 2 weeks, but it'll be nice to just chill tomorrow.  Anyways, the pain is fine; it's just the usual muscle recovery pain, as I've been taking all the necessary precautions and doing proper stretching.  It'll recover faster once my body gets used to the routine.

That's all for today.  I shall return on Thursday for Day 5 (or should it be Day 4?  Does a rest day count as a day?  Hurm....)!

-Daniel