AP tests are done for me now and track is almost over. As a matter of fact, school is almost over. I need to find a job some where.

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As for mothers day today, I’m eating lobster and lots of it! Seafood is packed with tons of essential vitamins and Omega 3 fatty acids to prevent heart disease. There is no proven data that shows that seafood prevents the build up of plaque in the arteries but seafood a couple of times a week will benefit your health immensely in the long run.

Loaded with protein and has a minuscule amount of fat, lobster is a perfect protein source.

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All of the work in AP Calculus class this year was put to the test today. Today was the day of my AP Calculus BC test, and man am I relieved that I’m done. It was a lot easier then the piles of practice tests that I had (I didn’t do 90% of them). It would suck if I get a 3 because Michigan doesn’t accept 3’s and they won’t convert the BC score to AB. O well, I am pretty confident that I did well. Tomorrow is AP English Literature (eh) . Tomorrow is going to be 10x worst then today because I am bad at poems, Shakespeare and analyzing literature. I can’t wait for the four hours of torture.

Enough with that. I haven’t hit the gym in 3 days and man was today a rush. I felt amazing and hyped up to hit the weights. I had my headphones blaring and I hit my shoulders and traps hard. My vascularity looks like its actually been going up despite the weight I’m putting on. I remember a while ago when I almost had a heart attack when I saw a tiny vein popping out of my shoulder. Now I got them running down both arms. This new pyramiding workout scheme feels great after running the same workouts for half a year.

Shoulders and Traps

• Dumbbell Press 1×15, 1×10, 1×8, 1×10, 1×15
• Dumbbell Shrugs 1×20, 1×15, 1×12, 1×15, 1×20
• Smith Machine Shoulder Press 1×15, 1×12, 1×10, 1×8, 1xFailure, 1xFailure
• Barbell Shrugs Supersetted with Lateral Raises 3×15 of each
• Deltoid Flys 1×15, 1×12, 1×10, 1×8, 1×12, 1×15, 1×20

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The track invitational was canceled due to thunder and lightning. We had to sit around for like two hours before going home. I hope they reschedule it because I want my medals .

I came home and went to the gym to have a nice chest workout. Man, I felt so sluggish and tired. my whole body ached for some reason, I haven’t lifted in a week either. It felt like slow torture. I’m also starting a new lifting routine. I’ve never used it before but a lot of people seem to recommend it. It’s called pyramiding. You go from high reps to low reps and back to high reps. I used around six sets per exercise. It looked a little something like this

Incline Bench

1×15, 1×10, 1×8, 1×6, 1×8, 1×15

Dumbbell Press

1×15, 1×10, 1×8, 1×6, 1×8, 1×15

Hammer Bench

1×15, 1×10, 1×8, 1×4, 1×8, 1×15

Cable Cross

1×15, 1×10, 1×8, 1×10, 1×15

It wasn’t too bad, besides the fact that I dragged my ass around the gym.

Later that night I hung out with my friend and his girlfriend. We played some video games and went out to eat. We didn’t go anywhere healthy either. It’s probably the best example of unhealthy. Buffalo Wild Wings. O yeahhh. I’ve never been there before but I’ve heard that it’s amazing. I got the Parmasan Garlic and Caribbean jerk boneless wings. The Parmasan Garlic was on the salty side and the Caribbean jerk was pretty good. A nice little cheat. It seems like I’m always cheating : O . The atmosphere was amazing. It was a very modern looking restaurant. Flat screen tv’s everywhere with nice tall ceilings. They only had sports on though, and I’m not a very big sports fan. It was very nice overall though.

They had a large list of sauces for your wings. From what I heard, Blazin isn’t even worth trying because it will hurt so bad.

• Sweet BBQ
• Teriyaki
• Mild
• Parmesan Garlic
• Medium
• Honey BBQ
• Spicy Garlic
• Asian Zing
• Caribbean Jerk
• Hot BBQ
• Hot
• Mango Habanero
• Wild
• Blazin

Buffalo Wild Wings

Overall – 7

• Pretty good restaurant. A great place to hang with friends and have a good time.

Taste - 8

• Pretty good. The Parmasan Garlic is a bit too salty.

Health Conscious – 4

• Not very many options for the health conscious. They have some wraps here and there, but they were not very health conscious either.

Atmosphere – 10

• The ceilings are high. Flat screen tv’s are everywhere. The air was clean and cool. An overall great atmosphere.

Time to hit the gym for a nice back day today. I still feel a little sluggish, but a lot better. See you guys later

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I’ve been laying back on the diet lately and it’s starting to take its toll. I’m getting a little bit chubbier and my abs are starting to fade away. I was eating 100g’s worth of carbs from white rice and sweet potatoes post workout because I thought that I would need it. It’s only getting me fatter. We all need to test our bodies and I found out that too many carbs post workout will grow me a nice little spare tire. So I am dropping the white rice and switching to 30g’s of carbs from skim milk and 30g’s of carbs from sweet potatoes. I’ll see how that goes with my body. A massive guy I meet at the gym says he doesn’t even ingest carbs post workout. He says that there is not need for a post workout insulin spike. If it worked for him then I guess it could work for me. I might try that next if I’m not staying as lean as I would like to be.

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this is not me lol.

I’ll be out of the gym for the rest of this week because I need rest for a track invitational coming up this Friday. Our three man discus team holds the record at that invitational and we hope to raise the bar higher this year. I hope to throw 140+ this track meet (yes alex, 140+). My school’s record is 147 and I hope to break that this year. As long as someone else doesn’t break it first. Man I want to hit the gym real bad.

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A little off topic today but I went to an MMA fight this Saturday and I feel like talking about that. It was a new event that kicked off the DonofrioMMA series. I may have expected a little too much though after watching hours of UFC. Most of the matches were new and inexperienced guys from small city gyms. It was Canada Vs. USA, where they had matches with opposing countries fighting. I don’t remember the score, but I remember that Canada was up by like five. I thought each match would be three rounds of pounding and blood. Probably seven out of the ten matches ended within 30 seconds of the starting bell. One ended in six seconds. Most of the guys didn’t look like MMA fighters at all. They looked like average joes that were doing MMA as a hobby. No disrespect to them though because it takes a lot of guts to go out on stage and fight in front of an audience.

It was a cool experience, but I don’t think I’ll attend any more amateur MMA fights anytime soon. If UFC is coming to town then count me in!

On a side note, I really need to start cleaning up my diet. This “I’m gaining weight so I can eat anything” excuse really needs to go. I’m going to get fat and you guys are going to see it. I’ll have some pictures up within the next couple of days with a neat little 3d thing if it goes well. Doing zero cardio is not too good for the waist line and heart. I am absolutely gassed when we do conditioning at track practice.

Procrastination is horrible and I really need to get some stuff done, so I’ll see you guys later.

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