In the early part of the week, Monday and Tuesday, I was at the hospital on and off both days...all day. I have been medically cleared of all probable heart conditions!!!! Clean bill of health, baby! My heart has been officially diagnosed as having "Excellent Tolorence." That is outstanding news and I have been soooooo relieved, that I have been hitting the gym VERY hard with my only friend in Florida, Tim-Timmy.
Every single muscle group in my body is sore or depleted. I just got back from the gym tonight. We worked out our back using a variety of 7 excersises. I must have told Tim I hated him at least a dozen times. The hardest was in the racquet ball court where we crawled back and forth without our legs, another few times back and forth with our legs (bear crawls), and then we did one of those Army Training excersises where you stand, jump down, throw your legs out behind you, jump them back, stand up, recover and repeat. We did that thirty times at the very end of the day and I hated Tim Timmy. Now, I'm super tired. My hands are killing me from these last several days of working out...we have hit EVERY major muscle group in 3 days.
On Monday we're starting a grueling six week program, the likes of which I have never taken part. I'll be eating 4 eggs every morning, two large sweet potatos a day, a can of spinich a day, 8 ounces of cottage cheese a day, two cups of oatmeal a day, a turkey breast sandwhich on wheat bread (mustard is the only allowed condement), a chicken breast sanwhich on white bread (aslo only mustard), several vitimins, 64 - 96 oz of water a day, and as much natural juice as we can choke down. This will be for six weeks. Plus, durring the work outs we'll be drinking these foul (but all natural) muscle recovery shakes. We'll be mixing every excersise known to man, 2 hours a day for 6 days a week. Sunday will be our day of rest. We chose Sunday so we could relax and watch football. But we still have to stick to the diet.
What are the benifits you ask? Well, Tim Timmy has done this three times before, once per year. And it's time once again for the yearly killer. The literature he gave me says that since this my first time on the program, that if I stick to the work out, don't cheat, and don't miss more than three days in the six weeks, I'll add 2 inches to my arms, three to six inches on my chest, 40 pounds to my max bench press weight, shave 3 inches off my waist. Oh ya, also, once a week, we have to do one 45 minute aerobic session. The other three will be 20 - 30 minutes.
I guess what I started telling you, is that all this week, I've been at the gym, or on the track all afternoon and into the night...and this shall continue for the next six weeks starting on November 1st. The up-side is that I'll be able to take ONE full week off at the end.
Double O is trying, as I type, to get onto this thing. We're getting closer at least.

Mungo
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