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Monday

Squat multiple sets
Squat superset w/ pull ups multiple sets
Chest pad t bar row 4 sets
Wall ball 4 sets
DB row 3 sets

Jump rope superset w/ DB curl 4 sets
DB hammer curl superset w/ ankle mobility 4 sets

I was super excited to squat, I looked forward to it all day. Felt good and was ready to go, but my ankle was not. First real set the ankle started to hurt, in between sets I continued to work the ankle and eventually it got better but not great. I didn't go really heavy or do a ton of reps but I did a bunch of sets to make up for it. Other than that the workout was good until jumping rope again hurt pretty badly. My ankle was feeling fine but once I hit the jump rope it hurt again, I even made the dumb decision to only hop on that ankle and it was painful and no explosion in the movement. That's when I turned to some ankle work, walking with weird foot placement to help stretch out and strengthen the ankle.

I haven't slept good either. Day to day the ankle doesn't really bother me but at night when I'm sleeping I get this weird dull numb pain going from my ankle up near my groin, I'm wondering if some nerves got messed up which is causing this issue when it gets tight but its woken me up now for like a week.

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Tuesday

Side lateral raise 4 sets
Reverse peck deck 4 sets
Peck deck 4 sets
Decline hammer strength 4 sets
Low cable cross over superset with wide grip high row 3 sets
Rope extension 5 sets (last one was a drop set)

Yesterday was a rough day, I was moving off of no sleep and sitting at work my right leg kept going numb. It was rough to have to sit in a training class all day while my right leg was super uncomfortable. The gym however was much better, I felt pretty good and feel like I woke up. Also my shoulder didn't really hurt.....until the cable cross. I haven't touched my upper chest in awhile because of the shoulder issue and the gym not really having a machine I could use for upper shoulder. The cable cross's hurt a bit, nothing like how it was but not great either. I'm hoping I'm on my way to fixing the issue since I made it through 85% of my workout pain-free.

In the mirror I feel like I look like I've really added size since Vector. Maybe a little bit of bloat in the stomach but I was happy, looking in the mirror seeing my muscles being more round and full was great. I also thought of how good this product could be if I didn't have some injuries along the way.

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Wednesday

Basketball

Felt good to play. I think it's the nights that I'm really not concerned about playing is when I play the best. I told them I'd play but I regretted saying that all day. I was tired and I have a bunch of stuff to do. I ended up playing and it was really good. It was the first time since I hurt my ankle where I felt like I was moving really really well during the game. Being short I usually outwork people with constantly moving and outworking them. Recently I haven't been doing that but last night I felt like I was back to doing that again. The last game was the exception, my ankle started to tighten up. I didn't reinjure anything, I think it just fatigued by the end.

The worst part was another sleepless night. I'm taking the next 4 days off, tonight mostly because I have a ton of stuff that needs to get done and the weekend since I'm going out of town for my cousins graduation. I'm hoping the 4 days off can help reset my sleep schedule but also heal up my ankle, knee, and shoulder even more.

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Thursday

Took the day off from the gym, went to get a hair cut and all that fun stuff for the graduation I'm going to. I spent most of the night ironing clothes since my mother couldn't tell me what to wear so now I'm bringing way more than I should.

Anyway my ankle felt pretty good all day yesterday but I fell asleep for an hour last night and woke up with the discomfort. It kind of feels like someone gave me a dead legger but after the pain goes away you can sort of still feel the area that was hit, just a discomfort that wakes me up and somewhat keeps me awake. I'm thinking it's a pinched nerve somewhere and I'll have to research how to fix it. Luckily I'm going to a chiropractor graduation haha so maybe I can talk to my cousin or someone else who graduated to help me out while I'm there.

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Weekend

Had the weekend off like I said. Went out of town for my cousins graduation so I didn't do anything in terms of the gym. Usually during things like this I come back feeling fat and sloppy but I don't feel it this time, just look it. The mirror wasn't really my friend yesterday, so I can't wait to get back in the swing of things today. I was hoping thought that the time away would heal up some pain.

My cousin graduated from chiropractic school so I was eager for him to look at my ankle but on the same note, it was his weekend and he wanted to enjoy himself. I did do something to it and said whatever was wrong with it was causing lack of blood flow and circulation to my ankle which he helped fix. It hurt more after he did it thought but what he said made sense. Driving 3 hours on Friday to the location, my toes were going numb a few times and yesterday on the 3 hours back, I didn't feel the pins and needles at all. However the pain and discomfort is still there. He did tell me to go and get some heat therapy on the ankle so of course what he did wasn't a cure all.

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Monday

Deadlift 5 sets
T bar row 4 sets
Leg press 4 sets
Standing calve raise 4 sets
Lat pulldown 4 sets

I was excited to get into the gym and do my thing. Deadlifts felt good, but they also seemed to take awhile. I went home last night and thought I should of did more leg work but now that I see the list, it wasn't too bad. Deadlifts being the harder exercise plus a pain to add and remove weight, not to mention the clips at my gym are all bent so its a fight to get them on the bar just takes a bit. Usually I would do a bigger second leg exercise but with the ankle and tightness I figured some calve raises could serve me well. All in all it just felt good after the 4 day break.

I also would normally jump rope but I figured I should possibly lay off a bit on the landing on the ankle, let it heel, I probably rushed back to jumping to quickly. So I did a HIIT session on the elliptical, low impact and still challenging.

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httTuesday

Chest/Shoulders

Wednesday

Basketball

Thursday

Legs/Back

It's been hectic at work so I haven't gotten a chance to get on. What I can say though is I think I need to let up on training quads directly. Last night was the worst night of sleep since I hurt my ankle. I get this shooting pain up from my ankle to my quad...it's not really pain though, it's almost like a numbness but not pins and needles, it's weird and kept me up all night last night. I slept lovely after basketball which I usually don't so I'm wondering if the leg extensions/squats made something worse. Even right now my ankle is a bit iffy and my quad feels sort of weird.

I don't know what to do at this point, I'm really doing my best to get my ankle better and more recently getting stuff in my quad moving. The stretching and whatever else isn't really helping but I'm going to keep searching for answers.

I do have Forged Joint Repair coming so hopefully that helps with the tendons and what not.

[BABY1]

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Hope that ankle gets better for you soon!

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Saturday

DB curl superset with v bar extension 4 sets
BB curl superset with straight bar extension 4 sets
Double high cable curl superset w/ DB behind head extension 4 sets

Random footwork, battle ropes, farmers walks

I didn't feel like I had motivation to be at the gym. I don't know if it was the cold and the gym itself was super cold and I couldn't get warm or what. I felt like I just wanted to get in there and out of there. I did get an amazing pump in my arms though, not really sure what was different on this day but my whole arm had the pump. My gym owner has had battle ropes for years now but they were shredding a bit when they were out so he put them in the closest, well they are back so I had to use them and probably will use them whenever I can. Other than that I wanted to take it easy on my ankle but still take it easy so I did a lot of light impact footwork.

Sunday

Basketball

I've been feeling better with basketball and this day was no different, I really didn't have any pain and was playing good...in the first half. Start of the second half, my team got a steal and I run down, get an easy lay up, not sure if it was the running or jumping for the layup but my ankle hurt, nothing major but my game wasn't the same after that.

Last night of course my quad started to feel sore before bed so I got worried. Of course I was in bed for a half hour and then awake with the pain/numbness. Even this morning I can feel the quad issue which is usually gone when I wake up in the morning. I found some stretch that's supposed to be good for pinched nerves that I did yesterday and will continue to do so in hopes that it helps but it may be time to call my chiro and see what he can do for me.

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Hope that ankle gets better for you soon!

thanks baby, me2 haha, I need some quality workouts here but I haven't been getting them much lately

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Monday

Pull ups superset w/ low cable row 4 sets
Rope pulldown superset w/ BB curl 4 sets
Chest pad T bar row superset w/ preacher curl machine 4 sets
Lat pulldown 3 sets
Outside hip machine superset w/ seated leg curl 3 sets
Inside hip machine 3 sets
Glute machine 3 sets

I was excited to get into the gym and get in some work however I wanted to be careful not to really have any direct work on my quad muscle since it's been causing so many issues. So I held off on the leg work until the end since I honestly didn't care if I really hit legs or not but I had some time so I did some unique work that I usually don't do. Anyway the workout was fun and fast. I supersetted a lot of my workout and worked fast, probably faster than I actually realized but it was fun and felt good. So all in all it wasn't a bad exercise.

Last night I spent a lot of the night on youtube looking for remedies for my quad issue and found a few stretches which felt good and hopefully will start to help. Sleeping was still a bit of an issue last night as I woke up in discomfort, but they didn't seem as bad as the last few days.

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Tuesday

Side lateral raise 4 sets
Reverse Peck Deck 4 sets
Peck deck 4 sets
Decline hammer strength 4 sets (last set drop set)
Single arm cable cross superset w/ facepull 3 sets

Battle ropes 6 sets

Once again I went back to this same workout. Mainly because I know it doesn't cause discomfort in my shoulder and at this point I know what I can do on the decline press and have been beating my previous weeks numbers almost every week. The workout itself was pretty good. I felt good and the shoulder didn't hurt. I did try and overhead press with just the bar at one point and had some discomfort so I figured I shouldn't risk it and promptly put the bar down.

I'm so happy the battle ropes are back. Not only do I think it's great for shoulders and chest day but also for the cardio aspect. Since I'm not jumping rope right now to stay off my leg the battle ropes are my form of an intense cardio. The pump I got from the ropes yesterday was different, usually the upper body pump can be felt mostly in the larger muscles, this time I felt like my pump was hitting even the little muscles.

[BABY1]

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Battle ropes sound grueling!

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Wednesday

Basketball

All day my opposite leg was bothering me. I really hope I'm not over compensating on it and will cause an injury to it but once I started my stretching routine, everything felt really good. I'm really enjoying my stretching routine, as odd as that sounds. But my timing on it may not be great, I try and stretch about an hour before the game. My ankle seemed to tighten up again before the game though which sucked. Playing itself felt good, not really anymore pain that normal. Most of the game I felt fine, it was towards the end when I felt the ankle being sore a bit. In between breaks once I must have bent wrong on it which didn't help but all in all a solid game, lots of fun.

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Battle ropes sound grueling!

they can be for sure, a lot of fun if you haven't tried them......the ones my gym has are super long or feel long so its tough to really get them moving...I mentioned double wrapping them around the pole to make it a little easier and so people can do longer intervals on them but no one seems to know what i'm talking about when I say it