Week 4 Daily lift. Cutting the fat

Scale said 223 today that's about 5lbs down this month.  Not a bad start, but damn I'm starving haha.

The nice thing about being away is that I can train a body part each day and do cardio after, instead of racing through my lift to pick up kids etc.  

I use the 5/3/1 program and it has an app that I use and it's awesome. A great program with flexibility

Today was chest.  Week 1 all 5 reps for the main lift flat bench
All you do Is put your max in and the app will calculate the rest for you easy as that.

My max bench is 350 lbs so today's main lift went like this

225x5 ( the app said 205 but I adapted)
245x5
265x5+ meaning do 5 but rep to failure as it will adjust for you in the future on the app. I got it for 10 which put my new max at about 352.  Not bad with a sore wrist.

Afterward was a lot of assistance lifts. Incline bench 4 sets. Cable crosses high setting and low setting 4 sets each.   Stretched. Did some hanging leg Raises and some weighted decline sit ups then hit the tread mill for 20 min.  I do some variation of treadmill elliptical mountain climbing wall every day for 20 min and a few evenings a week go for a 2 mile run.   I figure by July progress should be full tilt.

Ill cover food and supplements. In tomorrow edition

Marathon, not a sprint...

Progress comes slowly, finally today a got an email address. How about that 3 weeks later and finally some progress. I guess I am just used to go go go and the mentality here is whatever. But god forbid if you speak up about it, you get called unprofessional for actually caring, wanting the tools to do the job and well wanting to work.

Speaking of progress, the week or 2 leading up to deployment I didn't do anything. Ate pizza, drank beer, no physical activity. I figured shit 6 months to clean it up. Here I am back at it. Chopped chicken, veggies all day. Bleh! but it worked last time and time for more work.

This photo is from day 2 in country 228 lbs.  I know its a crap pic, however this is the best you get in a man can.   Today I am 224 so its starting slowly.  Marathon and not a sprint.  I'll be training 5/3/1.  Cutting cals slowly over time, because frankly thats all I have is time.  The food is good and the gym is adequate and well there is no office here so to speak so its just me alone for 6 months.    The clock has started.  Time to roll.

Love to breathe in that Fresh Air!

Yes something about the desert, really makes ya feel great. Blowing your nose 15 times a day as mud comes out, hacking up your lung because its coated in dust. Waking up and bleeding from all the crap. : im gonna edit this part, I often forget as a military member I am not allowed to form an opinion and better not post anything that can be used against me lol:  . At that point I nodded off to dream land as he rattled on thinking of the day that I'll be surfing with my friends in Puerto Rico upon my return from this little tour.    Aside from all the fun civilian stuff, my training is starting to hit its stride.  2 months after a small wrist fracture I was able to put up 305 for 6 reps yesterday with little pain, should be back to form in no time.

Diet is coming alone nicely as well, if they would just put the dessert bar in a different place and not near the exit I would be fine. 

Return to the middle East

It was a quick 14 months since I departed Qatar, when I found myself with short notice 1 week to prepare orders to Kuwait.  The last year flew by simply because I had 4 TDY's during that timeframe totalling 13 weeks. SO essentially I was only really home 9 months.  This tour will be unique as it is a DCMA tasking. Basically administering a little over 2 billion dollars in contracts for Northern Kuwait.  Even more challenging is the fact that the notice came down 10 days prior, the person I replaced had already left and the turnover provided was via Facebook haha. All the turnover in the world could not prepare me for the Army.  God bless anyone who can serve a day in this organization.  Wow,  more on that in the future. The day I arrived the Army felt the need to pull access from us to a certain network drive that basically contained every document I will need to perform my work. In addition after 2 weeks the Army still hasn't set up my email lol

So short notice orders, no turnover, no access to anything that I need to do work, and no email to conduct business.   Piece of cake,  I am convinced I was sent here to fail, I really am.  However I wont, I've traveled the 2 plus Hours to another Army post to burn the documents I need to DVD's and Hard drives.  I'm using my stateside AF email address to conduct business, and I talk to everyone like I already know what Im doing lol.  Truth is I'm clueless.   Its been a really rough start, but on the flip side it is a DCMA tasking so its much slower than last yrs tasking so I have the time to figure it out.

As much as I hate leaving home, I look forward to these taskings for personal and professional growth, a chance to reflect alone on life, a chance to physically grow and change and last an adventure to say the least. I'm basically my own boss here with my own room and my own vehicle. That is unheard of for someone with my rank. I'm in the office about 14 hrs a day but I do leave for food, gym, and occasionally downtown to see the locale. You never really know fear until you drive 200 KPH in downtown just so you do not get ran off the road and die.    More to come..........