Approved Log Mobster - back on the grind log

[SteveSmith]

I talked to mobster last night he is definitely doing better but we'll see about today

 

[25homes]

rest and hydrate

 

[Monstro]

Monstro never gets sick or miss the gym
Monstro is a lion
the day i miss the gym take the shotgun and finish me

 

[Vadim Fedorov]

Mobster stop being a tough guy
take a few days off already !

 

[2Thick]

we need you mobster!
without you on the podcasts we would have to listen to steve for an hour blab away about diet this or that. we need you!

 

[e2]

get some rest
i want you to sleep 14 hours today. don't wake up until after

 

[StevenDarwinMD]

APPROVED LOG

 

[Ulter]

glad to see that you are feeling better
just don't push your luck and go anywhere where you're around people

 

[chesty]

mobster don't make yourself sick
stay healthy, we love you and need you

 

[ROIDDERS]

hopefully the medication is kicking in soon
this way you are back to your old self

 

[ceo]

bros mobster stay alive!
if you die then we lose an important mod on here and thats not good

 

[ballin2504]

Glad to hear you are doing better Mobster

 

[Noah Wixx]

I'm happy seeing you post and update and let us know you truly are OK, I was worried when I saw you had fallen ill. Happy you are slowly getting back at it and above all healthy

 

[sarmsmonster123]

Thanks for the update mate. Praing do your health.

 

[Jayne Scott]

I'll see if I can string together a few words together about my recent and ongoing, for now, illness.

Sunday 14th as we drive back after a trail walk (ironically to work the lungs better instead of more gentle flat walking) I started to get a tickling type cough. I had zero idea of what was coming. The next day or two if moved up to something I thought would be 24-48 hours of annoying. Take a few paracetamol and I'd be good to go. Sleep wasn't good and I was struggling Wednesday.

It quickly became to where I could hear the mucus on my chest as I breathed and it was fkin with my sleep. I have here and have mentioned as a way of not needing to go to the docs amoxcilliin for pets. But, as I wrote, I took my daily supps plus a single daily pill late last week and both times spewed in very short order. I've used them before with zero issues (pushing my body on cycle made a gland in my jaw swell - an indication of over training and or stress on my immune system). Oh and yet I killed it both days in the gym. Looking back... how I managed this is beyond me and was a bad idea.

Saturday and Sunday I was f**ked big time. Zero appetite, minimal liquid intake and a LOT of time resting. Monday the GF, who has a LOT to deal with (not the least of which is asthma and her mum is now on end of life palliative care) went into ass kicking mode and made me (I needed this) go to a walk in at a local hospital. That was not good although they could see how ill I was. Apparently I was lacking in color ( a grayish pallor) which indicates oxygen issues. I literally looked up my symptoms that morning - fkin Pneumonia. Even now untreated and un-diagnosed it has a 30% mortality (death rate).

Off to the docs then. Now you're supposed to call and book and appointment but I knew I was now properly ill and we rolled the dice. One person waiting and me. Receptionist was on point (they were amazing when my back was in bits in 2016) and I only go when I'm ill. Zero need to see the doctor. Outside with the script and I start coughing as I hang off the side of the car and I was about ready to collapse there in the street spewing. One side issue of coughing, poor diet etc is ya gotta watch you don't sh*t at the same time. You're unwell so you don't care but still... eeek!

The chemist/pharmacist said to double up (so 1500mg becomes 3000mg of amoxicillin) day 1 and that I'd feel better by day 3. Exactly so. I'm on that today. I had some properly low days and felt very sorry for myself (who will come save my ass behind my steel street doors etc etc) and naturally felt very weak. I'm by no means recovered - needed to rest 2 x today - but I am a LOT better and feel like I'll improve daily.

I'll try some very light (which if ok will quickly get pushed up) training Monday after coaching (see below)

Bonus: I'm sick and yet 2 things happened that week or so. 1) I had a leak from a pipe late last week and my neighbors sons are plumbers and fixed it, for free, as per. One asked me to coach him for a title fight so I'll be doing (at fkin 7am lol) that for the next few weeks. The other was a former lifting buddy who wants to put a competition on and asked me what events I wanted (as in pick what I like hot damn lol).

Get well soon @Mobster

 

[UPsteroid]

We wish you a speedy recovery Sir

 

[Mobster]

My latest Purity Source Labs - EuroPharmacies touchdown

 

[Mobster]

Monday
@ my gym. First time back at it. I've deliberately held back from ba**s out training so as to not knock myself back recovery wise. No straps, belts etc used. On my top set of leg presses I had a sense of ''grrrrr.... c'mon kick ass'. Nutso mode complete with me chest bumping the plates lol. No let's see how recovery goes. The plan is to see how that goes and then, if ok, ramp it up.

Power Squat Machine
warm up x set up, 80kg x 8 reps, 160kg x 8 reps, 250kg x 8 reps (all about 1/3rd my usual weights)

Leg Press
192.5kg x 8 reps, 317.5kg x 8 reps, 437.5kg x 8 reps

Lying Leg Curls
4p x 8 reps, 6p x 8 reps

Leg Extensions
4p x 8 reps, 7p x 8 reps

 

[Mobster]

Tuesday
@ my gym. Still holding back. I'm coughing the crap out now I think. Still recovering. I weighed myself for the first time since before the Pneumonia - down at least 11lbs. No straps, belts, etc used.

Seated Press
Mores strength available but no need to impact recovery
warm ups, 20kg x 8, 40kg x 8, 50kg x 6 (easy) and 60kg x 6 easy

Saxon Bar
bar x 8, 42.5kg x 6, 72.5kg x 3, 3 and 6. Again more there but holding back.

Bwt: 319lbs with a lot of clothing on (cold here) so 316lbs - from 327lbs or so

If recovery goes well then I'll ramp it up to 75% of previous numbers asap

 

[Mobster]

Recovery etc
So I've referred to many times the 2016 issue I had. A 16 week out of the gym back issue. I'd had little tweaks and injuries which came from pushing hard in the gym and competing to world record levels previously. It's a price you pay and world records come with risks. What I'd learned from that and from hitting the gym right after competitions was you CANNOT go back in, especially post cycle, at the same level. Seems fkin obvious top me now but I had to learn the hard way.

In 2016 I KNEW there was no fkin way I'd be able to go back to the gym at anywhere close to 100% of where I'd been before. Even 70-80% might have had a bunch of risks for injury and putting myself back. So I deliberately went in at 60%. So a 300lb bench for reps MUST start at 180lbs. It took me about 4-6 weeks to push to 90% (270lbs) and then get back on the grind where I'd been before and aiming for new PB's and the like.

This bout of Pneumonia is the same. With, perhaps, the added issue of wanting the immune system to be working. There's ZERO point, even if I can (and I have felt I can go harder), going hard and slowing down full recovery. It might be both tempting and frustrating to go hard but you'd only slow everything down and so take even longer to get back to where you wanna be.

That said the plan is 60% week 1 (this week),. 80% week 2 (next week) and back on the plan week 3. I MIGHT see where I am on the bench Friday. Letting the cards fall how they want. I DO have the advantage that unlike 2016 and 16 weeks (4 months) this is just 2 or so weeks. So the process can be a little quicker.