Benchtastic day

I swear I think I'm recycling titles for these blogs... anyway... first, FUCK DAYLIGHT SAVING TIME!  Seriously, it's pointless, it's not WWI anymore.  It's stupid.  It just wrecks people.  Fuck it right in the most painful way possible.  Seriously.  DIAF already!  So, woke up this morning tired, I always wake up tired, but today was a bit more tired than normal so that was a kick in the balls.  So, I had stuff I needed to do today, laundry, cleaning, and such aside from training.  So went to the gym.  I stopped using pre-workouts after I was put on beta blockers because well, they just wake me up a bit but don't energize me, however I'll still get an energy drink ever now and then because I'm tired and I need to be woke up.  My preferred drink of choice is VPX Redline Xtreme Watermelon, it's delicious, it's two servings per bottle, full disclosure, I never make it two servings. Occasionally I'll drink a Monster in the white can but it's because I like the flavor more than getting an actual energy boost from it.  But anyway, a full bottle of Redline Xtreme Watermelon has about 316mg of caffeine if you down the whole bottle.  In addition, has tyrosine, yerba mate, beta-alanine, so a few other things for energy aside from the massive dose of caffeine.  If you don't know much about dosages of caffeine, generally speaking a cup of coffee has 95mg per 8oz.  A caffeine tab such as No Doz has 200.  So this fun little drink is over 3 cups of coffee or a little over 1.5 caffeine tabs.  Anyway, here's the fun effect of beta blockers with energy drinks.  I drink one and it's like "Well, I don't feel a boost of energy anymore, but I'm no longer sleepy."  I miss feeling that huge boost of energy I'd get from them or a pre-workout.  Here's a fun pic taken an hour after ingesting the full bottle. 

I mean, I guess it's better than my heart exploding on it's own, but damn I miss that rush of energy.  The funny thing is, all those numbers are actually elevated from it.  So yay.  :)

Okay, this thing is long, now I'll get to the actual training.  Today neither my partner nor myself felt like being there, I'm going to blame DST(have I mentioned fuck DST?)  Anyway, we pushed through and it was a pretty solid day.  I haven't weighed myself in a few days but I'm thinking from the way my jeans feel I've probably dropped another pound or so.  Which is funny because man, I went HAM on some Krystals over the weekend.  Anyway, I've rambled far long enough, numbers time....

Machine Bench  1 plate x10, 2 plates x10, 3 plates x10, 4 plates x10, 5 plates x10.  Really didn't feel like I'd get the 5 plates for 5 reps, but somehow I just plowed through.
Handle Tricep Pressdowns 67x10, 72 3 sets of 10
Hammer Machine Triceps 100 3 sets of 20 with a static hold on the last one of about a minute.  Oddly, using that machine really activates my abdominals and I'm not sure how it does it so well, but it's a nice bonus.