http://youtu.be/x0IZ1WEDzpo

So - I have today, tomorrow, and friday during the day to make gainz. Friday night I fly off to a boat where I’ll have access to a smith machine and some dumbbells for a week.

My sleep has utterly sucked these last 6 months. I’m sure you’ve noticed that I haven’t recorded a new Asleep Under The Bar Podcast in months now. The reason is that I value available sleep time so much that I can’t find time to edit. Heck, getting up on a Saturday morning, doing my lifts, AND doing sound check and recording just seems out-of-reach for me at the moment.

The result of this is that on March 6, I’m going in for surgery to have my septum trimmed back, polyps removed from my right nasal passage, and my right maxillary sinus drained. Once the swelling goes down, I will in theory be able to sleep without waking. Apparently I’ve developed obstructive sleep apnea. Yay. The one thing I’d been fighting to avoid by keeping my weight down, and I succumbed to it anyway. Albeit, inflammation got me rather than body fat.

So yeah. Obviously, I can’t do much programming in 3 days, so I’m keeping it simple. Lots of walking, and going out and trying to hit an “every day” maximum each day I go out. Ideally I’d like to match my personal best on each lift, but that is probably a bridge too far. That would be +10lb on deadlift Friday morning, and +15lb on squat from where I was last night. Possible, but I’m not holding my breath too hard.

I haven’t done a legit 1RM test on bench press in a very, very long time - I’ll be interested to see where that lands. My personal best on OHP is lol1Plaet, and since my bar is 35lb, that means 125lb. Texas Power Bar will be ordered as soon as I get back from the boat.

If anyone feels like taking up AUTB podcast editing duties, hit me up.