Does time even exist between Thanksgiving and Christmas? This will probably be the last week I write of the year and it seems like nothing is going on. I’m going to talk about my gym as I recently increased my weights. In the gym there is a straight barbell that stays on the squat rack and a EZ curl bar on a preacher curl rack. The weights stay on so I don’t have to spend time putting them on whenever I want to lift something heavy, sometimes I only have 30 seconds in passing. The 45 pound plates are on the straight bar and my 25 pound ones are on the curl bar. Recently I put more weight on both as it was time, the old weights have normalized, but I added 5 lbs to each side on the curl bar and 2.5 to the straight bar. My initial reasoning was to bring the heavy bar up to a total weight of 140 lbs as I use that bar for squats and clean & jerk. My goal is to be able to press this grappling dummy I have that is 140 lbs, so my thinking was to match that. Last night, I was staring at the tiny 2.5 pound plates on that big bar and thought it was ridiculous, soon I’ll swap it for the 10 pounders. 160 lbs is still an easy squat though I will see if I can still press that much, if not adjustments will continue. Yesterday I did get a heater to put in the garage that worked nicely. In the Summer it’s 100 degrees in the garage and 40 in the Winter. Mentally it’s exciting to face those conditions, in reality it means I use the garage less at those times. Everything in time, we’ve come a long way and this gym makes me happy.
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