ROFL

This is not PROGRESS...it's catching up.

I have not been in gym for 3 months now (4 months if we are talking consistent attendance)

I wasn't able to find a good source on how much strength I should have expected to lose, So I went with an expected 10% per month, or just dropped 50% in toto. I don't know if I read that 10% per month somewhere, or just made it up. It probably wasn't the right metric, as we shall see.

I started out intending to do 4 or 5 sets per exercise, at 8 reps per, and increasing the weight as fast as I felt comfortable doing.

I am sure I was doing the deadlifts:

• 1- wrong
• 2- too fast

I was gassed bad and sucking wind by the time I finished deadlifts, so I slowed down on the calf raises.

I was getting dizzy only after the second exercise!

However, I decided I would just keep going until I swooned once, then call it a day.

So I went a little slower on chest press/back row. I had to, because I couldn't go any faster ;>

BUT...but,but,but...after the curls, I went to the seated dip machine, and saw somebody had left the big boy plates on it (45 lb), and I didn't like the idea of changing them out down to the 40 lbs I had planned...screw it, I'll do less reps and add weight slower, I told myself.

Instead? THIS IS EASY LOL

Same thing on the shrugs...somebody left the big boy plates on, and I was too lazy to shift down...shrugs weren't easy, but they were doable.

Finally got to the ab machine, where I thought I definitely be weaker than before...I was having the stomach issue before the EDG last month (yah, I been putting off the gym a month longer than I planned. And I found the machine so easy that I just kept going...without realizing, I surpassed my previous max here. It may be that the gut issue was holding me back.

Yep, I was doing em wrong...

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