#bleedorange

My apartment woes

My declining health

My car getting stolen

My low paycheck this week

My family issues

The fact that I’m sitting this semester out again

My debt

Are relatable when they make five times my income stfu. Most of y’all don’t even have a degree, you just got lucky.

Leave me alone and go live your comfortable life while me and mines wallow in depression just like many of your other assiociates.

Whew! Well shoulder day was inspiring…at least to some one.. I never thought myself a weak individual; certainly not physically. I mean sure I’m skinny now but there was a time that I had a bit of muscle and a hard on for martial arts… at least the Steven Segal eat and flip gangsters onto buffet table kind. 

 Today however, I felt physically weak. I mean wow! Having a day designed ONLY to focus on shoulders seemed a bit, wasteful. Waste of time waste of money waste of energy. I’m gonna breeze through today’s work out.

W R O N G ! ! !

In the beginning: I warmed up of course as per my instructors demanding voice and flawless Asian physique: “You warm up, or you tear muscle.” this is his every day version of good morning. I’m cool with it, he’s all business and I like not having to converse about politics or the weekend, or real estate (I’m an agent) .. Work out, go home. Complete time-saving awesomeness in a 5′7″ 25 year old Asian guy who’s never had more than 3% body fat in his entire existence. Let’s Move!

So I warm up. It’s THE hash-tag for boring but I do it to appease my trainer and my ego. Yeah, my ego likes to warm up. Not to be confused w/ Eggo’s, which I would devour without uttering a single syllable in recompense.. NOM-NOM…

After the Hash-tag session, we start the systematic deconstruction of my ego.

The Workout - Shoulders

Standing Over head dumbbell press:  

Set 1: 12-15 reps @ 10 lbs.

Set 2: 10-12 reps @ 12.5 lbs

Set 3: 6 reps @ 15 lbs

Rope to face pulls standing:

Set 1: 12-15 reps @ 20 lbs.

Set 2: 10-12 reps @ 25 lbs

Set 3: 8-10 reps @ 30 lbs

Standing Over-head barbell press:

Set 1: 12-15 reps @ 20 lbs.

Set 2: 10-12 reps @ 30 lbs

Set 3: 10-12 reps @ 30 lbs

Seated Over head dumbbell press w/ a twist:

Set 1: 12-15 reps @ 10 lbs.

Set 2: 10-12 reps @ 12.5 lbs

Set 3: 8-10 reps @ 12.5 lbs

Standing Shoulder Fly’s? (yes I made it up):

Set 1: 12-15 reps @ 10 lbs.

Set 2: 10-12 reps @ 12.5 lbs

Set 3: 6-8 reps @ 12.5 lbs

See? This shit is serious. That Asian is serious. I am the hash-tag for sore. There were sets that I could bury, like the overhead standing DB press and the overhead standing BB press and the rope pulls. Now the seated torture chair with a twist at the bottom….well i stopped every other rep like the ego-less sissy man boy that I am and pondered: “how did I get to be such a pussy?” …. and then: snapped back into reality by the broken word play that is my trainers English, I continued…