I Feel Better Than James Brown

So much news to report...all good for a change. Yay!

1. I gave notice on Monday and told my team that I'm leaving. Not a huge surprise to them but certainly I think for my senior manager. I hope all hell breaks loose from this.

2. I had the MRI on Monday as well and made all my physical therapy appointments. I'll hear from the doctor next week what the diagnosis is and what course of treatment he recommends. I'm hoping for physical therapy now and putting off surgery (if it's needed) until spring. The shoulder is feeling much better and not any more painful than it normally is. As long as I sleep on my back and don't roll over onto it, I should be able to deal with whatever is going on in there for a while.

3. Great workout, also on Monday. I decided to add the two sets I'm not doing for dumbbell presses to the rack pulls. I started with two sets of 3, then two sets of 5 and 1 set of 8. Might as well work on the heavy lifts rather than more redundant accessory exercises.

Here's the details:
Rack pull 135# x 2 x 3, 125# x 2 x 5, 115# x 1 x 8
Wall ankle MOB 3 x 10

One arm DB row (5 sec eccentric) 22.5# x 3 x 8
Goblet squat (5 pulses at the bottom) 10# x 3 x 6

Dead bug 2 x 13

The squats weren't too bad. I can feel a pull in my knee about 10 degrees from parallel which gets better after each set. I'm thinking about doing a bodyweight version of this as a mobility warmup. Must run this by the Rog.

Today I'm just chillaxin' (as the kids say) with some friends and getting used to the idea that my whole life will be changing in 2 1/2 weeks. No pressure there! LOL I'm excited and scared at the same time but that will get better the more the new routine falls into place.

So for now....Happy Fourth of July!!!