This week starts a new phase in the workout schedule, what the book I'm going through calls "Full Scale Fat Loss". We'll see exactly how much over time, but the workouts have changed, yet again. Now there are more exercises per session with less reps, and more cardio days. Today was supposed to be cardio but because of being at the hospital with my mom, everything's shifted. So here come the workouts.

Warmup, 3 sets of 5 w/45lb bar
* Overhead squat
* Squat
* Good morning
* Lunge
* Romanian deadlift
* Bent-over row

Workout, supersets (two exercises performed immediately following one another)
* Dumbbell Alternating Lunge, 30lb dumbbells, 3 sets of 6
* Squat, 125lb barbell, 3 sets of 6
* Incline Dumbbell Fly, 2 sets of 6 @ 30lbs, 1 set of 6 @ 25lbs
* Incline Dumbbell Press, 35lb dumbbells, 2 sets of 6, 1 set of 2
* Rear Lateral Raise, 1 set of 5 @ 25lbs, 3 sets of 6 @ 20lbs
* Bent Over Row, 60lbs on curl bar, 3 sets of 6

Wow, what a long weekend it's been.

On Thursday afternoon my mom came into MSN Messenger and told me she had been changing the thermostat when she passed out. She hit her head on the floor, and when she came to, she had a big knot on the back of her head. She was wondering whether she should call the ambulance.

In my mom's case, she has MS, so she has trouble getting around at times. This was one of her difficult walking days, so she was worried about trying to walk to the car. Not to mention, she passed out for some reason. So I told her to call the ambulance, and call a cab if she was ok. I would reimburse her cab fare if need be.

On the way home from work I got a call from the doctor, who was having her airlifted to Enloe Hospital in Chico. Come to find out, she had a blood clot in her brain and they needed to have a specialist look ASAP.

Come to find out, all she had from the fall was a bump on the head. It's a good thing she went in, though, because the blood cot was a result of an earlier fall that just kept growing and growing. They set her up for surgery on Friday to drain the excess.

I took Friday off and spent a good amount of the day in Chico. When I got there though, she was having tests run. The MD (not the surgeon) had wanted a barrage of tests done to make sure she was fit for surgery. She got to her room late, and after the hospital we went looking for dinner. We ended up getting home that night around 1am.

On Monday, they finally did her surgery at 5:30pm. We stayed at the hospital until she was out of recovery, and got to see her around 10. She was asleep, but doing fine. The surgeon said it went just fine, and she should recovery shortly. Until then, we just have to be there for her.

She's still in the hospital, and as far as I know, still in ICU. I'll find out more later, since I'm heading up to Chico after work.

Alright, here we go. Today's workout:

Warmup, 3 sets of 5 w/45lb bar
* Overhead squat
* Squat
* Good morning
* Lunge
* Romanian deadlift
* Bent-over row

Workout, alternating sets
* Neutral-grip incline press, 1 set of 6 @ 40lb dumbbells, 2 sets of 8 @ 35lbs, 1 set of 7
* Chin-Up, 2 sets of 2, 1 set of 1
* Bent-arm lateral raise & rotation, 20lb dumbbells, 1 set of 8, 1 set of 5
* Swiss ball side flexion, 3 sets of 8

Well, I was finally able to edit together some video from the Half Dome hike. My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to shoot more video, but what can you do when you're doing both still & video and are under time constraints. Not being able to switch off the video camera also meant that I have no video of myself.

For about a year now, I've joked around with my pastor about how we should do something for the church that parodies 24. One idea I had was a t-shirt with the 24 logo on the front, and a scripture reference on the back that's something with verse 24. I still haven't found a decent enough verse for that. Anyway, on the way up I told him that I finally figured out what we'd do, and this hike was it.

So here it is, 24: Half Dome. Enjoy.