Tractor treasure, Feel the burn
Yesterday on my lunch hour I went out on a search for replacements for my 2 broken water tractors. Without the water tractors my lawn will turn to sand. The one tractor I had was a Craftsman model so I figured I would go to Sears and see if they had them on the shelf. I was disappointed to find only conventional stationary sprinklers available. I figured I would check out Home Depot. I had little hope because I never remembered seeing water tractors there before. I was thrilled to discover they had the Nelson RainTrain in stock!!
I saw these on ebay and it turns out that I wound up paying less just getting them at the store, they charge outrageous shipping on these. I grabbed two of them. After work I put them both together and hooked one up to give it a try. It works great!
I went to the gym after work. It was chest day. I started my chest day like I always do, with the bench press. Even though I have been off creatine for a week, my strength is still there. I pressed 225 lbs for 8 reps, something I never ever did before. I went as high as 265 and then for my last set I went back to 225. Halfway through my 4th rep I felt an abnormal pull in my left pec, followed by pain. I racked the weight and tried to assess what just happened. The area felt warm. Did I rip my pec? Did I strain it? I had no idea. I tried to stretch it out. I hopped on the fly machine to see how that felt and couldn’t even do one rep. It felt bad. I was pissed off and had thoughts running through my head about this being a serious thing that could really throw a wrench into my training. So I hopped on the cross trainer and just did cardio for the rest of the hour.
I picked up Ali and told her about the incident. It was sort of just a dull ache by that time. However as the night went on it felt better and this morning it is stiff but not overly painful. I’ll have to be very careful. I really thought I ripped something initially.
If you want to see the handful of pictures I took while I was in Orlando go here.