EAAs

Today I spent a lot of time (on rest breaks in between bench sets) trying to get the website bulksupplements.com to load. They sell inexpensive EAAs. It seems to be one of those shit websites full of tracking and favicons and other unnecessary Javascript, however, so it never did load, even though I tried several different browsers. I'm kind of glad I didn't buy from them; while searching online for EAAs, I came across an Amazon review of the company concerning supplement production in China (a country which apparently has lax rules for additives and quality assurance) and failure to address customers' questions about lead content. It's just one review, true, but then again, the supplements are suspiciously cheap...

All the other EAA products I found online were way out of my price range, so I went out and tried a local store. I was sick of shopping for this product and didn't want to wait anymore, so I bought a twenty-seven-dollar jar of EAA powder from this store. I didn't want to pay that much, but I knew I probably wouldn't find the stuff much cheaper anywhere else, and I'd have to travel out of town if I searched anywhere else because I'd exhausted all the local stores, and traveling is tiring and takes time, and time is money so why not spend the money instead of the time, I reasoned.

I was also keen to take a dose today because today was my hardest workout, the workout that gives me the unbearable evening fatigue. It's late evening and I don't feel as fatigued as I assume I would have even though I worked out even harder than last time I did this workout, so I guess the stuff works. I think I will take a higher dose next time, however, because I still don't feel as good as I'd be comfortable with. Or maybe it'll just take my body some time to make the most of this new supplement, and I won't need to take more.

I'd planned to dose the EAAs throughout the day, but I cannot do that because it contains caffeine, to which I am sensitive. One cup of coffee after about three pm and I'll be awake literally all night. I'm afraid I'll be awake tonight because of the dose I took, but I was willing to risk the insomnia to avoid the post-workout fatigue.

Today was another great workout; though I struggled to reverse bench press forty pounds just three days ago, I did five sets of eight at that weight today. A month ago, I was just starting this lift and lifting half that. Granted forty pounds is not very heavy, but reverse grip bench press is a rather challenging movement that relies on muscles I hadn't developed much (especially triceps). On the other hand, forty pounds is rather heavy for me considering that my max weight on the regular bench press is only about sixty or sixty-five pounds. I wonder what I'll be lifting a year from now...setting a goal weight seems fun but I'm not sure what would be both realistically attainable and not an under-estimation. 100 lbs. seems like a good number. So let's say I hope to bench press 100 by next December.

Then again, since hypertrophy (and not strength) is my main goal, maybe my program will change such that I don't focus on bench press enough to make it to 100 lbs. in a year. Or ever. Right now I'm trying to (regular) bench one half of a pound more with each successive workout. I don't even know for how long I'll be able to keep up that seemingly modest progression. It seems that my arms are the limiting factor; they tire out before any other body part, especially my chest, whose growth is the main reason I bench press. I don't want to do any arm isolation work, however. It's boring as hell. I might have to at some point, however.

I've been neglecting my language studies to immerse myself in online bodybuilding culture. It's not easy to stop.