Today next to the cardio machine I normally warm up on was the older man that I assume has terets.  For a brief second I considered warming up on another machine but I decided against it.  The guy can’t control himself and me acting like he had a communicable disease would be stupid and unnecessarily draw attention where it wasn’t needed.  Like I said the other day, I feel badly for the man as it has had to make getting through life very challenging.

His chatter today had some differences.  There were no countdowns but he still made popping and buzzing noises every few seconds.  The rest of his words are very hard to make out and he seems to oscillate between mumbling, moaning, and singing.  The couple things I could make out was him saying “this fcking machine” a couple times and “hands a clapping” a bunch.

He had been on the cardio machine for almost 25 minutes.  Shortly after I completed my warm up he finished and was back in the free weight area bit doing a few exercises.  I wonder if people that suffer from this condition have minds that are constantly manic like the uncontrollable speech pattern is or if the two things are exclusive of each other.

Today my back and shoulder routine had some low rep high weight sets in there.  I tried to full stack the lat pull down machine which was probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 pounds.  I moved the bar down about 8 or 9 inches before gravity took over.

Today’s Workout

5 minutes cardio/stretching

Strict pull ups x 15

Seated Cybex plate loaded shoulder press – 200 x 10

Lat pull down – 150lbs x 10

Seated Cybex plate loaded shoulder press – 250 x 7

Lat pull down – 165lbs x 10

Seated Cybex plate loaded shoulder press – 290 x 3

Lat pull down – 180lbs x 8

Standing behind the back Smith shoulder shrug – 200lbs x 10

Seated row – 130lbs x 10

Standing behind the back Smith shoulder shrug – 250lbs x 8

Seated row – 190lbs x 8

Standing behind the back Smith shoulder shrug – 290lbs x 5