Today is/was the first day of my holiday leading up to my birthday next week and an excellent chance to relax before the busy 2/3 weeks begin at work. Naturally enough this has somehow ended up being a horribly disappointing and frustrating day and one I wish I could start again somehow.
So what went wrong today? Enough to wind me up that’s for sure:
- Woke up later than I wanted
- Missed the time and was nearly late picking mum up (oops!)
- Failed to get a workout done today
- Struggled with dinner…
Most of this is very minor stuff and certainly not worth making a big scene out of but didn’t do me any favours. The biggest issue for me though was missing my gym session but worst of all not through lack of actually trying! I got changed, went to the garage and spent 10 mins getting nothing done before giving up.
The barbell I got with my power rack doesn’t appear to be desperately well finished with one side of it being significantly difficult to put the spring collars onto. I had a hell of a time getting them fixed in place on saturday night before I did my deadlifts and should have realised there was trouble brewing then.
Now the problem I have is the collar and weight plates are stuck in place and I can’t budge them more than about 2 inches which means I’m stuck with a fixed weight which really isn’t much use. Worse still the sleeve on which the collar/weights sit has become badly scratched from the tight fit and will need to be fixed to prevent further damage.
It’s not a big deal really but it’s set me in a bad mood for the day. I don’t know how I managed to make it carry over to dinner but I did. Tonight we had ‘Spag Bol’ (awful slang name but I can’t spell :-p) and for the life of me I could not get the meal to stay on my fork. At all. Such a mess all over the table/my shirt and various other things.
Off to bed and I’ll have another crack at this malarkey tomorrow….
