This has been a real nice week of training.  I threw a little further last week with the 28.  Almost hit 52, not great I know, but a 4% improvement.  So good.  I am going to hit that again first in the morning.  It was so hot I only threw the 28 for about an hour or so.  Was very sunny, very humid and in the 90's.  Just baking me.  So I went home, cooled off, had some lunch and a nap and in the afternoon went out with the heavy hammer.  The first time with that since all the mess.  It was heavy and I was slow and low.  But I worked the tar out of it.  Or should I say it worked the tar out of me.  It seemed the exact same when I put it back in the truck, I was the one that was different. 

Monday I went in and hit some squats.   The first time in a couple weeks with the game I did.  I went up to 405 and seemed to do this easy.  Squats are still my toughest hurdle.  The pressure seems to be so much that I don't get good blood flow in the brain when I do them and I am just so foggy.  But even in the haze I can do a couple.  No way could I do high reps in the squat at this time.  The body just won't do that.  But I do a lot of volume on legs to compensate.  I did some hang cleans to get some pop.  Then jump split squats and then regular jump squats and then 100 leg extensions. 

Wednesday I hit the upper body.  I have been taking my daughter with me to the gym.  I like seeing her learn the movements.  She is only 14 and a girl so you don't expect a lot of upper body strength.  But she is working on it and if she gets some it will help her athletics so much.  Same for me. 

I am looking forward to the morning and thowing.  I expect progress. 

Negative is so prevelant in my life right now.  I am trying to ignore the physical and push on to make myself strong again.  I just think I can do it and am doing it.  Just so many people around me are focused on my heart problem.  My wife is constantly negative and worried about it.  I would rather focus on living and doing.  She asks me 20 times a day how I feel.  I know she is afraid, but I don't want to focus on that.  I just did a highland game, clearly I am pretty darn good.  My training is harder than the games are.  The doctors I think would be amazed how hard I train and the steel I move.  The throwing and reps and movement would blow them away.  I have to keep pushing to win again and be a good thrower.  I want to break a WR this year and I know I can do it.  Focus.

Yours in steel,

Myles