Originally Posted by bruno

Today is day 2 of the cruise so I'm already bored and ancy, lol. I think I need the break though because I am really sore beasically everywhere and I can tell that my elbows and hips are feeling pretty shot at this point. It seems like my body has been holding up fine with all the squatting and deadlifting, but the one thing which always hurt a lot is my hips. The stretching has helped a ton but I think it is going to important to cruise every so often too.

My weight is down a few pounds which sort of sucks, but that always seems to happen when I cruise. I have not been as good with my eating the past few days because I have been busy getting things done to move so I should get better about that. I'm really not concerned with my weight at this point to be honest though. I just want to get settled into school and if I lose some weight, fine. It'll all work itself out in time.

This morning I did the filming for my gym commercial and that was fun. The commerical is going to air in a couple months and the owner is going to tell me so my mom can TiVo it while I'm at school. They also took some pictures and i'm going to be on the brochure. It's obviously not a huge thing but I must say that it was a cool experience. They filmed me doing about six different lifts so i'm not sure what exactly will go into the commerical. I didn't lift hard or anything, but it was still pretty bad because I am sore as hell right now from the workout on Sunday. He had me doing snatches in lieu of the Olympics because he likes to showcase the bumper plates (he only has 4 45's and 2 25's so you can only go up to 275 lol) and I had never done them. They were easy because I only had 95 lbs, but it was hard just bending over to the bar because my legs and back are so sore lol. If I had known ahead of time I wouldn't have done deadlifts and front squats so hard. Well, I probalby would have, lol. Other than snatches I did leg presses, pec dec flies, chins and walking lunges with 135 (I only did a few steps just for the camera lol). It was annoying though because I would do it and then the camera guy would want to do it again, so I was actually sort of tired. At the end I took some pictures, which was actally sort of hard because he took some with me in the bottom position of lunge for instance, but I had to hold it for awhile for different pics. I was glad to be able to do it though, and I got paid a little bit for today, plus as I said before I got 6 months free membership, plus 2 shirts today that I wore for filming, plus food, plus a gift certificate to a local restuarant, so it was very cool.