Day 26 - I Got The Bird Flu, But I Ain't No Chicken

Can not believe how well I'm feeling this morning! I've never started to recovered from the flu this quickly before. I'm not sure if it was all the extra glutamine, all the water and BCAAs, getting the Tamiflu early or just getting some well needed rest but I woke up feeling so much better, not 100% but better.

So I got in meal one and headed to the gym for cardio. It felt good getting a sweat on by actually doing something, considering I'd been laying in bed sweating like a pig for the last 24hrs until my fever broke early this morning.

Once I got home from cardio, I knew I'd be able to complete a workout this afternoon so I messaged Brock and hit the couch to rest up and watch my new favourite form of entertainment, National Geographic Documentaries, specifically Megafactories. I've watched about 10 over the last 2 days haha.

So after my third meal, we hit the gym. Not expecting much, I really surprised myself going up on weight on most exercises and significantly going up on all triceps exercises. Once again, not sure what it was but I nailed it.

When I got home from the gym, I got a call from the doctor that the results of my nasopharyngeal swab test came back confirming that I have Influenza A. Which was good to know I guess haha.

But now, its time for a shower, meal 5 and an early bed time. Legs and delts tomorrow so I'll need to be well rested for that. Until then...

- Scott

Meal 1 – 2 scoops of whey protein (multi-vitamin, green tea, yohimbe & l-carnitine)

Meal 2 – small salmon fillet, 120g brown rice

Meal 3 – CNP Pro MR

Meal 4 – Post-Workout Shake

Meal 5 – 200g round steak with mushrooms and soy sauce

4L+ of water with 4 scoops of xtend and 40g of glutamine

AM cardio – 20mins Elliptical Machine

Pre-workout – DY NOXPUMP

Pec Fly Machine

16 reps with 12.25 plates

13+3 reps with 12.25 plates (negatives)

Decline DB Bench Press

7+8 reps with 25kg (rest-pause)

18 reps with 22.5kg

Incline DB Flys

15 reps with 15kg

15 reps with 15kg

Cable Pushdowns

15 reps with 9.5 plates

20 reps with 10 plates

Bench Dips

15 reps with body weight

13+2 reps with 10kg (drop set)

Overhead Cable Extentions

18 reps with 2 plates

11+4 reps with 2.5 plates (negatives)

8+7 reps with 2.5 plates (negatives)

Post-workout – 2 scoops of whey protein, 80g of dextrose, 5g of creatine, 10g of glutamine

PS I just remembered I put 5g of creatine in my pre-workout today to help drag me through the workout, I wonder if that's what gave me that bit of energy on triceps?