How are things in China with the new coronavirus variant?
We had a lot of scares initially from the nanjing sourced outbreak. Nothing was totally shut down here, but mask mandates back and gotta show QR health code to get into most places. My city had 3 cases; 1 was a child who was not eligible to be vaccinated and the other two were vaccinated adults. We're back down to 0 as is Shanghai and most other places. Seems we mostly contained the most recent scare, but obviously on high alert still and restrictions are still in place despite having 0 cases. I'm just thanking god for no online classes, which are a bitch to teach and way harder than doing in person class.
I haven't been out of the country since Feb 2020 now so it's coming up on 18 months. I do not have a particularly close relationship with my family in the US so no love lost there. I do miss being able to go to Thailand or other parts of Asia as I have a whopping 14 weeks off every year which usually makes for excellent opportunities to travel and see more of the world. It's a small thing to sacrifice compared to people who have big families they actually like and are unable to see them. The family member I love the most lives with me here in China but in a different city so no problems really.
I'm now on day 3 of periactin... oh my god this is life changing medicine. I've had a congested nose ever since I got that bacterial infection that was just ever so slowly improving but never going fully away. Day 2 of periactin... nose already back to normal and able to nasally breath laying down on my back at night np where I was unable to for weeks. My stomach was so fucked from elevated histamine that I forgot what normal is even supposed to feel like. Appetite is way up as a result and I haven't needed any antacid medicines. Periactin is used as a medicine for pediatric gastiritis... seems to be working for adult elevated androgen induced gastritis as well! Feeling so much better being on this stuff. Mosquito bites that used to just shred me up also barely feel like anything anymore, it's great.
I'm going to test out take orals on periactin. If my hypothesis is correct, they won't kill my appetite because the source of the appetite suppression is high histamine levels and not liver toxicity.
Training going super well, which is unsurprising considering I'm actually able to eat like a normal human being again.
Arms+Delts
DB shoulder press: 37.5kgx14, 30kgx18, 11 35s were occupied and I went up. Was rewarded with a solid PR.
Superset 1
EZ curls//V bar pushdowns 5 sets of 12/15, last 2 sets failure
Superset 2
seated db curls//db skullcrushers: 10kgx12/12, 7.5kgx4 more sets around 10-18 reps
Superset 3
Mini bar curls//rope pushdowns: 15kgx5 sets failure//10kgx5 sets failure reps around 8-20
Cable side raises: 5 sets failure
Rear delt raises: 5kgx3 sets failure
buncha forearms
Partial pistols knee rehab
walk backwards on treadmill for 13 minutes