Can really remember too much training before going to the Arnold so I will skip that and just give the last couple of days

3/9

15mins stepmill

Light activations , Bird dogs and roll out planks on suspension straps

4x12 Reverse Hypers

3/8

15 mins stepmill

Activations , planks and bird dogs

Reverse hypers both prior and after 6 sets total

KB swings moving up each set 20kgx15,24kgx30, 28kgx50 per arm

Squats 3x15

So this year's Arnold was a complete blur. Normally it is good but wears on you by the end of the first day.  This year we doubled the size of the booth, moved it back to the front between the Animal Cage and Rich Piana and brought Uncle Donnie with us.  The result of this was a constant waves of people coming to the booth, hanging out and getting bodytempered by Donnie. Rob, who brought the smash you bodytempering tools ended up helping us alot as we were not quite prepared for the traffic.  Don had a audience from the time he got there till he left and he hung in there all day.

I looked at my watch at 12 and then again at closing time each day. That is how fast it moved. My old ass was not prepared for this.  In the past everything hurt by the end of the day one. This year I did a ton of activations prior and after and iced the hands and feet. The result was about 60% less beat down.  A huge meal, some Buckeye Donuts nightly and about three beers helped alot to say the least.

Don, who has never worked theArnold,  made a constant joke about how he thought he was going to annoy me all weekend by constantly being around.   We are like brothers who are brothers who don't really like talking to each other.  To his astonishment, we might have had 5 or 10 minutes where we actually had time.  He had a constant audience as I knew he would all weekend.

So almost running over Jay Cutler.  I am a terrible driver. I roll up as far as I can to make a turn and because I am blindy blind b-hole. At night, my vision as gotten terrible as things reflect weird and I miss things like a man about to walk across the  road.  In Columbus they make alot of pedestrian  crossings everywhere especially downtown and near the school. So a crossing can be in the middle of a block  or at the usual spot at the end. They have the right of way and can cross any time and you have to stop and let them pass. This took some getting used to. I got used to the ones in the middle of the blocks but end of the block or stop signs I was not as good at.

We park in the nice church ladies parking lot behind the convention center. They charge 20 bucks to park which is a bargain to me to be able to walk and leave quickly and not have to meander through the convention center which we did the first year we were there and the years I was competing at the WPO meet there in the distant past.  Your feet hurting at the end of the day is not when you want to walk more to get home. Anyhow,  at the nice church ladies parking lot, they always ask if we have parked there before and we say we have but they always tell us why they charge 20 bucks to park. They take the money to donate to stopping human trafficking and hand us their brochure.  I keep expecting them to hand us cookies and milk and talk to us but they don't. It is normally really cold, so they are moving around.

Day 2, we are leaving, it is dark and me old eyes are trying to adjust.  I roll up to the stop sign to leave and cover half the crosswalk with my truck. I see someone stop abruptly  as they have stepped into the crosswalk.  I say ," sorry man, didn't mean to almost kill you". He can't hear us as the windows are rolled up. Dale says, "hey that is Jay Cutler"  Jay goes behind my truck as that is how far I am in the intersection.   We know Jay well. I roll the window down and hollar at him and apologize. He laughs and yells at me some and off he goes.  I roll the window up and say without thinking, "We  almost killed Jay walking."  A sudden realization and we all laugh.