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I went to the gym today, first time in a year and a half, of course I’m 56 pounds lighter than I was then and I am truly humbled. Due to my shaking arms I could barely hold onto the pull-up bar to get my assisted sets, embarrassed I used 130 pounds assistance for my 230 body weight to get eight sets of 12 supersets with dips. When I was 44 I weighed 245 and got 26 over hand pull ups, now I can’t even do one; humbled. I supersetted upright rows with behind the neck pull downs for eight sets of eight with weight I haven’t used for 30 years; humbled. I couldn’t hold the bar without my arms shaking and the massive hernia left from the surgery I had in January 2020 (to remove a tumor) as my gut spilled out through the separation between my abs witch the surgeon never connected; humbled. I supersetted chest presses with close grip lat pull downs for 10 sets of 12. I liked the range of motion but the weight was incredibly light; humbled. The last time I was in this predicament was after I got hit by a car in 1990 riding my bicycle and my left hip went through the side window of the car hitting my spine on the crossmember of the windows. I took off lifting for six months then and started doing one set of 10 squats with 55 pounds for three times a week. Four years later I got up to seven reps with 465 on my 12 set; no juice. Here it is, 30 years later and a part of me wanted to give up, but once I started lifting, a part of me fell back into the groove and I liked it; but I was humbled. It’s going to be a long road. I’m not sure how much work I’ll be able to accomplish getting six months of chemo and I start radiation treatments on the 12th. I’ll just have to see what I can do and the keep going back. A lot of you guys of read my stories about great lifts that I’ve done in the past 20 years but starting over from the place I was 30 years ago was humbling. I’m not really willing to give in, not yet no not yet. Do what I can with faith as a guide; just keep going. There it is; humbled but willing.