Wednesday, August 26, 2009

do the workout FIRST, not later

I'm so mad at myself tonight. I had the night off and made the mistake of sitting at my computer forever and ignoring my workout. First 10pm, came and then 11 and then 12. At 12:30am I said to myself "How am I ever going to get through this". As if THAT was any major challenge. It's just that I was tired and my energy from my previous meal wore off.

I ate a little food and went to workout. I was shocked to find out that I could only do 4 reps of the weight I could do a whole 12 on for my last workout. I was thinking to myself..is it that my body is still sore and that my muscles still need time to recover? I don't know. It's not due to lack of energy. I was just in disbelief. I tried again and couldn't even do another 4. I lowered it by 10lbs and couldn't even manage a set of 12. Something was going on and I don't know what.

I did the french press and had problems even getting that to 12 reps as well. Same with the military press. This has NEVER EVER happened before and my body didn't feel sore really.

Strangely after my first exercise my arms were burning and felt like jello. Maybe I need more recovery time. I did make huge gains on my last workout day.

For about 5 seconds I had the urge to skip squats. I did not and would not, but the idea came up. I started higher then usual and manage to do 12 full reps! 10 more lbs then I could previously lift. It was tough, but I did a whole 12 reps. Whenever I do squats I immediately need to sit down and catch my breath. Those and Military Presses are the exercises I find the hardest. I tried a second set of the same weight and couldn't even do 6 reps. I felt my muscles about ready to go and I just barely got the weight back up before falling.

I did not do bicep curls though. Most likely I wouldn't be able to lift a single 25lb barbell I was so weak from the previous exercises!

Later on I had a side salad from Burger King. You know what doesn't make sense to me is how a fast food place can offer healthy items like Garden Burgers, Apples and Salad and then for dressing NOT even offer low calorie or FAT FREE dressing! The dressing they gave me had 25g of FAT!! No thanks! This was something "Lite". Lite how?

I mentioned this earlier but the new pants I got a week ago are getting loose already. I need to buy one more lower pant size I guess! I got on the scale today and I was down a half a pound. It said my body fat percentage was down also.

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