My Critical Two-Year Journey

Had my first diet hiccup yesterday, but it was of the extremely rare appropriate kind. Open house for a friend graduating HS, had a it of cake and a couple small eggrolls. It would have been anti-social for me not to eat something. The important thing was not to follow my typical pattern(which is to follow up one deviation with a three-day or longer binge of uber-junk food). None of that happened, so I'm pleased with that.

Today's exercises came at the end of a long day with not enough sleep, so I was expecting relatively low results. Mild to moderate soreness still, with the exception of the right leg which is still really feeling it(esp. the hamstring behind the knee).

Core Day 3

Pushups: 4/5/3/2/1, 15/22 tot., NA
Crunches: 6/5/4/2/2, 19/33 tot., -1
Aided Squats: 6/5/2/1/1, 15/33 tot., +1
 
Week 2 is in the books: another good week in terms of following the plan. Soreness is pretty much gone, I'm going to add another drill(Spider dribble) to the workout(up to L4) but no more sprints as I mentioned, giving the legs another week to adjust to the current distance.

Weight: 319.4(+1.8)

Still down 2.2 over a couple weeks ago: I think this is probably just a question of natural fluctuation at this point. So long as strength/cardio etc. keep improving and the diet plan stays steady, it will show up here eventually in consistent results.

Core Tests

Pushups: 6(+1)
Crunches: 7(-1)
Aided Squats: 7(+1)

Cardio L4(60s rest)
 
Tired today, slept a bit irregular still, but everything else is going well.


Core Day 1

Pushups: 2/3/2/2/3, 12/12 tot., +1
Crunches: 3/4/3/2/2, 14/18 tot., -1
Aided Squats: 3/4/1/1/0, 9/18 tot., -8

Cardio L4(60s rest)
 
Core Day 2

Pushups: 3/4/2/3/3, 15/16 tot., --
Crunches: 5/4/3/2/1, 15/25 tot., -3
Aided Squats: 5/1/2/1/2, 11/25 tot., -10

Squats have been all over the map lately, probably because of my legs are still adjusting to the sprints. Typically leg soreness is the limiter that holds back my cardio work, whether it's running/walking/jogging/whatever, and that appears to still be the case.

Cardio L4(60s rest)
 
Try to give your legs more time to recover if you are working them hard, add some extra time off for them after you work them. Sprinting all the time is very hard on your legs, I believe lots of runners only do sprints once a week. Try a bike, gets you good cardio but is low impact. I’m sure you know all this anyway, you just have to adjust, find the time and get it done.
 
Well, it's been a few days since I updated, and here's why: the weekend sucked. I last posted on Friday, here's what's happened since then:

During my last cardio day of the week(Saturday), my body rebelled during my second sprint. It ended up being some kind of 24-hour virus, which I get from time to time. I don't think it was related to workout or eating habits.

Knocked me out of commission until late Sunday. I ate ok Saturday through Tuesday, but more carbs and less protein than usual. Somewhere around the same range calorie-wise, though I'm not really sure. Slept a lot, missed work on Sunday. Didn't do my usual core exercises on Sunday either.

Monday, got back into doing my stretching, then did my normal tests on Tuesday:

Weight: 318.2(-1.2)

Pushups: 6(--)
Crunches: 6(-1)
Aided Squats: 4(-3)

And my usual Tuesday cardio(L4, unchanged from last week). I felt HORRIBLE after this, totally drained and quite dizzy, took a nap afterwards until worktime.

Which brings us up to today. Energy was better, I think I'm almost back to normal. Back to normal eating even though I really don't feel like it yet.

Core Day 1

Pushups: 2/3/2/2/3, 12/12 tot., --
Crunches: 3/4/2/2/1, 12/18 tot., -2
Aided Squats: 3/3/1/2/1, 10/18 tot., +1

L4 Cardio(60s rest

Flexibility still isn't back to where it was yet, but should be in a few days. Time to start rebuilding as it were, a frustrating weekend but there will always be temporary setbacks.
 
Thursday(yesterday) is normally uneventful, but I worked over at my first job, which meant I didn't have to time to prepare normal food for the second one. I made some poor choices on what to eat instead as well, so that day gets my first fail grade in terms of following healthy eating habits.

Importantly, I got back on track today.

Core Day 2

Pushups: 3/4/2/2/1, 12/16 tot., -3
Crunches: 5/5/3/3/1, 17/25 tot., +2
Aided Squats: 4/2/2/1/2, 11/25 tot., --

Cardio L4(60s rest)

Felt very, very sluggish today; it was like I was in slow motion on the sprints in particular.
 
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