🏋️‍♀️Science of Diet and Exercise Journal👩‍🎓

Trusylver said:
I HATE STATISTICS
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That really made me laugh!
 
Sometimes feeling need to be short and to the point lol

Finished everything I need to for "that" tutorial tomorrow and the project proposal just needs fine tuning. Ex Phys - mostly done, will work through the online version of the tutorial tonight in prep for tomorrow along with a study I need to read that looks at ventilation responses in men compared to woman. Woman carry less oxygen compared men with the same body size. Just another difference that cannot be changed with testosterone blocking drugs for trans athletes. I know it is not popular in many circles to say trans should not compete in female sport but the further you dig into the science the less it has to do with testosterone. Outside of sport do whatever is right for you and I will cheer you towards your goals.

Todays training

Warmup - Bike RAMP 10 minutes, music (Two Tribes, Pleasure Dome)
Bench Press
CG Bench Press (Bad to the Bone)
TRX Rollout (Music player ran out of charge)
Tricep Pushdown
Sandbag Front Squat

30 seconds rest between sets and done to tempo
 
struggling to study tonight, my head just isn't in it. Little miss earned an orange stripe for her yellow belt, 3 more to go. Ate a wheat free cookie I helped little miss cook tonight, but have cleaned my diet back up again this week after a few bad habits started to creep in (I do like a particular energy drink which has far too many carbs). I think it will be an early night, when my chicken finishes cooking I will take some melatonin then crash. I will have the chicken for lunch at uni tomorrow.
 
My brain felt fried after uni yesterday, my cutting out caffeine is going well

I just want to relax this morning then I need to start the process of reviewing my uni stuff in prep for mid semester exams.
 
Trusylver said:
my cutting out caffeine is going well
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I am sipping black espresso coffee right now :blush5: I love it! I only drink coffee first thing in the morning & then herbal tea, mostly peppermint for the rest of the day.
Hope you have that relaxing morning, Tru :)
 
Cate said:
I am sipping black espresso coffee right now :blush5: I love it! I only drink coffee first thing in the morning & then herbal tea, mostly peppermint for the rest of the day.
Hope you have that relaxing morning, Tru :)
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I hope you enjoy your coffee :) I cannot stand the taste of coffee, but have other things I consume that are caffeinated. I had become too slack with my eating so since Monday I am back to being very strict and tracking everything as best as possible, some things like traditional biltong I make from scratch are hard to track, I don't measure the salt or other herbs and the salty herb mix is spread over all the slices of meat which are of slightly different sizes to then marinate with the vinegar overnight. much of the herb mix falls off when the meat is hung. so the best I can do is weigh the final product as I eat it and log as the "traditional biltong" entry in Cronometer.

In 4 days I have lost a fair amount of bloat weight, despite my muscles holding on to fluid because I have a good dose of DOMS in my triceps and Lats.
 
I wouldn't expect the herbs to make a significant difference in your biltong measurements, although the salt might. Sometimes good enough is good enough. Will try to take inspiration from your strictness today though!
 
bit of frustration today, went into town to pick up Ds new gaming monitor with his tax return, while I was there also got a usb stick as well as a micro SD card for the gopro style video camera son 3 purchased for me as a gift. video camera is working as it should but the USB stick I had to format it and prepare it specifically for my rower BUT when i put it in the rower to get the existing firmware data onto the stick it wouldn't do it because the battery was apparently to low (24%) so now I can't do the firmware update till I get some D cells which I don't have any sitting around here at home. with no firmware upgrade the link between the erg app on my phone and the rower keeps giving me a warning that data may not be completely accurate.

I am yet to try the new WOD feature in the erg app, a new WOD is published each day and then when sync is done with the rower the WOD will be set up in the rower automatically. Despite already having done a 30 minute row today, I will see if the WOD will sync tonight despite the firmware issue.
 
Ah, technology... More options but that includes more options for failures. Hope you'll be able to sync regardless
 
The WOD did sync ok last night, got the firmware update sorted this morning. Need to go into town to grab some chicken and a battery for my kitchen scales which have now decided to only give me the low battery symbol rather then weighing anything.

Then the plan is to do a training session in the gym, followed by todays rowing WOD before study and coaching tonight.
 
Powered through some cardio during the day, both bike and rower. 20 minutes of the bike was in the 80-90% HR range or Zone 4 for those who like to use fitness watches. Normally I don't bother with the HR chest strap but I had just changed the battery and wanted to make sure it was still transmitting to the bike ok

based on the formulas zone 4 should have been hard, I didn't bother calculating Karvonen formula, not that I actually know my resting HR at the moment as I don't own a working receiver for the chest strap, I think I need a newer strap that can Bluetooth to my computer.

I will test tomorrow to see if my current chest strap will communicate with the rower, I am not very hopeful as I think I need Bluetooth for it as well.

Also hit some injury preventative exercises in the gym. Gym work was to light to even bother recording.

I don't eat back exercise calories, and hit all of my nutritional markers, so when you look at tracking it appears I woefully under ate, but in reality I ate well today.

Coaching went well tonight.
 
Sounds like an excellent day. Injury prevention is always good but I have to admit I'd probably be too lazy for it if I didn't do it along with my patients. Your athlete discipline shows!
 
I don't normally eat back exercise calories but tonight I may have to eat back some. Completed most of my planned training but then D needed help outside, I had to lift a 6 m pole which was holding up a 20 X 20 meter heavy bird net and lower it to the ground carefully without breaking the attached perches, then because D was not strong enough to use the swaging tool, I had to swage the steel cable instead of the clamps which were holding the 4 steel cables that secure the pole in place. Then I needed to lift the pole with attached netting and steel cable back in place with multiple attempts to get it in exactly the right spot so D could bolt the pole back into the base. Recorded the time doing all this as heavy manual labour so all up have burned through over 1200 calories just with logged exercise. Built up quite a sweat and my tracking shows negative net calories.

I think I will skip my strength session I had planned for tonight but may still do some active recovery on the rower.
 
It sounds like you have well & truly had a strength session! Wowsers Tru 🤩
 
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