Posted: February 8th, 2010 | Author: ERIC | Filed under: Body | Tags: bagel, beef broccoli, body odor, bodyfat, breaks, carry a tree, chow mein, cookie, crunch, cycle, eating habits, excess, fast, fortune cookie, goal, Kevin Bacon, lateral raise, missed workout, Panda Express, pedophile, pulldown, refeed, scale, spring roll, strength, Wolverine, yohimbine HCL | No Comments »
I have restructured my eating habits once again after an irritating set of circumstances led me to a wasted refeed.
Thursday I refed, Friday I missed my workout, Saturday I fasted, Sunday I worked out and refed again.
Refeeding before a workout has been my intention as I am always strongest the day after a refeed. Furthermore, since I spend most of the day not eating following a workout while I wait to be picked up, I just integrate that as the beginning of my fast. However, this has not proven to be the most flexible way of working things. If I miss a workout, I wind up in caloric excess, as I’ll wind up redoing the refeed. I could just pay better attention (thus solving a variety of problems at once) but I’m trying to condition responses so that I can automate/habitualize this nonsense so I don’t have to think about what I’m doing as often.
I think I’m just going to cut out refeeds from my plan, they are too much of a hassle.
I’ll just re-evaluate my maintenance needs and configure them so that they are more satisfying, and be more vigilant with my dedicated fasting days.
Workout for Sunday, February 7th, 2010
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Posted: November 13th, 2009 | Author: ERIC | Filed under: Body | Tags: bench, carbs, cardio, Depeche Mode, excess, fast, fly, Huey Lewis and the News, overfeed, R.E.M., Raisin Bran Crunch, The Saturdays, The Spinners | No Comments »
I ate so much Raisin Bran and other carby shit yesterday that I completely negated the fast I did on Wednesday. I’m really pissed with myself. I let boredom and nerves get to me, control me, and overfeed me considerably. Today’s fast it to 5AM Saturday. I wanted to fast throughout Saturday since I’m not really there, mentally, to soldier through another day of no food so early on.
But it’s the last day of the week, so whatever. Doing it.
Here is yesterday’s workout:
Bench Press
- 100lbs. x 2 (my right middle finger was infected when I worked out, I think my lack of right hand grip and just losing focus cost me the third rep)
- 90lbs. x 3
- 80lbs. x 4
Incline Bench
- 65lbs. x 8
- 55lbs. x 9
- 45lbs. x 10 (how fortunate I am that my bottom set is the empty bar, haha!)
I had a much more difficult time with these sets than I was anticipating.
Incline Fly, 3 x 5 @ 15lbs.
Cardio: 30 minutes of 90s walk / 30s jog on the treadmill. 2 and 4 mph, respectively.
I really didn’t feel like doing cardio, but I was already in the gym, already sweaty, and figured I less didn’t-want-to-do-it-now that I would…n’t… want to… in the future. “Do it now so less need be done at a later date,” I felt.
I’m going lay out my workout for next week so I’m not in a rush to figure it out before I leave the house in the morning.
Bench Press
- 100lbs. x 3-5
- 90lbs. x +1 previous set
- 80lbs. x +1 previous set
Incline Bench
- 70lbs. x 5-8
- 60lbs. x +1 previous set
- 55lbs. x +1 previous set
Incline Fly
3 x 5 @ 20lbs. dumbbells
Gym Radio Tracks I enjoyed: “Hip to be Square” (Huey Lewis and the News); “Working My Way Back to You” (The Spinners); “The One I Love” (R.E.M.); “Just Can’t Get Enough” (The Saturdays)
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