The Cut - Day 9 - Tue 11/11
What a difference a day makes…
Woke up this AM from a pretty good night’s sleep and felt very rested, great actually. Well, great compared to yesterday. It could be that I’m adjusting faster to the reduced cals & carbs….dunno.
Oh. My legs are BACK! Finally!! Feels nice to feel human again!! I was worried there for a while.
Ate my sad excuse of a breakfast then, due to Veteran’s Day, was able to train Back without having to take Oingo Boingo to school. Yesterday went well, and I was looking forward to hittin’ this one hard.
I like Back Day. Its a chance to move some descent weight, plus I just like working my back. It’s possibly my favorite aspect of the new me.
This cycle I added Wide Grip Pullups, and I added at least one rep to each set over last week. That was my goal - just add one. My lats are s-a-d and I hope these will help.
The rest of the session? Killed it. Nailed it. Love it. I will NOT let these reduced cals & carbs weaken me, even if it kills me! LOL Even added a new lift and did a number of them with held/forced contractions.
Later in the day I finally got to those &^%$#@! leaves I’ve been trying to finish up for a while now. I eventually just got mad & grabbed a large yard rake and started to heft massive clumps of leaves onto one another (I had them all in a line courtesy of my riding leaf blower, er lawn mower). I’ll tell ya - that was a nice lil’ effort AFTER Back Day! Plus the fact it was COLD out!
I finished with a pile at least chest high on me and well over 10 feet in diameter.
Then the boys saw it…ZOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM *jump*
Well, about a 1/2 hour later we were all (including Tucker the chocolate lab stallion, er, pup) just covered in leaf bits, laughing hysterically at/in/on/under that pile. Mrs. BuckSpin took many pics. I’ll post one later.
Only regret was all that expending energy and not a lot to replace it with. Also, it was waaaayyyyyyyy too early to eat either of my last 2 meals. So I killed time and just chilled (literally…did I mention it was cold?). Treated myself to a flavored sparkling water at the corner mini-mart (I typically don’t do the aspartame thing) Oh MAN did that taste good!
I’m already debating on when to enjoy my grapefruit tomorrow. Do I be a piggy & eat it with breakfast, or do I enjoy it later on…maybe over a few snacks?
We’ll see. I can tell you I am sooooooooooooooooo looking forward to that headache of peeling & skinning a grapefruit!
9 down, 14 to go (2 weeks left)…
November 12, 2008 at 7:14 pm
Great job with the workout and the leaves. 10 days ago one of my crazy neighbors came over to battle the leaves in my yard. He began with a few passes with the lawn tractor. Then he brought over a full sized tractor and a dump truck. He took a few trips with the dump truck bringing them to a mulch pit in his yard. Enjoy your grapefruit and your journey. Keep moving forwards.
November 12, 2008 at 10:37 pm
Hmmm…all the ways you could enjoy your grapefruit. Me, I would eat half for breakfast, half later, especially if it’s one of those huge ones! Can’t wait to see the pics of you and your kids going crazy in the leaves!