How to get back into the hardcore groove.
Read, read, read!!
Spending a week walking the streets of one of the most beautiful cities in the world around people who curiously enough always seem to be (during work hours of all times) sitting in cafes sipping wine and eating bread and never getting fat created a very "cardio me". That seems to be the thing over there. Cardio. Even when I looked up gyms in Paris on the net their facilities are very heavy oriented towards all types of dance classes and body sculpting classes (in my book that’s cardio with a few weights). They bike a LOT and walk even more. In short the hard core mentality we have in America about weight training and bodybuilding seems lacking over there. I didn’t even read my bodybuilding magazines I was so lack. And upon careful people watching while walking Parisian streets I didn’t see any hardbodies either.
So I’m back home and I’m on a cardio kick. Good for me as I needed a good swift kick in the cardio. But I needed to get my Do Work mindset ramped back up. I hit the gym on Saturday and was glad to hear some clanging on the iron and some good old fashioned grunts. It felt good to be back on the bench and pushing up some weight. But I was still all blahs blahs and searching the web for real French crepes in Atlanta while thinking how wonderful it would be to munch on some French bread and wishing we had a river that ran through Atlanta that I could sit upon during sunset and eat some pastries.
Yea…time to wake the bleep up.
So I’m back on my reading kick. Reading my bodybuilding magazines and reading on bodyspace and reading the hardcore bodybuilding websites I like to visit. Feeling that hardcore energy I was missing on my vacation and in need of a refill now I’m back home. And it feels good. My motivation level is starting to move upward and tonight it’s back and biceps. I’m looking for a good pump tonight. (Yea yea I know some of you snickered like 10 year olds on a playground!)
I still want a good French crepe with sugar inside.
Alisa
There’s a reason it’s called a WORKout!
June 10, 2009 at 9:42 am
I sometimes wonder how the French do it? Wine, cheese, bread, delicious heavy & creamy sauces, etc. How do they stay trim, while Americans are becoming an obese society? Hmmmmm.
June 10, 2009 at 12:53 pm
I wondered about that the whole week. I don’t get it. I see people buying long baked loaves of bread every day and all I kept thinking was carbs, carbs and more carbs. How can they eat like they do and stay so small? And you’re right we eat the same way and get big as a cow. Makes me wonder what’s really in our food.
June 10, 2009 at 12:55 pm
Sounds like you had a great time and your pics were great too. Time to get back to business though and push,push,push. Have a great one.
June 11, 2009 at 6:53 am
It’s all about calories I think. Sit the average European down in front of a meal at an American restaurant and watch their eyes bug. What we can eat in one sitting is a whole day’s worth of food to them.
June 11, 2009 at 8:14 am
Booshnoog you are right. This past weekend I went to one of my favorite restaurant and ordered a food portion that was in line with what I had been eating all last week in Paris. I am trying to eat more normal portion sizes. When I ordered my food the cashier said "that’s it?" I’m standing there thinking "That’s plenty!" I remember so vividly walking past cafes and looking at people’s plates and was convinced everybody orders appetizers to eat. In truth these were just normal portion sizes. We really do eat too much food at one siting in America.