Intrawebs’s BodyBlog

I’ve finally started!  WOOT!  This is fantastic and bringing back memories of high school when I did two years of weightlifting.  I’m having a blast.   And my legs feel like rubber.  I bought a recumbent bike from craiglist and stopped using my rower (the rower works too many muscles and inhibits recovery).  It was a mistake to use that bike on the first day of Max-Ot when I also did my legs that day.  So I will only do two days of cardio this week in order to give my legs a chance to tune into their new schedule and break from the rowing machine rhythm they are used to.

As far as what I’m eating I’m actually counting every calorie now.  My BMR is 2115 calories plus 10% of that for TEF and 367 for the weight training brings me to 2694.  I don’t count calories needed for days that I do cardio and I never count my pre-workout drink.  So this should all balance out in the long run.

This week is a modified carb drop week.  You can see my Daily Plate profile (ignore the Sept 3rd, that’s slated for tomorrow, a high carb day), the last three days have been low carb days.  The important thing to remember is that I don’t count the carbs or calories for low GI free carbs (veggies, Quinoa, Basamatti Rice) so those aren’t in there.  Also, I don’t count fruit and if I eat fruit in the evening its all free carb fruit (no berries).

Sorry I didn’t update my progress photos, what I had in mind was killed as a rouge wave killed my wife’s digital camera before we had an opportunity to take the photos I wanted.  We have a new digi cam now and I’m going to set up something more routine for progress pics.