Judas ain’t so bad…

So, today was the first day of my new program.

The HIIT was same as normal, but ****ing good after my day long break.  I was re-energized and ready to go, and did the HIIT without a hitch.  Then came the lifting, at about 1130 AM.  That went very well, too, but ****ing christ it was so intense.  Five sets of 15 with only 30 second breaks in between was vicious, but I could tell it was working.  It was burning me up.  Another perk was being able to leave early, I was there for about 45 minutes, and then right back on my way home.

I’m going to try to get another cardio set in- LI elliptical for 40 minutes, but we’ll see, as I’m helping out my parents today.  Either way, it isn’t so bad because I’m biking to their work which is miles away (though on flat ground) and biking back.  If I miss out on cardio during my 4pm-7pm break, I may go between 7pm-10pm.

I feel great, and I love being on my bike.  I’m going to get it tuned up, hopefully, and the rides will only get better.

By the way: looking for new ways to ingest protein?  Put it in Dannon’s Light and Fit yogurt- it’ll make a chocolate/fruit pudding to die for.  No joke.

So, I don’t know if you guys read any of my threads or my work out routine, but it was pretty crazy.  This was it:

Wake at 900 AM and do HIIT running for 30 minutes, with 5 minute warm up and cool down periods before and after for a total of 40 minutes.

MEAL 1 @ 10am

1100am-1200pm Weight-lifting (alternating back and bicep one day, then chest and tricep, then legs. Repeat all 7 days of the week.

MEAL 2 @ 1pm

In this 3 hour window I try to get at least one errand done a day. I ride my bike all around, errand or not.

MEAL 3 @ 4pm

~530pm go to rec center and do 30 minute cardio with 5 minute warm up and cool down periods before and after for a total of 40 minutes.

MEAL 4 @ 7pm

~830pm go to rec center and have a 30 minute - 45 minute weight-lifting session of minor muscle that gets paired with the bigger muscle, i.e. if I worked Back earlier, I will work Bicep here.

MEAL 5 @ 10pm

Bed @ ~1am

I was doing all that on ~1500 calories a day.  Two weeks into it, and I felt the crash coming on.  I had one cheat meal along with a good exercise day, and thought that would put me back on the straight and narrow and full of energy, but it didn’t.  The next day, I still felt like shit, and was just craving sweets (ice cream, skittles, etc).  Then, I woke up today without looking forward to the day’s run or having any energy at all (which hasn’t really happened these past two weeks) so I decided to change it up.  I called a gym with personal trainers and set up (for free!) a meeting with a body builder.  At 4.7% bodyfat and slightly less than 180 pounds, I was pretty impressed.  He gave me a good routine for lifting (a six day program designed around endurance lifting) and told me to do 7 days of cardio a week and get 2500 calories.  I didn’t want to up the cals that high, and asked him if I could keep it at ~1500, but just eat a little extra cals and not figure those in.  As long as I’m careful about that, it’s fine, although I’ll probably gradually creep up to ~1900 recorded calories a day.

This is great and all, but I don’t want to do 7 days of cardio a week.  Normally I’m used to cardio twice a day, but that’s the kinda thing that burnt me out in the first place.  I just wanna know how much cardio to do ( http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=4030843&goto=nextnewest ) without over doing it, especially before school starts on the 20th.  Anyway, I’m out for now, gotta help out my parents.