LimeyRunner’s BodyBlog

Ahh the time to be grateful, be grateful for the chance to sabotage my efforts.  After a couple of weeks of illness and now the season of ‘celebration’ now starts.  I did pretty good when it came to the food, I ate as much meat as possible stayed away from the candy and dessert.  Luckily being at work on Friday really helped the cafeteria was closed so I couldnt indulge in the non descript food they had there. 

So I was back at the gym this morning doing my best to work out.  Worked my back and chest, still hoping the photo will show changes come december 22nd ish.

After the recent bout of crud thats been sweeping the Northwest it was a matter of time that I was going ot get it.  So almost 3 weeks of coughing headaches and lack of sleep was just a set back I had to deal with.  Subsequently people around me started coughing and losing their voices, so I consider myself lucky. 

Training started a little slower this time.  I was asked to test some running shoes so I have make sure I put in enough miles to give the appropriate feedback.  So the gym will be everyother day I think, my first schedule was everyday through the week and taking the weekends off.  It was too intense at that time of day.  I will be better off and get better results if I don’t workout that often.  My ideal will be 3 times a week with my running twice a week.  Everything is balance.

With my recent downtime logging my weight and body changes can certainly wait another month.

So I invested in a set of bathroom scales with all the readings, Fat percentage, Muscle Mass, Water percentage and of course Bone mass.  So I have decided to add these to the multitude of numbers that we try and retain while pushing the lbs/kgs of metal.

This days readings began with a surprise, the surprise was I put it on the wrong setting.  I have found out I am in no way an athlete and thus do not have a body fat content of 8%.  On my second attempt the figure turned out to be more realistic.  Please see below for this months figures;

1. Fat percentage is 20.0%
2. Muscle Mass is 39.8%
3. Water percentage is 54.2
4. Bone mass is 4.1

This is as always a guideline and not something to watch from day to day.

I guess I started at the beginning of the flu/cold season but it doesnt help your motivation.  So how do I get through a cold/flu and still work out?  So how do you do it, is there magic potions to take or do you just tough it out?

 Well it started Saturday and its now hopefully over.  I was going to get up early this morning but alas the alarm clock took some abuse instead.  So its back to the gym in the morning. 

So my first full week comes to an end.  I have accomplished what I set out to do; get to the gym regularly, work the body part I planned to and eat appropriately for the rest of the day.  My work outs are by no means perfect but you have to start somewhere and this is it.

Next week I plan to fill out my work out progress report along with my weight and bodyfat.  My main goal is to come away from the work outs tired, maximising my brief workout with maximum intensity.

 Roll on Monday.