Breaking the Chains that Bind

This morning’s workout was completely awesome.  I really pushed myself.  One of the biggest hinderances I think I’ve been dealing with in the past is that I didn’t acknowledge that my body could do more if I asked it to.  Now, this by no means goes to say that I’m Shera or Superwoman but this morning while doing chest and tri’s I realized that my body will deliver if I ask.  So I was totally psyched!  During my rest periods I did jumping jacks to keep my heart rate  up and moved quickly from machine to machine to ensure it stayed up.  I don’t feel as though my workout is effective if I’m not sweating or if my breathing is mild.  I feel inspired and am looking forward to my pm cardio.  I’m hoping it will be warm because I really want to hit the track and do a few 20-30 second sprints with 60 second recoveries in between.  We’ll see how it goes.  I’ve never been much of a runner but I want to diversify my workouts as much as I can to 1) challenge myself and overcome my weaknesses and 2) so that I don’t become bored.  In the past, that was another issue of mine that was discouraging. 

 My eating is clean but I’m not consuming enough calories.  I have to go back to the drawing board and figure some things.  I do NOT want to jeopardize my pending advances.

I realize that much of my problem is wanting too much too fast so I have managed to slow my brain activity down long enough to focus on one small goal at a time.  This morning, I got up at 4:45 and hit the gym at 5:15.  I did chest and back only.  This evening, I’ll do cardio for 30 minutes.  I have personally elected to eliminate breads, pasta, and rice from my diet for right now which leaves me with protein (lean cuts) and veggies with moderate fruit intake (early in the day only).  I felt focused this morning.  I did three different excercises for chest and for back — bench press, incline bench press, and chest flyes / lateral pull downs, close grip seated cable pulldowns, and I used the seated chest flye machine in reverse to work the top of the back (I don’t know what that’s called).  I did 3 sets of 15 reps each, increasing the weight with each set.  Tomorrow will be legs — hams, quads, calves, inner/outer thighs and I’ll work some abs in there as well.  I’m having a really difficult time right now (my boyfriend of 9 years broke up with me) so I’m really looking forward to something positive in my life.  I know they say change is good so I’m hoping my quest to transform my physique will be GREAT.

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