Day off
yesterday i took a day off from the gym, running, and everything. i got off work, hit the shower, and went to bed. it was amazing. other than waking up an hour and a half later thinking it was time to wake up because my body thought it was fully rested. which lead to having to walk to the bathrooms outside through the cold. For anyone who does not know i am in iraq and the bathrooms are a good 100 yard walk from my room. when you are nice and cozy in bed all bundled up, walking just to pee sucks. anyway i finally got back to sleep for what felt ike 5 minutes, but it was 6 hours later and time to get up. fun fun.
the day before that i got off work and skipped my run. so i feel like a slob today. its been 2 days since i ran. but i wanted to hit the gym and work on my "beat the gunner" stats. we have a little competition in our shop where we face off against the gunner in 5 competitions; pullups (max set), dips (max set), crunches (2 minutes), pushups (2 minutes), and max bench. So far my stats are 25 pullups, 35 dips (i did 42 one day, but i didnt get a wittness), 114 pushups, and 280 max bench. I’m leading the max bench and pushups so far. The only thing that sucks with the max bench is that we take the benched weight and divide that by the persons weight. mine would be 280 / 177 = 1.582 roughly. So we use this number since not everyone weighs the same. Gunner weighs in the low 160, so he doesn’t have to bench as much. But we have a few months left till the final show down and I believe I am only going up.
I don’t know if my goals on winning the "Beat the Gunner" contest will diminish my overall goal of under 10% BF with a 6 pak or not. We will see. I am still working on it. I know it is a challenge trying to weigh out maintaing or increasing muscle, while still losing fat but not muscle with too much running.
Side note…. I got my flu shot a couple of days ago and since then I have been way too hungry and eating for no reason. Its nothing bad, a handful of peanuts here, some crackers there, the occasional banana, but still I am not used to jsut giving into being hungry for no reason. Anyone else have this problem? And can you go overboard on peanuts? I don’t eat a shit load or anything, but I eat a good amount. Also I drink about a gallon and a half of water a day. I jsut get thirsty. Maybe its because of the peanuts? lol.
I need some advice on lower ab workouts, my upper and mids are showing and getting tight as hell, but my lower isnt too good. i have the "V" but no lower ab show? normal? am i doing something wrong? advice please. thanks.
