annabolic’s BodyBlog

Today I focused on my triceps. I had an amazing workout. I really like working my triceps. I just so happen to hold the majority of my upper body fat there. It feels good to manumit my muscles from the fat that has for so long consumed that area of my body. As far as my diet is concerned I have had another perfect day. This morning I had 5 egg whites with one yolk and a cup of Kashi Go Lean Crunch with some blueberries and strawberries, then for post-workout I had 1 scoop of whey and some oats with some more strawberries. Later I am going to have some tuna pancakes, then a chicken and spinich salad. I will finish off the night with some cottage cheese and peanut butter. That’s pretty much all I ate yesterday too. Tomorrow I will make it a low carb day because I am not lifting. I am going to go do some cardio later tonight, so hopefully I will end up having had a most ideal fat burning day.

Oooook, I am freaking out because I just had the absolute best leg workout that I have ever had in my life. I did the leg press, wide stance stiff-legged deadlifts, squats, smith machine squats(I had never tried it before. It is now my favorite leg excercise), hip abduction, hip adduction, leg extension, leg curl, and some glute stuff and some calf raises. I threw in some ab excercises just for good measure. I have a feeling that I will be unable to walk for the next several days..don’t worry I stretched a lot before, during and after my workout. I kept the weight pretty moderate because my legs are fickle and I never know what to expect from them. Anyhoo, I have to give my NO-Xplode some of the credit. I just started taking it again. I think it is my favorite NO product after trying most of them. My diet had been immaculate lately and I know that makes a huge difference as well. All in all I am feeling so much better lately than I have in a while and I am anxious to keep it up

I was going through some old pictures on my computer the other day and I found one that completely blew me away…in the bad way. It was taken a few days before I moved to Hawaii to go to school back in December 2004 (I will put up that picture eventually).  I have struggled through a recent bout of complacency with regard to my workout routine. Stumbling upon that particular picture was enlightening. I didn’t realize how far I have come and how much I have perservered through. I remember very clearly a hike that I took in HI a couple weeks after I moved there. It is a four mile hike, and at the end there is a beautiful waterfall. It was so hard for me to make that trip. I was so out of shape. I had to stop a lot. What should have been a nice, calming and brief Sunday hike ended up becoming an endurance challenge that I would have never forseen. I felt miserable and discouraged throughout the whole day. Of course that was 50 pounds and 30% bodyfat ago. I am going back to HI this Septemeber and I will be making that same excursion again. I will take a picture of that too and I will put up the before and afters. All of that being said I am surprised that I have had such a difficult time lately. Fortunately I have re-vamped both my diet and my excercise routine. I am feeling more motivated than I have in a while. The past few months have been challenging and I have been really struggling to keep my head above water so to speak. Anyhoo, I will put new pics up soon. I think that feedback will help my progress and my mentality.