World of Fitness Threw a Chefs Eye

I had a very busy week at work.  I had 6 parties with head of state, university president and the last with diners that gat over 150 million to the university.  I dreaded this week for a month But I workout every day at 4:30 in the morning I had LOTS of energy and mental focus which I didn’t think that I would have.  So there is something to say about making time to working out no matter what life throws at you.  I did not go to the gym on Saturday at and took a day off. Today I change my workout to 3 day on with heavy weights then one day off then 3 days on with the same workout but with lighter weight and more reps.  Let’s wee how this workout will go.  It seem not to boring and should keep my muscles guessing.  In am think of taking NO-Xplode before my workout and then adding a fat burn later in the morning. I am open to all comments on this

         I am entering the Muscle tech challenge to see how well I can do over the next 4 week. . If I get into better shape than I am now then I win!!   Today I am 271 pound down from 357 pounds around thanksgiving I looked in the mirror and said who is that.  I am getting rid of my chins and my man boob and going away to.   I feel that I have more energy feel healthier and I am starting to look better which in turn will give me more confidence.  I even think that I have abs under my fat just started to add abs workout out to my workout.  I have started to use a website called fit day to check my diet and it is working out great.  I eat 6 time a day it seem like a lot when I first started but know it seem like I am hungry in about 3-4 hour like clockwork.  I eat about 1800-2000 cal a day protein 55%, fat 25%, carbs 20% this seem to be working out well.   I would like to know your thought on this diet ratio? I have a lot of energy with the amount of calories and the weight is coming off.  My blood sugar is below 100 now so I am happy with that. 

Took the day off from work to do the hinny do list But first when to the gym for my leg work out.  I was pumped to get in the gym at about 10:00 a.m.  About 15 in the gym great.  Put on the iPod and cracked the tunes and tuned all of the people at the gym.  Hit the squat rack and it felt great so I add an extra set for a total of 5 last one was 300 ten reps and what burn!!!  I increase my weight by about 10 per set.  After I finish my leg work out they felt like JELLO and where very soar.  I think that I accomplished thing do day.  Got back on my workout plan with a positive attitude.  I am doing well on my clean eating diet and boy is it hard for a chef not to eat food with a lot of flavor.  I started looking recipes in a different way saying how I can add flavor without fat and lot of sugar or crap.  This is day 30 that I have not had ANY Diet coke (my one vise about 5-6 can a day) and do not miss it at all.  Sometime water gets boring so I add some crystal light for a different taste.  Weight loss seems to have slowed down a lot according to the scale but my clothes are getting much loose.  Getting rid of FAT and Adding Muscle!!!!  Back to work and the great gym time of 4:30a.m.

Took the day off from work to do the hinny do list But first when to the gym for my leg work out.  I was pumped to get in the gym at about 10:00 a.m.  About 15 in the gym great.  Put on the iPod and cracked the tunes and tuned all of the people at the gym.  Hit the squat rack and it felt great so I add an extra set for a total of 5 last one was 300 ten reps and what burn!!!  I increase my weight by about 10 per set.  After I finish my leg work out they felt like JELLO and where very soar.  I think that I accomplished thing do day.  Got back on my workout plan with a positive attitude.  I am doing well on my clean eating diet and boy is it hard for a chef not to eat food with a lot of flavor.  I started looking recipes in a different way saying how I can add flavor without fat and lot of sugar or crap.  This is day 30 that I have not had ANY Diet coke (my one vise about 5-6 can a day) and do not miss it at all.  Sometime water gets boring so I add some crystal light for a different taste.  Weight loss seems to have slowed down a lot according to the scale but my clothes are getting much loose.  Getting rid of FAT and Adding Muscle!!!!  Back to work and the great gym time of 4:30a.m.

I changed my gym time and it sucked.  Way too many people at the gym at 4:30 in the afternoon.  I was doing my back and shoulder workout and I had to wait for every machine I need to use.  At one point there were 3 guys doing military press and have a conversation between each set this really pissed me off.  You go to the gym to workout not have conversation when it is busy.  I will be going back to my old time of 4:30 in the morning when peoples just want to do their work out and not have a conversation between each set.  Get in and get out is the motto in the morning as everyone has to get to work.  I did finish my workout after all it took about 50 minutes versus the 35 minutes in the morning.  All pissed off I when to the arc trainer and did 55 minutes of cardio at level 10 and level 30 of resistance.  After about 10 minutes my legs started too hard but push through it and the rest was fine.  It did help that I was watch a repeat of the redwing/ predators hockey game to keep my mind of my sore legs.  In the end it was a good workout.

I took off Saturday form the gym entirely, boy was I dragging ass and needed some rest.  This morning go up and was READY to get to the gym for my leg day.  Last week I change my workout for low weight high reps to a pyramid workout 12-10-10-8 and may leg where burning when I was working out and soar the next day and it felt great.  I was excited to see what changing my workout would do my weight load and reps.  Last time my last set of squats was 8 reps at 280 this time is was a much easier 280 for 10 reps.  I will have to up my starting weight next time.  All of my reps in my workout where easier that last time so up go the first set weight on all of them.  By the end of my leg workout they felt like Jell-O which was great I am sure tomorrow they will be very soar. I need to work on my inner thigh area a little more does anyone have a good workout for that?  I wife had a great idea to the arc trainer for 30 minutes, so what the hell.  Tomorrow is my chest workout looking forward to see if I have the same result as my leg? 

Got up at 4:15 and was at the gym at 4:30.   Took the day off from the weight and did 60 minutes of cardio on the incline ramp at level 9.  Thing started out well but about 25 minutes in i thought i had no energy left so i threw a towle over the timer and just keep going in about 10 minutes i got my second wind and the last 25 minutes where great.  I am keeping my heart rate down at around 125 in the fat burning range and this was very hard.  But in the end I burned the same calories as before hopefully it was more fat than muscle.  tommorow is my off day and then back on my leg workout can’t wait!! I never thought I would say that.  With the more I workout and see result the more i push myself.  I started weighting myself everyother monday to check my progress.  I seem to not to be lossing weight but thing are getting firmer.  I will take new progress photos new week to see how far i have come. 

I change my workout from low weight and high reps to pyramid and heavier weight.  Thanks to Brutus did my leg work out today and boy am I sore.  I felt great when I left the gym as I accomplished something.  I leg pressed on my last set 315 for 8 reps.  I think that this is the way to go for build more muscle and getting to better shape.  Tomorrow I will be to back and biceps.  Had a good day on my diet till I had to go taste 12 different theme meal at work this is the life of a chef.  I eat about 400-500 at a meal 5-6 time a day.  I feel like crap and my stomach has a brick inside of it.  Thank god we only do these meals once a semester!!!! Back to the gym in the a.m. to work off the brick

Diet seemed to be going well and then hit the wall no weight loss for about 2 week. Need to chang my deit to about 1800 cal aday trying to stay under 65 g of carb and itis then tough.  I found this great web site fitday and start inputing my day food intact to get a better handle on what is going into my body,  this seem to be working.  I have also change my workout to more reps and less weight added more cardo.  I weight traing is 3 day on 1 day and 3 day on cardio is 6 daays a week.  this is difficult with my schedule but the gyn now open at 4:30 a.m. on a lot of people at that time and the crazy’s