February 27th. Quick Post.
So real quick. I did go do cardio tonight, so hooray for me!! Today should have been back day, but since I think I pulled or strained something in my mid-upper back, and I am in tons of pain, I decided that lifting would be a bad idea. I just did 40 minutes on the bike, stretched really good, and sat in the jacuzzi. My back does feel a little better, so I’m glad that I went. For some odd reason, the gym was a zoo!!! I always go at midnight, always. I get there almost exactly at midnight. And there are the same 3 people there every night, and usually 3 or 4 more random people, 6 or 7 more random people on a busy night. Tonight, no joke, got there at midnight, parking lot PACKED!!! There must have been 60 or 70 people in there!! Even the guy at the counter said he felt like it was 5 in the afternoon or something. It was really weird…. But anyway. I was reading MD while I did my cardio… I do 45 minutes every morning on the elliptical, and my new plan is to add at least 20 more minutes at night after I lift. This seemed like a pretty hefty amount of cardio, until I read the magazine!! A couple of pro bodybuilders were discussing their cardio needs and what it takes for them to get their bodyfat down. Two different pros said that in the weeks when they are really cutting their bodyfat down, they do about 3 hours a day of cardio!!! This is along with a very restricted low cal diet. WOW!! And I thought my 45 min plus 20 min, and eating cleaner was a lot haha. Now, I don’t have a contest to diet for, I just want my abs to show through, and be overall more chiseled, so I don’t think that my needs are the same as theirs. They also have so much more mass to shred down….so I don’t have illusions of needing or doing 3 hours a day. However, it does reinforce to me how much work is needed to truly achieve the results that I desire, so maybe I should be doing my 45 minutes in the morning and another 45 at night, I dunno. I will probly stick to another 20-30 minutes at night after I lift, but it’s important for me to really stick to it and do the nighttime cardio as well. So I am just about exactly 7 weeks from my bday, actually like 51 days. But in that 51 days, I am setting a goal to get to the gym at least 45 of those days, and have double cardio sessions on all of them. 6 days off in 7 weeks is about average for me probably, but if I can manage to get in there every day I will. I will be doing my cardio in the morning and lifting at night like always, followed by nighttime cardio. On days where I am sore or need a day off from lifting, I will just do my two sessions of cardio. And although I have been doing my abs, I haven’t been 100% as consistent or hardcore as I want to be about it, so I need to stick to my ab routine as well, and do all 4 sets, and not just quit after 2 or 3 because I’m tired and anxious to hit the jacuzzi!!! So every day when I update my blog, starting tomorrow, I will write down my stats for my double cardio days (i.e. 1/1 so far, or 10/13) to show how many times out of how many days I have done it. That way I know I am keeping up with my goal.
So thats it. Gonna up the cardio and be super sexy haha. Oh, and should be starting new job really soon, details coming in the near future. Bedtime.
