February 28th. Back.
Ok, so first off, I am officially 0/1 in my quest to do double cardio for 45 of the 51 days leading up to my birthday, so I’m off to a bad start!!! In my defense, I hadn’t slept in 3 days, and I fell asleep at 7 in the morning, and didn’t wake up until 6 at night, which my body needed. So that’s why I missed my early cardio. I have been having extremely bad insomnia ever since Heather and I split up, sometimes I go 2 or 3 days in a row with zero sleep, even days when I do cardio in the morning and then hit the gym at night, I just stay up all night watching movies and feeling like a zombie. I dunno. Anyway, I need to try and get on a better sleep schedule, especially if I am gonna start working soon.
So tonight was my back workout. I was really happy with my workout. I did pullups, and did a decent job of them actually. The only problem, is that when I do pullups first, they fry my forearms and my grip, and that makes the rest of my workout much tougher, but I suppose over time, this will fix itself as my grip and forearms get stronger, and pullups become easier. I did pullups, lat pulldowns, cable rows, t-bar rows, serratus straight arm pulldowns, hammer machine high rows, dumbell rows, low back extensions, and one very weak set of deadlifts and bent over rows. I had superset most of the other exercises, like I always do, so by the time I got to my deadlift/bent over row superset, I was already pretty fried. Also, I am still slightly uncertain about deadlifts, so I go pretty light, which makes me feel like its a waste of time, so I quit after one really light set. I just grabbed a 65 pound ez bar, bent over and did 12 reps of rows, then went right into deadlifts with the same ez bar…..pretty weak. I am gonna hafta think about how I do these in the future, and retool that part of my workout, and practice my deadlifts so that I feel comfortable with them. I also did my abs, and did them really well. I didn’t slack off, like I often do, which was great! And I did my cardio too!!! I did it on the stationary bike after I lifted, so overall, I was really happy with everything. Aside from missing my morning cardio because I was sleeping, it was a great day. Oh, and I also weighed myself, and I’m down another 3 pounds from the last time that I weighed myself, which is great!!! So tomorrow is Friday, and I am planning on hitting the gym. My new week starts tomorrow, or whenever I lift next, so I will be back to two bodyparts per session, legs and shoulders are first. I am going to attempt to squat when I do my legs, I just decided that it is too important. So, I’m not sure how that is going to affect my soreness and cardio after, but in the interest of accomplishing my cardio goals leading up to my birthday, I am not gonna wuss out. So morning cardio is a must tomorrow, and if I decide not to lift weights, I will still head back and do nighttime cardio, and try to do my obliques.
