March 20th. Back.
Double cardio update: 19/22.
Ok, so my day off was very nice. I really wanted to go to the gym and work out, especially at night, but it was good to rest, and I got plenty of sleep. Today I was right back in there feeling really good and working hard tho. My goal is to go the next 15 days in a row before I take a day off again. That will give me a really easy finish up to my birthday and should make it fairly simple to accomplish my double cardio goal.
Today my mom was here, so we went to my brother’s house and had dinner with he and his fiancee. We went to this little hole in the wall place down the street, which has really good food, and so since I have been doing keto for about a week I decided to indulge and eat some carbs. I had a philly cheesesteak sandwhich, french fries, and a large coke. Oh, it was delicious, but my stomach was not happy with me afterwards. I had MAJOR diahrrea for the rest of the evening haha, which sucked, but I think that will quell some of my cravings for a bit. So tomorrow I am going to pick up some more eggs and another bag of chicken breast and that will hafta last me till I get money in a week.
So my workout tonight went really well. I got to the gym right at midnight and it was more packed than I have ever seen it at that time! I think it was because of March Madness because most of the guys were basketball players, so they probably watched all the athletic, in-shape players on tv and felt inspired to hit the gym. I’m not sure if it is because of the carbs I ate, or the extra calories, or the day off, or maybe a combination of all of the above, but I felt really strong tonight. I had endless energy and basically had to make myself quit because I didn’t wanna overdo it. But I did pullups, lat pulldowns, cable rows, serratus, cable snakes, reverse grip ez bar lat pulldowns, deadlifts, bent over barbell rows, tbar machine rows, and dumbell rows. 10 exercises!! Thats a lot even for me, and I did 3-4 sets of each, so I really worked hard and put in a ton of reps. And I still had energy to do a pretty decent set of ab work and 20 minutes of cardio, and wanted to do more! So I feel really good, plus I enjoyed the new exercises that I threw in today. Tomorrow is triceps, and I hope to have just as much intensity if not more. I am going to do a bunch of sets of close grip bench press on the smith machine. I’m not sure if the smith is better or worse for this exercise, but since this will be my 1st attempt at it, I am being safe. So I’m hoping to do all my usual stuff, plus anywhere from 6-10 sets of the close grip bench, and maybe I will add dips or something else fairly new at the end.
I currently do 45 minutes of cardio in the morning and another light 20 minutes at night. I can see visible changes in the mirror, but I am impatient lol, and still somewhat paranoid about my diet, and was reading another article in which a pro talked about doing 2-3 hours of cardio daily to get into absolutely ripped condition. I also used calipers to measure my bodyfat today, and it came out at about 18% which is roughly what I figured it was at, but since I want to be around 8%, I still have a ton of work to do. So I am going to up my morning cardio to 1 hour instead of just 45 minutes, and up my night cardio to 45 minutes and up the intensity. I am also going to be very good about doing my abs regularly and only do one bodypart per day from now until at least my birthday. So for the next 4 weeks it will be full steam ahead, and tons of intensity, and hopefully on my bday I can measure my bodyfat again and see a number closer to 12% or less. My goal is 8% by June 1st, which is 10 weeks away, so we will see if I can get there.
