carry’s BodyBlog

Yesterday I was faced with an Exercise dilemma, I lost track of time while I was blogging here and browsing BB.com, so I ended up arriving at the GYM late, and with one hour left for me to finish my Biceps / Triceps workout, and a 30 min. cardio, I had to choose, either Cardio or weight training, I love both, so I didn’t have any preferences, and what was going through my mind since I’m trying to lose as much fat as this phase as possible is what should I choose that will burn more calorie, is it cardio or weight.

I ended up with the weights and I left the cardio for for today, I read many times here on BB.com that while cardio burns calories during the 30 min. or so session, weights continue to burn calories for the rest of the day, as the damage you’ve made to the muscle continue to repair all through day and night consuming calories, which creates a negative difference between calories In and Out and make you loose weight, now don’t get me wrong, this is not a decision to abandon cardio as a mean to loose fat, it’s just a thought about  if I had just one thing to do on a certain day, and my goal is to loose weight I would choose weight training any day.

Egypt is known for it’s fair and sunny weather all year long, but this week it seem our European friends are blowing much cold air in our direction which brought the recorded lows to a freezing 4 C.   ok, this is not the weather report, but since we’re not accustomed here in Egypt to this extremely cold weather, it’s getting even harder to get my butt into the GYM, but that doesn’t mean that I let weather defeat me, but it’s just harder to take the decision to go, once I reach the GYM all the cold dissipate and I’m glad I took the decision to come and didn’t give in to the cold, which even deepens my belief in the Nike company saying "Just do it", and when you do it you wont regret it.

Hello Again

Since I’m new to the blogging thing, I’m not doing it regular yet, but I admit it is fun, letting others know how you feel, and knowing how others feel, it is so concealing to see some big and buff guy saying on his blog how hard was it for him to take the decision to go to the GYM this morning , cause you know you’re not the only one who is struggling to do this…when you go to the GYM and find muscular and buff guys you actually think that they come here so easily and that you’re the only one who has to struggle with the alarm clock to get up and be there, but it turned out that this is not the truth, and the saying "no pain no gain" turned out to be right.

Today I got up early at 5 AM, and started preparing my meals for today, and pack them to take them out to work, I’m going to the GYM before work to train my back today, back day is the day I fear the most, as I got a herniated Disk, a back condition that causes sever pain sometimes, and is magnified by the fact that I’m 145 KG heavy, which poses a lot of stress on my back, I’ve made a lot of promises to myself that I will start dieting and get in shape, but this time I’m determined to follow through, there is no turning back this time, talk to you after the GYM, bye.