dorito’s BodyBlog

Well it looks like all my hard work paid off, while my pull ups weren’t all the way up there like I’d want, I did cut off 4 minutes from my run time with only 3 weeks of having worked on running. So I think that’s worth celebrating!  Of course the 100 crunches were easy to get in any case.

Today I did the 4 miles like I said I would, this time without any walking.  Slowest I ever went was 5.5, after the first mile, and every .1 of a mile I would increase by .1 till I hit the halfway mark of each mile then it would increase by .2 to .3 so that by the time I hit .9 of a mile I would be close to 8 or at 8 miles an hour. I didn’t do my usual sprints of 12 mph, needed to pace myself

I just want to go on and say I hate running, and the only reason I do it is because if I never do it I’ll never get good at it and if I want to be competitive in my job I need to have a good running score.  2 miles used to be real difficult for me, let alone 3 miles.  I now have it to the point where 3 miles is decent, 4 miles is where it starts feeling like 2 miles used to.

Next Friday I have a pft which is a 3 mile run, pull ups, and crunches. I’m hoping to do really well on it.  I’ve been doing push ups every day in hopes of increasing my pull up score, and crunches as well.  Crunches were never a problem, easy to max out the 100 they require and that was before I did them every day.

Only thing I’m curious about is the diet I should have right before a run to maximize my energy, current on an almost protein only diet. Any tips would be appreciated

Just in case anyone is curious my workouts for running include a distance run (today), speed run (tomorrow), and a normal 3 mile (sunday).

I don’t know if its ’cause I’m killing myself with cardio on a daily basis or not, but Black Powder didn’t have as massive of an effect as day 1.  It could just be me, ’cause NO Explode had that same effect about.  First day I had a giant surge.  Only thing is with Black Powder I still notice effects, even tho not as strong as day one, still pretty darn good.  NO Explode I didn’t feel anything any day thereafter and I was thinking, this stuff is so nasty why am I taking it if it doesn’t do any good.  I never finished taking the whole tub of NO Explode.  

It was a leg day, and since it was the first leg day in a while I didn’t do much more than 4 exercises just to get my legs used to working out again.  That is… after a  4 mile run.  So overall i think I did 11 miles so far this week.  Since its two days after this workout that I’m posting this, and I do a 3 on 1 off workout schedule, that means I’m going at it again today   Within the last two days of this week I think I can push in 8 more miles for a total of 19 this week.  >:)

This workout went really well, I did weights first, blasted through that workout, was shoulders and back, less rest was needed between sets and did a little more weight, not too much didn’t want to injure myself lol.  After that I did an interval run for about 1.5 miles, ranging from 5.5 mph to 12, following it up with a 1.5 mile walk.  Was starting to lag towards the end in energy but overall the workout went really well.  Of course running at 12 mph does tend to kill someone who’s not used to it.

This is going to be kind of a review on that supplement

For the past couple of weeks since I started going to the gym again I saw Black Powder on the counter at Gold’s Gym and I was getting more curious every day.
I took it for the first time last night at about 630 pm hen I finally hit the gym.  Normally I try not to down a whole bottle of water right before a run but in order to try this stuff I gave it a shot.

Immediately after taking it I started my ‘warm up’ workout which is usually a 1.5 mile run, at the very least.  That’s when I normally get tired enough to stop running.  I set the treadmill to 5.5 and just ran, not even having to breath out of my mouth for the first 2 miles.  Once I hit 2.5 my wife finished her 1.5 and I still kept going.  I didn’t feel tired at all, really I felt like I had at the beginning of the run, lots of energy.  I got to 3.3 and I figured since my wife is waiting I should finish up this run.  I began boosting the sped to 6.5, 7.5, and finally 8.  Would have gone higher but the treadmill capped out and kept bouncing between 7-8.  I found at the end of the 3.75 mile run that I had as much energy as I started with, wasn’t exhausted in the least bit, and running at the 7-8 speed didn’t exhaust me anymore than running at 5.5 did.

Then I began my normal weight workout, except this time with the goal of 10-12 reps instead of 15, so heavier weight.  Really I can say through the rest of the exercises I pushed harder than I had any day previous, got home and still had bundles of energy.  Good thing for me is no matter how jacked up I am on caffeine or any other stimulant I can still go to sleep whenever I want to lol.

Yeah my bad, I haven’t been keeping up with the gym like I should have.  Things got hectic in Iraq and that’s when I stopped logging in here, then… got home and stopped going to the gym.  Ah well in any case I’m finally starting to go again, this time with a better control on my diet and my gym time.  

I’m doing the 3 days on 1 day off routine, today being day 3.

My first day consisted of (and keep in mind I"m lifting with my wife who has never been in the gym before… much.  Any time there is a / that’s separating my wife and I):

All exercises are 4 sets 15 reps:
Day 1:
15 minute warm up walk/jog/run
Dumbbell Bench Press
Machine Press
Barbell curl
Machine curl
Triceps extension
Machine Extension
20 or 10 push ups
100 or 50 crunches

Day 2:
2.25 mile or 1.65 mile walk/sprints up to 12mph
Dumbbell rows
Upright rows
Shoulder Press
… forgot exercise name… another shoulder one lol
Deadlifts
20/10 push ups
100/50 crunches

That’s it so far..   And all these exercises are to get me used to going to the gym again, will be making a harder workout week 2.