hazardousone’s BodyBlog

I missed Friday’s workout because I wasn’t feel too hot, so I made up for it by hitting the gym both days this weekend.  I’m feeling really good about the progress I have made as far as attitue and commitment.  Hopefully soon I will see the physical changes that I’m looking for.

Saturday: 45 Minutes Elliptical

Sunday: 45 Minutes Treadmill; 30 Minutes Swimming (5 laps)

I haven’t used the pool at the gym in quite a while, so the swim was quite a workout! I forgot just what a wonderful workout swimming is.  I’m going to try to work it into my routine atleast twice a week.

As always, any hints, tips, or ideas are welcomed!

The squats & lunges I did on Wednesday left me so sore it was hard to move!  I still did my 40 minutes of cardio on the elliptical followed by 20 minutes in the sauna to loosen my muscles.  Still sore today, but the tiger balm will help me through another day!

Sunday: 40 minutes elliptical workout followed by 15 minutes in sauna

Monday: 3 sets of 10 reps ea:

dumbbells - curls, hammer curls, tricep extension, lying tricep extension, shoulder shrugs

machines - back extension, row, chest press

40 minutes on treadmill @ 3.5 mph & 4.0 incline

Wednesday:

Morning warm-up: prisoner’s squats, wide-stance squats, & lunges

Workout: 40 minutes Elliptical

10 Minutes stationary bike.  Did intervals of 20 seconds @ 100 - 125 rpm and 10 seconds @ 60 - 70 rpm for entire durations.

 In other news, I may have re-aggravated my calf injury on Wednesday with the squats or lunges.  Been feeling the old familiar pain and numbness.  Hopefully it will subside.

So on Wednesday I was still extremely sore, I tried to do a couple of curls, but it just didn’t feel right.  I really want to try to be injury free this time around, so I’m going to wait until I’m healed up before attempting weight lifting.  I was pretty bummed that I couldn’t do an upper-body workout, but since I was already at the gym I did a 1/2 hour of cardio on the eliptical. 

Thursday I thought I was feeling better and ready for an awesome upper-body workout, however I soon figured out I’m not ready.  I guess I really pushed myself on Sunday.  I did do my hammer curls, regular curls, tricep extension & lying tricep extension, but my muscles were exhausted after that.  So I did a 1/2 hour of cardio on the treadmill today.  Kept the speed to 3.5 and the incline at 4.0.  Overall a good workout.  I wish I could of done more weight lifting this week, but I am really proud that dispite the fact that I wasn’t feeling good and couldn’t do what I wanted, I still hit the gym! 5 days in a row!  I’ll really be proud after Friday’s workout.  Nothing better then telling yourself you are going to hit the gym 6 days a week and then doing it.

One odd thing about Thursday’s workout was that when I was doing the hammer curls, instead of feeling the burn mainly in my biceps, I was feeling an intense burn in my shoulder muscles.  I’ve done hammer curls on and off for years, but this was the first time that happened.

 Can’t wait until I start showing some good loses so I can post new, less embarrassing update pics lol

Today I planned to get in a really intense upperbody workout, however my body disagreed.  I will still quite sore from Sunday’s upperbody workout so after attempting a few curls, I realized I needed to wait one more day.  So instead I did a 1/2 hour of cardio on the treadmill.  I kept the incline at 5.0 and the speed at 3.5 the whole time to keep in the fat burning zone.

Today’s Workout:

Since I did upperbody on Sunday, I focused on legs today.  Whenever I do lunges and squats (with weights), I get really shakey legs, so for now I am keeping away from those and just using the machines. List of today’s exercises:

Leg Extension

Leg Curl

Leg Press

Calf Raises

Hip Abduction

I have not yet established my max weight on these machines.  Some of the machines use your body weight as well as the weight stack, which makes it hard to get an exact number.  I am doing 2 sets of 10 reps at a challenging level and then I try to max out a 3rd set of 6 - 10 reps.

After finishing I did 30 minutes on the eliptical.

Tomorrow (Tues.) I do another upper body workout! Can’t wait!

Where to begin… I’ve had trouble with weight since I was a teen.  Constantly adding and dropping pounds.  In 2005, I really hit my stride with working out.  I was going to the gym nonstop.  2 hours was a pretty normal amount of time for me to spend at the gym atleast 4 days a week.  I was getting some nice cuts on my arms, stomach was shrinking (although I never was able to get rid of those dang love handles!!!) and I was hitting some great strides with my cardio.  I was running a mile on the treadmill in under 7 minutes, which was amazing to me.  However I got too cocky and tried to bump that time up to a 6 minute mile and ended up tearing my calf muscle.  So my cardio days were done, but instead of keeping up with my weight lifting, I quit.  I let myself get lazy, assuring myself I would be back in the gym as soon as the calf healed.  That injury took 6 months to heal and less then 1 week after going back to the gym, I hurt the same muscle.  Turns out this time I pinched a nerve, which caused me constant and painful numbness for quite some time.  So once again I quit.

I have accepted the fact that my calf will probably never be 100% and I will never be able to run like I once did, but I am now committed to working out and really looking forward to it on a daily basis.  I am 2 weeks into this workout and already feel some gains in my arms!!  I am also doing cardio, but instead of running on the treadmill I am walking and also doing eliptical exercises. 

I’m really dedicating myself to sticking to this and want to look my absolute best!!

I’ve been looking into getting a fat burning supplement and read the ads for this in Exercise For Men Only Magazine.  Anyone try it and what experience have you had?

 Currently I am taking muscle milk and creatine.