Why do I train?
For the first year of training I was doing it to loose weight. I wasn’t huge but I’d never been thin and always found buying pants a pain and clothes shopping was never much fun. So I lost the weight and then I started really getting into lfting and became fascinated by the muscles which were growing on me. I was my own science exerperiment. Somewhere along the way I started to think I’d compete, then last year I didn’t get it together in time. By the begining of this year I was so on track I felt unstoppable, until I was…. So what am I training for now? I find out on Monday.
Monday I have an appointment with the upper limbs surgeon to find out whether they want to re-break my shoulder and fit me out with metal and a fancy scar. I’m in 2 minds about the appointment as I have a fair amount of mobility already but I can feel that it’s set really weirdly. I’ve decided I’ll take whatever is going to get me lifting the quickest.
In the meantime I’ve become good friends with the elliptical machine to make up for the cardio I’m missing by not biking everywhere. My hamstrings have never complained more. I’ve managed a unilateral upper body workout and have been doing lots of walking lunges of different kinds for my lower body as I prefer this to just using machines.
My diet has been a bit all over the place and I haven’t really seen any weight drop off. I know when I ditch most of my carbs it all comes off but I think it’s really only water weight so I’ve been arguing with myself over whether to go back to using the gameover diet or just keep to a higher fibre based more carby diet. I stopped with gameover because I was feeling blocked up from the codine I was on. Now I’m off the codine I’m kinda hooked on things being a bit more ‘regular’. I’m leaning towards the scivation lifestyle cut diet as it’s easier than being back doing calories and allows for a bit of flexibility.
This post has seemed pretty rambly but I guess I need to go back to my science experiment approach. I need to be more scientific about things though. I need to work out a time frame and the expected results and then stick to the experiment guidelines. Forget competing.. this is science. Time to get down to it, record daily results thoroughly whether I’m happy with them or not and check my hypothesis at the end of the experiment period.
