TLC: Trust, Love, Consistency

Kudos to the kids at Gen-Tec. Thermofuel is the best thing since sliced bread! I just nailed a brutal cardio session (average hr 168 for 20 mins: 389 cals) and it didn’t even feel remotely hard. My love affair with tyrosine, the key ingredient has only just begun.

I was taking iSotori LS5 as a fat burner before and it really upset my stomach and gave me a bit of a nasty caffiene buzz. Thermofuel is great because although it contains caffiene the main ingredient seems to be tyrosine which is a mood elevator, and give a really focused, steady concentrated feeling instead. I actually feel more relaxed after taking it but have much more energy.

In other training updates I did my usual back workout with Joe last night. He said I did well and all weights went up but I just didn’t feel as strong. I realised at the end I’d forgotten to take my l-carnatine pre-workout and I was missing that nice warm feeling. Hmm am I taking too many supps!? Nah! We did wide chins (assisted negs), wide lat pull-downs, narrow palms facing pull-downs, rows with the wide pull-down bar & wide-wide grip bent over row alternating over and under-hand grips each set. Did at least 4 sets of each. Most of the grips Joe has me doing are ones I wouldn’t have used before and I’m really loving the variety, especially the super wide bent over rows.
In contrast to my slightly average effort last night my Sunday leg workout was insane. Set huge PR’s in my squat and could have easily done the same on my deads had I remembered my straps. I even did the evil bench step-ups Joe tortured me with the other week. I love doing legs on Sundays, I don’t feel rushed. It’s sad but it feels indulgent to be able to spend as long as I need to in the gym to get through a great workout. I don’t think my quads have been this sore ever. I really love the intensity I was able to bring to this workout. I also hadn’t done any cardio since Thursday when I rolled my ankle so I bought some lap-swimming bathers and jumped in the pool. I always forget how damn hard swimming is. My heartrate was cranking in no time. I only managed 10 minutes of freestyle before my whole body reached exhaustion and I started doing ‘intervals’, 2 laps breaststroke, 1 lap freestyle. I finished up with  sauna and a quick tan. Normal people might find this all a bit much for a Sunday arvo, but this really is my ideal. It’s 100% me time.

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