TLC: Trust, Love, Consistency

In trying to fit almost 3 hours worth of extra stuff into my day (posing, cardio, weights) I’ve been looking at rejigging my schedule. One of my ideas was to get back to cycling to work. After all, it’s the fastest way to get to work and it ticks the cardio box nicely. I stopped cycling a few weeks back as I was feeling way to carb depleted to handle it.
This morning I made adjustments to my breakfast to include some oats, ameranth and buckwheat porridge to power the bike. Breaky was still 300 calories-ish but just different macros. Sucked down my new pre-workout combo of BCAAs, l-tryosine, creatine, glutamine & alca and off I went.

I intentionally took it pretty easy and averaged about 22km/h (about a 15% reduction on my usual speed). Made it to the gym in one piece and pushed through my chest workout in an acceptable but not awesome style. I’d left my Xtend in the bottle on my bike, locked downstairs, outside the gym so made do with water. Exactly 59 minutes into my workout  (and my second to last set) all sense of strength was zapped. Finished up, showered and changed and downed my Xtend as quick as possible to see if I could reverse the zombie’s curse.

The first hour of work was a write off, even after having my post-workout meal of chicken, veg and pearl barley. Then I realised, woah am I thirsty. I must have downed 1 litre of water in half an hour. Magic, the zombies curse lifted.

At lunchtime I decided I’d better make sure I could get back home again, as I don’t have time to get the train tonight, so I ducked across to the supermarket and bought a big bag of frozen brocolli and cauliflower to add to my snack (kangaroo pattie). Yuck, there is NO FLAVOUR in supermarket frozen veg, but hopefully the extra greens should keep me rolling through to the afternoon a bit more evenly.At first I was stressing it was outside of my scheduled meals, but then I came to my senses and realised half a bag of broccoli is 50calories of fibre, hardly a determent!

So next time I’m feeling like death:
water
green veg
take a nap (not an option at work)
glutamine

I’m slowly learning from this science experiment!

In other exciting news, I did a quick and probably inaccurate self caliper measurement and wound up with 13.5%. Tomorrow, Joe will do proper measurements for me but things are looking up. May even increase calories slightly.

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