jmborr’s BodyBlog

Feels good to recover from an injury, my adductor has recovered 90%. Still afraid of doing cardio and leg workout, but in the meantime I can go on with the rest. I’ve learned the lesson  and I won’t play hero again. My gains will advance slower, but so be it. I won’t risk another injury just for trying to push myself too hard.

So this is what happened to me. I overdid some hip adductions and now I’m screwed up for a few days. What bothers me is that I never noticed I was going overboard with the exercise. It was tough, yes, but that is how it is supposed to be. I usually get cues from my body when I feel a sudden and sharp pain, that’s the signal to immediately stop.

I’ll be more careful now, but it really bothers me that I don’t have a measure of what is reasonable effort and what is not.

I’m blessed with a pretty decent gym at my workplace. 90% of the people go there to claim a discount in their insurance premiums, so their motivation is not like a 100%. All you hear are the TV mumblings and the amicable conversations at the treadmill (if you can do cardio and small-talk at the same time, I say something’s wrong with your workout).  I really felt out of place today, grunting  and punching the leg-press machine. And I put these faces, oh my God, like I am in pain! Everybody else is cruising through their workout and here I am struggling…I am weird!!

It had been more than one month since my last cardio session. That migh be the reason why it felt so good

1hour of moderate elliptical machine; Average heart rate: 150; Calories burnt: 837

Still struggling to gain lean mass,  I’m stuck at 124lb. The good thing is I lift heavier than one month ago, so I may be trading muscle for fat. I’m going to give it a try and do the static curls (16 of them) with the 25lb dumbbells, see how many I kill. No fear of pain!!!

Hahaha, yes, about 16 slices. The trick is, I removed all the white fat from the slices. I ended up throwing about 80% of the slice (you do just that when you only keep the white of the eggs, anyway). It was DELICIOUS and very high in protein!

with P90X

As I take my fitness more seriously, I become aware of the people that are out of shape, and the percentage is growing!

I’m not supposed to judge you by your appearance, but still, it amazes me how people let their bodies take the toll of bad eating and nil exercise. And even more with the ladies. I thought women like to take special care of how they look. Then, how come there are so huge a number of out-of-shape ladies in my neighborhood? It’s easier to spend five hours for a hairdo than five hours sweating hard at the gym, right? What’s worse, these out-of-shape ladies come in two "flavors", the too-much-fat or the too-many-bones, no muscle either way. Sigh!
It’s the curse of living in the state of deep fried jelly doughnuts.

Ugg, I don’t know what happened but I got a lordy headache while doing the workout, I just could not finish it. Maybe because I was doing it in the evening and I’m not used to, or maybe the No-Xplode hit me badly, who knows. It sucks having to stop, but there’s tomorrow

I tasted the elliptical machine, no HIIT because I hate that crap, just smooth and steady. Burnt me 500Kcal which is not much but will do the trick.