Joe’s BodyBlog

At 5 am, the alarm clock blasted me wide-awake.  I. looked out the window to see a winter wonderland. Cold and all of the trees and roads are covered in ice and everything looks like glass with freezing rain falling. Power lines bowing down with the weight of the ice. Not going to venture out in that mess to the gym for swimming. Many schools open 2 hours late.  Got a great mental lift at hit Cardio class last night when the cycling instructor commented on my arms and gave me a high five for putting on muscle. That was a great thought to start my day with.

 
Ate ½ cup oatmeal and took my multivitamin and BCAA’S.   I like to get my big calories in early so after munching my plain oatmeal (I love oatmeal) I had a 570-calorie, 54-gram Cytosport cytogainer shake. The cytogainer has slow metabolizing proteins. As for the calories in it, the HIT cycle class tonight will burn that off.  Have been working my abs and legs doing lots of calf raises at 300, 400 and 500 pounds along with 300-500 ab crunches hitting all angles. I worked my way up to doing 15-20 reps on the entire rack on the leg abduction and leg extension machines.

I will eat clean for the remainder of the day and should be fine. Shoulder not as sore as it was yesterday, so that tells me that the swimming and hot tub are helping. The jets in the hot tub hitting my sore shoulder feels good and loosens up my muscles. I refuse to take a pain killer of any kind and my shoulder trouble will heal with time.

Lunch- 20 cashews and 5 boiled egg whites.

Mid afternoon snack- 20 cashews and 4 hard-boiled egg whites.  Muscle milk shake and 40 ounces of water.

Dinner- Stuffed bell pepper with 90% lean beef that I had made and frozen previously. Steamed broccoli.  Big salad with teaspoon fat free dressing and a plain baked potato.

Pre HIT cardio drink- BSN N.O. Explode in 12 ounces of water.  Drank 40 additional ounces of water.

Went to the gym for 45 minute HIT cycle class. Drank 40 ounces of water. Worked abs hard and did hundreds of crunches hitting all angles.  Did a lot of stretching on my shoulder and did a lot of calf raises.

Returned home and had another 40 ounces of water and took my BCAA’s.

Another day- another victory and another step closer to my goal.

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