mikschu’s BodyBlog

I even got an email because it’s been so long!  Anyway I’m suffering from a little insomnia right now.  Don’t know why but my body just wouldn’t sleep past 4 hours, so I’m not fighting it.  It’s 5 right now but I’ve been up since 3.  Bah.  Anyway no sense in being upset about it, so I’ll just get ready and head to the gym.  I feel awake and energetic so things will be fine.  Besides it’s mental, athletes have been tested after being awake for 24 hours straight and although they were crabby and whiny, their performance didn’t suffer at all.  So I keep that in mind when ever I’m having sleep issues and it helps me get through my workouts with just as much, if not more, intensity.  Food is the most important thing anyway.

Some things I want to change in the next couple of weeks.  I’m going to pay attention to my carb intake and try to curb it after lunch and taper off by evening.  I’m going to run an extra long distance day just for the next 2 weeks to see how the BF% goes down and if it affects my energy with the weights.  I’m trying to burn off some fat as I’m kind of getting disgusted with the little extra I’m still carrying.  It’s not much, and I am by no means fat, but I just feel self conscious about a little love handle action I got going on and not enough ab definition.  It really shouldn’t take long for me to get rid of it if I stay strict in the kitchen, as far as my program goes it’s full of circuits and big multi-joint movements with a different leg workout every day so my metabolism is always through the roof, then I do sprints a couple of times and running once a week (twice for the next couple weeks only.)  I could honestly probably lose like 10 or 15 lbs of fat, the only problem is if I lose 10 or 15 lbs it won’t all be fat!  I will burn off muscle if I aim for something like that. so I can only take off a little bit here and there and then continue to focus on building muscle.  Besides the more muscle mass the easier it will be to chisel the fat off.  Overall muscle mass automatically reduces your BF anyway.

I’m really just rambling now.   It’s weird I feel kind of hyper right now, it defies logic.  Maybe someone slipped some speed into my water?

I finally just pooped!  Sitting down and writing in this thing always helps stimulate a BM.  Now I know if you’ve been reading this you probably either laughed or backed out in disgust.  Whatever I’m human and I’m not afraid to admit that it feels great to just go and take a huge dump, especially right before the gym!

I’m going now…  It’s clobberin time!!!

I did some floor dumbbell presses yesterday, rib-cage style (palms in, close.)  Man did that feel awesome…  I was skeptical about them because of the limited ROM but it turns out they are really great!  You have to stop when your triceps hit the floor (not your elbows,) so you can’t just let your arms come to a rest on the floor, you have to force them to stop.  I could feel a crazy pump in my triceps AND my chest!  I was surprised at how much it hit my chest but it felt great!  I’ll be doing those more often now.  It’s supposed to really help build up the horizontal pushing power so that’s cool.  New things are always very exciting as they illicit a huge initial response.  I really need to start switching a lot of things out for new movements, at least for a couple weeks.  The program setup I have is working great, I think with the same program and just substituted movements I could make some better progress.

This week has been pretty good to me so far.  The other day I did the mile just a tad slower than last time, 6:38 from 6:33.  So only 5 seconds slower.  I was pretty happy with it because I had to slow down towards the end or I would have crapped my pants.  If I don’t have that problem next time I know I’ll do better than 6:33.  I gave myself a 3 month goal of getting from 7:05 to below 6:30.  Looks like I’ll have to reevaluate my goals soon here!  I also said 15 pullups.  Last week I did 11.  I did negatives last Sunday and had an awesome workout, I was very strong in the negative portion, so I know I’ll be stronger and able to do more again today.

Speaking of today, it’s park day!  And I have a few friends going with me so it should be really great!!!  I’m super stoked to have more people with me, it’s always more motivating.  Just having one person makes a huge difference, a little group will make you do things you never thought possible.