The Body I Deserve (July 06 2008)
I woke up at 3:30am this morning, feeling rested, and ready for the day. I had 1 cup of Oatmeal mixed with blueberry, raisins, and sprinkled with cinnamon sugar, and one scoop of Whey mixed with 4g of BCAA and a Banana blended with some ice-cube. About 1 hour later, I had one cup of coffee (two spoons, and three bags of Splenda and some fat free coffee cream).
I didn’t take any No.Explode today as pre-supplement, because I told myself, I will use No.Ex when I am extremely tired, else, I’m going to do what the awesome physique looking bodybuilder guy at my gym do (2 cup of coffee and some fruits). Don’t get me wrong, I love supplement, and I love all the N.O. products, but I want to cut some back and maybe eliminate them. I am afraid using them will cause high blood pressure.
I planned to do cardio today, but when I get to the gym, I decided to build stronger legs. Leg curls: 25 reps 10lbs, 15 reps 15lbs, 15 reps 15lbs, 10 reps with 20lbs. I couldn’t do 20lbs reps before, and now that I’ve break it, I am going to increase the weight next session. I was sweating like crazy.
Leg presses: 25lbs both sides 20reps, 35lbs both sides 15reps, 35lbs both sides 10reps. My legs were pump, and exhausted, I haven’t felt like that doing legs on my own before.
Squat: 35lbs both sides 8 reps, rest, 35lbs both sides 8 reps, rest, 35lbs both sides 8 reps rest. Blah, so freaking exhausted doing squat. I did do a few without weight to make sure my form is correct. It’s not as good, but I feel more comfortable doing it now. Just like when I first start doing bench press with a bar itself, I was freaking scared, but now I got over my fear.
Barbell lunge: No weight, I could drop some weight on, but I didn’t feel like it. i did about 12 reps and headed over to stretch.
I noticed my strength went up a bit, I feel less sluggish during my workout. Yesterday, I was eating more, but still focusing on eating lean food. I might have been eating too little, and not knowing about it. Now I’m focusing on making sure my body get proper foods and nutritions. How? I have no idea, I am going to have to start reading.
Isn’t this interesting? At first, I thought all I have to do is to bust my ass on the treadmill or on the elliptical daily to have a good looking physique, but then I learned that I have to work with free weight to strengthen all my muscles, because muscles burn fat. And now, i’ve learned that I must eat right and fuel my body with proper nutrition, else, i can say goodbye to all my hard work. It’s one thing leads to another, who know, I might compete one day. Wow, that would be awesome, I would rise above those that I known in my life. It’s something to think about hmmm…hmmm…hmmm….
July 6, 2008 at 7:49 pm
You might want to consider lowering your reps. And it’s the best to work out from overall muscle group target exercises like lunges and squat first, then move to isolation workouts like leg curls, and leg extension etc. So you won’t pre-exhaust your muscles but aim for more strength and power. 20reps are way too many, unless you change your reps/sets each week or any time set period.
holla at me on yahoo tomorrow.