oh..saturdays :(
A word of warning…stay out of the gym on Saturdays!!!! I always take Saturday as my rest day, but with my new routine (3 on-1 off) there will be days when I HAVE to go to the gym on a Saturday. I had to work for a few hours this morning, so I went to the gym afterwards…I got there at noon and WOW—let me tell you…a completely different crowd than I am used to, I didn’t see one familiar face! It looked like a freaking high school—little cliques of chicks trying to look cute and yappin on their cell phones and dudes wearing sleeveless shirts and walking around like they have basketballs under their arms….yeah, you know what I’m talkin about!!!! 
since I’m not a usual Saturday gym-goer…you should have seen the looks I was getting—LOL! Let me just say…I was the only chick lifting and the only person with a notebook
Anywho, my first week on my new program went really well! My body is so sore…it feels great!!! Even my back is sore…and that’s very unusual for me! Its still a little weird having the extra rest days, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it…as sore as my body has been, it probably needs the rest! I’ve been cutting back on the cardio…just 30 min in the morning as opposed to the 45-60 min I was doing before. On my rest days I don’t lift or do cardio…I give my body complete rest!!! As far as my calories go, I am keeping them low on my rest days and on my training days I’ve increased them by adding some complex carbs. I’m not bumping them up too much at once, so I’ll add a little bit more this week…and so on. I am shooting for 40/40/20 on training days and on rest days I try to hit 50/30/20.
So…between work, the crazy gym and then food shopping I’ve had my fill of people for the day 
now, I’m gonna relax with brody and watch the dodgers pound the mets!!! Hamels is on the hill tonight, to keep my first place phils rollin…I’ll be heading to the game tomarrow, so it should be a fun weekend!
Have a fabulous weekend…and if possible, please stay out of the gym on Saturdays~~trust me, its for your own good!!!
May 31, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I have been using Sunday’s as my day of rest. However, I am probably going to go to a 3-1 cycle myself. The gym here isn’t bad at all on Saturdays but try ti get in there on Mon and Tues night and it is packed. From Wed on, it isn’t busy because as I see it alot of these younger folks have other things to do and it is usually reving up time to partying for the weekend.
May 31, 2008 at 1:04 pm
I feel your pain!! I use to workout in YMCA and all they had was that crowd..Day or night! Thank God I switched.
And those "basketballs under arms"…Technical term for that is "ILT"…Invisible Lat Syndrome…LOL
And usually those who have nothing to show walk around in sleveless shirts and pose in front of the mirror…And girls with full make up and some kind of britney spears video outfits…GOD!
I just use to klick the switch and concentrate 2 feet in radius, on myself, weights and my water bottle…Ipod is a must!
June 2, 2008 at 6:05 pm
Now that it is summer my lunchtime gym outings have been cursed with the same teenage crowd. My gym runs a summer special so all these HS kids join for $99 for the summer and make my time at the gym less enjoyable. but, thank goodness for my MP3 player…. dang kids…. hopefully those testosterone charged boys do not get fresh with you and make you crush them.