New Year, new goals
Ok, so here it goes. Just like everyone else, today I woke up with a fitness plan in mind. Hopefully, I can weather the fair weather workouters that will be gone by spring break. It happens every year. For every 100 people signing up at a gym, or starting to workout, about 1/3 are gone within a month. Another 40 are gone by spring break now that they are "in shape" for the beach. I plan to keep working out past that through the year, at least 4 times a week.
As 2007 wrapped up, I was averaging 4 days a week at the gym with 10-15min warmup on the rowing maching at the highest setting, averaging 31-32 strokes a minute. I’d follow that up with a workout for a specific bodypart, usually biceps one day with a few triceps, Chest the next day, Back and the rest of the triceps the following day, and then the fourth day would be whatever I felt the weakest on during the week. I’d finish up the day’s workout with about 20mins of cardio on a bike at medium pace. After the workout, immediately take my protein shake and then after a shower, Cellmass. My workouts were preceeded by 2 scoops of BSN’s No-Explode.
So far, the workout has been productive. I’ve had some sleep issues, where, even with 8hrs sleep, I still feel the need for a nap during the day. My wife has scheduled me for a sleep study towards the end of the month so we can figure out if an enlarged tonsil, or something else is causing the issue. My bet is somewhere along the line, during my sports playing days or during one of the times playing with my daughter, I caught a good knock to the nose and this probably caused some trouble breathing at night. Who knows. Not a doctor, so any insight from the study would be welcome. As for downfalls that I’ve created myself, I still have a beer or two a day, my lunches are usually not the healthiest (think two fast food burgers, no fries), and a decent amount of carbs during the day. Portion sizes are a little on the large size, but unlike how women describe themselves online in saying average (when average is not 180lbs as we all know), I’m not eating a plate covered 2in deep in food. I could stand to cut back portion size, but I feel that it is an innate reaction by me that I’ll just be hungry again in 2hrs if I do. I think I should try to get over that, and plan more healthy, smaller snacks. For some reason, this is difficult for me, and I’m a stay at home dad… Who figured? I feel that if I can overcome that holdup, and incorporate more water and less diet cola/beer, then a lot of my issues will resolve themselves. This will all begin at the end of this week. Just giving myself the time to get over my excuses, and my daughter to get healthy again after a bout with a bug over Christmas, so I can get back into the gym with her. The next step, the food correction, begins tomorrow, and on Monday, I plan to swing by the store to pick up some healthier snack options. For being in Men’s Health’s top 10 lists of places to live, Madison isn’t the greatest place for healthy food selections in their stores and I’ve found a lot of the fruits and vegetables to be borderline rotten. It seems like forever since I found one pint of strawberries that didn’t have a single overripe/rotten strawberry buried in it.
Checkins with the blog, I’ll try for every monday during my daughter’s naptime, and pictures to update monthly. Here’s to dropping to the high 150s and cutting back fat into the single digits by April…
