Archive for August, 2009

I think starting this week I’m going to take Sunday off. I just need a day to sleep in and fully rest, I think. I tried working out today, not really feeling very good, and by the time I got to the cardio, I started getting chills and shakes. So, I went 10 minutes, and started feeling nauseus, so I stopped, came back home, and made sure to have some water and food. I think with the combination of getting kinda sick yesterday at the hot sauce festival (long story), being dehydrated and out in the sun far too long, and not having any chance to take a break to rest up in the mornings is catching up. It’s more important, I think, to take 1 day off a week than to have to take a few days off because you pushed yourself too hard. Besides, I’ve been getting suggestions from others to do this anyway. So, Sundays I’m just going to rest. At this point, I think I’ve got the habit of going to the gym daily down, so I don’t foresee one day of rest as an issue.

Other than that, my eating is doing pretty good, and as soon as I can save up enough money for an iPod Touch, I plan to start entering my nutrition information as well. Tonight, I foresee coming home, and going to bed, in order to make sure I get enough rest to be ready for tomorrow.

Maybe it’s the length of the week, or not getting enough good sleep, or what, but after about 5 minutes today I was already trying to make deals with myself about taking every Sunday off, or only going 10 minutes today, or wanting to just curl up and take a nap. Every teensy spot on my body that even so much as itched felt loud and important.  I made it through my 30 minutes, but it was absolutely miserable.

I feel like I’m losing steam, and I have no idea why. I’ve done such a good job up to this point and have no plans to quit, but I don’t understand this… mood. Has this happened to anyone else? It’s almost like my old lazy self is resurfacing and trying to regain control.

I didn’t realize just how hard it is to control my HR when I don’t do weights before. Man, it took a LOT of energy to keep at my regular 140 HR pace! Today and tomorrow don’t have any gym exercises, just cardio, so I can let my muscles rest. And they need it; they’re being very loud and grumpy.
Other than that, my watch isn’t working well; it crashed during my workout today. I need to go get it checked up, and have the battery replaced. I had a nice breakfast today after the gym, so hopefully the rest of the day will go smoothly and my abs will stop screaming.

Grump grump grump. Actually, I feel like I’m doing fairly well, all things considering. I joined a ton of different challenges on DailyBurn, which should help motivation (although, I feel like I’m doing good in this regard now. Today was my 26th day going to the gym straight and I don’t feel like I’ll be stopping any time soon). I’m burning on average about 500 calories a workout, doing good on weights, and am now generally sore everywhere. Today was Abs day… these might be my weakest muscles. Sitting in a chair is fun, believe you me.

So, I’ll be swinging my arms around, trying to shake out the soreness while I work. I hope everyone I’ve inspired to pick up their exercise routines is still doing a great job! Keep me posted on you guys’ status too, I want to share in your successes as well!

Woke up a bit late today… just had trouble sleeping for some reason. Also, had some weird soreness in my left leg. It went away when I did my cardio.

I started doing my arm stuff today. I think I may have either misjudged what weights I was using last, or lost some strength in my triceps, but today was REALLY brutal. I almost hit muscle failure doing the bench dips, which would have been really bad as I probably would have fallen between the benches. It was incredibly difficult after those exercises to keep my HR *low*, while doing my cardio. Even barely walking, for 20 minutes my HR stayed over 140. Talk about fired up!

A friend let me borrow his MP3 player; it’s making it so much easier to keep focused and energized when I have a decent mp3 player to listen to, and not want to chuck my phone out the window. Now, if only I could get an iPod Touch; They have some great apps that I want to use, and I can use it as an mp3 player, and as a notebook instead of carrying around pens and printouts… damn things are so pricey though. Anyone wanna start a “Help AquaJew bust his ass” fund?

People seemed to say that the numbers don’t matter much, so I’ll just keep doing my writings, and leave the numbers on DailyBurn. I joined a few challenges there though; once their API comes through, I’ll start putting the trackers in widgets or something, since I think those things are neat to show progress.