Oh man, what a clusterfuck.
I woke up late, ate everything late, took a nap for too long, felt incredibly off from said nap, could only bring myself to do the jump rope, and then gave myself indigestion that messed up my sleep.
On the plus side, today is turning out ok. If I can stay on the ball, it might be a success. Though, I just finished my workout and I wasn't even able to do a full plank rep. I cringe from typing that out. I got to 30 seconds, collapsed, waited 15 seconds, did another 30, collapsed, waited 15, then tried to do 30 more and collapsed after about 10. Everything else was fine (sort of). I mean, I hit muscle failure on the chest dip and push ups on about the third set for both, but the rest of the workout went smoothly. The biceps had to have been the height. I felt like my skin was going to rip open - let me clarify. I didn't quite like this feeling, it was slightly disconcerting. But it signaled to me that I might be doing something right (or something terribly, terribly wrong). Though, once I started getting to the last set for each one, I could only bring myself to do the minimum amount of reps. I feel like I should be doing better. Yeah, I have made a lot or progress, but I feel like I may have stunted it a little from messing up so much.
Anyway, today, if I can stay on the ball, should be ok. It's 5:30 and
I haven't had lunch yet thanks to work. I could have had it at 3:30, when I got home, but every day I come home from work and rest, my muscles get stiff and I become more fatigued. I find it's better if I just plow through the workout ASAP and hope to shovel in all my food afterwords. I'm going to wrap this up so I can start cooking lunch. I may need to cut down on the carbs a little because I don't want to sacrifice the veggies and especially not the protein. I might need to cut dinner a little too because I don't want to get indigestion again but I also want to go to bed at an earlier time.
Also, to answer Jimmy's question, this is radiolab:
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/radiolab/
The best podcast in the world (next to Zen is Stupid, of course)
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RadioLab is much better than Zen is Stupid. Don't waste your time with us, we're a blight on your ears.
ReplyDeleteDude, skin bursting muscle failure is great news. Forget the reps, if you're getting to that point you're having a perfect workout. Nice job.
Heh, I love the title for this post. Keep moving on through, Bryan. One thing we all know by now: There are good days and bad days on the PCP.
ReplyDeleteHaha, aight, that's sweet then.
ReplyDeleteAnd actually, ZiS was the fist podcast I ever listened to. The next one was Radiolab. My reaction to the first RL episode I listened to was , "woooooooooooow....."
I hear you on the planks. I looked at them yesterday and saw we had to do 90 sec and was like "holy fuck!" But I'm coming to terms with the fact that really the number of reps, or time, or whatever the set is measured in is more or less irrelevant now. The numbers should be terrifying because the whole point at this stage is to push us to failure. We're supposed to get to the point where we feel like worthless worms who can barely move, cause then the next day we'll be stronger, and patrick will have to add more reps to make us fail.
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