In the Home Stretch – Day 28
Sorry no post yesterday but Hawkeye basketball took precedence as does any Hawkeye athletic event when I have free tickets. Didn’t get home last night until 12:30 and my alarm went off at 4:21 this morning. Needless to say I didn’t go to karate tonight. Instead I came home and took a two hour nap, now I probably won’t be able to fall asleep in the next hour.
Wasn’t a good boy last night like I thought I could have been, boy am I in trouble. My buddy that I went to the game with though out an idea of having some pizza in Iowa City before the game since he just got off work when I picked him up. We didn’t go insane, medium Palace Special (sausage, pepperoni, beef, mushrooms, and instead of onions we substituted jalapenos) @ Pagliai’s Pizza. Homemade sauce and sausage and there is only one or two other places that have a better pie. So that takes me to the really bad part, this morning I was 240.2, plump full of weekend bloat. Now I am going to have to kick it in the next two days and get back to 237 and try to get to 236 by the end of the program. Not like I went on a binge and sticking with the plan the next few days is not an issue so with a little bit of luck and a lot of green tea during the day it should flush out.
On the good side I was able to get a workout in yesterday before heading out of town. It wasn’t a full workout, just no abs part but all lifts were done.
Tomorrow is a lift day and since I took today off maybe I can get some intervals in Friday night after work. That’s right, workout on a Friday night, why not and is there a better way to start the weekend? I think NOT! Plus it’s day 30 so what a way to end this experience. If Jackie and Brad allow maybe they will let me write a retrospective on Saturday and put this entire experience together.
I think I have my workout schedule figured once this program is over. It’s important to mix up/change your workout to keep working towards your goal. Doesn’t matter if that goal is weight loss, mass building, or strength building. My workout schedule will be Monday karate, Tuesday off, Wednesday karate, Thursday lift, Friday off, Saturday and Sunday lift. I’m going to go back to isolating muscle groups and spreading the lifts out through the week. My days off are spread out to really help get through the week without over-training and giving the body time to heal. I don’t have the exercises picked out yet but I will be doing 3 sets of 12 reps for the next four weeks before I change it up again around New Years.
So until tomorrow I am going to finish watching tonihgt Man v Food on the DVR before I get to bed.
Jay is OUT
*SPANK*
so close to the finish line and we stumble? aaawwwww…!!
yes, a retrospective would be wonderful.. as would final measurements and final ‘after’ shot!!
I’d love to hear in your retrospective also, seeing as you’re going back to isolation moves why those work better for you and where MG’s moves fit into the big fat loss scheme of things in your opinion.
thanks Jay .. Looking forward to the final dash.
J