Who's got little muscles? I do!

HA! Look at them little biceps! I have officially graduated from "tube arms" to "baby bump biceps"! Woot!

Next step, "big ass huge biceps".

Just "Gym"

No more "Gym arms/chest" or "gym back/shoulders". I've started doing full body workouts three times a week instead of third body workouts. I didn't like that I was only hitting each muscle group once a week. I tried it for the first time last night and made it almost halfway through. That's not too bad considering I haven't lifted in 2 weeks. I hope by next week I'll be able to do the whole thing. My muscles held out last night, but when I started doing squats I got really lightheaded/dizzy and felt like I was going to be sick. The heart was racing FAST, so I decided that was enough. If I remember right, I usually get similar reactions whenever I start back after a long time off. It's like the body is in shock from being forced to work so hard. It should go away soon enough, probably 1 or 2 more workouts.

I'm not reporting weight until it stabilizes. I was 197.3 on Sunday, 195.5 on Monday, and 193.0 today. I figure towards the end of this week, or early next week, I should be good to start reporting again. I'm guessing it's going to stabilize near 191-192, but we'll see. That would mean I only gained 3-4 pounds on vacation, which would be nice. 3 pounds is 11,500 extra calories. That's VERY easy to do when you eat vacation meals for 10 days (plus a crap load of beer).

Stay tuned! I will be a buff boy yet!

Back

Well. Back from vacation. We won't talk about diets. I can say I ran a couple days, and hiked a LOT, so I did get some exercise.

Back to the grind now. I got a nice wake-up call about how far I have to go still. Let's just say, I'd better damn well have a lot more muscle and a lot less fat next time I have to go to the water park with all my friends.

5K on Saturday

I ran the Rock Valley College run for Upward Bound on Saturday. Wow, that was a ghetto race. No official track, just run three laps around the campus. It turned out to be 3.52 miles, not 3.1 miles. There was no timing. If you didn't have a watch, you were out of luck to know how long it took you. It was non-competitive, so no places were recorded. I do happen to know I took third overall, but only because I was first out of the gate, and I know 2 people passed me.

I did turn an un-official PR of 25:47, down from 25:55.

It was fun. Lots of my friends ran it as well.

The bad news

Well.. after working out 9 times in the last 6 weeks, coupled with pissing away my diet every chance I got, I've managed to put back on 6 pounds. So my big massive push to lose weight before vacation became me burning out a little and gaining a bunch of weight instead. That doesn't make me real happy.

I'm back up to 190.7, and I have a renewed drive again. You should start seeing a LOT fewer blank days in the log starting today. Cathy and I are also going to do our damndest to stick with 1, and only 1 cheat meal each week. We've been slipping back into the mode where we do well during the week, and then screw it all up over the weekend.

Stay tuned.