Last week

Was better than the week before, but it still needs to get better.

The good news is I did 10 very comfortable miles on Sunday. I should be just fine for the half marathon in 3 weeks.

OK. . It's on like Tron

IT'S ON!

8 Miles yesterday. It wasn't fun. Of course, I was running in a decent downpour of rain the whole time.

I'm back to ???.?? for 10-day average weight. I only have like 3 weigh-ins in the last 10 days so I can't take an average. I'll started weighing daily again this morning. I'll have a new 10-day just in time for my May 1 milestone. At this point, I don't assume I'll even make it back to my April 1 weight, but we'll see.

I really am going to try to get back to it

I really am.

How about I start this Sunday. Fresh week. Fresh effort.

Changing up my lifting

I had a long talk with a VERY strong friend of mine at the gym. He was benchpressing 335 just before we started talking.

So I asked him "How the hell do I get that strong?????" After he was done laughing, we starting talking. He had remembered that I was doing this whole light weight/perfect form thing. He said that doing that was great for sculpting my body and building sizeable muscles. He had noticed that in the last 3 months I was noticeably more cut and had much larger arms. He said strength, however, requires going heavy. So we put together a little different routine. It's not too different as far as what lifts I do, but the weight and reps are quite different.

Now I will have 2 routines.
Routine 1:
Heavy weight, 4-6 reps, 3 sets.

Routine 2:
Light weight, reps to failure, 4-5 sets.

I'll do Routine 1 once a week, and Routine 2 twice a week. This way I should have best of both worlds. We both agreed that looking and feeling good is more important, but I want to be strong as well.

My goal is to someday press 315. That magical 315. 6 plates on the bar. I'm a LOOOONG way off.

Alright. Time to get back to it.

Fun time's over. Motivation or not, it's time to get serious again.

I did good on exercising last week, but still pooched the diet. Gotta be better this week.

I've lost motivation

It happens. I'm completely unmotivated to keep going. It's low tide for me. When this happens, I just try to hang on until the motivation returns. No need to encourage me, it won't help. I will try my damndest to get the spark back this month, but we'll see. I'm doing the workout stuff, but the diet is just not there. At some point, you get sick of eating bird food for too many months in a row.

Blah... depressed.

First days back SUCK

First days back suck.

First day back to running: 4 miles and ankle pain.
First day back to lifting: HA! suck.

Hopefully second day back will be better.

A bad week

In more ways than one. I'm sure most anyone who knows me is aware of what happened last week, so I'm not going to talk about it here. Needless to say, I had a solid red week. I've paid for it on the scale as well. I was 186.3 this morning, which is 3+ pounds over my 10-day average from April 1. I have a solid week of missed weights, so I'm going to wait the 10 days until I have a new 10-day average to report. I'm back on the wagon now. I think April's A grade is shot, but I'll try for a B.