Day 3 - Chest & Back

Day 3 - Chest & Back

Slight change to the schedule today as my friend Blair cannot make the gym at 7 am as usual, so we are going this evening before we go out salsa dancing (that's gotta count toward the bonus program right?).

Meals: Breakfast was two scrambled eggs on toast with some fried mushrooms (fried in a little olive oil), and water (always with the water!). Snack at 10:30 was grapes and blueberries (quite like that combo). Lunch was some beef bolognese pasta and a ham and cheese sandwhich (I was hungry!). Snack in the afternoon was a satsuma on it's own as I was still full from lunch. Dinner was ANOTHER beef bolognese dish (the last one that I made) and then a banana later in the evening.

I'm still working on my spreadsheet to track all of this, but I can see already that my fat content is "about" right (it waivers up and down but averages out about right), however my Carbohydrate and Protein measurements are off. The spreadsheet is good for this, I can see where I'm going wrong and make the necessary changes.

Body: I had an ice bath yesterday evening, check out the video on http://www.youtube.com/user/LeeTSC. Has it helped? I don't really know to be honest. My legs could have felt like this on their own but I will take the advice of the people in the know (those that have done this). I'm continually stretching today as my legs are in a pretty poor state. This is the price you have to pay for getting out of shape right? I measured my waist today too, I thought it was about 37 inches. Turns out it's 40 inches! (all together: FATBOY) This only toughens my resolve to make the change.

Exercise: Today's exercises focus on the chest and back. The upper body is an area where I KNOW I'm weak so I really need to put a lot of effort into these days to see an improvement and hopefully improve on my pull up score for saturday. The back exercises were tough but the chest lifts almost destroyed me! And to then do as many push ups as possible after was quite demoralising considering I could only do a few at a time, but this only means that I've pushed myself during the session and that leads to improvements.

After the gym session I went salsa dancing for a couple of hours and really worked up a sweat. It was difficult at first as my arms were slow to react to my brain's commands but it got better and was a good post work out ... er ... work out!