Day 4 - cardio

Day 4 - cardio

So, up at 6am again and to the gym by 7am. Little tired as I was out salsa dancing last night until midnight but you've got to make that commitment to yourself when you alarm goes off and you just want to stay under the covers. Something that worked for me this morning was to ask myself if I have the heart of a champion, or a quitter? Obviously you are going to say that you do, but that switches something in your head and gives you the resolve to get up and work out. My legs are feeling better and maybe that was because of the ice bath. My chest and back are feeling pretty good considering I destroyed myself yesterday in the gym. Today I did 3.4km on the running machine.

Meals today were a bowl of special k and semi-skimmed milk after the gym. A bag of carrots from Boots for my morning snack. I've been tracking my food intake and have seen that my protein intake has been about a quarter of what it should be, so to boost my protein I decided to pick up a bread roll and stuff it full of chicken breast and ham. I also had a low fat yoghurt which is good for protein, a small bag of fruit while the rest of the office had pizza during a company meeting :-( For dinner I made up some reggae reggae chicken breast and rice with red onion, red pepper and mushroom. It was awesome! I'll have a banana later while out salsa dancing.

Keep going. Almost at the end of week one. I'm worried that I will score less on the pull ups and press ups after my first sessions of upper body exercises, what with the soreness and all, but chin up (quite literally) and dig deep to find the inner strength.

Later,
Lee