Crash and Burn (it up)!

Burn (it up)- Thursday, February 28th

Food- Food intake was good today though I was very late on dinner. I had the standard breakfast and pretty much snacked the rest of the day on protein bars, cashews, banana, apple, blue chips, guac, etc. All was done in the 3.5 hour or less increments. Eating is hard right now due to schedule but I'm working at it. The snack bag that I carry along with the fruit bowls at FT and the office keep me from having long stints without food intake.

Workout- Today was focused on lower body and we slowed it down a bit after the crash yesterday. We added an olympic lifts today including the romanian dead lift and the hanging snatch. Both were fun and raised my heart rate to the top end of the scale. We focused on circuits that included three exercises and made three separate circuits. By the time we completed with weighted punches, I was feeling good but spent. I'm focusing hard on finishing out my five day a week plan but I am looking forward to scaling back in April to 3-4 hard workouts per week in order to allow better recovery of muscle groups.

Cardio- To get back in the swing of cardio, I hit the elliptical for 30 minutes at level 10 on the cardio setting. The setting constantly changes the resistance which impacts your speed, heart rate and overall energy expenditure. I averaged about 4.2 miles per hour and covered 2.16 mile while burning about 450 calories. When it was time to head out, I felt very accomplished and back on track.

Crash- Wednesday, February 27th-

Food- I did hit my food marks for the day though I was a little light on dinner. Extended work days make access to full meals hard. I'm going to think about keeping some sort of back-up meal in the fridge at work.

Workout- Well, I pretty much crashed from lack of sleep and the extremely intense workout on Tuesday. I was able to get some upper body work done and a little bit of core but my trainer and I both realized that my body was pretty much shot. I couldn't keep my feet up for flutter kicks and my upper body work was weak. Today was a good lesson on how reactive your body is to lack of sleep, stress, and over exertion. I certainly learned a lesson and carved out an extra hour for sleep in the evening.

Cardio- Since workout was a bust, I decided to heed the warning signals from my body and call it a day. I felt bad about missing cardio but just couldn't muster the strength to go on. Looking back at it, I think the decision to rest was good.