Getting serious with the weights

You know what's super annoying?

You go do your workout, you go home, you walk the dog, you shower. You're like, man, I should be really hungry, I just did the hardest workout in the world clearly, I needs me some protein and vitamins. But you're still kind of on that endorphin high and cause your body is still processing the workouts or some scientific nonsense I don't know, and you're just not really feeling hungry.

So you kind of just start making some dinner, you start making your lunch for tomorrow because you're that person who brings their lunch and makes it the night before, and you just pop a little piece of vegetable in your mouth.

AND THE DAM IS BROKEN AND THE FLOOD IS RUSHING IN AND YOU JUST START TO EAT ALL THE FOOD IN THE WHOLE WORLD.



This is why I love leftovers and easy access to healthy meals because otherwise after every workout I would just be like RAMEN AGAIN WHY NOT IT TAKES FIVE MINUTES.

Although when I doctor up my ramen it is damn tasty, with green onion and slices of meat and carrots and when I could eggs lots of eggs. So many eggs. It almost made you forget that one packet of ramen was 500% your daily sodium intake or some shit like that.

OKAY I DID NOT START THIS BLOG TO TALK ABOUT FOOD (all the time).

I've been trying to increase my running abilities in my workouts, and I've also been incorporating a lot of weight training. Today, I reached a pretty incredible landmark, I think - I ran for a solid 15 minutes straight (we're not going to talk about the accidental hit of the emergency stop so there was technically a ten second pause at minute 13 but THAT IS MERELY SEMANTICS), which is well over a solid mile. I've never been much of a runner or able to do anything like this - and I thought it was a big deal when I was able to hit 10 minutes, the Friday before last. Last week I did a 10 minute run, a 2 minute walk, then a 10 minute run; today (and this week) I am doing a 15 minute run with a two minute cooldown. The reason for this is twofold:

I'm not running very fast, so I'm going to focus on getting my time up, and then when I can run a steady 20 minutes, I'm going to work on increasing my speed.

I want to focus more on weight training at this point, since this is what's going to really help my body transform and get healthier.

I really tried to spend more time on weights today, and I think I came up with a pretty good routine that was approx. 30 minutes long:

Side bench press at 25 lbs: x10 each side, 3 reps.
Side lift at 25 lbs: x5 each side, 1 rep.
Tricep pull at 25 lbs: x10, 2 reps.
Russian twist at 7 lbs:  x20, 3 reps.
Squats with 30 lbs: x10, 3 reps.
Pushups x10 (regular ones but still terrible form, so a work in progress)
deadlift with 30 lbs: x10, 2 reps
Bench press with 30 lbs: x10, 2 reps.
Incline pull up x10 (to work my way up to a regular pull up)
Lat pulldown at 70 lbs x10, 3 reps.

Obviously I'd have to repeat all that again to get a really *full* routine but I decided that, with the 15 minute solid run (over a mile!!!), maybe just maybe I'd leave it at that for the day.

GOOD NEWS WAS I KNOCKED IT ALL OUT OF THE PARK AND DIDN'T EVEN BREAK A SWEAT*

*everything in that statement is a complete and utter lie.

The actual good news is that that operation I'd apparently had to replace my limbs with noodles was a complete success.

I'd been weight training regularly with all this but I really ramped it up today, and for this week I'm going to keep it at this level, and next week I'm probably going to increase the numbers by at least five (so x15 3 reps, etc), and the week after that I'll try increasing weight. I'll probably alternate like that for a little while.

ahhahahahaha just thinking about that makes my everything hurt.

Then I came home and had a kickass super duper healthy dinner (despite trying to everything in the kitchen Kirby style beforehand).

And that's all for now!