Busy weekend meant not being able to sit at a computer until now -- updates since Thursday:
Thursday, April 7:
Weight: 229.2 lbs.
Had a great workout Thursday morning. Got in a great arm session and the pump was solid.
Fitbit capture:
Workout log:
and Fitbit capture for the entire day:
Planned on staying up to watch the Spurs/Warriors game and made it til 10:30 when it started, but managed to pass out in the recliner before tip even happened lol. Woke up a minute into it, fell back asleep, and then woke up maybe 2 other times, but saw in the 3rd when I did that it wasn't close, so I didn't fight it. Ended up waking up at 2 AM and headed up to the bed. Took a vacation day in advance for Friday since my wife was wrapping up spring break that day so we could take a day trip to Louisville.
Friday, April 8
Weight: 231.6 lbs.
Wasn't a big fan of seeing my weight jump up, but it was bound to happen sooner or later (just mentally hard for me to deal with). Went ahead and took some photos so I can keep track of my progress. I'll be doing so every Friday to have a week-to-week comparison across the entire 3 months.
Planned on getting up at 5 to lift like normal, but decided to hit snooze and do 5:30 since I had the day off -- except I turned it off instead and woke up at 7:45 -- ugh. Got everything together and headed in to lift and banged it out as quickly as I could so we could head up to Louisville.
High volume legs with my normal cardio mixed in. Fitbit capture:
Workout log:
Daily capture via Fitbit:
Banged out 30 laps in between all my sets, which meant 30 stair-sprints. Headed home to shower really quick, and then we were off for the city. Grabbed brunch at a great place my wife likes, but I'd never gone to. Got a nice omelette and 2 pancakes (could have even gone with 1, though I ate a little over 1.5). She had some salmon eggs benedict and a unique grits of the day they did that was great. After that, we headed to the Louisville Slugger Factory & Museum. She grew up in the area, but had never been. I've been down here for almost 6.5 years now and I'd only walked through it once when I first moved down (to cut through while we were going to another museum, of all things). So we signed up to do the tour and it was really cool -- learned a lot I didn't know. Then we walked through and looked at everything else we could. Headed to the mall for just a bit, got a present for my buddy's new little son, and then we headed home to go to a going away party for our fire chief who just took a new job. I grabbed a brief nap on the drive home, but it wasn't solid at all lol.
A lot more food spread at the party than what I'd anticipated. All I'd eaten for the day was my 75g isolate shake post-workout and aforementioned brunch, so I was protein deficient lol. Loaded my plate down with a huge pulled pork sandwich, some extra meat, a small scoop of baked beans, some lunch meat/cheese from one of those trays (no need for crackers), a couple deviled eggs, a hot dog, and a couple little cream cheese/meat pinwheels. Went back and tried a few of the desserts (mostly only the really small things; just to sample each). So obviously I got some cals in, but it was actually pretty restrained considering how I can put down food at buffets and such situations. Stayed there from about 7-9:30 and then headed home and actually got stuff together to go to bed as soon as I got my supps in.
Saturday, April 9
Weight: 233.6 lbs.
Again, not happy to see the scale go up, but it was expected given dinner. Just hated seeing it climb 6 lbs. over the past few days. That's the type of thing that gets to my emotional/mental issues that I've dealt with my whole life and something that could cause me to fall off the wagon, say "poor me, nothing works" and start binge-eating. Not this day. Went straight to the gym to make sure I didn't stumble. High volume delts/traps session.
Workout stats via Fitbit:
Workout log:
Daily capture via Fitbit:
Workout was great and got my head on straight. Biggest thing to note was that on Friday, I started taking Nerve Restore (EvoMuse). I've used it once before for about the length of a bottle, but I didn't notice that much from it because I actually didn't have any real nerve problems -- which was a big plus. Well, a few months ago, I had my brachial plexus injury and my left thumb/index finger are still partially numb from it, but the initial neck pain that accompanied it was gone after a few days and a couple chiro adjustments. The lingering part, however, was the fact that my presses (bench/overhead) have been absolute trash ever since that happened -- I'm talking major drop-off in weight. Well, this was the first time since the injury that I felt improvement. The real test will be tomorrow (Monday) morning when I do chest work. I'll be sure to keep notes on this.
After the gym, I headed home to do some housework and get some things together. Headed out for the first mow of the season and had to change the oil in the mower and realized I didn't have any here; ran to the gas station at the end of the highway and no luck there, so headed back into town to Walmart and grabbed some (as well as a bottle of "Start Your Engines" at the recommendation of my father). Got back home, got the oil in there, added the SYE, but unfortunately I'd already topped off the gas, so it was a bigger pain lol. Anyway, fired right up and that was nice. We're on about 1.75 acres and some of it is woods, but it's a lot of lawn. I only have a push because we weren't sure how long we'd be here or where next, so that's what I bought. But, it's a good workout (and the front yard is a HORRIBLE hill that would be awful to do with a rider), so I just call it that. Anyway, knocked out the front yard and the front side yard as best I could -- the rest I'm going to have to walk and check for limbs/rocks and clear before I can mow it (very overgrown), and the backyard I'll get this week.
Funny thing is my fitbit catalogued the mowing as bicycling via auto-detect, haha. So the steps didn't get counted, but the HR was up and the floors are insane (as you can see in the above capture).
Baked a protein cheesecake for dinner and watched the Cardinals game and then flipped over to watch the Grizzlies choke up a win to the Warriors.
Sunday, April 10
Weight: 231.0 lbs.
FINALLY! lol
About time to see the weight dip after those several days in a row of increases.
I'll do a full update tomorrow, but I got in about 1.25 hours of basketball (5 halfcourt games) because only 8 people showed up today. Have kept carbs non-existent for the day. Felt a bit weak in the evening, but that may just be feeling worn down from all the working out since Wednesday.
Full update tomorrow.