The gym was practically empty on Friday night at 9pm. Just as I planned.
It was nice because, aside from preferring working out alone, it was my first routine trying to remember my “day 1 weight routine” from training. I think better when there aren’t people standing all around me.
Worked out for almost 2 hours. It was great.
Jayloss is on to something with his former night workout approach.
To vigorously attack the stomach fat that continues to haunt me despite months of daily cardio in the fat burning zone, I’ve started a focus on mid-section workouts.
The routine is one round of 100 crunches, followed by fast treadmill walking, then another 50 crunches, then more treadmill walking.
Maybe a muscle build up in that area will help eliminate fat, or however that might work. Dunno. Worth a shot.
I’ve heard targeting fat doesn’t work, but I’ve just been using that as an excuse to never do crunches. It’s got to be my least favorite area to work, coincidentally, maybe, my fattest area.
As with so many things in this fitness learning process, we’ll see what works. Be persistent.
Recalled I had a Dick’s gift card in my wallet and an interest in getting better at pull-ups. Oh and maybe I should get weights heavier than 10 pounds since I’m not a little girl.
$90 after all the damage was done. I’m sure I’ll have this stuff forever. Unless I break it from over use. Ha.
The weights are kinda cool. 40lbs in increments of 3lb and 5lb bells. I’m at the point where 20lbs is a good casual pump, so these are perfect for now. Figured I could put all the weight on one and do some good behind-the-head stuff with one weight. Works for now.
Between rounds of Halo3 after work, I did a couple sets of each. Love it!
The push up grip things are surprisingly enjoyable. Really adds to the types of pushups that can be done. It was packaged in with the pull-up bar and the roller thing.
It’s funny, and completely logical, how different groups appear at the gym at different times of day.
My normal workout hours are 6:30am to 7:30am on weekdays. That is pretty much the working crowd. That’s the crowd I had gotten used to seeing day after day for months.
Once last week I wandered in around 7pm and was entertained by a younger college crowd. …and enough other people to take up every machine in the building! Not an optimum time to be there, but it didn’t seem to be stopping the horde.
Today I took off work. It’s my birthday week, but the 35th birthday’s this Saturday and I always take time off for my birthdays, so I am celebrating today and tomorrow. Sleeping in, of course.
So I woke up leisurely, just like in the “fat days” (sleeping in’s impact on health deserves a post), and wandered in to the gym around 9:30am. Only a few hours later but that’s all it takes for the gym crowd to go from working class to nearly all housewives.
I called them MILF’s in the title, but that was to get your attention. 
Sorry. I didn’t feel like f&$@ing any of them. But of course it is “the housewives that workout” not “the housewives that eat chocolate with the tv”, so you know. Not a bad crowd. But I remain focussed on my fitness goal.
Speaking of focussed, I was jogging on the treadmill, not thinking about how I am between a couple hot ass housewives because it’s MILF hour, but instead thinking about the value “visualization”.
Thinking about how if I “imagine” being a tired runner, I become a tired runner. If I imagine an amazing, good postured runner, yes, I indeed become an amazing, good postured runner, and I can go longer without slowing down.
If I imagine the cougars about to pounce, that’s another motivating visualization.
Not sure why, but “visualization” has a weird stigma with me and I haven’t been a fan. But the bull$&@& works, so maybe I should do it whenever possible. It helped out today. I’m not a cocky dude, I can afford a little more confidence.
Happy Tuesday.
Uh oh. Felt super light-headed after only 50 minutes of weight training. Kinda thought I was gonna puke.
Recovered by laying on the ground for several minutes.
I had more sleep than usual: 8 hrs. Was proud of that actually. Going to bed at 8pm is not easy.
The workout was just as strenuous as my others, if not less since I wasn’t there as long. But it was more midsection work which could have unsettled the stomach.
I ate before working out, as usual. Probably like 400 cals.
I didn’t count calories yesterday. There’s a chance I could have been slightly lower than usual but at least 1200 cals. Which is low, but. I should maybe keep tracking those when in low-cal mode.
I still have a somewhat runny nose but am better than last week. It hasn’t been a head thing, and I’ve been working out regardless except for one day.
The gym could have been warmer than usual. Someone else there made a comment to that regard as well.
So it’s generally a mystery. Maybe low cals plus heat plus muscle strain. Tomorrow is cardio day, which is easier for me than weights days like today. We’ll see how it goes.
It’s about time I crank up the calories, I just have this 1/2-1 inch of stomach fat keeping me back. So I’m holding off.