Thursday 12 January 2012

Today was a much calmer experience. No interruptions! The day started well with my weigh-in coming to 132.6 pounds. This is closer to the low I hit earlier.

I did PC early before breakfast, 48 reps and 14 walkouts.

Breakfast was scrambled egg made with almond milk, salmon and avocado. That's the first time I have used almond milk like that and it turned out nicely.

Then I decided I had to get the pyramid out of the way before lunch.  I did not feel good when it started, but picked up and really improved on yesterday's effort. This was partly because I didn't keep on looking at the stop watch on the iphone as I did yesterday. Instead I put the iphone on timer to stop at 20 minutes. I just finished the lunges on the x2 level going down.I found it a hard workout, especially as some of my muscles are telling me about yesterday's pyramid, especially the triceps.

Again I was not particularly hungry during the day, so just had a few nuts for lunch. (Can't eat if I don't feel hungry, even though I know I am supposed to eat every three hours.)

I  went up to the shops and used the walk there and back for my cardio. I was a bit disappointed as I thought I would be fitter by this stage, but I was puffing just going up a little hill for a little time.

I was thinking about Meltdown for quite some time before I forced myself to do it. Although I found it hard, I was surprised that I did not feel any twinges in my hips from my arthritis when I did Spidy and squats. I still get puffed out from these exercises. Most of my densities improved slightly from yesterday, but my body felt a bit wrecked - as a consequence of pyramid, I think.

Pushups / squats:       76/67   75/65    78/69    73/68     70/65       65/63      59/54      48/42  
Shoulder press/sbl:     67/41  63/42     62/44     62/44     49/46       47/45      43/40      46/39 
Spidey/stl:                 41/18    40/18   43/20     38/20      41/19      39/19       37/17     27/18
Curl and press/ sq     27/63    28/52   29/63    28/59     28/58         26/58       25/48     23/43  

Dinner tonight was again a delicious grilled lamb leg chop and a green salad. For a while during the day, I felt slimmer for the first time since I started the program.