Thursday, 24 January 2008

Thursday

OK - the first six weeks finished last Saturday, and I'm almost through week #7, now.

We're on a slightly different six-week program (of the overall sixteen weeks.) Now, it's still a 'light/heavy' ON and OFF weight rotation, but the reps in the 'light' weeks have come down, to 12, 14 and 16, respectively. Heavy weeks remain 10, 8 and 6.

Also, to improve on shoulder muscle, definitely an area I feel I've lost an edge in the first six weeks, I've removed the lateral rotation from the workout and replaced it with the lateral shoulder raise, like this:


(Not me.)

As for the weight itself, my week #7, #9 and #11 sessions have been raised about ten per cent from what I did in week #1, #3 and #5.

I'm currently doing 12 repetitions, over four sets, three times per week, and 2-3 cardio sessions.

Did 40 minutes at the gym. I skipped the row as I ran out of time. My row has been shocking lately, actually. You'll see when I backdate the sessions I missed on here, but it's totally collapsed for some reason. No idea why.

Weigh-in tomorrow; I'm pretty sure I've gained a pound or two. At best I'm even Steven. One of the biggest problems of not being able to access the Internet the past couple of weeks, and Calorie-Count.com, is how unaccountable your eating quickly becomes. Whereas before on each and every day I'd know what I'd eaten and could take measures the next day if I was over (or short), while it hasn't been a case of 'anything goes' I have definitely got very lax about it all.

I really need to tighten things up.

Here's what I ate:

Had dinner round my folks, and naturally you pay the price.