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Day 11. Recovery. Deep muscle stretches. Ab pain. Nuff said.

Day 12!

Protip (And pardon my french): If you eat merde, you will feel like merde.

Pizza. NEVER A GOOD CHOICE. I kinda knew that junk food was bad for you in caloretic and sodiological cholesterolgoical reasons, but physical PAIN, from PIZZA.

Acid creator. Reflux. Feel like merde. Want to vomit. Upy downy movements aren’t good.

Cardio power is worse.

Tomorrow I do a double shift! (Which I thought was today! Merde.)

Protip: If you aren’t sure which workout it is, DON’T SUBSTITUTE IT WITH A HARDER WORKOUT, YOU JUST WON’T WANT TO DO IT.

Cold Shower, antiacid. Nuff said.

PH

Except!

I can go longer without stopping! (That is what he said.)

But I mean it! Longer without breaks, and shorter breaks in between.

Plyometrics, same old same old, but, still as tough as, and as sweat inducing as day 1! Improvement? I think so.

I think it’s time for a cold shower and a nice long sleep.

Stay safe, my friends.

PH

When your instructor say “I have to be honest, I’m nervous for this exercise”? You’re gonna have a bad time.

Pure Cardio. (With some strength training hiding somewhere in there,)

I think it’s ok that I take breaks, as long as I start taking less breaks as it goes on. Cause the point of Cardio is to get the heart pumping and keep it pumping.

This isn’t going to be a really long one, I still have some homework for class tonight…

At the end of the week, I do two workouts!! This one (I had a bad time) and abs.

Well… shit.

PH

Ok. Pools of sweat are now a common thing. Just so you know.

Also; I am covered in DOG HAIR. Dusty DUSTY basement!

Cool shower is to follow.

Oh… did I forget to mention that it is 0300?!?

Yes. Yes it is. I didn’t work out til reaaaalllllyyyy late. Bad bad person!

I actually have no idea what the effects are, something about decreased sleep? Wut?

Meh.

I’ll survive.

Nonstop cardio today! Lucky me! :P

I’ll be ok. But I really need sleep.

Good night all!

PH

Ok, I haven’t worked out yet, but I’m going to. I just want to crawl right into bed when I’m done.

It’s the happy plyometric circuit again, so yay.

I’m tired.

I rest tomorrow, so no update there.

Wish me luck.

PH

Ok, a few more protips for you guys:

1) Never, ever, EVER eat Chinese the DAY of a workout. Just DON’T. It sits like a rock, you get happy headaches, and those lo mein burps? No me gusta.

2) Don’t forget what workout you’re doing that day, and if you do, don’t replace it with “well, I’ve done this one before, I know what’s coming, it won’t be that bad.” THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO PUSH YOU NO MATTER HOW MANY TIMES YOU’VE DONE THEM! IT’S ALWAYS ‘THAT BAD!’

3) Pure Cardio, avoid it.

Oh God, my Keyboard is soaked…

And I’m dirty.

This was a bad plan guise.

It’s late.

It’s hot, even in my basement.

I’m tired.

And just whining, which doesn’t do anybody good.

Ok. Done? Yes? Good. Moving on.

Pure Cardio. Designed to make you sweat. Weird.

Ok, at the bottom of the screen, it has, from left to right:

• A blue box (my Dr. Who fans out there, wrong blue box) with a white clock, ticking down the minutes left in the entire session
• A yellow box with a black timer ticking down how much time is left in the current event (water break, various exercise, stretch, etc.)
• and a banner that runs to the edge of the screen. That banner has tape running through it in three colours, yellow (the event you’re currently doing), blue (the exercise events that are coming up), and grey (upcoming water breaks). The also run in various vertical widths, small (a nice, calmer ‘easy’ exercise), medium (ooh boy, starting to sweat some, can we turn on the A/C?), and large (what <gasp> is <gasp> this? <gasp> I <gasp> don’t <gasp> even <gasp> asdfgjhlfjkda <dead>)

Some perspective.

This was one long gradually increasing workout. And that bar was FILLED WITH A LARGE BLUE TAPE FOR 9 MINUTES OF A 19 MINUTE EXERCISE BLOCK.

Pure Cardio.

Still. I’m sweating, the mission accomplished. Chinese burned off. Never again.

Night all!

Or morning to my Aussie friends.

PH

Even the off days man… even the off days…

Lots of DEEP muscle work, squat pulses, lunge pulses, and so much lactic acid in my quads that I put cows to shame.

Still, very little cardio, and I think my bi’s and tri’s will be ok tomorrow.

It’s really hard to work out when you’re nauseous. I’m not sure what I would have done, had it been an intense day.

Still, Cardio Recovery, good times.

Staying away from the chalk today, it is not worth it for 800 Cal.

Really warm though, I hope that isn’t fever… :/ We’ll see. Ok. Shower then class. You get a weight update every time I do a fit test.

Now, I’m not ordinarily heavy. At 6’ 0” and 190 lbs, I’m fine for where I am. But I want to get better, back to where I used to be, less fat, and some toning would be nice too…

Ok, after the first Fitest I was 191.6 lbs, according to my happy little washroom scale. We’ll see what it says on 3/6/12!

Stay fit, stay safe,

PH