Jan 08 2008
Workout Results - Day 8
This morning I was sneezing like crazy on my way to work. I am pretty sure that flu is in me. However, I am fighting that sucker. I felt some more stomach cramps after lunch today for the majority of the afternoon but then they subsided. I don’t feel too bad right now. I had a pretty good workout.
I reduced my weight for the shoulder exercises as I felt last time I wasn’t doing them to proper form due to picking a weight that’s a bit too big. I reduced my seated lat row and real deltoid row to 80lbs (from 100lbs) and my dumbbell shoulder press to 25lbs (from 40lbs). I felt a lot better with those weights.
Here’s what the workout looked like:
Cardio:
Treadmill Run for 30 minutes -1.77 miles - 271 calories burned.
Strength Training:
Seated Lat Rows:
Set #1 - 80 lbs x 8 reps
Set #2 - 80 lbs x 8 reps
Set #3 - 80 lbs x 8 reps
Rear Deltoid Rows:
Set #1 - 80 lbs x 8 reps
Set #2 - 80 lbs x 8 reps
Set #3 - 80 lbs x 8 reps
Dumbbell Shoulder Presses:
Set #1 - 25 lbs/side x 8 reps
Set #2 - 25 lbs/side x 8 reps
Set #3 - 25 lbs/side x 8 reps
Big Rubber Ball Sit-ups: 25 reps
As for diet, here’s what I had:
Breakfast:
Nothing
Lunch:
Stir-fry leftover from yesterday. However, I only ate about half of what I brought with me as my stomach wasn’t feeling well.
Snacks:
One Organic Grapefruit
Dinner:
Pita Wrap with saute’d green peppers, onions, zucchini and refried beans. It was an experiment I did, wasn’t very good. 
Big Salad - Lettuce, carrots, red cabbage, radishes, pumpkin seeds, flax seeds, pine nuts, dried cranberries, and a tiny bit of dressing.
Isn’t it proven that eating a breakfast of complex carbs and protein helps to fuel an active day as well as to reduce hungry feelings? why no breakfast?
@Nathan: Absolutely, you are correct. Having a healthy, nutritious breakfast like some veggies soup or a salad is important in the morning.
There are a few reasons I haven’t been eating breakfast so far. Firstly, I never eat breakfast in the morning, I’m just not hungry, so it will take a bit of time for my body to get used to eating in the mornings.
Secondly, my sleeping schedule is somewhat variable, and on most days I end up going to sleep at around 2-3am in the morning, so if I wake up at around 8am or 9am, I don’t get hungry until about 11:00 or 12:00 when the rest of the world is having lunch. In essence, what I’m saying is it’s the same thing as people who wake up at 5am or 6am having breakfast at 8am or 9am, I have my breakfast at lunch time around noonish.
I will change that over time though so that I eat closer to my waking time.
So when you see me list breakfast as “nothing” it’s not indicative of what will happen in the future, just right now.