DAY 5 - Tissue Remodeling/Low Carb

Weight = 164.5 LBS (down another 1.5 LBS)

WORKOUT

Today's workout was structured the same as yesterday for "tissue remodeling". Once again, the exercises alternated between the contracted and stretched positions of each muscle group. First you work the contracted position, rest 20 seconds, then work the stretched position. After that, you do 2 burn-out sets with light weight and, ideally, upwards of 50 reps. As if you weren't already spent! On the schedule today was shoulders, hamstrings, triceps, and quads.

As promised in DAY 4's entry, I did much better at pre-setting the equipment for each exercise so things moved a little more efficiently. I chose poorly with starting weights on the shoulders (too heavy), stiff-legged dead lifts (too heavy), and squats (too light). Doing bodyweight dips for the triceps burnout set was not a wise choice, either. My triceps were like "um, yeah, right, dude!" when I got to that point!

All-in-all, this was a GREAT workout! I wasn't sure my legs were going to hold me up after I was done! The real question is, will I be able to do the DAY 6 cardio workout??

DIET

This is going to look remarkably like DAY 4. I like to keep things simple since I'm preparing meals for the day at 4:30 in the morning. (~:

Once again, I was around 1,200 calories for the day. I was only slightly hungry this morning so that was a relief...I'm not big on being hungry :) . Splitting my meals up so I eat something every 2 hours really helps in this area...it keeps your body from panicking and thinking there's nothing left in the tank and no more coming for a while.

To sum up, it was cottage cheese and almonds for breakfast and pre-bed snack. Two meals during the day were spinach and kale salads with olive oil, walnuts, and 3 oz of either chicken (pastured, of course) or tuna (change from yesterday). Mid-day snack was 1 C of egg whites with salsa and some wilted spinach. Post-workout, I had a shake that consisted of blueberries, a peach, protein powder, and about 30 g of glutamine (an amino acid).

DAY 6 gets interesting in the nutrition department. The menu is supposed to consist almost entirely of protein!