DAY 8 - Time to eat!/Structural Attack Part 1

Weight = 164.0 LBS (up a half pound from yesterday but considering what I ate...)

WORKOUT

Wow! Day 1 of The Structural Attack was 20 minutes of doing dead lifts. Sets of 3 reps were done 30 seconds apart for the full duration. After a rest, then a final "burn out" set was performed with the weight I was using at the end of 20 minutes...just to be sure you worked hard enough! Boy was I a sweaty mess! I was impressed with how well my cardio held out, though.

As impressed as I was with my cardio, I was that much DEpressed with my leg strength. I knew my legs were scrawny but this was crazy. After starting with 225 LBS on the bar, I realized I was WAY out of my league and dropped weight down all the way to 65 LBS. This wound up being too light so I wound up back at 80 LBS. At that point, I got the hang of things and was in a good groove...which is just what Nick said would happen.

DAY 9 is the 2nd day of The Structural Attack and I'll need to add some weight to the bar? How much? We'll find out!

DIET

Yes! It was time to eat! At least it seemed like it after having been on a fat loss program earlier this year and eating around 1,200 calories last week.

For breakfast, I had a protein shake which included the supplements glutamine and creatine. I followed that up with a heap of oatmeal pancakes (quickly becoming a favorite around the Jerzyk household!!) with coconut oil, honey, and banana.

My snacks during the day consisted of cottage cheese with blueberries and ground flax seed and a little bit of protein powder for that muscle-building boost!

Lunch was awesome! A vendor took us to Tip Top in downtown C-town where I had the best beef pot roast E-V-E-R!! It was a nice chunk of meat with carrots, onion, celery, and potato and one heck of a good piece of dark, dark multi-grain bread. This is a perfect mass-building meal...lots of protein, some complex carbs, and a reasonable amount of fat. Oh yeah...I snuck in a few sweet potato fries, too!

My wife put together a GREAT dinner that consisted of chicken, tomatoes, onions, potatoes, etc. all crockpotted (is that a word?) together. Outstanding! I just had a small serving so I followed that up with a protein shake with pineapple.

Before bed, I had cheese and some of that to die for watermelon from last weeks Pearl Alley Farmer's Market. Damn that stuff is sweet and juicy!

See you tomorrow!!