DAY 23 - 40/30/30/Stretch-Pause, Part 6

WEIGHT = 173.0 (Back up 3.0 LBS!)

WORKOUT

Even though my upper body was noticeably worked-over from DAY 22's workout, I was looking forward to today's routine. The biceps must've really gotten punished yesterday since there is quite a bit of tension in those. The incline curls give a helluva stretch so I'm sure that's what I'm feeling there!

Today's schedule: triceps, shoulders, thighs, hamstrings, traps. For tri's, it was close-grip presses followed by overhead dumb bell extensions. Next was shoulder presses with dumb bells. My shoulders pumped out some great reps! Those might be throbbing tomorrow!

After shoulders, it was on to squats. AUGH! I've always hated squats but I know they are part of the way to widening out my stilt-legs so they must be done! I did ok on the first three mini-sets with 165 LBS on the bar but my legs (and back) tired out quickly. Next time, I'll probably drop the weight a little to concentrate more on form and get a few more reps deeper into the workout. This shows just how weak that part of my system is.

Leg curls and dead lifts were pretty tough after doing squats. Wow! I knocked out some nice reps on the leg curls, for sure! My hamstrings have shown some great improvement in the last 3 weeks!

The real question is...will I be able to swing a golf club tomorrow?!?! The 90°+ temps should help.

DIET

Breakfast: Leftover easy oatmeal (steel-cut oats, apples, figs, brown sugar, coconut oil, walnuts, milk) from last week with one home made sauasage patty. Very satisfying!

Snack (a.m.): 1 cup of yogurt with 4 tsp ground flax seed.

Lunch: Leftover gyro from Friday night's dinner out with the wife. Seriously...the best gyro meat on the planet! I added some red onion and home grown Roma tomatoes since I had eaten most of the veggies for dinner. For dessert I had a 1/4 cantaloupe and some blueberries. AWESOME!

Snack (p.m.): 1/2 can of tuna with EVOO and spices and 1 hard boiled egg on 2 slices of Ezekiel bread. Great pre-workout snack!

Dinner: Peach smoothie! 3 fresh peaches, 1 cup yogurt, 2 scoops of protein powder, glutamine, 1 T honey, 1 T EVOO, 1/2 oz walnuts. It turned out to be a masterpiece!

Pre-bed Snack: 1/2 cup cottage cheese with almonds and 1/2 cup grapes.

Good eatin' today!!