Ok, so A week or so before Christmas I worked out full blast for an entire week!
Having learned that cardio alone just doesn’t suit me (last summer I worked out for a bout a month doing just cardio..I got bored pretty quickly and eventually stopped). I decided to throw in some strength training. Very specific movements intense workout AND with cardio as a finish or start (depending on my mood).
Now this workout suited me well actually. I was feeling good. Pumped and ready to go. BUT I must have worked out too hard and lowered my immune system just enough to catch a cold, border line flu really from either someone in the gym or the transit. So the Next week..all the way up to xmas eve I was practically out of it. Swollen glands, head cold, you know the typical winter sick stuff.But I was very aggressive in fighting it and it never progressed to a flu.
The next week I could have, SHOULD have started working out again. BUT I did not. I was just too tired and unmotivated to do it. I resolved to begin again at the start of the new year. and just a short 30 minutes I will do my first work out of 2012!
I currently weight just over 190..my ideal weight for someone my height and frame is probably between 155-160. The annoying part is that about 25 pounds of that is probablky the bulge that is my belly. It’s uncomfortable, unflattering and most importantly among the dangerous kind of fat to have. There is a history of cardio trouble in my family. I am also an ex-smoker myself (4 years now thank you very much) so my main focus is to get rid of this gut. And phase one starts in about 25 minutes! (ill post how it goes later tonight).
This time I will start off a little more moderately, stopping just before I want to so that I am not too sore for tomorrow and don’t burn out too soon. Wish me luck!
Change begins now.
Ciao ~
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