Yabbyshmabby’s 52DC Blog

I’m taking a couple days off.  I need to.  I will start up again on Tuesday.  I know that this will probably mess up my final designation for the 52DC, but I can’t force myself right now.  I need a break.

I had a great CT session last night.  Typically I will do my 10 rounds of burpees, jump rope, and heavy bag hits 10-100-100.  Last night I did 5 rounds 20-200-200.  I had to push myself like crazy, but it was a great accomplishment for me.  In the past I had done 3 double rounds, but doing 5 was my personal best, and something that I want to keep doing.  Tonight when I get home from work I’m thinking about going for a run.  We’ll see what happens.

Not much happening today.  I lifted last night.  Once again, I wasn’t very enthusiastic, but pushed myself once again.  My former self would have just quit.  I was packing my breakfast,  lunch, and snacks for work today and decided to total up my calories.  Wow!  I had to add more.  I think that I’ve been eating a lot less than I should be.  I haven’t been using whey protein for the past month or so due to finances, but I haven’t added in extra calories like I should have.  I’m staying aware of the situation and going to make sure that I don’t put myself at too much of a calorie deficit.

First of I want to congratulate my wife on looking amazing!  She has been busting her but with the clean eats lately (slacking on the workouts a bit), but has been having great results thus far.  She isn’t following TNT, but is eating a 100% natural diet consisting of whole grains and mostly organic foods.  She’s doing wonderful and looks even better!

We had a party this Saturday @ my wife’s father’s house.  Garbage garbage garbage garbage!  “Oh, come on, aren’t you going to have any?”, “Come on!”.  These people kill me.  “Oh, but I bought 2 apple pies!  Aren’t you going to eat any pasta salad?”  Wha wha wha wha wha!  That stuff kills me.  They can visibly see that I’m making crazy progress, yet the want to push you towards eating garbage.  I understand that they’re too misinformed to understand.  To them, those types of foods are “good for you”.  Sad but true.

Anyway, I followed the diet although I was rather hungry by the time we got home Saturday night.  It was nice visiting with everyone though, and the kids had fun.  My weight session Saturday almost ended early, but I pushed through it.  I didn’t want to.

Wow was this morning difficult!  I woke up @ 5:15, which is hard enough as I’m not a morning person at all.  I took a run - 2.1miles.  I averaged 10 mins/mile which is fine with me.  The best thing about this loop is that it’s mostly up hill.  For me it is a huge struggle in the morning.  My body doesn’t respond the same as it does later on in the day.  I’m going to keep it up though.  I did enjoy the run in the dark, but it really was tough.  I had a hard time regulating my breathing, which since I’ve been doing my HIIT for the last year, hasn’t been a problem.  It was odd, but I attribute it to the fact that I was up early.  I know I’ll get used to it though.

I took the night off last night because I’ll be running tomorrow morning.  I don’t feel like lifting tonight at all.  I know that I’ll make myself, it just isn’t fun lately.  I don’t think I’m eating enough during the day.  I will correct that this week at the grocery store.  My energy levels have been extremely low lately.

Nice CT workout last night.  I will be lifting tonight.  Not much has really happened worth mentioning.  We had our first soccer scrimmage last night which was a lot of fun.  The team has a long ways to go, but everyone had a great time.

This weekend was interesting and I really surprised myself. I decided to challenge myself with running 1 day per week on top of my RT and CT sessions. Friday was supposed to be my running day, but because of rain I had to reschedule the run. I ended up running first thing Saturday morning, but because of everything else that I had to do during the day/night, I wasn’t able to complete my scheduled RT workout.

Sunday we spent the day at my wife’s cousin’s house. Once we arrived at home everyone decided to take naps. I laid down for about 10 minutes and kept thinking “what the heck am I doing laying here?”. I ended up getting up and getting in my RT session that I missed on Saturday. I don’t know what it was, but it was great that I got it in. I was actually worried that I’d never get caught up and would miss the opportunity for a Platinum designation at the end of this 52DC. I guess the 52DC is providing me with more motivation than I thought.

Cardio last night, weights tonight.  I’ve been wondering……..since I get an intense cardio workout when I do my weights, should I count that as cardio as well????  Oh well, anyways, I’ll be waking up early tomorrow morning to go running, which I’m dreading.   Guess I’ll see how it pans out.

Well, I finally started my true cardio workout last night.  I typically do cardio on Tuesday and Wednesday, lift on Mon, Thurs, Sat.  The reason I have missed cardio workouts in the past is because my weight lifting days are also amazing cardio workouts.  Last night I did 10 sets of my main cardio plan.  One set is 10 burpees, 100 reps on jump rope, 50 jabs and 50 crosses into my heavy bag (full power, fast pace).  Between sets I give myself 10 deep breathes and then back to the next set.  It is a heck of a workout.  At the end that leaves me with 100 burpees, 1000 jumps, 500 jabs, 500 crosses.  I remember when I started doing this I did 3 rounds and couldn’t continue.  I used to be on the verge of vomiting at that point.  Now I go through 10 rounds in about 30 minutes and I push myself hard to get it done that quickly.  My mental toughness has increase drastically.  I can push myself through things now.  My weight days are the same way.  They’re a bear.