Well, so much for the thinking I was taking it "light" yesterday. It felt that way, but I am SOOOO sore today. It didn't help that I had energy all night and couldn't sleep until 6am. I slept until about noon. Now I just feel tired and sore. Really, I feel like a robot because I cannot even walk or move normally, I'm that stiff. It hurts to walk! Ugh! The first week is always the worst....
So, food wise today I had:
1 banana
4 raw organic food bars (throughout the day)
Handful of Cashews
1 Large Salad (Mixed greens, collard greens, 1/2 avo (shared it), capers, cucumbers, lime, sea salt, basil, oregano, olive oil, etc.)
The rest of my pint of Turtle Mountain Coconut Ice Cream
All together, roughly 1800 calories. I will have to have 2 glasses of juice or smoothie tomorrow because I skipped that. I drank water, but not enough. I just was too tired to be hungry.
Exercise today:
None! Decided to take a pass today because of how much harder my first workout was on my body then I thought it would be. Just too sore and too tired, that I thought it would be counterproductive. I'm after results too, not just consistency and discipline. So, tomorrow I will double up and do cardio after my weight workout.
Friday, May 22, 2009
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Day 1 - Wed. May 20th
Today was the first day. Wow, takes some getting used to doesn't it. I feel so out of shape. I woke up late and felt sick after I woke up.
Today I did a Full Body Circuit Training workout for 60 min. with dumbbells, kettlebells, valslides and bands. I started with 5 min. of stretching followed by 5 min. of a cardio workout - mostly jump roping without a jump rope (jumping in place), then I did a lot of upper body mostly, lots of shoulders, but also abs, squats, lunges, etc. Reps were between 12-24, mostly 12. Then I ended it with 5 min. of light stretching and yoga. I am a big fan of freestyle routines. I don't like to follow a certain written out routine of exercises, reps, sets, and orders. I like to mix it up and go with how I feel, going with what I feel like working next. I do try though to keep some structure to it, such as switching from an upper body set to a lower body or a push/pull set back to back, to give a muscle group a rest but keep going. I also try to make sure I get every major body part and don't spend too much time on one area etc. Yet, like my diet, I have a basic idea of what foods I want in my diet, but I don't know ahead of time what I'll feel like eating on a certain day or meal. Same with exercises. As long as I learn enough different ones ahead of time, it's easy to just pick the next one that sounds good.
I took it easy being the first day and all, since I need to build up to being fit with consistency, I never want to make the mistake I used to make when starting. I used to go as heavy and full force as I could because it felt easy at the time, but then I would be so sore and knocked out from it in the recovery stage that I couldn't work out again for at least 3 or 4 days. I need to workout 6 days a week, with every other day full body resistance, so.... went easier then before. In practical terms that just means lower weight, higher reps, and longer breaks. As well as staying away from some more difficult exercises like step ups and pushups etc. I used to have a door gym which was great, but there are no doors in my place now that would work for it. I still need a couple more things for equipment, like a jump rope and a set of 15 or 20 lb kettlebells. Right now I have an 8lb one and a 35lb ones. One is too light for many exercises and the other one too heavy for many of them.
For nutrition today, so far I have had 1 banana and 1 kiwi for breakfast, and then after my workout I made a green smoothie. Here is my recipe for the smoothie - it was good.
Blue-Green Smoothie
12oz of water
8 oz of frozen blueberries
1 banana
1 TB Agave Nectar
2 TB hemp seeds
2 Large handfuls of baby spinach
Pinch of sea salt
Handful of Ice
Blend the water and hemp seeds alone on high until white and creamy. Add the banana, agave, spinach and salt and blend again on high until smooth. Last, add the frozen blueberries and ice if you want it, and blend on medium until well blended and smooth. Serve immediately.
The nice thing about this smoothie is that it is purple, not green. So, if you are sharing it you won't turn anyone off by the color, and they won't even know there is spinach in it unless you tell them. I was going to try using collard greens in it, but I didn't want my first green smoothie to turn me off and spinach sounded like a safer bet, as well as a more complimentary flavor to the banana and blueberries. You really don't even taste the spinach, but it gives it a nice rounded out and mellower flavor and creaminess, to smooth out the sharpness of fruit flavors.
Later I ate 2 raw organic food bars with luscious chocolate chips in them. (80% raw). Then for dinner I had a salad with mixed baby greens, baby spinach, collard greens, 1 cucumber, 1 avocado, hemp seeds, olives, olive oil, dried basil, dried oregano, sea salt and lime juice. It was delicious! Obviously you can tell I like fat! I don't get how people always say - I only eat 1/2 an avocado or 1/4 of an avocado. What? Yeah, like ONLY if I am sharing the avocado with someone, and I'd have to REALLY like them. I LOVE avocados. And so what these people eat a bite of it or half of it and then save the other half? Avocados do not last, they instantly go bad and get all oxidated and nasty. I've tried saving avos before, it's not worth it - just eat the whole thing! You won't wake up a whale - I swear!
Can't forget desert! I had a small cup of coconut ice cream sweetened with agave. Not raw, but it's only coconut milk, dried coconut and agave basically.
I feel so great today after working out and eating so healthy all day. There IS a downside to this though. I had so much energy from this good fresh food and working out, that I just couldn't get tired enough to go to sleep. I ended up staying up all night until 6am in the morning. I am about to go pass out now and try to sleep some, but I know that I will end up either sleeping all day again or feeling totally tired and out of it from lack of sleep. Whaaaaaaa! I hate this. I can't afford to be tired, not get enough sleep to recover, or not have enough sleep and energy to do my next workout. Tomorrow is cardio too, which requires a lot more energy! I'll see....
Today I did a Full Body Circuit Training workout for 60 min. with dumbbells, kettlebells, valslides and bands. I started with 5 min. of stretching followed by 5 min. of a cardio workout - mostly jump roping without a jump rope (jumping in place), then I did a lot of upper body mostly, lots of shoulders, but also abs, squats, lunges, etc. Reps were between 12-24, mostly 12. Then I ended it with 5 min. of light stretching and yoga. I am a big fan of freestyle routines. I don't like to follow a certain written out routine of exercises, reps, sets, and orders. I like to mix it up and go with how I feel, going with what I feel like working next. I do try though to keep some structure to it, such as switching from an upper body set to a lower body or a push/pull set back to back, to give a muscle group a rest but keep going. I also try to make sure I get every major body part and don't spend too much time on one area etc. Yet, like my diet, I have a basic idea of what foods I want in my diet, but I don't know ahead of time what I'll feel like eating on a certain day or meal. Same with exercises. As long as I learn enough different ones ahead of time, it's easy to just pick the next one that sounds good.
I took it easy being the first day and all, since I need to build up to being fit with consistency, I never want to make the mistake I used to make when starting. I used to go as heavy and full force as I could because it felt easy at the time, but then I would be so sore and knocked out from it in the recovery stage that I couldn't work out again for at least 3 or 4 days. I need to workout 6 days a week, with every other day full body resistance, so.... went easier then before. In practical terms that just means lower weight, higher reps, and longer breaks. As well as staying away from some more difficult exercises like step ups and pushups etc. I used to have a door gym which was great, but there are no doors in my place now that would work for it. I still need a couple more things for equipment, like a jump rope and a set of 15 or 20 lb kettlebells. Right now I have an 8lb one and a 35lb ones. One is too light for many exercises and the other one too heavy for many of them.
For nutrition today, so far I have had 1 banana and 1 kiwi for breakfast, and then after my workout I made a green smoothie. Here is my recipe for the smoothie - it was good.
Blue-Green Smoothie
12oz of water
8 oz of frozen blueberries
1 banana
1 TB Agave Nectar
2 TB hemp seeds
2 Large handfuls of baby spinach
Pinch of sea salt
Handful of Ice
Blend the water and hemp seeds alone on high until white and creamy. Add the banana, agave, spinach and salt and blend again on high until smooth. Last, add the frozen blueberries and ice if you want it, and blend on medium until well blended and smooth. Serve immediately.
The nice thing about this smoothie is that it is purple, not green. So, if you are sharing it you won't turn anyone off by the color, and they won't even know there is spinach in it unless you tell them. I was going to try using collard greens in it, but I didn't want my first green smoothie to turn me off and spinach sounded like a safer bet, as well as a more complimentary flavor to the banana and blueberries. You really don't even taste the spinach, but it gives it a nice rounded out and mellower flavor and creaminess, to smooth out the sharpness of fruit flavors.
Later I ate 2 raw organic food bars with luscious chocolate chips in them. (80% raw). Then for dinner I had a salad with mixed baby greens, baby spinach, collard greens, 1 cucumber, 1 avocado, hemp seeds, olives, olive oil, dried basil, dried oregano, sea salt and lime juice. It was delicious! Obviously you can tell I like fat! I don't get how people always say - I only eat 1/2 an avocado or 1/4 of an avocado. What? Yeah, like ONLY if I am sharing the avocado with someone, and I'd have to REALLY like them. I LOVE avocados. And so what these people eat a bite of it or half of it and then save the other half? Avocados do not last, they instantly go bad and get all oxidated and nasty. I've tried saving avos before, it's not worth it - just eat the whole thing! You won't wake up a whale - I swear!
Can't forget desert! I had a small cup of coconut ice cream sweetened with agave. Not raw, but it's only coconut milk, dried coconut and agave basically.
I feel so great today after working out and eating so healthy all day. There IS a downside to this though. I had so much energy from this good fresh food and working out, that I just couldn't get tired enough to go to sleep. I ended up staying up all night until 6am in the morning. I am about to go pass out now and try to sleep some, but I know that I will end up either sleeping all day again or feeling totally tired and out of it from lack of sleep. Whaaaaaaa! I hate this. I can't afford to be tired, not get enough sleep to recover, or not have enough sleep and energy to do my next workout. Tomorrow is cardio too, which requires a lot more energy! I'll see....
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