What started as a routine week has turned into an unexpected week. I'll explain in my weekly summary. This week nutritionally has been about 70/30 healthy and today Saturday was my first workout of the week doing lower body. I will be piggy backing tomorrow with another lifting session but for upper body and continue on to week 5.
Long day in New Orleans, but made my trek back to Chicago this evening. After spending some time with my family, I snuck out to the gym. Had a good workout with some new highs on biceps and shoulders. I know have been home for about an hour and just stuffed down my shrimp and bread, time to hit the sack. Not sure if I'll be able to hit cardio in the morning before work, as I need some rest.
Today was a long day and I stayed out later than necessary. Although I had every intention of running on the treadmill, I fell asleep after I had changed and laid down in my hotel room.
I'm in New Orleans for business and didn't have a chance to work out until late tonight. I had to change my workout yo a dumbbell based lowers leg workout to get through it here. I had been doing great with no alcohol, but did have a few glasses of wine at our business dinner. Disappointed I gave in, but at least it wasn't beer.
Cardio did not happen. My pinched nerve has been bothering me all night and day and hoped that by tonight it would feel better, but no luck.
Not a good week for me. Nutrition was horrible at least one meal during the second half of the week blew my calorie count. Need to get my head on straight...
We made our trek back home from the Dells today and stopped at The House On the Rock on the way back interesting place. After the family passed out, I managed to hit the gym and have a decent workout. All day I had a little sharp pain in my lower back like a pinched nerve and I think driving and having to tote around my 15 month old through the house in the rock didn't help. Hopefully, it won't get worse than it is, because this will aggravate more with running.
Another day without a true workout, but kept the moderate cardio going at the water park. Again my nutrition ruined by one meal... again the quesadillas. I'm not panicking here, this is a hurdle that I must face and get over and just get back on track. It's everyday life and I need to fix it for my body for life. I need to get back home and get a grip.
Well the food news is I found the fitness center and got a full run cardio session in. The bad news... they had no weights what so ever. My original plan was to just go through my lower workout exercises with my body weight , but that didn't happen. We got back to the room and basically crashed. Its a good thing I could keep up with my three year old going up the stairs and ramps to the slides over and over again . I never walked or ran them, but kept a good pace that I could feel it... but I wish I had the stamina of my son lol. I was definitely what I would consider additional moderate cardio burning some calories.
The bad part about my nutrition is that I have not done my 5-6 meals yesterday or today. One meal each day blew my day big time. They could have been healthy , but I was weak. Yesterday lunch was a late breakfast and I had steak and eggs, but couldn't resist the unhealthy carbs. Then that night, was lasagna and I had more that my share and didn't even cook my protein like I was supposed to. Then today I had ground turkey and rice, but splurged on the quesadillas that were not on my program. Needless to say this week, my second is not going well nutritionally. I med to get back on track.
