Training 1-6

So that thing I said about two days off? Not happening. As it turns out, I'm pretty addicted to cardio exercise, and now it seems that I wouldn't really be able to function throughout the day without it.

I rode for 42 minutes or so, once again on bike. This just seems like the best option for a solid heartrate for me. I was going to do 20-30 minutes of that interval training with the jogging beforehand, like I had yesterday, and then do 30 minutes on bicycle for a total of an hour...but somewhere along the way I must have walked on a rather uneven patch of grass, one too many times, because the right side of my right ankle is a bit sore, and probably couldn't take the impact of jogging.

So riding today felt unnecessisarily easy, I'm not sure why. I pushed myself about the same amount as I did all the other times, but it really felt casual to me. I guess I'm going to have to up the ante next week, because it seems I've already grown accustomed to riding to 11 Mile Road. I didn't really start breathing heavily until the way back, when I had rode down a street that was esentially a dead end. I thought on my toes, by choosing to ride over this enormous field of grass next to the church, because it connected to Ryan Road without me having to turn back. The changes in terrain, plus the fact that I didn't know if I would ride into a ditch or not - it being so dark - really wore me out a good deal, and as a result I may have to do those things intentionally from now on. No biggie.

So I go shopping today, and I'm going to be sure to pick up a larger abundance of food, and all sorts of it. I realize that I need to up my calorie intake to make sure my metabolism goes up, and not down. Burning more calories than I take in only leads to muscle loss and a loss of metabolism, which is definitley not a good thing, that whole "starvation mode" thing. Not that I'm starving myself, but I can be a tiny bit more liberal about my foods, consume a bunch of carbs, and all of that. So I figure since my body is accustomed to about 2000 calories, I'll go about 20% below maitenence on that, and hit about 1600 a day.

Picked up two 2 lb. containers of Whey Protein, I was going to stop by the GNC to get them, but strangely enough I found them at Wal-Mart. Talk about the one-stop shopping center. I eat a fair amount of calories, which contain a good daily amount of carbohydrates, but due to my limited budget and lack of time, I can't prepare the foods that I need to, to intake the amount of protein my body needs. So that's where the Whey comes in. I'll probably make a shake out of it after a workout, mainly a muscle-building one, not cardio. I should be taking in about a gram of protein per pound of bodyweight, which I'm most definitley not at the moment. I don't want my metabolism to go down, and my muscles will need to repare themselves and all of that. So anyway.

So I did another couple sets of push-ups, this time equaling out to 60. I did two sets of 100 crunches as well, and then downed me some protein. We'll see how this works. I have no idea what a "heaping scoop" is, but that's the approximite mesurement for a serving of this whey protein. I just went by tablespoons..."HEAPING" tablespoons if you will. I'll probably alternate between uper and lower body exercises daily now, with the exception of tomorrow, which I will take completely off? Well...I might not. I don't know. But you know how it is. Maybe I'll take a nap. But maybe not. I've been having trouble getting to sleep at night, and it may be because I always take an incredibly long nap half way through the day, probably because I don't get a good sleep the night before. It's a catch 22.

Diet for today - 194
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x1 Bowl of Cereal
x1 Orange
x1 Subway Footlong (indulgence!)
x1 Banana
x1 Yogurt
x1 Gatorade
x1 Vitamin Water
x1 Protein Shake (4 tblspn)
Water!
Vitamin!