Less than perfect but very focused

My workouts this week were less than ideal and certainly not my best showing. The weekend started out solid but with the babies early arrival throwing me a surprise it seemed to cascade through the week.

First the boring but necessary workout summary:

Saturday, Morning (55 min)

45 min of upper body doing sets of 12, 10, 8, 6 with <1 min break between each followed with a superset of 12 + 12 with no break. I also threw in some additional exercises on triceps and biceps as I wasn’t feeling my 10 (maximum intensity) and wanted to wear them out more

Sunday, Morning (5 min)

30 min on the ARC trainer at a high resistance at 1 min intervals of full intensity followed be 1 min of low, 10 min on the stationary bike doing >100 rpm, 10 min on the elliptical trainer doing medium intensity. I tried to really push it on the ARC trainer in morning burning off the food from my daughters birthday party.

Monday, No Workout

Working on only 2 hours of sleep and then all day at the hospital meant I wasn’t up to working out today.

Tuesday, No Workout

Spent all day at the hospital and then the time I wasn’t there I spent taking my daughter to the playground to spend time with her. No workouts today.

Wednesday, Morning (50 min)

30 min ARC trainer at medium resistance doing 1 minute intervals at max RPM and then rest, 15 min weight training of 1 set per body part to max. In the afternoon I took my daughter to the park for a few hours.

Thursday, Evening (30 min)

Morning visit to the zoo for 3 hours followed by an hour at the park with my daughter playing. In the evening I did 30 min of circuit training of 5 circuits of 6 min of exercises per circuit.

Friday, No workout

Other than a grocery shopping and two hours playing with my daughter outside I didn’t get a structured workout in today

All in all the workouts this week certainly weren’t as bad as they could have been. I managed to get workouts in when I felt I could and when I couldn’t I chose to play with my daughter and take care of my wife over working out.

Less than ideal food

This weeks food consumption was all over the map. From my daughters birthday party on Saturday to eating poorly three other days I can’t help be think I failed. It seems like every time I had to make a food decision I made the wrong one.

One thing I usually have going for me is well planned meals that I not only enjoy eating but are really good for me. When I had to make decisions at the hospital I was surprised how bad the cafeteria was on my mental game. How can a hospital, a place of healing, have so much food that’s not only bad for you but also bland and boring? I’d think they’d inspire people into eating tasteful and healthy food but instead they have an oversupply of cookies, cupcakes, and soda.

I don’t need the food to jump off the plate and sing me a song or anything but it has to at least fulfill a hunger. Anyhow, as you can imagine when challenged in a high stress situation like half a day of labor and the birth of a child I chose comfort bad food over bland crappy “healthy” food … I use the term healthy loosely.

Weighing in

I didn’t do a formal weigh in this week but I will admit to taking a peek at the scale on Wednesday, my normal weigh in day. I was actually quite surprised that my weight wasn’t where I thought it would be.

I was expecting it to have shot up, given how I ate at he birthday party and the hospital, but it was actually the same as last week. That’s either due to the crazy amount of stress or the time working out up to that point. Either way I’m pleasantly surprised with what didn’t transpire and hope to have some good numbers to report next week.

There is only one goal

Going into the next two weeks there is only one goal on my mind. My first big goal for this year is to be at or below 300 pounds by the end of March. You can’t imagine what this goal means to me. I haven’t been that weight in at least 16 – 17 years and can’t remember even in the slightest what it feels like.

I know round numbers like 200, 250, 300, etc are fairly arbitrary especially when you try to convert them to metric or stones. Nevertheless it’s still a huge mental hurdle for most people including myself.

It’s certainly going to be challenging to drop 8 pounds in 11 days but I know I can do it. I’m not going to do go and starve myself or do something weird like that, don’t worry. If I push myself and eat completely on track I know my body can lose this weight.

There is only one way for me to lose this weight, through proper nutrition and hardcore exercise. Ironically enough, that’s the opposite of how I put it on.

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