Health & Fitness • Page 158

Yeah I also enjoy sore legs in a weird way, it's like I know I worked hard because of the pain lol. Gonna do some squats and deadlifts tomorrow, I CANNOT go too hard or else I will be entirely too sore.


I love veggies thankfully, and I am in my own apartment this month for the first time ever so I have an entire kitchen to myself with plenty of counter space. I need to get used to cooking again, at the moment i'm living off of grilled chicken breast strips from traders joes lol

 

shoulder day > chest day > legs day > back day

 

Shoulder/back day > chest day > leg day > arm day > cardio days

 

literally anything > conditioning day

I don’t really do bodypart splits but anything that hits the delts and quads makes me feel great

 

hitting legs is fine, but my quads in particular are like daggers after; and I'm on my feet and often going up and down stairs at my job, so it's not the most ideal aftermath.

 

My gym just got a new stairmaster. Some heavy low bar squats + spamming the leg extension/curl machines and finishing with the stairs has my entire lower half feeling like jello by the end of my leg day. Probably the toughest day for me in my split. Legs feel like a chore some weeks.

Upper push days are my favorite. DB incline bench with a deep stretch at the bottom and a ton of tricep work on the cable crossover feels so satisfying for me.

 

Down 11.5 lbs the past month, a bit more of a focus on a cardio over lifting and stricter calorie tracking is doing wonders for me

 

I left a message with a nutritionist and of course they called me back during the busiest portion of my day where I couldn't answer, but I'm intrigued by what they can do, if anything, on my lil health journey

I think maybe I am in the spot where I'm gaining muscle? Because I do legitimately feel like I look better in some of my clothes, but my weight is at the highest it's ever been. It was only ever this high during peak covid when gyms closed and all there was to do was sit around at home and eat. But even looking at pics from that time, my face looked a lot fuller then vs me now at the same weight. But it's also hard to tell cause I think I have some body dysmorphia.

Then again yesterday my jeans literally ripped open while I was wearing them lol so who knows

 

Getting more sessions in now so I can have some "wriggle room" come what Christmas. We'll see how it goes!

 

made it to the top of mission peak (CA people know). Quite tough. I’m not in shape nor am I an avid hiker (yet)

 

Sup fam,

Have been making the gym pretty regularly but found myself getting bored and I know where that leads to so I said fuck it and rejoined the Crossfit that is basically a quarter of a mile from my house, can't be much more convenient than that.

I love the feeling an intense cardio cross-training workout gives me and I am just unable to recreate it on my own really so this seems like my best bet for now. I just did a trial for 6 weeks to see how I like it, no commitments or anything. Feeling good about it though, my cardio has been noticeably excellent compared to what it used to be. Also, I have no one to impress so i'm going to make sure to tow the line of pushing my limits, i've done crossfit for years though so i'm very content with that mindset. Ego left about that shit a long time ago.

 

I've had a few sessions with a nutritionist and idk so far it's nothing I haven't learned from the internet. Not that I thought they'd have some secret well of knowledge but I guess I expected something more. The accountability is nice tho

 

Decided within the year I want to do my first marathon. About 8 years ago was the last time I trained running for the half marathon I did. Gonna do a 5k this month, then 10k in 2 months, half in May-ish, then hopefully full marathon in October.