Sunday, November 30, 2008

The Epiphany

I had an epiphany today, it goes like this:

As many rounds in 15 minutes of:
10 Knees to elbows (holding a 20 lb med ball w/ feet)
15 Ring Pushups
20 Walking Lunges (with dumbbells of course)
all done with 20 lb weighted vest.

Okay, so it isn't like your ordinary epiphany where you figure out where you left your keys or how to fix that situation with your friend, but it is what goes through a trainer's mind. And I will be doing that on Tuesday. On another note, I had my heavy day today. I cut it down to just two moves so I could focus more on these two in particular:
7x3
Shoulder Press - Started at 95 and worked my way up to 135 (note that my 1RM at the beginning of this was 140 and today I was able to do 3 at 135)
Deadlift - Started at 155 and finished at 255 (265 i only got 2 reps)

As I said in my other post, I up my blocks on Monday and I am ready. Falling off of the zone does more than just make you unhealthy, it makes you unhappy. When your body is on a schedule, you feel much better. You don't have any crazy ups and downs with your glucose levels and things are pretty level (even though they don't always seem that way). I noticed the difference when I ate a ton of carbs over this holiday and my blood glucose was all over the place. It really does affect my moods when I keep the food intake balanced.

I think I'm going to zone for the rest of my life...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

howdy

Zacariah Hildenbrand said...

I love your idea. I think this mass building phase give us the flexibility to train using weird and new moves in various combinations, as long as we concentrate on pushing heavy weight under ten minutes.

In other words I think the workout we have on paper is good but we need some more freestyle.

Hildie