What Are You Training For?

Breakfast yesterday was the same as it has been every day this week:

Last night I spent some time clearing old pictures off my phone, and apparently I deleted the pictures of my lunch, but I had leftover steak, asparagus, and green beans, plus carrots, and later, an apple.

For dinner, I sautéed up some sliced roma tomatoes and green beans in a pan with a little olive oil, Italian seasonings, and crushed red pepper. Then, I heated up the chicken meatballs I made the other night in the microwave, and threw it all together in one easy meal.  It may not look all that great, but it was really tasty, and something I’d never made before, but probably will again!

For dessert, I had the last few bites of this peanut butter cup ice cream I found hanging out in my freezer.  (I don’t know who left it in there…)  Before I picked them all out to eat them, it was full of whole peanut butter cups – and absolutely delicious.  It was the perfect little treat to accompany me during my agonizingly painful experience with packing last night.  I know I said I didn’t mind it because it’s for vacation, but trying to squeeze everything I’ll need want into one little suitcase is tough!

This morning, I was excited to try a new workout that I adapted from this one that I found on Savannah’s blog.  My friend made five workouts for me per week as part of my new plan, and then I’m going make up the sixth one and take one day off.  Today I decided to focus on legs, since I felt like I’ve been doing a lot of upper body work this week, so here’s what it looked like:

1. Warmup: 10 minute walk on treadmill
2. Legs:
   1. Back squats:
      1. 20 @ 45lbs
      2. 15 @ 65lbs
      3. {10 @ 85lbs} x4
   2. Wide stance barbell squats (Plié squats)
      • {10 @ 65lbs} x2
      • {10 @ 85lbs} x2
   3. Stiff leg deadlifts (or RDLs)
      • {15 @65bs} x4
   4. Leg Press + Calf Raise
      • {10 @ ??} x4
   5. Hamstring Curls:
      1. {12 @ ??} x4
   6. Back Squats:
      1. 8 @ 95lbs
      2. 8 @ 115lbs
      3. {3 @ 135lbs} x6
   7. Leg Extensions:
      1. {12 @ ??} x4
3. Mini circuit:
   1. 100 crunches
   2. 75 Walking lunges
   3. 50 dumbbell swings (20lbs)
   4. 25 Air squats
   5. 10 Box jumps
   6. 5 Burpees
4. Arms:
   • {15 Cable curls @30lbs + 15 tricep pushdowns @30lbs} x4
5. Core:
   • {10 Back extensions + 20 Obliques on pad} x4
6. Cooldown: 5 minutes walk

As you can see, I forget some of the weights I used, which I knew was going to happen.  I planned on writing down (typing in my phone, actually) the weights/reps/sets I did for each as I went, but then I got lazy and didn’t feel like stopping every time.  It makes tracking things more difficult though, so I’m going to take the three seconds next time and just do it!

Another thing I had to do (which I wasn’t too happy about) was move my heavy squats to the end.  The plan was to get them out of the way right at the beginning with the other back squats, but this one guy was monopolizing the only squat rack in the building for basically the entire time I was there.  Instead of being rude and telling him to get the heck out, I just switched things around as I went, and luckily, everything still turned out pretty well.

At the end, one lady even came up to me and asked me if I was training for some kind of spring competition, or if I just do it because I love it.  I politely told her that no, I am not training for a competition, but it definitely made me feel good, and inside I was laughing thinking about this e-card:

(I did a little retouching there to make it a bit more appropriate, but you get it.)

FYI: My monthly FitKit post went up this week.  It’s more information about ‘traveling smart,’ so click here if you want to go check it out! 

Questions:

Are you training for anything right now? (Life counts!)

What’s your favorite kind of ice cream?