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Today: warm up on synthetic turf field (can’t get any better than that …so soft and smooth :slight_smile: )
5 laps around the field
6 diagonal strides
stretching
Lifting, this was done in one big circuit, for 3 sets.

  1. Lateral DB Raises, 1025lbs, 830lbs, 7*30lbs
  2. DB Flys, 10*5lbs all 3 sets (last set was tough, cause I wasn’t really taking rests during each circuit)
  3. ALternate Front Arm Raises, 10*5lb DB’s all 3
    (abs…)
  4. Decline Presses (I think my decline was pretty steep…my blood gathered in my head…oups :stuck_out_tongue: ), 8*30lbs, all 3 (I wanted to go up, but I couldn’t figure out how to get set up with a heavier weight…they were kind of hard to pick up, but then “pressing” the 30s was not all that challenging… :confused: and all the guys in there were too obnoxious to ask help for… :rolleyes: (kind of guys who grunt like someone is beating them and stare at the mirror during their whole session…pssshhhh)
  5. Front DB Presses, 8*30, 35, 40lbs.
  6. Incline Presses were planned to be w/ bar, but I realized my wrist is not capable of doing any presses with the bar right now…it’s restricted too much, and when it’s supposed to be at the high point of the lift, it hurts very much. Sooo I used DB’s again: 8 reps of 30lbs for all three…I wish there was something between 30 and 35, because I wanted to go up but 35 was not happening today. (my arms are pathetic in the weight room, in my opinion)
  7. Back Presses would be with bar too, so I skipped those.
  8. Bench Press was also not happening - skipped that too… :frowning: (((sighhhh…))))
    more abs and hypers
    more stretching
    10min biking

Food:
8am half calcium fortified drink mix
10am the other half
from 12pm till 3pm I ate 3 meatballs with about a cup of rice (or less) and a piece of feta cheese
workout between 5 and 7? I don’t even remember the time…
7pm balance bar
8pm “omelette” made with three egg whites and a slice of fat free cheese and some mushrooms
currently eating some pretzel sticks because today was just too much protein and my body is really craving something else…
I’m done for the day.

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Great news …

Heat - or actaully just using the foot will probably take most of the blue away now.

Try some arnica too if you can.

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What is arnica? Never heard of it!

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Here we go …

http://www.primary.net/~gic/herb/arnica.htm

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good to see you start a new journal steph. i followed your old one closely and wondered where you’d gone. hope the injury heals up and you’ll be flying again in no time.

Good stuff with the mma too. I started ninjitsu recently. its very hard getting into it!! keep it up!!

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Yesterday didn’t have time to post, but this is what happened:
First of all I was planning on warming up on the nice turf soccer field again, but all doors were locked and did not feel like climbing over the fence (so annoyed when the doors are locked :mad: ), so went on the treadmill, did

  • 20min jogging/running, whatever you wanna call it, it was basically 5min @6mph, 10min@7mph, 1min@7.5mph, 4min@8mph and then did a 4min cool down light jog that ended as a walk.
  • 10min stretching (mostly lower body)
  • a lot of calf/ shin exercises for about 15minutes (one-leg calf raises, one-leg toes up, one-leg static balance and heel walking, did these in circuit format)
    Then I paired up
    1a) One-leg curls (3 sets of 8 reps, @ 30,40,50lbs - the 50lb set had to turn into a 40lb half way through for each leg, because I was either gonna get a hamstring calf or calf cramp(most likely) from it :eek: ) Abs in between sets.
    And
    1b) One-leg extensions (3 sets of 10 reps, @ 20,30,40lbs)
    Then did the following as a 3 set circuit:
    2a) SLDL (3 sets of 8 reps @95, 100, 105lbs >back felt stronger than last time I did these)
    2b) Upright Rows (3 sets of 8 reps @45, 50, 55lbs)
    2c) Deep squats (3 sets of 10 reps @ 95, 105, 115lbs)
    (abs in between some sets, although I was “ab-lazy” that day and didn’t do too much)

7min biking cool down
some more abs and a set of back exercise (on floor)
more stretching

Just to note how the wrist reacts to certain lifts:
no problems with SLDL, slight irritation with upright rows, as long as I don’t go ALL the way up with the bar, for now. Squats feel good (PHEEEEW…I love squats), as long as I hold the bar with a super wide grip.

Then got drunk with a couple of friends :stuck_out_tongue: (It took me a drink and a half only…yes, me a rare drinker, but when I do it I sure do enjoy it :slight_smile:

Food yesterday and I’ll just go straight into this morning: (umm this might not look all that great…)
10am shake
2pm salad (with some grilled chicken and cheese, no dressing)
5pm balance bar
(workout 7-8:45)
9:30pm wheat wrap with turkey and vegetables) (up to here I was doing really well!)
midnight half-hand full of “cheese-its”, or whatever they are called
3am half cup of cous cous and hand full of sun-chips (myyy favorite… :wink: )
4am alcohol…
1pm (we’re into Sunday as you noticed) large breakfast! a cup of oatmeal, an omelette (made with 2.5 eggs and a slice of fat free american cheese), and hot chocolate :rolleyes: (hey, I had guests…we like team breakfast…)
And now I am waiting to digest that so I can go do my tempo workout, which will very possibly be in the rain… :cool:

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Second update of the day:
Went on my tempo run, luckily it didn’t rain, but it was windy.
Other side effects: my body just didn’t feel well taken cared of (was it the alcohol still flowing in my blood, the breakfast I hadn’t fully digested yet, or the dehydration? :confused: )

All this was on grass:
9min jogging, 2-3 60m running/walking
standing stretching for about 5minutes
jogging with arm swings, etc, carioca, 2*60m strides (I was gonna do more warming up , but I was trying to beat a storm that never actually came…)

3*(60m-100m-100m-60m), recoveries between reps: 30sec,45sec,45sec, and 5min/set. In between sets did about 100abs, back exercises and stretching (calves and ITB)

After 3 sets did more abs, static stretching, and realized something:

It’s GREAT to lay on grass and just look at the sky. Have you just looked at the sky lately, just for no apparent reason? (when it’s not too sunny out) I find myself very “earth occcupied” these past years, and today’s cool down was very refreshing :slight_smile:

Food : well after the breakfast that i wrote about earlier, my post workout was a can of tuna (plain, just the way i like it) with a tomato and sun chips (I had to finish them so I can start tomorrow clean, ya know…?)
Later on I had chocolate and almonds, and dddd a little bit of ice cream…Saturday is naturally a cheat day, lets see how I can cut that food habit conditioning… :rolleyes:

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Before I go ahead describing my training ventures of the day, I would like to express my heartedly appreciation to people who responded to the thread in the Off Topics Discussion Board “Solo training anyone?” :slight_smile:
I must admit that I was NOT getting used to running solo every day…I actually was under the ignorant impression that not a whole lot of people train without a coach that is RIGHT THERE to practice, but the immediate responces of people explaining how they just LOVE solo training (among with their reasonings), gave me a whole new outlook :o

With that saidddd…I really enjoyed my solo workout today :smiley: I didn’t rush…I wasn’t impatient…I did a FULL warm up (for the first time yet this year)…heck…I even did a proper cool down!!

This is how it went: (all on grass)
5min light jogging
walking while stretching for 5minutes
10-15min 60m strides back and forth (striding feels a lot better to my right knee and outer lower left shin)
then measured out a distance of 100m
did some more drills like carioca, side steps, tried backwards running but it bothered my right knee so I stopped immediately…

Tempo: 3*(3*100m), rests: walk 50-60m/rep, 5min/set (with abs and stretching between sets)
These felt good and relaxed:
1)16,18,17
2)16,17,16
3)16,18,16
(second rep of each set was in head wind, hence the short delay…)
note: no lactic acid produced, which was good for tempo purposes :wink:

Then did some more abs.
Cool down jog for 4minutes.
More stretching.

Hoped in the car and headed to the university for some lifting:
7min warm up bike
stretching (I was really impressing myself with the thoroughness of this day…plus it is Labor Time, so I had more time than a typical day…)

  1. Power Clean pre exercise (up to a shrug) 2*6 reps (both 95lbs/43kg)
  2. Hang Cleans, 2*3 reps @ 75lbs(34kg), 85lbs(38.6kg), trying to get my technique back (it’s been a while…), wrist had some irritation, but nothing major with those weights.
  3. Squat, 2*6 reps, the gym I had access to today has NOOO supports for squats… I had to do a hang clean and a jerk and put the darn bar behind me (which was a wrist “ouchie”), so I had to stay lighter than what i would normall do, and did 95lbs (43kg), and then 105lbs (47.6kg). On that last one I had to call a guy over to actually take down the bar from my back, because the jerk from behind was not happening :confused:
  4. Reverse Raises, 2 sets of 8 reps

Some abs
8min biking
Stretching

Food today:
10am oatmeal with honey
12pm handfull of dry cereal (Go Lean Crunch>good stuff)
(tempo workout 3-4)
(lifting workout 4:30-5:30)
6pm giant banana (it was huge!)
7:30pm wheat wrap with lean turkey and fat free american cheese and a few almonds.

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First of all, I dont’ know WHATTTT I was thinking when I was planning on doing Martial Arts three days a week for 2 hours each day, along with daily track workouts, grad school (which is CRAZZYYYYY this year), teaching first year design students, and working for my professor to do research on her new book…
In my mental fuss of debating whether or not punching and kicking people and rolling on the floor would help my track performances, I never considered the fact that I really have no option but officially discontinue martial arts for the year being (a blessing??).
I am pretty stressed out, yes :confused:
But as I like to say…It’s all good :wink:

Today it was drizzling on and off, did the following:

15min warming up by striding 50 and 100meters back and forth. Stretching, etc…
Hills (everything was at 80% effort)
610m (walk back recovery)
2min rest
620m (walk back recovery)
3min rest
4*30m (walk back recovery)

Today was humid and rainy, so my knee bothered me a little bit. But nothing major.
Hills felt good. And they didn’t tire me at all.

Then got memebership to this new gym that is a “judgement free” zone, and “no grunting or dropping weights” is allowed (they explain that right when you get membership)…HAHAHHA…I mean…am I allowed to breathe during my reps?? What happens during heavy hang cleans? I have dropped the bar at least 4 times in the past with hang cleans… :confused: I guess I get kicked out? :stuck_out_tongue: Then I go looking for another gym. Too funny.

7min biking warm up
(the following were done in circuit format)

  1. Pull Downs (front), 2*6reps @70, 85lbs(31.8, 38.6kg)
  2. Front DB Presses, 2*6reps @60, 70lbs (27.2, 31.8kg)
  3. Bent Rows, 2*6reps @ 65, 75lbs (29.5, 34kg)
  4. Bench Press, 2*6reps @ 85, 95lbs (38.6, 43kg)

Abs between sets and after
Good stretching

Food:
8am peach and cereal bar (high protein)
11am hand full of mixed nuts
1:30pm wheat wrap with 3 slices lean turkey/two slices fat free cheese
4:30pm about 8 macademia nuts (i took them out of the earlier hand full of mixed nuts because I don’t like them, but at 4:30 was hungry enough to eat them :stuck_out_tongue: , although not hungry enough for the walnuts…yikes)
8am banana and pb sandwich with honey

P.S. I am so excited…my new gym offers a free 30min massage…never had one of those by a professional…I can’t wait until I need to use one!!! :smiley:

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Grad school has been NUTSSSSSSSS…
Week two and I’m already doing all nighters…NOT GOOD!!! I felt like I was doing finals week and I still have 3 months ahead of me… :eek: God help me…

Haven’t posted in the past 2 days, because I was simply burried in the studio designing… Outcome was great though :wink: Did not stretch or anything either, so Friday when I decided to do some sort of tempo workout I was feeling a bit out of it at first… Guess what…long warm up does the trick :wink:
Ran around for about 20minutes (mostly striding and skipping), stretched my calves A LOT,
Then went into 100m fast strides back and forth, surprizingly they felt very relaxed, on grass of course…

Some weights right after (lower body): snatches, deadlifts, back extensions, some abs…stretching about an hour later…all light and easy.

Food was not too good Wednesday, as I ate a fair amount of chocolate in the studio to keep me awake ( :o ) and chinese food LATE LATE at night which really messed up my stomach for the day after… :frowning:
Thursday and Friday were ok.

Getting ready for some short hills, weather is SOOO nice out, and I slept half my Saturday away :rolleyes:

On another note…the Martial Arts people are looking for me and asking friends about me…I sent an email to one of the senseis telling him I honestly have NO time for it right now and it gets me hurt for track (my wrist is in a wrist brace right now to prevent from bending it >getting x-rays on Wednesday), and he replied saying what a great student I am and how much potential I have… ( :confused: ) but he understands, and hopes to see me SOON and in the NEAR future (in capitals…) Ahhhh…I’m such a people pleaser…I want to go there and train with them.
But anyway…since there is a 30day cancellation policy, it looks like I am “stuck” :wink: with membership till mid October, so I am strongly encouraged to go to classes whenever I get the chance and trust me…I NEED to kick something these days…yesterday I started practicing some kicks on my poor fellow classmate and now he wants to join the school too :stuck_out_tongue: (to get back at me??) he was quite impressed…
I just wish I had more TIMEEE!!!

What else what else… I can’t think of anything else trainining-related at this point… I just wish for a not-so-cold winter ahead of us!!!

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Today was off, last night I got drunk again…this might have been the last time for 2006, so it’s all good :slight_smile:

Pretty much was cleaning the house/painting/ reading and grocerying all day, only slept 5hrs last night, so I’m anxious to get some rest!!

Food was all right for the most part, woke up with oatmeal mixed with some granola cereal and peanut butter. Banana in the afternoon. Turkey wrap for lunch, and a peach. Some almonds next. Can of light tuna with half a tomato for dinner, followed by the necessary weekend chocolate, which I HAVE to start cutting short slowly by slowly (I don’t want to shock my body!! :rolleyes: )

Tomorrow I will workout in the morning for a change, curious to see how that goes…
Then pretty anxious to go to some martial arts again in the late evening, with EXTRA caution on how I kick things :wink: I will keep y’all posted!

Btw, watched some video clips from Stuttgart meet…always inspiring…I love track!

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just looking at your food stef, i really think it’s ok to eat some chocolate, as well as have a WHOLE tomato with your tuna for dinner…

I know I am being hypocritical saying this because I have my own eating disorder to worry about, but along with that comes a LOT of consciousness and experience dealing with food and nutrition, and I would hate to see you get hurt because if your body does not get enough nutrients to rebuild, it WILL happen! We both know this.

anyway, if don’t feel hungry then i’m sure you are fine, just wanted to ask. are you taking any vitamins/calcium or regular shakes after lifting?

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Nice day today :slight_smile:
Woke up at 7 to do my track (grass to be precise) in the morning this time…and boy does it make a difference…the body does not move quite as easily… :o Plus my contacts were crying like crazy from the morning sun rays, which forced me to do my workout with my eyeglasses, for the first time…quite different!

Strided back and forth for warm up, as it is easier on my knee, and measured out a 100m and a 200m, in order to do a bunch of tempo repeats for about half an hour, with abs in between. Did some 200s for the first time this year (for me the track year began about a couple of weeks ago, so bear with me…). It felt LONG :o But tried to stay relaxed throughout.
I was also thinking about bringing my elbows down rather to the side, which is a problem with me. I think I had some fraction of improvement…baby steps!

By the way…grass was WET in the morning (as always), socks got soaked while running…and clothes got messy while doing the abs. It’s all good though :slight_smile:

15min later weight room, lower body, did some hang clean (trying to find some technique again after not doing it at all last year, but I know it’s beneficial for sprinting, so what the heck ! ), deep squats (my ultimate lower body favorite…will keep y’all posted as pr’s come along :wink: ) , reverse hypers, abs between and after…ended with 10min biking and good stretching (as much as my poor patience can handle!!)

Went to martial arts again in the evening!!!
Braz. Jiujitsu was purely technique, just doing things in slow motion, no danger. Also, my wrist is well protected and stablelized in my wrist guard, so no worries. Skipped the sparring at the end (which is basically all out rolling around).
Muay Thai: bought some shin/foot guards so I’m fully geared :wink: Class was 10min jump roping, 5min shadow boxing and half hour pad and bag work. Fun :slight_smile:

Topic number 3: Food
Did not eat before my running workout(it was too early) , not sure if it’s a good thing, I guess not too bad since it was tempo. No?
On my way to lifting had half high protein protein bar.
After lifting (10:30am) the other half and a calcium fortified drink mix (also decent protein in there).
2pm: hand full of nuts and a banana (I know there’s a big gap before the next meal, but… :cool: )
8:00pm: turkey sandwich with american cheese(fat free)
8:30pm: hand full of nuts

My mom comes from Greece today. I will start including some real food in my day!!

Thanks for the concern Kras :slight_smile:
I am really going to start working on eating healthy and right for the kind of activities we do. It is true that we are NOT normal people in the sense that we are athletes and need more nutrients and energy…so you’re right…we can’t possibly ignore that.
I’m not taking any vitamins, although I probably should (?), and I do drink shakes, although I don’t have a set time for them (like after lifting, as you mention), although today it happened that I had one after my lift.

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you are very welcome… just because i have my own issues with things does not necessarily mean i have a clouded view when it comes to advice/thoughts for others… I have skimmed over your food for a little while, but if I were to just take today alone for example- do not see any veggies, or very much fruit… really in fact I do not see more than maybe 1,200 calories and that is the HIGH end of my estimation! I think you do have a very good idea of what are good and bad things to be eating, just make sure it is enough! I can tell you right now that while training, 1,200 does not come CLOSE to being enough, and even 2,200 would not be too much. Even if you are trying to slim down a little, you could still eat more. I do not want to get all into your business if you are just simply not hungry… but objectively it looks very meager. Vitamins are never a bad idea no matter how much you eat! :slight_smile:

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Gorgeous day today!

Did my training in the evening, just before the sun went down.
Warm up took about half an hour, with only 4minutes of jogging. Apparently, my body hates jogging these days, so I warm up with a lottt of striders (this is all on grass, btw…). My calves tighten up when I jog, and my left ankle/foot (who knows…)gets very tight as well. Also, right knee bothers me at some days, but today it was fine.

Speaking of knee…tomorrow morning I’m going to the doctor to take a look at it and get me some x-rays, since I never saw what’s in there :o Also, I will ask about my wrist which is obviously kind of messed up from my chip from 4 years ago, I might I have “moved” the chip a bit a couple of weeks ago from my legendary muay thai punch… :cool:
We live and learn!

Sooo…back to running…
4min jogging, 15min striding and skipping, 10min stretching, then did many many short hills up to 30meters. Hills fet GREAT. They were almost effortless.

15min later weight at the gym: ummm if I recall correctly I did lateral pull downs, DB presses, bent rows, and bench press. I am trying to progressively add weights, so this week is still not all that heavy.
Did a fair amount of abs between some exercises, and a good amount after, stole some ab exercises from the man right next to me :o I’m sure he was wondering why we were doing the same thing…!! Haha…I ran out of ideas, what can I say :rolleyes:
7min elliptical cool down
10min stretching (I’m impressing myself with the stretching lately… :wink: I’ve actually gone with WEEKS in the past without stretching, while training, and now I have turned a new page :slight_smile: )

Oh yeah, food was a lot better today, and I did had a better appetite, yesterday I was honestly not all that hungry!

7:30am peach and shake
8:30am green tea
9:30am more green tea (I love that stuff, and I’m actually a frequent tea drinker, I just never post it on my food-diary)
11am wrap with turkey/cheese slice and a cereal bar
2:30pm peanut butter and jelly sandwich
(workout 5:45-7:50)
8:15pm two cabbage rolls with ground beef inside (Greek recipe), potatoes (broiled), some Greek salad and a piece of feta cheese (yes yes…my mom’s back :smiley: )

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Went to the doctor this morning for my knee and my wrist.
To make a long story short because I have a GOOD amount of homework to complete tonight (!!!), it’s ALL good…I can keep training, no x-rays necessary, I can do my thing :slight_smile:

Did some tempo on grass, similar to Monday, 100s back and forth and threw some 200s in there as well, which felt much better than two days ago, I’m sure it was because 1) I did these today in the late evening instead of early in the morning and 2) I did them again Monday! (?)
Oh…before tempo…25min warm up with 20min running and stretching. (Not thinking straight…too many things in my head!!!)

Cool down jog, straight to weights. There was a sign at the gym saying “free body weight testing”, of course I took advantage. Had never done it in my life before.
We did the mearuring test (waist, forearm and thighs) and he did some calculations and looked at charts…he got 18.5 out of it. He didn’t want to get into the caliber test because I had just worked out and my blood was still flowing and muscles were inflamed…blah blahh… we’ll do it again in a couple of weeks.

I don’t even know what the the average body fat percentage is…or how much a woman track athlete should have, and I’m not researching it tonight cause I have so much darn hw to do :o !!! But anyways…the trainer’s chart had my number (in relation to my age) listed under “low”, but I know track people are looking for different numbers…soooo feel free to comment…

Did some deadlifts, SLDL, and back extensions at the gym, a few abs (also did abs, more than 200 during tempo session), 5min rowing, decent stretching (although my patience today was not all that great, due to tasks to be finished unrelated to trackk…uuughh life is hard!) and called it a workout day!!

Food: I think it was good today. Again, feel free to comment…

7:30am oatmeal sweetened with Greek honey (mmmm)
green tea
10:30am cereal bar (good protein)
1:30pm wheat wrap with roast beef and some veggies
green tea
4:45pm cliff bar
8:30pm bowl of chickpea soup and a small meatball
9pm italian cookie from our good italian neighbor…

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Today was a workout-lazy day!!! I DID do a workout session and all…just NOT IN THE MOOD!!! Did not spend enough time stretching…did not do enough abs, cheated about three times with italian cookies today and three bites of chocolate!!! Yeah…shoot me, I don’t care.

It was raining ALLLL day…but it turns out my luck planned everything quite well. Did a 20min elliptical warm up in my house, broke a sweat, did some quick stretching (VERY QUICK!!) and went to the grass hill that goes up to 40m near my house, did a FEW more stretching…(maybe 2minutes?? :confused: ) and a BUNCH of short sprints (for about 20-25minutes).

Straight to the gym for some upper body: incline DB presses, single arm DB rows, and upright rows, a FEW abs, decent stretching and ran out of there as fast as I could!!! :stuck_out_tongue:

As I said, I had a few cheats with food today…can’t be good too many days in a row…my system receives a shock!!
8am cereal bar
9am pb and honey sandwich
11am wheat wrap with two slices of fat free cheese (this was really small)…I had a great appetite today, btw…sooooo
12pm cliff bar
1pm green tea and a piece of breakfast cake offered by the department secretary
3pm small bag of peanut MnM’s (I dont even know how they’re spelled…
5pm two italian cookies :cool:
workout 5:40-7:20 or something like that…
7:30pm piece of eggplant parmesan with some chicken(this list is getting longer each second…oh boy :stuck_out_tongue: )
8pm two more cookies andddd three bites of chocolate

OK , I’M DONE!!! :rolleyes:
This is the problem I have to resolve, but it’s hard because I am a woman :rolleyes: :
The days that I have a big appetite I need to eat desserts…
And I love chocolate…DARK CHOCOLATE!! :smiley:

P.S. I NEED one more rep power point to reach 50 !!
:wink: I can use your help :wink:

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dark chocolate can actually be good for you… your list is not that long and cheating every once in a while prevents BIGGER cheating later, just think of it that way. Total deprivation never works, it is much better to be bad 10% of the time and good the other 90% than to be good all the time and then go crazy and binge or be miserable… believe me!

btw when you are doing your hills- are you doing very short sprints with a specific rest period or just walking down… can you explain a little more?

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Long day today…

Woke up for a fairly early practice, started at 7:30am, so much harder to run in the mornings :o …did a not AS good warm up by jogging a little bit and just a few strides, quick stretching, completely forgot to stretch my calves and felt the difference from when I stretch them, so I tried to stretch them while resting during my tempo. Tempo was again on grass, 100s and 200s, all at 75% effort, I stopped after half an hour of doing them. They were actually feeling more relaxed as I went on, which was good.
Short cool down jog.
15min later in the weight room did some lower body:
Hang clean shrugs as warm up and then hang cleans (wrist bothered me in those, although it is a LOTTTT better than 4 days ago!!), squats, reverse hypers and some abs (not too many thoughh… :cool: ), 5min elliptical cool down and good stretching!!

Longgg day of classes and studio work!! Then hung out with the breakdancing crew for about 20minutes (was very good and sat in the corner because didn’t want to stress my wrist with any show off capoeira moves that I learned this past summer :wink: )

Then straight to martial arts for some inner anger management.
Muay Thai first: 8 min jump roping (my endurance is getting so much better since I started running…I look like a machine jump roping compared to everyone else in there… :o it doesn’t tire me one bittt
One round of shadow boxing
And the rest of class was going over certain techniques with partners, nothing strenuous.
Braz. Jiujitsu. Again, going over techniques for half an hour, then 15min of easy sparring, which was pretty much the only tiring part. It’s funny how running/jump roping is effortless and then once you start using different muscles rolling around on the ground you get tired after 30 seconds…

Food today:
workout 7:30-9:30
10am yogurt and a banana
2pm dry honey nut cheerios mixed with peanuts (small bag) and hand full of grapes
5pm apple and cereal bar
7:30pm peach (yeahhh…today was a fruit day)
martial arts 8-10pm
10:15 balance bar
10:30 small piece of salmon at home (finally home…)
andddd I had to end with some chocolate ice cream :slight_smile: but immediately brushed my teeth afterwards to avoid any potential regrets :wink:

I feel pretty tired now…Thank God Kill Bill is on tv and I can somewhat enjoy my Friday night because SOOOO much work awaits for me during the weekend…I’m about to cry…buy oh yeah…I don’t even cry.

Scratch that.

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Grass works up to a point. Sleep and good FOOD will do the rest! The latter MUST improve! Monday was the last day of excuses…