I went to the gym again today. I was supposed to strength train all my major muscles, but I had no clue how. Luckily, my gym seems to have a Nautical machine to work every muscle and more. So I simply went to each one, tried to figure out what they were doing on the diagram and followed along–6 to 12 reps, just as planned, and increase the weight if I’m not feeling the “burn” after 12.
Well my lower body and back can take 50 lbs easily, it seems. My abs can take 40. But when I got to my upper arm/shoulder workouts, HOLY SH!T was it heavy! I am so weak, I can barely do 6 reps at 30 lbs, my arms quivering from the first rep. Geez, it really lets me know what shape I’m in. Now I have a new short-term goal–increase upper body strength!
Anyways, after the weight training I got back on the elliptical and went for my daily 30 minutes of cardio. Tomorrow will only be cardio.
On a side note, I’ve been doing good with eating today. Breakfast at 6 am was a handful of almonds, yogurt and a Fiber-1 bar. Midmorning snack was a handful of almonds again.
I made an interesting little sandwich for lunch–lean turkey meat, baby spinach, provolone cheese (yes, so horrible), and a teaspoon of some spicy salsa on whole wheat bread. It was actually tasty, and the salsa spared me the need for mayonnaise or anything like that.
Dinner tonight will be sticky rice, a mini-salad and chicken breast pre-soaked in a solution of soy sauce, Japanese sweet vinegar, cooking wine, honey, garlic and grated onion.
Funny thing, I usually prefer dark meat over white meat because white meat gets so dry and hard, but I found out by experimenting that leaving the chicken soaking in grated onion for an hour keeps it soft and tender. You just have to be careful because it’s easier to burn because of the onion.
I’ll post up the recipe sometime!
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I'm looking for healthy recipes so please do update your bog soon and give me some new ideas!
It's great to see such a fresh diary entry, keep it up!
Low-calorie is not good if you are exercising, low-carb gets me cramps and low-fat is not what most people thinks. Low-fat means that you have to cut out all the bad fat, but you still have to eat good fat. Eating moderately, exercise daily and take some fat loss supplements is my recipe.
Heh, old blog eh? Well, just want to let you know I'm rooting for ya. You can do it, Lulu! <3
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