Stress, stress and more stress! I am 2 weeks out from being unemployed. Each day I hear rumours, speculations, guesses and possibilities of what will happen for me and my coworkers. I have been off my game these last few weeks. Mentally I am not quite seeing my clear path to success. I go back and forth between feeling good about my chances of still being employed after our contract expires, and thinking I might not make the cut if they can’t keep us all. Each of us have unique pluses and minuses. I have a lot of pluses, but I do have minuses too. Some folks have mostly minuses, but the few pluses they have somehow outweigh their minuses. Oh well. I have been eating more. I seem to do that when I am stressed. I am fearing the scale tomorrow. I have been over my 2,200 calorie goal most of the days in the last two weeks and I had gained two pounds in that time. Tomorrow might show another gain. This weekend I plan to get out on my bike and ride some long distance. The two times I did that I lost more than a pound each day. I might need to do a long ride each day. What I really need to do is get my eating back under control.
I had another record with lifting today! I have been doing assisted pull-ups for a while now and today I was able to do one pull-up with 25 pounds assistance. That beats my previous best of 1 rep with 40 lbs assistance. That rocks! I might be doing body weight pull-ups in another couple months!
AM:
50 min jog
PM:
Assisted pull-ups
+100-8
+25-1
+40-2
+55-4
+70-6
+85-8
+100-8
DBBP
50-10
60-10
75-8
65-10
55-10
Incline DBBP
50-10
45-10,10,10
DB flies
25-10,10,10
incline flies
25-10,10,10
DB overhead presses from ground
25-10
35-10
30-10
25-10
Seated overhead presses
30-10,10,10
Tri’s
50-6
45-8
40-10,10
The weight routine took 90 minutes! That is long. After another few weeks of this I am going to re-group things so I can do more reps with little rest in-between so I can get more cardio out of the weight lifting.
