Ah the joy of sleeping in! I made it to 6:45 am! Those extra 3 hours felt great. My wife and I decided on a hike near the Potomac river as a morning cardio activity. It was about an hour long and had some good ups and downs. There was sand to walk through, rocks to navigate over, little streams to cross and shade for a lot of the way. There were also bugs and spider webs and lots of sweat! A good workout for sure.
W needed to go to the mall to check out some items and decided on getting massages at one of the places. It was intense, painful, relaxing and tensing all at the same time. The place was all Asian staffed and all they did there was massages for 10, 20 or 30 minutes. We went with 20 minutes and it was plenty. My wife had to ask her person twice to go more gentle as she could not take the force of the massage. I suffered through it and was picturing my guy’s full time jog as a Ninja assasin that specialized in killing with pressure points. I was ready to tap out a could times but could not bring myself to do it. I have had deep tissue massages before and know they don’t feel good at the time but you feel better later. When we were doneand walking to the next place we both realized we felt light like we were floating. That was a weird sensation, especially for both of us to feel the same way.
The day went on with chores and helping out some family with stuff and I finnally made it to the gym for a PM weight lifting session. I was feeling weaker today and don’t know if it was because of the massage, or if I was feeling tired, of if I did not feed my body propperly today up to that point. Here is what I did:
assisted pull-ups
+70-4
+85-5
+100-5
+115-5
+130-7
Assisted dips
+130-6
+115-6
+100-6
+85-6
+100-6
Bench Press
135-12
185-5,4,3,3
135-10
squats
95-10
145-6
95-10,10
ez-bar curls +50lbs
15,12,10,8,8
Hammer strength over head press
+90-10,10,10,10
I was spent after this. I was also ready for some dinner. I headed home and cooked some lean burgers on the stove top and we also ate raw carrots and cherry tomatoes with our burgers. For dessert we had watermellon.
I am over on my calories for the day. I ate 2,450 calories worth of food. One thing I did do differently today was to eat a snack prior to my morning cardio. I had a apple with a spoonful of peanut butter. That was about 260 calories right there. I’ll look to do better tomorrow but I was not terrible today. I did have an active day with 2 workouts. Here is to seeing another day pass. I look forward to tomorrow.
