An off day today! No not off like off from work or off from exercising. I mean off from my normal routine. I needed to run an errand before leaving for work and that meant cutting my morning workout short. This morning my wife and I jogged 2.37 miles in 25:30. Not great but not bad. Work flew by today and I was home before I knew it. Getting motivated to exercise was another thing all together this afternoon. I delayed as long as I could and finally got going at 5:30. Way too late. I guess it is better than not at all but I set out knowing I was not exercising for long. I decided to try something new. I took 3 exercises, push-ups, sit-ups and body weight squats, and did a set of each, rest a minute then do another set. It went better than I planned. I chose to do 5 push-ups, 5 sit-ups and 10 squats as a round. I wanted to work my muscles without overly fatiguing them.
Push-ups 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 20—45 total
Sit-ups 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 10—35 total
squats 10,10,10,10,10,20—70 total
I was happily surprized to be able to do 20 push-ups in a row after doing the sets of 5’s. I now know I need to do sets of 10’s in the future. I am glad I tried this because I am looking ahead to my next challenge and am considering the 100 push-up challenge as the next thing to do.
Today was off nutritionally too. My meals today were each 100-200 calories more than they should have been. Usually I only have one meal off but today all three were off so I was high on calories. That plus the two short time workouts today might be bad news for the scale tomorrow. We’ll see since I did do extra cardio yesterday to help offset this.
Dinner was another winner. I got some thin sliced pork ceter loin chops and potato salad. I chopped up the pork chops and cooked them with some green pepper and added a little BBQ sauce. I added raw carrots and potoato salad. I needed to eat half the amount of potato salad that I did to keep my calories where they needed to be.
I should have stopped right there with the potato salad. But no I went back for more. Tomorrow might be a day of serious working out to get back on track. Here’s to a good night of sleep.
