|
Current
Weight: 240.8 lbs.
|
|
Tough Mudder
Countdown: 104 days
|
|
Routine
Completed:
|
||||||||
|
|
Mon.
|
Tues.
|
Wed.
|
Thurs.
|
Fri.
|
Sat.
|
Sun.
|
|
|
Week 1
|
Chest & Back
|
Plyometrics
|
Shoulders & Arms
|
Yoga X
|
Legs & Back
|
Circle B Ranch 5k
|
I’m Sleeping, leave me alone…
|
|
|
Battle Ropes
|
Cranes Roost 5k
|
Battle Ropes
|
Treadmill 5k
|
Battle Ropes
|
|
|
||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Week 2
|
Chest & Back
|
Plyometrics
|
Shoulders & Arms
|
Yoga X
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
|
|
Battle Ropes
|
Recumbant Bike (45min)
|
Recumbant Bike (45min)
|
Recumbant Bike (45min)
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
||
So this week I will admit I rather took a
slacker approach to it. My sister came into town to celebrate her birthday and I
did not adhere to my diet and workout routine at all. I really need to buckle
down and stick to it hardcore. My sister, though, did point out something I think
I may want to adopt for my own diet routine, and that is doing the atkins diet.
I need to
drop 40-60 lbs. within the next 3 months prior to this race, and with me
working out twice a day and chronically cheating on my diet on the weekends, I need
a more thorough game plan. I think adopting the atkins diet to some degree will
help me hit my weight loss goal and with the massive amount of protein
typically consumed using that diet routine it shouldn’t deteriorate my muscle
mass too much while doing p90x either.
I’ve also
concluded that the battle ropes routine, while accomplishing what I had
initially wanted of combining an upper body routine with a cardio routine, isn’t
as effective as just doing simple cardio as biking or running from the get go which
is what I need in regards to basic weight loss so I can do the more complex
routines I want to do to prepare for this race. They always say that a diet is
80% of the workout routine, right? Time to put that into practice finally.
On a side note, I would like to
reflect on a previous workout routine I attempted a few months back call the
Evil Russian Push Up Regime. It was designed to add at least an inch to your
arms and chest within a 2 week period, but sadly it is quickly depleted (as I have
learned). Here are my results I did when I first attempted this routine:
Evil
Russian Push-up Regime!
WEEK
1
Mon:
100% test, relative intensity (RI) 30% Set frequency (SF) 60 min 15
Tues:
RI 50% SF 60 min 25
Wed:
RI 60% SF 45 min 30
Thurs:
RI 25% SF 60 min 13
Fri:
RI 45% SF 30 min 23
Sat:
RI 40% SF 60 min 20
Sun:
RI 20% SF 90 min 10
WEEK
2
Mon:
100% test RI 35% SF 45 min 18
Tues:
RI 55% SF 20 min 28
Wed:
RI 30% SF 15 min 15
Thurs:
RI 65% SF 60 min 33
Fri:
RI 35% SF 45 min 18
Sat:
RI 45% SF 60 min 23
Sun:
RI 25% SF 120 min 13
WEEK
3
Mon:
100% test
**************************
2/17/14
Monday
Day
1
100%
test (50 push-ups)
15
every 60 minutes
(7a-10p=15*15=225+50=275
push-ups)
I
set the bar at 50 push ups because of this routine works I will probably
incorporate
it into my normal workout routine. Today I only did 15 push ups
every
hour so it wasn't too bad. I can already feel it in my shoulders really
starting
to ache. If I count the initial 50 set I did this morning I did 275
push
ups today (7am-10pm=15*15=225+50=275). Tomorrow it bumps from 30% to 50%
every
60 minutes. This Russian test is going to either make or break me...or
just
give me really awesome moobs. Either way I'm going to need epson salt after
this
one.
2/18/14
Tuesday
Day
2
25
every 60 minutes
(6a-5p=11*25=275
push-ups)
25
push-ups every 60 minutes...not too bad, though I'm finally starting to feel
it
in my arms. I'm going to stop a few hours early though since in seeing
Flogging
Molly tonight. (6a-5p=11*25=275).
2/19/14
Wednesday
Day
3
30
every 45 minutes
(6a-915p=20*30=600
push-ups)
Thus
far this was the most trying day into this program. I can feel my muscles
starting
to get bigger on my back and I'm craving meat, which means I need to
start
packing on more protein or this entire two weeks will be in vain. Good
thing
I found those Bolthouse things next to the naked shakes in Publix that
actually
taste good and have 30g of protein in them, heh.
2/20/14
Thursday
Day
4
13
every 60 minutes
(6a-6p=13*12=156
push-ups)
Today
was a light day and I cheated horribly. I'm not sure how much protein to
incorporate
into my diet plus it was a free bar tab
and food for Qmed at
Bahamas
breeze. I need to learn better restraint...and i might just not go to
ren
fair this weekend just to prove it to
myself.
2/21/14
Friday
Day
5
23
every 30 minutes
(6a-8p=28*23=644
push-ups)
It
honestly wasn't as bad as I was anticipating. Possibly might have been the
reason
it wasn't so bad. At least that got the last hard day for this week out
of
the way. Now I fear for Monday.
2/22/14
Saturday
Day
6
20
every 60 minutes
(7a-12a=17*20=340
push-ups)
Obscure
places I did push-ups today:
-Bojangles
lobby
-SAMs
club isle
-Qdobas
parking lot
-Home
Depot isle
Since
they were spaces so far apart and it's so much less than what I had to do
the
other day the sets weren't bad at all. I am starting to get concerned about
my
wrists aching though so i think I'll start doing more sets on my knuckles
instead
of palms.
2/23/14
Sunday
Day
7
10
every 90 minutes
(7a-930p=100
push-ups)
Cake
day, though my parent came and treated me to Toojays Deli and the sets
following
that killed m good coma.
2/23/14
Monday
Day
8
18
every 45 min
(6a-9p=20*18=360
push-ups)
Today
was kind of interesting. I was craving doing more push ups. And after my
run
I wanted to keep running. I'm in rare form today. Hopefully this energy
spike
lasts throughout the week.
2/24/14
Tuesday
Day
9
28
every 20 minutes
(6a-720p=41*28=1148
push-ups)
Today
about killed me. This looks like this was the hardest day in the program
but
I could be wrong. It's definitely been the hardest thus far. Hopefully
things
will only level out at this point instead of getting more intense.
2/25/14
Wednesday
Day
10
15
every 15 minutes
(6a-8pm=60*15=900
push-ups)
I
had to modify today a bit and change it to doing 30 push-ups every 30 minutes
so
I could actually do my job. My muscles are getting pretty stiff so I guess I
should
actually start stretching. I think it might be a good idea.
2/26/14
Thursday
Day
11
33
every 60 minutes
(6a-10p=16*33=528
push-ups)
The
muscle confusion caused by today from the frantic amount I was doing
yesterday
has been devastating. My arms feel like limp noodles. Thank Chthulu I
only
have 3 more days of this...
2/27/14
Friday
Day
12
18
every 45 minutes
(6a-9p=21*18=378
push-ups)
-today
I think was designed to be a gloating day. Every set I just felt
thoroughly
empowered and kept wanting to do more. I guess is the come down to
the
intense part of the program that is supposed to help level out the newly
built
arm muscles. I may end up skipping tomorrow since in going to ren fair but
who
knows? I may just end up doing push ups with a turkey leg in my mouth.
2/28/14
Saturday
Day
13
23
every 60 minutes
(6a-11a=17*23=391
push-ups)
I
doubt I did the entirety of what I was supposed to considering I have blood
and
day drank all day at the ren fair, but I did it when I remembered it and I
did
it while insulting many naysayers and passerbys. Tomorrow is my last day of
this
program...thank Chthulu...
3/01/14
Sunday
Day
14
13
every 120 minutes
(7a-830p=10*13=130
push-ups)
Finally!
Done with the program! I can quit being a push up nazi now! I wonder
how
quickly my arms will now deteriorate since I'm not doing push-ups on an
hotly
basis now. I guess I'll find out sooner rather than later.
3/02/14
Monday
Day
15
100% test
50 push ups (kept routine basic for scientific purposes).
50 push ups (kept routine basic for scientific purposes).
I will probably attempts this routine again a few weeks
prior to the race so ee if it will, help, and hopefully it will benefit me when
the time comes.
Here goes nothing,
Will
\m/
