[Bytsi]

Happy mother's day! My kids BAKED cookies for me. Full-fat sugar-filled iced cookies. So proud of themselves for not fighting too much, and even cleaned up afterwards (wow!). How do you say no to cookies?????

Had an ok workout this morning (will post below), then met my parents for mom's day brunch buffet. Had a reservation, but it was packed and they said 30 min. wait WITH reservation... my dad had a COW, we stormed out, ended up at a different (but very nice) buffet. I shoulda / coulda behaved better... but I suppose it could've been worse too. I'm gonna have a greek yogurt for dinner cuz I was a bit of a piggy earlier LOL... Tried to stick to mostly protein and salad, but had a bit of sweet stuff too... no bagels or muffins or gorgeous fresh-cooked belgian waffles though... I think my overall kcals and macros are ok - just not spread out well.
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Today - Stage 3 B1. Not loving this stage...

Bbell RDL / Row - 3x6 80#, 100#, 100#

Partial 1-leg squat - 3x6

Wide grip lat pulldown - 3x6 @ 130#

Back Extension - 3x12 bodyweight on roman chair

YTWL - 3x6 w 5# db's

Abs - done as superset of all 3 exercises

Cobra - 3x90 (good thing my workout buddy was cracking me up or I'd have quit out of boredom!

HIIT - stairmaster 8 sets of 30 seconds level 10 / 3 plus w/u and cooldown

Other thoughts... this workout just seems kinda boring and not challenging enough as a whole. Each individual exercise is mostly ok for challenge, but I think I might do real supersets instead of rest between each exercise... I don't need 105 seconds for most of them, and I just don't see where I could go higher in weight to increase intensity that way. I hadn't planned the HIIT, but I wasn't tired enough - makes me want to just repeat stage 1!!!