I've tried posting on this site a couple years ago and got out of the habit, but I'm going to try this again since I'm kicking around ideas for a new program. I haven't settled on one yet but I'm going through various materials and I'll have something up here once I make a decision.
Whatever I choose it will include an additional 30-45 minutes of walking with a backpack in the AM to supplement whatever weights/interval program I choose (either going back to NROL or something from Nate Green's book). I've been doing that a lot lately in the afternoons and on off-days but time to step it up.
The diet is going to be as low-carb as I can stand. Eggs, protein smoothies, spinach, chicken, nuts, the usual fare. I'm not going to post everything I eat because that's just micromanaging. The pre- and post-workout stuff I'm unsure of because I love the gatorade/protein mix but there's too much sugar on a fat loss diet but I hate going just protein. I think I'll do protein before and protein/oatmeal after.
Started Nate Green's Built for Show today, Summer phase. First time in a while trying total body, and I am so deconditioned. Just like when I started NROL a couple years ago, I could only get through 2/3 of workout A before feeling like I was going to be sick. Always WAY tougher than it looks. Had to modify it due to working out in the shitty gym at my complex, plus I accidentally mixed up the order of the ab exercises:
A1) db squats 4 x 8 w/ 50s
A2) db rows 4 x 8 w/ 75s
A3) swiss ball crunches 4 x 8
B1) bulg. split squats 2 x 8 w/ 25s
B2) incline db bench 2 x 8 w/ 50s
B3) side planks 1 x 30s
20-minute cool down walk around the neighborhood afterwards.
Yes Lisa I did get married, have been for about 9 months and it's been great. My wife and I have an apartment in Franklin MA and we're loving life so far. The career is going alright, I'm a speech therapist in a nursing home but not liking where I am right now, looking for a new job, preferably in Boston in a big hospital...
Workouts have been great the past couple of times. I did part B on Tuesday and then A again yesterday, both were intense and I completed them in entirety plus intervals each time. I'll write the routines out later but I need to sleep.
The diet has been great all week, the most consistent I've been in a while. Everything is low-carb, the only thing close to a cheat was going to The 99 tonight, we split an XL order of gold fever wings (220 calories each if we split it 50/50), plus steak tips and broccoli, which I only ate half of, plus a light beer. I've also given up cream in my coffee for the time being, trying to drink it black. I write a lot more on my personal blog (in my signature).
Help me! my wife and I are fighting about working out. Whenever I get into a good groove with training/eating, this always comes up in some way. I get very regimented, I don't want to cheat on my diet, I don't want to skip workouts when I have them planned. I am the only one of my friends that works out and eats healthy (at least what those two terms mean to me), and while my wife is active and does okay, she's not as into it as I am, and we have different ideas (me: planned programs, planned diets, low carbs, very few cheats; her: a couple of walks per week, portion control, rewarding yourself on the weekends), and while I love my wife, she hasn't reached any of her goals and gets upset at herself. She's far more lenient than I am on myself, as I don't have success when I reward myself for going for a walk. I try to tell her about some of the stuff I do, about not letting up on yourself and being more critical, and it's hard because I come off as an insensitive jerk. When I don't want to eat her pasta or homemade jam, she gets upset. When I try to make my own decisions and exercise will power (something I view as positive), I'm wondering if she is sabotaging me because she doesn't want to go as far as I am going. When we are out to eat and I don't want an appetizer or a dessert and she does, I get a little look from her, like she really wanted one and now feels guilty if she gets it. Then I feel guilty about being boring. I'm trying to be a positive influence but our different views on health get in each other's ways.
She has had knee surgeries and can't workout like she used to yet (she was a runner and soccer player). She's also a physical therapist (with a doctorate), but doesn't agree with me about squats and deadlifts and intense training and dieting, and when I talk about my programs she gets a little critical and skeptical of me. She thinks I get sucked into things.
I'm sure this is common for everyone, I've experienced it in the past with friends and family, but with my wife it's very hard. Now that we live together I can't just do my own thing. If I want to make my own chicken breast and spinach for dinner and she wants pasta with meat sauce, it causes tension.
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