Sick week

I'll start back up next week. Hopefully I won't lose too much momentum.

If you see someone hobbling around

for the next couple of days, that will probably be me. LBWO today. Squats, deadlifts, stiff leg deadlifts. Standing calf raises with heavy weight. Abdominals. I feel great...and I'll be sore for days to come.

I've missed cardio this week due to my cold, but I'm getting my lifting in. I'll do my UBWO tomorrow, and hopefully run on Friday night and again Sunday. I'll see.

I wasn't about to miss my UBWO today...

especially after missing my cardio workout yesterday. For the past couple of years, very time I get a cold, I get a swelling in my inner ears that causes a temporary bit of dizziness every time I lie down or sit up. This makes for an interesting bench routine. Sit on the bench, lie down, take a deep breath. Wait for the head to spin and then stop. Push out the set and rack the bar. Sit up, and wait for the head to spin and stop. Repeat. Now, that's a FUN way to do a workout.

Well, I did it. Bench, pullups, presses, dips, chins. I'm glad I did.

For the second week in a row, my lower body has some significant DOMS. Deep squats and deadlifts are my friend.

So...at least I understand

why I've been so tired and unmotivated the last couple of days. I had a cold roll in last night. I was hoping it was a bit of pollen crap going on, but no such luck. I've bailed on cardio today. I made sure I would by leaving my gym clothes at home....I don't trust myself enough to bring them in just in case.

Anyway, I was going to write that I should have taken yesterday off, but I don't think I should have. I was getting a cold anyway. What good would skipping the workout have done? I have upper body tomorrow. I'll have to see about that.

In case you can't guess, I HATE missing workouts. In fact, I've set goals for myself and a plan to acheive them that assumes I won't miss a workout. That keeps me motivated to carry on even on those days I don't feel like it. How am I going to hit a 300 bench by the end of the year if I miss this workout? I'll be a day behind in my weight progression! Some people would (and do) declare this as an obsession. Maybe. I just know myself. If I allow myself to think that missing workouts is acceptable behavoir, then I'll start missing them. Then a few more. Then a few more. Then I'm screwed. Obsessed? Honestly, most people that are fit take a hard line. You have to. To do otherwise is to give in to mediocrity and a less than fit and healthy existence. I just can't do that. I've had my warning signs. I'm NOT going to ignore them and die young.

The key is finding a balance. You need to work out enough, but still leave time for eveything else in your life. It's one of the things that has attracted me to both BFL and CF. You don't spend countless hours a day exercising. I think that's counterproductive anyway, but that's another topic.

With these toughts in mind, I've bailed on the tracker community again. Spending time on there was taking up far too much time, and I wasn't getting much out of it anyway. In fact, when I'm not at the gym working out, I don't want to think about it constantly. That can cause burnout, and it's too important a thing to allow burnout. Besides, it's gotten to the point that 70% of the tracker threads are about crap that has nothing to do with fitness and health. I wasn't on a team, and don't want to be. I wasn't getting anything out of participating, nor were very many other people. I did get some credit from someone last week for a change in their behavoir, and that was nice. But all in all, it's too much effort for little reward. Besides, most people out there really just want to hear what they want to hear, and they are going to do what they want anyway.

Enough babble for one day.

UBWO and then some

RunI did my UBWO today instead of tomorrow. I was very please with my performance, especially considering my body has been flirting with a bit of a cold that caused me to skip my run on Tuesday. I had something left in the tank, so I decided to do the Crossfit WOD. It was:

Four rounds for time:
Run 400 meters
Rest 2 minutes

This is the first time I've done this one, so I wasn't really sure of the pacing. Anyway, my time went like this:

1:40
1:30
1:30
1:18
Total time 11:58

Ran on a treadmill at a 1.0 incline.

This is a workout best done outside. I was nowhere near as wiped out as I should have been. The treadmill kept on displaying a message that it couldn't attain desired speed. No shit, I mumbled to the damned thing. Treadmills are not built for sprints. If I ever do it again on one, I'll crank up the incline and see if I can match my time. I want to feel like I've got nothing left when I'm done, or I'm not satisfied.

Getting a bit annoyed

Is it coming or not? I'm right there on the edge of a cold, sure it's going to set it's teeth into me...and yet it just isn't. I've passed up my LBWO today, as I was feeling groggy and "almost" sick again this morning. That's two workouts in a row that I've missed. Either come or don't already. I have shit that needs doing!

I bordering on coming down

with the first cold I've had in ages. I was wiped out last night, and my throat is a bit scratchy. I opted out of running this morning. I can usually do weight training when I'm sick, but pushing cardio seems to make it worse for me. I don't like missing workouts, but I'll play it smart for now.

Mixed bag

I almost feel like I'm coming down with a little something, and I felt it in my workout today. It was higher rep day today, and I was spent by the end of it. I'm liking alternating higher rep workouts with heavier, lower rep ones later in the week. I've been making good progress with them as well. I'm going for a good night's sleep tonight to fend off whatever it is I may be getting. Hopefully nothing.