My consistency with blogging needs work, but I do like having a journal of my workouts and training. In fact, I probably should look over my journal last year since I'm interested to see how much different I'm training this year vs. last. I think this year, I'm actually gaining size vs. losing weight. I've been training with some heavier weights here and there, and I think I've grown as a result. Now most people would probably want the additional growth, but I'm not sure I do. I still prioritize cycling, but I've been also trying to keep weight lifting interesting. Maybe after I come back from my vacation, I'll reset and actually work on a very specific goal.
Friday, I skipped my morning workout and rode my bike to work. I added a couple extra miles in doing so. I didn't work out at lunch because we had a picnic with our group, so I rode my bike to it since it was probably just a mile or 2 away.
On Saturday, I didn't work out at all and ate a little more in order to prepare for my ride on Sunday.
Sunday, I rode with Shannon for 67 miles with 5000+ feet of climbing burning some good calories.
Yesterday, I was still feeling a little tired (as was my back), so I opted to skip my morning workout and train with weights at work. I did my chest and tried to see where I was again strength-wise. After a couple warm-ups, I knew my strength just wasn't there but I gave 335 on the bench anyway only to fail miserably. HA HA. Now some may feel that this type of failure sucks, but to me, it motivates me to work towards improving upon it the next time where it's not such a bad thing. At least I got to see how it felt. I also did 20 minutes on the stationary bike with about 15 minutes at full intensity (level 20). I worked up a good sweat in that short period of time.
This morning, I got my back worked out and it was pretty good albeit the weight amount (or resistance) was still all over the place. It was a decent workout nonetheless with 4 exercises for the back with 3 sets each. I also did my lower abs.
For lunch, I hope to get a decent ride in with the guys. I'm not sure what route we should take today, but I'm thinking I may want to pull back on how hard it will be only because I'll be riding down to San Diego tomorrow. Chances are, however, someone will want to do a lot of hills. We'll see.
