Working through Distractions

So this morning, I found that my roomba vacuum damaged one of my things and if you know anything about me, I really like to keep my things pristine.  I was so annoyed, of course, especially since it's fairly new.  Now I could have used it as an excuse not to work out while I tried to fix it.  It's also not easy to feel motivated when annoyed, so I could have used that as an excuse also.  Instead, I took that "energy" albeit negative and tried to use it as a focal point when working out this morning.  Needless to say, my arms hurt now.  That's what I get for not taking better care of my stuff.  HA.

Aside from arms, I also got my core workout in AND also got to pick up some breakfast for the kids.   I guess I feel a little better, but I'm still annoyed.  I'll take whatever I feel now and bring that with me to today's ride.

Looking forward to our lunch ride as it should be a good one today.

Skipped Legs, Shoulder Day and More Hard Cycling

Today is my usual leg day, but I decided against working them out in order to save them for this weekend.  Even though the century ride isn't until Sunday, I want to make sure that they are 100% since I want to keep up with the guys I'm going with.   I know they'll be pushing hard since that's their typical MO. 

Instead, I worked out my shoulders this morning and had a great workout.  I was able to keep pushing and achieved 100% (i.e. failure) through several sets.  Lisa even thought my shoulders were bigger when I got home, which was likely they were still pumped.  I also had a good core workout done, so all set there. 

Today will be another lunch ride, which I'm looking forward to.  It was pretty intense yesterday, so I hope we can have the same type of ride again.  I'll trash my legs up through tomorrow, but maybe lighten up the intensity on Friday.  That's the plan anyway.

Met-Rx, Back Workout and Today's Ride

After this weekend's binging, I was back on Met-Rx last night and I really have to say that this food routine seems to be working out okay for me.  The increased protein during the week seems to keep me from losing muscle while keeping me trim.  In some ways, I think it continues to let me lose even more body fat, but I haven't yet proven that to myself 100%.  The last thing I want to do is assume that I can eat whatever during the weekend and then hit that slippery slope, so I'll try and control it as much as possible. 

I got my back worked out today, and had a pretty decent workout.  I was less than motivated when I arrived there, but once I started warming up, I had an attitude adjustment and got it done.  4 exercises hitting the back at different angles, then a lower back followed by an ab workout.  Good stuff.

We'll be riding today during our lunch time, and maybe we'll do some hills today.  It may be a little warm, so we may need to do something coastal.  Let's see if the guys are up for hitting up that new hill off of San Miguel again. 

Nutrition, Sleeping in and Chest at Lunch

When the weather is nice and the feeding before a ride is good, it always works out where I had to have only minimal nutrition during yesterday's big ride.  I guess the ice cream and other crap I ate on Friday and Saturday held me over pretty good where on the ride, I only had to have 1 waffle and 1 gel and 1 package of Shot Bloks. I also only needed 2 bottles of Ultima during the ride (the new grape flavor rocks!).  This was preceded with a Cytomax bottle before the ride.  I hope I don't have to feed much more than this during the next 2 big rides, but I will play it safe so as to not bonk.

My legs felt a little worked last night, so I opted to sleep in and not go to the gym this morning.  It was nice to get some sleep for a change.  

I will be working out at lunch time and only doing a chest workout.  I'll save the cardio for tomorrow's lunch ride.  

Arms and More Riding

I got in the gym this morning and got my arm workout on.  I only had enough time to do 2 exercises for triceps and 2 for biceps.  I also was able to add my ab and lower back workout.  The weird thing was before I worked I, I seemed to have slightly strained a muscle on my mid back.  I don't know how it happened, but just as I was putting on my belt, I felt a little tension.  Oh well, it didn't affect my workout too much.  I was just a little tentative during some of the movements.

Today, I want to get in a little more miles just before the weekend. I know we plan on doing a pre-OC Gran Fondo ride, which should be a pretty good run, so I'm looking forward to it.  The weather has been awesome lately, so if it carries on, it should make for a good workout.

Yesterday's Ride Analysis, Shoulders today, and Today's Ride

I have absolutely no regrets from missing my leg workout yesterday.  In fact, I'm glad since I felt like I was pretty worked after yesterday's lunch ride.  For some reason, I felt pretty depleted where I questioned whether I ate enough the night before.  Last night, I ate just a little more for today's activities. 

I did manage to get in my shoulder workout, and intensity wise, I'd say it was a 9 out of 10.  I have hig it harder, but I just couldn't push the boundary as much for some reason despite the increased calories.  I did step it up where I didn't rest in beween sets as much, but I think I could have went harder.  4 shoulder exercises and 1 trap exercise.  I also worked the abs. 

Today should have a bigger turn out for our group lunch ride, so it should be interesting.  I won't know what I'll have until I get out there, but I plan on recording again on the GoPro just to keep messing around with it. 

Skipped Morning Workout and Today's Ride

Yesterday, I had a random chest pain that occurred in the morning before going to work where it felt someone what like indigestion.  The odd thing about it was it came and went pretty quick.  It happened again in the afternoon much later after the ride, and then again when I woke up in the middle of the night to go pee.   I'm a little worried (okay, maybe more than a little) since I don't know what that is, but it hasn't come back since.  When I got up to go to the gym, I ended up changing my mind and ended up going back to bed to get a little more rest and see if that helped.   Today was suppose to be my leg day, but I may just skip out on this for now and resume next week.

For today's lunch ride, I really don't want to push to hard.  I just want to see how everything feels.  I'll try and record the ride with my new GoPro, so it'll be fun staying in the back for that.