Finding Radiance

Lots of rain rolled through last night.  We needed it, too.  It cleared up for me to bike to the gym, though.  I first had a slice of bread with some nut butter on it as my pre workout snack  (okay, a little chocolate  fluff on there, too).

The routine:

Exercise
Set/rep/weight
Muscle worked

Close-grip lat pulldown
3 sets of 10 [...]

Okay, I promised myself that I would eat much cleaner today, so here goes!
I woke up not too early this morning.  For the last couple days, I have been able to sleep on my stomach again!  For whatever reason, my herniated disk made it very painful to try sleep any way but on my back, [...]

Hi to all the new visitors who came over from Caitlin’s blog!  Hope you stick around for a while and feel free to say ‘hi’!  Join me on my snacktacular day, won’t you?
Took an easy day today.  I did wake up early and got right down to making breakfast.  Banana custard oats topped with nuttzo [...]

Had a good night’s sleep last night, which felt very good!  I made myself a protein drink and headed out to the gym:

Bottom’s up!
I rode the stationary for 15 minutes, then did a longer lifting routine today:

Chin ups.  From a box, so really 1/2 chins:  1 set of 4, 2 sets of 3.
Cable squat to [...]

I love all your habits of excellence from yesterday’s post!  Any excellent habit doesn’t have to be physical either, it can be anything at all!
Woke up this morning to go to the gym and I see this:

  What happened to spring??  It is bitter cold and windy, too.  Brrrrr………  Not to [...]

Hey there!  Waving *hi* to all the new readers, there’s a lot!  Please say hi in the comments or send me an email   Hope you stay for a spell.
The start of the weekend for me.  I actually slept until 7am this morning.  I decided to have a nice long workout today with an [...]

Woke up this morning and it was again 32 degrees!  I was going to run outside as I don’t like to drive to the gym just to run unless it is precipitating horribly outside.  So, I made some fantabulous oats for breakfast and got right to work:

40 grams of oats, 1 medium banana (part cooked [...]

Rest day today!  My legs really need it.  I was feeling a little bummed looking at last year’s stats for the duathlon.  It looks like I will likely come in last or close to it compared to last year’s times.  Of course, the reality is that I am not competing against anyone.  I keep telling [...]

Hello everyone!  Back to lifting!

Started with a preworkout snack:
No more of these for preworkout fuel.  They are just too weeny.
Today started stage 5 of New Rules of Lifting:

1-arm dumbbell snatch:  4 x 4 at 25 pounds
Single leg dumbbell dead lift:  4 x 4 at 30 pounds
Bent over barbell row:  4 x 4 at 75 pounds!
Incline [...]

Did an active recovery day today.  It’s really hard for me to rest.  I somehow feel like I am going to gain 100 pounds back over night if I don’t go/go/go.  Know what I mean?
So, I did 500 yards of an easy swim, then sat in the therapy pool for 15 minutes.  That was a [...]