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I hit chest pretty hard last night, then followed it with dinner and an hour long walk. Today I hit back, semi-hard, and am planning to go on another hour long walk after dinner. Now that I’m phasing into my cutting routines, I’m finding I’m more tired – be it from extra exercise, fewer calrories, or probably both.

I’ve started tracking my workouts in a couple apps: BodySpace by bodybuilding.com and MyFitnessPal. BodySpace is good for tracking workouts and sharing them with the community. MyFitnessPal is more about tracking food intake than exercise, though it does have the ability to add workout information and does link to the iPhone’s Health app to incorporate walking and general movement caloric expenditure. It’s got some great features, particularly a bar code scanner utility, that makes tracking food really easy. I like not having to log everything I’m eating by hand, and it gives a good breakdown of what I’ve eaten so far, how many calories I have left to meet my daily goals, and breakdown of nutrients.

I’m not sure if I’m going to keep using them both. Part of me is still drawn to the old school notebook usage, and it makes updating here easier. Still, maybe it’s just learning and getting used to a new way of doing things, so I’m going to keep at it for a while and see if it sticks.

Part of the issue is that neither seems to be linking and posting to Facebook, so I don’t have links readily available that I can include here. I probably need to unlink and relink the apps to get them working again, since I made some tweaks to the settings after I installed them.

Weight: 218.2

Back

Lat pulldown – 100 x 10/10/10/8/8
Cable row – 100 x 8/8/8/8/8
4600 + 4000 = 8600 pounds moved

Even though it’s a rest day, I needed to get moving and not sit on my butt all day. So I decided to go for a walk and went out for a stroll this afternoon. I did about a four mile loop around the neighborhood, through the park, and back again. A good, hour-long, active recovery walk.

Weight: 221

Recovery

Walking: 65m

Also known as, “How Bob Got His Butt Kicked”…

So I tried my first Zumba class today. Eleven o’clock on a Saturday, I was warmed up and ready to rock. I got there about 15 minutes early to stretch and warm up a bit before class started. As I stood there loosening up, the studio gradually filled with more and more women. I realized I was the only man. What started as about 30 other women gradually grew to about 70 by the first few minutes of class.

Lot’s of dancing, lots of movement. I felt like I had two left feet and immovable arms, trying to mimic the instructor on the stage in front. (I was in the back.) Still, I got my boogie on and did great for the first 10 minutes or so. Then we dipped into some serious quad straining movements and I started struggling. It didn’t take long for all the rhythm to disappear from my body as my legs screamed and I tried to keep step. And I didn’t know the dance moves. Looking back, I think I will focus on whomever is directly in front of me and mimic her steps rather than try to mirror the instructor.

I did get my boogie on, shaking my booty and rocking my hips in time, spinning around (often in the wrong direction) – no doubt about it, I am a total noob at this. We were doing lots of bouncy squats, lots of movement keeping the legs bent close to parallel, and I felt myself dipping less further down as we continued.

After 15 minutes, I was ready to roll up in a ball and massage my quads. I thought to myself, “There’s no way I’m only doing a quarter of the class” and pushed myself to keep going. But, after five more minutes, my legs were shaking so badly I decided to stop. I only lasted the first 20 minutes of class. Hehe

After stumbling out of the studio, I took about 10 minutes to stretch my legs and felt the lactic acid finally start to diminish. Legs are the biggest muscle group in the body and, as expected, burn the most when that lactic acid builds up. Clearly, my aerobic condition is lacking since my body couldn’t flush out the acid fast enough for me to keep going.

All that said, it was a fun class and I’m going to go back again. Next time I’ll see if I can make it to 30 minutes! I finished things up with a ten minute soak. Now, two hours later, my thighs are throbbing and twitching a little bit still.

Weight: 218.2

Cardio

Zumba: 20m
Soak: 10m