My workout went well. I felt pretty strong in my lifts and my stamina didn’t waver too much like it usually does after a long layoff from the gym. I kept my workout short, focusing on compound, multi-joint exercises with an emphasis on quality over quantity.
I see a lot of people in the gym doing [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Monday Workout
June 29, 2009Welcome, Friends!
June 29, 2009Welcome to my blog. I will be posting updates here as well as pictures of my progress. I’m not going to journal every single day, but plan on making at least a few entries per week, so please check back periodically.
The good news so far is that I’ve been consistent with going to the gym, [...]
Salad, it’s what’s for dinner
June 23, 2009For the past two nights, I made a healthy choice for dinner and had an excellent salad. A picture of my salad is to the right. It consisted of the following:
Romaine lettuce
Cucumber
Onion
Feta cheese (as a garnish)
Sprinkling of sunflower seeds
Baked boneless chicken breast, chunked
Hard-boiled egg
Extra-virgin olive oil, red wine vinegar, lemon juice
Dried cranberries (“Craisins’)
It was really [...]
Fighting sinus infection
June 21, 2009I’ve been fighting what we believe is a sinus infection for a couple months now. I’ve gone through two bouts of antibiotics and it’s still has not fully cleared up. I went back to the doctor yesterday and he is having me take OTC Mucinex and has ordered a CT scan for my sinuses to [...]
First time back in the gym in…forever!!!
June 8, 2009I joined the gym again today. Haven’t been back in a dog’s age. It felt really good to be in a gym environment again. I have always liked the smell of the equipment in a gym. They say that the sense of smell is among the most powerful of all senses, and our brains associate [...]