The Joys of being sick.

Good Morning All you blog readers out there in blog land!

So, Sorry I havn't posted for the past couple of days. I woke up on thursday and I felt like garbage. Being that two of my closest friends (and co-worker) are sick I assumed I was comming down with what they had, so I cut out the work outs and went back to bed to try and fight it before it started. Than yesturday, I felt fine but I wanted to make sure that there was nothing there, ya know?

This morning is one of my two normal days off on my Itteration 1 training cycle. It also happens to be that today is my weigh in day... The results are good, but I think I'm starting to get just a little bit impatient with this whole process... I'm down another 4 lbs from last week roughly (It's actually 3.6, but 4 sounds better). And I realize that I shouldn't expect to be able to lose more than that, and any more than that is not maintainable in the end anyway... It's just I've got such a taste for blood and I'm so close to that big 300 mark that I'm kind of excited, and frustrated that it's not comming faster. 306.8 incase you're wondering. That does mean that ultimatly in the past 15 months I've gone down from 345 (that's 38.2 lbs), or more impressivly since I actually started pushing it this year that's down from 329 (22.2 lbs) on January 25th. But following that drive in human nature which says I will never be totally happy, I look towards that big 300 mark with envy, craving the day that I step on that scale and no longer see the big three (which at this rate could be within two weeks; but I don't like to count my chickens before the eggs hatch).

Today is also the last day of my fifth week of working out, and time to revamp my work out schedule. This is what I've been doing for the past five weeks:

Sunday:
Rest Day

Monday:
Chest
Bench Press (10*3)
Inverted Bench (10*3)
Flies (10*3)
Lower cable flies (10x3)

Tuesday:
Legs
Squats (10*3)
Circular Lunges (3)
Lunges (10*3)
Stairs (20 * 2)

Wednesday:
Shoulders
Military Press(10*3)
Side Lateral Raises(10*3)
Front Lateral Raises(10*3)
Barbell Shrugs(10*3)

Thursday:
Arms
Skull Crunchers(10x3)
Horizontal Bench (10x3)
PullDowns(10x3)
BarLifts (10x3)
Preacher Curls(10x3)

Friday:
Back
(I don't know the actual names for these, and have never bothered to look them up, so we'll just use these for now)
reverse flies
pully thing by pull downs
other side pully thing
Lower Back Machine

Saturday:
Rest day
Weight In

Now, this has been ok for the most part although I've seemed to find that by the time that Friday comes around, I am so bagged and my enthusiasm just isn't there anymore, so my back day normally isn't that great. I've skipped a few due to various reasons, and I'm just not geting the full potential out of my later week work outs. I'm going to spend the day changing things, first I have to decide what kind of schedule I'm looking at, but right now I'm thinking:

Sunday:
Chest & Back

Monday:
Legs & Shoulders

Tuesday:
Arms

Wednesday:
Rest Day
Stretching

Thursday:
Chest
Legs

Friday:
Arms
Shoulders

Saturday:
Rest day
Stretching
Weight In

This would give me the ability to take the rest day mid week, which should allow me to recover and get that drive back to finish up the week... that's my hope anyway. Being that next week is my sixth week, and therefore should technically be just a rest week I may try this, just to see how it goes without pushing myself very hard. It gives me the opertunity to do a trial run in real time before I go hard the following week.

Anyway, I will be sure to update you all when I've decided!
T.