The Struggle

Today, is a "Struggle day", you the type of day where fitness is the FARTHEST thing from your mind, and even if you fight through and make it into the gym, you don't feel better even after you start working out. You literally have to just struggle through it until you've satisfied yourself (or your trainer) enough to go home... Well that's what today is for me, I'm seriously channeling Bruno Mars, his Lazy song is my anthem today. Its my day off and I slept in until RR literally dragged me out of bed, made me put on work out clothes and hit the gym. We've switched up my workouts so that they're more cardio based than strength based. But being groggy and being put the ringer of Robsanity workouts was NOT fun. I got through it, although not without a lot of whining and complaining, and some cursing after I hit myself in the tooth/newly tightened braces with a 5lb weight. OUUUUCH!

Anywho, thank goodness for RR, because even though I hated EVERY second of today's workout, I'm glad I got it in, Without him I'd probably still be in bed, eating a slice of rum cake I brought back from JA. Speaking of which, life is really messing up my fitness goals. I went on vacation last week, I think i was 140lbs when I left, and I was 148 when I got back. Miekspeak says its water weight from the plane ride. Which sounds funky but might be true since I hit the gym all week, ate reasonably well (spiked my post gym protein shake with Coconut Rum cream a few days this week) and was 142.6 yesterday morning. Not sure what I am today since i was too tired to even think about the scale when I was fighting RR to get back in bed this morning.

So when I have a struggle day, I have RR to motivate/force me to work out, but how do you deal with struggle days?

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Workouts, Music and Motivation?

Soooo... its been less than a week and I've already fallen off on my blogging. SMH Anywho, I've been eating poorly and haven't kept track of everything I've eathen, but think bacon cheese burgers, lobster and crab bisque, chicken fingers, fried catfish, buffalo wings, cupcakes, and lots of alcohol. On the upside I did spend a whole day running around in the woods shooting people. I'm pretty sure playing paintball counts as a workout. :-)

Weigh in: 145.6lbs (9/20/2011 @ 5:54 am) That's surprisingly good progress considering the way I've been eating.

Work outs: I've switched up my work out schedule again. For the most part I've been doing a lot of strength training, and a few weeks ago I went on a Cardio kick. Last week I decided to find a happy medium. So I alternate strength training and cardio. Yesterday was a strength training day and it was leg day. Which goes as follows

Leg Press
4 sets of 15 reps at 160lbs

Lounges
4 sets of 10reps at 40lbs

Squats
3 sets of 12 reps @90lbs

Leg Curl
3 sets of 10 reps @90lbs

Leg Extension
3 sets of 12 reps, two at 75lbs and one at 90lbs

Aductors
3 sets of 40 reps at 80lbs

Abductors
3 sets of 40 reps at 90lbs

Ended with a little light cardio on the ArcTrainer while I waited on RR to finish his cardio.

Today will be a Cardio day, so I'm working on my Cardio playlist. So far Kanye's Power has earned a permanent spot on my gym playlist. Other songs on the playlist are Rihanna's Rockstar 101, Jamie Foxx - I don't need it, Gym Class Heroes - To Bob Ross with Love, Nelly Furtado - Maneater, Janelle Monet - Tightrope, Delta Spirit - People C'mon, etc. What's on your workout playlist?


So while I haven't been blogging, I have been hitting the gym despite how much the changing weather makes me want to go home an curl up with a cup a tea. I am not a fun trainee when I'm not motivated, and lately the only thing I've been motivated to do is go home and sleep. However for some reason RR keeps dragging me to the gym and taking my abuse (read: whining and complaining) everyday with an endless supply of patience and only the occasional eye roll. So currently, my gym motivation is RR, mostly because he drags me kicking and screaming. But what do you do when your inspiration photos and body role models, aren't enough anymore?

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