Monday, September 10, 2007

Week 4

Just a quick update. I'm on week 4 of my 5x5 program. This is the last week of the "honeymoon" period. I'll be doing all my 5 rep maxes this week and then nothing but PRs every week after...I hope :)

I'm eating a lot, which is making me hungrier for some reason. For lunch, I had 2 chicken breasts, 2 servings of corn, and 2 servings of green beans and I'm hungry an hour later. This is twice what I normally would eat and I was never hungry before...weird.

Had a great free day yesterday. Don't get me wrong..I ate junk, but probably cut in half what I'd normally do. I hope to continue this trend. I didn't really crave much junk so I'm very happy with that. I've increased my fat intake during the week so maybe that was a big problem before. I always stayed around 15% Fat intake, but increased to 20% by adding almonds every day.

Trying to do pushups again in hopes of being able to enter the contest in TN. Only about 5 weeks left though so there's only a slim chance. Looking forward to TN too. Hope there's nice weather for golf so I can break out my clubs that I haven't used in 2 years.

I had a 17 mile run on Saturday and still on track for my November marathon. I could smell the ammonia coming off my body after my run though, which means muscle burning. That SUCKS! My Run for LIFE team on tracker had a great idea though. I'm going to try eating this new Accelerade Gel during my run, which is the only gel I know of that has protein in it. That will definitely help.

Congrats to the Steelers on their victory this weekend :)