Monday and Tuesday's Log

On Monday morning, I woke up before 4 a.m., still sleepy, but couldn't get back to sleep. Also felt a lot of tension in the front of my head. So, I didn't go to spin class as planned; rather, I stayed in bed until about 6:30. ("If you'd rather roll over than roll out..."). Once I realized the futility of trying to fall back asleep, I got up and started streaming some dance music on my computer, just to move a little bit. So, my morning "training" was nice and easy, but great fun! I enjoyed myself as soon as I started, just bouncing around my living room to music. I also did some ab work (crunches, oblique slides, leg raises). Total workout time: about 42 minutes. And all that fun from skipping spinning.

Still felt tired all day at work. And my hamstrings were still sore from Saturday's ashtanga class, but I did take a walk over lunch.

Food on Monday:
Breakfast - 1 pineapple
Lunch - 6 small-medium bananas.
Late Lunch - 48 oz. tomatoes. 2 oranges. a few stalks celery. 1 florida avocado.
That's it. Didn't want to eat after I got home. Went to bed early instead.

On Tuesday, I woke up just before 5 a.m., feeling excellent and well rested! I haven't woken up feeling that good in at least a week! I was thrilled. =) I walked to the gym to train (too cold for outdoors):

Treadmill workout:
12 minutes warm-up jog/walk (10-12 minute miles), followed by 2.6ish FAST miles, with walking in between (the first was around 9 minutes per mile. for the second mile, I got a little ambitious and started at least that fast, and couldn't make myself finish, hence the ".6ish". took a few minutes walk, then talked myself into doing one more 10-minute mile. And boy, was that hard!) Total was probably around 4.2 miles? It was HARD today. Just getting back into it, I guess.

Pull-up training:
Used the assist machine for this. Did "negative" pull-ups (assisted), followed by "hold in the up position as long as possible, then negative" (assisted), followed by assisted chin-ups, and "hold in the up position". Don't know how many of each. Then 2 sets of biceps curls. Then 2 sets of posterior delt raises on the bench.

I'm excited though!!!!! I can hold chin-ups in the "up-position" for a few seconds!!!!!! I need some help getting "up", but once I'm up, I was able to take my legs off the pad and just hold myself in that position!!!!!! Even after doing all the "pull-up" work, I was still able to hold myself at the top of a chin-up!!!!!!!! This is a milestone!!!! =)

Was in a great mood all through the day...

Food:
Breakfast - 2 hachiya persimmons. 1 HUGE papaya
Lunch - 9 bananas, blended into a smoothie. a lot of celery
Dinner - Persimmon/date ice cream! Holy cow! so good!
Snack - 1 head green leaf leffuce. about 1/2 a pineapple