Monday, January 26, 2009

Phase 3: days 22 to 28

Am feeling a bit stressed about the amount of work I have to do at the moment (have two jobs on the go) but want to keep posting as it's great for keeping me accountable and helping me to see where I'm going. So for the time being I'm going to do one post for the week and update it each day, rather than doing one post per day.

Date: Mon 26 Jan
Sleep: 11pm-7.30am (8.5 hours) Bathroom at 1.00am (1L water before bed)
Weight: 61.6
Lifestyle cardio: walk TJ to park
Training: Workout B (hang snatch, military press, Russian twist, prone row)
Recovery: 30-min yoga DVD after walk; hot/cold shower after training
Water (not including workout drinks): 3/3
Food: 6/6

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Date: Tue 27 Jan
Sleep: 12.30am-8.30am (8 hours) Worked till 10pm, then couldn't sleep.
Weight: 61.5
Lifestyle cardio: none
Training: Intervals (swimming, 1 lap fast, 1 lap slow for about 15 mins) Forgot how much I enjoy swimming. Will have to do it more often.
Recovery: none
Water: 3/3
Food: 6/6

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Date: Wed 28 Jan
Sleep: 1am-7am (6 hours) Couldn't get to sleep - hot!
Weight: 61.7
Lifestyle cardio: walk TJ to park
Training: rest
Recovery: 30-min yoga DVD after walk
Water: 3/3
Food: 6/6 Hungry today. Favourite meal = dory with cashew pesto, and sauteed eggplant and red pepper

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Date: Thu 29 Jan
Sleep: 11.30pm-8am (8.5 hours) Great sleep. Feel asleep on couch with air-con on.
Weight: 61.5
Lifestyle cardio: walk TJ to park
Training: Workout C (box squats, pullups, hanging leg raises, cable rows to neck) Trained in 43-degree heat and managed pretty well - squats seemed much easier than last week.
Recovery: hot/cold shower after workout - good!
Water: 3/3 (not including workout drinks)
Food: 6/6 Hungry until afternoon then had workout (lots of carbs)
Favourite meals:
Omelette with fetta, red capsicum and eggplant
Grilled dory with a salad of sweet potato, red capsicum, eggplant and spinach, plus grapes

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Date: Fri 30 Jan
Sleep: 11.30pm-6.30am (7 hours) Didn't sleep that well. Woke up with sore shoulder from doing cable rows to neck. Not helped by taking dog for walk this morning.
Weight: 61.6
Lifestyle cardio: walk TJ to park
Training: HIIT (sprints, 45s on, 135s off x5)
Recovery: 30min yoga DVD; accupuncture for shoulder
Water: 3/3 (not including workout drinks)
Food: 6/6 Hungry

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Date: Sat 31 Jan
Sleep: 11.30pm-7am (7.5 hours) Woke with a bit of a headache.
Weight: 61.4
Lifestyle cardio: walk to coffee shop and back with Rob and TJ
Training: off
Recovery: none
Water: 3/3
Food: 4/6
Off-plan meals:
skinny latte, protein shake, nuts
super vege supreme pizza on cauliflower base, glass of chardonnay

Favourite meal: omelette with mushrooms, olives, red capscicum, eggplant and fetta cheese

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Date: Sun 1 Feb
Sleep: 11.30pm-6am (6.5 hours)
Weight: 61.7 (not so hungry yesterday since no training. Didn't go to bed a bit hungry like I have done lately)
Lifestyle cardio: walk to cafe in Brunswick and back with Rob and TJ
Training: off
Recovery: none
Water: 2.5/3
Food: 5/7 (Had a repeat of meal 2. Not starving but was an alternative to the chocolate and chips being eaten around me)

Off-plan meals:
small juice, bircher muesli (made me hungry!)
homemade beef schnitzel, broccoli, glass of pinot noir

Favourite meals:
chicken salad with spinach, tomato, cucumber, fetta cheese, pumpkin seeds, and olive oil, flax oil and balsamic dressing
beef schnitzel

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Weekly Summary
Sleep: average 7.4 hours.
Weight: average 61.6kg
Lifestyle cardio: walked 6 days
Training: 15min intervals 2/2, weights 2/3 (planned to do a session on Sunday but ditched it in favour of starting Phase 4 on Monday)
Recovery: three 30min yoga sessions, two hot/cold showers, one accupuncture treatment
Water: 20.5/21 = 98%
Food: 39/43 = 90%

Pretty happy with most things this week. Just need to keep working on sleep. Want a minimum of eight hours, preferably 8.5.

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