IT'S OVER, almost

All the hellish trainings are DONE! The last day was an "easy" one with just low back and a GVT set of triceps and biceps. And I even put in 7 sets of HIIT (high intensity interval training) on the bike while waiting for Xavi to finish.

At midnight of the last day I had some chocolate cake at my friend's bday dinner. It was d.e.l.i.c.i.o.u.s. Ooooohhhhhh.

Now the trouble is that we have to do the after pictures at the end of the week, after the required rest... This for me is harder because we still have to watch the diet but it's not necessary to be so strict. This is harder for me because I'm an all-or-nothing type... I don't know how to have just one piece of chocolate. I eat the entire box. Now that I have tasted sugar again, I am like an addict. I want MORE! It's pretty much like going back to the first few days of the diet where you have cravings and it just sucks. But the worse part is that since we're not training this week we need a lot less calories... So for me, this week the diet is much harder.

To motivate us and to help me stay on the diet, we've scheduled a professional photo shoot for Friday. Hopefully this will help me stay on top of the nutrition. :) I guess we'll see how the pics turn out!

Day 27 - Muscle in a Month

Farewell to shoulders today. :) It was the last long workout and I'm glad it's done. I don't want my arms or shoulders any bigger. I'm already impressed with the 3cm I gained at the shoulders.

We did a dredded German Volume Training set of chest and back. Starting with those just kills my motivation. Went up on all weights significantly. Cool! Then we did a holistic set of shoulders and abs and finished with legs including the 4x40s of squat jumps. Glad to be done with those as well!

Diet:
BF: rye flakes, oat milk, almonds, fruit
Snack: mandarine, rice cakes with tahini and apricot puree
Lunch: spinach salad with tuna, egg. Ground chicken with onion, spinach, zuccini.
Snack: corn cakes
Dinner: gatpatxo veggie soup with ground chicken, rice cakes with tahini and banana

Day 21 - Muscle in a Month

Results are showing! So far a 2% drop in bodyfat and I am up a kg in weight. Did the math and came out with 2kg gain in muscle and 1kg loss in fat so far. Now I need to lower a bit the calories to lean out but the trainings make me so damn hungry! My biceps and triceps are getting enormous and I think pretty much the 2kg are all there, 1kg on each arm. :) All the clothes I bought over xmas in the states are baggy and I am no longer a medium in Nike pants. This is exciting but I bought 8 pairs of black workout pants to wear at the studio everyday.... Now they look like I'm wearing diapers! Well, thankfully today was 22 degrees and sunny and it's time to buy spring/summer gear anyway. :)

I liked today's workout. :) It was back, shoulders, and hamstring. Oh and core that I have yet to do and have to go back for tonight... I'm looking forward to this training to finish so I can go back to a resonable workout of less than an hour... These training are just way too long for my attention span.

Today I did awesome in pullups! Before today I could do 4-6 on the first set and then maybe 1 or 2 on the second set and then the rest of the sets were asisted from the get go. Today I did a set of 6, a set of 5, and set of 4, and a set of 3 all by myself! And I felt strong. It was way cool!

Straight legged deadlifts were great but then on the harrups my hams were dying a slow painful death... I really struggled on the 3rd and 4th sets and my calf even cramped in the middle of the last set. Then I forgot to bring a physioball (or really, I couldn't imagine carrying it across town) so I had to improvise for ham curls. I tried with the foam roller and it worked slightly with very short range of motion. Then I tried with big boy dumbbells. That worked pretty good until a big boy stole my dumbbells while I was doing pulldowns. The only hard part of "hanging on" to the dumbbells with my feet and toward the end my calves were on fire probably more than my hams. And I left the gym with soreness in a very strange spot on shin.

Diet:
BF: rye oat porridge with 1 egg and 1 eggwhite and rice milk, pear puree
Snack: rye bread with chicken breast, avocado, tomato, and lettuce
Snack: tea, rice and corn cakes with nut butters
Dinner: large salad, chicken breast strips (a few left over pieces) and tune steak

Day 20 - Muscle in a Month

Yes!!!!!!! We're into the twenties. Now it seems like the end is in sight. :)
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Today the workout was just legs and low back: dead lifts, squats, lunges, reverse hypers, squat jumps, and prone cobras. Not too bad. :) I was able to do all 4x40 squat jumps without resting! Progress. :)

Diet:
BF: yogurt, melon, strawberries, kiwi, oats, rye flakes, berry powder, flax seeds
Snack: pineapple melon fresh juice, walnuts
Lunch: salad, veggie omelette, lentils, fish, eggplant; pineapple and kiwi
Snack: 2 rice cakes with hazelnut paste and apricot paste
Snack: banana, hazelnuts
Dinner: chicken filet, rice, tomato veggie sauce, salad; pear puree