Yup the exercises are definitely harder in the second week! In particular the incline pull-ups were definitely the first time where I felt I barely made it. I had troubles simply pulling myself up, so by the end of the set I was completely exhausted. I guess normal life doesn't use the back muscles that much so we are undertrained in them? The elastic band ones were pretty tough too. I don't know if they are just tough or my band is too tough. Mine is a red SPRI band that says "Medium" resistance for "Moderately Fit - Fit". Oh well I may just try it more and see if I get used to it.
Setting up the incline pull-ups were a bit of a challenge too. I first tried using my door-mounted pull-up bar on my chair but that's only knee level and looked and felt really awkward:
Then I realized my dining table was just about hip-high (what Patrick suggested) and you can move the top and expose the bars! It's slightly wobbly but ended working fine ("fine" as in kicking my ass in the workout):
The diet was as others noticed quite a lot of food! The breakfast especially had me stuffed, probably since I'm not used to eating too much in the morning (as I'm always late and rushing out the door!) Also not used to having 6 meals a day as I'm pretty much a 3 meals a day and very little snacks kind of person. The food turned out not to be so bad. For dinner I made grilled salmon with chili mango sauce with couscous. (Courtesy of this recipe:
http://foodwishes.blogspot.com/2011/06/mahi-mahi-with-spicy-thai-chili-mango.html) It actually tasted pretty good but my ass again got kicked by my over-generosity in putting chili pepper in the mango sauce:
Took my week 2 pictures and weighed in at 74.7 kg / 164.6 lbs, 18.8% body fat.
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