4 wks out

by: Joe Lyons - April 19th, 2008

Things are coming together nicely. I wanted to be ready by this week and I'm still about 2 weeks off the mark. I will be ready for the show so that's all that counts. My body really is like Sponge Bob in it's ability to hold water. That can be a blessing or a curse depending on how you look at it. I appear "full" more often then not, but by 10am all my veins and some of my definition is gone under a layer of water and I can get extremely frustrated and unmotivated. It also helped when people saw me locally and didn't think I was as conditioned last year, then I got on stage and showed another side of me. ;)

I had no diet changes this week. I did get added cardio. I think I'd rather loose food because cardio has got to be the most boring activity mankind has every attempted. I know have 50min AM and 40min PM 6 days a week. Current moring weight is still holding at 207lbs.

Food wise
1 high day
2 med/low days 100g carbs 21g of fat
4 low days 50g carbs 70g of fat (no carbs on non-training days)

Training
This was the first week I was affected by being tired and the diet. Leg day was off a bit, and the first exercise of each body part went well, but performance went downhill after that.

Overall I'm happy with how things are progressing. I can't wait for cardio to be over. 22 more days of cardio, 44 sessions to go. Yay :p

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