Mon Oct 4, 2010 BENCH - Special Session
TRAIN
Rank – 8/10 (goal achieved, pleased to push through when I did not feel well)
Team training scheduled for Monday evening. I had to travel to California – so Ross & Shawna came in early Monday to help me train.
Reps are low to mock short warm-up planned for meet day - up to opener. (and low energy because of sickness)
7 x bar
5 x 95
3 x 135
1 x 165
shirt
1 x 225
1 x 265
Few sets of tricep pushdowns with bar at Cybex station and then with pushdown machine
EAT
Rank = 4/10
Weight = 160 (down about 4-5 pounds)
It has been hard to eat the past week because I have been sick. But need to get back to 165 before the meet.
Shake (225 calories, 50g protein – always)
3 eggs, 1 toast with butter, jam
Energy Drink (Vegan Sport Drink packet) during workout – 70 calories
1/3 steak
Almonds on plane (30g protein; 1,000,000g salt)
Trail mix on plane
Chicken Sandwich& MsVicker’s chips combo on plane (30g protein, forget calories, salt, etc.)
Arrive 2am EST – too tired to make shake before bed, woke feeling guilty around 4am (PST) – made shake, wrote log, back to sleep
SLEEP
Rank = 4/10 (need 8-10 hours)
Not sleeping easily with cold, change in time zones
LIFE STUFF
Work is busy, a little stressful. Traveling Sunday through Friday.
Feeling committed to goals – keeps the stress down, forces balance with work– and is simply, fun.