Today was a good workout day with a very odd lifting workout in the morning and a great cardio session in the afternoon. The lifting workout was full of exercises I haven't done before.
Today I got thinking about how easy it is to make excuses. You can easily make excuses to tell yourself. This is because you can choose to believe anything you tell yourself. What do these excuses accomplish?
It is very easy to make excuses to rationalize not taking action. It isn't hard to come up with alot of believeable reasons to not take action. At some point you come to the following question: Do you want your life to be filled with excuses or with accomplishment?
Each time you catch yourself thinking of an excuse or rationalization, ask yourself that question. Challenge yourself to make the conscious decision to choose whether or not you wish to accomplish.
When you force yourself to look at it that way the excuses begin to look silly and useless. The more you remind yourself of the value of accomplishment, the more you take action instead of making excuses. The more you take action, the more you will achieve.
Workout Log:
| Exercise | Weight x Reps |
| 1-1/4 squat | 135 x 8 135 x 8 135 x 8 135 x 8 135 x 8 |
| Split Deadlift | 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) |
| Split Good Morning | 65 x 8 (per leg) 65 x 8 (per leg) 65 x 8 (per leg) 65 x 8 (per leg) 65 x 8 (per leg) |
Maybe now you can see why I said it was an odd workout. The 1-1/4 squat was done just like a regular squat, but you go down to parallell, raise up 1/4 of the way, go back down to parallell and then go all the way up and that's 1 repetition. By 6 your quads are burning. That was just the first set! The split deadlift is basically a lunge with the bar held between your legs. The split good morning is a good morning done with a foot up on a step platform. You do the entire set for each leg seperately. That one really worked my lower back and concentrating on the form was a real challenge. I spent some more time today analyzing (online) the form for this exercise because I wasn't sure I had it right.
Accountability Log:
| Mission 1: Day 35 of 40 | Accountability | ||
| Meal/Training Plan: Real-time accountability | Each task completed? | ||
| Day 96: January 29, 2008 | Yes or No | ||
| 3:30 a.m. | Meal 1: Protein shake and oatmeal and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 3:30 a.m. | Supplements: Animal Pak, Glucosamine Chondroiten, calcium, chromium, glutamine, BCAAs | Yes | |
| 4:00 a.m. | Workout: Lifting workout and 6 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 5:00 a.m. | Supplements: Protein shake, BCAAs, glutamine | Yes | |
| 6:30 a.m. | Meal 2: Chicken breast, oatmeal and large salad and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Meal 3: Chicken breast, oatmeal and radishes and cucumbers and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 12:30 p.m. | Meal 4: Chicken breast and large salad and radishes and cucumbers and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 3:30 p.m. | Meal 5: Chicken breast and large salad and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Workout: Steady State cardio session for 45 minutes, FYA training | Yes | |
| 6:30 p.m. | Meal 6: Chicken breast and mixed veggies and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| 8:30 p.m. | Supplements: Casein protein shake, glutamine, calcium and 3 glasses of water | Yes | |
| Accountability Areas: | Points | Possible | |
| Meal 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| Meal 2 | 1 | 1 | |
| Meal 3 | 1 | 1 | |
| Meal 4 | 1 | 1 | |
| Meal 5 | 1 | 1 | |
| Training | 1 | 1 | |
| Post Workout Nutrition | 1 | 1 | |
| Water | 1 | 1 | |
| Pre-sleep nutrition | 1 | 1 | |
| Accountability | 1 | 1 | |
| Daily Totals: | 10 | 10 | |
| Mission Totals: | 336 | 340 | |
| Workout Log: | |||
| 1-1/4 squat | 135 x 8 x 5 | ||
| Split Deadlift | 115 x 8 x 5 | ||
| Split Good Morning | 65 x 8 x 5 | ||
| Steady state cardio (elipptical) | 45 minutes | ||
| Flatten Your Abs training | 10 minutes | ||
Remember…no excuses. Take massive action and turn it into massive results. Anything is possible when you really put your mind to it.
Until tomorrow…GET BACK TO LIFTING!
