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February 11 Bob here, checking in...Welp, the good news is we're alive. We somehow survived Vegas, and after about a week of detoxing we said hello to the real world again. John has detoxed right into midterms, leaving him pretty busy for the next two weeks, and I landed right into a job hunt. Right before Vegas I got fed up with my most recent employer and quit. Financially I'm fine, but I feel like such a pile not working. The extra time has really helped me catch up and get my coursework under control, but the rest of my time has been spent filling out applications and going to interviews. I have had two good interviews so far, one I'm waiting on an email telling me yes or no, and the other I've taken a drug test for and they are in the process of doing a background check. Everything will work out, and in the end I think I'm going to end up much happier then I was at my old job.
The bad news though, is that I crashed HARD with Vegas. The drinking, the eating, and the past week of not doing anything has pretty much killed all the hard work I had done leading up to the trip. On top of that, between the two of us we haven't updated for about two weeks now, which I believe tosses us out of this competition. Regardless, I want to finish what I started, and while there's no pressure or reason for John to keep posting, I hope he does after his coursework settles down from Midterms.
As for my current plan, I'm reverting back to a 4 day split that I did when I first got into weight lifting. This 12 week program helped me drop close to 35 lbs, and had me feeling better then ever. The diet and workout plans started today, and while I haven't gotten my meals into a spreadsheet yet, I do have my Workout Logs from today. So here's my workout log, and hopefully tomorrow I'll have all of the information for my meal plans....
January 30 Workout 1Well, trying to get some consistency going here with my posts.
My first workout was as follows 3 sets of 5:
incline barbell bench 165/165/165
3 sets of 5 dips...i held a 30 lbs DB with my feet to add additional weight.
elevated push ups
35
1 set of incline Dumb bell flies immediately after 35 lbs. (THAT WAS TOUGH)
in addition to those I also did a couple of decline chest presses and flies.
I did an ab circuit as well as some other core workouts. Diet has been good. Tomorrow I plan to hit my back. Friday I am going to do arms and legs in one day.
I'll let you know how it goes! January 28 GrrrrrrrrI have continued to fail in my workouts and I apologize to my partner and to all Million Pound Match-Up Couples. These past few days have been crazy, however this is still no excuse. One thing my workouts have failed. Today I finally caught up with last week. I tackled arms and legs today. So I don't begin to fall behind again, I am going to do my Day 1 workout that I did last week tomorrow morning. I used to have a job in sales, oddly enough at a health club, and I used to consider it a game. A game of changing lives. What I regrettably have done the past weeks, has failed in the game of changing my life. Granted I have participated in school on top of my two jobs, but I have lost focus in the game. I have been losing in this game of changing my life around. I have been extremely consistent in my diet for the past week. I continue my balanced meals. But, I haven't eaten as much as I should. I did lose 1 lbs this past week, however I haven't posted my picture.
This is it. Starting tomorrow my @SS, needs to get into gear. There is no messing around. It is simple. This isn't a two way street. You cannot just workout and eat like crap and be healthy. You can't eat and live a sedentary lifestyle and be healthy. You can't and drink every weekend and workout/eat properly and consider yourself healthy. To be healthy you have to consider your body as a machine. Food is your source of fuel and oil. To keep yourself running smoothly you need only the best nutrition. Eat balanced, drink water, and eat sensibly. NO EXCUSES. Keep the machine in good condition. Work out. Plain and simple. You get your tires rotated every certain miles, well you work out 4 times a week.
On another note, I am not sure if Bob mentioned but we played in our hockey game last Saturday. Surprisingly I wasn't in too bad of shape. I was a little tired, but in no such pain. Bob and I have a game this Saturday, so we are pretty excited about that too. Both he and I are extremely competitive and its one of the best workouts for us.
Saturday, Bob and I do go to Vegas for two days to watch the Superbowl. This weekend could be a huge weakness for us, or we can hopefully be strong-willed and sensible. We'll let you know how that goes. We will hopefully keep on our path to losing weight and make many updates before we leave on Saturday.
Other than that, I hope everyone is seeing signs of great success and dominating fat. Good luck to all once again. January 24 Bob - Day 20Changed things up a bit, and worked out first thing this morning. I had a couple labs I needed to work on tonight, so I figured get it out of the way first thing. Wasn't bad at all, although I think tomorrow I might drop some berries or something in that first shake of the day. I got pretty hungry about halfway through my workout.
Speaking of hungry, my appetite has started to fly off the handle. All of this working out has started to make me hungry on a regular basis. Oh well, I'm hanging in there. Munching on a lot of broccoli and lettuce..
Anywho, here are the logs, I'm going to try and work out in the AM tomorrow to, I think there's a spin class I might try to make...
Exciting weekend coming up. The Fighting Squirrels (our hockey team) has their first game on Saturday. Team B&J will be starting Defense, and looking to knock some people around  January 23 Bob - Day 18&19Day 18 went by pretty smoothly, same old stuff just a different day. Food logs are the same as Monday, and for training I had back and abs at the gym. The workout went by pretty quickly. Day 19 is an off day, which is good because I need to take a breather. I've been pretty worn down from school/work/gym. My classes are going much better since week 1, but they're still pretty tough. Here are my logs:
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