Day 58-59: These are the days...

Feeling kind of ill today.  Stomach is queasy, got a lump in my throat and things just feel a bit off.  Veteran's day work provided lunch.  The company actually had food I could eat, so I ate - steamed veggies, rice and chicken.  Guess what I brought for lunch will be eaten tomorrow.  After work, I laid on the couch and worked through feeling nauseous and just not feeling good.  I managed to eat a salad for dinner and after about an hour, I started to feel better.  I roasted some varieties of squash to have for PCP days to come and then went to bed.

The workouts are going well, but they are tough.  I routinely do them in the morning now to get them out of the way.  The amount of sets and reps are definitely exhausting.  Yesterday's focus was biceps and today's focus was triceps.  I really am not digging the elevated tricep dips, by sets 4 and 5, they are really tough to push out.  On a bright note, the alternative to buying new resistance bands...I found a nice machine at the gym that provides an array of different resistances and is fully customizable to the exercise.  So since I'm already paying for the gym membership, and they have this, there's no reason to replace the two I've broken so far.   And if I travel, I've got one band for that ;-) 

I'm looking forward to seeing the results of performing these increased sets and reps.  Yesterday, I had progress in the planks...I was able to hold the first set for the full 60 seconds!  Whoo-whoo!  Set 2 was 30 seconds-5 second break - 20 seconds - 5 second break - 10 seconds.  Set 3, 20 seconds - 5 second break - 20 seconds - 5 second break - 20 seconds.  Then Set 4...oh set 4 - really I remember starting in plank position but at 20 seconds, I was in some sort of trance and I checked out my form and my knees where on the ground!  I have no idea when they went down, cause it still felt like I was working my abs and keeping everything tight!  So weird.  Anyhow, I re-did the set and held for 30 seconds - 5 second break and then 30 seconds.

I'll be playing in another volleyball tournament tomorrow.  Let's hope I do a bit better this weekend as I wasn't to happy with my performance last weekend.  Definitely looking forward to the weekend, it's been a long week.