January 31, 2011

Day 31: Recovery Day

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Past is past, you need to pay attention to your present because your future depends on it." - Darrell Hamby


MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY

Janus - Say It




TRAINING

This week's day OFF - going to focus my attention on WORK today.

This week is going to be like last week, starting the "Training" week on Tuesday.


COMMENTS

Sleep - Time and Quality: Another ~8 hours. Interesting.

Mood/Aggression: Calm and collected.

Energy: Lots of nervous energy that I might take out later with something (not sure what yet) - would be a good day for training, actually . . .

Mental Focus and Clarity: Today is all about work.

Stress: Working through things helps take my mind off this.

Libido: Attention elsewhere today - maybe later.

Joints: The reason I allowed myself to make today my day off this week is because my right wrist is in constant sharp pain (usually I only feel this pain when I am lifting heavy and pushing myself more than I should) - let it recover a little before Shoulders tomorrow (since Shoulders' day takes the biggest toll on my wrists).

Recovery: Aside from my wrists, I feel fully rested.

Other Notes: Since the Cranberry Splash flavoured Maximum Absorbed Protein did not cause any unpleasant effects for me re stomach yesterday, I decided to use the Tropical Mango flavour instead of my BC+EAA this morning. It had a strong mango taste (using REAL [freeze-dried] fruit makes a HUGE difference re flavour), and was light like BCAAs re texture as the Cranberry Splash was. Definitely liking Maximum Absorbed Protein, especially since I do not experience any unpleasantness like I do with other protein powders, and when I run out of BC+EAA, I will replace them with Maximum Absorbed Protein . . . Shred Matrix arrived later today. SO happy to have that back again (as happy as I was to see Erase!) Going to be GOOD times! . . .

Competition Notes: I am going to wait until I am back below 10% bodyfat before starting posing practice.


FIT TIP OF THE DAY

If you're just starting out training, then you do not need any supplements but the Basic Staples (creatine, multivitamin/antioxidant, good fats, protein, and BCAAs). Until you have built up a solid training base, you don't need anything else - NUTRITION AND TRAINING are what are going to get you results!