Day 60: GRIT

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"It's ok to want to win, but you've got to really want to win, you've got to have a burning desire to win." - Layne Norton, Ava Cowan: Naturally Driven | Foundations of Success


MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY

Cold - Ocean

TRAINING

am

Cardio - Run 20 min.

Arms (3 min recovery between supersets):
Superset A -
1. Close-Grip Pull-Ups 2 x 18, 6
2. Dips 2 x 6

pm

Stretch 20 min.


COMMENTS

Sleep - Time and Quality: ~4.5 hours. With another couple of hours post-training.

Energy: Physically (and mentally) EXHAUSTED! Energy was so bad that after a couple of supersets of my resistance session this morning, I was almost out cold on the floor, so I stopped, went home, had a shower, and went straight back to bed to sleep!

Stress: High.

Endurance: Not the best today.

Strength: Faltering.

Pump: None.

Vascularity: Reasonable.

Quality of Training: My run this morning was slow as slow - going to take a little more to get back into running, but I WILL do it! I was so exhausted that I nearly stopped after that was done and went home, but pushed myself into the weights room . . . After two sets I was almost asleep during my recovery period, and so decided that I would finish this session in the evening pre-bed as my second training session of the day . . . Ended up being so shattered that I consider today as this week's Day Off, and tomorrow will see my Arms session done . . .

Recovery: Whooped!

Other Notes: From now on, I'll probably be doing half of my resistance sessions in the am and half in the pm, making sure that I get in some double resistance sessions each week, and make my second training session 3-4 days (might go to five days some weeks) even MORE INTENSE!


FIT TIP OF THE DAY

"Passion means nothing without execution. One can always find reasons to not do something and this is the negative way of thinking that holds so many back. It's not about what you can't do, but what you can do. Stop believing that you can't do something. There are a million reasons that are fabricated daily as to why something can’t be done, but having reasons and excuses leaves you empty handed...Excuses only serve to bring you down and exacerbate the idea that you can't accomplish what you want. You become your own worst enemy." - kimura9 on MD Forums, This Is All on You.

Day 302: A Week of Triazole Left

Quote of the Day

"If you want something bad enough, that's what you do." - Ava Cowan, Ava Cowan: Naturally Driven | Ava’s Story

Music Video of the Day

Kutless - Changing World

Training

Day OFF.

Comments

Sleep - Time and Quality: From tomorrow, I am going to be regimented with this no matter what!

Energy: Focused.

Mental Focus and Clarity: Work and study today.

Stress: High.

Libido: Needing constant attention, LOL.

Recovery: Even though they're only 30-40 minutes long, I am feeling the FIVE resistance sessions, up from 3-4 a week of the last few months, but my body will settle back into it quickly enough.

Body Composition and Look: 9.9% bodyfat.

Other Notes: I have a week of Triazole left . . . I finish my current tub of BC+EAA today, and tomorrow I am going to be using a tub of the new Watermelon-Kiwi flavour . . .

Motivating Quotes

There are times when we all need a bit of motivation, a small lift to get us up and going through the day. I have many quotes that I refer to - here are my top 10 motivating quotes (not in any particular order) . . .

Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It is a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. IMPOSSIBLE is nothing. How are you going to live your life? U.S. Army

It's not about what you've got; it's about what you DO with what you've got. Andie West.

To give anything less than the best is to sacrifice the gift. Steve Prefontaine.

Nothing in the world is permanent and we are foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we are still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it. William Somerset Maughan.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. Oscar Wilde.

It's never too late to become what you could have been. GoFigure.

I believe that if you have a dream in your heart, you shouldn't let go. Ava Cowan.

Anything is possible. You can be told you have a 90 percent chance, or a 50 percent chance, or a 1 percent chance. But you have to believe and you have to fight. Lance Armstrong.

It ain't about how hard you get hit. It's about how hard you get hit and keep moving forward . . . That's what winners do. Rocky Balboa.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory or defeat. Theodore Roosevelt.

Nothing is as dark as it seems. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel, a silver lining in the most ominous of stormclouds. We just have to keep our eyes on that, find it, look for it, and hold it in our heads and hearts, until we are where we want and need to be.