2010: Day 58

QUOTE OF THE DAY

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that! . . . Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who's got the right to stop you? . . . It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!" - Rocky Balboa, Rocky Balboa


MUSIC VIDEO OF THE DAY

Motivation - "Be Great, Powerful Beyond Measure"



POWERFUL, POWERFUL words!


TRAINING

V-Burn Challenge Circuit (no recovery between exercises; 1 minute recovery between rounds):
4 x rounds -
1. Jumping Split Squat x 10
2. Hand Walkout (from toes) x 10
3. Single-Leg Deadlift (with twist and lateral reach) x 10 per side
4. Push-Up (with alternate side rotation) x 10
5. Jumping Jacks x 10
6. Side Lunges (with over head reach) x 10 per side
7. Handstand Push-Up x 10
8. Squat Thrust (jump and reach) x 10

Stretch 20 min.


COMMENTS

Sleep - Time and Quality: ~8 hours. Still NOT cool. I AM going to get my body BACK INTO SCHEDULE AS I WANT IT, no matter what it takes!

Energy: Not bouncing off the walls, but not completely dead, either.

Stress: Just went up a few notches after seeing this week's body statistics, but it's nothing that can't be worked out through hard work and discipline!

Joints: Erase has FINALLY kicked in!

Endurance: Ok.

Strength: The V-Burn Challenge Circuit is not about strength.

Pump: High.

Vascularity: Blue on top of my skin.

Quality of Training: If today is any indication of my fitness level, then I am DEFINITELY going to have to take it UP quite a few notches to get my body back to where I can train for hours and hours again without batting an eyelid.

Body Composition and Look: 126.6 pounds at 11.7% bodyfat. GAINED 0.7% bodyfat over the last week! WTF?! Nutrition definitely needs to be tightened up, and I AM going to be cutting like anyone else this time around - I can't afford NOT to! Training with high volume and even MORE intensity is definitely the way to go as well!

Other Notes: Last day of my current stash of Alpha-T2 tomorrow, so will be dosing Shift instead of Alpha-T2 from 1 March.


FIT TIP OF THE DAY

If you want fat loss, carbohydrates are NOT the enemy! You NEED at least 50-100 grams of CHO per day for your body to burn fat effectively and to provide the energy requirements of your brain and central nervous system (Wardlaw & Hampl, 2007). A good guideline is to have at least 1 gram of CHO per kg of body mass per day as a MINIMUM (Burke, 2006).

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.