4:30 am

A beautiful Wednesday morning on the West Coast but who cares.  It's 4:30 in the morning for crying out loud and I know what is waiting for me as I hear the alarm go off.  Darkness and cold.

I lay in bed thinking what I should do but not doing anything about it.  I know if I lay there long enough I'll fall back asleep and then there is nothing I can do about it.  Except find more excuses why I can't get to the gym later.

Now it's 4:50 and I am awake again.  Guilt is becoming my bed partner.  Sorry Melanie.  Not particularly liking my new found friend I drag my sorry ass out of bed and wake up my companion, the computer.  But after a few minutes guilt taps me on the shoulder and I know the only way to get rid of him is get to the gym as fast as I can.

It's now 5;30, in the morning, and I have finally made to the gym.  I got rid of guilt for now, except for the other things he harasses me about all day.  Oh!  I need to mention that I drank a cup of coffee before I got here.  I keep hearing the caffeine improves your workout performance.  My feeling though is that it just make you go to the bathroom.

Here we go:  Everything except shoulder shrugs is done with a 3-0 tempo and the rest period is 2-minutes.  Five minute stationary bike warm-up as usual.
Decline DB Press- 3 sets, 15 reps, 60lbs except the last set I had to drop to 50lbs
Incline DB Press-3 sets, 15 reps, 30lbs except the last set I had to stop at 10 reps and finish the last 5 after 10sec. rest
Cable Pulldowns-3 sets, 15 reps, 120lbs except the last set I had to stop at 12 reps and finish the last 3 after a 10 sec. rest
Low Cable Pulls-3 sets, 15 reps, 120lbs except for the last set I had to stop at 12 reps and finish the last 3 after a 10 sec rest
Finishing off with 12 minutes on the stationary bike doing 1 minute intervals.  I haven't changed the tension on the bike since I started, and I should be increasing the intensity. Plus I should be going a full 20 minutes.  Reason:  LAZY

I give myself a B for todays workout.  Although I have gone up about 10% in weight for each routine I just seem to lack intensity today.  And I am kind of upset that I whimped out on the interval training.  Gotta do better or I am not going to trim down.

No more of that coffee stuff.  I don't think it works for me.

Still not eating right.  I am not eating the 6 meals a day that I should be.  But because I am not being that intense I am not so worried about it. 

Weight when leaving the gym:  240lbs.  Interesting, I thought I would have lost a couple.

One last comment about today.  Because I had done an arm workout on Monday I don't think my arms had recovered enough for the chest and back I did today.  A good example why you shouldn't work a muscle group more than once a week.

That's it,
Have a good workout,
Jerry