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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
At the start of this school year I set an absolute hard cutoff for my phone at 9:45 PM. I’m calling it “phone keto” for myself, where the phone is a metaphorical carb and I am literally not allowed to have it, under any circumstances, for any reason. If I can’t fall asleep, too bad! I force myself to lie there and be bored until I do. 9:00 is my “wind down” and when I climb into bed, and I’m off the phone most nights by 9:15.
I’ve broken this only once or twice, and I immediately stopped myself upon unlocking the phone, which is something I’m weirdly proud of myself for being able to do?
The result of all of this is that past month has been the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. I get tired at the right time; I don’t wake up already exhausted; I feel overall better throughout my day.
On weekends I shift the cutoff back to 10:30, but honestly, I’m so tuned in to my bedtime now that staying up that “late” is a bit of a chore. I’ve turned in early more than once on a weekend, just because I could feel my body starting to get tired. Also my worries about boredom were vastly overstated. I fall asleep effortlessly most nights.
“Phone keto” has been one of the best things I’ve done for myself in a long while.
Phone restriction is tough but it feels good when you do it. I was doing it a while back, but I've fallen back into bad habits. Too much TikTak.
Good job on doing it though! :D
Weight update
Short and sweet: 252.8lbs (~115kg). Nothing really else to say. It's about what I was expecting.
Diet
I've been enjoying my soup, and just finally pulled one container out of the freezer to thaw on Wednesday night, then finished the last unfrozen container of it on Thursday for lunch. I'm still, unfortunately, indulging in take-out, made worse by the use of delivery services. But it's less now that I'm cooking more.
I had made chili last weekend and I've quite enjoyed it, though I have been really miss more than hit on eating it, and being diligent. I should also take out some pork chops to thaw tomorrow, as I quite enjoy having spaghetti and porkchops for supper. One of the easy dishes I made myself when I was a college student.
Fitness
Hopping on the bike has still been a rare occasion, but I get to it at least once a week at least. I decided on Wednesday to get a gym membership again, and went for my first session last night. I took it slow but my muscles are still sore, but that's expected since it's been almost two years since I was last at the gym.
The plan is a 3 month run of three days a week, two different workouts. Workout A is Squat, Bench Press, and Rows, but I also added calves in there as a finisher before I leave. I can't do much for calves because my feet hurt pretty bad most of the time, but anything I can do helps. Workout B is Deadlift, Lat Pull-downs, and Overhead Press, with Rear Delt Flyes being added in as my finisher. Each exercise is a three set, 8-10 rep, with the exception of Deadlifts. Where I got the workout from was suggesting 3 sets of 6-8 reps, but knowing how hard deads will kill my back, I'm setting it at 2-3 sets, and may lower it to just one working set. That being said, I'll be taking it super slow when I get there, as my last workouts were doing a modified 5x5 StrongLifts, but I misread the deadlifts, as they're supposed to only be 1 working set of 5 reps. I was doing 5 working sets, on top of one or two warmup sets.
The last day I did 5x5 on that, I had experienced a lower back pump and I did not like it lol Also worth noting, I had never experienced an actual pump before that day, so it was an overall new experience in the worst possible area.