Workout Week 3.–9.02.2014

In Workout Week posts I will tell you everything about my last week’s workouts. 

Monday was BodyPumping day at the local fitness club. My best friend also decided to come although we both hate the equipment there. I had a good workout! My weights were what they usually are and I felt good. 
Warm-up: 3,5+3,5 kg
Squats: 8,5+8,5 kg
Chest: 6+6 kg
Back: 6+6 kg
Triceps: 2,5 kg; 5 kg
Biceps: 3,5+3,5 kg; 2,5+2,5 kg
Lunges: 6+6 kg
Shoulders: 3,5+3,5 kg; 2,5+2,5 kg
Abs: –

Tuesday was swimming day. On Sunday the lady who sits by the pool, collects our tickets and makes sure we don’t drown (:D) told me that if the pool is almost empty, I can feel free and swim over the 45 minute limit. The same lady was there on Tuesday, the pool got empty at the end of the seance and I decided to swim extra 15 minutes.  I did 500 m of breaststroke, 500 m of front crawl, 500 m of backstroke and extra: 250 m of breaststroke and 250 m of front crawl. 2000 metres in total, that’s my new personal record! 🙂
 
Wednesday was Zumba day. I love this workout more and more with every session. It’s not too complicated or intense and it’s so much fun. Totally recommended to everyone.
 

Thursday: BodyPump. Last time at the local club here in Ida-Virumaa. Thank god. Can’t wait for normal equipment and conditions! It was a good workout, I really got tired and sweaty. Oh, since I got to the club early and got cold just standing and waiting, I had some extra time to run for about 13 minutes and around 2,2K. The BodyPump class takes place in an indoor track-and-field stadium (eesti keeles: kergejõustiku hall), so there’s a lap to run on 🙂 I actually liked running indoors to my surprise.


Friday was the last Zumba class with my BFF for a while. We’re both going to be busy with school and not working out together until March. But Zumba was still good! My friend has great tracks and choreography for us, I really like the songs she picks. Thanks, Triin! 🙂

Saturday: 45 minutes of swimming. 1,5K of front crawl. I was angry with myself and let everything out in training. 

On Sunday I did something new: intervals aka fartlek running. I went to Ahtme Spordihall and did 15 minutes of warm-up, then 2+3+4+5+4+3+2 minutes fast with 2 minutes of steady running in between the fast intervals. I ended my workout with 10 minutes of slow running. In total it came to exactly 1 hour. Fast was around 5 min per km, steady around 6 min per km and slow 7+ min per km. All in total around 8,7 km. I could have pushed myself even harder but since it was my first time intervalling, I really didn’t know how hard to push. I’ll be smarter next time 🙂

Before…
Before…

…and after intervals. Sweat!
…and after intervals. Sweat!

 

In total:

3 hours 30 minutes of walking

2 hours of BodyPump

2 hours of Zumba

1 hour 45 minutes of swimming

1 hour of running

 

 

My workouts were great this week: 7 workout sessions in 7 days. That’s awesome. But there’s such a big BUT. My nutrition. It hasn’t been like this during my whole time of LCHF (Christmas and Thailand included). 3 words: cheating, overeating and chaos. All week long! 😦

Cheating with everything but mostly lots of grains. Ate a few big portions of porridge this week, many slices of (rye) bread and some sugar. This behaviour is so not me! The scales ofcourse reflected everything… I haven’t seen numbers like THAT since May 2013. A HUGE disaster! Overeating (or binging) is another huge topic. Too much low carb foods and also too much cheat foods. And chaos. Chaotic behaviour all week long. This week has been catastrophic! 😦 I’m really upset and things need to change. Professional help is perhaps needed…

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Cooked millet (eesti keeles: hirss, kollatang). Never liked it… Until now I guess.
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Rye bread. From koduleivad.ee
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Oatmeal with bran. Craved it and ate it. From quakeroats.ca

In general I’m feeling like what’s the point of blogging about nutrition and sports if I’m failing big time? Who needs to read about my cheats? my weightgain not -loss? my bad mood and stress? No one. 

No one.

New week, new semester at school and a new beginning? Hope so. Because if things continue this way, I’m going to back in February 2013 soon. I just have to stay positive and keep going!

Food Friday 7.02.2014

On Food Fridays I will tell you about everything I ate that day. No matter if it is a good day or not: you will see it all. 

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This Friday you are going to see things that I usually never eat and that are not LCHF at all. I’m just trying different strategies right now. Not giving up low carb, don’t worry. Lets see how things go.

1st meal: 10.30 AM

 

  • 300 grams of oatmeal and bran porridge

  • 5 grams of butter

  • 3 slices of smoked pork

  • 1 slice of cheese

  • 1 slice of bacon

  • 2 eggs

 

Snack: 3.30 PM

 

  • 30 grams of sunflower seeds

 

2nd meal: 8 PM

 

  • 130 grams of frozen broccoli

  • 65 grams of 10% cream

  • 45 grams of cheese

  • 165 grams of minced salmon

  • 20 grams of butter

  • 50 grams of smoked chicken thigh meat (not on the picture)

 

Nutritional information

 

 

I was just wondering about today’s macros and calories with all this porridge and inserted the data into Lifesum (previously ShapeUp Club). 17% of energy from carbs which means going from normal LCHF (5%) to reduced carb nutrition. But the grains shouldn’t be the source of carbs. I just don’t feel great eating grains, I get heartburn and bloating in my stomach. Maybe more fruits and root vegetables?

What did you eat today?