TRAINING/NUTRITION BLOG: 9/15-9/19/11

[Jim B]

TRAINING:
9/15
Rest Day

9/16
Dumbell Snatch
2 x 5 w/60lb dumbell
3 x 5 w/70lb dumbell

300 Hindu squats

Did this in the hotel gym in Reno. I do like the dumbell snatch. It is not the same exercise as the kettlebell snatch, but it is a great exercise. It really is equally valuable. I used to do these with up to 100lb dumbells before I'd ever heard of kettlebells. I had to stop after only five sets because they were tearing my calluses up.

9/17
100 pullups
100 Hindu pushups

300 squats (in 8:59).

I looked around at the hotel gym and noted they had at least $100,000 in treadmills, ellipticals and stationary bikes. I think I was the only one sweating. This was a huge hotel gym and it was your typical globogym, with all the same misguided crap. It has been two years since I'd been in one of those. Amazing.

But, they at least had dumbells, a good pullup bar and a nice open area to work in.

Same story I used to tell for years: I am in a room with $100,000 worth of equipment and use less than $100 of it...and am still in the best condition of anyone there.

9/18
Rest Day

9/19
15-minute 'manmaker' in the parking lot with 40kg 2-arm swings and 150yd jog.

100 Hindu pushups

NUTRITION LOG:
I was on a trip so the 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th were pretty much crap. Even if you try to eat healthy, you end up eating junk if you eat out.

Today:
6am-
3 Jetfuel caps
1300mg Korean ginseng

645am-
50gr whey protein
2000mg fish oil

2pm-
4 eggs w/salsa
1 large orange
2000mg fish oil 2000it vitamin D
handful of raw almonds
1 ripe tomato

415pm-preworkout
3 Jetfuel capsules
1300mg Siberian ginseng

6pm-postworkout
1 large orange

930pm-
Giant tri-tip steak (store bought, not grassfed)
huge spinach salad with fresh tomato, red onion, avocado and vinaigrette dressing
red wine
2 large broccoli crowns, straight from the garden
2000mg fish oil
organic dark chocolate (about 1oz)

[Pam Benedick]

It's great to have you back!