Wednesday, 9 March 2011

Deadlift Day

Deadlift day, and I'm now dead to the world.  What an awesome session but boy am I tired.  I'm not sure if it was the morning powerwalk or the complete exertion of this afternoons weights session, I'm spent.

But I'm feeling like a little warrior - SHE-RA PRINCESS OF POWER!!




I'm such a loser, life for Burgess please....

I've been a bit scared of deadlifts until recently.  But wanted to add it to my routine as its a great all over body strength workout as well as really working my legs. I'm trying to build these up a bit more, especially my hamstrings.  It was hard and I was far sweatier (nice) than what I imagined I'd get.  The reps were kept high - 15, the form was corrected, and corrected again to make sure I was getting the most out of each lift.  And it was supersetted with some kettlebell hamstring work.  Bit more weighted hamstring work, body weight work and some plyometrics.  Ouch ouch!

I'm sure tomorrow I'm going to be in bits.  I love sessions like that tho, with a bajillion (yes that's really a number) things whirling around in my head at the moment its awesome to tune out for a while and forget about the world and concentrate on the PAIN!  I joke.... sort of....

The diet has been good today - except for another bag of Hula Hoops miraculous ejected itself from the vending machine and made its way into my hands.  I just dunno how it happened :-)  Since today was such a big muscle group I ate a bit more than usual.  Instead of eating shit I added this Sainsburys bean salad to my rice and chicken.  Its really nice.


Yes that really is Jessica in the background, she's still laughing at me...

I found this to be a great additon to my meals when trying to make up the carb intake, low in sugar (sugar is bad!) and fat (getting enough from the rice and chicken) which is ideal. 

Per 1/4 pot (2 tablespoons)

70 cals
Protein - 4.8g
Carb - 9.2g
Sugar - 0.8g
Fat - 1.6g

Enjoy!

Off to bed now for some much needed sleep. 

Love

x

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