Optimum Anabolics - Day 5

WORKOUT - CHEST/ABS

2 supersets of the Day 5 workout were chest related, followed by a superset of abs work

Superset 1: Incline DB Flye, Incline Push Ups (I got creative and used 2 chairs and ladder!)
Superset 2: DB Pullovers, Dips - Chest version (I had to do some assisted reps here...phew!)
Superset 3: Mountain Climbers w/ ankle weights, Hanging knee raises

Total Time => 39:33

Comments:

Felt enormous all day! My shirt was rubbing in the right places. (~:

Legs and booty were sore but not as bad as expected.

Still feeling those abs!

All-in-all it was a good first week. I had to learn a few new exercises and figure out the best weight to use on a few others.

I felt like I did a good job of using strict form. Occasionally this meant lowering the amount I was lifting to make that happen.

Lastly, pre-setting the weights for each exercise is critical to not exceeding rest periods. This will become even more important in the upcoming weeks.

DIET - HIGH PROTEIN

I'm still eating some vacation foods by my diet was pretty solid today...stuck right to the plan I had laid out.

Breakfast should be pretty familiar by now...a post-workout feast of kiszka (a Polish sausage), tomatoes, a nectarine and a kiwi. No pancakes today, though. It was sour oat bread and butter along with the sausage. Friggin' addictive!

Mid-morning snack was a 1/2 cup of yogurt, 1 T of ground flax seeds, and 1/3 scoop plain whey protein isolate powder.

Lunch was a grass-fed beef burger, home made pico de gallo salsa, and an ounce of goat cheese wrapped in a collard green leaf "tortilla". I also ate up some cut up green and red peppers and carrots. Wow, that's a good lunch, huh?!?

Mid-afternoon snack was 2 hard boiled egg whites and one yolk along with a handful of Trader Joes raw nut mix (cashews, almonds, walnuts, raisins).

For dinner it was Green Monster time once again! Are you seeing a trend here?

• 1/2 banana frozen
  
• 1/2 C strawberries frozen
  
• 1 tsp Carlsons lemon flavored fish oil
  
• Couple handfuls of fresh organic spinach
• 1 C water
• 1 scoop plain whey protein isolate powder
  

As a snack before bed it's going to be a 1/2 cup of lowfat cottage cheese...just enough to keep the muscles fed overnight and fuel an interval cardio workout in the morning!

I'm looking forward to a little cardio, believe it or not! It's been almost 2 weeks! Lace 'em up!