Started the day walking with my son to school. He's just started high school and I know I don't need to be walking him, but I enjoy getting out and chatting with him about everything and nothing on the walk. We walk the back roads with our dog as I don't want him to feel weird about walking with his dad. When we part ways, I'll take the dog to the park for a bit of a run and then home. Family time, exercised dog and I've got myself 5 -6000 steps in the bag before 9am.
On most gym days (today included), I'm aiming for a high volume, low rest workout. I want to keep my heart elevated for the whole time and leave drenched in sweat. I try to replicate the cadence of boxing training with these weights workouts. I'll do 2 of these a week. Today is push day where I'll do exercises that require pushing the weight or machine vs pulling (which I'll do on Thursday or Friday).
I'm currently using Gemini AI a fair bit for suggesting workouts. Its not that I don't know what to do in the gym, but I like the varied exercises and tips Gemini gives me. I'll usually swap a few things out and end up with 5 - 6 exercises.
I start with 10 minutes on the stationary bike each day. This has been helpful for my knee and it gives me a chance to organize my workout plan. I'll shadow box for 3 or 4 sets of 3 minutes with around 30 seconds rest. I'm usually sweating pretty good by the time the shadow boxing warm up is done. Weights will take another 45 - 60 minutes so I'm in the gym for about 90 minutes in total. After these sessions I'm usually pretty cooked!
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I try and workout on an empty stomach, ideally hitting the gym at 11:30, so I arrive home just after my 16 hour fast has ended and I can immediately eat to refuel after the weights session.
I had my standard post workout shake today. Then lunch; a steak, slaw and a good serving of sweet potato fries. I'm probably sitting at about 800 calories for the day at this point.
As I'm not working today, I take a quick swim and then a nap. If I had the time I'd nap every day, but i usually don't.
I take the dog to pickup my son from cricket and we do a few laps of the local reserve. This gets me my remaining steps for the day and I end up with around 12k for the day.
For dinner I eat roast chicken breast with some slaw. I try to remove most startchy carbs in my evening meal which means no potatoe, rice, pasta etc. The potato was hardest to eliminate. I LOVE roast potatoes and a roast chicken just doesn't seem the same without the roast potatoes.
I had another protien shake just before 9am when my 16 hour fasts starts. For this shake I use greek yoghurt and a little peanut butter. No banana or berries at this time as I don't need the sugar from them for sleeping.
I'm happy with this day. its about as close to perfect as I can be. I'm still recovering from travel so sleep comes pretty easily.