Week 5 Day 2

What an awesome day today was! I woke up so happy and excited to go get my first load of Fresh Fit Foods. Today’s delivery was the 10 meals that will cover today and tomorrow. It’s so exciting to go pick up a bag with your name on it! I’m so excited!

Before I talk about the meals, I just want to update you on the workouts. Once again, today was still circuit training, but today was focused on back and legs. I felt so much stronger today which made me so happy. I also am starting to see the division line at the top of my abs. That makes me super happy! But a problem arose when I was doing supermans. I have this one rib muscle on my right side that pops out between my ribs sometimes. It hasn’t been aggravated in a long time, but today seemed to be a terrible day. I ended up getting my husband to help tie a flat-edged resistance band around my ribs to hold them together. I was able to finish the exercises requiring my abs this way. Definitely need to go make an appointment about this… I then finished my workout with 12 minutes of HIIT on the ArcTrainer. Definitely a solid workout!

So back to the meals… I decided to take pictures of the meals so you guys can share in my excitement. However, one didn’t make the camera… apparently I was too hungry to think of the picture until after it was gone. You’ll quickly see which one that is.

*Side note: My phone was dead, so I tried to position my laptop to take these pictures. Sorry for the bad quality. I’ll get better pics tomorrow!

Meal #1

Quinoa and Oatmeal with Cranberry Relish

Meal 2

Oatmeal Protein Muffin = Delicious!!

Meal 3
(Oops.. must have eaten this one too fast…)
Ranch Land Chili (beans, lean beef, rice, etc… with yams)

Meal 4

Apples, Celery and Almond Butter

Meal 5

Grilled Basa and Vegetables

These meals were so tasty, you could tell the products are completely wholesome and homemade, and they’re so convenient to grab out of the fridge and heat up. I’m so glad I’ve started this and look forward to the next 20 days! Off to bed for the first time in months ON TIME. Today has been a phenomenal day!

That Workout Aching Feeling

I am such a huge recipient of delayed onset muscle soreness.Without fail, I usually leave the gym wondering if I really did workout hard enough, and by a day or two later, I know I hit it hard. That soreness sets in like crazy!

This past week, I’ve started training with my husband again and he’s put me on a split I’ve never done before: legs, push, pull, legs, push, pull, rest.

Today was my second legs day, and I can tell you that I was sore from workouts, but nothing extreme. In fact, I was MUCH stronger and felt much better with my workout today until the very end. Instead of my soreness being delayed, it hit HARD. In fact, I feel drained, energy-less, and my left quad/hip area almost feels lame, like I would imagine a lame horse. Almost dead and non-existent. I am so slow-moving tonight and gathering what energy I can to get in the last of my macros and even type this blog.

Normally I combat this with foam-rolling, stretching, and ball rolling for the intense areas. I did all of those and still feel like “blah”. Of course I’m sure with some good sleep tonight, I will feel much better tomorrow.

How does your body react to your workouts? Do you get sore right away or do you share my condition of delayed onset muscle soreness? And what do you do to help combat it?