Day 12: Cardio Power & Resistance continued

Alrighty, slept an hour past my bedtime -- bad Chloe. Getting enough sleep is imperative to good health, good exercise performance and keeping to my diet.

So to continue my last blog post, I've been working on an eating schedule. I went to TJ's yesterday and bought a bunch of proteiny things that aren't meat or have dairy/eggs. As a staunch supporter of vegetarianism, even I have to admit that it's not easy getting half of my caloric intake of protein from non-meat (including fish) sources. I'm happy I have a TJ's nearby so I picked up a bunch of fake meat. My worry is that because all this is so processed that I'll break out, but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Fruit and vegetables have so many carbs. Need to replace some of them with straight protein. And the sheer AMOUNT of food I have to eat is overwhelming. I never ever thought I would have a problem of not eating enough. (That being said, I would much rather have this problem than the alternative eating-too-much problem.) On the plus side, my fear about gaining weight eating this much isn't coming true. At least not yet.

I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of my hemp seed and soy protein powders. I did so much research on them... there are so many to choose from, and so many opinions, but I think I did the best I could. The soy protein powders I have currently are from GNC. The idiot who was helping me the first time said he didn't have an soy protein powders that didn't have any carbs, but when I went again I found one that had no carbs. I compared the ingredients in the first and second ones and the second one ONLY has soy protein isolate. The first one has a couple of other ingredients, one being fructose, which 1) explains the carbs, and 2) explains why it actually tastes good. I was mad disappointed when the second tasted like muck. I'm getting used to it, though; it just takes a longer time to down than the other one.

So as I mentioned yesterday, I skipped Day 11: Cardio Recovery because I was at Mt. High until 8pm. I mean, I wasn't snowboarding until 8, but I got home too late and needed to go to bed. Snowboarding in the daytime should be okay for the workout for that day. Yesterday's was Cardio Power & Resistance, and boy was it tough. I didn't last through the whole warm up this time either. The log jumps killed me. I fared better this time in the end with the 8 squats + 8 push ups. I still don't go down all the way, but I last through 7-8 of them; is that better than going down all the way for 4-6 push ups? And will someone please tell Shaun T what the Heisman trophy looks like? It looks nothing like the exercise he's calling the Heisman. Oh, speaking of which, I just figured out that log jumps are just a modified version of the Heisman. Hm... oh yeah, I think by the third circuit I only did 2 reps of get down, jump back, 4 push ups, run it out, stand up, get down, etc -- that was so tiring. And then moving onto moving push ups after that was tough too! Good thing is I can feel my endurance lasting longer. I still have no hops, but I'm looking for that to improve over the coming months.