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Senior Project Day 8- May 16th

 Day 8: 

This morning I woke up at 6:30 after a nice 9 hour sleep. I definitely could’ve gone back to bed and slept longer but usually when I sleep more than 9 hours I feel super lethargic and unmotivated so I decided to get up. I got to have my signature breakfast again which I loved after 3 days without it. 

Breakfast:

  • Coffee

  • Protein oats with peanut butter, banana, blueberries, and granola


I stretched and used the theragun for half an hour. I was pretty tight since I didn’t get the chance to stretch much over the weekend. Then I headed to school. I got there around 9:15 and did a 20 minute warmup before beginning my bench day. Around 10:15, about half an hour in, I ate for some more energy to keep me going. 

Snack:

-Overnight oats bar


I felt really good throughout the whole workout, despite failing a new PR which sucked. However, I was able to hit more reps than last week, so my volume at the end of the workout was much higher. 


Exercises done today:

Bench press

Dumbbell tricep extensions

Waiters Walk

DB incline press

My workout lasted an hour and 45 minutes. At the end, I had burned 303 active calories and 422 total calories. I did a 20 minute cooldown before lunch. 


Lunch:

-Chicken thighs

-Rice pilaf

-Sausage, peppers, and onions

-Vegetable stir fry

-Peas

-Fruit

-Cookie

After lunch I spent an hour on the turf strip doing a really thorough stretch and roll out. I paid a lot of attention to my calves, since I usually don’t spend a lot of time stretching them unless I’ve specifically targeted them that day. But the past few weeks they have been super tight and I wanted to make sure they were well taken care of before leg day. I also did a 20 minute core workout with Grace.

Even though I despise abs, this was a good workout. Here’s a nice timer pic we took:

After this workout, it was time to eat again.

Snack:

-Protein bar

For weight room I walked on the treadmill for a mile and then outside for 2 miles.

This walk lasted an hour, burning 157 active cals and 229 cals and also making me hungry.

Snack:

-Peanut butter and fluff cookie

Dinner:

-Big salad

-Fruit

-Succotash


Since dinner wasn’t very good, when I got home I had more food:


Snack:

-Loaded protein shake (peanut butter, banana, yogurt, milk, protein powder)

-2 rice cakes

-Hershey, krackel, dove chocolates

This got me over 700 additional calories, which I needed to hit my goal.


I was super happy with my whole day today. My water was over a gallon and my nutrition was on point. I burned 2,000 total calories and ate over 3,000, in a surplus of over 1,000. Most importantly, my workout felt great. Despite not being able to hit the new PR, I felt really strong for the whole hour and 45 minutes and truly went until failure. I think the long weekend was a good reset for me and I’m hoping to keep the same momentum for the rest of the week!


Today’s hours: 4

Total hours: 36.25










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