Lift cycling

In the Low Fat Days when I subscribed to both Shape and Fitness before realizing it was the same magazine, I read an item that proved useful--weight cycling. If you lift three days a week, you do light weights/high reps one day, medium weights and reps the second day and heavy weights/low reps the third so your body doesn't get used to one particular weight. I did this with some success back then so I decided to try it again. I figured that Monday was my medium day, so I did the heavy stuff on Wednesday as follows:

5 minutes warm-up on the cross trainer, level 3

All sets 5 reps

3 sets pull-ups on gravitron, 45 pounds resistance
3 set leg presses, 165 pounds
3 sets lat pulldowns, 85 pounds
3 sets shoulder pulldowns, 35 pounds
3 sets push-ups on gravitron, 45 pounds resistance
3 sets seated rows, 35 pounds
3 sets tight seated rows (hands close together), 70 pounds
3 sets tricep presses, 42.5 pounds
3 sets donkey presses, 100 pounds

And oh, did I feel it. I just about managed good form on the last sets on some of these (mainly the lat pulldowns, those totally kicked my ass) but I did manage. Tomorrow is the light day, a nice way to finish out the week.

And I HAVE to add cardio. Outside the gym I'm basically inert and I have to move if I want to get rid of this fat. When I move, I lose. I'm not going to go insane and repeat the hypoglycemia thing, but walking a couple miles every day is pretty much necessary for me since I spend so much time sitting on my ass. I have the food thing pretty well down so this is the final frontier.

Oh--and I weighed myself today for the hell of it, even though I'm retaining water because of my cycle. 223.5. Since I weighed 224 at the beginning of the month, I hope to hell I have a nice whoosh next week.