Well, as far as Super Bowl eating went, I was spared the temptation because I told DH that I had zero interest in going to his buddy’s house to watch a football game with a dozen guys who would just be smoking, drinking, and snarfing down stuff with cheese, grease, or salt on top.

I stayed home, planned my workouts for the rest of the year, bulk cooked my food for the week as usual, took progress pics, finished the laundry, played a bit of Rune Factory, read, baked Amyella’s crunchy blueberry walnut muffins, and ate clean.

And so another annual Super Bore Sunday passed by without my having to watch any of it.

Maggie 33
Super Bore 0

I started the TT Get Lean/Gain Mass program today with what turned out to be a chest and back workout split. The breakdown of my program for the next 2 weeks is as follows:

Mon: Chest/Back; Interval run
Tue: Legs/Core; Interval elliptical
Wed: Inline skate; yoga or other light activity
Thu: Tris/Bis/Back; Interval bike
Fri: Shoulders/Core; Interval run
Sat: Inline skate; Forza
Sun: Rest

I made a checklist with an item for each of my workouts using the Shadow Plan outliner on my Treo, so each time I complete a workout I check it off. Oxygen magazine didn’t hook me up with a free wall calendar this year, so I can’t do my old foil star routine to mark off each completed workout.

Yes, I know I can buy a clearance calendar for just a few bucks now, but why spend money on a paper calendar when I have already blown $240 on my used Treo 650 just so I wouldn’t have to buy a paper calendar again?

My office fitness challenge team is STILL in the lead, and check it out–I am NOT the competitor with the lowest percentage of BF% lost so far! I am middle of the pack, which is just peachy in my opinion. My scale weight was the same as last week, but my Omron % dropped from 23.5% to 21.8%. Woo! Our lowest scoring member, Gio, was down with bronchitis last week, so he hasn’t been able to work out much at all. Everyone else on the team is kicking butt hardcore.

I’ll be making a few tweaks to my nutrition over the next few days. I’ve been doing all right leaving such items as Go Lean Crunch cereal in my meal plans and eating starches at night, but I want to bring my meals more in line with Chris Mohr’s recommendations and the PN/Swolegenix principles. I’m keeping starches within meals 1-3, and switching to berries and citrus as my carbs in meals 4-5. Meal 6 will be protein/fat only. My baseline calories will remain 1550-1700, but I will have one low calorie cycling day at 1000-1200 on Wednesday or Sunday, and one high calorie day at 2000 on Tuesday or Friday.

I am also nixing the dairy in my diet. I put dairy back into my nutrition plan in the past week and a half (1/2 c. cottage cheese each day, 1/2 c. 1% milk this weekend), and I have been consistently weighing in 2 lbs heavier than my established low of 142.0 and feeling “off” (not to mention bloated) ever since. NOT worth it. Like Muscle Gaining Secrets author and recent vegetarian convert Jason Ferruggia, I shall just say noooooooo to the moo juice from now on.

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WORKOUT
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- TT Get Lean/Gain Mass Workout 1
A1) Bench Press (2×5 @ 95, 105 lbs)
A2) DB Row (2×5 @ 40 lbs)
B1) DB Flat Press (3×8 @ 30, 35 lbs)
B2) Underhand-grip Seated Row (3×8 @ 90 lbs)
C1) Incline DB Press (2×12 @ 30 lbs)
C2) Reverse-grip Pulldown (2×12 @ 75, 80 lbs)

- Interval Run (6 sets intervals @ 8.5, 9.0, 9.0, 9.2, 9.2, and 10.0 mph for 60 seconds with 3.5 mph recovery for 90 seconds)

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NUTRITION
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M1: PWO shake (1 banana, 3/4 scoop protein powder, 1/2 c. coffee)
M2: 2 Amyella’s blueberry walnut crunch muffins
M3: 3 egg whites, 60g raisins and oats, 1 c. asparagus veggie mix
M4: 1 scoop protein powder, 1 apple
M5: 3 egg whites/1 whole egg, 1 c. asparagus veggie mix, 2 tangerines
M6: 4 oz. whiting filet, leftover veggie and mushroom soup, 1/2 oz. walnuts