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Monday, February 22, 2010

Weight Training + Stairclimber

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGH!

Normally I buy fresh ground peanut butter to keep at my desk to eat a tablespoon of or put on bread once in a while. This time around, I thought I'd try fresh ground honey roasted peanut butter. That was Thursday.

I've almost eaten a pound of it in two days. There's probably 3 or 4 servings left. I'm not allowed to buy it anymore.

The good news is that I'm still working out. Meh.

Warmup, w/45lb barbell, 3 sets of 5
Overhead Barbell Squats
Barbell Squats
Good Mornings
Alternating Lunges
Deadlift
Romanian Deadlift

Workout
Barbell Bench Press, 3x20x75lbs
Dumbbell Incline Bench Press, 3x20x(2x20lbs)
Seated Cable Rows, 3x20x110lbs
Bent-Over Barbell Rows, 3x20x45lbs

31 minutes, 180 calories burned

It's just one of the old triggers. It doesn't happen very often, but once in a while something just gets you and you go hog wild. I'd never had it before and wanted to give it a try, and it just tasted too amazingly good.

I get this way sometimes with honey roasted peanuts themselves, so I should have seen it coming. What I do with the peanuts is bring exactly 1 ounce to work, no more, no less. I know better than to bring the whole can, why would the peanut BUTTER be any different?

I mean really, what was I thinking? I have trouble with PLAIN fresh ground, having sugar & honey in there just complicated things and brought it to the next level.

It also goes without saying that I'm a little bit up in weight, this after running 16 miles on Saturday. And I just LOVE how people say (and they did at breakfast Saturday morning) that "at least you can eat anything you want". Actually what they said was they envied me because it didn't matter what I ordered! Yeah, whatever.

Anyway, thanks to a 2-hour meeting and the need to catch Fedex, I didn't get to do any cardio this afternoon. Having a stairclimber at home really helps; who knows how many floors, 42 minutes, 409 calories burned. It's been a long time since I worked out at home. That makes 589 calories for the day.

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