Day 61 - Use it or Lose It!

Use it or lose it, clearly applies to fitness and working out.

Have you ever stopped working out or doing a particular exercise and then you try to do it months later only to find out that it's not as easy as it was, or that you can no longer do as many. I really notice this when I haven't done "body weight pull-ups" for a while. I tried doing body weight pull-ups last week, and I could only do 3 or 4 and last year I did between 7 and 10. That really sucks! But the good news is "Human cells have a fitness memory of about 3 years. Amazingly, if you adopt a fit lifestyle now, within 3 years, your body will behave as if you've been fit your entire life". I just read this in a magazine and that is good news for those who are couch potatoes and want to be fit but have not done so for whatever reason. This may also explain why once you start exercising again, you quickly get to where you left off. It is so much easier than if you have never exercised.

Training:
Today is a much needed rest day for me. Friday and Saturday I had gruelling workouts. On Friday I had a back workout and on Saturday, biceps and triceps. My back is one of my favourite body parts to train and biceps not so favourites. I never seem to be able to see a change in my biceps. My back was extremely sore from Friday's workout and my arms were sore as well, I am not sure why but it may have been from practicing my poses. My goal was to do extra cardio but I was really hungry after lifting so I went home and my goal was to go back to the gym later in the day to do extra cardio but I was really tired and really didn't feel like going back. I learned that when my body needs rest.
I did pretty good eating clean all week. My downfall is fruit, and I did eat some cherries. Cherries are not necessarily bad but they are not on my current meal plan. But they were so good. I enjoyed them more than that cheesecake last week.