Day Five--And I've Been Run Over By A Truck

I knew that in starting this program that the first two weeks were going to be painful. I was going to be painfully sore and six days into this my upper body now feels as if it was run over by a truck. I have never been run over by a truck or a car for that matter, with the exception of when I was ten my foot was run over by a Camaro leaving the apartment driveway. It really didn't hurt that much though, as I remember. It happened the same year as my hernia operation as a ten year old and ever since that experience, I have always been cautious of lifting  really heavy weights.  The muscles in my legs have quickly healed. Much quicker than I though they would, but now my upper body is feeling the burn. My pectorals  hurt to the touch, my biceps are swollen and the inside part of my elbows (what it is called anatomically I haven't a clue) hurts when I fully extend my arms. But I know this is normal for me. I have been through this many times, but now that I am getting older I can feel not only the muscle pain but the joint pain as well, a good indicator for me to slow it up on week 2 and not push myself too hard. I have upped my caloric intake by about 25 percent. I am not eating any red meat for awhile, because I'm trying to flush red animal meat out of my system. So its been tuna, salmon, and a lot of Ahi Tuna along with a lot of fruits, vegetables, and nuts, especially raw almonds.

I drink a juiced shake post workout from a really nice juicer that can juice most whole fruits. This juice consists of: 1 whole apple, 1 whole mango, 1 whole carrot, 3 stalks of celery, 1 tomato, and 1 whole kiwi fruit. Then I mix the batch in a blender with a quarter cup of blueberries and two scoops of chocolate whey protein powder. This concoction really fills me up and it tastes pretty good too.

My workout was pretty straightforward. I worked my biceps and my back muscles. For my biceps workout I used dumbbells, a curl machine and cable biceps pulls. I did three sets of each. For my back I used the sit down row machine, the lat pull down machine and the cable row machine. I spent 30 minutes on the elliptical trainer at level 6 and finished my workout with 100 incline sit-ups.