Follow up on my last post. The work I did on my truck resulted in lots of bruises across my chest, arms, shoulders, and a painful side that I don't think is sore enough to be a broken rib, but was sore enough yesterday to skip my workout. I am going to try lifting today to see how it goes. If it doesn't work, I guess my weight training will have to wait until things heal.

I decided to switch up my weight training workout. Up to this point I have been doing a program that hit the whole body with a bunch of compound lifts. That worked great, but it meant my workouts were and hour and a half or more long. That made it a challenge to do them in the morning before going to work, so I ended up doing them after getting home in the early evening which negatively affected my sleep.

I decided I would switch to a lower body/upper body split. I am still focused on compound lifts, but now I can get through a workout in 45 minutes and even have more exercises as part of the program. This should help with getting workouts in before work with less of a time crunch. It makes getting 5 days a week of intentional exercise really easy since I will be working out 4 day a week just with the weight program.

My aches and pains are subsiding. I didn't have any issues lifting doing lower body, but when doing upper body I felt some tinges in my torso where the worst bruising is. Nothing that prevented me from lifting heavy, but It was there. Today is my rest day, so I might just get in a walk or bike ride. Tomorrow back to lower body, and see how that goes.

Well clearly, I’m not getting my rear in gear. I haven’t been logging as I’d like so I need to buckle down there. Sugar intake has been minimal with the exception of a small treat for hubs birthday this weekend. The part that I haven’t done well in is avoiding junk- the weekend was not good for this. I still eat pretty low carb at lunch, fast a minimum of 16 hours a day, have trimmed back on low carb alcohol, strength train and walk daily. I still need to get my evening volume of food under control. At least I’m not also snacking. What can I say, I’m a work in process! I’m going to work in a fiber supplement this week. Maybe I’ll time that for later in the day to see how that helps with impacting fullness.

I tried getting my rear in gear this morning getting up early to get in my leg workout. Sadly, all I seem to have achieved was straining my back partway through the workout. It stiffened up a bit on the drive to work, but the seats in our car are not the most comfortable in my opinion. I will see how things go through the day at work, but this is putting a hitch in the stuff I have to get done before we go camping and in my workout schedule. Time will tell I guess.