On The Road – Day 3

If you’ve been following the past few posts, you’ll know I’m in the middle of traveling and I’m taking more of a “blog” approach by posting more about me and my experience of eating and exercising on the road.  Before I talk about Day 3, I have two requests:

a) if you are getting anything out of this, post some comments! If I don’t get any comments, I’ll have to assume nobody cares and I’ll drop this thread

b) don’t unsubscribe based on this series – I’m just testing to see if people are interested in this kind of thing

Now on to Day 3…

Day 3 Workout

At last, I had a really good workout.  I found a “24 Hour Fitness” nearby and went there at 5 a.m.

Yes, I have made some negative comments about 24 Hr Fitness before, and they are all still true.  Nobody had a training log.  Lots of meatheads doing nothing but curls and bench press.  People doing way too much talking and not enough lifting.  Etc. etc.

However, it is still FAR better than the hotel gym.

I did an upper body workout – day 4 of my own 6×6x6 Routine but I had to make some substitutions and tweaks:

• incline barbell chest press,
• pullups,
• standing overhead barbell press (instead of Arnolds, which I would normally do, but the dumbbells were being used at that time),
• dumbbell power rows (normally I’d do Yates but one of my wrists is bothering me and Yates aggravates it)
• dips

Because the setup there was a little different than my home gym, I didn’t feel as safe going really heavy so instead of the normal 6/3 rep schema used in 6×6x6 I went for 8/5.  Safety is your #1 priority so you never want to lift heavy if you aren’t sure you can do so safely.  [For more on the 6x6x6 routine, click here.]

I also added in some things at the end with the cable machines that I can’t do in my home gym.  I love cable flyes and cable rows and only get a chance to do them at commercial gyms.  I tried doing cable chops (a core exercise) but I have to be honest:  I couldn’t get it right!  It felt wrong so I stopped.

I ended up lifting for 1 hour 45 minutes, longer than usual (note my eating below).

It felt great and I’ll probably be sore tomorrow.  But a good sore.

Day 3 Eating

I started off with a banana and protein+milk shake.  You know, I usually don’t care what protein powder I use, and for this trip I bought the only whey protein that came in a bag:  AMP Wheybolic Extreme 60 from GNC.  I chose it purely because it seemed easier to travel with.  But I have to say, it’s the best chocolate protein I’ve ever had in terms of taste.  I’ll have to try their vanilla at some point.  (Oh, and FYI, I actually only use one scoop = 20 g, rather than their suggested three scoops = 60 g.)

Then I hit the gym.

After 1 hr, I needed refueling so I took a 10 minute break and bought a pure protein drink (no fat, no carbs) there, and ate another banana (carbs).  that really helped me put in another big session of lifting.  And I counted that as my second breakfast.

For my fist lunch, I was  in the middle of a 3 hr meeting so I ate cucumber slices I packed, and some almonds.  Although almonds are great (they have protein and good fat), you need to eat a lot to get 20 g of protein.  And with that comes more fat than I usually like to have in one sitting.  But that’s all I had so I had to make do.

My second lunch was much bigger than I wanted it to be because I was so hungry after such a light first lunch.  So I hit a buffet and ate a ton.  Very healthy, but a ton:

• 4 servings of various veggies
• 1 big slice of baked, carved turkey
• 1 diet coke
• 1 glass milk
• 4 meatballs
• some kind of bean/rice/beef mixture (really yummy)
• 1 tiny slice of pizza
• 1 donut hole for “dessert”

I was so full that I ended up not eating my first dinner until 4 hours later, and it was light:  2 servings of raw green beans I had from the grocery store and a protein+skim milk shake.  (Again, reminding me how great it was to get a fridge for my room.)

And lastly, for my last dinner, I hit a restaurant near the hotel and decided to have a hamburger with tomato and onion.  I removed half the bun (empty carbs) but then ate half the fries!  So I’m human!  Usually I ask to have broccoli instead of fries but I didn’t this time.  At least I didn’t eat all the fries… I also ordered a salad but there were not many veggies at all.  So when I got back to my hotel I ate some strawberries.

So again, if I get some comments to this and the other posts, then I’ll continue.  Otherwise I’ll stop!

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Darrin

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Related posts:

1. On The Road – Day 4
2. On The Road – Day 1
3. On The Road – Day 6

Tags: diet, traveling workouts