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Just a quickie.

Anyone else enjoy that title? Me too.

Sorry I haven't posted in a full day - my laptop broke and I don't really have a ton to say about yesterday other than a quick nutrition and exercise update. I had a wonderful meeting with my pops and the bank so that was the highlight of my day.

Left my parents late in the afternoon just in time for annoying school kids to hit the streets and load up on the buses. Great. I hurried my butt to the gym and worked out my lower body. Before I get to my workout this is what I ate:

Breakfast: (2)  over easy eggs, (4) small pieces of whole wheat bread and a pecan turtle coffee with coconut oil and touch of chocolate milk
Lunch: Macaroni, tomato and cheese and (2) helpings of my moms stir fry - cabbage, spinach, carrots, pork in a ginger sauce.
Dinner: (2) chicken tacos - tomato, onion, cilantro and obviously chicken in a sauce and bacon cesar salad on the side.

Lower body workout (in no order):
Seated leg press: 60 lb
Seated leg curl: 45 lb
Hip Abduction: 105 lb
Hip Adduction: 125 lb
^ 4 sets of 8

Side crunch (each side) 25 lb
Sumo squats 10 lb
^ 2 sets of 8

+ 67 minute cardio.
So usually I need a bit of a warm up prior to running on the treadmill and what I learned yesterday was that incline 6 and 3.5 speed is perfect for a warm up. Did that for awhile, then lowered the incline and ran / speed walked for a bit.

REACHED MY GOAL OF 65,000 STEPS FOR THE WEEK. YAHOOO!
Cheers to making goals. YAY! Stay tuned...

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