Monday, July 4, 2011

Day 4 - The more you "sweat" in training

Slightly better day on both the training and diet front...met a buddy for breakfast at the American Club where I ordered the Eggs Benedict.  Ate only 1.5 of the two eggs, ordered a grape-fruit juice and threw out the fried potatoes that came with the dish.  Two cups of coffee, light milk.

Headed up to the gym by about 11:30 where worked on my exercises.  Got a good stretch going during the leg-lunges....realized it's quite good for ones balance as well.  Push-ups felt good, easier than the other days  as well as the sit-ups.

Thinking the light-breeze outside would help, decided to go for a jog around the palace from the gym in Akasaka.  Despite the breeze, turned out to be still a warm day and quite humid (tail end of rainy season here in Japan).  Total jog about 8k, but really started feeling it - esp. in my right calf...possibly b/c of the leg lunges, around halfway through.  Sweat pouring down my face, nearly laughed when then the guy on my I-phone audiobook about the Navy Seals started saying, "The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle."  Right....

Lunch - one plain yogurt and one plum.

Dinner- mish-mash of steamed broccoli, 2/3 a bowel of genmai rice, miso-soup, fried zucchini, chicken, small piece of salamon.  Desert - two biscuits.

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