heavy lifting

I actually dreamed that I met vyus last night and asked him about this. After finishing my initial 12-week challenge, I've decided to continue with the eating plan and daily workout schedule in order to reach my final target weight. However, I'm tired of the same weightlifting routine and I spent some time working out a new one on the weekend. It's a 7-day rotation that goes like this:
( details here if you're interested )

I'm not sure if this is the best-structured routine split, but weightlifting guru Bob Paris has written extensively about this type of lifting workout with the two exercises per muscle group where the first exercise is designed to pre-exhaust the muscle, and it has been effective for me in the past. It's also designed to give each muscle group a nice long break between workouts in order to recover. If the way my muscles feel this morning is any indication, yesterday's workout was absolutely glorious. It felt that way when I was doing it, too. I could barely squeeze out my last reps of the second exercises in every case.

As far as cardio is concerned, I'm going to stick with the 20-minute-long interval training-style workout that Bill Phillips recommends for my regular cardio routines. But I'm also going to add swimming, cycling and running workouts on top of those whenever my schedule permits. Now that the weather's finally warming up in this snowhole, I'll be able to start running and cycling outside again.

Now I have to find a mini-triathlon to check out this summer...

sayings

B cleaned out our study closet shelves last night, and then I found some scraps of paper in the recycling bin this morning upon which I had once written various sayings that had struck me from books I was reading at the time. I didn't note where each quote came from, but I rescued the sheets from the garbage and wanted to type some of them out for posterior's sake. Some are a bit platitudinous (is that a word?), but most are worth reading.

The illumined soul...
Thinks always, "I am doing nothing."
No matter what he sees,
Hears, touches, smells, eats...
This he knows always:
"I am not seeing, I am not hearing:
it is the senses that see and hear
And touch the things of the senses."
( more here... )