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Series: "M90F: Matt's 90-day Fitness"
Day: 4
Activities: LOWER BODY - Lunges, Calf-raises, Walking.
Day 2 of lower body; no excuses for pain/stiffness, it's actually good for you, get out there!
Today I focused more on one of my goals, building my calves' muscle mass. A little shaky on my first try!
There are 2 ways to gain muscle mass: 1) go until muscle failure, and 2) make that happen between 8-12 reps with weights if possible.
Even if you don't want to get bigger, you should get bigger muscles. Muscles are like investing money: they work for you (burning calories) when you're not doing anything. You'll often burn more fat than gain muscle mass, so you'll still be thinner, but more defined.
So I have adjusted my diet a bit, partly because of the P90X challenge, but partly because I want to eat better anyway. Yesterday I was going nuts about food. Everywhere I went I was smelling food, or seeing amazing food; at lunch, at the grocery store, passing BK, on T.V., etc.
Fun Food Fact: when you're hungry you're usually actually just thirsty! Your body gets confused.
Solution: drink water, and eat high-water (low-calorie) foods.
Tomatoes: 25 calories/cup
Strawberries: 50 calories/cup
One of my Psych profs in college said that you can't stop doing a habit, you can only replace it with a different one. Many people try to eat less, and healthy at the same time. Mistake! Instead, eat healthy, but trade-off with eating more since you don't have to worry about calories. Don't worry, there's no way you can get fat on tomatoes and strawberries. Think about it: if you at equal amounts of just these, you'd have to eat 54 cups of food to surpass 2,000 calories in a day; not gonna happen.
So I really hit my stride today; felt the endorphins kick in, sort of a high! Hope you're feeling it to. Post and let me know how your fitness efforts are going!
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