day fifty-four
Finalised my schedule for now. It's not final, but it is what it is for now. Day 1: Upper Body – Chest press, overhead tricep extensions, lateral raises, lateral pull down, vertical rows, and bicep curl Day 2: Lower Body – leg curl, inner thigh/outer thigh, Bulgarian split squats, calf raises. Day 3: Cardio – Boxing fitness on Wednesdays and a treadmill/rowing machine/elliptical combo on Saturday, both coming to ~500 calories burnt.
Am currently around 72.5kg (started around 76kg), and am looking to run this for 1-2 months before shifting to a Push-Pull Legs routine after I've hit my target weight (below 70kg). Am maintaining a daily calorie deficit as I'm on a cut till then.
- Gym – did a 10 minute treadmill warmup followed by bicep curl, lat pull down, vertical rows, and tricep extensions. Remind me to never go to the gym past 6pm, the crowd is insane. Ended up triple-alternating for a lot of these, thus slowing down the pace entirely. Took at least 1 hour 45 minutes for a workout that shouldve been done in 1 hour 15. DIdn't track weights closely (TERRIBLE, I KNOW) but everything was comfortable only around 5. Am using level 5 as the benchmark from here on in. In 2 machines (I think tricep extensions and another one) was better around 4. Had a frustrating time researching today, but have settled on this current schedule for AT LEAST till the end of the week. There is a massive urge to move to free weights, but I'm super wary of bad form – it's hard enough getting it right with assistance on a machine.
- Sports – India vs England – we are jinxed. We are jinxed and will never proceed to an ICC trophy. We are the Spurs of the footballing world. Here's to more bilateral and Asia cup wins. Seriously though, we need to desperately better pace bowling in this country. Can't be relying on one Jasprit Bumrah.
- Video editing – made eh progress. Got together a concrete plan for the intro and started to get clips together.