Sick

My first illness of 2012. I'm still feeling a little down, but hopefully this is the last day of it. It's amazing how your body will take every last ounce of energy away from you to fight off its own problems. Often creating new problems in its wake. Like, I wasn't able to workout yesterday! Small potatoes, I know.

Lately, I've been giving my workout some serious thought. It for sure has made me stronger and helped me shed the pounds. It could be better however. My current lifting routine has far too much isolation exercises. I've been adding more compound movement exercises to even it out, but it's still not right and I'm worried I'm going to get hurt soon. It's also taking much longer to get done. So I'm pretty sure I'm going to scrap my current weight lifting routine and go with a 5x5.

A Pendlay 5x5 routine appeals to me the most right now, though I will probably make a few minor changes to it. While the Basebuilding for Cyclists book would have me do a more specific to cycling weight lifting routine, it too is composed of a lot of isolated muscle movements and would take two to three hours to complete. It's not exactly fair to compare the two though. The 5x5 is a bulking workout whereas the AA workout in the Basebuilding for Cyclists book is meant to prepare the body for the rigors of cycling. But you know what? As much as I want to get as fast as possible on the bike, I really don't want to look like the average cyclist who races. It will make me slower, but I'll feel better about myself.

We'll see how this works out though. Along with the weight lifting, I'll continue to add healthy doses of cycling to each week. In 12 weeks, we should know the answer. Hopefully I'll have hit a lot my weightlifting goals by then.