It Lies Heavy: Take Me Somewere I've Never Been Before

Workouts for this week:

The Importance of Strength Training:

Muscles are the metabolic engine for your body. The more muscle you have, the higher your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) - which is a measure of how many calories your body burns at rest. In other words, the more active and trained those muscles are, the more fat you burn, 24 hours a day!

Your BMR goes up once you are finish a workout. This effect is highest after a strength work-out, even higher than cardio. Remember this: you will burn more calories all day after a strength workout in the morning.

http://www.modelresource.ca/Mediafeatures/Cleary/model_physique_6.shtml

So in other words muscles are important and theres alot of ways to get lean muscle (you don't have to bulk up). More importantly, having more muscle helps burn more during cardio and lets you work out longer without killing yourself.

Workout:
1.)Leg Squats: 3 sets of 12
2.) Bicycle Crunches: 4 sets of 15 reps (on each side)
3.) Tricep Dips: 3 sets of 15
4.) Elevated Pushups: 2 sets of 15
5.) Leg Raises: 5 sets of 10
6.) Walking Lunges: 50 lunges
THEN
20 minutes of some form of cardio
This should probably take around half an hour.

Ugh, today was my first day back in school and I didn't expect how much it would suck for all of my procrastination and missed assignments to catch up with me. I wanted to start out fresh, but now I just feel overwhelmed and that triggers a need to binge. I made a bag of popcorn and started chomping on cheezits before I even realized it, but somehow I got the strength to put the food down before I went over 150 calories. It's a good sign I guess because I never could have done it before, I would've just started crying and shoved it down my throat. I feel so bloated and disgusting right now and I have been chugging bottles of water to try and flush it out. Im going to actually workout, take a shower, and then crash and finally get some sleep. Night and stay strong <3