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Workouts are great therapy. A good workout benefits your body from head to toe.

Well, what I experienced last week wasn't that extreme, and it wasn't potassium. I just couldn't work as hard and it was apparent when I started the workout. Muscles were still sore too.

I have had a similar thing happen, as far as an "episode." Thought I was maybe having a heart attack and my Dr. had me do a stress EKG. He never did figure it out, but an old battle-axe nurse I saw about a year later pegged it as a blood sugar crash.

I used to go to the gym first thing in the AM. I'd get out of bed, eat a piece of fruit, and choke down a powerbar before the workout. On the morning of the "episode," I was out of powerbars so didn't have one, just the fruit. Post workout, I felt dizzy, flushed, and so nauseous that I had to sit down with my head in my hands. It passed after about 10 minutes.

My Dr. just ran the tests and told me I was fine. The nurse asked me what I'd eaten, and told me my symptoms were classic for a blood sugar crash, which made sense. Powerbars have complex carbs that stay in your system more than an hour; a piece of fruit has simple sugars that you burn through is a half hour and if you're working hard your blood sugar crashes.

At least I got a free stress EKG out of it.

1 hour aerobic last night
1 hour HIIT tonight

Finally got around to putting some weight on a pack and walking around with it last night. Felt... heavy.

bleachers(1 set of 5), run a lap, tire flips

did it 4 times

Squats, deadlifts, power cleans yesterday. Bench press, flat, incline, and decline today. Elliptical tomorrow. Yippee.

Good work!!!!

Rower: 30min

Treadmill incline: 12.5% 30min

Bicepts/Delt evolution.

2.5 mile run, crunches, plank, leg lifts

Complete the following for time:

Hang Power Snatches 100 reps, 75#
Hanging Knee Raises 100 reps

14:13

Hour BP hike with the Toby.

Well, probably no better way to prepare for a backpack hunt than to backpack hike beforehand!

Lower body/core today.

1 mile run, 5x5 squats

Row 1200m then:

2 rounds
Man Makers 10 reps, 25# Dumbbells
Overhead Walking Lunge 20 steps, 25# Dumbbells
Farmers Walk 50ft, 25# Dumbbells

25:00.

This one sucked the wind out of me. Whoever devised those man makers was an evil bastid.

That sounds like a good one pointer. Gonna make that my hangover-Sunday workout this week.




Travis

It was supposed to be 3 rounds, but I timed out. If it's a good hangover, have a bucket handy...

Plank: 4min-2.5min-3min.

Walking lunges: 40steps up and back x 2.

2/3rds of a chest/back evolution.

2x10 of those man-makers. Had to look them up. Only had 10lbs in each hand to start. Will bounce it up next time. I can see where they can get ugly.

I haven't got into doing farmers walk and lunges yet. Although I have a friend who is on me to do them. I did do squats, deadlifts, and powercleans today so that is good enough. I hope anyway!

U.B. today.