Today was a good workout day with a very odd lifting workout in the morning and a great cardio session in the afternoon.  The lifting workout was full of exercises I haven't done before.

Today I got thinking about how easy it is to make excuses.  You can easily make excuses to tell yourself.  This is because you can choose to believe anything you tell yourself.  What do these excuses accomplish?

It is very easy to make excuses to rationalize not taking action.  It isn't hard to come up with alot of believeable reasons to not take action.  At some point you come to the following question:  Do you want your life to be filled with excuses or with accomplishment?

Each time you catch yourself thinking of an excuse or rationalization, ask yourself that question.  Challenge yourself to make the conscious decision to choose whether or not you wish to accomplish.

When you force yourself to look at it that way the excuses begin to look silly and useless.  The more you remind yourself of the value of accomplishment, the  more you take action instead of making excuses.  The more you take action, the more you will achieve.

Workout Log:

Exercise	Weight x Reps
1-1/4 squat	135 x 8 135 x 8 135 x 8 135 x 8 135 x 8
Split Deadlift	115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg) 115 x 8 (per leg)
Split Good Morning	65 x 8 (per leg)  65 x 8 (per leg)  65 x 8 (per leg)  65 x 8 (per leg)  65 x 8 (per leg)

Maybe now you can see why I said it was an odd workout.  The 1-1/4 squat was done just like a regular squat, but you go down to parallell, raise up 1/4 of the way, go back down to parallell and then go all the way up and that's 1 repetition.  By 6 your quads are burning.  That was just the first set!  The split deadlift is basically a lunge with the bar held between your legs.  The split good morning is a good morning done with a foot up on a step platform.  You do the entire set for each leg seperately.  That one really worked my lower back and concentrating on the form was a real challenge.  I spent some more time today analyzing (online) the form for this exercise because I wasn't sure I had it right.

Accountability Log:

	Mission 1:  Day 35 of 40	Accountability
	Meal/Training Plan:  Real-time accountability	Each task completed?
	Day 96: January 29, 2008	Yes or No
3:30 a.m.	Meal 1:  Protein shake and oatmeal and 3 glasses of water	Yes
3:30 a.m.	Supplements:  Animal Pak, Glucosamine Chondroiten, calcium, chromium, glutamine, BCAAs	Yes
4:00 a.m.	Workout: Lifting workout and 6 glasses of water	Yes
5:00 a.m.	Supplements: Protein shake, BCAAs, glutamine	Yes
6:30 a.m.	Meal 2:  Chicken breast, oatmeal and large salad and 3 glasses of water	Yes
9:30 a.m.	Meal 3:  Chicken breast, oatmeal and radishes and cucumbers and 3 glasses of water	Yes
12:30 p.m.	Meal 4:  Chicken breast and large salad and radishes and cucumbers and 3 glasses of water	Yes
3:30 p.m.	Meal 5: Chicken breast and large salad and 3 glasses of water	Yes
4:30 p.m.	Workout:  Steady State cardio session for 45 minutes, FYA training	Yes
6:30 p.m.	Meal 6:  Chicken breast and mixed veggies and 3 glasses of water	Yes
8:30 p.m.	Supplements:  Casein protein shake, glutamine, calcium and 3 glasses of water	Yes
	Accountability Areas:	Points	Possible
	Meal 1	1	1
	Meal 2	1	1
	Meal 3	1	1
	Meal 4	1	1
	Meal 5	1	1
	Training	1	1
	Post Workout Nutrition	1	1
	Water	1	1
	Pre-sleep nutrition	1	1
	Accountability	1	1
	Daily Totals:	10	10
	Mission Totals:	336	340
	Workout Log:
	1-1/4 squat	135 x 8 x 5
	Split Deadlift	115 x 8 x 5
	Split Good Morning	65 x 8 x 5
	Steady state cardio (elipptical)	45 minutes
	Flatten Your Abs training	10 minutes

Remember...no excuses.  Take massive action and turn it into massive results.  Anything is possible when you really put your mind to it. 

Until tomorrow...GET BACK TO LIFTING!