I finally hit the weight room again after an embarrassingly long hiatus.<\/p>\n
There’s a hunger I get sometimes if I’ve worked out really hard weightlifting, and it feels better than other hungers.<\/p>\n
Much is made of the nutrition that brackets a workout for the weight lifter, as well one should!\u00a0 You can’t out-train a crappy diet.\u00a0 (God knows I try.\u00a0 You’d think I’d do <\/em>better since I know <\/em>better.\u00a0 Ah well…)<\/p>\n While all meals should have some protein and some carbs, the pre-workout meal should be slightly higher in carbs.\u00a0 I don’t mean like a bunch of bread.\u00a0 I mean like a bowl of porridge or something.\u00a0 I suppose the Celtic blood I have shows when it comes to good pinhead oatmeal, because that really, really is a good, tasty breakfast.\u00a0 (I often have an egg with this.\u00a0 Protein, you know).<\/p>\n But my favorite meal, the meal that is viscerally satisfying, that makes me feel good emotionally, and that I’m most hungry for is the post workout meal.\u00a0 It’s always simple — just meat and veggies.\u00a0 If I have time I usually just chop everything up and saute it with some soy sauce in a pan with a dribble of olive oil.<\/p>\n I sometimes wonder if that meal feels good in a way that might be wired into the hindbrain.\u00a0 God knows I’m mostly primitive, and perhaps heavy exertion before a meal with meat satisfies the hunter programming in my brain, even if truth be told, I’m no hunter and would likely starve if dropped in the woods to survive.<\/p>\n I bribed myself into the weight room today, and said if I was a Very Good Girl and worked out, I could soak in the hot tub afterwards.\u00a0 To be honest, while it’s a pleasure and I’d do it just for that, it’s also to prevent what I know is going to be a very sore morning tomorrow.\u00a0 Because of the hiatus, I was lifting about 20 lbs less than I had been at the top of my game.\u00a0 Rule One, you know.\u00a0 I’m really too busy to be benched by stupid.\u00a0 Even though I was lifting less, I was still shaking after the workout, so I got the right amount of physical challenge.<\/p>\n Instead of doing the long swims, as much as I love to say I’m swimming a mile, I’m doing shorter, more intense workouts.\u00a0 They do better for body-changing, and I really do want to take off a bit of adipose tissue.<\/p>\n I think, though, I’m still going to indulge in the hot tub after swimming, too.<\/p>\n Hedonist, that’s me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I finally hit the weight room again after an embarrassingly long hiatus. There’s a hunger I get sometimes if I’ve worked out really hard weightlifting, and it feels better than other hungers. Much is made of the nutrition that brackets a workout for the weight lifter, as well one should!\u00a0 You can’t out-train a crappy … <\/p>\n