Sickness Bad, Kale Good

I have not been that sick in a LONG time!  I've been sick since Wednesday, the 16th and finally started feeling a little better on Saturday.

Here's what I can tell you.  I ran on about 1.5 miles on Wednesday (against my conscience telling me not to), felt even more awful about a hour after, and then took Thursday off from work and working out.  Then, I took Friday off as well from exercise.  At this point I was feeling extremely ill and absolutely exhausted.  To give you an idea of how bad I felt, let me tell you that I usually sleep about 6 hours a night.  Thursday night to Friday, I slept no less than 13 hours.  It was fantastic!

This brings us to Saturday.  I was feeling a bit better so I jumped back into the routine.  I ran 3.5 miles (indoors of course) and got my diet back on track.  I even bought a Kitchenaid blender and started whipping up Kale & Fruit smoothies.  I never knew such a strong vegetable could taste so good in a shake.

Want the recipe?

Add frozen mango, pineapple, and strawberries to blender.  Add orange juice (never from concentrate).  2 heaping tablespoons of Low Fat Vanilla yogurt.  1 heaping scoop of protein powder. 2 cups of chopped kale*.  Throw in a few ice cubes and blend that sucker up.  Yum!

*Chopping the kale is necessary because most non-industrial blenders can't cut through the dense walls in kale leaving you with poorly blended leaves.


Without further ado I give you my exercise list for the weekend:

Saturday:

1. Ran 3.5 miles

Sunday:

1. Dumbbell Cleans - 10 x 3 sets*
2. Bench Press - 10 x 3 sets*
3. Shoulder Press - 10 x 3 sets*
4. Dumbbell Curls - 10 x 3 sets*
5. Lat Pulldowns - 10 x 3 sets**
6. Seated Row - 10 x 3 sets**
7. Pectoral Fly - 10 x 3 sets**
8. Reverse Fly - 10 x 3 sets  **
9. Ran 1.0 miles

*20 Jumping Jacks between each set

**5 Pushups between each set