Fitness Blog

Friday, 10/3/25

I’ve thought for a long time that since I don’t have work or school, I have nothing better to do with my time than train with weights. Now that October is here, I can actually apply this philosophy, because I’m starting Liftober.

Up until recently, I’ve been focusing on doing cardio by walking for an hour each morning before breakfast. Lifting weights by targeting a different muscle group every 48 hours sounds like a great plan to gradually get back into lifting.

I hit 277 pounds on Tuesday, and when I checked my blood pressure, it was one of the highest readings since getting the blood pressure monitor. I ate pizza two days before, and two breakfast sandwiches and two hash browns from a fast food place the day before.

Several journal entries ago, I mentioned buying steak, but I decided not to buy it any more because side it made my blood pressure go up. I was planning on buying chocolate milk, but scratched that off of my grocery list because of my high blood pressure.

I did a leg workout for the first day of Liftober, then on October 2nd I wanted to have macaroni and cheese with ground turkey, so I trained legs a second day in a row. I went from 277 pounds in Tuesday, September 29th to 274 pounds on Friday, October 3rd.