TAG, I hear ya on the mtn climbers. They used to torture us with those when I was in the Marine Corps. Definitely gets the heart rate up there quick.
I prefer to pulse the heart rate. It goes up and down. I do the same lifting weights and cardio. I didn't realize how high my heart rate got during cardio until yesterday when I had the HRM on. It was hitting 148 - 152 during the heavier parts of the program and about 128 - 130 on the lower parts. I set the elliptical to random or whatever it's called where it changes the resistance ever 3 minutes.
When I'm lifting weights I'm going for max effort on the lifts rather than cardio as I consider the weight lifting strictly for muscle building. You do get some cardio benefit obviously but that isn't what I personally focus on there. I'm a smaller guy so you have to curtail that to your personal needs.
I'm a bit sore today and haven't been in a LONG time so I think changing my workout yesterday was the right thing to do. I try to change it up every 8-12 weeks to prevent plateaus.
I was pretty blasted last night. I ended up needing a sweet potato with dinner and felt a lot better. I'm getting to the point where I'm confident enough I may post a status pic here soon.
I'm also ramping down the adult beverages. I'll miss them after work, but discipline discipline discipline haha. We'll see how that goes.
Here's a quote of the day for you guys:
"Garbage in equals garbage out"
Here are yesterdays meals:
6:30am 1 scoop ON Pro Complex pre workout
9:30am 1.5 scoop ON After Max post work out, 1 cup coffee
12pm 1/4 turkey sub, 1 cup broccoli, 1tbsp ICBINBL, 1oz almonds
3pm apple, carb master yogurt, 2 hard boiled egg whites
6pm 1 scoop ON Pro Complex, 1 tbsp peanut butter (this is what I replaced the whiskey with hahaha)
7:30pm 4oz turkey loin, sweet potato, 1tbsp ICBINBL, 2 cups mixed veggies broccoli/squash, spinach salad