Working out at Gold's Gym

I've just got a renewed membership at Gold's Gym here in Omiya.  From last Friday I stared going.  On Friday I did back, Saturday I went to Tokyo and did chest at the Shibuya location.  Sunday I took off, simply because when I showed up to the gym around 9 p.m. it was already closed.  On Monday I went and did legs, and yesterday I went and did my shoulders. 

The Leg workout was pretty crazy.  I must say that right now I'm really feeling it.  It has been awhile since I really worked out my legs that hard, and they are quite sore.
Exercising your leg muscles is extremely important of course, since they are much more primary to your locomotion than any upper body exercise.  I think also in terms of abs and weight loss they are absolutely crucial.

I've started to track my calories using a program that has a pretty good database of foods, even those found in Japan.  I am also recording all my workout on the exercise App for my iphone.

I can already see some fantastic results even after being back at Gold's for less than 1 week.  First, I am sleeping much much better.  The muscle fatigue means that despite any attempt to think and stay awake my body is simply naturally tired and therefore unable to do so.  The sleep is much more restful and complete than it would be otherwise.  There is no easy comparison between sleep from one period and sleep from another, this is especially true if you are comparing the experience of being asleep.  But, upon waking up you know very well the difference between having achieved REM sleep and not having achieved a significant amount of it.  That difference can be recorded in a app like sleepclock, which uses the iphone gyroscope to gauge when you enter and exit REM sleep.

I'm getting a handle on my diet as well.  Simply recording the food you eat can have a huge effect on what you put in your body.  Do you really want to write down that you ate X quantity of fried chicken or doughnuts? 

The next step is drinking enough water, which is itself aided by that diet app.  It has a nice graphical interface that records your water intake.  You want to make sure that it fills up, so it actually graphically represents the empty water glasses that you didn't fill, and there is no text, so you really get a nice visual effect of your water consumption.