Give your body the proper fuel it needs

Well, as the title states, give your body the proper fuel it needs. If you do not feed your body with an adequate amount of the proper nutrients you will not have the energy and strength to push through a good workout.
This happened to me today. I started my day off with a healthy breakfast (eggs, raspberries, blueberries, and Greek yogurt) but from my busy week of college and studying for tests, and keeping up with life in general, I was unprepared for the rest of my meals. I ate a peanut butter and jelly sand which for lunch (not going to lie it tasted AMAZING...I was craving it) and then I drank a Rockstar energy drink and for a snack twice today I ate kettle corn.
I headed to the gym, thinking that I was going to get in a good leg workout, however, it did not go as planned. I felt really weak and had no desire to finish. I was trying to increase the amount of weight I was lifting, in order to gain progress, but this only made things worse. I felt very exhausted and weak.

All in all, I did not make it through the entire work out that I wanted to accomplish. I know a huge part of this was because of my diet. If you feed your body crap, you are going to get crappy results. Think of it as putting fuel in your vehicle. If you put the best quality fuel in your vehicle it will run at its optimum potential. On the other hand, if you put the lowest quality fuel in your vehicle it was not run at the optimum level. Same with your body, it will still run, just not at its maximum potential.

So, eat a proper and balanced diet, get an adequate amount of rest, and kill those workouts!

Here's what I did today (not including everything that I planned on doing):

Warm-up
Barbell squats - 2 sets of 15 increase weight - 2 more sets of 15
Dead-lifts- 2 sets of 15 increase weight - 2 more sets of 15
Leg press  - 20 reps, increase weight, 15 reps, increase weight, 10 reps, increase weight 6 reps
Calf raises 4 sets of 15
Wall squats with weight - 4 total. 60 sec, 45 sec, 30 sec, until failure


There was more than I wanted to do but I was feeling super weak, along with shoulder pain and a pinching feeling in my back (due to previous injury; I go to the doctor in 2 weeks).

Since I do not want to risk making my injury worse I may take an unplanned rest day tomorrow depending on how I feel. Listen to your body, if its telling you something isn't right, take a rest day.

Otherwise, eat clean and train mean!