Busy.....

Last week I did not blog at all. I was busy at work and with the family. I uploaded a YouTube video to accompany this blog that discusses a little bit about my training and progress. I am recording these videos on my iPad mini, so the quality and the lighting may not be the best....but oh well. Also, I am using a new app called Vizzywig to record my videos. It has some editing features that I am just starting to learn how to use. My video is quite choppy, and hopefully the sound quality is okay. I should have increased the volume prior to recording.

My YouTube video Link

Training today was awesome

Squats (ass to the grass squats)
45 x10 warmup
95 X 10
115 X 10
115 X 10

Lying Leg Curls
3 sets of 25 X10

Standing calf raises
3 sets of 110 X 10

Alternating Lunges with 20 pound dumbbells
3 sets of 10

Palof  Presses
3 sets each side 20 X 10

YouTube video clip

My Grandkids :)

Some Women Should Leave The Spandex in the Drawer!!!

I looked in disgust at that girl sporting her STEELSTRETCH  compression top and tight fitting bottoms in the weight room. Both garments were too small for her and exposed every freaking roll she had. You know the look....the muffin top thing going on, and the back fat spilling over. She looked plain unattractive and I wanted to tell her to go home and put some clothes on that fit then come back to the gym.

Yep, that girl was me...lol. I ordered some STEELSTRETCH compression workout clothing in small. I am NOT a small at this time, but I needed something to motivate me to kick my training up a notch and train harder. You see, I am kinda comfortable with my weight because I am not heavy at all. I fit into MOST of my clothes, however, some are tight on me...but most fit. So I don't look bad...but I don't look as good as I want to look either. I admit that I am a VAIN person. I want to look GREAT!! I am not there yet and I have yet to hit my macros, do any cardio, or train as heavy as I could. So, I decided to add a video of the disgusting looking girl. NO MAKEUP.....straight home from the gym, so DON'T JUDGE ME LOL. Check out the video below :)

Spandex Gone Wrong video

I will wear those clothes to the gym, and look at my fat rolls in the mirror every day until those rolls disappear. That will be my new motivation, because I look pretty bad right now in those small spandex bottoms and tops. I love STEELSTRETCH apparel. I first was turned on to that brand when I visited their booth at the Arnold and bought 3 tops. They have held up very nicely, so I decided to look the company up online and order more stuff. I placed the order yesterday morning and found it at my doorstep today!! Now that is service!!!!
http://www.steelstretch.com/

Training

Leg Press- The leg press machine was occupied for a long time so I did single leg presses on the ISO leg press machine. 100# 3 X 10

Stiff Legged Dead Lifts

65 X 10

85 X 10

95 X 10

Next time I will start at 95 pounds

Standing Calf Raises

110# 3 X10 (wanted to do seated, but Fostoria does not have seated calf machine)

Bench Step Ups

 3 X 10 (1st set I was holding 15# DBs and it killed me and my form sucked. I dropped the dumbbells for sets 2 and 3 and did those sets with really good form and I was breathing hard!!!!! A killer. I used to knock those out no problem!! Not anymore

Stir the Pot

4 X 10 These kicked my butt!! I could barely do them with good form. GEEZ....I will have to keep working on those. This is a totally new exercise for me.

Are You Kidding Me!!

Yesterday I treated myself to some high end makeup that is supposed to be for very oily skin. I paid high dollar to get that flawless velvet skin type look with this foundation and when I put it on at 0630 it looked great! No oil and I had the beautiful looking NON GREASY skin. I was so impressed, that I left home without my blotting powder and blotting papers. By time I got to work, I was an OIL SLICK!!!! YOU COULD FRY A PIECE OF CHICKEN ON MY FACE!!!! I was pissed and I looked like CRAP all day!!

I tried to take a picture of the oil look but my lighting is bad so you can't really see the high shine on my face below....but you can see my disappointment. 

Oh well,

I made it to the gym...

Lat pull downs

75 X 12

85 X 10

100 X 10

Flat Barbell Bench Press

75 X 10

80 X 10

85 X 8

Face Pulls

10 X 12

25 X 10

25 X 10

Shrugs

3 X 10 sets holding 29# DB

DB Curls

25 X 10 for 3 sets

I will log my nutrition today....I haven't logged my food since last Thursday. 

I've Got So Much!!!!

I have been missing in action for a couple of days because my home was violated by thieves. They  stole all my flat screen TV's, my stereo equipment, jewelry, appliances, and loads of other things. This happened last Thursday and I have been dealing with cleanup, insurance, and filling out reports and all the things that go with a break in. The thieves stole my stuff but one thing that they did not steal was my joy. Despite it all, I am blessed abundantly with the safety of my family. It could have been much worse.

We cannot always control what happens to us in life, but one thing we can control is our attitude and how we deal with the bad things that happen to us. I choose an attitude of gratitude. I am not a victim, I am a warrior. Material things can be replaced.....so there!!

When things like this happen to me I reach out to family and friends for support and most of all I reach out to God who is my strength. He always take care of me. I have a lot of great gospel songs to jam to when I need a pickup. The first song I reached for in this particular instance is called "I've Got So Much" I will provide the YouTube video of this song at the end of this post.
http://youtu.be/sWwFXGOKx4Q

So, I was without wifi until Sunday....but I am back on line. I had my Laptop and iPads and even my camera with me....so they did not get that. Thank you God. 

So lets discuss todays training...

Day 1, lower body and abs

Squat
BW X 10
45# X 12
75# X 10
85# X 10

leg-curl machine
57.5# X 10
70# X 10
75# X 10

Standing  calf raise
110# X 10 3sets

Lunge
3 X 10 holding 20#DB

Pallof press 
2 X 10 at 10#
2 X 10 at 15#

Nice workout

I also treated myself to some shopping today. I spent a lot of money at Sephora's today and I am thrilled with my purchases. I bought the following....

1. Hour Glass Immaculate Foundation....woohoo can't wait to wear that tomorrow
2. An Hour Glass Kabuki Brush to apply the foundation......Sweet
3.Perricone MD Blue Plasma Skin Care thing...to even out my skin tone...Yay baby
4.Stila Eyeshadow.....Amazing
5. I am a VIB so I got Makeup Forever Mascara and Urban Decay Eye Pencil

Only girls that are into makeup and skin care would truly appreciate my shopping spree. My hubby would kill me if he looked at the withdrawal from the account. BUT I AM WORTH IT!!!!

I AM GOING TO LOOK BEAUTIFUL TOMORROW....LOL

Happy Training...

I trained my back and biceps last night around 8:30 pm. I am beginning to get used to the new gym and seeing the same people daily. Of course all the equipment that I wanted to train on was in use. I clumsily stood around for a few minutes waiting for the Lat Pull Down Cable thingy to be available. I felt a little stupid just standing around watching everyone else train as I waited for the equipment, so I went  to a machine and did some rows. This gym used PRECOR equipment/machines and I must say, I like the equipment. It is kinda heavy duty hard core machines. Cool....

Besides not having a cage or squat rack, this gym is pretty cool. I met a couple of nice couple who train hard...I mean the grunting and and eeking out every rep til failure thing. The dude is really hardcore....pushing people he is working with to their max. One of the people he pushes really hard is his cute little wife...who is a tiny little thing. But let me tell you about this tiny girl....she placed  a couple of 45's on the barbell and straight up knocked out 8 reps with no problem at all. Geez...... She is all about 100 pounds lol. So, hmmm....how much weight is that??? 135 pounds!!
She easily did 135 pounds...more weight then she even weighs. So....that got my attention...lol. Her husband approached  me and introduced himself. He complimented my intensity and form when I train. He asked me if I had a trainer and I said yes. He used to compete. His wife never competed, but she looks like she does. 

Training....

Machine Rows
Wt	Set	Reps
65	1	10
70	1	10
70	1	10

Lat PullDowns Wide
Wt	Set	Reps
70	1	10
80	1	10
90	1	10

One Arm Row
Wt	Set	Reps
35	3	10

Dead Lifts
Wt	Set	Reps
75	2	10

Nutrition Tips....

My current coach turned me on to this amazing high protein legume!! I eat edemame (SOY BEANS) whenever I am hungry or too rushed to eat something else. I munch on the entire bag some days. Super high fiber so when it is all said and done, the calorie content is low if you subtract the fiber carbs. Love this stuff!!!

Private Selection - Mukimame/Edimame

Nutrition Facts 1 Serving Calories	120	Sodium	5 mg
Total Fat	5 g	Potassium	0 mg
Saturated	1 g	Total Carbs	8 g
Polyunsaturated	0 g	Dietary Fiber	6 g
Monounsaturated	0 g	Sugars	2 g
Trans	0 g	Protein	12 g
Cholesterol	0 mg
Vitamin A	4%	Calcium	4%
Vitamin C	0%	Iron	15%

 

*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depend

My Simple Chest/Shoulder/Tricep Routine

Tuesday Training Routine




Jaime Eason...I think that is her name. She is such a cutie pie and is just a sweetheart in     person. She is the girl in my exercise pictures below

    http://www.bodybuilding.com/exercises/

I am going to be a bit more specific on my training routine for a few people that are reading my blogs that I work with. Now that I have more time to blog, I am going to take advantage of my time and add as much beneficial information to my blogs as possible. I should have a few months of precious time to do fun things like this.

As I am starting to lose my weight again people ultimately notice and wonder what in the heck am I doing to lose the weight and they are surprised to see that my weekly strength training and cardio routine is quite simple. My coach emphasizes the point that I should add additional cardio when I begin to have a stall in my weight loss. Well the only reason that I have really had stalls is because I have not been on point with my nutrition. I am not really watching my macros as I should and I have had more than a few cheat days here and there.

Hopefully I am to the point that I will stay on task 6/7 days a week. I am not promising anything...but I am optimistic :)

One of my challenges is to avoid the candy jar that I pass dozens of times at work on my way to my office (that contains one of my many favorite candy goodies)



demon candy

  The Training Routine

BB Bench Press
Wt	Set	Reps
65	1	10
75	1	10
80	1	8

                                             

DB Incline BenchPress
Wt	Set	Reps
25	1	10
25	1	10
20	1	10

DB Shoulder Press
Wt	Set	Reps
15	1	10
15	1	10
20	1	8

DB Lateral Raises
Wt	Set	Reps
65	1	10
75	1	10
80	1	8

Tricep Pushdowns
Wt	Set	Reps
65	1	10
75	1	10
80	1	8

 

Bench Dips
Wt	Set	Reps
BW	3	10

Diet Tip of the day....got this one from my hubby who saw this tip on some TV program
I prepare my food for the week typically on Sundays. I try to keep my protein higher than my carbs so I do allow myself some ground chuck. What I do is this. I wrap a 5lb tube of ground chuck in foil and pop it in the oven for an hour and 20 minutes. Then I let it cool down, plop it in the fridge and cut slices off of it when I want it. It slices great and can be frozen or whatever. Makes great patties that I can easily weigh.



Wrap in foil and bake :)

I will try to be good at logging my nutrition daily....just click on my Nutrition tab at the top of my blog and hopefully it directs you to my fitday page. I will post some progress pictures each time I hit the 5 pound weightloss mark. Next progress pictures that I will post will be when I weigh 145 pounds.

My First YouTube Video....of myself :)

Today I was inspired to take the plunge to do my very first youtube video. I have been wanting to do a YouTube video for quite sometime, but never felt confident enough to do a video. I was waiting for the right camera, right lighting, right place, right time, right weight, right hair, and all the stars aligned in the right way...lol. So, I suppose if I waited for all the right things to be in place, then I would NEVER do the YouTube thing.

Click on the link below for my first YouTube video

My YouTube Video Debut :)

 I was inspired by this young man on one of my fav body building forums.... Bodybuildingrevealed. His name is Derreck....I am probably spelling his name wrong, but anyway, he put up a video introducing himself. I really enjoyed the video because this was the first time I actually got a glimpse of the young man that I sorta was familiar with in the forum. I have read alot of his posts and after a while, you kinda feel like you know the people (in regards to training). I have grown to like Derricks forum posts over the year so it was nice to see him in the video.

So I copied Derrick....hehehe....not really, he inspired me to do the same. There is nothing special about my video. I recorded it on my iPad mini in my bathroom after work. No editing, just plain simple me. But, I hope that in my upcoming videos, I can inspire someone to make a positive change to their life in some way.

Training and Diet

I ate anything I wanted Saturday/Sunday/Monday. I don't feel bad about it either....but I better be good this week lol if I want to ever reach my goal of 135 pounds of lean body mass :)

Training last week....THUMBS UP!!!