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Originally Posted by SpacecityPaula
If you really want some sweet potato/Yam numminess, wrap them in aluminum foil and stick them on the grill. SOOOOOOO good.
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Oh yes... If it isn't fries I am making they are always made this way. I even like to do a dab of butter on them and a sprinkle of brown sugar..... Ummmmmmmm... But not in the cut.
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Originally Posted by mel
Kara, I always learn so much in your log! You are working so hard! I'm so glad to see that it is paying off. I thought it was interesting what diet tweaks your trainer made, especially since I have also been slipping healthy carbs back in to keep from bonking.
mel
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I do very poorly on low carb diets and apparently I do poorly on just veges and fruit carb diets too.
So I will do some rice and potatos and that sort of thing for awhile. I process carbs just fine so it should not be a biggie either way.
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Originally Posted by foodfromafar
Karla, I think it's great that your trainer wants you to eat real food. I love that!! Your experience is such a benefit to all of us. I have yams down on the grocery list!
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He says that yams actually help build muscle. I remember when I was bulking that he had me eating them every day. I figured when I cut that I should drop them but I was wrong. They are good food.
Today was yet another trainer day. I limped into the gym because my quads are so sore still from Monday. David had me do some lunges with a wide step and hold it to see if there was injury. I did not have injury just really bad DOMs that does not want to go away. He asked me if I iced and I told him I did not. He called me a name at that time and said I deserved to be in pain. When am I going to learn that I have to ice sore parts? I hate icing so it never really just pops up as something to do.
After the teasing was over he suggested that I increase cals by a few hundred over the weekend to get my body back into better shape. So I get to do a re-feed now. He told me that the low energy and the slow to heal DOMs are signs that my body is sending to me. He stessed that I need to learn to listen to those signs. I told him if I listened to my body then we'd be cutting a lot harder and working a lot harder. He informed me that wasn't my body talking, but my USMC brainwashed brain (where we learned to push through pain) and that I needed to learn to feel. He said that the art of cutting isn't binary and he is not going to prescribe to me to re-feed every 12 weeks or get this very specific set cal range in per each week. He is instead listening to my body to let it tell us when I need to make changes. This is a new weird concept but it works for me and it does make sense even.
The workout today was outrages fun. We worked out again together. I am learning to watch him and call out form faults when he works out. He is also being careful to teach me all the muscles and to explain all the anatomy stuff to me. This takes up time but I find it fascinating. He quizzes me on it. Today I learned that Bicep means literaly 2 heads and he showed me the anterior and posterior (I think that is what they are called) pieces of the bicep. We did isolation exercises to work both and I could see the split in his arm but I still have too much fat to see it on me. It was a bicep, upper body workout again as my quads were trashed from Monday's workout and besides my upper body needs the work much more anyway.
Warmup was kick ass. We did 3 sets of 20 push ups at 90 degrees and bench dips. We used these iron chairs out on the patio in the nice warm air and we goofed off with each other while doing them. I played USMC DI with him while he was doing his, telling him to suck in his gut and put his butt down and if he hesitated I gave him hell for that. He thought that was funny. For the last set of dips he picked my legs up really high and had me pull them out. It was harder but I did it. Then it was his turn and he bet me that I could not hold his legs up in the air longer than he could dip. That was an easy one for me to win.
Reverse push ups
3x20 (bw)
bb curls
1x20 (20lb)
3x12 (35lb)
bb 1/2 curls
1x12 (35lb) He made me do these 'cause I laughed at him for doing them. I called them sissy. That one set kicked my ass. He said that pain is a good teacher and next time I might not be so opiniated without some basic knowledge.
Cable curls
3x15 (3 plates)
Cable exercise to target the anterior bicep head (I don't know the name of the exercise). Basically you stand with cable at shoulder height and you open arm with elbow high and do a curl. This took a long time as it is hard to get right and we discussed the muscles that were working, etc.
At the end of the training as I was leaving to go for a run he said he wanted to Indian Wrestle with me. I did not know what that was so he had me put my feet on the tile squares and square up with him. Then we grabbed hands and the idea is to push or pull your opponent out of the squares or off balance. We did this for quite some time and mostly he was playing with me but I did get him for real a few of the times. We got a good arm workout with both arms. I left with a good pump.
Then I went for a nice easy 50 min run with HR at 140ish. It was a beautiful summer day in Portland and I ran down by the waterfront and through the fountain knocking over one of the kids (doop) and back to my car. My boss gave us the afternoon off to kick in the holidays. Life is good.....
Now to go get more food in my body. I still have about 200 cals to go!