Tabatas: turkish get ups 20:10 x8 each side, 5# DB
EXHAUSTING. Loved it!
Today: Week one/day two
Just a little cardio hell:
Gauntlet/stepmill intervals 32 mins (including 5 min warm up, 2 min cool down) 0:30/0:90 work/recovery, L15-17/L4-6.
Man.
Incinerated 280 calories--lotsa good sweat!
And now... I'm outta here. I FINALLY opened my "TRXXX"; still no use yet since my entire body is exhausted and I've got planned workouts through Saturday. Saturday is just sort of a conditioning day, though, so I'll break it out then.
Back to studying gene defects and basic cell biology and other clinically irrelevant shyte. California is very distracting; I'm going to have to get out and play this weekend for sure.
Which TRXXX did you get? I sort of tried mine the other night on ye olde telephone pole. I'll give it a better workout this weekend.
I don't know who's studying is worse, all that cell and dna crap, or how exciting is site grading and pipe sizing.....wooooo, let's put a swale here, and a berm there...rim elevations, and inverts! Hold me down!!!
I hope you won't be as scarce now...!
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On Krista mistressing the chin-up, "It's amazing", said one gym source, "considering that for months she just hung there like a dead fish."
Log title cracks me up! Roland, you should go and get a job writing headlines for the New York Post or something like that. You've got a gift.
Tina, your new workouts look good. Nice numbers on the squats! Good luck with the studying and make sure you stop in from time to time when you have a few minutes of downtime. Also, make sure you check out the TRX thread for workout ideas.
Log title cracks me up! Roland, you should go and get a job writing headlines for the New York Post or something like that. You've got a gift.
Tina, your new workouts look good. Nice numbers on the squats! Good luck with the studying and make sure you stop in from time to time when you have a few minutes of downtime. Also, make sure you check out the TRX thread for workout ideas.
Yeah, I hear the WSJ will need some new headline writers...
I was completely wiped out after this one, ended up taking a looooong nap before I could trudge off to study!
Warm up mobility stuff
1A CDL 135x6,6,145x5,135x7 (felt pretty good, I could have gone slightly heavier). 1B UL DB incline press on SB 40x6,6,5,7 (40 was a smidge heavier than I should have gone for 6 so I just stayed there for the lower AND higher rep sets)
2A DB Rev lunges 35 (ea hand) x6,6,5,7 (see above--slightly too heavy to start, so stayed there) 2B NG UH lat pulldown x3 110x6,6,5 Wt asst chins x1 91x7 **some chick decided to park and TALK on the gravitron, thus forcing me to substitute lat pds for the first three sets. Grrrrr.... 2C SUPPOSED to be abd push-press, but since I was freakin' clueless, what it actually was was acrunch on the slant board with a med ball push/press 4#x10,8#x10x3
ha ha ha , I thought this might be Laurens new journal
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
Intervals on the treadmill, 30 mins total--ran only 2 miles, because I'm on day 6 of my modified velocity diet and just have too little in the tank to run for more than about 20 minutes right now.
Modified how, you ask? Well, every 4th day I eat solid food for 3 of my meals. Days 1-3 consist of shakes and one solid meal (which I save for dinner time). Interestingly enough, I'm only REALLY hungry around mid-morning. Weird, huh?
Why the hell am I doing this, you ask? (OK, maybe you don't care, but I'm keeping a log here, people... )
Well. Two weeks of traveling, moving, living in a hotel, eating out 3x/day, etc, etc--when I dared to step on the scale before I went this route, it said 146.6
This was despite eating low-carb, by the way. I can't imagine where it would have been had I been eating burgers with BUNS. OMG.... Anyhoodlihooo, as any of you who read my log know, I'm a tad bit obsessive about body fat/weight (yeah, me... hard to believe, no? Right. No!), and when I put on my BDUs to go sign in to work and the friggin things were tight--'nuff said.
Calories are between 1300-1500/day, and I'm down 4.9 lbs today (still up 0.3 from 0.8 lbs after having three solid meals on Tuesday). I'll get to around 138 and then reintroduce more solid meals sllllloooooowwwwwwwly.
Another "issue" that I have is (stop reading now if you aren't in the mood for TMI....)...................... .............................. .............................. .........................
problems with GI motility--i.e., there ain't much, and I was using miralax daily (polyethylene gylcol in powdered form, acts as a bulking agent) and, even with this, the ungodly amts of fiber that I normally eat, and the gallons of water I drink, I still had to take a stimulant laxative at least once/week. This SEEMS (fingers crossed) to be self-correcting. Weird, considering that I'm taking nothing now. Maybe less is more for me.
Anyway, my plan is to go to a two day on/one day off cycle (i.e., 2 days of all shakes save for the one meal, then the third day will be a 3-4 solid meal day), then a one day on/one off cycle, then back to food. The only planned indiscretion involves the copious alcohol I will be consuming after the boards are over on the 13th, which MAY set me back a pound or two! I won't do this for more than three weeks, I don't think--if I can get the 2/1 schedule working next week, then the 1/1 after that, I think it will all go swimmingly.
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
It's the "battle dress uniform" AKA fatigues/cammies or, as I like to call it: the potato sack. NOT supposed to be snug...:p
Oh, Julie.... you'd be amazed. I am the same way--if it's "food o'clock" I need to eat NOW!!! However, this has been liberating already in so many ways, not the least of which is NOT running my life completely around food (now it's more like around the lack of it, LOL!).
You think I would know this since my Brother is in the AF in Grand Forks ND.
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
Tina, good to know that it is liberating ... I'm telling you ... eating a la TNT has been VERY liberating for me. I just eat now. I am not obsessively writing my planned menu down in my log or tracking it on my computer. I just look in the 'fridge and take out what is on the plan and looks good at the moment. I haven't lost any weight beyond the initial glycogen drop, but that's okay with me right now (focus on health - I have to keep reminding myself).
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Life's a Journey ... Enjoy the Ride!
Yes, health is good, Julie... but I almost never have that as my primary motivator, y'know? Tomorrow is eats day, and then I'll go to the 2/1 scheme--I'm excited, actually. Going 3 days with only one meal/day is very strange for me.
Today: more Fass kicking. From now on, I'll only be giving weights on my best sets with no documentation of reps done so as to not give away Jonathan's candy store.
Cardio: OFF Eats: ON Training: ON ON ON!
RDLs 145 Push ups BW +15
Back squats 110 UL DB BOR 40 Saxon side bends
Tabatas.
DONE!
Somehow I've misplaced my HRM strap, dammit. I was beat by the end, took me about 40 or 45 mins total. Tomorrow I'll be augmenting with a TRXXX adjunct--I need to break it in since it's going with me to Chi-town next week.
OK, this may prove to be embarrassing, but I'm going to post progress photos biweekly here as well. There. I've committed--now I'm relying on some accountability.
LOL over your title.
What veins have you got to show us?
More fiber doesn't always mean better GI-motility if you're not drinking enough. Drinking enough the most important thing to do. If you can't you'll plug up really quickly and more fiber will only make it worse.
Are we supposed to torment you and make fun of you now or after exams?
Oh god, please wait until AFTER...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Egham
Did you run by one of your local Starbucks?
I haven't run outside yet... still getting the lay of the land, so to speak, and although I live in a great part of this city, I see a lot of sketchy people out in general, so I'm a little hesitant to run at 5 am. There's a starbucks about 1.4 miles away, but the bank right by it was robbed last week so....
Espi, I have arm veins like a dude! I will post pics of them later, when I have more time.
Ok, first I have to do a little horn tooting. So, I'm in the back doing DLs, and some 20-30 yr old dude is just sort of standing there, watching. I immediately assume that I've stolen the set up from him (it was just laying there, with 45s on... begging me to use it, I swear!). So I ask him if he was using it, and he said "no, I'm just watching you do DLs to see how they're done". Made my day!
Week 2/day 1
Again, will have to be scant on details. My best numbers are listed:
1A Deadlifts 175
1B SB incline UL DB press 50
2A Reverse lunges (DB) 30# (ea)
2B NG pronated lat PD 100
2C Abdominal push press
Tabatas (burpees)
DONE!
I thought I was going to hurl at the end of the tabatas. Great workout today!
Hehe...I know how you feel. I'll be starting up again probably next month to retake the June tests again in December. I'm assuming I failed both....not pessimistic, just realistic. So I'll be an Auntie Mean Bitch, again!
You are almost there....!
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On Krista mistressing the chin-up, "It's amazing", said one gym source, "considering that for months she just hung there like a dead fish."
I'm so vein.... you probably think this log is about me
W1 D4 of the Fass-kicking
I won't do this for more than three weeks, I don't think--if I can get the 2/1 schedule working next week, then the 1/1 after that, I think it will all go swimmingly.
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