Making the Fat Cells Scream (A.K.A. Planning the Work and Working the Plan)
This journal is for my participation in the upcoming 61 day Challenge starting on June 1.
My Name: Paula
My Age: 39. I'll be 40 when this challenge ends.
No Hubby
I have a boyfriend and a cat.
The Plan: NROL. I'm currently doing my breakin workout and will kick off with FL1. I'll be finishing this up with the start of FL2.
History:
Been heavy all my life. A couple years ago I lost 50 lbs and maintained a net loss of 40 lbs. Started exercising again last September because I didn't want to regain - I did Yoga and walked - a lot. I am a reformed cardio queen.
In January I started lifting at my boyfriend's using his home gym. Started doing some research and discovered the benfits of free weights. Since I started at the beginning of the year, I'm down 16 lbs and just over 20 inches overall.
I'm looking forward to the challenge. I'll be posting my Measurements and pictures sometime this weekend.
Good to see you have your head in the Challenge, Paula. Working on your plan while on the bus! I don't know that I could have had the concentration to do that. My experiences with Metro Public Transportation haven't been all that positive. LOL. Don't forget to post your specific plan (how you'll achieve your goals) and your goals in your log.
I think I am forgeting something... oh yeah. Rock On!
Newman
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"Branch chainz, bro. Leucine in the sky with diamonds." - Alan Aragon
Good to see you have your head in the Challenge, Paula. Working on your plan while on the bus! I don't know that I could have had the concentration to do that. My experiences with Metro Public Transportation haven't been all that positive. LOL. Don't forget to post your specific plan (how you'll achieve your goals) and your goals in your log.
I think I am forgeting something... oh yeah. Rock On!
Newman
that's the joy of Park and ride, it's a little more smooth than that some of the other routes. Plus there was NO one on the bus last night. so I had room to move so to speak
OFF to lift this is what I am doing today!
Will be back in a bit to update!
Workout A
Squat
1x15x60
1x15x65
Static Lunge
2x15Xbw
SS w/
2 Point dumbbell with elbow out
1x15x19
1x15x19
Both of these supersets were tough, but I am pleased that I held the static lunge form without bobbling on both sets
Push up
1x5xbw (half push ups)
1x6xbw (half Pushups)
Pushups are my weakest link right now on this workout.
SS w/
Swiss Ball Crunch
2x20xbw+10
All in all I am please with my workouts. I do think one of my goals for this challenge will be to improve my upper body strength. That really is my weak point in my body right now.
I never figured I'd be one for weight training. I was afraid of "OMG I might bulk up" thing. Even with the excess testosterone I have from having Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, I'm not going to bulk up. I do have a nice layer of muscle under the fat and it's slowly coming off. Which is good, since slow ingrains the habits I've created over the past few months.
Paula, good luck with the challenge! It should be very interesting, to say the least. I hope you'll like NROL. I've done FL-1 & just finishing FL-2. Both are very...hehe...challenging. I look forward to following along!
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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 really felt this in my midsection as I was doing this. second set the grip wasn't quite right. My abs really started to burn too.
Stepups
1x15xbw
1x15xbw
Stepups were pretty good. I'm getting the hang of them. Not ready to add weights to the shooting match tho.
SS with
1 Arm DB presses
1x15x19s
1x15x19s
Second set of these are still near failure at the end of the set.
Close grip Lat Pull downs
1x15x80
1x15x80
SS with
Reverse crunches
1x20xbw
1x20xbw
Went for a 2 mile walk after I finished.
I'm feeling the upped weights from my deadlifts this morning. I'm a little sore and well getting up out of the chair is interesting.
Need to make sure that I don't set up in deadlifts too fast - I think that's why my grip was a little off in the second set.
__________________ 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
Wow Paula, that's a lot of inches gone!
Awesome work.
Tina
PS I love the green tomato
Thanks Tina
Unfortunately some critter got the tomato before I did
__________________ 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
Thanks Greg. I'm really amazed at the number of inches gone since the start of the year. It'll be interesting to see where the scale is at when I finish considering I was probably 325ish at my largest. When I started the official starting weight was 310.
__________________ 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
Fitness:
Plan is to use NROL as my guide. I'll finish my last set of Breakin workout on June 2nd and 3rd. I'll take the next week off except for Intervals/Cardio and some light lifting to practice the exercises I don't know in FL1.
FL1 starts on June 12 and I'll do that for the next 6 weeks (end date is July 21) and then a week off during which I'll do light cardio and light lifting (again practicing what I don't know in FL2).
Right now I plan to I start FL2 on July 30th. I will be evaluating at the end of June to see where I am at and how I am progressing through FL1. The Overall scheme for July may be adjusted depending on how my body reacts to the first three weeks of FL1
Overall goals
Lift 3x a week
Cardio/Interval 1x a week
Walk 1x a week
Nutrition:
I do try and eat clean most of the time. The biggest thing for me is staying within my calories. I don't really worry about the percentages of fat vs. carbs. vs protein althought I'm generally higher protein first and foremost. Right now I'm eating between 2000 and 2100 calories a day and losing. If I go much higher than that, I gain.
So my focus for the challenge nutritionwise is more about changing a couple of habits:
1) Eating when I get up in the morning instead of waiting until I feel hungry.
2) Carrying the food I need to work instead of going for convenience. I figure there's 42 work days between the start and the end of challenge and that there will be 3 meals a day that I consume while at my job. I figure that's a total of 126 meals that I need have prepped. If I successfully carry 100 meals I'll have a nice solid B in this area. If I get 113 or more meals I get an A. And if I get all 126 meals I get an A+!
Personal Goal:
I figure the diet and exercise will take care of the inches and lbs I am losing so I'm not setting specific goals for those.
I've got a couple of goals
1) be able to complete 30 push ups by my 40th birthday (July 31).
2) Add 1-2 articles a week to my web site (www.dontbeapicklebump.com) so 8-16 articles need to be written and added.
Competitive Goal
I will be participating in 2 events for sure.
June 2 - Sugarland TX Impact A Hero - a race that supports wounded veterans from the War on Terror
July 14 - Lunar Run at Space Center Houston
I'd like to find one more event in the bay area (down by the space center) to participate in. But I've definitely committed to these two events.
Miscellaneous
I'll be posting bi-weekly pictures on the following weekends and on my birthday.
June 9-10
June 23-24
July 7-8
July 21-22
July 31
__________________ 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
Outstanding and wonderful. Looking great. I like the way you realized that the inches would be taken care of by diet and exercise and chose to set other personal goals. Good thinkin...
Newman
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"Branch chainz, bro. Leucine in the sky with diamonds." - Alan Aragon
Making the Fat Cells Scream (A.K.A. Planning the Work and Working the Plan)
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