Great workout!!!!! I am soooo not looking forward to those bodyweight matrix things.... they look rough! And what a novel idea to do sideplanks instead of those woodchops.... I think I might try that next time, I'm not a fan of those :-)
Sums up my day precisely! I've added one point to my Dumbass Ideas of 2008 after doing that workout yesterday before really reading through the workout in Stage 3! Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!! That body weight matrix at the end of workout A almost had me in tears. I consider myself a masochist, but this was taking it to a whole new level.
WORKOUT: One-Armed DB Snatch- 1x6x12, 1x6x15, 1x6x20
DB Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift- 3x6 each legx20 db's Barbell Bent-Over Row- 1x6x65, 1x6x75, 1x6x85
DB Single-Arm Overhead Squat- 3x6 each combo.x12db/25/db DB Incline Bench Press- 3x6x25 db's
Plank- 2x90 seconds, 1x120 seconds Side Plank- 3x60 sec. each side w/3db scoops
Body Weight Matrix: 24 Squats, 24 total Alt. Lunges, 24 total Alt. Jump Lunges, 24 Jump Squats- 1st matrix- 3 mins. 45 secs. 2nd matrix- 4 mins. 35 secs.
One armed DB snatch-Started out with too light of weight, will definitely be doing this set with 20's +. Side Plank-Did these instead of the called for woodchoppers because as mentioned before, don't have a mid-cable pulley and I don't dig doing them on a ball. Feel the side planks w/scoops are just as effective for me. Body Weight Matrix-Allow me to repeat again how much this sucked! The second time around equated to knowingly squirting lemon juice in your eye.
Complaints aside, it was a killer workout and I'm excited to have the weekend to recover!
Food today was good, same old-same old, but I am foreseeing a couple glasses (bottles?) of wine in my future this evening. I've eaten really light today and after this afternoon's butt-kicking, feel like I've got the calories to spare!
I was refusing to read ahead to Stage 3 and now I just want to cry.
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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." ~ John Bingham
Starting this next week. Looking forward to it Body matrix seems intriguing. Never done those....
Sounds like you got your time well-spent at the gym.
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Originally Posted by LoriAnne
Sums up my day precisely! I've added one point to my Dumbass Ideas of 2008 after doing that workout yesterday before really reading through the workout in Stage 3! Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!! That body weight matrix at the end of workout A almost had me in tears. I consider myself a masochist, but this was taking it to a whole new level.
WORKOUT: One-Armed DB Snatch- 1x6x12, 1x6x15, 1x6x20
DB Single-Leg Romanian Deadlift- 3x6 each legx20 db's Barbell Bent-Over Row- 1x6x65, 1x6x75, 1x6x85
DB Single-Arm Overhead Squat- 3x6 each combo.x12db/25/db DB Incline Bench Press- 3x6x25 db's
Plank- 2x90 seconds, 1x120 seconds Side Plank- 3x60 sec. each side w/3db scoops
Body Weight Matrix: 24 Squats, 24 total Alt. Lunges, 24 total Alt. Jump Lunges, 24 Jump Squats- 1st matrix- 3 mins. 45 secs. 2nd matrix- 4 mins. 35 secs.
One armed DB snatch-Started out with too light of weight, will definitely be doing this set with 20's +. Side Plank-Did these instead of the called for woodchoppers because as mentioned before, don't have a mid-cable pulley and I don't dig doing them on a ball. Feel the side planks w/scoops are just as effective for me. Body Weight Matrix-Allow me to repeat again how much this sucked! The second time around equated to knowingly squirting lemon juice in your eye.
Complaints aside, it was a killer workout and I'm excited to have the weekend to recover!
Food today was good, same old-same old, but I am foreseeing a couple glasses (bottles?) of wine in my future this evening. I've eaten really light today and after this afternoon's butt-kicking, feel like I've got the calories to spare!
I know I'm like the last person in line to say this but here it goes...you look smokin' hot my friend in that perky 'kini so don't blame your husband for being goofy and stuff
Keep it up!!!!!
I know I'm like the last person in line to say this but here it goes...you look smokin' hot my friend in that perky 'kini so don't blame your husband for being goofy and stuff
Keep it up!!!!!
Maybe last, but never least! Thanks so much. I don't blame him for being a goofball, it's just shameful how many good photos we could have if he wasn't always making a face or grabbing boobs! LOL
Still pining away for some warmth, but after getting less than 4 hrs. sleep-damn daylight savings, woke up feeling ready to take on the world, or at least my first Workout B from Stage 3. Here goes:
Warmed up on Elliptical Machine for 7 minutes (I hate this machine!)
*Really enjoyed the dead/row combo, felt like I had good pace and form. Hard to make the disconnect between the weight that I can deadlift vs. the weight I can row, so this is a great exercise to focus on back strength.
*Did not dig the YTWL-couldn't keep the damn Village People out of my head and had to constantly stop myself from forming a "C".
*Back has been a little tweaky the last few times after cobras, so I have decided to eliminate them from my program. Figured after the back extension, I wouldn't do too badly by opting out of them.
Prefer workout A (even with the evil body matrix) to workout B, but it is still nice to change it up.
Food has been good and clean w/the exception of 10 peanut M&M's. Feeling like I am back on track and looking forward to a great week of training!
...it's in da blood ))))) They even do it when there ain't much to grab!
*Did not dig the YTWL-couldn't keep the damn Village People out of my head and had to constantly stop myself from forming a "C".
-- Ha-ha! That's too funny!
Ahhh, that's the single part of weight loss that I loathe! My formerly full, perky girls are now shells of their former selves. I must have been a bad girl last year because I begged Santa for new boobs but didn't get them, so I'm left to still spending lots of money on padded bras.
I once heard someone liken theirs to 'tea bags'! Oh, I could go on....
Did you specify the size?
I refer to mine as "shortie gym socks with golf balls in them".
Oh yes, I was very specific, but also willing to accept within a certain range. I'll try to be better this year, but it's not looking good.
Still pining away for some warmth, but after getting less than 4 hrs. sleep-damn daylight savings, woke up feeling ready to take on the world, or at least my first Workout B from Stage 3. Here goes:
Warmed up on Elliptical Machine for 7 minutes (I hate this machine!)
*Really enjoyed the dead/row combo, felt like I had good pace and form. Hard to make the disconnect between the weight that I can deadlift vs. the weight I can row, so this is a great exercise to focus on back strength.
*Did not dig the YTWL-couldn't keep the damn Village People out of my head and had to constantly stop myself from forming a "C".
*Back has been a little tweaky the last few times after cobras, so I have decided to eliminate them from my program. Figured after the back extension, I wouldn't do too badly by opting out of them.
Prefer workout A (even with the evil body matrix) to workout B, but it is still nice to change it up.
Food has been good and clean w/the exception of 10 peanut M&M's. Feeling like I am back on track and looking forward to a great week of training!
Damn! Nice workout.
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"The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start." ~ John Bingham
Nice pictures, chica! (I just got with the program.) I like to pretend that I can see my muscles - mostly just a swoop of shoulder at a certain angle and one ab, ooh, and calves when I flex REAL hard - but nothing like yours. Yet.
I would love to say, "Man, I'm not looking forward to stage 3," but the truth is, I'm sitting here in masochistic glee, thinking about how wrecked I'm going to get after single-legged squats and the bodyweight matrix.
Keep up the good work, lady! Isn't it great to have a place where women kicking ass in the gym is the norm?
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Nice pictures, chica! (I just got with the program.) I like to pretend that I can see my muscles - mostly just a swoop of shoulder at a certain angle and one ab, ooh, and calves when I flex REAL hard - but nothing like yours. Yet.
I would love to say, "Man, I'm not looking forward to stage 3," but the truth is, I'm sitting here in masochistic glee, thinking about how wrecked I'm going to get after single-legged squats and the bodyweight matrix.
Keep up the good work, lady! Isn't it great to have a place where women kicking ass in the gym is the norm?
Thanks! It's a delightful thing to be able to focus on making parts of my body bigger, and I'm still a work in progress.
Stage 3 is good and I'm damn determined to master that body matrix if I have to do it every other day for the rest of my life!
This forum is definitely like the bizarro-world utopia, every time I'm in here I am always so inspired and grateful to be among like-minded individuals.
Thanks! It's a delightful thing to be able to focus on making parts of my body bigger, and I'm still a work in progress.
Stage 3 is good and I'm damn determined to master that body matrix if I have to do it every other day for the rest of my life!
This forum is definitely like the bizarro-world utopia, every time I'm in here I am always so inspired and grateful to be among like-minded individuals.
Bizarro World! Comic book reference!
I just read this hilarious article on T-Nation.com about how between Superman and Batman, Batman's better because he's just a normal guy, no superpowers, who worked his ass off to fight crime.
So guess who's suddenly identifying with Batman? Now if only I could get that flying from building to building thing down...
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"Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths." - Lois Wyse
I just read this hilarious article on T-Nation.com about how between Superman and Batman, Batman's better because he's just a normal guy, no superpowers, who worked his ass off to fight crime.
So guess who's suddenly identifying with Batman? Now if only I could get that flying from building to building thing down...
LOL!
I suddenly have this vivid image of Christian Bale without his shirt!
I think I may have found a mental substitute for any food craving that may come my way tonight!
I suddenly have this vivid image of Christian Bale without his shirt!
I think I may have found a mental substitute for any food craving that may come my way tonight!
Ohhhh...hello Christian Bale. Welcome to my imagination.
If you want to see a really inspiring transformation, check out his performance in The Machinist. He weighed 130lbs in that movie playing a man with extreme insomnia. Then he turned around and gained 80lbs of MUSCLE to play Batman right after.
Amazing. Truly.
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yeah, his physique does look good, but IMHO face is for the radio
Ha! I know what you mean, not my type either...but he's grown on me...
This is a little off topic, but speaking of celebrities, I just read somewhere that Brad Pitt is considered overweight based on those silly BMI charts because he carries so much muscle. Isn't that great?
There's no chance you'd see that in a female celebrity...unless maybe she's Laila Ali...
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I refer to mine as "shortie gym socks with golf balls in them".
Oh yes, I was very specific, but also willing to accept within a certain range. I'll try to be better this year, but it's not looking good.
LoriAnne you crack me up! I'm afraid I'm in the same boat. It was something of a blow to buy A cup bras for the first time in my life last month. Its not even that I mind small boobs, just wish I had "never been fat" boobs.
LoriAnne you crack me up! I'm afraid I'm in the same boat. It was something of a blow to buy A cup bras for the first time in my life last month. Its not even that I mind small boobs, just wish I had "never been fat" boobs.
One day at work, there was a meeting including myself, my work partner, Courtney, and another girl, Kelly. We're all in our 20s and we were just gabbing for a minute. Kelly was dishing the dirt about this client we have that she used to work with, and how he likes to date girls with big fake boobs. I was like, "Who has fake boobs around here?" (We're kind of in nowheresville, Michigan, not Atlantic City.) After a few minutes of talking about how weird fake boobs were, Kelly pipes in with this sly smile on her face, "You guys, I have fake boobs." We were blown away!
She's really tall, like 5'11", naturally thin, and apparently had been flat her whole life. She goes to the gym in the morning every day, and she's in great shape, but she always wanted boobs. So she bought herself some!
Anyway, the grass is always greener. I never would've guessed - she looks totally natural and proportional, not something I think of when I think of fake breasts.
I was just telling someone yesterday that I'd totally trade in my small C's for A's if it meant I got to be lean and tight. And I'd just wear leotards and tank tops all the time.
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Now that I am on the other side of my 20's and 30's I am quite content to be small in that area too. In fact if you are an athlete I contend they do nothing but get in the way anyway. Still I might have a little lift at some point in time about the same time I lift the old face.
I've added one point to my Dumbass Ideas of 2008 after doing that workout yesterday before really reading through the workout in Stage 3! Jesus, Mary and Joseph!!! That body weight matrix at the end of workout A almost had me in tears. I consider myself a masochist, but this was taking it to a whole new level.
- 1x6x12, 1x6x15, 1x6x20
I must have been a bad girl last year because I begged Santa for new boobs but didn't get them, so I'm left to still spending lots of money on padded bras.
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