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03-07-2008, 06:05 PM
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#181 (permalink)
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Mom's little bodybuilder
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northern VA
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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 :-)
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03-07-2008, 08:06 PM
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#182 (permalink)
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Peek!
Join Date: Jan 2008
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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 was refusing to read ahead to Stage 3 and now I just want to cry. 
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begins with believing you can become who you wish to be." - Thanks, K.
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03-07-2008, 09:59 PM
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#183 (permalink)
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Made in the USSR!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
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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! |
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03-07-2008, 11:16 PM
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#184 (permalink)
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Forkinator
Join Date: Jan 2008
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I can't wait for the bodyweight matrix!
/lies, lies, and more lies
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03-08-2008, 07:45 PM
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#185 (permalink)
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One BAD Apple
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northwest Indiana
Posts: 320
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Originally Posted by GinnyLou
I was refusing to read ahead to Stage 3 and now I just want to cry. |
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Originally Posted by Natalia
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 nutbar
I can't wait for the bodyweight matrix!
/lies, lies, and more lies
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Crying, yes. Intriguing, only for about 1 minute!
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No lying to yourself, it just bites ass.
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
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03-09-2008, 05:31 PM
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#186 (permalink)
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Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
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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 
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03-09-2008, 06:59 PM
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#187 (permalink)
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One BAD Apple
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northwest Indiana
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Originally Posted by sveta
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
Thanks, and right back at ya!
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewig
"If you don't pay attention to your ass, no one else will either."
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03-09-2008, 08:06 PM
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#188 (permalink)
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Cheesy Rack Guy Wannabe
Join Date: Jun 2007
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But think how much you'll appreciate it if you actually do get a good photo. |
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03-10-2008, 11:13 AM
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#189 (permalink)
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One BAD Apple
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northwest Indiana
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Originally Posted by stingo
But think how much you'll appreciate it if you actually do get a good photo. |
No kidding!!
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewig
"If you don't pay attention to your ass, no one else will either."
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03-10-2008, 05:07 PM
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#190 (permalink)
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One BAD Apple
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northwest Indiana
Posts: 320
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Monday, Monday
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! )
Barbell Deadlift/Bent-over Row:
1x8x75, 1x6x85, 1x9x85
Partial Single-Leg Squat:
3x8eachx25lb. plate
Wide-Grip Lat. Pulldown:
1x8x75, 1x7x80, 1x6x85
Back Extension:
3x6x45lbs.
Y T W L:
3x6x8 db's
Ball Crunch:
3x12xLong Arm w/10 db
Jackknives:
3x12xBW
Side Planks:
3x30 sec. each sidexBW w/scoops
No Cobra-Did Planks, 2x90secs.
Interval, on treadmill:
1 min. warm-up
45 seconds 8 mph, 4% incline
75 seconds 3.5 mph, 4% incline
45 seconds 8 mph, 4% incline
75 seconds 3.5 mph, 4% incline
45 seconds 8 mph, 6% incline
75 seconds 3.2 mph, 6% incline
45 seconds 8 mph, 6% incline
75 seconds 3.2 mph, 6% incline
1 minute 8.2 mph, 7% incline
5 mins. cool down
*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!
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"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewig
"If you don't pay attention to your ass, no one else will either."
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03-10-2008, 05:10 PM
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#191 (permalink)
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Made in the USSR!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posts: 714
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LoriAnne
or grabbing boobs! LOL
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...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".
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03-10-2008, 05:18 PM
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#192 (permalink)
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One BAD Apple
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northwest Indiana
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Natalia
...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".
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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.
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My Training Log
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewig
"If you don't pay attention to your ass, no one else will either."
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03-10-2008, 05:23 PM
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#193 (permalink)
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Made in the USSR!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Charlotte, North Carolina
Posts: 714
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LoriAnne
perky girls are now shells of their former selves. |
I once heard someone liken theirs to 'tea bags'! Oh, I could go on....
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I must have been a bad girl last year because I begged Santa for new boobs but didn't get them
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Did you specify the size? |
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03-10-2008, 05:40 PM
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#194 (permalink)
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One BAD Apple
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Northwest Indiana
Posts: 320
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Natalia
I once heard someone liken theirs to 'tea bags'! Oh, I could go on....
Did you specify the size?
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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. 
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My Training Log
"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses and some don't turn up at all."
-Sam Ewig
"If you don't pay attention to your ass, no one else will either."
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03-10-2008, 05:41 PM
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#195 (permalink)
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Peek!
Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,962
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Quote:
Originally Posted by LoriAnne
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! )
Barbell Deadlift/Bent-over Row:
1x8x75, 1x6x85, 1x9x85
Partial Single-Leg Squat:
3x8eachx25lb. plate
Wide-Grip Lat. Pulldown:
1x8x75, 1x7x80, 1x6x85
Back Extension:
3x6x45lbs.
Y T W L:
3x6x8 db's
Ball Crunch:
3x12xLong Arm w/10 db
Jackknives:
3x12xBW
Side Planks:
3x30 sec. each sidexBW w/scoops
No Cobra-Did Planks, 2x90secs.
Interval, on treadmill:
1 min. warm-up
45 seconds 8 mph, 4% incline
75 seconds 3.5 mph, 4% incline
45 seconds 8 mph, 4% incline
75 seconds 3.5 mph, 4% incline
45 seconds 8 mph, 6% incline
75 seconds 3.2 mph, 6% incline
45 seconds 8 mph, 6% incline
75 seconds 3.2 mph, 6% incline
1 minute 8.2 mph, 7% incline
5 mins. cool down
*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.
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