Mama Said Knock You Out - Rixatrix's Training Log

[stephanie932]

Originally Posted by rixatrix

Yeah, I'd like to improve my body. But I think I've got a pretty good handle on the mental part of it. My self worth is not equal to my dress worth. (Possibly it's closer to my squat weight...wait...no, that's not a good idea, either. )

Boy, do I wish I had your attitude. I'm like your co-worker (only I'm a size 12...not a 4) and don't have nearly the confidence you do.....Ya wanna teach me how to get some of that??? LOL

Seriously, though....It's awesome to see the way you think. I love reading your logs and all of your enthusiasm, especially your stories about the weight room. Your confidence needs to be bottled up and sold somewhere. I'd be the first in line to buy some!

[rixatrix]

Originally Posted by stephanie932

Boy, do I wish I had your attitude. I'm like your co-worker (only I'm a size 12...not a 4) and don't have nearly the confidence you do.....Ya wanna teach me how to get some of that??? LOL

Haha, oh my gosh, I don't know! I'm stubborn and think a lot of myself, maybe. Caring about what other people think has never gotten me anywhere; doing my own thing and acting like other people can just go f*ck themselves if they don't like it has won me friends. Maybe it's just a dose of perspective. Or maybe it's growing up not fitting in taught me to make my own path. I don't know!

I will say it's way more fun to do what I please instead of feeling frozen by insecurity.

And I've never really listened to people who tell me what I can and can't do. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the administration saw me as a threat in high school - a clever, headstrong girl who behaves well most of the time, except when she sees through the pointless hypocrisy and politics of the system? Tsk tsk tsk...)

I just think the biggest difference between people who get what they want and people who don't is that the people who get what they want, whatever it may be, never give up until they get it. That's it.

So if I'm confident that I can have what I want, I won't give up until I get it. And if I'm insecure that I won't get it, I'll probably quit before I get there.

And some days, you just have to fake it. When I'm feeling shitty about myself, instead of saying disparaging things like, "Oh, I feel so fat today..." I'll just get really silly and full of myself and say, like, "Oh my god, I'm so hot today no one can take their eyes off me. It's so hard being this good-looking." Because at least then, maybe those fake messages of grandeur will sink in a little bit and you'll end up feeling better about yourself...we all know the bad things we tell ourselves sink in. So I like to turn the tables.

I'm always telling people at work that I could fight them and win. That seems to get a lot of laughs. But for me, it's just another chance to remind myself that I'm strong and tenacious, by saying, "I could take you!"

Whatever you need to do, you know?

[dillytl]

Originally Posted by rixatrix

Haha, oh my gosh, I don't know! I'm stubborn and think a lot of myself, maybe. Caring about what other people think has never gotten me anywhere; doing my own thing and acting like other people can just go f*ck themselves if they don't like it has won me friends. Maybe it's just a dose of perspective. Or maybe it's growing up not fitting in taught me to make my own path. I don't know!

I will say it's way more fun to do what I please instead of feeling frozen by insecurity.

And I've never really listened to people who tell me what I can and can't do. (In fact, I'm pretty sure the administration saw me as a threat in high school - a clever, headstrong girl who behaves well most of the time, except when she sees through the pointless hypocrisy and politics of the system? Tsk tsk tsk...)

I just think the biggest difference between people who get what they want and people who don't is that the people who get what they want, whatever it may be, never give up until they get it. That's it.

So if I'm confident that I can have what I want, I won't give up until I get it. And if I'm insecure that I won't get it, I'll probably quit before I get there.

And some days, you just have to fake it. When I'm feeling shitty about myself, instead of saying disparaging things like, "Oh, I feel so fat today..." I'll just get really silly and full of myself and say, like, "Oh my god, I'm so hot today no one can take their eyes off me. It's so hard being this good-looking." Because at least then, maybe those fake messages of grandeur will sink in a little bit and you'll end up feeling better about yourself...we all know the bad things we tell ourselves sink in. So I like to turn the tables.

I'm always telling people at work that I could fight them and win. That seems to get a lot of laughs. But for me, it's just another chance to remind myself that I'm strong and tenacious, by saying, "I could take you!"

Whatever you need to do, you know?

You have the bestest attitude EVER!! I totally agree about the "fake it" part! Sometimes you do just have to "fake it til you make it." Funny - DH and I were just talking about that not even 10 mins ago....he's got a weight lifting workout scheduled for today and is just totally NOT into it - so he said "sometimes ya just gotta butch up and DO IT!"

And I'm always telling my son (he's 24) that I can beat his ass if he gives me any lip - he says he knows I could!!!

[rixatrix]

Originally Posted by dillytl

Funny - DH and I were just talking about that not even 10 mins ago....he's got a weight lifting workout scheduled for today and is just totally NOT into it - so he said "sometimes ya just gotta butch up and DO IT!"

Oh god, I know...sometimes you just have to SUFFER through a weight workout, knowing full well your best that day is not very good. But still, suffering through a workout on a day when you don't feel like it is ten times better than punking out just because you have some sort of mild malaise...I always want to see that star on the calendar. A month full of stars for a month full of workouts. Can you believe all it takes is a little colored star to get me to the gym on crappy days?

[dillytl]

Originally Posted by rixatrix

Oh god, I know...sometimes you just have to SUFFER through a weight workout, knowing full well your best that day is not very good. But still, suffering through a workout on a day when you don't feel like it is ten times better than punking out just because you have some sort of mild malaise...I always want to see that star on the calendar. A month full of stars for a month full of workouts. Can you believe all it takes is a little colored star to get me to the gym on crappy days?

And I think THOSE workouts are the ones to be the most proud of - the ones you had to FORCE yourself to do, the ones you soooo didn't want to do but did anyway!

For the next time you don't feel like working out...here ya go!

[marygrace]

Today I spent most of the day at a photo shoot out of town. Yes, working on a Saturday! So not my style.

We were shooting models in underwear for a business pitch we're doing. There was a young guy running around in boxer briefs and tight little tank tops - YUM! He wasn't totally ripped, but he definitely worked out (Me: "How much do you bench?" Haha). He was like Average Plus - the Idealized version of Average Guy. Not too tall, not too thin - muscular, but still compact - softer definition, but still flat abs. I totally ogled him. Why the heck not? We're paying him to sit around in underwear so people will look!

The girl we chose was a total string bean, but with breasts. She was SO slight. 5'9"-ish and a size 2. Her thighs were a mile apart from one another. Her arms were twiggish. She came across well on film, but the whole time I just thought, "She looks so weak!" She was like a baby bird, sort of delicate and vulnerable looking.

My coworker, who's 5'11" and a size 4, was like, "Ugh, god hates me or I'd look like that, too." She also made comments before we went to the shoot about how she was sure the model would be a bitch (because she was skinny? because she was a model? both?).

You know, I may be 5'5" and 190ish pounds. I may wear a size 12 jean and have plenty of junk in the trunk to spare. But I will say this - I was not even remotely threatened by that model today, and that's more than I can say for my friend. I'd much rather be the size I am now and confident about myself, my body, and my strengths than obviously insecure about a perfectly adequate body.

She's a size 4! And she complains all the time about how she used to be a size 2 - when she was grief-stricken and wasn't eating. Oh, to be a size 2! At 5'11", a size 2 plants her firmly into the Underweight category of the BMI chart - and we know how slanted those things are toward people without muscle to begin with.

Yeah, I'd like to improve my body. But I think I've got a pretty good handle on the mental part of it. My self worth is not equal to my dress worth. (Possibly it's closer to my squat weight...wait...no, that's not a good idea, either. )

What a great post. At a time, I might have been in your co-worker's shoes, feeling threatened by someone who I thought was thinner/better looking than me. Not anymore! I've really come to appreciate my body, and while sometimes I can get negative and be critical about myself, it happens MUCH less often. Most of the time, I feel strong and proud of myself.

[rixatrix]

Um, holy cow, did I say I was going to be doing Fat Loss I four times a week? We'll see.

Workout FL1 - A1
3x15, 75s rest
Squat - 65, 65 (14 reps), 60
Cable Seated Row - 70, 70/60, 65
Supine Hip Extension - BW, BW, BW (is there a way to make these harder?)
DB Push Press - 20/17.5, 17.5 (13 reps), 15
Rotational Lunge - BW, BW, BW (WHEW!)
Swiss Ball Crunch - 5lbs, BW, 5lbs

Oh man, I forgot what it's like to do 15 reps. It wipes you out! I don't know if its because I was used to lifting for fewer reps, or because I didn't eat enough yesterday/this morning, but I had to lower weight a lot this morning, even between sets (as you can see).

However, the rotational lunges weren't nearly as bad as I thought they would be. It's just a lunge, then a twist of the torso. But in Stage 1 of NROL4W, I felt like each lunge was like a death rattle. My knees felt unstable, I got tired quickly, and it was just generally hell. This morning, my knees felt stronger, my balance improved, and I definitely got tired but it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it might be.

That said, I think my ass is going to hurt for a week. Between the lunges and the hip extensions, yikes.

My kitchen is empty. Unless you count the sink. That's full of dishes. The BF wanted to go to this thing tonight at the local university - Ted Nugent is giving some kind of speech. Ted Nugent! We thought it might be fun to go for a minute...but the school Republican group brought him in and his speech is about Guns, God and something else. I think my time will be better spent doing my dishes and going to the grocery store, instead.

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail!

I can scrape together a couple snacks, and I have to be at work for lunch, so they're providing food (not pizza, not pizza, anything else), which should get me through the day. Why don't I have any food? Because we get paid today. A Monday. Bogus!

In other news, it's almost April.
Here comes Spring...are we all confident about our progress with summer so near? I'm going to see if I can tighten up my diet a little more. I definitely had more than 4 free meals last week.

[dillytl]

I think my ass is going to hurt for a week. Between the lunges and the hip extensions, yikes.

Nice job on the workout! I hear ya on this one! I haven't done lunges in a while and I can tell now that they are in my workout again!

Get ye to the grocery store!!!

[missjane]

Rix, which profile are you following for NROL? I think all of them recommend 3x a week for FLI and one recommends 2x a week. I think back-to-back FLI's is not a good idea. Having done the FL workouts myself, I speak from experience!

[MuscleMom23]

Originally Posted by missjane

Rix, which profile are you following for NROL? I think all of them recommend 3x a week for FLI and one recommends 2x a week. I think back-to-back FLI's is not a good idea. Having done the FL workouts myself, I speak from experience!

I was reading NROL yesterday and I assumed that he meant every other day which would put some workouts 4 a week, some 3. He did emphasize no back to back LOL! Can we say suicide?

Way to go RIX! I got put back to remedial weight lifting with my knee. But I shouldn't be quick to say that until I do it .

[missjane]

Actually, Lou DOES say you can do the FLI workouts 2 days in a row. But, I don't recommend it!

[rixatrix]

Originally Posted by missjane

Rix, which profile are you following for NROL? I think all of them recommend 3x a week for FLI and one recommends 2x a week. I think back-to-back FLI's is not a good idea. Having done the FL workouts myself, I speak from experience!

Indeed, I'm beginning to see why! I wasn't following a profile, per se, more like injecting FL1 into the NROL4W set. So I'm not doing Eternal Beginner or anything, just trying to match up my goals (cutting calories plus higher rep lifting) for a few weeks. Before the Fat Loss 1 description, it says you can do the workouts two, three, or four times a week, and to just not do it more than two days in a row. But yes, I think four is perhaps overly ambitious. I guess we'll see how I feel tomorrow morning! I could always do it every other day, which would result in four workouts some week and three on others. Well, it's only a month.

But thanks for the head's up, missjane!

[missjane]

Rix, that's exactly what I did....every other day. Which is what I still try to do with NROL4W, which does mean 3 or 4 workouts a week, depending. With the FL workouts, they are so lower-body intensive that I found I really could not recover enough to do back-to-back workouts. I didn't want to hinder my muscle repair and those workouts were hard!

After NROL4W, I will probably go back to NROL...I really liked it. I'm skipping Stage 6 of NROL4W, but will do 2 rounds of Stage 7. Then, off to something else!

[Cynthia]

Great workout today! I agree on the 15 rep thing, I really hate that many reps and it is going to be hard to move back up that high. I am planning to switch to NROL after I finish NROL4W. I haven't decided yet on Stage 6, I am kicking around skipping it because I really want to do the fat loss in Stage 7 but the anal-retentive side of me is really struggling with the whole idea of "skipping.." LOL