Pauline's There and Back Again Log

[Silly Sally]

Yeah, my last post to you disappeared, too!?!

Just wanted to say that you are getting SO STRONG!!! I can just imagine how people must look at you in the gym; this tiny lady pushing all this BIG weight - !!! Wow. Too much fun.

[nutbar]

Originally Posted by foodfromafar

When I got home, I made a concoction I dreamed up in my head. 200 g of frozen pineapple chunks, 1 teaspoon of coconut cream concentrate, 35 g EAS Vanilla protein powder and 1/2 cup of water. Yummy Pina Colada icey smoothie!!! Well worth the workout!

*faint* Holy moly, I'm gonna have to try that one!

Originally Posted by stingo

If available, what about finding a set of stairs, going up them 2 at a time?

Sicko.

[foodfromafar]

Stage 3 Workout A-2 June 13, 2008

Here's my workout:
WU: 7 min on treadmill, BW squats, side lunges, reverse lunges with twist, inch worm

One-armed dumbbell snatch
Sets 1-2 15/6 Set 3 20/6

Dumbbell single-leg Romanian deadlift
Set 1 10e/6 Set 2 15e/6 Set 3 20e/6
Barbell bent-over row
Set 1 55/6 Sets 2-3 65/6

Dumbbell single-arm overhead squat
Set 1 5+10/6 Sets 2-3 8+15/6
Dumbbell incline bench press
Sets 1-3 15e/6

Plank
Sets 1-3 Elbows/90s
Reverse wood chop
Sets 1-3 30/6

Bodyweight Matrix
Sets 1-2 2 min 17 sec

Couple of amusing things...I still cannot add weights on the barbell right. I did 65# by mistake - no wonder it was hard!

I couldn't get a mat for the planks so I just did them on the black rubber floor and I now have rug burns on both elbows...sigh. Will not do planks without a mat ever again!!

I decided to wait to do the BWM at home because my daughter was dropping my grandson off to babysit and I needed to get home from the gym. Thought it would be nice to do them to music with a peppy beat. Remembered Natalia's BWM vid. What was I thinking??? She whips it out in 2 minutes and 17 seconds!!!! So did I it in a very lame kind of way. I keep up fine with everything but the lunge jumps. The form is not great on the lunge jumps (they actually look more like front and back kind of squatty jumping jacks) and I don't go as low on the squat jumps as I do on the squats in the beginning because my legs are so tired by then, but I do manage to get through it. I'm thinking I will either continue using Nat's video and try to improve my form as I go or slow it down and try to improve my speed after I have the form down better. I'm seriously doubting myself as to my ability to improve the lunge jumps...
white (wo)men can't jump!

[tcoy777]

Great workout. Those lunge jumps sound evil!

[SpacecityPaula]

Way to go on the Body matrix.

[realcdn]

Here kitty kitty... pose for the camera.

(and I'm not talking about Pauline, but her cat, who has just had a very interesting sounding haircut)

[marthand99]

x2 on the cat picture request

Nice work on the body weight matrix! Too bad about the rug burns, ouch!

[Celestialmom]

Originally Posted by marthand99

x2 on the cat picture request

x3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[beach_plums]

Originally Posted by foodfromafar

I couldn't get a mat for the planks so I just did them on the black rubber floor and I now have rug burns on both elbows...sigh. Will not do planks without a mat ever again!!

I did something similar once, only it was on the carpet climbing wall area floor. Bad idea.

I've missed so much of your log/progress over the last several weeks. Your workouts are looking great!

[foodfromafar]

Stage 3-B-2 June 18,2008

Barbell Romanian Deadlift/Bent-over row
Set 1 55/6 Sets 2-3 60/6

Partial single-leg squat
Set 1 10e/6 Sets 2-3 15e/6
Wide-grip lat pulldown
Sets 1-3 50/6

Back extension (I found the thingie!!)
Set 1 BW/6 Set 2 10/6 Set 3 25/6
YTWL
Set 1 5e/6 Sets 2-3 4e/6

Swiss ball crunch
Sets 1-3 10 overhead/6
Hip Flexion
Sets 1-3 #3/6
Lateral Flexion
Set 1 Prone jackknife/6 Sets 2-3 Reverse Crunch/6

Prone Cobra
Sets 1-3 90s

HIIT
2min/3, 1min/7, 2min/3, 1min/7.5, 2min/3, 1min/7.5, 2min/3, 1min/7.5, (raised incline to 2) 2min/3, 1min/7, 1min/2.5, 1min/2, 1min/1.5

Couple of notes: flew through the first part of the workout (up to the Swiss ball crunch, etc.) in 30 minutes including a 5 minute warmup!

Had to wait until after work to do HIIT. Went all the way to the gym for an 18 minute workout! I had planned to walk/run in our neighborhood with my adult son, but he had company unexpectedly so I would have had to go alone in the neighborhood. Last week, a young woman jogger was assaulted in broad daylight in the neighborhood next to mine which was a shock to the whole eastside. Stuff like that just doesn't happen here. Anyway, I will not be walking/jogging alone for a while...

After doing HIIT, I returned home and did the Ab work and Prone Cobras while watching a movie with the family.

It was a kind of disjointed workout, but I got it all in. Is it OK to do that or is there some kind of synergistic effect if you do everything all together? If it doesn't matter, it might be a way to fit in longer workouts when I don't have much time. Do most in the morning and then the rest at night! What do you think?

[foodfromafar]

Originally Posted by realcdn

Here kitty kitty... pose for the camera.

(and I'm not talking about Pauline, but her cat, who has just had a very interesting sounding haircut)

Originally Posted by marthand99

x2 on the cat picture request

Nice work on the body weight matrix! Too bad about the rug burns, ouch!

Originally Posted by Celestialmom

x3!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OK, I'll try to get a picture up soon!

[tcoy777]

I have just started to do my running in the AM and weights at night. I think its a ton better. I can focus more on each workout instead of dreading either one of them. When I would lift heavy and then run, my running suffered and I probably put myself in more risk of injury running with really tired legs.

That's too bad about someone getting attacked near your place. I heard of another one in the Orlando area. I wish our world was not this way. Can't people just leave each other alone. Its bad enough we are inflicting self pain, we don't need fear to be added to it.

[beesknees]

It was a kind of disjointed workout, but I got it all in. Is it OK to do that or is there some kind of synergistic effect if you do everything all together? If it doesn't matter, it might be a way to fit in longer workouts when I don't have much time. Do most in the morning and then the rest at night! What do you think?

I have been wondering this myself. I always workout after work, but have been thinking of switching it to the morning when it starts getting really hot out. I think I would wake up at the same time but just go to work later. I have the luxury of pretty much choosing my hours. Anyway, I know there will be days when I won't have the time to do HIIT or longer cardio sessions in the mornings and will have to do some splitting up.

That is really scary about the assault. I get very paranoid about this and then tell myself I am being silly. But then something like this happens and I realize that maybe my paranoia is founded! I sometimes run on a trail that is pretty secluded but has a lot of users so I feel safer when there are more people around. In college I used to run out on this country road up to 8 miles at a time. There was hardly ever a car which is why I liked it. Even though I was in North Dakota, it was still so stupid of me.

[SpacecityPaula]

Morning

[SpacecityPaula]

Honestly, if it helps you get it done there's nothing wrong with splitting up the workouts.