Celestialmom Gettin' it Done! - Page 4 - JP Fitness Forums

Bytsi · 06-12-2008, 06:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Celestialmom

Oh, oh, oh!!! This return to forum land has got me all befuddled! I forgot completely to mention that I DID A CHINUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! YAY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Just one and six negatives, but when I tried a few weeks ago, I couldn't even do one! I was so excited!!!!!!!!!

Maybe I'll try these again and see where I'm at - it's been a while! Congrats on doing one!!!!!!!!!!!!

beesknees · 06-12-2008, 06:43 AM

Wow - way to go on the chinup! Your workouts look great too

foodfromafar · 06-12-2008, 09:11 AM

That is great, Celeste! A chin up!! I'm not sure I'll be able to do one for a long time...if ever.

Celestialmom · 06-13-2008, 05:15 PM

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Floppy Blob cracks me up. My kids are always finding critters. We have a Ball Python as a pet. Who would think to sweet petite girls would love a snake and enjoy watching it eat live mice?

Funny! Mine too--ds found a toad the other day (we didn't keep him long, and they caught a snake today while we were FINALLY planting our garden, but we didn't keep him at all.)

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SWEET! Isn't that first chinup the absolute best feeling!

Oh, and the box turtle totally reminded me of growing up. We always had turtles living in our backyard. It was great, but we couldn't walk around bare-foot because they would try to eat our toes.

Thanks for the encouragement--it really was a great feeling. I think I have a while until I can do more than one though, since I only do 75# in my underhand lat pulldown.

That's hilarious about the turtles in your yard! We looked up this one and found out it was actually an "Eastern Wood Turtle". He was pretty cool looking. But he had to go home after two days, much to my kids' sadness. We let him go where we found him.

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Wow! a chin up! I just can't wait to do a set of push ups on the floor! I am anxiously awaiting stage two but am nervous about the FSPP.. I don't know why, it just looks awkward.

Shell, keep working on those pushups, they seem to improve pretty steadily for most people. BTW, I tried the FSPP with a broom (a la Pauline!) and felt more comfortable with it when I started. It actually seemed ok, although I think I still need to work on being more explosive. Mine is one steady movement, which isn't the point...

Celestialmom · 06-13-2008, 05:37 PM

I couldn't figure out how to multiquote posts on two different pages, so I'm posting twice in a row...

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Originally Posted by Bytsi

Maybe I'll try these again and see where I'm at - it's been a while! Congrats on doing one!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks for the congrats--I bet you'll be able to do at least one and probably more easily considering the amount of weight you use for lat pulldowns! I've only been doing 70# for overhand and 75# for underhand. Try it, try it!!!

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Originally Posted by beesknees

Wow - way to go on the chinup! Your workouts look great too

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Originally Posted by foodfromafar

That is great, Celeste! A chin up!! I'm not sure I'll be able to do one for a long time...if ever.

Thanks and thanks! Pauline, I'm sure you'll surprise yourself one of these days...

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Okay, I wanted to post about my non-lifting day yesterday since it was such a fun one! My son was invited to a friend's house in the am so I decided to "drop him off" by biking there and back. We went up the dirt road beside our house, straight up a steep hill for 2 miles, and then almost a mile more on the flat. It was MUCH easier than last time I did it (last year), and I totally burned my 13 yo son! (Yes, I'm competitive, and I have to compete with prepubescent boys in order to get a sense of accomplishment, but hey, take what you can get, right?!) I really thought he'd be waiting for me since he's been in soccer all spring and bikes every weekend at least, plus my bike is a crossover between downhill and xc so it's twice as heavy as his bike. Anyway, he did really well and I did the good mom thing of encouraging him and helping him make it to the top without dying or throwing up...

So when we got to the friend's house, I had a cup of coffee (and two glasses of water) with the mom, and the boys did boy stuff. We had a nice visit and I biked home!

In the afternoon we had another decision-making business meeting which went ok, but was still stress creating. Then, later in the evening, dh informed me that we had more rock picking to do. I wasn't quite as excited about it since I was kinda dragging from the bike ride and the meeting, but I figured, what the heck, cure for depression, right? So off we went, with my son driving the tractor--did a pretty good job too! This trip took about an hour and forty-five minutes, ugh! I was done after two loads, but we did three and a half. I was trying to figure it out, and I estimate that I moved over a ton of rocks. Okay I'm a really bad estimator, but the average rock was about 20# (I just lifted my 2 10# dbs), and I put 30-40 easily in each trailer load. So that would make 2000 lbs?! Anyway I came right home, showered and went to bed at 9:00.

So maybe tmi, but that's my day yesterday.

Oh yeah, good thing: the bike ride!
Funny thing: My friend (that I rode to) has a huge St Bernard named Guiness. I haven't been there for a while, and I greeted him with a big "HI BUDWEISER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Hey, a beer's a beer, right?!

Everyone thought that was the most hilarious thing they'd heard all week.

I'm going to go do some real work and post today's workout later...

stephanie932 · 06-14-2008, 09:25 AM

Celeste.........I told you that I'd find your log........lol

I half to share a story that I thought of when you were talking about encouraging him to get up that hill. I teach 5th grade and I constantly have little competitions with the boys and girls. We had a pedometer war in our classroom for 3 months and they got great thrills out of trying to wear me out by doing the steps in the winter time after lunch since we couldn't go outside. I paid them all back when it was MY turn to lead them on a walk. They were dying.........but, we had a blast doing all of that. I think it makes them rethink their position about adults. They joke and call me old......but this "old" lady kept right up with them and they loved that I could do that. I bet your son is very proud of his mom when he thinks about it.......because, nowadays, you know darned well that most parents can't do that.

Your bike ride and rock hauling was a super workout yesterday! I think after lifting 2,000 pounds of rocks.......it was a "lifting" day. I bet you'll be feeling it in those shoulders today or tomorrow.

foodfromafar · 06-14-2008, 10:35 AM

Great job, Celeste on the bike ride and the rock hauling! This is real life we're working out for, right?!

I read what you said on Anne's thread on losing and then gaining and now being back to where you were. That's why I titled my log There and Back Again. Well, in addition to my love for Tolkein's works. I had lost 30# and was in really great shape a few years back and then I let life get in my way. I stopped exercising because I thought I didn't have time. Slowly over the last few years, the weight crept on. When I went for a routine physical, I was absolutely shocked to see the number on the scale. I'd never weighed that much without being pregnant!! I decided it was time to take myself off the back burner of my life and make a healthier, happier me a priority. WOW. So I'm back again and I plan to stay where I am and do whatever it takes to keep myself where I am. If I have to weigh myself every week, track my food a few times a week to make sure I'm staying on track like I think I am, and work out for the rest of my life, I'M IN!!! Woohoo!

stephanie932 · 06-14-2008, 10:39 AM

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I half to share a story

OMG.........I totally HAVE to reread what I type! "Half" to share a story???

I swear this was before coffee this morning.

Celestialmom · 06-14-2008, 12:17 PM

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Celeste.........I told you that I'd find your log........lol

Your bike ride and rock hauling was a super workout yesterday! I think after lifting 2,000 pounds of rocks.......it was a "lifting" day. I bet you'll be feeling it in those shoulders today or tomorrow.

Can you believe it that I didn't feel it hardly at all? That's what I think was the coolest--both times I did hard work like that I was really tired, but little or no muscle soreness....

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Great job, Celeste on the bike ride and the rock hauling! This is real life we're working out for, right?!

Exactly--my knees are sore, either from the bike ride or from yesterday's lifting which I have yet to log, but it felt good to just do a good job at life!

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I read what you said on Anne's thread on losing and then gaining and now being back to where you were. That's why I titled my log There and Back Again. Well, in addition to my love for Tolkein's works. I had lost 30# and was in really great shape a few years back and then I let life get in my way. I stopped exercising because I thought I didn't have time. Slowly over the last few years, the weight crept on. When I went for a routine physical, I was absolutely shocked to see the number on the scale. I'd never weighed that much without being pregnant!! I decided it was time to take myself off the back burner of my life and make a healthier, happier me a priority. WOW. So I'm back again and I plan to stay where I am and do whatever it takes to keep myself where I am. If I have to weigh myself every week, track my food a few times a week to make sure I'm staying on track like I think I am, and work out for the rest of my life, I'M IN!!! Woohoo!

Thanks for sharing about your weight loss journey (and I just thought it was a major cool log title!). It seems so silly that we can just wake up one day and be fat, but when you don't pay attention to yourself it just creeps up on you. Congrats for being "back again" and for the great attitude! I got my mother coming to the gym for a while last year, but her comment to me was, "I just can't imagine having to do this for the rest of my life!" and then she quit.

I feel like I will be blessed to be able to work out for the rest of my life! Anyway, I'M IN TOO!!!

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Originally Posted by stephanie932

OMG.........I totally HAVE to reread what I type! "Half" to share a story???

I swear this was before coffee this morning.

Well, I was wondering what grade you taught for a while, but I've made some pretty horrendous typos here already, so you're forgiven. (Anyway, you were probably bouncing back and forth in the space/time continuum and not yourself)

Celestialmom · 06-14-2008, 01:10 PM

Okay, I better log yesterday's workout before I let myself get even farther behind...

Stage 2, Workout 2B (6-13-08):

Did NOT want to work out today--dragged myself to the gym. Then while I was there, someone kept talking "business" issues at me. I finally said, "you know, I really come here to relieve stress, not create it!" (Not in a snotty way, writing it sounds snotty, but it was received well without offense, I think. So they quit and I at least enjoyed myself a little.)
Wide-grip Deadlift from Box: 1x10 @ 115#, 1x5 @ 115# (This was actually an accident, I just can't add! I was trying to do 105# like last time but used the 35# plates on the oly bar...duh. It wasn't good b/c I couldn't hold on to the bar w/the wide grip)

Bulgarian Split Squat: 2x10 @ 25#

Underhand-grip Lat Pulldown: 2x10 @ 75#

Reverse Lunge from Box w/Forward Reach: 2x10 @ 20e

Dumbell Prone Cuban Snatch: 2x10 @ 8e

Abs work supersetted:
Swiss Ball Crunch: 2x25
Reverse Crunch: 2x15
Lateral Flexion Option 224:2x10

Prone Cobra: 2x75 sec

HIIT: Elliptical Trainer--16 min. I had the ramp at 10 and resistance at 10 for low, 12 for high, and went from 140 strides per min to 180 strides per min at high. HR was ~140-150 in recovery, 160-170 during interval. I have no idea if that was how you do intervals, but I know it was a good sweaty workout..
*Note: the lunges and squats really bother my knees, more now that there are more of them in Stage 2. I had been doing some reading and realized that I have trouble activating my glutes for most exercises. Then I saw in someone's (Stephanie's?) log that sometimes knee pain can be from not activating glutes during squats and lunges. So far I've been doing uphill walks on the treadmill and bridges during my warmups to "pre-activate" them, but I'm thinking I need to do more and really focus on what muscles I'm using. We'll see how that works.

So later in the day my kids and I planted our entire garden (about 150 plants), better late than never, right? It was REALLY hot still, but we got it done actually two minutes after it started POURING! So thanks, God, for watering our garden! We've got strawberries (planted those earlier), cantaloupe, corn, cucumbers, bell peppers, hot peppers, tons of tomatoes, chives, lettuce, coriander, acorn squash, zucchini and buttercup squash.

Calories for Thursday 6/12 (non-lifting): 1574 cal (39%carbs/35% protein/26% fat)

Calories for Friday 6/13 (lifting): 1858 cal (33% carbs/33% protein/25% fat/9% alcohol)

Let's see, good thing for the day: getting that garden planted, especially that my dad came over to help since dh had to make a flying trip to Gettysburg and back and wasn't there helping.

Silly Sally · 06-14-2008, 01:41 PM

Hold up, here, Celeste, you are really getting crazy in here... 2000 lbs of rocks AND a tough bike ride on your FREE DAY?!?

Are you sure you didn't hit your head with that broomstick trying the FSPP???

Just funnin you; you are doing so great!

Celestialmom · 06-15-2008, 05:37 AM

ROFLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You sure are silly, Sally!

If it makes you feel any better, I did absolutely NOTHING yesterday (at least nothing that involved exertion)!!

Bytsi · 06-15-2008, 09:58 AM

Great workouts Celeste! I'm glad you had a "nothing" day - I've been beaten over the head here with the concept of recovery...

beach_plums · 06-15-2008, 02:14 PM

I'm totally envious of your bike ride. My bike is in the shop right now and will stay there for the week. I'm getting the total over-haul done on it since I wrode it all winter long. It's pretty gunked up. Sadly, it's beautiful out today and I'm really wanting to ride.

Great workout too!