Wow, don't stop by for a few days and lots to catch up on.
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So, good luck with the boyfriend and his knowledge of all this - probably a good thing, an opportunity for you to educate him, another shared interest, and hopefully, he will get how beneficial it is to him that you do all this. A hot girlfriend is never a bad thing........
That's what I tell DH every time he tells me to eat something . . . sounds something like "someday you're going to have a hot wife from all of this." He doesn't want to hear all the other stuff as he has no weight to lose and is naturally muscular from working all the time not at a desk job.
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Try explaining going to the Summit - it's quite the experience lol.
I tried not to mention the "people I met on the internet" part. Course I still hide the food scale when I am not actually preparing a meal so I don't have to explain anything about my diet to anyone not living here, deficit or not.
An active weekend for once. Makes sense, the only time I don't want to be behind my laptop is when I have a thesis to finish.. before tuesday... this tuesday... Anyway!
While the boyfriend was out wall-climbing (unprecedented!), I went for a 1,5 hour walk today to some nearby abbey grounds. Listened to Leigh's "what are you owed" podcast (my favorite) amongst others.
I'm not a good walker (I was even feeling my spleen near the end) but it upped my weekend burn nicely. And if I ever want to go on a day-long hike, lord knows I need the practice. We live in the urban side of the country but there's a lot of green about.
And now, it's back to finishing the thesis. Gym tomorrow morning for the first time this week (had a throat infection, as you may recall). First time after being sick is always a bit rough, hope it goes well. It'll be my first time doing actual dead deadlifts too
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Vegetarian, consumer of large quantities of Quark cheese
Working my way from 76.4 to 58 kg (168 - 127.6 lbs)
Lifting a bit, schedule varies. Barbell weight: 22kg/48.4#
Since you're a gamer, what games are you playing now?
Nothing, I'm too busy having finals... As soon as I'm done I'm hoping to finish King's Bounty and start on Persona 4 on the PS2, play some more Mario Galaxy on the WII (and finally finish World of Goo there). The boyfriend is playing Age of Conan behind me now, last week he explored Warhammer online
I'm a fan of walking, myself. Except if it's on the treadmill--even with Leigh's podcasts, I just hate treadmill walking. Maybe it's that I can still hear the gym's music in the background. Maybe it's just that I'm truly misanthropic and get irritated with various mouth-breathers/panters. Or maybe it's just hormones and if I were to walk on the treadmill at the magic time, I'd get the metaphoric birds singing around my shoulders.
But put me outside with one of Leigh's podcasts, and I'm good to go.
Good luck with the thesis!
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
Nothing, I'm too busy having finals... As soon as I'm done I'm hoping to finish King's Bounty and start on Persona 4 on the PS2, play some more Mario Galaxy on the WII (and finally finish World of Goo there). The boyfriend is playing Age of Conan behind me now, last week he explored Warhammer online
Playing through Jade Empire on my 360 and doing dailies in World of Warcraft. I've heard of Warhammer and Conan of course, but one MMORPG is enough for me. What does he think of them?
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No "happy hours" makes for a lot of miserable days. - Mahler
For a moment there, I thought I read mouth-breathers/panthers and I was stunned for a minute, wondering what a mouth-panther was.
Clearly a case of overstudying
I spent the past five minutes trying to come up with a decent quip regarding "mouth-panther." I got nothin'.
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
MS warmup, then
Front squat push press: olympic bar
Lifting off of my heels is becoming easier, hips do indeed tilt. I always thought this was becaue of a leg strength inbalance, but I guess the problem is more hip related. I've never heard of this in all my blog reading. I'll make a video next time so I can put it up and get some feedback. Pushups:4/4/5
Less than last few times. But then, last few times I did them as my main lift. Static lunge: 11k Single leg squat:3x6
Good and low. DB 1 pt. row:12k
One of the gym dinosaurs (the most stereotypical one, actually. I should call him Barney) watched me do the rows. "That's a new one", he said. I told him I didn't like them much either and he said that they probably did a good job of isolating the muscles I was using. If you say so, buddy. Hor. woodchop: 13,5
My boyfriend Jan finished the NROL break-in program today. He's sitting here now watching Colbert in Iraq, scarfing down chocolate milk and nutella sandwiches, while I'm chewing on my steamed chicken. Life is terribly unfair
My boyfriend Jan finished the NROL break-in program today. He's sitting here now watching Colbert in Iraq, scarfing down chocolate milk and nutella sandwiches, while I'm chewing on my steamed chicken. Life is terribly unfair
I feel you on that! My husband joined me on a 6 week diet back in January and we basically ate the same things. Where we had little slip-ups and my losses slowed or stalled, his continued.
I've added a foam roller to my amazon wish list now, and all because of you!
Not really, don't worry. It was on my "someday I'll buy" list. (Well, I guess it still is.) You're just the first to tell me in no uncertain terms to just do it! And so...
I am not a sheep! I am not a sheep!
though strangely I still feel as if I'm just blindly following the crowd.
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Plus, my desire to remain stunningly attractive outweighs the call of the cheesecake. mostly...
though strangely I still feel as if I'm just blindly following the crowd.
Haha, I have that too, and after exams are over I'm going to make an effort to find out and learn what it does exactly, and why foam rolling is good.
Now all I know is "foam rolling relaxes your soft tissue and makes it unknotted". Yay? Of the many problems I've had, overstressed soft tissue (whatever that is) never seemed to be one
Haha, I have that too, and after exams are over I'm going to make an effort to find out and learn what it does exactly, and why foam rolling is good.
Now all I know is "foam rolling relaxes your soft tissue and makes it unknotted". Yay? Of the many problems I've had, overstressed soft tissue (whatever that is) never seemed to be one
Agreed. We can look at it this way: we shall be experimenting a theory in order that we can best make our own decision as to whether or not foam rolling works.
Not blind consumerists!
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Plus, my desire to remain stunningly attractive outweighs the call of the cheesecake. mostly...
One of the gym dinosaurs (the most stereotypical one, actually. I should call him Barney)
Well, just so long as you don't start singing the "I love you, you love me" song at him...
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
Tight quads and sore glutes. From squats and 1pt. rows? Strange, maybe the lifts from the heel target the glutes more.
Activity today: Biked to work, 1 hour walk at lunch (why shop at the 2 nearest supermarkets when you can shop at the 3rd nearest?), mobility in the evening. Food today: Chicken salad wrap, Quark w/ orange, nuts and cruncho (one of the more rediculous cereal names), Stir-fried ginger-coconut beef with string beans and brown rice.
Handing in the thesis tomorrow then taking an exam the same day. Still a good week away from the end of exams and maintenance week. Keep on truckin'.
Playing through Jade Empire on my 360 and doing dailies in World of Warcraft. I've heard of Warhammer and Conan of course, but one MMORPG is enough for me. What does he think of them?
Ooh, Jade Empire is great! I was playing it on the PC but I still haven't finished it. He liked Warhammer quite a bit, there was a nice way of doing group quests, and PVP was nice. Conan has a very active combat system and he missed his auto-attack button
Cool - I'm in the Imperial City now in Jade Empire and enjoying it a lot. Wish I hadn't spread out my technique points around like I did, but can't go back now.
I don't care for PVP since my experience with it usually is ganking - some high level character just wantonly kills lower level characters.
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No "happy hours" makes for a lot of miserable days. - Mahler
I won't be home till 11pm, so I'm packing a lot of tupperware today. Jan is not going to be happy with this amount of dishes. He's always giving me lip about how many dishes I use in a day. I told him I don't mind washing my tupperware myself, but he insists on cleaning them (while still giving me aformentioned lip : ).
Activity: Went for a 2h walk with a my coworker whois worried about my lack of exposure to sunlight.Yes, everyone is giving me lip these days.
Today's food: A big kitchen sink tuna salad. Bread 'n hummus (yum!), Quark w/fruit 'n nuts, and a small mystery meat sandwich at my exam tonight.
(I'm suddenly listing food because I'm too busy studying to do anything exciting. Trust me, my alternative talking topics are all worse. Unless rapid prototyping turns you on. In which case you should seek help.)
Just catching up....good luck with the finals/exams.
This quark talk makes me want some even though I have never tried it...I am a dairy fan and I am sure that if I ever got to try it I would fall in love, then be upset because I would long for it. Kind of like how I ate a ton of queso panela in Mexico last week and now would love to have some this moment
Not really (the prototyping), but I could talk nutrition & lifting till the cows come home & frankly, if someone is a good teacher, (s)he can capture the interest of anyone, even the ones that are easily bored.
In other words... give it your best shot & try to convince us it this can be interesting
Good luck w your exam & seems like you & me have found the rare bf who enjoys doing dishes . Or rather, hates seeing dirty dishes way more than I do
Good luck w your exam & seems like you & me have found the rare bf who enjoys doing dishes . Or rather, hates seeing dirty dishes way more than I do
Alas no, our entire kitchen is filled with dirty dishes. It's just that we have a 'he washes, I dry" agreement, and he doesn't want anyone else to wash the dishes that are piling up in the sink
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Vegetarian, consumer of large quantities of Quark cheese
Working my way from 76.4 to 58 kg (168 - 127.6 lbs)
Lifting a bit, schedule varies. Barbell weight: 22kg/48.4#
Lost 3,5 cm on my thighs, enough to fit into my skinny pants as long as I don't breathe or try to move It's the day after my TOM though (aka "This is the best you'll look all month" day), so it'll still be sometime before I fit in them proper on a normal day with breathing and moving and everything. Still, it's progress.
Food: Oatmeal, Quark 'n fruit 'n Cruncho, steamed fish w/veg, and a curried mussels wrap for dinner. And none of the ice cream that's in the freezer.
Deadlifts: 45/45/50kg
Had to go down in weight a bit. But then, these were DEAD lifts! These lifts passed on, they are no more. These lifts have ceased to be and gone to meet their maker. THIS IS AN EX-LIFT!
Aheum.. You get my point*. Lat PD: 23,5kg
Down one kg. Someone must have secretly slipped amphetamines in my drink two weeks ago with the way I was lifting then. Bulgarian split-squats: 10kg
These split-squats were squats of pure beauty. Cuban snatch: 2kg Reverse lunge: 7kg Intervals:Good. I do love intervals, as long as they only visit once a week.
Did some facepulls and weight-on-a-rope rolls afterwards for good measure.
Oh, and I'm back on creatine. I was off it for a while to see if it had bloated me, but it hadn't. It makes men bloat like crazy though (Muhahaha revenge, bitches!)
* Yes, Scribess, I went to college too - well, I never left, really
Your workout looks good. I'm doing similar tonight (Stage 2/B2). Are your weights total or per DB? On your advice I shall be decreasing my weight for Cuban snatches.
What does the creatine do for you personally?
We were doing a version of that MP sketch at home the other day. Ha ha! My dad found it hilarious.
Your workout looks good. I'm doing similar tonight (Stage 2/B2). Are your weights total or per DB? On your advice I shall be decreasing my weight for Cuban snatches.
What does the creatine do for you personally?
We were doing a version of that MP sketch at home the other day. Ha ha! My dad found it hilarious.
If it's DB exercise, it's per dumbbell. Creatine is strange. What is does, is it helps you get more fuel to your muscles after they've been worked for a while. So it should help you squeeze out those last reps, or to do all-in for the last set. The first time I went on it, I felt it didn't do anything. So I went off of it, and suddenly my workouts were SO damm hard! It's very cheap, much cheaper than protein powder and has no calories, so you can always give it a try. JC has an article on it called Creatine is for girls.
* Yes, Scribess, I went to college too - well, I never left, really
And I want to go back! If it weren't for the money issue.
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They call me Amanda, that being my real name, and "They" being people who know me in person as I don't go around introducing myself in real life as "scribess." 'Cause that would just be strange.
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