The whining won't burn calories but it sure can raise your stress levels. Hope you were able to find some time to care for yourself and get a good night sleep.
I guess unless you render someone down for their fat you are not going to know.
Will you marry me?
I mean, other than the bit about us both being women and (assuming?) heterosexual. Oh, and married. To other people.
Also, not really knowing what you look like or where you live or whether the whining 3 year old would be part of the package or if you would tolerate my dogs and cats and if you'd find me morally reprehensible for having lost one of the fish last month, I mean just gone.
So maybe we should just be friends.
But otherwise? Totally. I'd marry you. Just for that quote alone.
I mean, other than the bit about us both being women and (assuming?) heterosexual. Oh, and married. To other people.
Also, not really knowing what you look like or where you live or whether the whining 3 year old would be part of the package or if you would tolerate my dogs and cats and if you'd find me morally reprehensible for having lost one of the fish last month, I mean just gone.
So maybe we should just be friends.
But otherwise? Totally. I'd marry you. Just for that quote alone.
LMAO! You totally made my morning. Yes, unfortunately the 3 yo comes along with the package. The good news is that he doesn't whine ALL of the time. Sometimes it seems like it though.
Do you think the missing fish could have something to do with the cats and/or dogs?
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My pondering for the day... how is it possible to lose a sports bra for weeks at a time? This ALWAYS happens. I've got two and invariably one is missing. It is nowhere to be found. I've searched all the dirty laundry, the two inevitable baskets of clean laundry that haven't been put away yet, my gym bag, my husband's gym bag (?- you never know), and various other places. In a few weeks I know it will turn up again and the other one will then be missing.
You guys were cracking me up this morning. I just got back from the gym a while ago. Worked with the personal trainer today. It was a pretty good workout, I think. We did barbell stuff first, then he had me do some 30 second agility sprint thingies. That was kind of fun, in a lame way. I may set those up and have the kids do them. I think my daughter would like them.
So, here's my log for today:
Oh, and I think the reason he had me do so many of the dead lifts was he was trying to find out how much I could lift. The last time we did them it was just with the bar to work on form, and this was the first time adding weights. The 30 lb rep was with a smaller bar, and the rest were with the Olympic bar.
I wanted to add that the clean and presses are so hard for me! Formwise I'm talking. I don't think I've gotten one right yet, although the trainer said I was getting close. It just feels like such a goofy movement. And I guess I do better when I'm not thinking about it, because I was lifting the bar from the floor to do a shoulder press and he said it was a perfect clean and press, yet when I was thinking about it I just couldn't get it right. I've got one more session with him, so I hope we will practice those again.
LOL, well he did have me do some squats on some little balance discs(rubber discs filled with air) the very first day I met with him. But it wasn't too gimmicky. He said I could work them into my routine occasionally.
And he does like the free weights and the uh, what do you call, lifts that involve the entire body... there's a name for that right? Ah, it's not coming to me. Must get more coffee...
Multi-joint exercises indeed, but I would dare to say that e.g. a bench press (which is also a multi-joint lift) is not really a full-body exercise, whereas a squat is more of a full-body exercise.
However when you do a combination of 2 exercises in 1 set, then it really becomes a full body exercise. Your clean and press is a good example and so are the 2 main Olympic exercises: snatches , especially the technical one where you dive down into a squat as well as the clean & jerk .. A jerk is almost like a press but instead of having your arms do the pressing you are literally jerking your body underneath the bar and not letting the arms do much work at all.
The exercise in-between a true press w/o leg work (military press is the name for this strict exercise) and a jerk w/o any arm work is the push press where your legs help you get up the weight by giving a bit up to a lot of a shove with the legs.
If you were doing a competition, pressing with arms is enough to get a red light.
BTW, some balance work is good, but exaggarating things by doing tons of stuff on a Bosu or Swiss ball is not good. One of the things I'm trying to re-focus on is to get beter balance and also do a bit more 'core' (or abs) work. Though I do think that one of the very best ab exercises ever is doing an overhead squat..
I think 'full body training' is what I was going for. Like Espi said, maybe not every exercise works the entire body, but lots of compound lifts done in alternating sets to give a full workout.
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I forgot to post my food log (bleh- food log sounds gross) for yesterday. Oh it was bad! I pretty much had a carb orgy last night, and ate way more calories than I should have. It will be okay, I just can't do it often!
You can even do a full body training with just isolation exercises on machines, but the idea would be that you do a full body training with the least amount of exercises
I took dd to the racquetball court for about 20 minutes before I took her to the child care. That was mostly me running after the ball, so I counted the calories
thansk for the welcome in my t log. I can see I can learn a lot from your log - love the charts too.
BTW I am always finding a sports bra down the back of the sofa - this suggests I am throwing it off in the living room more often than I thought, or someone is placing it there...
Hey Mercedes! The bra has still not been found. Behind the couch is a common place for us to find stuff here, so I usually look there pretty early in a search. The bra really does seem to be more lost than usual, and I'm wondering if I left it at the gym.
I've solved it the easy way.. the only bras I ever wear are sports bras (or none at all) and I've got 5 or 6 of them.. just counted but can only find one of a pair I am sure to have 2 off (2 w/o a closure, 4 with a closure, all from Champion). There's 2-3 more regular bras but I never ever wear them anymore.. just too uncomfortable.
LOL, that would solve it. I'm enjoying my new body too much to go that route though. Since I lost so much weight I'm really liking being able to wear regular type pretty bras, instead of the industrial strength ones I used to have to get.
I think I'm just going to go buy a new sports bra though. I definitely need more than one so I don't have to wash it every time. I think the ones I've got are Champion, as well, cheapy ones from Target. I'll just have to go pick up another one.
LOL, that would solve it. I'm enjoying my new body too much to go that route though. Since I lost so much weight I'm really liking being able to wear regular type pretty bras, instead of the industrial strength ones I used to have to get.
I think I'm just going to go buy a new sports bra though. I definitely need more than one so I don't have to wash it every time. I think the ones I've got are Champion, as well, cheapy ones from Target. I'll just have to go pick up another one.
I hear ya. I feel like my bras are scaffolding sometimes Honest to goodness, if men had to walk around with freakin rubber bands tight around their chest cavity all day, we would have had world war III already!
They would be so grumpy!
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In that case I'm 'blessed'.. even at my heaviest (85kg) I only had a B-cup (maybe for 1 week or so a C?) & right now it's A all the way. Downside is that being an apple means that I still haven't reached the point where my gut is smaller than my breasts.
At a regular weight and being the feminist & bra-hater that I was, I've refused to wear bras for eons.. until I discovered the sports bra which are 10000 more comfortable.. so it's either those or none at all . ... maybe maybe on very formal occasions.. that would be something as important as a wedding (mine that is )
Uh.. yeah, I can see why you're happy to buy regular bras.. I don't even think they have good sports bras for larger sizes.
Larger breasts are really something I've never been envious about. I can even understand the mythical (?) Amazons cutting off one of theirs in order to be able to shoot with their bows better.
Yup! I'm glad mine are smaller than they used to be, despite the fact that they are very droopy now. My husband is probably not as happy as I am about it, but that's the way the weight came off.
Katey, it sounds like yours like to hang on to what they've got
I know that everyone will be relieved to know that I purchased a new sports bra today. It is purple and for some reason it was marked $11.88 while all of the others (just like it) were marked $16.99. I'm hoping they were on sale at some point and that this one got overlooked rather than it being defective in some way.'
Honest to goodness, if men had to walk around with freakin rubber bands tight around their chest cavity all day, we would have had world war III already!
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