My Crazy Obsession with the Gym

4 weeks down, 4 to go… if I keep going hardcore, I will look the best I have for any show. I’m superhappy about results already - better results than I’ve gotten after 8 weeks of dieting in previous shows. Feel close to hitting the "wall" but I still won’t quit and we m ight try carb cycling to help that. My life might feel like a giant car wreck with all these different problems continually popping up and almost knocking down my positivity, but I am not letting JACK SH*T get in the way of the 20th My car is a mess of food, water bottles and gym clothes…. my room is messy and my fridge is filled with uncooked food… but damnit I’m still going at it 110% in work/friends/training and my boyfriend, so it can’t be THAT bad.

Most importantly - let me say how THANKFUL I am to have such a wonderful guy in my life. He helps me see the forest through the trees and relax and reminds me that I don’t need to conquer 1,000 different things in the same hour. He reminds me that improvement is a PROCESS, not overnight occurrence. He keeps me positive and grounded and sane when I am teetering on the edge of psycho-stressy-emotional chick. And that isn’t easy. I love my boyfriend, we butt heads like everyone else, but he brings peace and faith and perseverance to my personality. So much of things in him I lack because I am so hyper and anal and conrol-freaky (yeah, I do like knowing what’s what… so?) and he just helps me chill out and not make mountains out of mole hills. When I think the world is ending, he calms me down and shows me otherwise. THANK YOU I am very, very lucky to be a part of his life. I LOVE YOU!!!

I don’t know if you can overtrain in 2 weeks superhardcore or not. But I do know I’m hella tired and hungry. Like clockwork, an hour after each meal I am ready for the next.. when a few weeks ago I was superfull. And my body’s just tired lol. My workouts are definitely getting a bit weaker, I don’t know if it’s the nonstop-ness or lots of double cardios and plyo and sprints or what… maybe all?… I should just "whatever," it’s very obviously working - like really obviously (damn no pics to show)… which is fantastic at uh, 53 days?… but this girl just wants to sit down for a day or at least do some easy cardio and maybe have some toast.

It’s funny because when I haul into the gym at 10pm to do the 2nd cardio, it’s rough… but the next morning BAM I look in the mirror and can’t wait to get at it 110% again that day. Funny, no? I guess that’s how it is, the renewing of the drive to push so freaking hard is cyclic, not continuous. Either way I still think I’m gonna ask my nutritionist for an "easy day," as in lifting but maybe a long easier cardio session and a cheat meal… ha, I don’t even want traditional junk… honestly I just crave a bigger portion of what I’m already eating on the diet…. and maybe a nice med-rare hamburger patty yum

Bi’s and tri’s tonight. I don’t like doing multiple-arm muscles together; the pump annoys me (go figure) and my forearms cramp if I superset. Cable incline skullcrushers w/ez bar, dips, DB tricep extensions, barbell curls, and incline DB hammer curls. Tomorow is chest, shoulders, and abs… tonight’s PM cardio was only 10min of jogging - just tired, AM cardio plyo interval runs kill my hips - so I’ll do sprints in the AM and a PM to make up for tonight. Ugh, I have to wait until Friday instead of Thursday to ask for a day off. One day isn’t a LONG time, but it still is, ya know? And duh, nobody is holding a big stick over my head, threatening to club me if I take it easy for a day, but… my nutritionist is the one who measures me.. and we all know how important that is… and I don’t wanna risk f-ing anything up by relaxing it a bit beore I see her. No way jose.

The vending machine coffee is actually pretty good at my work.

I’m a little spacey right now so this mostlikely didn’t make sense; you all have a good night, fall is coming, happy lifting and eat lots for me!!!

THAT, ladies and gentlemen, was my attempt at "OOhh headline." Fell flat but I laughed at the dorkiness Here’s the diet and cardio plan from 8 - 6 weeks out, I’m really shocked how freaking well it has worked in only 1.5 weeks (drastic difference in my body). Maybe this can be of interest to someone!

Diet:

1. (post-am cardio/weights) 1/4C oats + 1C egg subst. or 6 whites
2. 1C egg subst/whites or 6oz tuna + 1C fibrous carbs (I like broccoli or green beans) + 2 fish oil tabs
3. 4oz chick/turk/fish + 1/4C starch + salad w/2T light dressing (Kraft Light 3-cheese ranch! yummy!)
4. 1/4C oats + 1scoop Protein or 1C egg subst
5. 4oz chick/turk/fish + salad w/ 1T olive oil + 1T light dressing
6. (Optional but she wants it mandatory now:) 1/2C 8th Continent light soymilk + 1C water + 1 scoop Protein

Cardio:

• Day 1: AM:None, PM: 40min
• Day 2: AM: 20min pre-meal 1, PM: 30min
• Day 3: AM: 20min pre-meal 1, PM: 30min
• Day 4: AM: None, PM: 40min
• Day 5: AM: 20min pre-meal 1, PM: 30min
• Day 6: AM: None, PM: 40min
• Day 7: AM: 20min pre-meal 1, PM: 30min

For the AM cardio, it’s sprinting on the treadmill for 20 minutes w/ intervals of 2min at 60% pace, 2min 90% pace, with 5 minutes afterwards of jogging at 50-60% pace. 2 of these AM cardios just changed to intervals of 2min 60% pace then 1min of plyometrics (tuck/box jumps, jumping jacks, etc), for the same 20 mins of intervals then 5 min cooldown jog. THAT is rough! The PM cardios are supposed to be done before Meal 5, but I work 2nd and don’t get to the gym before 10pm most nights so I do the 2nd cardio then eat the salad. I think I’d barf to eat a salad before cardio. Ideally all the cardios are supposed to be running, but my legs are exhausted so all the AM cardio’s are treadmill and I split half of the evening cardio’s between the treadmill and the cybex arctrainer / elliptical / stairmaster, depending on how tired I am. This really exhausts me; thank goodness for VPX Redline or I would be a slug on the couch all day.

As for strength training, I like lifting 5-6 days a week. Legs get worked 2x, shoulders 3x, and abs 6x a week. I like to do dips, bent-over barbell rows, lat pulldowns on days when I’m working other bodyparts. My reps are a little higher now between 12-15, I will probably throw in a week of super-heavy (6-8 reps) to mess with my body a bit. I have to say, I prefer the 6-8 rep range over 15-20 —- no good reason, I just get bored!