~~BuffMother! GET BUFF~~

I spent some time right before bed to make up my POA for the next 5 weeks!!  I am so pumped and a little scared…why scared you ask??

Well, I am gonna get SORE!  I know there is no way around it, after taking the last 2 weeks off, that nasty initial soreness will HURT next week.

So, part of my plan is to take CREATINE!!  I have not taken it in about a year,  since it puffs me up so bad, lol!

Here is my POA for this week:
Sun- take ending buffing pics= starting Buff In a Year pics and Starting booty challenge pics!
And Measuremements
M-Chest
T-Legs
W-Back
Th-Chest
F-Legs
S-Back
Sun off
*note, no cardio :yay:!!  my focus is gonna be 100% on my lifting for this 2 week boosting phase–MY BIGGEST FOCUS ON MY BOOTY (of COURSE) and I plan on doing a ton of core work too!

**I will do the weekly mini challenges for the booty challenge also!!

I am pumped!!

Eats today so far:
Coffee 2 cups w/half and half and sugar C
EZ toast w/mayo and chicken 2P,2C, 1F
Big bowl of Brussels sprouts 2G
green drink G
Olives 1F
I plan to pig out on STEAK tonight , lol!

have a super SATURDAY~~
-Michelle

TGIF!!  I am excited for this weekend~ don’t know why exactly as I have no plans for anything but finishing my book!!!I am noticing my muscle FLYING off my body from not lifting over the past 10 days, lol! I am ON FIRE to get back at it!! I will make a solid 3-4 month plan this weekend

Thanks for the kick in the ever rising booty about being accountable on our eating,  Patti!!
Here are mine for today:
PPPP- eggs, roast
CC- EZ toast
FFFF- butter, egg yolk, beef fat–all bad ones sorry
GG- green beans

I am not done yet though …HUNGRY right about NOW!!
So I “plan” on finishing out the night with a protein shake- not sure what kind (PC) and a green drink…that should even my portions out a bit.

Well, I am knee deep in work at the moment, so this will have to be short.
Love ya!!
-Michelle

First off~Thanks for all the congrats and kind words about my bodyspace member of the month interview…It has been so nice to feel the LOVE

It looks like summer is on full boar and ya’ll are really enjoying it, cuz’ it’s dead in cyberspace, lol! It was a lazy summer weekend around here too and we enjoyed all of it.

Yesterday we went for a walk up in Bella Vista around the lake a 1.8 mile trek followed by playtime at the park and McDonalds for lunch afterward. The kids had fun and so did I and GRANDMA….
Then today we spent sometime at the mall~ I returned a couple dresses and bought some RAINBOW flip flops~The kids were GREAT all day and we’ve all gotten some much needed rest.

ON tap for this week is continued “off” for me from workouts~ it feels really good to have a BREAK from the pressure to fit it in. I try to do this about twice a year- and I always come back stronger than ever! As for the kids, they’ll be busy with swimming lessons, Gramma’s last day here is tomorrow (sad)…and this is Gracie’s last week of preschool EVER!! She’ll get a week off before she starts kindergarten on the 6th- I am amazed, I thought the day would never come, lol!

~ I will join in on Booty challenge that’s going on in my RR on the 30th with that!! ! CAN’T WAIT!!

Yesterday I promised pictures…here they are! Some Pictures from this past b-day week

Have a great week~

Michelle

I am so excited!!  I am BodySpace member of the month and I am on the FRONT page of
www.BodyBuilding.com~

Check it out BuffMother Member of the Month

Thanks for all your support, you’ve made it possible!!
Love,
BuffMother!

In my TEAM BuffMother! Rally room~ July is Focus on Solutions month~

Today’s topic was "Focus on Solutions" NO TIME!

As mothers I think we have the least amount of time of any species on earth!! Weather we work outside the home or work as stay at home MOMS…there is hardly time to breath most days.

Time management is a lot like MONEY management, since time is MONEY in a way. How do you spend your time? Is it on things that will matter 5-10 years in the future or things that can wait (like cleaning, landscaping, shopping, etc.).

I have gone through a few seasons in the last 4 years regarding this issue.
1- CHAOS season- this started about when I had my twins until they were about 1 year old. It was filled with EXHAUSTION, a mental to do list always at least 5 items long (change Tia, feed Tia, change Gracie, feed Gunner and Gracie, change Layla, feed Layla, wash bottles, do laundry–on and on) ~ I was MOMMY 24/7= surviving on little to NO sleep for MONTHS on end. But at about 5 months in, I joined the gym and was able to have an "escape"…some days we’d get to the gym and one or more of the 4 wouldn’t cooperate and NO workout happened. At first my time window was about 30 mins, but as the twins got bigger that turned into 1 hour and eventually by the time my twins were about 8 month old I was up to 2 hours at the gym!! (that long of a day usually included tanning) . I didn’t have the time to go to the gym as I had a MILLION things at home to do, but I don’t think I would have survived without that mental break. So if you have small kids and have the opportunity to use a gym with childcare- DO IT!! It may save your sanity!

2- Controlled Chaos- this started when I started training some clients in the gym…I would workout and/or train someone, come home get am NAPS and feedings done, have lunch, do chores– play with kids, get afternoon naps done… then go back to the gym to train clients or workout. I fit in about 5-10 hours of training clients each week this way. I enjoyed this season because I KNEW God had a PURPOSE for me as a trainer. Plus at the time we needed the extra money…and with it I was able to hire a cleaning lady to come once every 2 weeks . I could have argued that I had NO TIME to workout, but I still DID it. This was also during my "contest" era. I won 5 NPC figure titles during this time.

3- Computer Chaos- This started when I founded www. buffmother.com in Jan of 2005. I shifted gears from training in the gym to trying to help every woman in the world through buffmother.com. I had no clue about websites and spent many hours doing it all by myself. I had no money to pay someone to help, but I was determined to get a website up and running. I built a decent site and then started pouring time into trying to help women with my story and success tools. All the while I still had 4 kids at home full time! And Gunner was going to start kindergarten in the fall. During these almost 2 years I still managed to workout almost every day~ and then at night worked on my website answering e-mails, training online clients, building our Yahoo group. I still had NO TIME but made time.

4-BUSINESS FOCUS- this started this year and has morphed into an entirely different animal for me. This march I enrolled my kids into full time daycare so that I could WORK on my book, etc…. THIS has been the toughest time in my last 4 years to find time to workout. I feel guilty to take the time away from my workday and I feel guilty to take the time away from my kids when they are home. I have to remind myself that it is OKAY to take time for ME! Most days I have fit it in!! NOW this month I’ve move back to part time day care…as I missed my babies too much (plus the cost of 3 kids in full time was CRAZY!!). I also have to remind myself the sacrifice I am making NOW will pay off into a new SEASON where I will be free to EXERCISE more than EVER!! I still have TIME to workout, but I have chosen to take a BREAK so I can move into the NEXT season of my life!!

I guess in all of these examples it comes down to decisions.  What do you DECIDE to do with your time?

What tools do you use to get things done?
Are you good at "saving" time by not overextending yourself? or do you need to learn to say "no" to some things?

I have said it before and I’ll say it again I wish I had 40 hours in every day!! BUT since I don’t, I have to sacrifice and work with the SEASONS in my life to make the next season the even BETTER!!

What are some of your thoughts on Solutions for NO TIME?

-Michelle

Cool AD!

My Oxygen magazine arrived in the mail this morning and LOW and BEHOLD~ I am in it!! on page 111…in the BODYSPACE AD!!  FUN to SEE

Good DAY~

Well with Grandma here we all enjoyed a bit of a vacation day…we relaxed in the morning, bathed and then went to lunch at On the Boarder….I ate a TON! I think I am still full, lol!

Then we watched “Love Comes Softly” then I headed to the gym leaving the kiddos with Grandma

R-bike 5 min
Bench
45×20
push ups 10
95×10
115×10
125×5
115×7

Incline hammer
90×10
110×7
130×6

Incline Flys
35’sx7
40’s x7
40′x6

Ab Knee ups- 4 sets (between above)

tricep push downs
70×15
100×10
110×10

Ran on the treddy for 8 mins- did 2 intervals …felt icky, so I did more lifting

Old School sit ups
pull ups 8
dips 10
Old school sit ups

Done!!
NEW STORE~
The BuffMother! Cafe Press store

Hi ya!! I have just opened my new Cafe Press store…

Are you a BuffMother?…Do you know someone who is?  Check out some of the cool items in my new store!!

The BuffMother! Cafe Press store

And don’t forget that I have other shirts onwww.buffmother.com  TOO!! (like the one in this picture)

I had Leg workout remorse last night after my leg workout….as I lay in bed trying to fall asleep, I thought about how I should have done this and that–smith lunges, hack squats, walking lunges, etc … all of which are VITAL to my booty. YOU SEE>>>>Since naturally I have no booty, I have to work it like CRAZY to keep what I’ve managed to manufacture over the past couple years

So…my solution was to work my booty and back today

Warm up tan
r-bike 12mins
smith lunges
50×15x2
90×10
140×8x2

in between sets
pull ups
20 pounds assitedx10
8
7
inverted
10×2

hack squats (super booty contraction focus)
90×25x3
in between sets
t-bar rows 45×10
70×10x2

Walking lunges
60×15x2
in between
hyper extensions focused on butt
–x10
25×20x2

Standing ab twists
cats
ab roller crunches

That was it…and oh I weigh only 124 today.
-M