ChangeNow’s BodyBlog

I am just beginning to do abs again. This is my third time for the year, and I feel a lot stronger. Here is what I did today.

4 set of 10 hanging leg raises. (hanging from the pull-up bar keep legs straight and bring  them all the way up until they touch the bar and then lower slowly).

10 set of 10 lying leg raises with thrust. (Raise feet up to 90 degree angle and then push up as high in the air towards the ceiling keeping the 90 degree angle, and pause then lower torso and then feet to ground without touching. Every other set I twisted my feet to each side on the thrust.

5 set of 10 V-ups

3 sets of 10 decline sit-ups with twist to each side

200 crunches very slow (took like 15 minutes)

100 reverse crunches

3 sets of ten (each side) on the rotary torso machine (obliques) very light due to injury

Plank … hold for 60 seconds

Side plank … twice each side hold for 30 seconds

Back extension on the machine
1 set of 30 at 140lbs
2 sets of 20 at 200lbs

Jog home.

December 2005 I would have severe Tendonitis in my elbows, and I could not Bench press or do any work on my upper Body. Great, I said to myself. Well as least I can focus on Abs and Legs.

January 2006, I would end up having appendicitis and refused to go to the doctor for almost a week. Once there, they had to do an emergency procedure to remove it. So now no longer was I not doing upper body I was not doing anything. They cut through my ab and oblique muscle sto get to the appendix.

I was told 6 to 8 weeks was the normal time for healing. Only problem is that things did not heal. My lower right portion of my abdomen hurt like crazy. The doctors said it might be fluid from the surgery, that it might go way. Or that it might be scar tissue pain. But it wasn’t. I had a bad abdominal infection and was hospitalized again in July.

All this time I have been unable to do abs due to the pain. Unable to do Legs because squats affect the abs, and unable to lift anything heavy.

In August I started working out a little again, but feel tremendous muscle pain in my right oblique with any work that I do. I would limit my workouts to once every two or three weeks, and spend the rest of the time recovering from the pain. The problem now is that the oblique muscle has not fully healed.

November 15h when I joined bodyspace, I joined knowing I need to make progress. All the pictures are how I look now. I don’t like how I look now because I looked better before. Everyday people who know me are telling me that I look sick. They say that I lost a lot of weight.

Funny thing is I was 185 before at like 7% bodyfat and looked great. Now at 182 and 10% I look sick and like I lost weight.

I still have the tendonitis and still have oblique pain when I workout. But I have learned to deal with it, and plan on making a change now, and am determined to have myself looking my best ever in the next few months.