Cnstnce’s BodyBlog

Wow, what a week its been!!!  Monday I think that I am about to endure a few months of post-breakup hell, a bit of love’s hangover I guess.  But, Tuesday, while at work, minding my own business mind you, I met someone.  So now, while I am still sifting through the ashes of a failed relationship, I am also staring down the barrell of a prospective, new adventure.  I know its sudden, and weird, and I am not the type to go bounding from guy to guy to guy, I actually hate it when people do that, but its too great.  The conversations are great, and never cease.  Religion, politics, books, movies, music, goals, life, mistakes, accomplishments….when we will see each other again.  He lives ~7 hours away, and has a pretty crazy life it seems that takes him to all kinds of places for weeks at a time.  So I have a thing for someone that won’t be around very often.  Therein lies the adventure.  I love that life can be like those books that some of us read when we were kids, the "Make Your Own Adventure" books.  I guess I’ll have to read one on my first flight to Columbus.  Thank goodness for Frequent Flyer miles, they may come in handy.  So when I dropped him off at the airport he told me not to be a slacker and go to the gym.  I fully intend to see that through.  Its Tricep day, afterall, my least favorite body part.  My arm is all out of wack because mine look so flimsy, so I got to hit it hard.  Add some ab work and some cardio and I should be right as rain. 

So, by the way, hi Drew.  2 weeks….I can’t wait.

Looking forward to today.  Life seems to be treating me alright these days, all things considered.  I think I will be recovering from this breakup well, so I can’t really complain.  I think that Lipo-6 is working better than the Hardcore, so that’s exciting.  I predict full on six pack in 2 weeks.  I’m going to a weekend long music festival with my ex in about a month, so I should hopefully drop jaws.  I’m not trying to make him jealous or take me back or anything, but it should make me feel good nonetheless.  As soon as I finish this blog I am going to make one of my famous, clean breakfast burritos.  So yummy, and then get ready for the rest of my day.  I am going to hit my hamstrings today, and some abs.  I have been breaking down my body parts more and more.  It allows me to really hit them from all angles.  Its the second week of me doing this, I think its working well.  I feel like I am getting more growth this way.  I am also alternating abs and calves, which I hadn’t done before.  My calves were looking wimpy, but I am starting to see some nice definition.  I love beautiful calves on women.  When we wear heels, it can really make a dress.  I see a lot of dressed up women in fine dinning, and I see tons of skinny, no-definition women.  I think its gross.  "Sticks on sticks" thats what I call them.  Anyways, gotta make some breakfast, now that the lipo-6 has kicked in.

Today has been a hard day.  I entered the gym wiped out.  My boyfriend and I are breaking up.  We are trying to ease out, to make it easier, but it still hurts.  We have been together for 2 years, and its hard to watch it all go.  So needless to say, my workout suffered a bit.  I tried to push it out, but I had no interest in sitting on a treadmill or an elliptical today.  I do a lot of reflecting during that time, and I couldn’t really handle it today.  I am a little scared of being alone, and seeing him with someone else, but I know its for the best.  There is someone out there better for both of us.  I thought we were it. 

So, despite all that, I did manage to PR my squats.  I did 150, not that impressive I know, but its an improvement so thats all that matters.  I really put a hurting on my quads today.  Squats, hack squats, extensions, and abductions.  I also went on the stair climber and did my calves for 5 minutes after traditional weighted calf raises.  At least I got some work done.

Ok I know we all have our rants, I have a lot, but I am still adjusting my life to not care about what everyone else has to say, and caring about what I think.  In the meantime, I have had a lot of people lately who have been trying to tempt me with really bad foods and when I respond, "oh, thanks, but no."  They say, "oooh, you don’t like chocolate cake?"  Well, hell yea I like chocolate cake, but not on my @ss!  So I politely say, "I’m just trying to lose a little fat, that’s all."  The response is the same everytime.  "Are you anorexic?  You are too skinny already…you don’t need to lose any weight."  Come again?  Did I say anything about weight?  I thought I said fat?  I did, I’m sure of it.  But then it becomes some 20 minute discussion where I tell people that I am interested in figure competitions and to do them your body fat has to be low, blah, blah, blah….we all know the conversation.  So what’s a girl to do?  I had one girl who tried to get me to eat doughnuts with her, we had the talk about my goals, and later she saw me eat a meal, 3 hours after my previous meal.  She shook her finger at me and said, "how do you expect to lose that FAT if you eat all the time?"  WTF!!!!  Can people not mind their own business?  I just don’t understand why the fat pushers are always trying to bring down the little people.  I read someone else’s blog recently, she said that people made fun of her for being fit, because its easier than calling a fat person fat!  I know the feeling.  I get called all kinds of names, get told I push too much in the gym, and that I should eat some cake.  Whatever!  One girl, at a party, told me that a six pack wasn’t attractive on a female, and that I should regain some fat because curves are sexy.  That is the dumbest thing I have ever heard.  Be fat, like the rest of us!  Your abs are intimidating me, and I can’t stand that we are all drunk, and you are drinking water….that’s what I heard her say, anyways. 

Ok, so the competition is over, I am back in the gym for me now.  It feels great.  I have a new drive to continue to get better.  I have decided that its time for me to set a date for my first figure comp.  I will have to wait until ‘08, as the resort is entering the busy 6 months of the year, and the majority of my income is made now.  I hope to do Valerie Waugauman’s champ camp too.  I emailed her, but I got nothing back.  What gives?  I am hoping to drop my bodyfat to 12%, then I will increase my caloric intake substantially and gain.  To then cut for the comp.  There is a total lack of figure girls in the area, so I have no idea what to do or expect.  I am hoping, if my boss can stand to give me a saturday night off, to go to Columbia,SC for an NPC comp.  I have never seen one, so this will be exciting. 

Today’s plan

The Lado Delt plan, and calves.

45 min. Cardio

Check!

So I have the results of my competition.  I find that even though I improved on absolutely everything, I am still a little dissapointed.  I really wanted to max out every category, and I didn’t.  I also thought that I had lost inches off my waist and hips, and I didn’t.  I am going to use this blog to try to focus on the positives.

 1.  I controled my drinking to a bare bones minimum.  Once a week, red wine, if that.

2. Improved my VO2 max by 8.3 ml/kg/min- taking me from average to excellent- New goal- to become superior

3. Lowered my bodyfat from 17.9 to 14.4.  Goal remains at 12.

4. Improved my sit and reach by 5.1 inches, placing me in superior.  New goal-make people’s jaw drop with serious flexibility.

5. Increased girth of my shoulders by 2.25 inches, I love working my delts, and it shows.  Goals-increase all measurements, except abdomen.

6. Increased push ups done to fatigue to 50. New goal- 75

7. Increased sit-ups done in one minute to 42. New goal-60

 Besides all these results my Cholesterol dipped down below 100, HDL 58, LDL too low to read.  I need to get it back up to over 100.  Apparently having it this low increases depression, anxiety, and chances of diabetes.

I need to improve my bicep strength.  Current 51 lbs- need 80lbs.- would love any advice, I thought for sure I would have improved a lot more in this category.

So there it is.  12 weeks of work.  New goals are planned, and I am determined.

Ok so its all coming to an end.  Today I go for cholesterol testing at 1pm, and tomorrow is the final overall evaluation at 10:30.  I hope we do well.  I think it’ll be great.  I wonder all the time if we are going to win.  I want to win, I just don’t know how hard my team-mates worked.  My boyfriend scheduled the blood test today for 1pm, which is so dumb.  I haven’t been able to eat all day, and I am about to explode. t=-3 hours.  Ooooh I just want to have a bowl of oatmeal or something!  I also can’t go to the gym, and haven’t since Saturday.  I want all my muscles in top shape for the tests.  So I am really aching to go.  I’ll go once the test is over on Wednesday, but my boyfriend wants to go to Pizza Hut to celebrate.  He may have to go without me.  I need weights and cardio, I need to eat my 5-6 meals, I can’t stand 4 days without.  I may have a problem.

I heard that shopping was supposed to be more fun once you went down in sizes so yesterday I went shopping.  My first store I started laughing when I put on a size 3, yea it was fun.  So excited about my revelation that now I am a 3/4 I went to other stores.  What I found sucked.  I live in the south, people are fat here.  I went looking for a dress for a baptism and every dress I saw that was my style only came in sizes 8-16!  I am not kidding.  I ended up shopping in the Junior’s department, because all the ladies stuff was too big.  What am I supposed to do?  I did eventually find a dress, in the junior’s dept.  I then went to one of those cheap clothing stores (Ross) where all the clothes are just organized by size and I found the same thing there, hardly any 4’s, tons and tons of 8-24 though!  I guess thats the price I have to pay now. 

My title line "I want to make people jealous."  It worked, I was looking at smalls, 4’s, x-smalls when I looked up and saw this girl walking by, she was on her way to the 10’s and glared at me, with her upper lip in a little curl.  I laughed inwardly, she only wishes she worked as hard as I do.  ;^)

Hi all, another day, another post.  So I got up early and went to the gym to do cardio.  I wear a chest strap to get an accurate heart rate, to make sure that I am actually doing cardio.  My target heart rate is 154, and lately I have found that it has become more and more difficult to reach.  I guess my cardiovascular health has improved that much?  I was huffing and puffing for the first 10 minutes just to get there, once there I was fine.  So then I went back to the gym after a few hours, a meal, and NO explode.  I had a grueling leg day:

Box Squats-2×15 warmup

Box squats-4×15 to burnout

lunges-4×10 each side to burnout

Romanian Deadlifts 4×8 max out-105×8

Ball Glute Crunch(just made that name up)-4×15 with 25lbs weight. 30 sec hold on last rep.

Calf Raises- 2×20-20lbs, 3×20 24lbs

Ouch, it was tough, but now I feel great!  All leg muscles work to exhaustion, I’m happy.

First let me thank all those who supported me yesterday in coming to terms with the death of my friend.  Its nice to know that we all are here for each other, not just in terms of diet and exercise, but life as well.  Thank you. 

On a brighter note, I am looking forward to a new day.  I am going to start Mary Lado’s Delt workout from the new Muscle and Fitness Hers, as well as the ab workout.  I am looking forward to giving my shoulders and abs a new push, as I know it is much needed.  I really wish that magazine came out more often, it really is one of the best in the field for women.  Off to the gym, I hope all of you have a safe and productive and, of course, great day.