DanicaX 
"To finally get to 16% body fat by October... Or to weigh less than my dog, which ever comes first. Kidding..."
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Archive for December, 2007
Monday, December 31st, 2007
Better late blog than no blog…that’s what I always say. Not really…I’ve never said that in my life. Anyways…Happy New Year to everyone!!
I barely got up in time to make it to hot yoga this morning. Don’t worry, though…I managed to make it on time and not get scolded or the “oh…it’s that untattooed yoga reject girl again” look that I actually don’t mind too much anymore…Anyways, it was super packed just like I thought it would be. ..all the “die hards” trying to fit in one last class before this apocalypse tomorrow (when they are conveniently closed, which is totally unheard of..SOMETHING IS UP!!) Like it really matters, people….go home and eat rubbish and read smut magazines!!!
I took a CytoLean before class this morning, which I have never done before. I felt alright, except I kept almost passing out from all the down/up/down/up/deep breathing.….and it was soooo hot today. Lots of people. Can’t eat right before class or you’d puke. So, basically it’s a catch 22…and I’d rather pass out any day than puke. Passing out is the obvious route that someone like me would take…no explanation needed there. I was squished back in the corner against a wall mirror, which I did a nice job of fogging up. Man…if that were a sport…..We were so close that when we laid down the girl’s foot in front of me was seriously about an inch from my face. Ha…it’s ok though. I actually like there being a lot of people. It’s not like you are fighting for space or anything. Buuuut…that could be another “sport” I’d be good at….Just sayin. So…this was the only instructor I hadn’t experienced yet. She may be my new fave…and NOT b/c she wears super short shorts/underwear and doesn’t shave her legs. Not kidding, full hair….who am I to judge….whatever floats your boat.
Ha..this chick was cool though. She told us to try and have “animalistic brains” and just do it w/o being pissy or over-thinking everything. You know, like an animal..ha..I should introduce her to the beast . That would really throw her off…he is such a drama queen and acts like everything is the end of the world. Look at him wrong and he cries for an hour.
“We are like, here for a reason.” This could be my favorite line I’ve heard all day. I may start using this. “Excuse me…I’m like here for a reason.” It could apply in almost every situation. Wait a minute…I think this chick may have been half baked, which would really explain a lot of her dialogue…She also was crawling around on the floor, literally, and “fixing” people. She also jumped up on this heater thing…I don’t know what it was…and continued her dictating from up there. All in all, I would have to say she did quite a few “animalistic” things of her own…not counting the hairy legs. What the **@#%$@!#$%^…. I gotta take a moment to wrap my brain around this one…
Ok, I’m back…I would have to say that overall I was pretty focused all things being considered w/ the monkey chick. Oh, MC also told us, “so many of us are, like, beyond the petty wiping of sweat and fidgeting of clothes.” Amen, sister….I am like light years beyond that petty shiznit yo. I have so much freakin sweat in my eyes and ears half the time that I feel like I’m underwater.
AM TRAINING:
Hot yoga underwater with Monkey Chick 90min
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
…I don’t even know anymore.
Just got back from the gym. I am pleased to report that this mexican dude told me I workout really hard. Although I coulda broke this little guy in two (little on the petite side)…I’m pretty sure he was in a gang, which technically means I am bad to the bone. Which gang, I don’t know, but he had one pant leg up and some scars that looked like they could pass for old knife wounds that healed w/o the use of Neosporin. I would tell him about Vitamin E….but who am I kidding…I was ascared–I didn’t even look him in the eye. “Just look down…thanks and look down….”
This morning I faced that evil StairMaster again, after I got a little courage from my friend, Cyto L. Ean ( I don’t know…) I don’t like to look that damn StairMaster in the eye either. They don’t even have them at the gym I usually go to, and there are only 3 of them at this other gym I went to this morning….phasing them out? Dunno. The chains probably rust out and fall apart from all the buckets of sweat that fall of of the people who dare to climb up on those deceiving, innocent and awkward looking dang thangs….they are closely related to the Versa Climber..those deceiving bastards…always making me look bad. VC is probably the StairMater’s grandaddy. The ellipticals kinda suck….they are like the inbred spawn of the two….blah. Hey, I was born in Missouri ok….I have an eye (actually 3 of them) for these things.
Alright…I’m just mad cuz the StairMaster got the besta me this morning. I’m just not my usual graceful self when we get together….
AM training:
cardiOOO….intervals (near death)
StairMaster 40sec intervals for 20min
StepMill 40sec intervals for 10min
sauna/stretch
….Then I got a “wild hair” tonight and thought I’d switch it up a bit and lift on Sunday night….later than usual. Badasses sometimes do this….I took 3 scoops of SP 250 and drank it on my way. Perhaps I drank it too fast, I don’t know. It certainly was a lot of blueness…I got kind of a stomach cramp when I got to the gym. This has never happened to me, but I’ve had 3 or 4 people tell me that it tears their stomach up. I believe it happened b/c someone emailed me and asked if it bothered my stomach (like an hour before I took the sp), to which I replied that it didn’t and to stop being such a girl….this in turn set me up to be the liar that I was born to be…he set me up….thumbs down to you, **insert name here*** cuz I can’t remember.
PM TRAINING:
upper body circuit
little cardio
Jumping around like a freak…sweating heavily…gaining respect of gangstas…
3-4 sets of the following, 20-25 reps on most things and up to 40 on some…
Chest Press
Seated Row
Dips (machine)
Lat Pulldown
Shoulder Press
Reverse flye
Preacher BB curls
Overhead DB tricep extension
Incline DB curls
Cable rope tricep ext
Cable overhead tricep ext
Standing DB hammer curls
Pushups off a bench
Single arm DB rows
Upright BB rows
anything else I could get my hands on…I think that was it though…
Step Mill 10 min
sauna/ stretch
I ordered some 3% food grade hydrogen peroxide last week so I think I should get it tomorrow…that is, if FedEx isn’t a whiny baby and delivers on NYE. I paid with PayPal, which rocks. I have taken alkaline drops in the past and was happy with them, but they are expensive usually.. I got a gallon of the 3%. I’ve gotten sick twice since Oct and I never get sick….I blame this on stress/lack of sleep/working out like a mad woman, which leads to an acidic body…not to mention eating a lot of acidic (”bodybuilding”) foods. There are a ton of benefits/uses other than highering the oxygen level in the body.
If anyone is interested in this, I found a cool company in CO that sells different solutions (no hassels…some places it’s hard to get) and also a few other products….also talks about the many benefits…I talked to the guy who runs it, too and he seems like a nice, older gentleman….and what can I say….I have a soft spot for little old guys…I have an old guy friend who just turned 91 on the 23rd….he is quite possibly the funniest person I know, but not on purpose..I can tell stories later. We hang out at the VFW and shop at HyVee….very….very….slowly….This builds character and teaches me patience…Yes, indeed, I heart old dudes….and chicks
Here’s the website I got my stuff from, if anyone wants to check on it—
http://www.dancingalgae.com/
nice site w/ a lot of info if you look into it
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Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Yes, ok…I am a slacker. My worst fear came true yesterday after interval training on that bloody treadmill. I died….hence no Day 31 blogging. Somehow today I am alive and well….I won’t question it–I just roll widit…I think this could be a tangent universe I’m in here…I’ll know more later
Ok, so Thursday night I lied about the one workout, and about me doing two on Friday…well, b/c that’s what we sinners do!! And I’d lie again about it if I had to!! Alright, so Thurs after I blogged I felt a little surge of energy so I figured I’d go do some cardio at the local gymnasium. It was grand…Step Mill/bike. Yesterday, Friday, I got up and swallered a few of them Cytolean things and mentally prepared myself for some psycho treadmill hill intervals. I drive to the closer gym. I could not believe my eyes!!! The lot was full and there were like 8 cars frantically swarming around trying to find an open spot. ‘Nuff of this BS…I’m driving to another gym. . haha!! See ya later suckas!!
THere was a red truck that came in the lot right behind me. He followed me all around the lot and must have thought the same thing I did cuz he followed me out of the lot as well. What? Ok, this sorta freaked me out….was this guy really driving all the way to the other gym to workout? NO–couldn’t be true. Cuckoo…Turns out I was right about that one…he turned off about a mile down the street….amatuer, just as I suspected.
FRI TRAINING:
cardio/intervals
treadmill sprints 40 sec, walk 1 min for 25 min
Today I experimented with 2 1/2 scoops of SP 250 and 1 Cytolean. Hey, rules are meant to be broken….and I’m a bad@ss My next move may be 6 cups of SP mixed in Red Bull and 4 Cytoleans washed down with some coffee…decaff, though…of course. I felt alright with the combo of the two stimulants. Nothing too crazy…but I probably won’t be doing that except when I do legs. I may have to change my workout times b/c the gym is getting so stinkin packed…I feel like a sardine in that place sometimes. Oh, but every 3 seconds there’s someone new touring the damn place. I gotta think of a plan that will turn these potential members off. Patchouli? No…I’d only be hurting myself with that one. They’d probably end up liking the damn stuff anyways. I could always fake Tourettes and say some really offending comments when they’re taking their little stroll around….that’s always a good go-to plan (blind date getting on your nerves?) If all else fails I may have to throw gum in hair or throw a few chocolate bars in the pool…
SAT TRAINING:
legs/abs
warmup bike 5 min
warmup ext/curl
leg extension 30 reps, dropset
prone leg curl X 30
TM backwards walk 2 min
TM lunges X 60
leg ext 30 reps, dropset
seated leg curl X 40
leg ext 25 reps
prone curl X 20
TM lunges X 60
TM backwards walk 2 min
smith machine single leg press X 30 each
standing lunge X 15 each
smith machine single leg press X 30 each
kickbacks X 25 each
smith machine press X 40 each, dropset
kickbacks X 20 each
smith machine press –2 more sets, 40 each side, dropset….OUCH!!! 
cable kickbacks X 20 each
hip sled X 25
cable kickbacks X 25
hip sled (wide/narrow) 3 sets of 20-30
abs: 3 cycles
basic floor crunch with legs crossed (indian style) X15
hip thrusts on floor X 15
bicycle crunch on floor X 20
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Thursday, December 27th, 2007
OMG…WTF…LOL…ha..what the???? I don’t know…I’m drunk…pay no mind …
Ok, this morning I got up super early (for me) at 6:30 so I could do some early cardio before I started my other early morning nonsense crap. I stumbled into the other room and popped a few Cytoleans. I used to be a hardcore "get up early and kick ass" kinda girl….back in my ROTC days…yes, my ROTC days….ahhh….back when I was in shape and looked cool in camo. lol. My first two semesters in college I was in army ROTC and I, yours truly, was straight up badASS!!! OH, you don’t believe me, eh? DO NOT make me post pics….cuz looking back…man, my hair was frickn weird….
Alright…back to my exciting morning of cardio…
I thought I’d hop on an Arc Trainer for the hell of it…I haven’t done it in awhile. OH..yeah…ha…forgot my shirt so thank god I had a backup in my bag (<—–prospective gratitude journal entry?). Oh, but it was a lovely grey underarmour shirt…shows every drop of sweat…no problem. Wait…what is this dark discoloration I see all down the left side? Don’t know…let me smell it. Hmmm..smells like blue raspberryness to me. Apparently some of that sneaky, conniving, liquid crack…errr…SuperPump…migrated it’s way outta my shaker and onto my shirt at some point. Whatever….like anyone in THIS place has room to call ME a weirdo….well, they do…but, rest assured, it’s not for that…
My ipod battery was in the red zone…."please, ipod, just get me thru this cardio…" I feared that I would use up too much battery life skipping tracks so I left it where it was…Pearl Jam?…Ok, Pearl Jam it is!….Come, Eddie Vedder…let us ARC train the hell outta this joint…
So, Arc Trainer…tv in front of me on TBS…ok, since when do people still watch Saved by the Bell!? WHAT!? You gotta be kidding me, TBS. I was sorta just zoning out and staring at the tv. Ok…few things I noticed…..1) all those weird, neon colored 90’s design screens they flash during the opening credits strongly resemble Zoomba pants…it may even just be someone’s big, fat Zoomba pant leg standing in front of the camera. Cheap bastards. 2) Mario Lopez was hot even with a curly mullet, fanny pack and white scrunchy socks 3) Dustin Diamond was a whiny little biatch way back then too…before he became a porn star (excuse me while I vomit…) and wanted people to pay for his house….I think Sergeant Harvey Walden IV hit the nail right on the head when he told that lazy punk he was "fulla more sh*t than a hog house in the south…" haaa…anyone see that? and then he told him to never in his "cartoon life" threaten him….OH…man, that was classic. Gotta love Celebrity Fit Club…I think Vh1 should consider doing a show…I don’t know…something along the lines of "Who wants to beat the piss outta Screech for being a whiny pansy"… where do I sign up…
Alright…
AM TRAINING:
cardio w/ Eddie Vedder
45 min Arc Trainer…that’s it…seriously
Don’t worry…tomorrow will be a double header peeps
I’m gonna have to start finding some new recipes here soon…getting sick of the same old food. Except protein pancakes…I can probably eat those the rest of my life. Mrs. Butterworth’s Sugar Free syrup…now that’s what I’m talking about. I started making an iced coffee smoothie with chocolate IsoPro…that’s pretty good…but, let’s face it…I’m jacked up enough w/o coffee so….yeah.
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Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
‘nother day…nother day…sort of blaaaah today. I didn’t even win the Powerball so I guess I’ll be going back to work now. Just great.
Lemme see…my day started off with 2 cytolean and some interval training. I did a hodgepodge of cardio today…kinda the ADHD in me…
WORKOUT 1
cardio
StairMaster (which I never do…) 40sec intervals for 20 min
StairMaster for another 10 min
…and then another 5 min backwards, which someone told me about today…I don’t know if I like this…little hard on the knees and really awkward…but hey, I’ll try anything once…I’m still pondering this backwards thing…
elliptical 5 min….that got boring real quick
Versa Climber 5 min…which I swear were the longest 5 freakin minutes of my life…and I’ve NEVER seen anyone do this thing
total of 45min
I took just under 3 scoops of SuperPump 250 tonight before I lifted. I decided to do a full upper body workout tonight, plus some abs and a little cardio. Nobody was there to keep an eye out for my vein…and the crowd was a little scary/ghetto tonight so I kept to myself about it. There was the one dude who thinks he’s god’s gift to women…but I’m not asking him. I purposely avoid even looking in his direction cuz he thinks he’s really hot and it’s sooo annoying. Plus, one night he comes all the way over to where I am from across the gym to show me a “variation” of an exercise….Ummm, whatever….get away!! I don’t need YOUR help, thank you very much…and while you’re here, let me pop your big, fat head so we all have a little more breathing room around here…
Dang it!!! went off on another tangent….Ok, here was my badass upper body workout:
WORKOUT 2:
upper body
abs
cardio
I jumped back and forth with a lot of these..depending on what was open..
reverse grip Hammer Strength Lat Pulldown 3 sets of 15
single arm bentover DB rows 3 sets of 15-20
decline barbell skull crushers 4 sets of 20-25, last set with DB
standing barbell bi curls 3 sets 15
incline DB curls 2 sets 2-15
seated DB arnold press 3 sets of 20
bent over reverse DB flyes 2 sets of 15-20
preacher barbell curls 3 sets of 15
standing DB overhead tri extension 2 sets of 20
FreeStyle cable seated chest press 1 set of 15
pushup with DB/single arm row at the top 2 sets of 15
assisted dips 2 sets of 20
tri extension machine 3 sets 20-25
preacher curl machine 3 sets of 25-30
3 sets of 15-20
reverse crunch on bench
hip thrusts with twist
Arc trainer 20 min
sauna/stretch
Hamstrings are still sore and that damn StairMaster almost killed me this morning. Tomorrow will be cardio for sure. I don’t think I’ll have enough in me to do legs…probably need another day of rest for those. __________________
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
Man, I’m so tired right now I feel like I’m drunk here…I didn’t even workout today…not even yoga. I didn’t have all my ducks in a row in time to go to yoga. I was a disheveled mess of a human being around yoga:30. I missed the boat on that one….I’m such a disgrace!!
On a happy note, I got some sore hamstrings from Santa–just like I asked for! Ha..yeah, right…I busted my a** for these sore hams!!
I came home this morning and found that my roommate had left a gift addressed to the beast and myself. “Oh! Well this is just perfect!” I thought. Errr..those damn birds musta told him I didn’t get him anything! I ignored it all day in hopes that I’d find something around the house to re-gift to him so I wouldn’t feel like a jerk for not giving them anything. That didn’t pan out so well. Nothing to wrap up besides a box of Rachel Ray snowflake holiday Ritz crackers…and one tube was already opened. Nothing that a bit of Scotch tape couln’t fix up…but, I thought I had better open the gift so I could get a feel for just what caliber of gift we’re lookin at. Walgreens right down the street…open all day. I was a bit nervous about opening it–roommate has been acting a bit odd lately. I’m talking like I wake up and find pictures of himself on the fridge. These aren’t family pictures or him amongst a group of friends either. Pictures…of himself…by himself. What? Whatever, dude, just make sure you pay your rent on time ok. At first I thought this was a joke and considered putting up a few portraits of myself as well…but on second thought I’ll pass.
Anyways it was a gift card to Blockbuster and a gift card to Pets R Us. The beast and I decided to swap our cards cuz there are a few flicks he’s been dying to see and I’ve had my eye on this really cool hot pink faux crocodile skin collar….
I’ve decided that I’m going to get a massage soon–maybe after I take my pics in that stupid bikini again. By then, I will have deserved it for sure. I’ve felt like I have a constant kink in my neck the past few weeks. I’m gonna lay off the head stands for awhile….seriously, I’ve been doing these. It’s a new thing I picked up a few months ago, but I’m gonna chill out on the head stands and see if the neck feels better. Dang it!!! It seems like everything that makes me look cool is bad for me!!!
I can’t wait til tomorrow cuz I’ll be doing some interval training….and I’m a dork. Gym was closed today. I would have gone for sure. The gyms need to take a few tips from the “yoga people” and get their priorities straight…
I did take my Cytolean today and of course, IntraPro. Today was the first time I took 2 Cytoleans at once w/o working out. I didn’t feel like I was over-stimulated at all, but more like I was really focused and more attentive than usual. Usually I just take one unless I’m gonna do cardio, then I take 2. Tomorrow I’ll also get to take my SP 250 and do some….back/chest? I think….I can’t remember…but I can’t wait cuz I feel like I haven’t lifted in 4 or 5 days…but it’s only been since yesterday I think. Jeeez…I gotta get some sleep.. I can’t even keep my days straight
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
I’ve always disliked birds. They scare me. I don’t like their wrinkled up little claw feet or those bony, feathered bodies. I have nightmares about those bizarre little black eyeballs of theirs too, those freaks of nature!! Yeah–that’s what I said! I didn’t even like birds before they decided to start dive-bombing my head at the high school track when I go over the "their side."
There are stadium stairs on both sides of the track and apparently they have decided they need the whole west side to themselves to conduct their bird business. I don’t know exactly what kinda shenanigans they have going on over there on the west-siyeeed…could be damn terrorists for all I know. I ain’t going over there to find out either! I like my eyeballs! All I know is if I return to the track next summer and there are birds from the East side throwin gang signs I’m outta there! I ain’t getting in the middle of an East side/West side thang again…we all know what happened to Biggie n Tupac.
Anyway I was sooo excited to burn real firewood in my fireplace and take out the electrical fake fireplace that’s in there now. I’ve lived in my house for about 2 years and I have no idea if the previous owners ever even used it. They were about 300 years old, so I’m guessing not. Hmmm..better have someone come sweep it out. Being the procrastinator that I am, I wait til it’s too late to call the chimney sweep guy to come do it before Xmas. I wanted to burn real firewood when my fam came over dammit!! Is that too much to ask??!!
So I finally find one of those "chimney cleaning" logs after going to four places. I get the log, some firewood, poker thing…I’m all set. So excited. I even got a crackling log… I get home, get everything ready and I’m walking to the kitchen to get the long lighter to light the log. I hear squaking. I’m like, "WHAT IS THAT! IT CANNOT BE BIRDS IN MY CHIMNEY!" Ok, I had looked up in there 3 times w/ a flashlight the day before and nothing. All of a sudden they decide to start squaking their stupid beak mouths! Ugghh…those pointy little beaks! I tried to tell myself I was just hearing things–they weren’t really there. Then I tried telling myself they would just fly out when I lit it. But…DANG IT!! Those birds know me too well!! They were mocking me! They knew of my procratinating ways and my family coming over—they DO have ears (weird ears). They also knew I wouldn’t "put em out on the street" before Xmas.
Besides that–I knew they’d have some trick up their sleeve…perhaps a little bird-sized bucket of gasoline they would dump before fleeing just to have the last laugh. Then I got MAD!! So I did what any sane person would do and I grabbed a handful of Hall’s cough drops, put on my snow boots and marched outside. I don’t know what exactly I thought this would do, but I start chucking cough drops up towards the roof trying to get em in the chimney. I threw about five before I realized I looked like a complete idiot to cars driving by. Maybe this is why I don’t get any trick or treaters? Hmmm..Anyways–I didn’t even get any cough drops in the stupid chimney and the birds ended up getting the last laugh anyways…and got to keep their cozy nest in my chimney!! But not for long…hahahaha–THIS IS WAR, BIRDS!! Lame electrical fireplace it is….
Ok–now onto my Xmas eve workout. Legs!! Horray I tried almost a full 3 scoops of SuperPump today. I had a good leg workout, but for some reason I feel more of a pump going on when I’m doing upper body exercises. Maybe I just notice it more cuz there are smaller muscle groups..either that or I’m LOCO…
PM TRAINING:
legs
Warm up bike 5 min
Warm up leg press—didn’t wanna pull something like last time..
Leg extension X20
Prone curlX20
Treadmill lunges X75 incline 15%
Leg Extension X25
Prone curl X25
TM lunges X 75 incline 15
Leg Ext X 20
Seated leg curl X 30
TM lunges X75 incline 15
walk backwards for a few minutes
Smith machine single leg press 4 sets of 20-30
standing leg curl 1 set 12 each leg– nuffa those…
cable glute kickbacks 3 sets 25-30
step ups 15 each leg
prone curl X20
stability ball curls X12
lunges on bosu ball X 30 each side…burn!!
stretch
My gym is closed on Xmas, but there is a hot yoga class at noon :) so I may go to that. My hams/back are sore from yesterday’s yoga. Hopefully I’m not a complete yoga failure like I was yesterday—I just wasn’t good enough for that guy!! I have some cool fake tattoos I got outta this quarter machine. Maybe I’ll stick one of those bad boys on my arm and see if I fit in better. Hope everyone has a happy holiday/safe travel/good times wthe friends n family!
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Monday, December 24th, 2007
Whoa…what a long day…it’s after 2am and I’m just getting around to this now. Had family over for a little Xmas gathering. Don’t worry…I sent all the food away with people….especially my nephew….man, what an out of shape fatty he is!!
Ok, I know I’ve been talking about these “characters” a lot lately, but let’s face it….life is so much more enjoyable with these people around. Hey, I could be someone else’s “character” and I’m fine with that..With that being said….I got up early and went to hot yoga. Free class if you bring 5 non-perishable goods with you to donate to a food bank. Ok…don’t mind if I do, thank you. So I go thru my cupboards and threw some stuff in a bag. Get to yoga and put my food in their box with all the other food. Ha! Man was my stuff boring compared to everyone elses….I briefly considered doing a little food bank box swapping and just forget the free class. Umm, yeah…I’ll just put my year old (ok, maybe two) can of mushroom pieces and stems in and take out that box of pistachio biscotti there…Yeah, but they were watching me. Makes me wonder if someone’s already pulled that one before…..
K–back to characters. I’d never had a class with this instructor that was there this morning b/c I never go on Sundays. I don’t even know how to describe this guy…I was trying super hard to concentrate, but I really had a hard time b/c I found this guy to be so damn amusing. Amusing at first, that is…then it got kind of annoying. I should have known something was up when I was about to sign in and he goes, “are you Danica?” Whaaaat??@#$%^&* How in the….”yeah.” I’ve never met this guy…just confirms my theory of how you can’t trust these people. I’m definitely staying indoors on Jan 1 and will keep all my doors n windows locked. Don’t worry about me..save yourself!!! So nobody was a “newbie” except this one girl behind me….oh, that poor girl. Fresh bait to him. Yeah…I don’t think she’ll be coming back. If anyone watches Reno 911 and knows who the character “Terry” is…Nick Swardson (hilarious), nuff said. If not, then here’s a clip of him on the Reno 911 movie (WARNING: there are a few curse words and I don’t want to corrupt any innocent minds here).
http://vidsearch.myspace.com/index.c…oid=11781 027
Anyways, the instructor didn’t so much look like him as he did sound like him. He was a little on the “auctioneer” fast talking type…this is where I started to get annoyed and a bit dizzy from his constant, loud, extremely fast talking..I should say talking/singing. Yes, he seems like he’d be the “singing type” for sure…it seemed like the last word of every sentence that came out of his mouth he tried to sing. “Good job everybody, now just a little looooongeeeeeer!” :) … you get the point. He seemed way too loud and peppy to be one of the instructors. He must have had it out for me from the get-go cuz of that weird name incident when I was signing in. He seemed to be picking on me a bit today…He pointed me out and corrected me like 3 or 4 times..saying my name everytime. Maybe it was b/c I was the only one in the room w/o a tattoo. ?? That’s another thing I’ve noticed about yoga people…a lot of them have tattoos, but I have none and maybe he took offense to this or somehow doubted my yoga skillz…
So this guy was soooo excited to be there and instruct us… I mean, like really excited. Haven’t seen anyone so excited about doing anything in a long time. He used colorful words and song to guide us…Oh, and he wouldn’t let the new girl do the first set of anything. “Actually I would just like you to watch this one first and see how everyone else does it.” I think she was getting annoyed after awhile. He had sayings of his own that I’d never heard from anyone else…”bring your tosies to your nosies…” What? Oh, lets not forget the similies (I think that’s the word I’m looking for) he had for everything we were doing…”Stick your chest to your knees like you are a sandwich! Can you get your bottom piece of bread to touch your top piece of bread? Good joooooooooob… NOw can you shake your head and arms out like an etch a sketch?…” Huh? Uhhh, no….but I can move my body like a cyclone…reer reer reer reer reer reer reer reer….
I could go on and on about this guy….but I’ll stop there….mostly b/c I am so freaking tired right now I am actually falling asleep writing this.
AM WORKOUT:
hot yoga 90 min
move body like a cyclone 10min
Fatty Patty Anthony (holding plate of cookies)
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
Let’s see….where do I start this lovely journal today. I got up early…couldn’t decide if I wanted to go to yoga or kickboxing. Yoga….kickboxing…hmmmm. After some careful thought I opted for kickboxing since they don’t have it tomorrow and there is yoga everyday…as I stated before..these “yoga people” do not play around. There are even classes on Christmas! However..I just checked their website and there is a day of no classes and this is what they say—-> “Tuesday, January 1st
CLOSED both locations. Crazy, we know.” Perhaps they have inside information of something that is supposed to happen that day…? I don’t know, but this scares me. I will be staying indoors all day just to be safe. I’m not so sure I can trust these yoga people just yet. Can you really trust a chick who tells you to “thank your elbows for showing up today.” ??? Thank you, elbows….you guys rock.
I took two Cytoleans, the usual, when I woke up. I was kind of being a spaz in kickboxing and can feel it in my low back a little now….yeah, I’m sure it has nothing to do with the upside down sit ups I did on my inversion table. I don’t usually do those…but they are so damn tempting!! I recorded them on my digital camera recorder in hopes to put the video on my bodyspace, but uhhh that didn’t work out so well. I’m working on that one…
Ok…and now onto the funniest thing I saw on tv all day. Ok, I don’t usually watch tv except when I’m at the gym lately. Celtics/Bulls game last night.. and tonight the tv in front of me was on MTV. I am a sucker for reality tv…ok, so this “Return to Fat Camp” was on. Oh MY GAWD….hilarious… I saw the first one, which, let me tell ya was also quite comical. These kids are soooo dramatic. Everything is such a big deal when you are in high school,. If anyone knows what I’m talking about….didn’t you want to strangle that Diane chick on the first Fat Camp? No wonder her parents wanted to send her away for the summer!! Despite the fact that I had some new tunes on my ipod I HAD to plug into the theater box thing on my bike to see what was going on. Ok, now mind you I am on the bike staring at a tv with fat kids on it. I am laughing my a** off. To the unassuming passerby’s eye I look like a total A-hole…..like I’m laughing at these poor fat kids. Oh, no….no no no…I wasn’t laughing at the kids being overweight (obese really)…these kids were like overly dramatic about everything.
This girl, Logan, had a girl in her cabin who had head lice I guess. Well from what I gathered this Logan chick wore these huge sunglasses all the time and she always wore these big, gaudy bows in her hair. I’m talkin like Minnie Mouse lookin bows. So anyways the counselors made her throw away all her hair bows!….OMG…such a tragedy..she was crying and sobbing over these damn bows. Then they show her in the bathroom stall talking to her mom on a cell phone, which–HELLO…no cell phones in fat camp, sister. So she’s crying, “…I don’t know why (sob sob, sniff)I had to get lice….uuuhhhh hoooo…It’s…it’s noooot faaaiiir” She was dead serious. THen a counselor comes in the room and yells through the door, “Logan, you’re not talking on a phone are you?” “boooo hoooo….NOOOO!.. Mom, I gotta go…..ohhhh hooooo.” ha…what a stupid kid….way to act like you’re not on the phone…
So this chick keeps freaking out about her bows and she’s all up in arms about it. Since I had just tuned in I’m thinking, ok…maybe these were like some really cool, rare, handcrafted italian bows…maybe made of gold, perhaps magic bows, I don’t know. Ummmm, no. Since she was throwing such a fit and just couldn’t imagine living life w/o her precious bows this counselor lady was like “I’m going to the store and I’m gonna get you some hair bows, just tell me what kind.” And then Logan says something like, “I got them at Claires….” What? Yeah…like Claires in the mall, buy one hair accessory get like 8 free…sometimes they will even pay you to take stuff outta that place. It’s crazy. Then the counselor said “well, we don’t have a Claires around here.” I KNOW…EXACTLY!!! that was her reply. Logan (I’m sure she reads this), umm..I don’t think even head lice would want to call those puffy, poofy, oversized hairbows of yours home…they do have some standards…so I say go get those damn hairbows outta the trash AND QUIT YO CRYIN HEFFA!!! Oh, and another thing…why don’t you start keeping a gratitude journal while you’re at it…Journal entry #1 ***be glad that you got head lice and had to throw away those hideous bows***
I had to unplug my headphones b/c I was really looking ridiculous sitting there laughing. I saw some kid putting eye drops in his water or something, too…I’ll have to watch it in the comforts of my own home I guess so I can see just what is going on in these fat camps. Oh, hip hop dancers were there again…this is like the 3rd day in a row. Man, they look cool….There were 5 or 6 of them tonight. The tallest one is probably about 4′3…maybe 80 lbs. I was torn between laughing at the fat camp kids and trying to pick up some dance moves from “the cool kids.”
AM TRAINING:
cardio
Kickboxing 45 min
Step Mill 10min
sauna/stretch
PM TRAINING:
more cardio (light)
bike 40min
I will probably go to hot yoga in the morning…I haven’t fully committed to that decision yet. I do have to clean my house, including wood floors on my hands n knees….that counts as some exercise for sure.
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Friday, December 21st, 2007
Hear ye hear ye….day 24 is coming to a close. Yes, it is Friday night and I am at home writing in a blog. I get cooler and cooler everyday. Let’s see. Today I finally broke down and made a visit to my indian Dr…ugghhh. I knew I had a sinus infection. So I went in and was waiting with one other woman. I was reading a Redbook. That’s a neat little magazine…Anyways I read this article about…the power of gratitude. Apparently this Univ of California study found that students who kept a “gratitude journal” got sick less often, exercised more and were more optimistic than those who wrote about hassles and mundane events. It said to find the blessing when something goes wrong and write thank you letters….some crap like that. ha! J/K…” I thought to myself, “hmmm…I should tear this article out.” Better ask the receptionist lady. Then it was really strange cuz the other woman went up to the desk and said, “do you mind if I take this recipe outta this magazine?” Whoa…that’s weird. Receptionist lady: “oh, that’s fine.” Me: “Hey, I was just gonna ask if I could tear out this page here in this magazine.” Receptionist: “ummm, welll…I can make a copy for you.” Me:”oh. that’s ok. I’ll just go pick it up maybe later. Oh, no…it’s from like 3 months ago…” hint, hint. Magazine nazi: “Oh, ok then. Go ahead and tear it out.” **Gratitude journal entry #1**…mag nazi let me tear out a page in a 3 month old Redbook (that had god knows how many sick peoples’ germs on it) about showing gratitude….and for that I am grateful. Oh, and I have a sinus infection. And the indian Dr. lectured me on working out so much. Ha…he doesn’t even know the half of it. I nodded and agreed. “yeah, yeah. you’re right. ..now give me some drugs!!!” ha. Then I left and went to the gym.
I took two Cytoleans on my way to the Dr. Kinda weird cuz my blood pressure was like 104/60 even after I took em and was moving around. So I went to the gym after that. Oh, boy…I was over-stimulated by characters today. I was just taking it easy on the cardio this morning. So I get on this elliptical and there is this lady to my left. She’s about 60 or so. Now, I know you can pedal forward/backward…usually it’s broken up like 5 min forward, 2 back or whatever…Ummmm, no…not for her. She would go forward for about 8 seconds, then backwards for about 5 seconds. I witnessed this nonsense for at least 5 minutes…and that’s a lot of pedal switchin right there! Man…Oh, then there was a group of 3 guys in the corner in front of me. “What in the world are these dudes up to?” I was thinking. Ok, they would have one guy lay on the ground face up and someone else would stand above him and straddle him with their feet. Then the guy who was standing would THROW a medicine ball (hard) at the other dude’s stomach. Yes….this was really happening. It was more amusing than I just made it sound. They would just keep throwing this ball at the guy’s stomach and then when he had enough of a workout (?) they would switch. Hmmm..oooookkkaaay.
Oh, then there was the other dude next to those dudes who was creating this peculiar little ab exercise of his own. Wish I had a video of this. I guess he was trying to do a bicycle crunch maybe. ? Except instead of crunching up he was sorta rocking his torso from side to side and was bringing up the leg on the same side as he was rocking towards….which even if he were trying for a bicycle crunch it would be the opposite side…but whatever…what am I, the crunch police? I wish, but, no…I am not. Either way, I was highly amused.
I’ve been seeing everyone with these Body Bug things. I’ve never tried one, but the first time I saw one on this girl I was thinking, “man…what a weirdo…this chick has two mp3 players on her arm.” Anyways…everyone is wearing them these days I guess…I saw this guy walk by and I was sort of watching him as he walked away from me. I thought I saw a tattoo on the back of his upper arm, kinda covered by his sleeve. “Hmmm…that dude doesn’t look tough enough to have an upper arm tattoo” I was thinking. Yeah, well turns out I was right…it was a body bug. That’s what I thought. Then when I went into the locker room I asked this lady about hers. I guess you have to hook it up to your computer to see the calories burned…I thought you could read it on the monitor itself, but you can’t. I think they make a watch that you can wear that displays the info. Yeah, the thing is like $300 and it doesn’t even show the calories on the stinking thing.
AM TRAINING:
cardio
elliptical 35 min
I love working out on Friday evenings so I was all pumped up about it. I took my sp250 and drove to the gym. I did arms and some abs…and threw in a little bit of shoulders. I was taking it a little easy still cuz of the infection and all…don’t wanna overdo it. I get a good pump going from taking that stuff. The veins in my hands/forarms have always shown pretty well—just like my grandma. I’ve been shooting to see one in my upper arm though…just haven’t been able to get my arms lean enough. I’ve been wanting it for years!!! Well, the past week or two I’ve thought maybe I’ve seen it…but wasn’t sure. So, basically I stand there and when I think I see it I’m like “OMG…is that it? I don’t know. I think so. Yep…that’s it.” then I start turning around at different angles to see if it’s maybe just a shadow or something. Then I try to feel it. I look like a total weirdo I’m sure. The last few times I haven’t really seen anyone I’ve known too well to ask them if they can see it too. I’ve decided that next time I don’t care if I know anyone or not….I’m asking the first person I see…”hey, excuse me…yeah, you…can you come over here and stand right about THERE…I’m gonna curl this bar and you tell me if you can see this vein pop out a little, ok? Thanks.” My friend, Bradd, was supposed to be there when I was going so I thought I’d ask him….but he wasn’t there tonight….it’s sooo annoying when you have someone in mind that you wanna ask whether or not they can see your damn vein in your arm and they aren’t there!!! bummer. Anyways…I’m looking to lean out my arms more.
PM WORKOUT:
arms/abs
4 sets of 15-25 reps:
tri rope pushdowns
barbell skull crushers
incline db curls
standing barbell curls
standing overhead db extension
preacher curl
dip machine
tricep ext machine
abs
3 sets of 20 in a circuit:
reverse crunches with ball
hip thrusts on bench
knee raises on bench
cardio:
Step mill 15min
treadmill 10 min
sauna/stretch
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