DanicaX 
"To beat my old walking lunge record. Mainly so I can look better in cutoff jean shorts than King_Marmoset! Hmpf...Bet you didn't think I was that shallow."
|
|
Archive for January, 2008
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Got my hot yoga on this morning, friends. Thank god, cuz I was about to lose my bikram mind lately!!
In reference to my last blog, Yes! There are drive-bys in Omaha ok!! And yes I gracefully avoid those bullets with my name on them like the super quick ninja that I’ve become, thanks to this new class at the gym, Camp Compton24…24 Hr Fitness exclusive. I may or may not have requested it to be started….and I may or may not have started that damn class up all by myself. But if you think for one second that I’m the only participant then you are crazy!! I start trends, people…that’s just what I do.
Yesterday was only a cardio day, and I took only one Cytolean before. I lost the other one somewhere in my car. Today was hot yoga day, although it felt similar to "I feel like a Russian shot putter doing the pole vault and making a spectacle of myself" day. They were similar. Oh, and my fave instructor was there. I haven’t seen her in a month, but she was sporting some fancy new dreadlocks. I thought those took forever to achieve! Is there some crazy dreadlock chia pet hair or something I don’t know about? Chia Pet Head Dread?
Other than me losing my balance more than I should have and looking like a foo in yoga, I did pretty good. I got two "good job, Danicas" and one "just shut up and sit down" so that was a success in my book. 
TUESDAY TRAINING:
cardio:
StairMaster 20min
Elliptical 25 min
sauna/stretch
WEDNESDAY TRAINING:
hot yoga/ 90 min—
I may go back to yoga on Saturday, if my hair washing schedule permits. Yes, there is a hair washing schedule!! Can’t be washing your hair every damn day like there’s nothing to it. Also, you can’t be going to yoga after hair washing, or even the day after hair being washed b/c then you’d have to wash it right after and would be breaking the 11th Commandment of Thou Shalt NOT wash thy freaking hair everyday. Look it up…I’m not kidding. Maybe the dreadlocks girl is onto something here.
Posted in Training
Monday, January 28th, 2008
…dodging bullets and drinking 40s…I still made time to workout, though. Thank god!!! Cuz the bullets seem to be coming faster and faster these days. I’m sure it’s not me….
Let’s see…I did cardio/upper body today. I followed the same supplement schedule as yesterday. It went well, but dang it I just love leg day! Today was a good workout. These last two days that I’ve been on the 2 Cyto/1scoop SuperPump/ 1scoop SizeOn is a bit tricky, but I feel like I could workout for about 5 hours, maybe longer. Anyone else feel this way?
Hhahahaaaa—I could write a book on things that go on in the locker room. I love it. They don’t even need tvs in there if you ask me. The lady next to me was having a really bad day. She apparently quit her job today and was telling someone about it on the phone. The lady across from me was sitting on the bench talking on a cell phone and eating McDonalds (not a joke)…oh, then there was the way out-of-shape, overweight, crybaby lady who came in talking about how she had a god-awful cramp in her little toe. Talking to who, I have no idea. Anyone who would listen I guess. I hate little toe cramps myself. I’d rather die.
Oh….then the chick who announced that she only had $20 to her name. I thought about asking her if she had change for a hundred, just to see if she’d cry, but she already seemed off-balance and I didn’t wanna push it. And who am I kidding anyways, I spent all my money on booze and ice cream for fat head Lt Dan. He’s gonna pay me back, though, when he gets his VA disability check next week.
Then, I had to get OUT OF THAT DAMN LOCKER ROOM and workout….it’s like a zoo in there. One day I swear I am gonna bring popcorn and a little bean bag and I’m gonna set up a post in there and just laugh at everybody…out loud. Is there any other way?
Supplement schedule today: same as yesterday– 2 cytolean, cardio, then SP 250 and drink SizeOn while lifting
TODAY’S TRAINING:
cardio/upper/abs
ARC trainer 40 min
Did 4 sets of everything, 15-20 reps and jumped around to keep a fast pace
Seated Row machine
Low back extension
Cable chest press
Skull crushers on decline bench
Bent over reverse DB flyes
Lateral DB raises
Bar curls
Overhead tri cable extension w/rope
Lat Pull
abs:
Cable crunches 3 X 75
hip thrusts 2 X 20
Ball bicycle crunches 1 X 20each side
Plank 1 min
Cable crunches 1 X 75
Plank 1 min
Posted in Training
Sunday, January 27th, 2008
Today goes down in history as one of the best freaking workouts ever. When I’m done here I will be logging it in the book I’m writing, Danica’s Freaking Best Ever Of 2008. While I’m on the subject, last Thursday I had the best freaking nap ever. All the variables were perfect and I logged it accordingly. Ok, enough of my rambling. I will get down to the workout.
But first, let me say this….haha…ok, kidding. Kidding. At ease…
Two Cytoleans when I woke up. Then I put one scoop of SuperPump in a bottle, and another scoop of SizeOn in a different bottle. Plan was to do cardio, then go add water to the SP and drink it, then add water to the SO and drink it while I did legs. Yes, that’s right ….I did monster cardio THEN monster legs. why? cuz I’m a straight up monster flippin machine. and it don’t stop…
I did 30 min of high intensity StepMill, most of it was done while holding a weight. The cleaning lady stopped by a few times to mop up sweat, bring me water and do whatever the hell else I told her to (monsters have this kind of authority). I always workout with two towels, too….one for wiping sweat and the other to serve as a barrier between my butt and whatever germ-ridden gym machine I’m on. So, then I got off the SM and took the elevator downstairs to the locker room. You think I’m kidding. Ok, I am…I slid down the railing like always. Mixed the SP 250 and drank it. Then I grabbed the SizeOn and went back upstairs to mix that and do legs. I had it in one of those Polar insulated water bottles and I was shaking it. I stop to chat with a friend briefly. I pause to pull the top out and ***POOF*** it had a little explosion and some catapulted out and onto the wall. Whoa…"What are you drinking!!??" hahhhaaaa. Is SizeOn supposed to do that? I could see the SP doing it….I’ll have to investigate. I wiped down the wall with my butt blocking towel…..lol….no I didn’t!! I got my cleaning lady to do it for me (see monster reference above).
I had CRAZY energy today. I can’t remember the last time I had energy like that. Ok, yes I do….I ended up in the slammer that night. Oh, man I used to be so much fun….now I just hang out with a boa wearing, swearing, trash talking, allergy ridden, emotional, bubble boy dog. How did I get to this point? Ok, here goes the leg workout:
Smith Machine squats 3 X 15
Smith Machine leg presses– 1 X 100 dbl legs/ 3 X 30 single legs/ 1 X 100 dbl legs
Smith Machine lunge 1 X 15 each
Cable lunges 1 X 15 each
circuit:
Seated leg curl 1 X 25
Walking Lunges X 24
Seated leg curl 1 X 25
Stability ball leg curls 1 X 20 (at this point hams were KILLING)
Prone leg curl 1 X 30
Treadmill walking lunges incline 15% X 100
Seated curl X 20
Smith Machine leg press 1 X 80 dbl legs
bench step ups X 15 each
single standing leg press on Wt Assisted dip machine X 20 each
sauna/stretch
…and that was my super awesome workout today. I am going to try to plan my workouts more in advance this week instead of flying from the seat of my pants, much like I do everything else in life. We’ll see how that goes for a bit…
Posted in Training
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
 Just got back from shopping with Lt Dan. He’s been prancing around in his new purple boa all day long….nevermind that feathers are flying off the damn things left and right. Looks like someone murdered big bird around this place….YES I KNOW BB WAS YELLOW OK!!!? I’m just saying…he probably had a side to him that nobody knew about. I’m forever a slave to the messes that the lieutenant makes. I slid about 3 yards in a big pool of drool that he left on my floor yesterday while he painfully sat there watching me eat protein pancakes. I recovered gracefully as usual.
I’ve had some rather rushed workouts lately (yesterday and today) and I don’t like it one bit!! I’m gonna log them here before I forget.
Fri Training:
cardio/abs/sauna
StepMill 20min —high intensity
Treadmill 15min–run/walk incline
StepMill 15min–mid/high intensity
….that last few minutes on the SM is what got me….arch in left foot started to cramp. I hate that!!!
then I did some abs (crunches and planks) on the bench, but I’m not really counting this b/c it was more to show off than anything. Damnit I looked cool yesterday!! haahaaa. Kidding.
….then I was walking by the sauna and saw it was empty so I went in. You just can’t pass on an opportunity like that this time of year. I had a nice stretching session for about 10 minutes or so. Then the freaks started coming in. Stretching session over.
SAT Training:
cardio/back
Did I mention that I hate to do back? Ok, just checking. Not much time to workout today. This was my supplement schedule I had going on. Woke up. Two Cytoleans. Drank water. Mixed SizeOn in water bottle. Did 30min on the StairMaster, looking at my water bottle and wishing there was water in it, however even if there was I wouldn’t be able to drink it due to the fact that I was sucking air so bad, I probably would have choked had I tried to drink it. After cardio I drank the SO while I lifted. It was a weird workout, so I was a little thrown off by it and what I wanted to do. I just can’t get a damn supplement schedule down! My work/sleep schedule is too bizarre for any kind of strict plan. I feel like I’m trying to keep track of 6 kids here. Did you take Joey to his spelling bee at 2:30, then pick him up in time for gymnastics at at quarter til 4 and stop and pick up his Ritalin at the pharmacy on the way to his psychiatrist appointment? Come to find out, ADHD has some hereditary factors that run in families. Mmm. Who knew? And, yes, my imaginary kid goes to a psychiatrist….I’m just being realistic.
**ADHD gym moment*** 1/2 the time I was on the StairMaster, I was convinced there was a big ole fat worm on the floor in front of me. Oh, how I wanted to get off and go save him. It was too dry and cold in that damn place for him to stand a chance, plus I’m sure it was just a matter of time before some unobservant neanderthal stepped on him . He was wiggling and squirming trying to get to get someone to notice him. I had to complete my intervals first, then I’d save my little earless buddy. But I wanna save him now!!! Focus, DanicaX, focus!!!! Ok. Ok. I finish. I walk up to save the earthworm. Ummmm, turns out it was a big rubber band that was cut and just sitting there, all lifeless and limp….and kind of a rubbery band shade of brown. I coulda swore I saw that damn thing wiggling around! Did I mention there is snow on the ground? I always think of all the logical stuff way too late in the game. Tricked again.
Oh, yeah….my workout today:
30min StairMaster– 10min steady, then 20min intervals
Lat Pulldown cables 3 X 12
Single arm DB rows 3 X 15
Seated row 3 X 12
a few sets of Pullovers and bench dips, just to redeem my cool points I lost while running up to a freaking rubber band on the floor as if it were gold. OH, I’m sure people saw it…..
Posted in Training
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
….Oh, yes…it is still alive and prevalent! I’m too weak to outsmart those brainiacs that strategically place all that cool last minute stuff right by the checkouts!! They work it from a million different angles. First of all , you are feeling all warm n fuzzy cuz you got someone in front of you, someone behind you, maybe you’re even getting a piggy-back ride standing there–you are basically in the middle of group of total strangers, but you can’t help but feel kinda like a family. Well, at least teamates for a few minutes. Standing there, you all have the same goal in mind which is to get the stoner high school checkout kid to pull his head out of his a** !! I don’t know all the convoluted logistics of it all, but I know they are totally playing on our emotions when we stand there.
Now, let me just throw this out there–I had/have waaay too much energy right now. I just got back from Walgreens, which freaking rocks BTW…especially the 24 hr ones. Anytime anything is open 24 hours I’m instantly attracted by default. Plus, Walgreens has a little bit of everything and they know how to blast some good tunes through that joint….another tactic by the “higher ups” as well, I’m sure. I fall for it every single time. I’m still trying to figure out how exactly I find myself there 1/2 the time…last thing I remembered was jamming out on the vespa scooter and visualizing the dance routine I was gonna bust out with after I win my next rap battle at the VFW. Hahaaa….You are dead meat tomorrow night, Mr. Purple Heart man!!
So, anyways after I was done wandering around and accumulating more and more cool sh…errrr..stuff I didn’t need,I get in line. The fam was against my proposition to start a massage train going, so I looked for other stuff to entertain me. Quite frankly, I didn’t want to touch the dude in front of me either, but I was willing to take one for the team and not cry about it….whatever, STUPID FAMILY!! I was forced to look to other forms of entertainment…Oh, what is this I see beside me? Conveniently placed at about the same level as an 8-year old’s eyeballs (or the eyeballs of a crazy chick in the middle of a checkout line squat) was the coolest thing I’d seen all day. Do the words “American Idol Light, Music Guitar and Bubble Gum” mean anything to you!!? Yeah, well I had to have it. Do I watch American Idol? No. Should I be on American Idol? Yeeees
I picked a cool hot pink guitar…it plays music and has bubble gum shaped guitar pics yo. It was still playing the song when the high school kid put it in my bag, lights flashing, people staring….did I laugh and look like an idiot? Yeeees
Why?…..WHY? …..trickery, friends…strategic checkout line trick trick trickery
Other needless items I picked up: 2-in-1 body wash/shave stuff which I’m sure is really a lie, some shiny spray hair stuff with sunscreens (next MythBuster experiment), 8million yards of dental floss….oh, and a giant spoon. A GIANT SPOON!!! I really needed one….
Now, onto my workout for today. Just one session today due to involuntary stops at every Twenny-Fo hour Sto within a 12mile radius of my house.
Went to a nooner spinning class, as planned. What I didn’t plan on was forgetting to take my Cytolean!! I can get by w/o it, but to ensure a good workout I was gonna need some good music ok. No “Who let the dogs out” BS. Hmmm. I just couldn’t trust that the instructor would be on my same level, so I wore my ipod just in case. It is ridiculous how on top of things I am!! I gave her music a chance..she let me down. Apparently she was in an 80’s kinda mood. Not a song or two….the whole class. Yeah, it’s true that I march to the beat of my own freakin drum ok….ipod ON! I would have been cool with it had it been like some Bon Jovi, Aerosmith…even Michael Jackson. But NO!!! What followed was a bit of what I call “fancy leg spinnin”…
Normally, on a normal day, with a normal mix of cycling tunes, my legs are like a crazy human metronome to every song’s beat. Today, however, was a different story. Naturally she blared the tunes, which is cool when it’s good music. So I had my ipod going and at the same time could hear the 80’s in the background. My legs were confused on which cadence they should follow…example #1—Gimme That…or You Can Dance if You Want To. “Cuz your friends don’t dance and if they don’t dance well they’re no friends of mine”….Oh, god, as Susan Powter would say, “STOP THE INSANITY!!” All I know is that the next time I go to a club they better not be playing some funky remix of Chris Brown and Men at Work b/c my poor legs will be so confused that they may just fall the hell off my body.
TRAINING
cardio/abs
spinning 45 min
seated crunches– 3 sets of 50 (one set to the front, one to the left, one to the right)
cable crunches….which are my new favorite…. 2 sets of 75
hip thrusts– 2 sets of 20
..then a final set of cable crunches — 1 set of 75
It is pretty late now and I’m still not quite sure what I’m gonna do tomorrow for my workout. I’ve had a few ideas, but haven’t made a final decision yet. It will include a bit of cardio for sure….I don’t know if I can handle intervals tomorrow. Or…there’s hot yoga at 9:15, but may wait til the weekend to do that….OMG! So many choices…..I’ll be up all night thinking about it, weighing the pros and cons…way too much energy going on right now….
Posted in Training
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
I’ve got 4 dozen Girl Scout cookies ridin’ on this game here….
Ok…I am always backing myself into these damn corners with my words!! Errrrr. Alright, I don’t actually eat (swallow,digest,absorb) the papers from Stride gum. I meant I went through a period of time, a few days ago, where I was so taken aback by the mere thought that something could actually be cooler than the concept of the fortune cookie that I gave it a whirl. Fortune cookies!! Oh, how I have such a crush on you guys!! Oh, by the way I found a fortune cookie in the back of a kitchen drawer a few weeks ago. I opened it and the fortune blew my freaking mind!! Here’s a pic…hope it can be read.
It is ripped b/c when I first read it I said “baaah!” and ripped it in half. Damn chinese people think they know what I do for my workouts?! ….they couldn’t hang. Yes, I know that the FC originated here in the US…I’m just saying, in general, they don’t know what I do for my workouts!
Dang it! I may have ADHD, I haven’t been diagnosed, but these little side tangents have got to stop. Oh, hey, look a fuzz ball……
Ok….moving right along. The gum. Now, it’s true what you heard…I do have a vast knowledge on pretty much everything ever known to man, thanks to MythBusters. I’ve been anxiously awaiting them to talk about the gum wrappers. I got sick of waiting around for those bozos and decided to take matters into my own hands. So what if I conduct little experiments of my own? I gotta a bathtub full of water and a few of those grow-A-pet Crocodiles as we speak…..Yeah, we’ll see if they really grow to be 125X their original size. Then I may try to eat a chunk, just as a little side experimento…comprende? yo. Alright, I did find a little something on candyaddict.com that touches on the subject. Sadly, all I can do is visit their website, for I have been banned from all public candyaddict meetings b/c I just “wasn’t taking their program seriously”…..ha! DORKS! Ok, that and b/c I showed up brandishing a marshmallow gun one too many times.
So, their website “debunks” the myth that the wrapper is dangerous, and then they ramble on something about the FDA, you know, b/c THEY really care…..So, basically I shouldn’t make the wrappers one of my 7 food groups. Fine. On a side note, I guarantee eating (swallowing and digesting) the wrapper is safer than the chemicals in the actual gum….yet I chew it. Why? Cuz only the good die young that’s why!!! ? Well, that and b/c it’s FDA approved….pheeew…I was SO worried.
This morning I did some badass cardio on an FDA approved cross trainer. I think I have cancer now, I’m not sure.
AM TRAINING:
cardio
Cross Trainer 45min
sauna/stretch
I stayed on the same piece of cardio for the full 45 min for a change, which was the hardest things I’ve ever done due to my self-diagnosed ADHD. Well, I think it was 45min…I took a nap midway and when I woke up the timer read 45 so I’ll go with that. bor–ing.
PM TRAINING:
upper body, minus back
I did 3 sets of 12-20 reps on everything and tried to superset in some type of organized manner, but the gym was crowded and everytime I turned around someone was taking something from me. I started the SizeOn. I had a really good workout tonight. I took one scoop on SuperPump before I went to the gym and drank one scoop of SizeOn while I lifted. I felt really energetic, I don’t know if it was from the SizeOn. My veins were popping out like crazy, but the ones in my upper arm are still too shy to make a full-blown appearance. Stupid fat. My ipod arm band thing felt like a blood pressure cuff about to pop off. People were scared as predicted.
Incline DB chest press
Triceps cable pushdown
Incline DB flyes
Incline DB bicep curls
DB standing lateral raises
DB reverse flyes on incline bench
Barbell preacher curls
Reverse flyes on machine
Preacher curl machine
Seated Dip machine
Tricep extension machine
Lateral raises / singles on machine
DB overhead triceps extension
DB hammer curls
15 min ARC trainer
I’m gonna try to go to spinning tomorrow b/c it’s been awhile. I think it’s been an adequate amount of time for people to forget the great scene I caused last time I went. I don’t like to talk about it….
Posted in Training
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Those just ain’t cool anymore in my book as of….TODAY. I was perfectly fine w/ wearing them every single day since birth…..until now. Never again! I’m walking into the gym **minding my own business** Oh, well there’s Creepy Old Guy’s (COG) red minivan, parked in the handicapped spot. Lovely. “Hello, COG mobile.” Do do doo. I walk inside. There’s COG hogging a treadmill just taking the longest, healthiest, non-arthritic strides a person could possibly take. He’d probably been on it for 2 hours already. Just warmin up.
He had on a lovely white turtleneck. My neck was a bit chilly, too, but I toughed it out. I get on the only StepMill open, conveniently located in front of COG’s TM, but there was a row of ellipticals between us, kinda like a safety shield in my mind. I don’t know about you, but I hate being up there on that thing when there are people behind you. First of all, whoever is in charge of the layout of equipment is either A) the most sedentary and despicable person ever created B)blind C) not smart enough to predict obvious movements that are about to take place…for example, a knee extension when a person gets on the leg extension machine D) a man who thinks he is slick by positioning the prone leg curl so when chicks get on it their butt is way up in the air facing everybody. Stupid equipment movin’ man!
My personal fave is the way the gym used to have free benches you could move around…you know, freely.Then they opted to bolt them down—each one being directly in front of a seam between mirrors on the wall so when you look forward you have 2 heads. Smooth one. I guess the damn benches kept disappearing so they had to put a stop to that shuffling around nonsense. ? Come to think of it…Yep, I did find a bench hidden under a 5lb dumbell once. It was just getting to be a game of hide ‘n’ seek to find a stinkin bench. Thank God they have a permanent home!
Anyway.
Back to COG on the TM… I’d been on the StepMill for 25 min when I noticed COG had somehow pulled himself onto the SM to my right and was staring at me. StepMills are tall. There’s no hiding anything up there…you are pretty much on display. Nice. COG assumes a serious “let’s chat awhile” kinda pose…one clunky white velcro sneaker foot propped up on the hood of the SM, hunched forward w/ his elbows on the rails. He’s leaning in towards me. Now THERE’S a man who can fill out a nice cotton turtleneck!
I’m sweating and breathing heavy. He didn’t care. He wanted to tell me about how he tried to feed his two dogs ground hamburger and they wouldn’t eat it until he put some cheese on it. Oh, and how he just did 5miles on the TM. Thank goodness he parked in that handicapped spot so he didn’t waste any treadmill-walkin’ energy on the treacherous walk across the lot like the rest of us have to endure.
Then COG made some remarks about my physique that he noticed…you know…while he was RIGHT FREAKING BEHIND ME! NO thanks to the good-for-nothin ellipticals that wEre supposed to have my back. I’m so not talking to them tomorrow…
Now, if someone else–let’s say someone w/ more than one bottom tooth…maybe 80 years younger…a little less turtle-neckish—were to say the same thing I’d be stoked….buuuut, no. I wasn’t stoked at all. I just felt more creeped out and dirty! I ran into the locker room and bathed from head to toe in Lava soap, then burned my clothes. The disappointment goes farther than the gym, you see, b/c he’s at the track everyday in the summer when I run stairs. I no longer feel safe. A plan of attack is in the works…
Now for my Monday Training:
cardio/abs/cardio
Treadmill 20min run
abs: leg lifts 2 X 15–decline crunches 2 X 20—cable crunches 3 X 50
elliptical 20min
Today’s Training:
StepMill 40min steady pace mostly, nothing crazy
….that was it….
My SizeOn came today so I will start that tomorrow evening when I lift. Should everYbody in my path be scared? Definitely. I’m a little scared myself…Any women who have tried this stuff have anything to say? The other supps are still going strong. Cytolean seems to still be effective at giving me a boost. I knocked the SP 250 down to a lower dose, 1- 1 1/2 scoops for now. 3 was overkill for me. I hope to lean out my arms more. Like, a lot more. Mainly, the back of the upper arm. That and my torso fat are gonna be the last to go and, therefore have been placed at the top (ok, near the top) of my sh*t list!! I’ve asked nicely and it still won’t leave.
“Hey, Danica, who you talkin’ to?” “Huh? Oh, just my fat….Just my fat…”
Posted in Training
Sunday, January 20th, 2008
I have been in awe the past few days, ever since I found out that you can chew Stride gum wrappers. Did anybody know this? If you did, then just let me have my moment. That is freakin awesome!! There I was, minding my own business and staring at my Stride gum box. New flavor…Sweet Berry. I am easily amused, I admit, but has anyone really paid attention to the detail of those boxes? Well, I have. They are damn cool, at least as far as gum packaging goes. I’m all about the details. They have cool stuff written inside. The box opens in a cool, funky way. If you tear the whole box open, all the seams are perforated, people….anyone ever notice that?
So, there I sat in amazement of the little box and wondered, "why didn’t I think of this?" Ok, don’t even get me started on the gum wrappers! Those things are cool. Mine were pink. I was kinda playing with it, petting it, holding it up in the light…I may have even said something like, "Man! These papers freaking ROCK!" I don’t remember exactly what I said, but I do remember saying they resemble those face blotting papers. You know what I’m talking about? I may have even blotted my face with it. Again….I don’t remember.
So, then someone says to me, "uhhh, Danica, you know you can eat those, right?" What!!? She said her kids eat the whole thing, paper included. At first I accused her of lying b/c moments before that I had her convinced that Derek Jeter was gay and that she just hadn’t heard it yet….she seriously almost cried. It’s a creepy obsession thing…I’ll spare the details. Anyways, I figured I didn’t really have anything to lose. I tried it. It’s true. Try it. It does, however, ruin the integrity of the gum in a bubble-blowing capacity. Only my opinion.
Yesterday I was let down when I showed up to yoga 20min early and the class was full. They turned me away, along with at least 10 other people I saw walk in after me. I thought about taking some shoes that were out in the lobby area—Golden Rule #1 is NO SHOES in the yoga room—I’ve been yelled at more than once. I could really get some cool shoes. Yoga people have good taste in footwear usually. Too bad they all have midget feet. Reluctantly I left, undisciplined and shoeless….but not before I slashed a few tires. Hahaaaa, yogis….take that!! See, if anyone really NEEDS yoga, it’s me…I’m such a mess!!!
SATURDAY AM TRAINING:
cardio
Step Mill 20min with weight
TreadClimber 15 min
SATURDAY PM TRAINING:
no yoga, bummer….
back/some shoulders
Arc Trainer 20 min
3 sets of the following, 15reps
Seated Row
High cable row
Lat Pulldown machine
Low seated row
Reverse grip lat pull Hammer Strength
DB reverse flyes
hip thrusts on bench 3X20
DB lateral raise
I don’t like doing back, nor did I plan on doing it really…at least that much stuff. However, I hurt my wrist shoveling snow earlier before I lifted. Not bad…it made me mad more than anything. I really should have tried to shovel snow before my car drove over it about 12 times, making the whole thing waaaay more difficult than it needed to be. So, what did I do? Rest? NOoooo. I decided to flip my mattress, which weighs 300lbs easy. Oh, and that stupid, ugly wall in my room….that’s gotta go, too. NOW!!! Whoever painted that wall needs to be shot. It was some kinda weird combination of colors…red, gray, some swirly stuff….it’s been getting on my last nerve lately. So, I painted it. Ok, I just primed it really, but white primer is way better to look at than that ugly wall was. Now I will spend probably the next week deciding what to do with it from here. Anyways, that did nothing for my wrist. Whenever I put weight on it with any pressing type of motion it hurt, so I decided to pull instead. Should be better in a few days. If it’s not, then I will cut the damn thing off. Problem solved.
TODAY’S WORKOUT:
legs/cardio/sauna
This was a hard one….this is what I remember from it…
Smith Machine squats 3X15
SM leg presses, double leg 2 X100
SM leg presses, single leg 2 X25
SM leg presses, double 1X60
SM leg presses, single 1X20
Stiff legged deadlifts on cables, single legs…I tried, but kept falling over…hams were shot by this time….seriously, I was falling over
2 sets of the following mini-circuit:
Kickbacks on cable, singles X25
DB lunge X15
Stiff legged DL with DB X20
standing ham curl 1X15each
Prone ham curl, singles 2X20, then 1 set of negatives X 10each side, which hopefully seals the deal that I will have trouble walking tomorrow
Walking lunges, no weight–basketball court down/back once
Arc Trainer 20 min
sauna/stretch 20min
I was more or less tricked into drinking last night by some evil-doers. I normally don’t drink (like maybe once every other month…maybe) and this was painfully apparent after my first victory in a "friendly" chugging contest. Friendly, my a**!!! I hate to lose!! Anyways, no more drinking for me. It’s bad….we just don’t get along. I think I may even be allergic to it. I’m not kidding. Seriously, though….Bad, Danica!! Baaaad!!
I’ve decided to back my SuperPump down to 1- 1/2 scoops b/c I feel kind of bloated and "weighed down" by the higher dose. I was taking 3 scoops at one point. I am on my second tub and I know I’ve gained some muscle in my upper body since I started it. If I could lose 5-7 lbs of fat (from specific areas!!) that would be sweet. I don’t really want to gain too much more muscle than I have now, but just want to lean out a bit more. Just lean it out…I wanna be smokin’ this summa. **wink, wink**
Posted in Training
Friday, January 18th, 2008
Well, aren’t you crackers just cute as the dickens?
There was a knock at my door. I open it, and there’s this cute little girl scout-And she says to me, "How would you like to buy some cookies?" And I said "Well, what kind do you have?" She had thin mints, graham crunchy things- "We’ll take a graham crunch. How much will that be?" And she looks at me and she says, "?Uh I need about tree-fitty."
Well, it was about that time that I notice that girl scout was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the protozoic era. I said, "Dammit monster! Get off my lawn! I ain’t giving you no tree-fitty!" It said, "how about just two-fitty?" I said, "Oh, now it’s only two-fitty!! What?! Is there a sale on Loch Ness munchies or something?!"
True story….at least the way I remember it.
In case nobody was aware…IT IS GIRL SCOUT COOKIE SEASON…yes, it has it’s own season and I think it even gets longer and longer every year. If this season eventually starts cutting into my summer, Ima definitely lose it!! Summers are mine, Girl Scouts!!
Now, I recently have discovered that my great grandfather in Malaysia has passed away. RIP, great grandaddy Muhammad Abdul Manchester…you will be missed, but thanks for the $18,000,000 grandad! I knew you were good for something. And now a haiku:
Grandad was Malay
His Muslim ways were sketchy
Pop Rocks and Coke, please
Now…enough with the sappy stuff, let’s get down to business. Let’s see…18mil….minus 70% that goes to Mr. barri Low Esq, minus 10% to Marmoset cuz Pimpin ain’t easy, minus 3% to JustDave cuz I’m like his sister (let’s just leave it at that!), —->that = a whole lotta Girl Scout cookie money. I already have my garage cleared out for the occasion, and I’m working on coaxing my neighbors out of their spaces. They are all too old to drive anyways, but try to find a nice way to tell them that…you see the challenge…
Now, onto my cardio workout. I haven’t decided if I am going to go back to lift later. So cold outside…..so cold. I’m balled up in the warmest corner of my house now with snow pants on typing this with my Gore-Tex gloves…you think that’s easy? It’s not! Good thing the beast has nice, slender fingers to fix all my typos.
Anyways….workout. Here it goes:
TRAINING
cardio
Treadmill run 20min at incline 1-3%, walk 10min at incline 15%, run 10min at incline 1-4%
total of 40min, which felt awesome once I was done. I zoned out and focused on my breathing. There was nothing good on any of the tvs so I figured I’d try it. Plus, I forgot my towels so I had to rub antiperspirant all over my entire body so I could keep my sweating under control. That was SUCH a good idea.
I may go back tonight and do some upper body. I haven’t decided yet. Hot yoga tomorrow….I am so due for that. Almost two weeks since I’ve been. Eeeeek…..I’m sure they’ve all missed me…and the mind-blowing gracefulness that I display transitioning from one asana to the next…the camel to the humpback whale to the rabid chicken….yada yada
Posted in Training
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
Phew….had a few scares today, both of which made me thank god for the ipod. A rap song is in the works…One of the greatest inventions ever, besides Pez dispensers. Those will always be first in my book.
First of all, I finally got around to changing my ringtone on my phone. This is a big deal, as it involves choreographing new dance moves I’ll be doing in short 5-12 second increments everytime the phone rings for the next few months. Anyways, I put my earbuds in and was looking at the ipod screen. A Kanye West song was highlighted, but I hadn’t pushed play yet. Then I heard my phone ring…a different KW song….  My boy! I started trippin!! Whoa, this is creeepy..”Don’t do this to me NOW! I need you, ipod! I love you….WE WERE MEANT TO BE!!” Oh, it’s the phone..Thank god cuz I was about to busta cap up in that ipod–no lie. That was scary ipod “Ima lose it” incident #1.
Incident #2 came about an hour later when I parked my keister on a bike front and center. OK, when you start pushing arrows on cardio equipment in attempt to skip tracks on the ipod, just stop–you are in a funky aerobic stupor and it’s only going to get worse from there. Cardio session over! Get up and walk away while you still have a shot at looking cool. Nobody really knew what you were trying to do anyways. I was just happy it was my brain that was broken and not my ipod cuz then I’d hafta hurt somebody!!
Today was 30min of elliptical while watching Rob & Big and, of course, laughing like I’m in junior high and just heard someone let one. It was the one where they put their turtle on a training program so it can outrun the other turtles. The first turtle they name “Black Bastard” and he sucked bad! Does anyone out of high school watch this besides me? It’s hilarious, at least to someone with my mental capacity. Marmoset! You need to stop spoiling your turtles with their pimped out tank and get em on a training regimen, crack the whip!! You are SUCH a sucka for sad turtle eyes!!
Just to touch base, my 6wk continuation started Mon I’ve decided, since that is when my stock was replenished. I was out of the SuperPump for about a week prior to that so there was a bit of a break there. I’m probably not going to take more than 2 scoops at a time from now on. The 3 scoops might be too much for me personally. I’m still taking the 2 Cytolean before cardio and I still feel like this is a good dose for me. I feel like I’ve gained a little muscle, but am not trying to gain much more. I want to shed these last 5-10 lbs of blubbery blubber. The areas that bother me are the upper arm and torso area. I just hope the fat comes off the right spots…Please, God, spare the chest region!!
AM TRAINING:
cardio/abs
Elliptical 30 min–mid to high intensity
3 sets of 15 leg raises, decline crunch, seated crunch
Treadmill 15 min
bike 5 lousy min, but I looked damn cool when I walked away
**NOTE** Sorry for the frequent use of the word “god” in this blog….God, get over it!!
Posted in Training
|
View all comments | Leave Comment