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."
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Archive for February, 2008
Friday, February 8th, 2008
I had an excellent workout last night. I took just one Cytolean prior to the gym, followed by 1 scoop SuperPump and 1/2 scoop SizeOn during my monster upper body blast. I basically did a huge hodgepodge of exercises, moving quickly and jump roping between a lot of exercises. Jump roping is hard work when your upper body is fatigued. I tripped more than usual, which I thought was impossible….NOT SO! BTW, I watched the Jump Rope Championships on ESPN last year and that was insane! I’m training for that right after I get done putting Kobayashi to shame! Surprisingly enough, the two training schedules do not go hand in hand.
My training last night looked like this, from what I recall:
upper body/cardio/suana
high cable row
overhead press
rear delt DB flyes on ball
lateral raises DB on one leg
bent over reverse DB flyes on one leg
front raises
chest press
overhead DB tricep extension
incline DB curls
rotator cuff exercise on cable
cable chest press
standing straight bar curls
upright rows decline DB skull crushers
decline DB pullovers
straight bar preacher curl
Jump rope (probably 7-10 min total)
Treadmill backwards and inclined 10min (waiting for StepMill)
StepMill 20 min with weight
ARC trainer 15 min
sauna/stretch 20 min
I did 2-4 sets of each exercise, depending on what resources were available. I had mad crazy energy for that workout!! I think it’s the SizeOn. Even that 1/2 scoop seems like I took a full one. I’m very sensitive I guess…
It is amazing what personal info comes out of the mouths of complete strangers while in the sauna. I learn so much about people everytime I go in there. Lately it’s been packed and I think that dry heat makes people spill their guts…others become counselors….I just sit and soak it all in and try to stretch within the parameters I’m alloted.
The dude across from me couldn’t drive b/c his license was revoked for DUI’s….the guy next to me was an interesting lad. Divorced since ‘96, but just recently got full custody of his kids after $9,000 in legal fees. He apparently couldn’t have them before b/c he was considered "dangerous" after putting a guy in a coma after a fight he got into on "accident." Sold his house, can’t wait for the new Walmart to open, his boy is a B/C student, he wants to be a police officer (good luck…) and he’s gonna start eating salads everyday for lunch. There was an out-of-towner guy in there who made a comment that led to the coma-inducer’s tale of woe, but I can’t remember what it was. Probably "hey, what’s up?" That’s exactly why I don’t ask anyone that!!
Out-of-towner was leaving the sauna when I was and I said, "You see the can of worms you opened up!?" That poor guy was probably thinking "OMG, I knew this Omaha place was full of weirdos!" Just to confirm his theory that I thought he had…I think…ha…I chased him around on my pogo stick and begged him to be my hotdog counter next fall. …He’s totally gonna get back to me!  ???
This morning I took 2 Cytoleans, but had a headache and didn’t feel like doing cardio. I debated for awhile and finally said, "Quit yo cryin, Heffa! and get to the gym!!" I really told my mother that! Kidding….She really said that to me! I’m verbally abused everyday of my life and I plan to retaliate very soon!! I felt fine after about 7 munutes on the elliptical and I did some zig zag crunches on that sucker, too. Incline and resistance up—I’m doing it in my chair RIGHT NOW trying to explain it! Kind of a crossover really—anyone? Anyone? You gotta have the right song though…
Today training:
cardio/abs/sauna
elliptical 45 min
hip thrusts (straight legs up to ceiling) on bench 3X20
cable crunches 3 X 50
planks 2 X 1 min
sauna 10min
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
I was trying to catch up on some blogs tonight, but, ummmm….it’s kinda hard when it takes 5 minutes to get on someone’s page!!! Ok, maybe not five full minutes, but I am a very impatient person….what is going on here?
Now, **sigh** Ok today…..today was a day full of me looking like a complete moron, sometimes I was alone, sometimes I wasn’t. It all started when I woke up, or how I woke up really. I have a tendency to lose my cell phone, along with everything else I’ve EVER owned. I got online and sent myself a text message …”You are the greatest ever and you rock my world. Reese does nothing for me XOXO, Jake Gyllenhaal”…actual text he sent me once, except he signed it “Jakey”—anyways, I still couldn’t hear my phone. I go to bed w/o finding my it. I wake up when I hear a voice talking. Apparently the phone was somewhere in the bed and the beast somehow called customer service for Sprint (which sucks, BTW) by rolling all over the damn thing.
I talked only for a few minutes before I realized what was really going on. No harm done there. I had a few suggestions to make to Sprint anyhow, starting with WHY DON’T YOU STOP CALLING ME AND WAKING ME UP!!!?? Click. The nerve….
Later, I took the beast for a walk in the snow. We were on a semi-busy street, trying to walk on the sidewalk, but you couldn’t even tell where the sidewalk was. It was sort of like walking in deep sand. I saw a guy up the hill coming toward us running with his dog. I wondered how in the heck he managed it b/c you couldn’t even tell where the sidewalk was….everything was all uneven…perfect twisting ankle scenario for myself…I can barely manage to stay upright on dry pavement in the summer. So I kindly take my beast and move way over and off to the side b/c I knew he was gonna act a fool. Hair standing up, breathing heavy, foaming at the mouth, talking trash…
So guy is running by, the beast got all crazy and tried his best to get to the dog. He caught me off guard and pulled me and I fell, right leg tucked under, left leg straigt like I was sliding into home….all down the live-long hill. Oh, and of course I was laughing like an idiot all the way. I popped back up in one smooth move, though, redeeming my cool points to passing traffic. I had a whole butt full of snow. I don’t really care what that dude thought….”oh, look at me and how I can run effortlessly thru 8 feet of snow with my dog on a leash and him not pull me….” Oh, just shut up!
Fast forward to at the gym tonight. Lot is packed, no spots and I didn’t even get there til 8:30. No empty lockers to speak of. Pay lockers it is….I unpack my bag. I forgot my shoes. At least I had on tennis shoes and not snow boots b/c I swear I would have worked out in those. I had to fight for my parking spot and I was gonna keep it!!! So I had to wear the shoes I had on. Ok. Then I forgot my second towel. Ok, at least I still had one. I forgot my pants. hahahaaa. Kidding. I go get on the StepMill, the tall escaltor stairs in case nobody knows what it is. I clip my ipod on the rail. I throw my one towel over the side. I start. Towel falls. I tried a few times to grab it with no luck. I hop off to go get it off the floor when it fell, only it never fell. It somehow got hooked in the crease of a stair and went all the way under the machine. I was hoping the damn thing didn’t break or catch fire.
Oh, no, wait….here it comes! haha…it came all the way back around, but I still couldn’t grab it….I had those stairs going fast ok. I catch it the second time around and holy cow—it had about 33 gigantic dust bunnies all over it. Now I know where all the dust bunnies live. They probably have some pimped out bunny pad set up underneath those StepMills. So my first instinct was to vigorously shake the hell out of that towel. That was a mistake. **POOF, COUGH, COUGH** there suddenly was a huge cloud of dust surrounding myself and the dude on the StepMill next to me. It was like a someone popped a dirt-filled vacuum bag like you do when you fill up a paper bag and squash it to make a loud “pop”—yep, that’s how I do. Makin’ friends at the gym…
Fast forward to me walking out to my car. Usually I park in the garage, but it was full. I had to park way out. I am trying to call someone on my phone, not paying attention to the 6 inches of pure ice encompassing my entire car. It wasn’t there before. I seriously wiped out so bad and fell HARD on my right side…it happened so fast I didn’t know what the hell happened. I don’t think I’ve ever fallen that hard since a rollerblading incident a few summers back. I laid there, still, for a good 15 seconds. Right knee and huge protruding right hip took the fall…and my right thumb somehow. If I can’t get out of bed tomorrow I am gonna be so mad!! I’m wearing a wrap to bed b/c I can feel the low back a little already. It should be ok. I will probably have a huge bruise to show for it, which is totally cool by me cuz then I can make up about a dozen stories about how I got it. Cool points. Oh, and when I sat in my car still shocked that I fell that hard and taking inventory of my body I looked up at the windows overlooking the parking lot. Nice….there were at least four people just standing up there looking down. They had to have seen it, but hopefully I appeared to small from that far away to know who I was. “Hey was that you who fell last night in the lot?” “Huh? What? Oh, no…but I saw that, too. Ouch.” …Perfect!
two Cytolean
TRAINING 1:
cardio/sauna
elliptical 30min
StepMill 20min
sauna 15 min
one Cytolean
TRAINING 2:
cardio/abs/sauna
StepMill 20min (fast, steady high intensity)
abs:
cable crunches 3 X 50
hip thrusts (legs straight up to ceiling) 2 X 20
bicycle crunches 2 X 20each side
plank 2 X 1min (super hard for me today) sauna 30min
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
The new fallen snow today has given me an opportunity to take a new snow angel progress pic.Well, I knew it….my quads DO look bigger. If you think my pic is bad, you shoulda seen Lieutenant Dan’s. Good grief, I told him that damn boa around his neck would only add size as far as snow angels go, but he never listens to me. What do I know anyways…I’m just a stupid human civilian.
Today I had a lot of energy to do some cardio. I walk out, I open the garage. There is snow. I don’t know why, but I was sort of surprised even though I knew it was going to snow. Kinda like a little kid who doesn’t really think a few minutes into the future and just does whatever they want w/o thinking of consequences. I guess I somehow thought that it would manage to bypass my driveway and not rest his pretty, white fluffy head on my driveway. I don’t really know what I thought. I had a one-track mind to get to the gym.
“What should I do!? What should I do? ” I asked my friend, Snow Q. Shovel who was sitting pretty against the wall, all dry and stiff looking. To make a long story short, I end up shoveling snow before I left b/c last time this happened I waited til after I ran over the snow about 8 times and packed it down nice and tight before I tried to shovel. I wasn’t falling for that again! Plus, Lt Dan and I play a little game in the snow….he loves that stuff!!! The game rules are simple: he runs around like a complete idiot and I throw scoops of snow on him when he runs by, then he gives me a look that says, “I cannot believe you just got snow all over my purple boa, DANICA!!!!!” and then he prances off to pout. I win everytime and I like that.
TRAINING:
cardio
elliptical 45min
sauna/stretch
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
(Mr Creepy Sauna Stinker-Upper)
When everyone else kept their clothes on you just couldn’t take a hint
(Why did you have to go there?)
No super jumbo sized towel could soak up the amount of sweat coming out of your creepy pores
(Man, those pores are freakin me out)
You are the reason people sit on towels on exercise equipment and still don’t feel safe, you big, wet ball of creepiness
(Why are your shoes still squeakin’?)
You take the phrase "it smells like something died in here" a little too far…. with all your mortician monkey business. Please don’t touch me when I’m dead.
(Pretty pretty please just don’t touch me)
So you just keep on keepin on you slimy, awkward, formaldehydey Creepy McCreepo cuz making people uncomfortable in the gym is what you do best
Mr. Creepy Sauna Stinker-Upper….
Last night i did some upper body, a little bike and sat in the sauna for 30min, which was awesome. . The 1/2 scoop of SizeOn still felt like I took a whole scoop–I mean the way I felt like I could workout for hours. The problem is that I am paranoid about getting bigger. I’m pretty sure the quads are bigger b/c I’ve been tearing through the seams of my jeans like crazy. Plus, I hear people whispering and pointing "Oh my gosh! Her quads are getting bigger! Her quads are getting bigger!" Rude if you ask me. Seriously, though, I’m cutting out squats and today when I did legs I only did a few exercises. Oh, and the creepy mortician guy who came up to me awhile back and stood on the treadmill next to me saying some kind of creepy nonsense was there. Yeah, I refused to turn off my music so I could hear him and ended up shouting "I’ll come find you when I’m done" **hint, hint, SCRAM, weirdo** Well that was the first time I’d seen him since. Oh, lovely…he was all up in my suana, creeping everyone the hell out. There was nobody in there, but still….He was just getting out, THANK THE LORD!!! He stepped aside and saluted me as I walked by. Nice…I pretended not to see. He was probably saluting my quads anyways….eewwww..even creepier. I told him to get his formaldehyde-smelling, quad-saluting, treadmill-standing creepy self out cuz he was stinking up my sauna! I didn’t actually say the words out loud, but if looks could talk…..
This morning I went to spinning. Luckily I got there 15min early cuz the class was full and I got (fought/won/earned, paper-rock-scissor style) one of the last bikes. There were like 25 people. The music was not great and not nearly loud enough, but I didn’t wear the ipod as I was trying to build my tolerance level for music that is inferior to my own, and the people who play it….and that is hard to do when you are sweating your butt off! You just want some good tunes. Today was a day for growing…At least she didn’t have an annoying voice b/c that is a real lesson in tolerance right there. Over-talkers or annoying-voiced talkers/screamers are the worst….
TRAINING:
cardio/legs/sauna ‘n stretch
2 Cytoleans
Spin class 50min (bolted early to avoid the massive yoga crowd ready to bust down the door and b/c they were doing some weird, overly complicated BS at the end..it involved groups for crying out loud!)
drink one scoop SuperPump
1/2 scoop SizeOn (the devil)
Bench Step-Ups 3 X 15 each
Smith Machine double leg press 3 X 50/60/75
Cable kickbacks 2 X 20 ea
Static lunge with back foot on bench 2 X 15 ea
Prone leg curl 3 X 25
Leg Extension 3 X 25
Treadmill incline walk/jog backwards 2min
sauna 20min/stretch
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Saturday, February 2nd, 2008
I’ve been preparing for this my whole life basically. My walking lunge ultra mega marathon will start today in honor of Groundhog Day, following my annual GH Day festivities. You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to find a freaking groundhog pinata in Omaha these days! It’s always been my favorite holiday for sure, besides my birthday.
Where am I lunging to? Do you even have to ask!!? Punxatawney, where else! Plus, I gotta swing by Marmoset’s pad in Pittsburgh anyways to pick up money he owes me (I’ve been nice about it until now). I’ll also be lunging by Shitholesville, OH so you better have my do-rags, BryanGee, or Ima lose it!!! If I start today, which I will, I should be there in a few weeks, give or take a few weeks. Let’s break it down.
Maneuvers
1:Start out going EAST on DOUGLAS ST / US-6 E toward S 16TH ST.0.4 miles
2:Merge onto I-480 E / US-6 E (Crossing into IOWA).0.7miles
3:Merge onto I-29 S toward KANSAS CITY / I-80.5.1 miles
4:Take I-80 E toward DES MOINES.118.9 miles (boooorrrrrrinnnngggg)
5:Merge onto I-80 E via EXIT 123B toward CHICAGO/MINNEAPOLIS.166.6miles
6:Merge onto I-280 E via EXIT 290 toward ROCK ISLAND/MOLINE 27.4 miles
7:I-280 E becomes I-80 E (Portions toll <—yeah, right) (Crossing into INDIANA).168.3 miles
8:Merge onto I-80 E via EXIT 16 toward OHIO (Portions toll<—dream on!) (Crossing into OHIO).354.9 miles
9:Merge onto I-80 E via EXIT 218 toward YOUNGSTOWN (Crossing into PENNSYLVANIA).97.2 miles
10:Take the PA-36 exit- EXIT 78- toward SIGEL / BROOKVILLE.0.1 miles
11:Turn RIGHT onto PA-36 / ALLEGHENY BLVD.0.4 milesM
12:Turn LEFT onto US-322 / PA-28 / PA-36 / W MAIN ST / TWENTY EIGHTH DIVISION HWY.0.7 miles
13:Turn RIGHT onto WHITE ST / PA-36. Continue to follow PA-36.19.6 miles
14:End at Punxsutawney, PA US ***960.98 miles total***
Now, one of my lunges equals about 5ft (I have long legs ok!). Since mapquest chooses to use miles and not give distances in feet, or god forbid they make it easy and use walking lunge measurements, I had to do a little math. The trip will be approximately 1,014,794 walking lunges. Ha–cake! 72,485 lunges per day at the most. If it wasn’t for stupid I-80….I may have to hitch rides from truckers for for a bit of that. And I don’t think I should have to pay portions tolls for lunging across either, so I will ignore those all together. Yeah, a few weeks should do it.
Today I did some good ole StepMill, abs and sauna. I will go do some upper body lifting in a little bit. Damn baby all I need is a lil bit…a lil bit ‘o dis a lil bit ‘o dat…get crackin’ in the club when you hear the sh*t..drop it like it’s hot—–That song came on when I was on the StepMill. I always get a lil bit ‘o extra spring in my step when that comes on.
TRAINING 1:
cardio/abs/sauna n stretch
StepMill 30min
abs:
3 sets X 75/50/75 cable crunches
3 sets 1min planks
sauna/stretch 20min
TRAINING 2:
upper body
3 sets of 15-20
Incline chest press
Lat Pulldown
Wt assisted dips
preacher curl
upright row
One arm DB row
triceps DB overhead extension
Reverse flyes
incline pushups
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Friday, February 1st, 2008
Oh, man do I love old, non-creepy gym goers! They could just be the greatest crowd to workout amongst if you ask me. Always so non-judging and unassuming….Always yielding the right of way. There were some cute ones in there today. I like to watch them, especially when they are traveling in pairs or packs.
Today, I fixed my sights on a lovely little couple. Mostly it was an older lady on the tricep extension machine and an older gent following her around like a puppy dog. He was even leaning on her machine, getting his mack on. I don’t know if they were actually a couple. She shot me a few strange looks, but I couldn’t tell if they were the “help get this creep away from me” look or the usual “I’m 108 years old and still kicking” look. After 45 min on the tricep extension she moved to a bike, old gent following. He left her side only to go retrieve his lumbar support pillow from the locker room. Why didn’t I think of using one of those on the bike!!? I have rolled a towel up before and used that on the bike. I don’t need no fancy bells and whistles. . .
Yesterday I did some cardio, and had a super duper leg workout planned to follow. I don’t know what happened…Oh, yes I do! Yoga jacked me all up!! I started to do legs, but they were so tired and sore from yoga. I’m still sore in my back and shoulders. I can do walking lunges til I’m blue in the face with no problem, but try not going to hot yoga for a month and then picking up where you left off! Hams and glutes were sore. I tried to ignore it, pretend it wasn’t really true. “Oh, now Danica…you are just imagining things again.” Long story short, I should have just kept doing cardio or not worked out at all b/c I was put to shame by that damn squat press yesterday. Leg workout was cut short on account of I was dying. I’ll probably attempt them again Sunday.
Yesterday Training:
cardio/some legs
run treadmill 10min
StepMill 20min
3 supersets X 15
Standing leg curl (mistake #1…)
Leg Extension
2 supersets X 15
smith machine lunges supersetted with
Squat press 2X 40
Smith machine press 2 X 40 double leg
I don’t usually do legs at this gym, so I think I was thrown off initially. Different equipment, but still it came down to the fact that I should have let the legs rest. I was less than thrilled about that workout. I took 2 cytoleans prior to cardio, then SuperPump and SizeOn. Yesterday the energy wasn’t as high as the previous few workouts. Bummer. Lesson learned.
Today I did cardio so far. Elliptical. There are like 8 different types of elliptical, too. I did the regular one, no arms, inlined to the max most of the time. Oh, but I got sick of it after 40 min b/c the elliptical is BOR-ING so I went to do some walking lunges on the basketball court and come back for more. It’s kinda like when you are fighting with someone and you take a walk to clear your mind. Much better!
Oh, and there was this gangsta chick right next to me. Oh, man…I was so into watching the old couple that I didn’t realize she was throwing her hands up in the air like she just didn’t care and spitting rhymes out loud! How could I have missed this!! My music was too loud, that was how. I saw her arms moving around a lot in my peripherals, but I just thought she was messing with her hair the whole time. I couldn’t make out the song on account of my heavy breathing and left foot pedal making an annoying clicking sound, plus…she shouldn’t quit her day job if you are picking up what I’m putting down. Man! If I knew what she was really doing I never would have taken that break from the elliptical to do those stupid lunges!
today Training:
cardio/suana
Elliptical 40min
walking lunges X 100
Elliptical 15 min
sauna/stretch 15min
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