Giggy’s Fitness

Someone fixed the bodyspace stats.  Whoever did it MWAH! 

Any suggestions as to why my most recent posts aren’t in my bodyspace? I started a new journal and it’s not listed on my bodyspace.  Any advice is welcome.  Thanks! 

I read it several times.  I’m going to try the workout for a couple of months and force myself to stay on it faithfully.  For any ladies that don’t know much about weight training, it’s a good place to start and the descriptions of proper form are a nice bonus.  

I did read Body for Life and it’s a good book, but the workout is waaaaay too long.  I need something that I can bustout in 45-60 min.  BFL was just too much. 

Today is day one and I will post some pics in my journal.  Pretty gloomy and rainy day so I don’t know if I can get good pics, but I’ll try. 

I’ve cycled off creatine for one month.  September I’ll start back up.  Off to the basement. 

Went to school today, only two more days to go.  So far I have 997.6 points out of 1000.  Not bad, I’m happy with that.  Anyhow, came home chowed down and headed down stairs for my first day of my new workout.  I’ve decided to try Chad Waterbury’s "Female Figure Program".  Overall I thought it looked like an easy program, but quite frankly it kicked my ass today.  As follows:

Day 1 - Circuit Training

Reps per movement: 5, but I did 6 (each side for single limb movements)

Load:  Use the heavies you can manage with perfect form for all sets (I’m still working on that perfect form thing).  #’s listed are per dumbbell.

Rest:  30 seconds

A1 - single-leg dumbbell deadlift 6 x 20#

A2 - Push-up plus with dumbbells (I was actually quite impressed that I can do these)  6 x BW

A3 - Lunge with external rotation (these were pretty cool and challenged my balance quite well)  Way harder than I thought they’d be.  6 x 15’s

A4 - Overhead triceps extension with DB (They show 2 hands on one DB, but I don’t like the way that feels so I do alternating hands)  6 x 10’s too light, 15’s too heavy grrrrrr.

A5 - Deep wide-out drop, I don’t know exactly what these do, but they were fun.  I’ll try for a couple of weeks.

After finishing A5, rest 30s and repeat the entire circuit five more times in the same fashion.  <—- that’s the part that caught up with me.  All of the sudden it wasn’t so easy and I found myself sweating pretty good and wondering when will the torture end.  So I figure that means I got a good workout.  We’ll see if I’m sore in the a.m.

Tomorrows supposed to be HITT.  I don’t usually do cardio on a regular basis so this should be fun.  Think I’ll do some jump roping.

Looks to be a 3 day workout, 2 days cardio. 

Chad gives a breakdown of nutrician to get optimal fat loss during this program and even gives an example of a days worth of food.   The food will be the most difficult as I tend to just shovel stuff in when I’m hungry.  I will try to make a sincere effort to eat more protien.

Took yesterday off as far as workout goes.  Pigged out pretty good though and I have no doubt that I reached 2000 calories.  My husbands friend from work had a dinner party and she always has a beautiful spread.  She started the evening with cheese and wine.  I’ve never had brie, goat, or this other cheese that I can’t remember the name of, but they were so yummy I was fillin up on those.  I also drank a whole bottle of wine while I was there.  We were there for 7 hours.  She then served salmon, steak, and chicken.  I had a little of both chicken and salmon.  Along with that was an awesome salad and baked sweet and regular potatoes.  It was just wonderful.  I was in food heaven.

 Then we went downstairs and played euker <sp> and some pool while the guys played guitar hero on the big screen.  They have a beautiful, huge, well decorated house…. not something I would want to clean though.

I’m suprised I’m not feeling yuckey after drinking the wine, but I did eat very well, and it’s not like I was slammin it either.

Haven’t decided if I’m working out today, probably will later.

  Yesterday I had an ah ha moment.  I loaned out from the library Gold’s Gym Encyclopedia of Bodybuiding.  Quite frankly it didn’t tell me anything I didn’t already learn from here, however, reading it from front to back cover I realized that I’ve been working so hard at losing my roll around my belly that I forgot I need to eat enough to sustain my workouts.  So I’ve been running an uphill battle.  You can’t lose weight and expect to gain weight at the same time.  I’ve decided to set a goal.  A 4-8 week clean bulk.  I want to gain 10# of mass.  There, I’ve said it, I have set a goal and it’s in writing.

 I took yesterday off completely.  I did all my yard work so that’s still some physical activity.  I went to be early, 10:30 pm and up at 6:30 am.  I hate tracking my food in fitday, but probably should to make sure I’m getting a proper balance.  Today I will cook up a bunch of chicken breast just to have in the fridge for snacking.  I’ll have to hit up the grocery store also to replenish my stash of good foods.

My family is going nuts not having processed food in the cabinets.  The kids wont complain too much as long as I have foods cut and sitting in the fridge.  If you cut it, they will eat it.  I think my hubby is probably having the hardest time with no snacks.  He’s been quite grumpy since the pantry has depleted.  I’ve taped a list of healthy foods to the fridge door hoping that rather than stand there with the fridge door open, waiting for some food to magically appear, they will simply review the list and find something accordingly.  Yeah right, who am I kidding.  Having the kids eat healthy nuts instead of dry roasted peanuts… probably aint gonna happen.    I give them two weeks at most and they will probably tie me up, grab my debit card, and head to Krogers to buy a ton of pop, chips, cookies, and sugary cereals.  I’m surrounded by Carb addicts.  Damn, it’s my own fault. 

 I can’t remember what body parts I’m working today, but I’ll find out when I get downstairs.  I’ll post my workout when I’m finished.

Today’s workout as follows:

05/25/07

Today I tried a 5 x 5.  I used my usual format.  I was reading through other journals and realized I’ve never tried it, so I thought I’d give it a go. DB #’s are ea.

Pull ups BW+ a card chair, to the beam in the basement teeheeheee

Lat Pull down behind - w/u 20#, 45, 55, 50, 50, 50

1 arm DB row - w/u with 10’s, 15, 20, 20, 20, 20

Seated row - 35, 35, 45, 55, 50

Bicep curl DB  - w/u with 10’s, 15, 1 @ 20, 15, 15, 15, 15

Hammer curl DB - w/u 10’s, 15, 15, 15, 15

Concentration curl DB - 10, 15, 15 couldn’t lift anymore

That’s it, done for the day.  Going to keep my calories high today.  Took some comparison picks but they look terrible and my ass looks huge.  I’m not one for posing and look like a complete dork.  I’ll have to get hubby to take one for me.  Although he already thinks I’m a nut job just for doing all the stuff I’m already doing. 
 

Today was a pretty good workout but it could be waaaaay better. It’s time to join the gym cause I just don’t have the equipment at home to effectively hit my maximums. I need a squat machine/rack. I can only get 50# up over my neck for squats. Then to keep putting it down after each set is a pain in the ass. So hopefull next week after payday I can renew my membership at Bally’s. I hate that place, but I have a lifetime membership and they have the equipment I need, so I’ll just deal with it. Time to borrow Hubby’s Ipod and ignore the cardio bunnies runnin around. I am excited to have the versatility of equipment.

Okay, todays workout as follows: (set x rep x weight)

Squats - 1 x 12 x 30, 3 x 10 x 40 (gonna break my neck if I go much heavier)

Lunge DB - 2 x 10 x 15, 1 x 12 x 15 (these were hard but felt gooooood)

Leg Ext. - 1 x 10 x 40, 2 x 8 x 45, 1 x 6 x 50

Leg curl - 2 x 10 x 10 (my so called lifetime machines’ pully’s are not working well, can’t wait to have a good machine. I even lubed them up.)

calf raises - 2 x 5 x 15 (it’ll be nice to have gym equipment for this too)

Ab work - a bunch of different crunches, sides, upper, and lower

I was still effectively exhausted at the end but my equipment sucks and leg days are pretty important to me (even though I hate them).

I also pigged out on Tubby’s tonight (that’s a sub shop for those not in Michigan) and some fries, not a ton, but enough. Now I feel like crap. I actually thought I wanted it, next time I’ll make better choices. Overall I’ve eatin excellent today except for that spoof.

Treadmill 7:30 am  30 minutes 2 miles 

This was the first time I worked out on an empty stomach.  I was concerned that my blood sugar would get low and I would lose energy, but I did just fine and was pleased with the results.  I’m working hard to eat clean and burn up that damn jelly roll around my beautiful underlying abs   Should just be a matter of weeks.  However, I may find that my abs have split due to 3 pregnancies.  I don’t feel a gap between them but 1 inch of fat roll is kinda hard to feel through.  We’ll see how I do. 

 TTFN

This is actually week three of my plan, but I’m just now starting to log.  I have made good gains so far considering the time frame.

 Chest/shoulder/tricep

bench press 1 x 10 x 40, 2 x 3 x 50, 1 x 8 x 40

Tricep dip 3 x 4 x bw (can’t wait to see the progress here)

shoulder press 1 x 12 x 10, 1 x 5 x 15, 1 x 8 x 15

Incline DB Fly 1 x 12 x 10, 1 x 8 x 15, 1 x 10 x 15

cross bench pull over 2 x 10 x 15, 1 x 8 x 20

tricep extension 1 x 10 x 10, 2 x 8 x 15

side lateral raise DB 1 x 8 x 15, 2 x 10 x 10

front lat raise DB 1 x 8 x 15, 1 x 10 x 10 

I feel pretty good still.  Today I could feel the burn, but still felt like I could continue on.  I’ll have to watch my eating today and stay clean.  This roll is driving me nuts.  I actually feel like I’m looking good and feel more confident.

Time to teach school, see ya!

Hello,

 This is my "real" first post I think I’ll try to keep track of my work outs and such here since I am able to edit my posts.  I’ve never blogged, so it will take a bit for me to get used to all the fun stuff around here.

 Workout:

 3 day split - back/bicep, chest/shoulders/tricep, and legs

Diet:

I mainly eat a clean diet, but I do allow myself pizza or the occasional Mcd’s.  I try to keep my cheats to once per week.  I eat 6-7 times per day or try to eat something every 2 hours. I enjoy cooking and like to try new things.  One of my favorite meals are chicken wraps.  Anything goes with these things and it’s a great way to get in vegies.

I’m currently focusing on my midsection.  After having three kids I’m curious to see if I can get it back to pre-child shape.  I’m in great shape and don’t fret too bad about what I eat.  I don’t intend to compete, I just want to look my absolute best.     

I’m on week 3 of my current workout and making excellent progress.  I’ve started on creatine and it’s day 3, but I could tell a huge difference yesterday when I was working out.  I didn’t have the burning sensation and could actually work to failure.  It was really wierd having that strength, now if my body would pickup the pace I’d be huge in no time   I’m sore today.  I’ve never actually had a good back workout and today I feel great. 

My body tends to carry cellulite.  So I am skinny fat.  My stomach has to small roll that needs to be destroyed.  My butt actually looks worse right now from fat loss and the cellulite is showing through.  I shall also destroy that…. I hope.