IceDragon’s BodyBlog

Bit of a change up today.

Ran up and down some Scores (a set of steps in my town - one of which is 132ft elevation in 129 steps and I didn’t stop while running up the damn thing, piccy below), went for a run down by the beach and did another day of the "one hundred push-ups" programme a few hours later.

1×4, 1×5, 1×4, 1×4, 1×5 push ups

1×12, 1×15, 1×11, 1×11, 1×15 sit ups

1×15, 1×20, 1×13, 1×13, 1×18 squats

Ate completely clean, and also managed to somehow work in 21,567 steps (or 8.89 miles)!!!

I’m off to bed, I’m knackered LOL

Didn’t get much done today workout-wise. Diet was spot-on though.

I was making two Tudor dresses for my daughter and niece as it’s Tudor Day. It was supposed to be in a few more days but they moved it forward - to tomorrow! Got them done though (will post pics tomorrow when they’re dressed up lol).

Did the next lot of push-ups and that, though.

1×3, 1×4, 1×2, 1×3, 1×4 push-ups.
1×9, 1×12, 1×9, 1×9, 1×10 sit-ups.
1×13, 1×16, 1×13, 1×13, 1×16 squats.

One thing I’m wondering about…the scale has gone UP and I feel heavier, but I feel leaner too. I have less wobbly bits than before (maybe I ought to rephrase that lol). I’m assuming that I’m losing fat and gaining muscle???

Did something a little different at the gym today. I am SO bored of my usual workout regime and happened to Stumble onto something called the "one hundred push-ups" site (don’t know if anyone else knows about it). Basically, it teaches you how to get into the physical conditioning needed to complete 100 push-ups without pause. They also have one for sit-ups and squats, so I just thought "sod it" and I’m doing all three.
10 minutes bike, HR 130-145.
1×2, 1×3, 1×2, 1×2, 1×4 push-ups
1×9, 1×9, 1×6, 1×6, 1×9 sit-ups
1×13, 1×16, 1×9, 1×9, 1×15 squats
5 minutes treadmill, jogging.
Surprisingly intense, actually. A few hours later I did 40 minutes swimming, and my pedometer informed me I’ve also walked 5.2 miles today.
Diet is clean completely (which for me is a record to be honest). No processed foods, no crap. And I even managed to drink five pints of liquid.
I’m on fire today.

I forgot yesterday’s…duh!

10 minutes bike, HR 130-150
Leg press 10×10@40kg
Lunges 3×15@5kg
Good mornings 3×15@10kg
5 minutes cross-trainer, HR 150-160
20 minutes bike, altering resistance (no strict HIIT but bloody felt like it) HR 160-180
10 minutes stretching.

I REALLY needed the stretching by then…

Quite painful on the legs but need to up the weight for next time, I’m trying to get away from just doing squats for legs. I’ve been training legs like I do my upper bod, and I always seem to forget that they’re a bigger muscle group. So next leg workout, I’ll add in some light squats with high reps to the 10×10 leg press and lunges.

Now that could be interesting…

Damn…I kicked my own arse today.

10 minutes bike, HR 140-150.
Chest press 3×15@5
Side raises 3×15@5

Then decided to do something different.
Assisted chin-up 1×10@65
Leg press 1×10
And repeated for 10×10 (ouch).

Cable row 3×15@9.5
Woodchop 2×10 each side
Good mornings 2×20@7.5

Then 16 minutes gradual resistance on the bike (2 mins at level 1, 2 mins at level 2, 2 mins at level 3, etc) and ten minutes stretching.

I ache…holy shit I ache…

I’ll work macros out later for today and yesterday. I can’t be bothered right now LOL

No workout today, had to run about between appointments and shit. Diet was pretty good, even with the couple of little cookies and tiny slice of lemon meringue pie I had (and yeah, I included them in my macros).

So, 1,148 cals.

167.5g carbs (57%)
65.2g protein (22%)
27g fat (21%)
11g saturated fat (ouch).

I’ve got about four miles of walking tomorrow, so a bit of steady state would work to get rid of some of the soreness in my legs.

Feel better than I have in a long time, actually. I don’t feel guilty, and I know damn well I can work those little indulgences off (116 calories from both so I even impressed myself a bit).

Took a while off. No diet, no exercise, just stopped altogether. Generally speaking, there’s a shitload going on right now and I just couldn’t handle being underfed and overtrained anymore and needed a complete mental break.

And somehow in the process, I’ve somehow managed to remove all emotional ties I ever had to food. It’s just fuel for my workouts now, and I’m not quite sure what happened but I kind of like it.

So, as a result of my extended break, I’ve put on a stone but mentally I’ve never been in better shape. I feel completely relaxed about it and no longer dread working out - I actually WANT to work out now.

So six weeks down the line, I’m fat, bloated and unfit but for some reason I’ve never been this up for it. Time will tell, but I’m making this a lifelong habit. And if you don’t know my history, in 2005 I was 236 pounds, 39.4% bodyfat and I’m currently 170, 22% (taking into account the weight I’ve recently put on).

Yesterday was 15 minutes steady state cardio on the bike, HR 165-180. I would have done longer but I felt really sick. I’ll post macros in a minute once I’ve done them.

Today was a bit of a change training-wise for me. Light weight, high reps and just familiarised myself with some easy training (well, I say easy - it wasn’t "easy", just a simple workout). 10 minutes on the bike, HR 160, and then:

1×20 squat with overhead press
1×20 step-up
1×20 bench
1×20 lunges
1×20 crunches

then repeated once.

I know I’m not going to the gym tomorrow as I’ve got a hospital appointment with Phoebe so I also did 20 minute HIIT session today afterwards. Macros to follow.

20 minutes HIIT on cycle, HR 150 - 180.

Actually put my diet on Fitday today, works out better than I thought.

1,177 cals, 141.6g carbs (44%), 99.6g protein (36%), 25.8g fat (20%). Probably need to up the protein a little but I’ll see how it goes.

Diet has to be altered - this is the third day in a row I’ve come in under 1000 cals. I’ll chuck in some extra protein and a bit of extra carbs (right now I’m on less than 10% fat so that can stay as it is).

Hard leg workout to make up for missing it last week (don’t ask, barely got time to sleep).

5 minutes cycle, HR 130-140.

Leg press 1×12@60kg (this worked out to around 132 pounds - can’t be right, surely???), 1×10@70kg, 1×8@80kg, 1×6@90kg.

Leg extension 1×12@20kg, 1×10@25kg, 1×8@30kg, 1×6@35kg.

Cable row 1×12@9.5kg, 1×10@12.5kg, 1×8@16.5kg, 1×6@20kg.

Squat 1×12@56 (lbs - confused yet? lol), 1×10@67, 1×8@78, 1×6@89.

Farmers walk round gym four times carrying 19kg db’s (got some funny looks which was funny).

Lunges 1×20@5.5kg

Plie squats 1×20@10kg

Step-ups 1×20@7kg.

20 minutes stretching - and my hips and lower back feel a lot better. Glutes and has aren’t anywhere near as tight as they were a few weeks back. Getting there.

Diet still 90% clean, although succumbed to the lure of a handful of peanuts (my hands are kind of small so it wasn’t that many really).

No workout as such, just my usual running round like a headless chicken (which for me is a "get woken up at six, get up at seven, run round all day doing the usual and not sitting down until gone nine pm to do some studying" kind of day).