Infiniteblaq’s BodyBlog

Today I am thankful to be exposed to health conscious people. I am so grateful to have my family and friends that watch out for my best interests. It is a real gift to have people around you that love God, their families and themselves. My mind is being renewed to think differently about food, training, rest and my school studies. Today I am one day closer to my goals. For me it is not about accomplishing something for personal gain only but it’s about making an impact in the world- to change it for the better.  We all have gifts, talents, and skills within us. Personally, I believe that they are within us to lead us into our purpose.  What do you love to do and would do it even if you were not paid? What bothers you the most? What makes you happy? All of the previous questions may lead you into your purpose. Today and every day I choose to live on purpose. I choose my battles, what I eat, what I pay attention to and the thoughts I dwell on. I will not wait to January 1 2010 to make a resolution. I change today.

Working fulltime and school fulltime is challenging. I fell off the wagon in terms of meals and working out. I am going to try working out at 5:30am and take my breakfast with me to the gym. I can shower there and head on to work.  My evergy is high in the mornings. I am naturally a morning person. Not being in the gym makes me feel fat and frustrated.

The 28th classes begin and I am excited. I am taking four classes and working fulltime  It has been a long time since I have been in a class. I am 40 years old and going back to school is something I wresteled with for too long. Wow, I am going to be in school for the next 5 years…or more…I am going for my doctorate in physical therapy for now…I am also interested in clinical research…still praying for direction…I may do a different program when I get to the cross roads….

Well, I am back in the gym after two weeks off due to the freadful flu. Last night I did chest, triceps and abds. tonight I will do back, biceps, abds and 45 minutes of cardio. I am glad I am back 100%

You don’t know what clean is until you leave a mess! Last night I met up with a buddy from my old gym He is now a member of Gold’s Gym located in down Brooklyn Heights section of NYC. What a difference from my current gym 24/7 Gym Union Square (Lower Manhattan). I had a great workout (did shoulders) but, what impressed me was a clean gym, towel service and plenty of free weights and machines. Plenty of cardio machines as well! Get this, 6 bucks less than what I am paying. The gym is an 8 minute walk. Well, looks like I may be joining Gold’s Gym. I have a 7 day pass. I may wait until the end of the month and make the change.  Now I can leave home early and get some interval cardio going early in the am…make it back home to shower and go to work and school…..I am loving this!

Earlier this month I took an entry exam for a particular program given at this University. (I decided to go back to school for my doctorate in physical therapy). After many calls and emails- I found out I failed the easiest part of the exam. I was shocked to say the least. It appears that I got 19 questions right according to the testing center rep. I replied, ‘there were only 19 quiestions. I was informed that there were 60 questions! Apparantly there were pages missing from the test booklet. I certainly did not notice missing pages etc. I followed the directions to the letter and stopped at placed my penicil down when I completed a section. I even went over my questions. The good news is the school is allowing me to retake a similiar exam next month. I was so happy…I said to myself this is certainly favor.  The rep mentioned that it did not make since to pass the difficult part and fail the easiest part of the exam…

It has been difficult to get my workout partners to do legs. Since no one likes to do them, I come in early and split my leg routine alone. Thanks to Madtitan of bb.com and his blogs- i have gained some helpful info. I do not feel comfortable doing legs alone so I may do them on Sunday with this brother I met and the NPC Atlantic. I hope he is a man of his word and shows up and ready to work out hard.  Yesteray I did leg extensions, lying leg curls and calves. Usually Mondays is packed at my gym. Due to the heavy raining- many people stayed home.  People, rain is your friend! It should NOT keep you from working out…. Later this week I will do squats, lunges and dead lifts

It has been difficult to get my workout partners to do legs. Since no one likes to do them, I come in early and split my leg routine alone. Thanks to Madtitan of bb.com and his blogs- i have gained some helpful info. I do not feel comfortable doing legs alone so I may do them on Sunday with this brother I met and the NPC Atlantic. I hope he is a man of his word and shows up and ready to work out hard.  Yesteray I leg extensions, lying leg curls and calves. Usually Mondays is packed at my gym. Due to the heavy raining- many people stayed home.  People, rain is your friend! It should NOT keep you from working out….

My gym siucks when it comes to music!  Listening to gym music is like being punished for something aweful you had no idea you committed!  life just got better for me now that I have a MP3 player.  Tonight, i am doing sprints for 30 minutes after an intense leg workout….

Leg extension

leg press

Squats

hack squats

Calf raises

hamstring machine and butt busters… 

I thought i was going something with 30 minutes of cardio but now that I see some results, I am pushing for 45 to 60 minutes of up hill cardio and sprints. Recently I purchased a mp3 player…my cardio is so much better now. I hate the music in my gym! The music is designed to punish your hearing! The music selection is straight from a nursing home on crack!   Well, I can run, sprint, power walk for longer periods while listening to my favorite burn that fat music files i personally selected. June 15th, we will see the results to my hard labor.