Just_Moe’s BodyBlog

I have intentions in my head as to what will be done. I have internal stress that radiates and burns inside of my mind that need an outlet. The grip in my hand rests tightly on my hard earned callouses, pinching my newly forming blisters.

All the noise in my head is silent.

The room is silent, even my heart beat is silent.

I pull with all I can muster only to be met with resistance, as if the weight has been cemented to the floor and will not be released. Then something in the movement changes, more muscles are recruited and all I can feel is the heft of the weight moving with my body. It has lost mass as it moves and my muscles respond with lifting it higher and tighter towards my body.

I cannot feel my blisters, I cannot hear my mind. There is NOTHING in this moment but movement.  I live for this moment. I anticipate this moment in my daily life as if it is a reuniting point with a lost love. I live in this moment.

It lasts a second or two and I lower the weight back down. I can start to feel the blisters as well as the tearing of the muscles in my back and hamstrings . My heart beat is growing louder and as I set it down it pounds loudly letting me know I did my job.  I am now stronger and more powerful and I fully control this progression.
Each time I approach the bar I can add more weight and feel in more control of the entire universe because in that moment of the deadlift that IS the universe.  It is an escape not work it is a reward not punishment. It is more relaxing than a bottle of the best wine.

That is why I do it, because I can own it

Ok eats:

Total Cals:1833

Fatoliscious:51

Charbos: 183

Amino Magic: 173

Workout: set no records reps were 10 with 4 sets each

Incline Press

I did the 45’s here like they were on training wheels…EASY I should have aimed for the 55’s but my regular spotter was AWOL. I can’t handle spotting with just anybody…I know I look like that kinda girl but I am not.

Super Set the above with Rows

I did nothing amazing here, in fact I used the row machine because my shoulder REALLY hates rows. I have no power in a row…I will not be getting a call back from the Olympic team and I am rarely aloud to even sing "row row row your boat" because we all know it is a LIE.

Shoulder Press

First set was with Db’s and right away my shoulder was pressing into my shoulder blade and trying to exit via my rib cage. All of that looks really cool on B rated horror movies but when you are the victim and it is real life…it takes on a whole new energy. So I went on to the shoulder press MACHINE WTF!!

Super Set above with Lat Pull Down *reverse grip*

Again no records set but for 4 sets of 10 reps I was above 120 the entire time, in fact one full set was 140. If this was not a super set I would have been able to try 160 I think. The lack of rest and constant arm movement is like electrocution to the fibers…they twitch and can’t seem to totally focus on the new movement because the last one is still shivering thru the fibers……I should write a harlequin novel. well novelette anyway.

Narrow hand push ups

I do these on the smith but explode up so I am standing at the top of the movement.

Super set with High cable pulls.

That’s all I gots ta say ’bout that……

I will now be going back to Got Moe’s eating plan. So to break that down for the kids at home:

Workout Days

151g of protein,

58g of fat, and

150g of carbohydrate,

1,723 calories in total.

Non Workout Days

151g of protein,
73g of fat, and
45g of carbohydrate,
1,435 calories in total.

I went from 22% to 18% on that plan fairly quickly and I think I will go right back to it for my birthday as well as to hit the target Mid November for the plan she laid out. Next week i will go back to the planned workout as well. I like Cosgrove but miss lifting heavy and I can’t do the HIIT with the Alwyn program after weights because Alwyn makes me sweat blood…….. (Luv U Alwyn….*nervous* he won’t read this right???)

So to report last nights workout

DL 5×5

135-225-275-275(3)225

Super Set with Leg Press

180-315-410-410-410 Guess how my knee feels today? Naked and raw and exposed….

Step ups Super Set with BSS

Hard to do weights with these because my DL kills my forearm and I cannot keep weight on my back (shoulder won’t rotate)

Ok when I blog all this shit  out and list off all my injuries etc I am shocked I can even more…someone needs to tell the farmer to just shoot the horse and put her out of her misery!!!

Quads are sore, love that

Traps and shoulders want to know what the hell my problem is,love that as well!

Stay tuned tomorrow for upper body!!

Lesse, eats were damn spanking clean. I ate nerds candy for the lifting…ah the things we do. They are like sweet little pebbles in the mouth…I am pretty sure people were killed by the mafia using pebbles in the mouth…just a factoid for the readers. In lieu of the holidays I will try come candy corn. My issue with that is if I buy it and have it near me I could very well consume the entire bag before I get back from the market even. With that revelation i wonder about the similarities of white frosting and candy corn….and then I wonder what white frosting WITH candy corn would be like *shudders* yeah…hhhmmmmm

Work was Cosgrove’s Hyper Part Deu  ( he calls it hypertrophy but I got no trophy for the hyper behaviour)

Leg Press because the old woman cannot squat with weight

2 pps x10 x4 sets super set with *drum roll*

DL with Shrug

185×10 x4 sets

At this point little time has passed as far as I can tell and my lungs felt like they were burning…or exploding or something catastrophic. So, I completed them and moved on to the REAL FUN.

Step Ups 4×10  sets super set with my all time flava fav ass building moves of the new millennium  Bulgarian Split Squats. 4 sets 10 reps.

I would like to take a moment to thank Secret deodorant  for allowing me to do this workout and not offend the gym patrons by anything other than my grunts and groans.

Ok cals are somewhere. Clean eats and I have dipped carbs down for a few days after the weekend of carbs. I am hoping this will get the scale to appreciate the fact I do care about how I eat and train.  It is not like I have the scale chained to my ankle all day but I hate the phone calls when I least expect them "Remember how much you weighed this morning…." then maniacal laughter and they hang up. I have changed my number but the damn scale keeps calling. You would think leaving it in the bathroom next to the toilet would humble it some but no, the bastard still waits to torment me daily despite his location.

Workout…ok does it not AMAZE you how different you can lift with carbs in the body vs how you lift with carbs still sitting on the shelves in the second isle of the grocery store?

Incline DB Press 5×5

30-5 easy 40-5 easy 50-5 I needed help with getting them in place but I pwned them.

60 FOR A MISS….almost lost my teeth,,thank you spotter. Rest, rest…talk about the damn red sox…and again 60 for a WHAT THE HELL  COME ON!!!! miss

So I finished with 50’s for 8 nice and clean. GO TO HELL CARBOHYDRATES YOU DO NOT OWN ME….ok yes you do…..

Bent Over 1 arm DB Row

35-5  45-5  50-5  60-5   50-8

Now this first portion was SUPPOSE to be super-set but well….I feeeergot….

So the next 2 are super set

Narrow(er) grip Lat pulldown 

110-5 LMAO so EASY NOW. 120-5  140-5   150-5  140-8

Shoulder Press 

25-5  30-5  30-5  35-5  25-8   Ok my left shoulder was REALLY unstable the entire time with this. I have well built delts so I don’t know why the shoulder remains so damn unstable! I think the ligament never healed and my glenoidal labrum is just there for interior design and not function now. Bitch.

Tricep Press Down (this was suppose to be close grip bench but…see above)

50-5  50-5  60-5  70-5

Upright Row

50-5  60-5  70-5  60-5  50-5

The last 2 super-sets there was no rest at all between  exercises. I was beat from this and just wanted to finish it the hell up.

List of complaints for being old

Shoulder pisses me off.

I have piriformis syndrome .

SEVERE cartilage damage both knees.

I will be the sexiest woman in the emergency room if I keep this up.

Ok so eats yesterday were on….but of course since Sinday to yesterday hey were not on…so ..ABOUT TIME I GOT BACK ON THE WAGON! I love to lift heavy so it is kinda hard to stay in a friggen deficit all the damn time.

Workout was PHENOMENAL  and needs to be reported and repeated!

Rack Pulls

133 (10rep) 225 (8rep) 275(5rep) 315(TWO REPS BABY!) 225 (8 reps)

Incline DB Chest Press

35(8rep)45(9rep)55(6rep LIKE BUTTAH)

Bentover barbell rows

95(9rep)115(8rep)125(6rep)

Peck Deck

80(8rep) 80(8rep)70(8rep)

HIIT for 3 minutes on bike then SS cooldown

I was so god damned pumped about the rack pull!!! I love that food makes me stronger…I ? U food.

Ok before I bitch let me just state eats were fine, carbs were low but so were calories. Low calories and low carbs certainly affect wtf I can lift…or cannot lift rather. Normally I would have had a rest day yesterday but I have some training appointments this evening and I am not sure i will have enough time to squeeze in a workout. With all that said:

Assisted Pull ups because fat man pull up area was taken 5×5 (hate it)
Reverse grip lat pull downs 3×8 (hate it as well)
130-140-120 What the HELL is that shit? I could do 150 just what, last week!!

Shoulder Press 5×5 (hate this one too)
highest was 40, not 45 like last week….

Rear delt Rows (meh, ok) 3×8

Ok I hate this workout…I need a new shoulder and upper back workout…this one has everything I cannot do….all rolled up into one big I hate moe’s shoulder workout.

I will think it over and re-do this one. Any thoughts?

Nothing overly witty to add today…my 14 yr old bloodied some kids face at school….is it wrong to feel proud?

45-40-40

Ok so eats yesterday…lemme see…looks about right…..seems like more food when I eat it but when I look over my diet power program I think "damn, what the hell DID I eat?"

Protein was 150 so a little low, fats were over 60 g’s so I am not going to have to confess to the Fat Gods, and carbs were 160 but I blame that on the grapes.

Oh and to help some of you out….skip this experiment Creamsicle protein powder, fat free cool whip, coconut extract and a banana…..it tasted like sun tan lotion….and don’t tell me you have never tasted sun tan lotion! I once was a fair skinned freckle face child and had a mother who was always "left of center" and when she slathered me with sun tan lotion on hot summer days…yes some would end up in my mouth….I worked it out in therapy so I am ok with it now.

So, last nights workout was spent ONLY on the legg press…I am glad the gym was almost empty or people would have been all WTF as i did my 21 sets on the leg press.

Heavy Leg press 5×5

180(8 WU)-205-250-315-365

No DOMS.

Leg press for lighter 3×8
180-205-215

NO DOMS

Leg press high foot placement to work the gluteus maximus and hammies 3×8

205-205-205

NO DOMS

I got was all rubber legs later when my workout was done and fatigued as hell which felt odd since it was a short workout too. My knees sang the song of the crickets the entire time and I was worried they would hurt like HELL today, but so far no pain at all in them. THIS MAY BE WHAT I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR THE LAST 18 MONTHS DAMN IT!!! I have cast aside some of my machine prejudice in order to achieve maximum results..and when you see that title on M&F next month I will be suing them.

Weight is the same but my body is leaning out more. I can FEEL it in a narrow waist when I rub my obliques. (we all do this, admit it and be cleansed from the guilt)  A co-worker last night told me my legs looked like sticks in my workout pants..I was assured this was a compliment. Tell tale sign that I am leaning out is that my legs get all slender and the rest of the fat stays on till the last minute….

Ok that is enough of me for a morning I am sure..go get a fresh cup of coffee!

Eats for yesterday: ON. Do we really need a constant caloric breakdown? Protein on target, carbs were a bit low ( don’t care) and fat was over 60 g’s.

Workout was beautiful, this week I traded out weak rack pulls for WTF incline presses…why can’t I just lift heavy on each and every lift?
Rack Pulls 5×5

185-225-255-275-290  Wow, 290!! I did it for all 5 reps ,too. Know what I love about rack pulls? The feeling in your traps when you lower it back to the rack. My middle traps feel like they are tearing just to hang on and lower it slowly. I love that. "I less than 3 RACK PULLS" Maybe I should put that as my "myspace" title…….

One arm Bent Over Rows 3×8

40-45-50

Took it easy here because Incline press was next and I wanted to try the 60’s……stay tuned….

Incline DB Press 5×5

40-45-50-55-60(miss)-55(nope not even the 55’s now) 50 nice and smooth to finish it. Now last week I did the 55’s so I wanted to try the 60’s this week. I lowered the weight and then my arms turned the DB sideways and could not raise them back up.  Bastards….and when I tried the 55’s again I did the same thing…lower then sideways….my body wanted to do a fly….

Pec Deck 3×8 to finish

70-75-80

Easy but my shoulder had enough of this shit and was upset when done.

So 290 for rack pulls has me pretty effing happy. I am also glad I pwned the 50’s for the press as well!

Today will be leg press and front squats…am I excited? No.