Lady McMike’s BodyBlog

so today i got to sleep in, i woke up at 630,lol. no joke thats sleeping in for me. Anways i had drill and we did a PT test. ONe minute of situps and pushup and a mile run. I’m not sure if i was on crack last time but this time i only got 45 on both. Still alright but a major personal disappointment for me. But at least with the run i did better and i got 6:29. Which i think blasts my last time by a minute almost… they also served me food that i was not a fan of evening putting in my body, which i think eill be my hardest part of BT no doubt. I think it was prok, but i couldnt be certain, and some nasty ass potatoes with shit in it maybe some basil. either way i wasnt happy and i just kind played with it for a while before just throwing the shit out. I’m picky and i treat my body like a temple, and i guard my temple and respect it and it doesnt let me down. Me and the temple made a deal and pork and yucky shit was not part of our deal. Maybe im ****ed then as far as basic. I dont know. But when Ive been giving my "temple" the same shit ever damn day since may, its hard to be ok giving it anything else. ya know…

well im really tired and so im going to take a really long nap so i can wake up and eat and go to bed and do it all again tomorrow!!!! hooah!

So here is my story… I have lived the life of a yo-yo. I have been up and down and here and there and just about everywhere. No lie. I played sports from a young age but was never a stellar athlete and therefore never was really that fit and I was never skinny. In my mind I said hey I’m no Suzie Jesus McGee over here so why bother. (Terrible attitude I know).  But shit hit the fan junior year of high school, and lets just say I got to go through hell in a hospital gown. That’s right the ever popular anorexia phase. Which if I can add I relapsed a total of 4 times, and dropped to under 100lbs nearly every time. Hmm I wasn’t getting the point that it wasn’t healthy. But let’s journey on in my life shall we because I rather not talk about that shit. On comes college… oh boy. You’ve all heard of the freshman 15 well gee wily winkles it’s not a myth. And I was proof. I was an architecture major with little time to think in any other form except measurement and ancient ruins and I went out and partied a lot. I stopped playing both of my sports (soccer and lacrosse) and yes I packed on the weight. I have a pic of me that’s taken a few months before my morbid weight, but I’m still a heffer. I ended my second year of college at a whopping 150+ pounds. I had problems with binge eating and it destroyed me because I lost all control and awareness of what I was doing. It was ridiculous. I decided I wanted to join a gym again just so I didn’t feel so pointless and gross, and to work off all the shit I was eating. I took classes and lifted a little and say a little change. And then came the day that I thank god for everyday. The day I saw what I was and what I could be and what I wanted to be. I no longer was happy with myself, I was disgusted. And everything changed on that wonderful day in May. And here’s what my life led next. I did massive cutting in my diet and I went to the gym 3 times a day. Every morning I woke up and went straight to the gym to ride on the bikes for an hr on an empty stomach and I wore lots of heavy, hot clothes, and I sweat ridiculously but it helped drop weight. Then I’d come back and lift, and then back at night for cardio. All while barely eating anything, ok that’s a lie I was eating what was necessary only to keep me moving and breathing, nothing extra. Then once I got to my desired size, and I don’t say weight because weight is just a stupid number that we all obsess about too much. Because I personally know I can be fat at 105lbs. SO numbers mean nothing to me…. Any ways I got to my desired size and then I started to build my “temple”. Lol I like to think of my body as a temple– it’s cheesy I know, lol. But yea I started to build and then I got more intense and I really just pushed myself over the edge everyday I went to the gym… and now here I am today. And i’m pretty happy about what I did to get here, and what I finally look like. And unlike before I do love working out, I love the feeling and I love coming home unable to move. I’m one of those people that look at pain as the only way to gain. I have this theory and I like to not only challenge myself but take myself BEYOND what i’m ACTUALLY capably of doing. And by now you probably think i’m a nut job. Lol, but that’s ok.
I love to be modest too, but i’m not completely unaware that I have a nice body. I just hate the people that flaunt around my gym and they don’t ever look good, or people who brag. I don’t like to brag because I know no matter where I am, someone in the room is better than me and can easily call my ass out on anything. With me-I like to show off, but i’m modest at the same time, if that’s possible. lol But when someone comes up to me and compliments me I cant help not walking away and lifting my shirt to wipe my face to nonchalantly flash some ab. hehe. I’m sly like that. Lol. Well I have to say that, this is me in a nut shell. I didn’t come into this in great shape and I wasn’t blessed with gene because my whole family is overweight. I just busted ass and never stopped, and never asked questions. Seriously anybody can accomplish anything really; you have to have the right attitude. Because if I walk over to the bench press and say there is no way, or say the leg press and say there is no way I can do that, then you’re damn right it wont happen, and that’s why a lot of the time I lie to myself about how much weight is there, or I don’t even count, or sometimes I don’t even look, I just do. Mind and body have to be a team to make anything happen. Your mind has to respect your body and stop feeding it crap food. Because when mind says “its ok, one cheat day won’t kill me”… body then has to deal with that bullshit. And that was something I started to realize early on thankfully. That working out should NOT be about making up for what you ate, but about utilizing what you ate. And eating should be fueling and refueling your body from workout to workout.
 

I’m sure a bunch of you will think I’m a complete psycho after reading this but this is who I am, and I wouldn’t change anything!

last night i picked up a mag. and was just paging through it while i was shopping it was like natural bodybuilding and something something, i dont rememeber. Well i got to an article about max reps and killer quads. It was soo insane. Before when i thought max reps i was thinking like 15. These people were doing 50 reps. Of course there was a lot of cautions involved with this and vomiting was almost a must. lol. So i read on and on and thought eww i cant do 50 but tomorrow I’ll give 25 a whirl. So i put on really light weight, they suggested 45s on each side for me and 25 on each for women. So i just did that i wasnt going to kill myself and it was the first thing i did in the morning so i didnt want to spend all the energy cash on one thing. lol. So i started with the intention of 25 but 25 hit and umm i keot going. By 35 i was thinking wow this is soo hard, but ill be damned if i stop. 50 came and i threw the bar on the rack and whirled around a couple times in a mass of mixed emotions, shock that i did. surprise that i attempted it, happiness for the complete, confusion for i just couldnt think straight at all, and yes they vomiting thing. I never thought that something like that could make you vomit but its no joke. I felt so sick…. but with that said, haha, i would suggest trying it, but do rememeber i did warn you thats its not the most fun thing and its not easy, and you probably will get sick…

I think its funny that I get bored and the first thing that comes to mind is "hmm im going to go for a run"… Who does that, who say yes a good run sounds nice??

Anways i decided to run to work and take a pit stop- get some water and head home. So its 5 miles there… that was pretty easy. I even sprinted at the end which i was thinking i was going to be crawling by that point. lol. So i recovered pretty quick. however im standing in line to pay for my water and my stomach all of a sudden drops and then launches up to the back of my throat. I’m standing there thinking "oh ****, this isnt going to end well". And as i headed to the door it only got worse, i got shooting pains in my stomach and at that point im thinking ok im not going to make it 5 miles back home, not like this. So i called my mommy to come pick me up. lol. I got home and was still super sick, at one point i dropped to my knees with an insane stomach cramp and put my face in front of my garbage can. So needless to say my system didnt like running the 5miles with me, or maybe it was pissed that i stopped at all. Which is what i thought on  the way home in the car. what if i wouldnt have stopped. I would have went farther yes, but would i have been even more sick when i made it home. Probably would feel like ****ing death i’d be willing to bet. And most likely would soend the rest of the night with a bucket in my lap. I dont know why but when i go for distance i get like this. I usually shorter distances (3- 1miles) becuase of this thing. It just pisses me off i guess. Ok, im going to lay in bed and be sick til i fall asleep… goodnight :/

Ok, so today i really turned up the heat on the tri’s and it felt painfully awesome. lol. So heres what i did: bench dips… BUT i put 2-45’s on my lap. I have been doing it with just one 45 but i felt ambitious today! So i figured what the hell. The first set wasnt bad at all but the second one was killer. It was the deepest sting ive ever felt and my face turned redder than a tomato but it was so worth it! It’s something i would suggest. It’s kind of a pain to get set up with the weight but hey if u have a friend just ask them to pile the weights on you. lol. I hope this is going to make my tri’s pop out more- i have to get them bigger to get my arms proportional, my sholders are getting a little big and it looks pretty stupid most days.

Well thats about it, im pretty excited for tomorrow. All week ive been scheming a new chest and back workout routine that i plan to install into my weekly cycle on sundays. Its full of really fun stuff- lol yes i said fun! And of course there is some ab stuff too, oh yea and i saw this chick doing this crazy ab workout today and i think im going to give it a try it looked so painful which translates to me as effective!! If its a good one and it burns i’ll post it, if it just sucks i wont even bother saying anything about it.

ok, what the best day ever. I have really been struggling lately with my self image as you can see by my comment on my ab progress pic. The mirror has been really distorted and my mind has convinced myself that im just an obsolete mess. Ive been frusterated as hell while i workout and its been hard for me to really focus when i feel like a waste of gym space. However today finally came my revival, i say revival becuase feeling as horrible as i did, filled with disappointment in myself, i felt dead almost.

So, i woke up at 5am, typical feeling, ack wasnt great becuase i slept on my bad side yet again. Had my preworkout crap, grabbed some no-xplode, actually used less today to conserve it longer (im not rich enough to support this lifestyle), and i headed out. I was about 20 minutes into my routine, did squats< haha yea added to much weight on that one and dropped, thank god for the safety thing, then some heavy lunges, one of the ab exercises, and i was off to do leg press… however, im walking downt he hallway and i hear my name. i turn around and look like wtf, who is ****ing calling me?? who is even here at this time that knows me??? It was Jenn- Jenn is an instructor at my gym and she teaches bodycombat(my favorite class ever). She has mentioned that my skills ahve gotten really good and my intensity is insane in class, and she wants me to teach (unfortunatly becuase of BT i dont have enough time, but i will when i come home). anyways there is a new release coming soon and so they are practicing in the morning. Now im not supposed to do tis but she invited me to practice with them. So im thinking shit this is going to screw up my workout so bad, but i said what the hell. We finshed up in like 45 minutes, and i had a great time, and hey i burned a lot of extra caloreis:) thats a plus. So then i decided i was in a really good mood and i wasnt tired at all but more energetic bc of the high pace of bodycombat, that i was going to finish up my leg workout regardless of time. So i continued on and i felt so good. I did a new ass workout, and it is the best thing ever. It hurt so bad, lol, but so effective. Then i got to seated leg curls, and here is where i pushed myself to the point of almost puking. I just shocked the frig out of my hams, they were not expecting 210lbs therefore my stomach was in the back of my throat, its was pretty nasty and i couldnt walk afterwards but still felt great. I did a few other things and finshed up with calves< which stung like a bitch… Im still feeling sick to my stomach but still happy that i got out of the pit i was in, becuase it sucked. Im still looking at my abs like wtf is this shit but they are getting bigger i think and thats why my stomach looks so full to me. Or at least i hope thats the case. ahh ok this was really long and i rambled on and on but im just in a great mood, and i dont even care that i cant move my legs at all. lol. It’s good to be back

So today… haha what a day. woke up at 4am, to the gym by 5. Leg day like every monday. Back was feeling better but i was pretty sore because i slept on my bad side. But its wasnt too bad. Anyways, so i did some squats, then to lunges. And then to my favorite thing in the entire world: LEG PRESS… now ive been doing max reps for the last week and half i think becuase after the last max weight (680) i was really hurtin. BUt i was getting sick of it so i went heavy today. And i swear to god ive never been so happy than i was when i was done. I had the biggest, dumbest smile on my face for the rest of my workout. Hmm probably should tell you what i pressed… it was 700lbs. It was a beastly looking press. Very intimidating, but i tried not to even look at it. And hmm i guess that worked out really good for me… Well i then went to school came home, ate some tuna, and i feel asleep for like 3hrs. Got up, got ready and went to the gym for cardio, i was there for like almost 2 hrs. And i felt great, i feel like shit now but im still pretty damn happy still. Just something about pressing almost 6 times my body weight that makes me feel awesome!!!!!

OK so becuase i hurt my back really bad this week. I have had to make a lot of adjustments to my workouts. Ive tried to keep as much old stuff as possible becuase i believe consistancy is key. Well since ive been trying new stuff i tried some new ab exercises as well. I dont exactly like them all but i might add some to my daily routine. But i figured i would share them.

 - "The criss-cross"- it probably has a better name but thats the name i gave it. Whatcha do is lay on your back, arms across chest. Then lift legs off that ground and cross them in the air. You can either do it high or lower to the ground. I think lower is harder. I do 2 or 3 sets of 25. To enhance it even more i like to lift my sholders off the ground.

 - The bumper crunch- this one i took from ithinkfit… i gave it a try and its great for isolation. I do 2-3 sets on 10. Really pay attention to keeping your belly in, this is key.

 - Inclined leg lifts. These were really hard for me to do with my back so i only could do 10, but i did 5 sets to make up for the reps. I put the inclined bench up as high as it would go, and if you get as close to the ground as possilbe without touching you’ll feel it.

 Seriously just experiment with shit, not everything works the same for everyone. Make adjustments to these if you want. You know your body best and so your going to know what works for you and also what doesn’t. I mean i got all my stuff out of magazines and then i changed it all to make it harder and to build better- for me.

So, today i had a really good leg workout. I went for max reps instead of mass weight (which was very hard for me to not go heavy) and i did something to my back. I’m not sure when during my workout i did it , but i know that when i got home I couldnt move from side to side. When i touch it i immediatly feel pain and yea i think i started to tear up as well. And if im tearing up, that means it really hurts. But i took a nap like always and i had a heating pad on it. It was alright while i was sleeping but i woke up and it feels no different. Now- the point of the story being. I ALWAYS do cardio, and today I was going to spend some time with my good friend the stair stepper, but im not sure if im being stupid for going becuase of my back, or im just being a whimp… I mean i know im going to make myself go, but im not sure how much more damage im going to do by moving around and doing shit… ????

Alright so today was my first day using no-xplode. I traded in the vapor i had because it screwed up my system really bad, and i didnt really feel too energetic with it which surprised me becuase i heard so many good things about it. Anyways i got u at 4 today to go to the gym. Another early morning leg day. Gotta love it. lol. So, i get to the gym and im just kinda warming up with some squats. its not really a warm up becuase i kept adding weight but its not at the intensity that my leg press always is. So i was building up to the press i guess?!?! I dont know… So i do one of my ab exercises in between and then i hit the leg press. Now i was feeling really good, very awake and ready to do this thing. I wasnt really anticipating upping the weight from last time but by the end i thought i was somekind of superhero. Which if you read these leg press update, i seem to think that everytime.lol. I just get caught up in the shock that i can actually do it. So the weight kept going on and on and then i decided that my legs were on fire and i probably only had one good press left. I jacked the weight up really high, and then looked at it for a moment thinking, shit this is going to hurt. With that attitude it wasnt going to get done, so i took a walk to get some more water, and stopped at the bathroom, and walked back. Didnt look at the weight, just sat down, held my breath, let it out and bam it was down and up and down and up before i could breath again. On the last one i locked out my knees so that kinda killed, but i survived. lol. I survive the 680lb press. I smiled, put all the frickin weight back on the racks like a nice gym go-er should do, and continued on to the rest of my workout. Which i have to say was kinda hard for the half hr after the press. My ass hurt really bad and i felt depleted of all my energy. Luckily i caught a second wind and made it to the end without a problem, tweaking a few things to account for the pain in my butt, but def not slacking at all. The thing that didnt effect my butt where intensified while those involving it were kept consistant. All in all a good work out. I’m oretty excited about the 680, i want to get up to 700 next but i think i’ll do more reps for a few days before giving that a try. I really dont want to hurt myself and set myself back. I have a hard time keeping the weight low becuase i always want to improve, but im getting better about being smart and safe. Thinking with my brain and not my muscles… well thats about it. I dont have much more to say besides the fact that im beat now. Not only from the morning workout but becuase i decided when i got home from school i wanted to do 90 push ups… yup just out of the blue, a hey you know what would be fun kinda thing. I know im a little nutty, but i would rather be nutty than in active and un fit, i guess…

alright im out, nap time it is…like always. lol. I hope everyone has a glorious day < and wow im in a good mood for a change