Lady_Quadzilla’s BodyBlog

Well, got in there and did my workout this morning - really good and strong since I didn’t do any ‘official’ lifting last week, just moving lots of stone.:)

Antagonist Tri=phase, week one
Chest/Back

warm-up 4 min elliptical

Deadlift w/up 45X12, 135X10…185X6, 205X6

Superset:
Bentover row, reverse grip w/up 50X12, 135X8..145X6, 155X7
Bench press w/u 95X12, 135X10…155X8, 160X6 PR I think

SS:
Lat pulldown wide grip  w/up 120X10…130X8, 140X6
DB Incline Press w/up 50’sX10..55’sX6, 55′SX6

SS:
Seated cable row w/up 110X10..120X10, 130X6
Pec dec flies w/up 100X10..110X9, 120X7

Followed with 30 minutes cardio off to eat and chill

Scivation Plan starts officially on Monday, but I did the leg day this morning with Brian…only got about 3 hours sleep last night, so it really sucked but here is what we did. My new plan is antagonist training -

Seated calf raise - 70X12, 80X12, 80X12 I am not sure, I think he added more weight than that but I was just done so I wasn’t paying attention, lol.

I have been getting a new kind of workout the past 4 days! Moving tons of rock and gravel to build a stone patio. So, I have been shoveling gravel, shoveling sand, running the 200 pound tamper, moving 4,000 pounds of rock around..generally wearing myself out!!!

 I am excitedly (okay, impatiently ) awaiting my Team Scivation Program….but I guess it is good that I don’t have a plan right now as the rock program is still being worked every afternoon (it takes longer than you would think to build a patio!)

Okay, yesterday we spent 6 hours at Valley Fair - rollercoasters, water rides…lots of fun and walking. So, exhausted this morning and really didn’t want to go workout, but I have told myself that unless I am dying I am not cancelling a session with Brian.

Had an amazing workout considering how exhausted I was at the start…

Warm-up 5 min on treadmill

Leg ext 100X12, 120X10, 140X10 160X10

Leg Press 270X12, 360X12, 450X10, 540X8 Personal Record!

Squats 135X12, 155X12, 185X10, 205X8 pr?

Walking lunges, 3 sets with 20 pounds on ez curl bar, all the way up and back…maybe 12 per leg? it seemed like forever, lol.

Happy and exhausted

Thursday I ended up giving my time to other people…so at the end of the day I rode the recumbent bike for an hour while playing Halo multiplayer

Today we are going to do something fun and active, maybe later I will lift….sumertime

So , tired today but drank half a pot of really good Kona coffee and hit the gym with chest/back in mind.

 I left my workout journal at home because I just wanted to have fun, so here is how it played out….

warm-up 1 song on elliptical.

3 sets push-ups, boy my muscles didn’t want to warm up, these sucked…

Flat bench press 95X12 2 sets 115X10, 135X8, 145X6, 155X5 pressed the gym manager into duty as my spotter

I superset the bench with reverse crunches a set of 20 inbetween each set

Incline cable flyes 3 sets 25X12

superset with cable woodchoppers 3 sets 15/side

Seated cable row 3 sets 100X12…this is low for me, but I used these wierd seperate handles that are almost as think as soup cans, lol, made it , ummm, different, but then again I really felt my back…

superset with crunches on the bench inbetween, 3 sets 20

Lat Pull-down, wide grip 100X12, 100X12, 120X8, 130X5, 130X4 1/2

no superset…

Lat pressdowns- 3 sets 80X12, 12, 9…burnt

Stayed after and did 30 minutes on the elliptical and during the cardio I was sooo high - I thought "this is how we are supposed to feel, this aliveness, this power, the feeling that I have pushed my body to it’s limits, the feeling that this is why we have muscles…" I am back

I don’t know what is wrong with me, I get so into the swing and then so out of it. maybe my sister is right and I am bi-polar…but I don’t think I am that manic or that depressed, just sort of small rollercoasters…like the kiddie ones with the train cars, lol , not the monster ones with the corkscrews.

Last week was a loss, no real workouts, no motivation, mostly clean eating…Saturday good workout, Sunday lazy, Monday walked an hour but exhausted…Today wrestling with am I tired or am I being lazy? Why am I here? Why am I working out? Why do I diet? What is the point? yeah…headcase.

So - taking this day to get my head straight, eating green beans and lean beef and going to bike to the gym tomorrow and lift my little heart out..I am sure I will be back on track.

I just lose sight of my reasons and lose sight of the goal….and here is something that made me laugh today :

With all the sadness and trauma going on in the world at the moment, 
 
it is worth reflecting on the death of a very important person, which

almost went unnoticed last week. 
 
Larry LaPrise, the man who wrote “The Hokie Pokey” died peacefully at 
 
the age of 93. The most traumatic part for his family was getting him 
 
into the coffin. They put his left leg in. And then the trouble 
 
started. 
:D

 I forgot my training journal this morning - so we did legs - Brian’s choice I think he is trying to kill me….I can’t feel my legs.

Warm-up elliptical

Leg ext 100X12, 120X12, 140X10dropX10drop10

Smith squats, legs out front, narrow stance 50X12, 100X12, 150X10, 150X10

Leg press 270X12, 360X12, 450X10drop360X10drop270X10drop180X10 I think i am gonna puke

Shawn squats 3 sets 15 plus 15 up and down all the way after last set.

Thank god we were out of time!!!! still trying not to puke, lol.

Supposed to be shoulders and biceps, but after the bicep barbell curls my shoulders were killing me, so I stopped and rode the bike for half an hour instead… Here is what I did get done:

DB military Press 25’sX12, 30’sX10, 35’sX8, 40’sX6

DB lateral raise 20’sX9 for 3 sets

Bentover laterals 3 sets 20’sX8

BB curls 45X12, 50X10, 55X8, 60X8

Then my shoulders were killing me while trying to do alternating curls, so I decided to let be sensible and stop.

Rode the recumbent bike for 1/2 hour.