Lazedays’s BodyBlog

In light of a cut, I’m hitting new PR’s right n left! Squats 160, deads 120 (gotta improve my grip ), military press 70, low cable rows 115. and these are not straight lifts. Tempos all the way. granted I’m lifting for strength right now so my range is only 4 to 6, but the rest period is like nul. Don’t much care for strength lifts. Prefer hyper. anything to grow them muscles! lats, traps and delts are getting fired up. Wish the legs would follow as fast though.

another week of carb and cal cycling and cardio (hate cardio!) then back to eating tons (protein!) and the a 6 to 8 week stint of poliquins IT, AC and then 1 week cut. Should take me to end of August when the real deal begins.

15 Weeks till my figure Comp and I’m scared ****less. Worried that I won’t be thin enough, muscular enough. My trainer has me on another cut cycle, one in which I cycle carbs and calories and bump up cardio. This is going really well, but the fat especially on the legs is moving very slowly.

People tell me that I’m fine, on the right track, but I can’t seem to shake the feelings of failure and not being ready.

Fridays the last day of my IT phase. Gonna hit it harder and see if I can’t increase my #’s a bit.
This weekend is my last weekend to have starchy and flour carbs for 2 weeks. Funny I have all opps to eat then this weekend but I don’t wanna. I want this cut to work so bad that it hurts. And I will go through great lengths to drop atleast 1.5 maybe even 2% BF. what a miracle that would be to go from 17 to 15% in 2 weeks.

Double workouts 7 days a week and cal cycling will be in my forecast. I’m so itching to get started.
I kinda feel as if I have to prove something. Not sure why, well ok maybe I do. I was looking at blinged posing suits and the one I want is between $300 and $400 (depends on how many crystals I want), so I was asked, by someone why I was looking at such expensive suits, because "it’s not like your gonna win". Well I be GD, You F en A hole!!!!!! It took all of me to not beat the snot out of em. And I know I can, with all that boxing background now.

anyway, I’ve gotta prove to myself that I can drop BF and be totally ripped. So I will take pics of my legs in hoochie short shorts Sunday and then again in 2 weeks. I WILL see looser shorts!

through hell or high water I will make this cut work 110%.

Although I was supposed to have been in week 2 of this phase, (vacation!) I’m very please with my results and #’s.

I won’t say that it was easy, especially the front squats with out a cage, but I’ve managed to perform them with perfect form and wow, what a difference. I think everybody should do them now and then.
Week 1 of my IT phase done
Mon and Fri: (3 sets each)
A-1 front squats (5010)6/75 then at the end 6/80
A-2 lying leg curls feet outward (5010) 6/50
B-1 flat bench press (4010) 7/75
B-2 Lean away chin ups (4010) 4 plus 1 negative
C-1 seated db press (4010)Mon 8/20  Fri 8/22.5
C-2 Incline hammer curl (4010) 8/15
D-1 One leg calf raise (2110) 10/30
D-2 Twisting garhammer raise (2010) 10

Wed: 3 sets unless noted
A bend knee barbell deadlift (4010) 8/75:6/75:4/75:4/75
B Half deadlift with shrug (2110) 8/75
C-1 Decline barbell press (3110) 8/75
C-2 subscapularis pull ups (4010) 3 plus 2 neg
D-1 ez bar reverse curl (2110) 6/30
D-2 hanging leg raise  4 as high as legs can go, 6 knee raises

2 more weeks and then I go through a mini cut, which I’ve very excited about. I’m always worried that I won’t lean out! But I need to relax because I still have 2 months to put on the muscles and a whole 3.5 months to go through a nice cutting phase.

What a past 2 weeks. Insane, first a planned recovery week, I hate em but the trainer says so, then I overindulge and freak out. Celebrated my Daughters 11th birthday and turn around to pack for a last minute beach vacation. last minute means it’s 11:45 pm and the plane leaves at 8:25 the next morning!!!!!

Love Fl, love Daytona Beach, the sunshine, the perfect hotel but with the crappiest gym around. Please somebody teach me how to use nautilus equipment! Hey, I love my free weights and my big yellow powertec!! So much for week one of my IT phase!

Not happy to be home, it’s cold in WNY!! then get to log into Bodyspace and find out I’m banned!!!!! SAY WHAT??? trolling, what the hell is trolling???? and how did I log on while flying down a water slide in Orlando? Needless to say, some great dude named Richard fixed it and got me squared away. Well almost I need to change my user name now, somebody hacked into me and mess me up.

My comp shoes came in the mail while I was gone, they fit like a glove, cept I think I wanna go higher. 5" should be better then 4" right? then I get to go to a local bb and figure show, some of the greatest bodies around. Got to meet a few figures Girls also, to bad the tall Blonde was such a bitch, hope she doesn’t mind that I plan on kicking here Butt in October (she’s competing there too).

Designed my new 6 week body blast class and got it advertised, redialed my diet, and kicked my own rear on day 1 of the IT phase. Of course my trainer never told me that front squats would be tough without a cage!!!!! But I made due, and now my muscles are crying for relief, and I’m smiling cuz I’m one step closer to the hottest and fittest body in this here small town!

oh, If I EVER turn into a Bitch like that other figure Girl, I give all who read me, full permission to kick my rear kay?

It takes alot to get me down. I never break, well almost never. Over the past few days my stress level has been in the red zone and without regular exercise to ease stress and calm nerves (mandatory recovery week, so says trainer, no weights) I’m teetering on the edge of disaster, and today I’ve stepped off the edge. Today I broke all the diet rules. Chocolate, tons, pizza, 4 medium slices. Thing is I barely ate during the 1st half of the day, then I go and eat like a pig? whats wrong with me!!!!!! I treat my body like a temple and I go and put "hazardous" material in this body!

I Just ordered my competition shoes, mapped out my next 3 weeks of weight lifting and was so psyched about moving to the next level. When the support that I thought I had turned, went against everything. Made me feel as if I was foolish and obsessed.

I’ve eaten like crap and feel like crap.I feel  Like I’ve undone everything I’ve worked for. It’s only one day some would say, but I’ve forgotten the diet battles in the past, dealt with the obsessive binge and dieting, and these old feeling have come flooding back.  Why?  I’ve come so far. I know I need to turn the other cheek and and forget what others say behind my back, because they can’t be who I’ve made myself is no reason to throw in the towel!

what is done is done, and It’s now time to get a hold of myself, pray that I get my much needed support back, and step up my game.

Accumulation phase  is over!!!!! What a workout over the past 3 weeks. Though reps were higher and the weight was lower then the norm for me, the tempos were a killer. Every workout during that phase left my heart pounding and my muscles crying for help. Now weak 4, time to recover. Recover? does that mean I can bump up the cardio (intense of course, I’m not a laze boring person)? Yes, my trainer says, just don’t go overboard. Well ok I say, as I map out my class for Mondays Hybrid Cardio class. Tons of leg work and speed, this high octane workout was not for the light hearted. Even my legs felt like lead after the grueling knee strike to front kick segment. This cardio move was supersetted with a weighted front lunge, rear lunge with a iso high knee hold in the middle.

Yeah, I seriously don’t think that would’ve been considered resting and recovering.  With next week going into an intensification phase, and if anybodies familiar with Polquins individualization for mass gaining program, I’m thinking that It might be in my best interest to lay low for a few, what do you all think?

Week 3 of Poliquins Individualization of mass gaining program. Week 1 started out tough, but it was just a break in. Week 2, got my tempos and weight correct, ready to fly. Week 3, changes sets from 2 to 3 and go till failure on the last set. sweat, yes, heart rate skyrocketing,  yes, feeling like my muscles are gonna give out while I tell myself, just one more, definitely. the lady in me will slowly disappear, and I fight to get that last rep out. who the hell said Women can’t lift like a guy? whoever said that should be shot cuz I lift like a guy and look damn good in heels.

This will be one hell of a week and I’m wanting more of every tough minute of it Here’s to getting stronger then hell.

halfway through week 2 of a new routine, just when you get your tempo’s down, the perfect weight and only an hour to drive through your program. Mornings from 5 to 6 am are MY time. Don’t bug me, don’t mess with my equipment, just let me get my job done. Nothing can mess with my focus, well, until this morning. Halfway through a dead lift rep, bar mid calf, I get bugged. I’m being asked for my bank statement? WTF!! uh, in the middle of a lift, in the middle of a routine. I’m forced to stop what I’m doing and deal with the situation at hand. I have very little time as it is, and only lift Mon, Wed and Fridays! Why bug me now. It’s now time to shower and move on with my day and I’m left with a loaded bar and no time, a pissed off feeling and a lack of accomplishment feeling.

For me is all or nothing. I give all plus more in anything I do related to fitness. I thrive on hardcore. The harder and more challenged the better. When I joined fitness boxing it was because it was extreme cardio, I now teach it. When I learned about HIIT, I learned to interval it with weights, and I now teach that to others.

As an instructor I give 100% right along with my students. Stand around? nope, I’ll be right by your side telling you to move faster, punch harder. match my speed, match my force.

When my trainer tells me that I need to cut back on my intensity, I freak, what? I can;t go 110% are you kidding? He says that because I weight lift on 2 of the days that I teach class I’m inhibiting my weight lifting results. Something called catabolism. Huh? its when your body eats away at your muscles to get energy for intense heart pounding cardio. Yikes. I need and want to gain mass, so I sure as hell don’t want to eat away my hard earned muscles!

I also am not accustomed to go only half ass. Can I tone it down to achieve the strong ripped body I want?