MegGreenie’s BodyBlog

Somebody sound the alarm!!

Haha… no… but seriously… I have had a great week of workouts despite the fact that school started back up full throttle… no sleep… only 3 hours a night… but working out so consistently definitely keeps me energized… which I need… grad school…. woe is me lol…

 I haven’t taken any progress pics yet…. I really need to!  I have my first digital camera that I have all figured out… at least I think I do… so I have to get on that… I can definitely notice my strength increasing and my muscles are already showing more and are more toned so that has me super excited… just gotta keep my cardio up still to really stay in jumpstart mode… anyhoo….

I am so sore too in my glutes and hamstrings… soooo good. YAY!  I’ve burned about 3600 calories in just the past 3 days!  double YAY!  But on a side note… I am loving my SUPA PUMP as I like to call it… not so crazy about the orange flavor but what can ya do… I am only taking 1 rounded scoop and can feel a difference… I don’t know if I could handle more that 1 1/2 scoops at a time… i might spontaneously combust!  also… took it before my yoga class one day because I did an hour of cardio and an hour of lifting right afterwards… not sure if that was the best idea… I felt a little dizzy and thought I was gonna actuallly start floating away or something.. kinda weird…  that’s all for now…  gotta do a little studying before I hit the sack… yes on a Friday night… blah…. like I said… grad school…. 2 1/2 years to go!!

January 8, 2008:

 Today was absolutely gorgeous outside… sunny and 67!  That crazy New England weather will do that to you though… it was such a tease because soon enough it will be back to the frigid temperatures… which I can’t say I mind, I like hot summers and cold winters.

I had another great day today with super clean eats and lots of activity.  I did two 1 hour yoga classes… the instructor has seen me at every class this week and was like "back for more? you just can’t get enough can you?"  I just smiled but was really thinking that I am going to get my money’s worth for the extra ‘mimd/body’ pass that I had to buy for $60 in addition to my gym membership to go to these classes… they are gonna be sick of seeing me by the time I am though with them… and hopefully I will be loose and limber to boot!  I use to be a competitive gymnast… back in the day… haha… like oh, 12 years ago LOL… but anyhoo… I almost have my spilts back!  CRAZY… haven’t been able to bust those out since I was knee high to a grasshopper…. but I digress…

So I did 2 hours of yoga today, 35 minutes of cardio on the ARC trainer with high elevation and high resistance, and followed it up with more lower body work (even though I did some lower body stuff yesterday I want to save my upper body weight work for tomorrow when I can really put a lot of time and focus into it)… so I completely destroyed the leg press machine with 5 sets of 12 reps at 200 lbs then using one leg only 3 sets of 12 reps at 75 lbs on each leg… I don’t know if it was the one scoop of the SUPA PUMP talking but I was feeling pretty good and thought why stop there?  So I also did the glute kickback machine and maxed out the weight at 140 lbs and did 3 sets of 12 on each leg…. (side note… I have never maxed out the weights on a machine… I wanted more too lol… SUPA PUMP???  maybe?  I dunno?)  Then still feeling ready to conquer the world I did prone hamstring curls 3 sets of 12 at decreasing weights, but I was definitely rocking out more than I thought I could have… so hopefully I will feel it in my walk tomorrow… I like looking crippled the next day… it makes me very proud   Overall I burned 1143 calories… not too shabby  ( I heart my heart rate monitor!)

Time to go refeul   G’night!

January 7, 2008:

I’d like to try and keep up with this blog to kind of talk myself through this so called "journey" to becoming the fittest me I’ve ever been.  I can’t say how great this website is for motivation and for keeping spirits up.  I’ve learned so much already and am looking forward to learning so much more.

I am pretty tuckered out right now, so I will keep this one short and sweet… I got myself some of the mysterious Superpump 250 which I like to pronounce SUPA-PUMP because it makes it so much more fun… I got the Orange flavor and it was pretty good… I started today with only 3/4 of a scoop to see how I handle it and whatnot… I can’t say I felt supercharged from that amount but it did seem to wake me up and get me rearin’ to go… so that’s a plus!

 Today I did 40 minutes on the Arc Trainer with high elevation and resistance… the sweat was a-drippin’!  I wanted to do an hour of cardio but I ran out of time before my yoga class… I just started taking yoga at my gym and I have to say once I "allowed" myself to really just get into it that I find it a great way to relax and it really forces me to get some quality stretching time in… I’ve already noticed an increase in my overall flexibility.

 So then I did my hour yoga class and returned to the weight room to do some lower body work… I kept it short because I had an intense day yesterday and it was aroun 9pm already so I was getting a little tired… although I think the SUPA PUMP kept me nicely enthused… So I just did some simple machine stuff with fairly high weights:  adduction, abduction, seated ham curls, and quad extension… I also did some glute exercises on the mat after… like I said nothing too crazy.

 All this jazz burned 1039 calories, so that’s good… I was at the gym for pretty much the entire night LOL so I am glad it amounted to something…

I also had super clean eating today so overall we can chalk today up as a SUCCESS… YAY!

 Time to go sleepy nice