MissThing’s BodyBlog

I wore my new a heart rate monitor this morning with cardio. The normal type with a chest band. I got pretty sweaty but forgot to take it off before i got home adn showered. (So I wore it an extra hour or so.) Then a couple hours later I got a red, burning rash with raised areas. it feels worse than heat rash, more like a reaction to something.
Has anyone ever reacted to a hear rate monitor before? It’s not the first time I’ve used one, though it has been a years.

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20 minutes treadimill, running 60 secs at 9.5 k/hr, walking 60 secs at 6 k/h and alternating in between. (with a prior warm-up and stretch, or course!)

It felt taxing at the end. I didn’t get shin splints though, so I could stand to go faster next time.

20 minutes elliptical, level 6

I haven’t done any cardio for a few weeks so this was just to get back on track. It felt ok and a little bit taxing.

I’m 29 today but for some reason it’s feels more like a countdown to my 30th or something. Perhaps the weight loss and everything makes me feel as if I’m in a transition.

Still, I started it off in the right direction: I fell of the wagon last week after feeling achy and overtrained and I began the day with eating clean, going doing steady cardio and Sauna. I need to keep these lifetime changes going!

I was at my mum’s house yesterday, waiting for her to come home.  So I went to the cellar and took out some old clothes, in case they’d go damp down there.

As i was going through the pile, I remembered these were clothes I  wore in university and some from a couple of years back. Just folding them and bagging them up made me more determined to fit back into them, particularly the little back dress I wore on my 21st birthday.

I have been doing a full body compound-lifting workout since May and my weights have been going up conisistently.

I’ve stalled for the past few weeks and my failing on my squats. As a quick experiment, I left out the deadlift on Thursday and found my squats were fine.  Today I deadlifted at my max but again, squats were weak. So I abandoned it and carried on with the rest of my program.

I’m suppose this would be the right time to split my workout but I need to work out how to do it, and whether to fit in some isolated moves. I’m going to read some of the "starting strength" program and see if that would work, or maybe workout my own split and get some feedback on it.

Yay me, I can do full press-ups now! I did box press-ups a few months ago but never done any since then. Afew minutes ago, I tried full body pressups out of curiosity and managed a few!

So that’s at least one body weight excerise I can do. I’m going to keep persevering with my assisted pullups untill they’re bodyweight pull-ups

After hunting for a week for some new gloves to help my deadlift grip, someone at another gym suggested something different: straps.
Silly me, all this time I thought straps were someting only the "hardcore" lifters would use, lol! e.g. for bodyweight multiples. Oh well, I get to test them out tomorrow morning

I hadn’t weighed myself since June, when I was 211lbs and 41% BF.  Partly bnecause I was losing inches anyway and the scale weight was coming down slowly. Now, as of yesterday, I am officially 196lbs and 36.9% BF!

I still have a long way to go before I reach my 125lb ballpark but it’s such a relielf to see progress in those body stats, particualrly the body fat percentage. If my calculations are correct, then I have lost less than 1lb of lean body mass and my  weight loss has been (almost) all body fat.

I have a whole rubbish bag full of clothes that are too big. And after summer I will throw away all my plus sized summer clothes. I’m not planning to wear them next year! 

So, now I need to set a new short-term goal. I was thinking sub 30% BF by Winter? or maybe something else?

any suggestions