How bad do you want it? I mean REALLY want it?
Fitness is really hard, really disciplined at first, but the payoff is so sweet….trust me . Im not a movie star, I aint making a million bucks, but I usually FEEL like a million bucks. Yeah, once in awhile I hurt something somewhere, but lemeee tell ya, I felt like crap before I started. I would go to work with my scrubs on, then come home and watch TV with my scrubs on for the rest of the night..like most people. I work with women who watch every reality Tv show and TiVo the ones they miss. THATS their lives. then they go to work, eat lean cuisine and bitch about their weight, their backs, their pendulous breasts……..hell yeah, I said PENDULOUS BREASTS……..how do people function with those things? Tell ya what…….this gal is streamlined. I should be a swimmer….heheeeeee. MY co workers go get massages for their backs and the chiropractors treat them, but the real issue is their weight. You dont have to be a wee little stringbean like myself, embrace your curves if you got them, but dont let them be your prison. These ladies are for the most part in their mid to late thirties and forties and they are ready to crap the bed and Im thinking "what the heck are you going to feel like when you are 60?" What if you live to be 80? You going to drag your ass around in one of those larks bumping people off sidewalks? I don’t want for anyone to end up like that cus your quality of life is really going to suck. Yeah and these are the ladies who pick on me every day at lunch, so now I go out to the park and watch the turtles in the pond…….PEACE…….yee hah
Im not being mean. I dont look to pick on anyone or make fun of anyone. I got picked on and tortured so much as a kid and I am well aware how crushing it can be. If you are here and you are reading this, its because you want to change. Ill help if I can. Once you realize how truly easy fitness can be, you will change your mind.
So tonight I did chest and tris. I love doing them together because you use them both at the same time and can go from a chest exercise to a tri exercise non stop. I did flat bench 145lbs and the same with incline. Pec flies at 115, cable crossovers at 60 (they can stress the elbows) and dumbbell presses at 40. I also did some chest press machine at 85 to finish up.
For tris I did rope on cables/extensions behind the head at 60, laying db extensions at 20, rope press down at 110lbs, single arm cable press downs at 50, short bar on cables at 110, and dips at full bodyweight. In between sets I did tons of chin ups, some slow and some dangling with my elbows bent holding my own weight and some fast. I am trying to get as many as I can because if I remember correctly, they had a chin up contest at last years olympia and I think I want to try it.
Tomorrow is back and bis I think. I might need to do abs if my chest is as sore as I think it may be. I was in there for 2 hours. Ok, I chatted a little, but I ran into a couple people I had not seen in some time and had to catch up. Im finally being accepted as "one of the guys"!!! Oh, except that I like to wear pink.that wont change.
Hope everyone had a GREAT day!!!
July 28, 2008 at 8:27 pm
Had to go look up pendulous……:P
July 28, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Its to bad that some people will go through life never feeling as good as we do because of their weight witch brings on some reall health issues. Tough workout Fern as they say "YOU ROCK"
July 29, 2008 at 9:31 pm
One of the things that keeps me motivated is thinking about me at 80. I don’t want a hunch back or breasts that sag down to my knees. LOL. I don’t have pendulous breasts, but I went down from a C to a B. Would love to get down to an A. heh heh. That also keeps me motivated.
Stay inspired,
ELeni
August 4, 2008 at 7:51 pm
What a GREAT post! Really, I don’t think enough people think about the future when they hit a certain age. They think it is "too late". I LOVE that you accomplished so much at 40!!! Hell, you look better than MOST 20 year olds I have seen. Truly inspiring! Thank you for that, you kept me away from that pie tonite!