FitChick’s BodyBlog

Today was a boxing day. I was excited about it as usual. I just love it I have to admit but when I got there I quickly realized my brain was still in a early morning Monday fog. Nevertheless, I learned a new punch today and did some snazzy drills. Love it! Introducing the 3 punch into my boxing repetoire -haha. So now I am a professional jabber, crosser, AND hooker (i hardly know her-lol-sorry I couldn’t resist for you Office fans).

Before I knew it the session was up and I had cardio to do at Gold’s. I was so distraught over my mental crappiness I just carried my gloves over to Gold’s and kept punching there. I finally got into a comfortable rhythm and feel good about it. Great additional 40 minutes of cardio.

So on another note I’m thinking I will need to change my leg training day a bit. I noticed even when I was lifting on Saturday that i overcompensate on my right side. Today my right calve and hamstring are like tons more sore and tighter than my left. Time to holler at the smith machine and unilateral training to make sure I’m achieving some balance over here. Don’t want to be gimping around:-)

today was another good day for me. I put in the effort and feel like i got a tremendous reward. I sent out an email about a week ago to all my peeps saying i wanted to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in DC. We are all always talking about the great things we should go do and most of the time it’s only me and my hubby who actually get fed up and just go and do whatever. well i put the effort forward and a group of us headed there at about 1ish. First I actually got myself up, took my atrophex, had my protein shake and got to the gym to do my leg workout. i topped it off with a little easy cardio (only 20 minutes) I knew I would be out all day. i jetted home to do a little straightening, take a shower,grab my next meal, and prepare a little something to take with me for my 3rd meal of the day. We all ride up to Springfield and hop on the metro- where I have my prepared meal with me and the adventure begins. I had such an awesome time just walking around the tidal basin snapping pics of my friends and the blossoms. We saw some monuments, walked around the city and topped it off with dinner at a little fancy Chinese food restaurant. I ordered a chicken pineapple satay appetizer and then ate about 1/2 c. total of rice and cashew chicken (not exactly clean but not totally bad.) I just got home at like 11 so it was a great active day. The only time we weren’t walking was when we had dinner and up until dinner my eating had been pristine clean. More than anything i just loved that we all went out and lived life and did something instead of just staying in town and maybe seeing a movie and then going out to eat. It was an outstanding change and just another conscious decision of change I want to intentionally make to my lifestyle. If I have to be the one taking the reigns and planning the events to do it then so be it. It is worth it.

So today was the first day back after B.C. (bad cabbage) and I went and worked it out on the boxing tip. I felt great. I’m still doing a whole bunch of 1 and 2 drills and I love it. I hit a variety of bags today and did a little work in the ring (just hitting pads). The workout was so quick and fun but it is killer. It’s funny I don’t think my body even remembered to really sweat until I got into the car afterward. It could be I just that after my glasses slid off my face I forgot to care about how sweaty I was. I love it.

Anyway, after the boxing workout I headed to Golds to get in the weights I missed yesterday. I did back and biceps. My little biceps where tryna figure out what happened to them today but I managed to get a little something done with them. I did a new move for me on the stablility ball. Back rows. I used 10 lb weights. I thought it would be a peice of cake but it was pretty difficult to keep it all together on the ball. I really had to concentrate. I’ll holler at that one again next week. I think I’m ready to crank it up as far as weights are concerned. I’ve been taking it a little easy making sure I don’t overtrain between all that I’m doing. I’ll be careful and listen to my body but I’m ready for a little challenge.

yesterday i was out of commission. I ate some bad cabbage the previous night and was pretty much jacked up all day. I had to cancel my boxing and everything. I’ll spare you even more horrendous details. I went to my boxing appt this morning but my stomach was still kinda clappin’ at me so I told Dino it prob wasn’t a good look. He was like oh? well you know what is a good look the rowing machine for 30 minutes. It’s cardio and easy. this guy….

I’m so glad that I still did something but I have to admit at the end I was " " this close to losing the breakfast I didn’t have this morning. Oh yeah, that’s the other thing. I haven’t ate much in the last two days. Today was better I was actually able to keep soup and crackers down so tomorrow I should be back at it. I will actually box tomorrow. I also gotta make up the weight session I missed today.

As far as the eating I hope my appetite comes back soon but right now I can’t think of any veggies that actually sound tasty to eat right now and I ususally love veggies.

yesterday and today i was in a little funk as far as exercising but i still made my workouts and ate clean. i’m proud of myself. i didn’t have the chocolate egg for breakfast yesterday:-)

Anyway, today i just did gold’s a chest/shoulder/and tricep day and then added about 30 minutes of cardio on the end. i did my chest presses on a stability ball instead of a bench and kept my hips up and abs tight. it was tough but i felt like a gangster and got my reps out with perfect form. i did my shoulder presses on the ball too. trying to incorporate more muscle control into my weightlifting. i ended up going down a little in my weight to ensure that my form would be ok. on most of the exercises i’m glad i did because it was a little more challenging but there was one or two exercises i can go back up on.

anyway, overall today was a good day (ice cube-lol). I can feel my positivity and drive coming back. i think i’ll be money for the boxing workout and cardio tomorrow.

i finally managed to convince myself to get up and go to ruthless. when i got there i did a quick circuit. 4 sets of 20,15,10 and then 5 reps of kettle bell swings/squats, situps, single arm kettle bell swings/squats, and push ups. I finished it off with 2 laps around the building (about .25 to .5 miles). Despite what everyone likes to usually tell ya,"oh u’ll feel so much better afterward- yada yada." I can’t say it was the case this time. I was just relieved i was able to convince myself to go today and that was pretty much my victory. I did smoke the workout though. Probably b/c I was pissed at being there, lol:-)

we’ll see if i add any extra cardio later today….it’s already 5 and not looking likely…i’m back on it with my eating though. My hubby basically told me to get over myself- it was one meal and move on…

my response?: "ok"

Yesterday was Easter. I had managed to eat pristinely clean up til yesterday (14 days straight). Actually it was the worse kind too. I ate all my clean meals up until Easter dinner- then that last meal (which was late at night and full of carbs (mashed potatoes/fried chicken etc) I ate what I wanted. I wasn’t stuffed or anything but I ate a lot and I ate a lot of the not so good things. I know it’s fine to have a cheat meal every now and then but it’s really hard for me to recover mentally when I do for some reason.

This morning I woke up and the FIRST thing I thought was just one chocolate easter egg would not hurt. Then I looked over and saw where I had already written down my first meal of the day. (1 scoop protein, 6oz ff skim milk, handful of ice cubes) uhhhhgggg- i wrote it in pen too. geez. it would suck to scratch that out and put chocolate egg. i took my atrophex/ called ruthless told them i’d be in later and took about an hour to get out of bed. It was two hours before i even got myself together to go get that first meal. Finally just had it at 10:00! not a good look ya’ll. I need to get it together

I know once I start for the week, each day will get easier and I’ll gain momentum and I’ll be feeling it. It’s just the going part. I am sucking buttcheeks right now. Let me at least go put my gym clothes on….

Made it to the gym and felt good about it. I did legs and a little cardio.

Used the stairstepper today to drive the point home to my legs "tighten up". I am not even playing. They should have gotten the picture when I started holding the negatives on my ham curls  and deadlifts but the stairstepper was in case they forgot. I was drenched in sweat by the time I finished. I LOVE IT. gimme sweat gimme sweat. I posted my workout under the workout tracker.
swung by the market and picked up some salmon (and it was so fresh and so clean!) and jennie o turkey breast that I saw was on sale w/ a couple other veggies and I’m good to go for next week. $30 bucks to eat clean this week. holler. Tomorrow i get to rest my little body. I’m looking forward to it. My biceps and chest def feel overtrained and I must have had a death grip on the weights this week b/c my forearms are killing me….

1. I woke this morning and had the thought i could brush off the legs and cardio i had planned this morning for just a quick run thru the neighborhood. I’m tired and don’t feel like driving to the gym. Actually, I could do it all here (if I actually would). It’s squats/lunges/deadlifts but i told people I would see them there today. (I’ve been away from my gym for a while and it’s been nice seeing all my old peeps).

I told myself there’s absolutely no reason to punk out today. Go, DO WORK, (anybody watch rob & big?) and come home. period.

2. I think the BSN folks needs to holler at me with a contract or deal or something. lol. I have been singing their praises to all my peeps and I really dig their supplements. I even sent my hubby some in Afghanistan (protein). That atrophex doesn’t make you feel jittery AT ALL (which has been a problem in the past for me- I’m sensitive) but you can tell its there and doing a lil sumtin sumtin’ for ya. I’m telling you I’m the type of person who doesn’t drink coffee or soda. When I have drank it I feel like my heart is racing, I’m having hotflashes, I get headaches and that throw up feeling. That is only after I’ve been acting a fool and bouncing off the walls- I mean I act a fool and bounce off the walls anyhow but coffee/soda=a whole other level. It’s funny I can have one of those products in the wheeeeeee hrs of the morning and still be wired and not get any sleep at night. I’m weird- anyway imagine my surprise with this BSN stuff. I was really expecting to be just all jacked up, maybe having some heart palpies when I did a my cardio the first time, no sleep, energy crash. None of that happened. Just focused and energized.
The lean dessert is  thus far the best tasting protein  I’ve had …even when you mix it with just plain ol water….and for those times ladies-mix it with some ff sugar free choco pudding and you won’t even believe it. It’s like smack ya momma good which is ridiculous from any type of protein. It’s just all whippy and thick and chocolaty and smooth and just "Dang, is this protein?"…
3. I was thinking about my team ruthless workouts and how maybe they are good for my self esteem. My thing use to be lifting weights (bout a year ago). I really love it but since doing the ruthless workout I’ve kinda broadened my horizons to some different exercises. I’ve scaled back the weights to a little beginners type program and I’ve actually done some of the "tough" exercises thru ruthless that I would never normally do.  The thing is I would never normally do them b/c I didn’t believe in myself that I actually could. I’ve never played sports. I’ve never done anything organized and in my heart I’ve always felt like people w/ that kind of history had an advantage and a natural nature that I know nothing about. I’ve felt like those people carry a secret ingredient or something but this time around I’ve been different. I don’t know if its b/c of ruthless, b/c I’m getting older, b/c I’m more sure of what I want or what but I feel confident and comfortable. I feel like I can do this. I feel kinda kickass to tell the truth. (don’t laugh, geez) I keep thinking if I can accomplish what I am at the weight I am right now what am I going to be like when I get more in shape? It kinda excites me actually.

Dig a hole biatches, bury yourselves-I’m about to be TIGHT up in here! lol

Alright I’m off to the gym. u’ll prob get two posts today.

Coming here and blogging about my workouts and the process has provided me more motivation that I ever thought it would. Add on top of that that people have actually left me comments/feedback and this has just turned into a really encouraging positive place for me.

Today I did a cardio workout at ruthless. Here’s what it looked like

500 meters on rowing machine at no less than 2:30 power

50 pushups (had to do most of them the girlie way)

500 meters on rower

50 situps

500 meters on rower

100 slam balls

500 meters on rower

by then my time was up. I did 45 minutes of cardio at golds too. on the dreadmill.:-) 12.0 incline, 2.0+ pace, squeezing the booty and holding in the abs the whole time.

i tell you what, between all the squats/incline walks/squat circuits at ruthless my booty should be sitting HIGH by the time I get to where I’m going.  Tomorrow I weight train legs and do cardio and on the 7th day this sista is gonna rest….