OnTheRoad’s BodyBlog

Not a song title but I could sing that tonight!

NO cardio, no gym today! I actually listened to my body and my knees said "NO". I get achy knees, well not the knees but the muscle above it..after squats and lunges. All my body is a little (good) sore!! I knew I worked my arse off yesterday.

Now to a problems…..my clean eating is going downhill…..I am sooooo good until 5-6pm..I eat protein about 5pm with vegetable and then I start to pick and pick and pick. Tonight it was 1/2 cup of rice pudding (I made it for the kids from left over rice) and then 8 big marshmallows!! Now because I had those now I don’t have enough calories for my shake and omelette and now my Macros are stuffed! This has happened for about 4 days now. I am not over my calories but…macro’s are important! I would normally leave the house but anyone with kids understands this is not the best time to leave..lol. I would have to wait until my husband comes home but I’m okay by then. I just have to find something to do or to eat..maybe prepared before for the arsenic hour!!

Any suggestions????? Pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

OMG I get edgy when I don’t go to the gym!

Yeah Yeah….I am using song titles for my blog…I really need a job or an interest…lol. I bet when I get back to Australia and I have my business back again you will see 1 blog a month…if I’m lucky!!

Gee I should not have complained (see previous blogs with no song titles) about my personal trainer. I think he has read all my blogs and is now trying to kill me!! I don’t mind it is making the training a lot more fun! I did supersets today for the 1st time tri’s and bi’s and lots of db lunges oh yeah and my personal favourite NOT!! The assisted chin up thing!! OMG I hate that thing!! lol…but that is because I am not good at it!

So 1 hour full body….and it is STILL hot in Moscow..I kid you not. It was and still is (now 6pm) 35 degrees and I daren’t buy any meat because I think the freezers are struggling!Even the ice-creams in the freezers are melting! The bad news is that when it’s hot like this I feel like going to the beach or pool or laze about under a sprinkler…living in an apartment in the city is not good. Anyway enough with this personal stuff…it’s not bodybuilding!!

Yes I did…I got on the scales. Totally stuffed up my whole day…yeah, yeah I know, I know!! But sometimes you just need something to say ……. it "IS" making a difference..everything else is very subjective. Needless to say I was up .5 kg when really I would have expected a loss. Why would I! I am about to enter myself in the Guiness Book of World Records for the human who defies science!! It probably doesn’t help that I have no friends/extended family here, they would be the ones that notice and comment on any differences they see…..oh my poor ‘protein pancake making’ husband, his ears are bleeding!

So of course I went to the f*****n gym and did my 60mins…I was so angry I ran and ran! and then came home and ate 3 chocolate biscuits….arghhhhhh. Managed to stay within my 1400 cal but not totally clean!!

Lifting tomorrow morning…I may as well just get my mattress and pillow and move in to the gym

Sorry again for the big vent….but I can’t promise it won’t happen again.

Man, Moscow is hot…bloody 37 degrees today and really this city is not equipped for the heat. So I’m on the treadmill…yes again! and this song really would not get out of my head. Probably also because Moscow women are half undressed anyway in Summer. Saw some skinny lollipops at the gym today….one woman in the shower quite frightened me! My kids are home for half term break for the next 2 days so I have to go to the gym at night..I HATE IT!!! How many people can be there!! It’s hard to believe during the day I am sometimes the only one!

Today walked and walked all over the city with my kids…in the heat and then of course went to the gym to my 60mins cardio, 30 with incline (8%) and 30 flat. I am feeling a bit leaner…measurements with tape measure are too inaccurate and I don’t won’t to get on the scales….where oh where is my English speaking body fat measure man? woman?

Thanks for the comments yesterday…nice to know I am not the only looney at the gym sometimes

Am I???? Am I the only one who on a Sunday? Beautiful sunny day? who goes to the gym to do some hard cardio?? I feel like I don’t have a life! but I do! a beautiful family etc and still I am there!! Why?? really this week esp after taking my pics of my butt and back of legs yesterday, I can wonder "WHY" God it is taking some mega time to see some improvement on my worst body part and that is the part I want to be improved!!! Oh yeah my stomach, arms and back is coming along very well……what about my butt!!!!!!!

Sorry!! Feeling a little down about all the hard work……

 Anyway….had my lovely cheat on Friday night, ate chocolate but ‘you know what’ …after a few bites it just wasn’t the bomb! Next cheat I am eating a mega roast dinner instead!

Rest day yesterday and boy was I glad…my glutes were sore..I mean sore!! I loved it. I may congratulate my trainer on such a great workout on Friday!

Today 60mins on the treadmill…looking out the window…at the beautiful sunny Sunday and did a 5-7% incline. Loved it and loved my music……

Sorry for the above…committable blog…..

Well my trainer has decided to finally get serious!! Fantastic…changed ALL my exercises and really started working with free weights. A lot more concretration on my legs and bum…maybe what I have telling him has sunk in. Felt strong today and lifted with good form and focus. Loved it.

No cardio after as I knew I was walking to the shops after walking home and throwing down a shake. The walk was great, 50mins, sun shining, leaves waving and even the people seemed so much more relaxed! Wonderful.

Ate clean today but will eat a little over 1400 as I am feeling tired and have a sore throat. Will stuff myself with orange juice, strawberries etc!

Looking forward to my rest day tomorrow……ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
hhh Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Back to the gym this morning…really didn’t want to go….sunny, hot day and I wanted to sit in the sun! So i went…as usual!

Did 60m incline (3-6%) on treadmill…worked long and steady…and actually enjoyed it in the end.

Eating is going well….still eating clean…and getting bored of it. I need a rest day and a cheat meal…maybe on the weekend????

So today I walked down to my second home….yes the gym! Had a great 1 hour full body weights….felt very strong and was able to eat properly before therefore was not tired! Amazing what a difference my husband’s protein pancakes with strawberries makes! My personal trainer (you know the one!) has taken a bigger interest in my workouts now I write everything down…he is doing what he is paid to do.

Have lined up trainers and gym in Melbourne for my return and have been keeping track of food/drink/times/cardio/weight to email them. I will be working out 4 x 1hour a week with them and doing my cardio in my own time. I am looking forward to training seriously and with people who have had mountains of experience with ‘women’s bodybuilding’.

So I did the 1 x hr weight, 30mins slow cardio on flat and of course my stretches. I have eaten well but about to do a carb day soon…my energy levels are low and I’m tired of being tired!

Boy, really did not want to go this morning as I felt I had only just the gym. It is the most beautiful 30 degree celius sunny day in Moscow and the last thing I feel like doing is 1 hour on the treadmill. Oh to be in a country/city where I can put on my running shoes and go out the door! Not long to go!

So my determination made me stay every last second and do my stretches after. 60minutes on flat today.

Ate clean and within 1400, getting used to it all now. That is not to say I couldn’t inhale 3 Mars Bars easily! My gorgeous husbands pancakes were yum even heated up…..have to keep in good with him….will need some more!

Only a small amount of fat left on my stomach…ohhhh I wish I could say the same for my arse!

After a busy busy day walking everywhere in sunny HOT Moscow I went to the doctors for an ultrasound. I needed a heart mummur checked out and got the ok for everything. The thing is….i saw my heart…working…hard….very hard and you know I have never really thought about it all. For the 1st time in my life I have felt a connection with my body….and the relief that I am looking after it also for the 1st time.

Went to the gym about 8pm….60m on the treadmill at 7% incline. The heat reminded me of Australia and I happily sweated my way through it!

Ate clean today within 1400 calories.

Got home from the gym around 10pm and my gorgeous husband had made protein pancakes. He had looked the recipe up and made them without me knowing. The lovely man even went into fitday and spent 20m putting them in under a custom food! What a man!!! The kids even had them this morning and never noticed a difference from normal pancakes. They are YUM!!