OnTheRoad’s BodyBlog

Good bye Moscow, Good bye Alex (great trainer), Good bye all the great people I have met, good bye internet (for a couple of weeks)…what am I going to do without this site.

Well I will be busting my chops in the sun, no trainer and with a "getting very serious attitude", I can’t wait.

Leaving tomorrow lunch time with lovely sore hamstrings from my deadlifts last night, had a good workout with cardio after and a tan!! Well, bikini comes out friday morning around the pool in Dubai!!

Oh and I am looking forward to all the yummy foods like low fat mayo, tuna in springwater, and a host of other things I have had to do without……….

Soon to be "Hello Australia"

Walking, walking and more walking today with my friend in Moscow. Was nice to get to say Good-bye to the city which has been my home for the last 18months. Red Square, St Basils, and of course the Kremlin could never disappoint anyone…they are huge and just as good in life as on a postcard.

So after walking, walking and more walking I got home exhausted….the old me would have said "That’s enough exercise, I walked lots" but now I understand that walking is STROLLING and isn’t going to do much for serious body changing!! I packed my gym bag and strolled to the gym for 40mins busting my chops on the treadmill…sweating and breathing heavy…and that is exercise for changing my body and also so good for my heart…..and basketball

Ate ok but a little sugar tonight in the form of lollipops!!! Arrghhhh my sugar addiction keeps coming up. Not too stressed about it all….I will quieter tomorrow and able to concretrate on eating etc.

I am really starting to love my body…….and what it does for me…

It is so hard going to the gym when things are very, very busy. I spent the day showing a visitor around Moscow walking miles and miles, husband home and lots going on but had to dig deep to get to the gym.

Did another 30mins HIIT on the treadmill, felt so tired and exhausted. Felt very good just getting there. Eating very well, still have not had any salt, could it be that my stomach is flatter already??

Moscow very grey and miserable lately. Need some sun….NOW!!

I take my hat off to all the single parents out there. I truly don’t know how you all do it! and if you are bodybuilding as well……..man! you are amazing.

Sorry my husbands away (nothing new there!) but had a really busy day. My 12 year old daughter has just left for St Petersburg on a school trip. If anyone has been to a thriving Moscow train station they will know just how fantastic and exciting it is. Just to see the trains and all the people and everything being so different…well it is the reason we travel so much. Anyway my baby is gone for 4 nights on a steam train to another Russian city and I couldn’t be more excited for her. These are lifetime memories.

Sorry I am rambling today.

Did a great workout today. My butt and chest will be very sore tomorrow. Managed just 20mins of med cardio after but was too tired. Really proud of myself lately as it would be just so easy to be ‘too busy’ for the gym but I have really pushed myself to go.

Very tired, probably too tired to eat enough today but will make up for that tomorrow. I have had plenty of protein though.

I’m packed and now offically living out of suitcases until my air shipment arrives in Australia in the coming weeks..months?? Suitcase looking very sick as 75% of my stuff is gym gear.

No gym today or tonight…3 men here packing all day and no husband (in Singapore) to mind kids tonight…where is he when I need him?

Nice and sore after Tuesday’s workout…especially in my chest and butt…I love it! Looking forward to tomorrow’s workout and cardio. I need the de-stress.

I have got itchy feet now and can’t wait to go and get back to Australia and to a gym. I am very excited about training myself and dumping the trainer…..no offense to him…I am just over it!!

Saw my trainer today for what will be the 2nd last time. He really has been good and great for me at the beginning. My form is perfect and my body has come so far. It is time to change and really start to lift heavier and heavier. I know I could come close to a pull up and tri-cep dips and probably could add another 10kgs to my bench. I can’t wait to get to it on my own and work out with an ipod in…I hate talking to anyone at the gym.

So stressed at home at the moment. Packing up the house, kids last days at the school, husband away the whole week and packing for Australia. It will soon be over, I get on the plane in 7 days. Trying not to miss a day of gym, it is the only thing keeping me sane.

Did 30mins steady cardio after my lifting couldn’t do HIIT as I have done it the last 2 days. I am going so hard lately, nearly tossed it up on the treadmill the other day…lol. I love that after lifting cardio, I feel so heavy and relaxed.

Oh…and I got my 1st compliment at the gym today, from a female trainer. Nice, finally!

Just took 4 days off from the gym to pack and organise my house for Wednesday when the packers are coming. I also had a ball to go to and take took time to organise the bloody dress etc because of course I had nothing here to wear!

I went to the ball on Friday night and had a bit of a revelation. I used to go the gym so I could look good when out or at the beach or anywhere really but now I have discovered I actually would prefer going to the gym than going out drinking etc!!!! What the $$#@ I really didn’t expect that to happen. I also think my body just is not coping with any alcohol and late nights anymore. I didn’t drink that much and surely not as much as I could 1 year ago but my body just hated it! I wasn’t sick or slurring my words but my body just felt wrong and almost violated!!

Anyway good for me…..I will still have the occasional drink etc but really my ‘big’ nights are over….

Eating well and clean. Got back to the gym this morning. Snowing, dark, and early on a Sunday morning I set the alarm and walked to the gym for my solitary cardio session. Quite nice to be pushing yourself hard and sweating all over the place….alone!!!!

Can’t wait to get back to Australia and the gym and push myself with my new workout….better body to come!!

Well I have really hit a pleateau and for the last 4 months there has been no change in my stomach measurements or weight. Time to change!

I can’t change my workouts until 10days time, when I hit Australia and can work out on my own. I will start a one bodypart per day programme and lift as heavy as I can. I can start a new diet routine and eat very very cleanly. I have found a diet on this website along with a lifting programme. I will do this for 3 months and see if that produces any changes.

I am also going to give up adding salt to my food although my coffee will stay for the meantime. I will also make sure to drink more water than I have been.

If I am honest with myself I have let things slip since getting back from the Aussie holiday. I wanted to go back looking fab and did but have let things relax too much.

You know the saying " If you keep doing what you have done, you will keep getting what you have got"

Time to change!

So lately I have been neglecting my calf muscles….I am naturally big in that area and need to be able to zip up my boots…seriously! Yesterday I do my long steady cardio on the cross trainer (1 hour) and didn’t set the machine to my hamstrings as usual….well aren’t I paying the price today. My calf muscles are so sore…now I realise that I have a weak spot on my body sooo watch out calves!!!

Today did my HIIT cardio at my friends gym, really went hard and enjoyed it so much. Tomorrow with my trainer for some punishment…lol. Eating very well…..things are going great and loving it all…….

I can’t believe it has been 8 months. Although the changes are there they are small. Not so much in my size but diminishing flabby bits.

Got into my new bikini and took them. When my husband gets home he can take some of my muscles, which I am so proud of! Try doing it on my own but can’t flex properly.

Heavy, heavy lifting today…could hardly do any cardio after. Eating very well despite no blender for shakes…instead stuffing myself with protein from actual food…yum…but not as quick.