SquirlzEdge’s BodyBlog

for the last few weeks I have been scrambling to find gym time now that my semester is over.  So far I have managed to get it in after work about twice a week.  But since I am working nights I have a hard time making it in on the weekend because the gym closes at 5pm.  Oh well, at least I can get into the gym a little.  My workouts have degenerated into maintenence workouts.  Its cool though because I work hard for a living.  I managed to keep strength with less reps and heavier sets.  But I won’t do more than 3 or 4 sets of one exercise.  And the workouts are only 30 minutes at the longest, to include at least three different exercises. 

Friday was a work day so I went to the gym today, saturday.  I wasn’t able to visit the gym this week so I just used the equipment I have at the house.  But today was a good indicator that I need to switch gyms.  The owner’s sister shut off the lights and locked the locker rooms claiming that the gym was having septic problems.  But she let people work out.  eh… ok.  So i was able to deadlift and do a few sets of butterflies before I left.   deadlift was 135×10 225×6 275×6 300×6 320×6.  butterflies 25×10 35×10 45×10

Okay thursday I was too preoccupied with hunger to even think about working out when I got back into town from work.  So Friday i go in and do deadlift 135×10 225×8 275×7 300×6 and I felt like jelly the whole time.  This tells me that I need a midweek workout.  Then I go and do three sets of dips.  The seated butterflies were absolutely menacing!  I could barely finish a set of 10 at 70.  But I struggled through 3 sets anyways.  Then the tricep pulldowns were painful.  My tendons felt like they were going to pop.  I did 90×12 110×8 130×8 140×6.  Then I did seated rows, three sets.  the machine has numerical settings 1-16.  I did #8×10 #10×8 #12×8 #14×6.  I honestly felt out of shape the whole workout.  But I surprised myself with the deadlift.  I honestly didn’t think I would make it through that one.  So saturday I did curved barbell curls, dumbell lateral lifts, dumbell frontward lifts, dumbell overhead press, machine seated press ups, cable butterflies, and ran two miles at 9 minute pace for cardio.  My back is sore from Friday.  I don’t know if I will work out on sunday. 

after i was sick last week, it was hard finding time getting back into the gym as much.  so I am getting overanxious some days and feeling idle.  But its ok because some times i really don’t feel like doing anything strenuous.  I think this will pass in a week or so.  Its just from being sick. 

This morning I was reading an article on an animal stack workout.  I figured I try the back workout and it was amazing!  I could really feel the pump.  But it took an hour and 20 minutes to accomplish which is way too much time in the gym.  I cut back a little on the junk food, but its not really helping since I have a sore throat.  And I almost passed out in the gym doing deadlift.  I noticed I shifted to higher weights with less reps over the last two weeks so I wanted to try something new and it worked.

I just couldn’t keep away from the junk food.  Man, now my abs are hidden again.  Dang.  And my love handles came back.  outside the gym… How come it is stress levels skyrocket when people try to derail you? You know the saying, give them an inch… they take a mile and give you the receipt, then they complain and its all your fault.  I don’t need that in my life. 

Today was shoulders and back.  Shoulder shrugs were excluded due to early onset of fatigue and time limiting factors.  The diet has too much fat in it.  Or Too many cheat foods, like pop tarts, cheetos, doritos, and hostess cupcakes.  God those hostess cupcakes are good.  They are sugary mounds of yummness wrapped in a see through cellophane blouse.  They use their hypnotic suggestive shapes to lure you in and buy them.  DAMN!

I feel pretty worn out today.  I had a heavy chest day, but I didn’t have the energy to complete alot of the sets.  Yesterday I ran for 30 minutes and that was it.  The day before I did a light upper body and back workout, focusing on legs and abs for moderate to heavy reps.  But today, my shoulders wore out fast.  My chest muscles were kinda blah today too.  This last month I built a solid base.  But I think I need to tweak the workout for this next month.  of course, my training just seems to evolve as I do it. 

this week i saw muscle growth and some fat loss.  Good week.  But my calfs ache from calf raises.

Tuesday was all barbells day.  Incorporated some ab and shoulder work as well.  Wednesday and thursday were off days.  Thursday i did a little cardio with Wii boxing but I really was too sore to do much of anything.  Tuesday took more out of me than I thought.  Friday I worked the chest and shoulders.  A little bit of tricep, back and shoulder.  Saturday I did some back work, a little ab, and a little bicep.  Lots of leg and cardio to get the blood pumping.  I cut back on eating so much because I was feeling nautious from eating all the time.  My overall muscle development is coming along.  the muscles look more toned.  you can see the shapes of them through the skin.  I want to shed some more fat around my midsection so I can see the definition on my midsection but It’s slow going.  I am pretty pleased at the progress I am making despite not losing two pounds of weight.  It appears as though my body is replacing the fat with lean muscle mass at a ratio where I lose more fat than I gain lean muscle mass.  But thats to be expected.  I appear really skinny like that tommy davidson guy from in living color when he would take his shirt off.  I REALLY LOOK TOO SKINNY!