StephanieShine’s BodyBlog

Woke up with the guy. Went to my dorm and was sad/upset to pack and go home. Took my anatomy exam and suddenly felt great. Met up with the guy a last time and then proceeded to lug every part of my life out of my dorm and into my dads van. What a work out that was! Throwing around my mini-fridge and brim-filled totes up and down two flights of stairs countless times. My back, legs and biceps are going to be screaming tomorrow! I didn’t realize that I didn’t eat until 1 pm and I wasn’t even actually hungry. Got home and unpacked and set up my room then kind of just chilled out for the rest of the night. The moving around and car ride got me real tired so I went to be pretty early. Bruises are already starting to show up on my legs from carrying the crates.

Today I was excited to jump out of bed and have breakfast. After my class I went on the elliptical for a whole hour! I’ve never done that before and burned 480 calories. I used a different performance program which held a steady resistance 7 and built up to incline 16 of 20! I had never gone above 10 before today. I felt great after and I still do 5 hours later.

For this week I am giving up on goal pounds and micro managing fats, carbs and protein. I just want to maintain the habit of eating no direct carbs and mostly animal proteins. Of course now that it is warmer I naturally feel more active and have been walking around a lot more. During these last days of classes and finals week I still want to have time to sleep and rise early to lift some weights!

I spent the rest of my day cutting, gluing and painting. I had a healthy breakfast, lunch, snack and dinner today so I feel very well fueled for leg day tomorrow, but I feel light and fit too. I have also cleared a lot of stuff out of my room today in preperation for moving twice in 2 weeks! Got rid of some generations old, unworn clothes and some empty boxes and random papers from the beginning of the semester.

The Good
Have Fruit & Veggies Every Day - Mixed Fruit and a Cucumber Bean Salad
Lift 4 Times This Week Minimum - Shoulders & Cardio Today
Don’t Spend Any Money - Bought 2 Odwalla Bars and a Naked Blueberry Drink with Meal points - So that doesn’t count as money
Try A New Food Daily - Banana Protein
Study Anatomy A Solid Hour Daily - Yay! Accomplished =] Even recited some muscles while working out

The Not So Good
Write At Least 4 Articles - None today but I got alot of views on my articles
Remember Supplements - Even with them sorted out and sitting
Wake Up & Go To Sleep At The Same Time -  Couldn’t sleep til 2 am last night and woke up at 11. Not sure how things will go tonight. Its 11 pm and Im not even drowsy =/
De-Clutter 1 Clothing Drawer - Not today

Goals For 4.12 to 4.18

Have Fruit & Veggies Every Day
Lift 4 Times This Week Minimum
Don’t Spend Any Money
Write At Least 4 Articles
Remember Supplements
Try A New Food Daily
Wake Up & Go To Sleep At The Same Time
Study Anatomy A Solid Hour Daily
De-Clutter 1 Clothing Drawer

I feel like I have been so disconnected from fitness and my body. I last wrote on Sunday. Monday morning I did a back and chest workout that left me sore for a few days. My chest always seems to get sore within hours while my back muscles have super-delayed doms and I didn’t feel it until yesterday! On Tuesday I did on of the complexes circuit type thing I designed for my shoulders, biceps and triceps. It really got my heart rate up, kept things interesting and definetly confused my muscles. I was out of the gym in less than 30 minutes too. Usually I’d love to spend as long as I can in there but not during mid terms week! Wednesday I had a weather/stress related headache and did alot of nothing. This morning was too hectic to workout.
My academic schedule looked like this:
Wednesday - Bone Identification Lab Practical for 2 hours
Thursday - Paper due, presentation on the paper, animal cruelty speech, Painting mid term due
Friday - Midterm in Physiology that I have to get at least an 85 on.

Then its Spring Break! Not really confident about the bone identification, the paper didn’t take as long as I thought and then we ran out of time to do some students presentations - including me! Then the animal cruelty speech went extremely well, good thing too I put enough damn time into it. Next and lastly its the Physiology mid term tomorow morning. I’ve been studying on and off since 3 and plan to keep trucking until 11. Hopefully I’ll remember it all. I still plan on waking up early tomorow and doing legs in the gym before the exam. Get my endorphines pumping. Not sure what time I’ll be leaving campus. If there is alot of time between the end of my test and when my ride comes then its HIIT time baby!

I didn’t train at all this week. Strange how the body and mind work, last week I was enthusiastic and pumped out 10 hours in the gym. This week was less than 1. Earlier today I was thinking about my reasons for not working out each morning this week. Instead of focusing on that I made a mental list of what went wrong and the exact steps I can take next week to fix it.

Reason 1 - Snow Day - Suck it up, bundle up and walk to the gym! Another big snow day like that one is unlikely because the seasons are starting to change.

Reason 2 - Sick Day - Need to focus on prevention of this more! While I am trying to ween off of my nightly preventative migrane medicine, I still need to keep track of how many I take per week. Getting better sleep, balanced training, remembering my fish oil and upping the fruits and veggies while reducing preservatives, dyes and chemicals will help with this and everything.

Reason 3 - Too Tired - Alarm went off at the usual 7 am. Didn’t get out of bed until 9 am. Need to start my nightly routine around 10 instead of the usual 11:30 pm.

Reason 4 - A Project was Due - Stick to my academic plan so I am not cramming hours before the class. Stop wasting time online and go to the library more for better focus.

Reason 5 - Waiting! - My roommate never wakes up before 11 and often willingly skips her classes. I should not plan my breakfast, training and post-workout meal around her time - We can enjoy time together when we both are free, but in the mornings I have more important things to do!

Starting tomorow I’ll be back in full swing. I am using today as a super catch up day and not going out again tonight. I need to catch up on everything training wise and I have alot of exams, practicals, quizzes, papers and presentations all due before spring break next friday. I’ve already made arangement for that week to be not only a catch-up week, but a get ahead week. I am not going on vacation or anything so I bought a week pass at my favorite home town gym and I am going to bring most of my textbooks home with me to brush up on old, relevant material and then get ahead so the rest of my semester can be a breeze.

I am excited to go training now. I had a big salad, almond butter and a Slimquick energy shot and I wrote this blog as my stomach settled. Now I am antsy to go to the gym. For once I am not sure what I am going to do. I usually have a specific plan to prevent over/under/unbalance training but since I have accidentally taken the week off my entire body is rested and ready for anything!

This morning my roommate went to a mountain with a few people for the whole day. Knowing this made me seem more relaxed and in control of my day. Not that my roommate makes me feel otherwise. I had some troubles mixing whey and oatmeal for breakfast and ultimately ended up scratching it all and just going with basic oatmeal.

I expected to have steak for lunch but the only items being served in the campus cafeteria were the usual’s. I went for a grilled cheese and some peas. Highest protein of everything else but also 40 g carbs. I am not regretting the carbs because they made me feel excellent for a 100 calorie blast on the elliptical to get my blood circulating for my arms workout. Pump biceps and triceps wonderfully today. Made every mark I aimed for and can’t wait to go longer in a few days. After the arms workout I hopped back on the elliptical for another 150 calories. Satisfied with this I left and loaded up on some veggies and sunflower seeds.

Only did an hours worth of anatomy readings today but I am happy with that as I took my time and really soaked in the 3 assigned chapters. Dinner was dymatize cereal, which I am not to fond of but has a good amount of protein. I have been getting to dread my whey-in-water shakes lately. I will go for cardio round 2 within the hour then have that shake after that. For tonight’s cardio I am going to bring my copy of New Rules of Lifting for Women. I have yet to do more than skim it since purchasing it way back in august! Hopefully the rest of my night will remain relatively undisturbed. (Picture isn’t really related but I think it is beautiful.)

During my 8 am class this morning I was planning my lunch and the specifics of my back and chest workout for 10 am. I couldn’t keep my eyes open. Mentally I was getting excited preparing for my workout. I knew about 30 minutes before the end of class that I wasn’t waking up. I went back to my dorm and slept for another hour before getting lunch and going to my noon class. I told myself again today that I will go to the gym tonight.

Is this my body telling me something? I dont feel mentally drained and I am still making progress in the gym. Maybe I should bring my my naps 2 or 3 times a week. So far this week I have slept an extra 3 hours. Napping at 2 for 2 hours would have probably solved that. I can’t take an hour break at this time tomorrow because I have an important lab practical. Going to bed before 11 probably wouldn’t hurt, so Im aiming to get out of the gym before 10.

Did the same thing today before dinner. 220 Calories and a chapter of logic in 30 minutes. Thats what I call multi tasking and time management.

I have a lot of catching up to do this weekend school wise. The partying the past 3 weekends went from fun, to sick to down right out of control. I need a break. It will give me a great chance to focus on studying and getting some concrete things accomplished, I can catch up on quality sleep and I will be able to wake up early to strength train and still have energy to do cardio after lunch. No more mid-day slumps for me! I am feeling very optimistic about this weekend. I have been studying bone cells for about an hour now, then I’ll read some fiction and then some logic. I have my heavy leg day scheduled for tonight and I am pretty sure I can fit that in. I found that this week I pushed back too many workouts due to lack of energy and lack of time. That will not happen next week!

Woke up at 7 am today for a class at 8. The professor never showed, he probably got snowed it. This frees up 2 hours for me to do whatever before my normal gym time. I am going to use the first hour to finish my NO drink mix and let it and breakfast settle then I’ll head to the gym an hour earlier. Should be done by 10 instead of starting at 10, which is perfect timing to wake my roommate up for a post work-out meal in the cafeteria. Eggs, Milk and BCAAs baby.

My chest hurts to pull on my winter coat and my shoulders will hurt when I wash my hair. My biceps and triceps only hurt when I extend or flex them. Gotta load up on that glutamine today.