Higher Expectations

Since there are no selections in the workout  calander I’ll put todays workout here. As I said, I’m still pretty sore from my workouts from the previous days, so I took it easy today. All I did was 30 minutes on the Protocol Elliptical Machine. I burned, according to the machine, around 305 cals. So I’m feeling pretty good right now. Not as sore as I was before I began so it’s all good. I feel acomplished cause I really didn’t want to do ANYTHING today. Ya know? Ah well. Tomorrow’s my off day, to prepare for tomorrow.

So today we had to go to a mandatory training.  The training was not so bad surprisingly. Usually our trainings (or briefs) are about military security and proper decorum and suicide or sexual harrassment. This time, however, it was something most marines actually like. Exercise, supplements, and nutrition. Of course they also talked about the normal stuff (alcohol abuse, STDs, and suicide prevention). I actually learned a lot today though. Learned that no matter if you work out one muscle for thrity minutes or and hour it can only tare so much. Meaning the end result will be the same (in some people a difference but he majority the same). I learned that your body can only absorb about 13 % of the protien you take in from shakes and such so pounding down protien will only go so far. That you only take so much of a certain types of vitamins because the rest of it is just pissed out of your system (it can only absorb so much again). And some other stuff. Of course they also touched on things I already knew such as doing a full bend in the arms with curling (not just stopping partially), fat does not turn into muscle or vice versa, and eating six small meals speed up your motabolism. That’s just afew things. Nevertheless it was interesting. Now I’m debating on whether I want my off day from the gym to be saturday or sunday. Monday the section is planning to do a "Mirf" (think that’s right) run. Something about 1 mile sprints with 100 pull ups and 100 pushups in between. I’m not sure though. the Staff Non-Commisioned Officers’ (SNCO) are doing it for their SNCO Academy PT (a course you have to take when you pick up SNCO rank.. they’ve got courses for Sgts and Cpls as well). Its more or less a haze fest. So I’m dreading doing anything sunday, but I think I’ll be too sore to do anything too more (I hope not though..  I want to do arms and back!)

Okay so today at work one of the Sgt decided to pull his old "pull-up for downtime" routine. Basically the section working won’t get to sleep until they get however many pull ups/ flexed arm-hang seconds he chooses for him by the end of the day. The first time around he did this I had to hang for one hour. That is 3,600s. I got a total of 17 minutes before I said "**** it" I’ll pull a 24 hr. Well he pretty much did the same thing this time around too. Luckily I no longer pull security and work a desk job so he has no control over when I sleep. MUAHAHAH! But I did it any way.. And well, how much I suck was shoved into my face. By the time I left work I only had 151 seconds of hang time for the entire day. It was embarrasing. Alas I kept at it though, even though I felt like such a shit bag. After the first half of the day I took my "Admin Thirty" ( a.k.a. 2 hour lunch break). I walked down to the gym, though usually I do a fifteen minute run. I wanted to get my Body Fat calibrated and weighed, unfortunately the lady who does it was doing an aerobics class so I have to wait until monday for that information. Boo. So I went ahead and did my ab and back workout I had planned. Then I did a really slow jog back to the barracks. It was slow because my calves and shins were still in a lot of pain from the sprints and stairs we did for PT two days prior. By tomorrow though they should be fine so I’ll be able to do legs. Woot! Oh and I took some pics today. Yay! Now you can see my hopefully one day abs as they are right this moment.. Lol. Woot!

What can I say. I’m a sucker for blogs. So here’s my first one for Body Space. Between PCSing and Work I don’t have much time to exercise one my own these days like I want. But I’m making do. Luckily since exercise is required for work at least 3 times a week I’m not too worried. Granted to day was an easy day. For Unit Physical Training (PT) we did a few warm up exercises, stretches, and a couple of push ups. We sprinted down to the foot ball field and then.. played football. Yeah. Being female, well lets just say I don’t exactly get to play IN the game.. I more or less job back and forth while I watch the guys throw the ball to everyone else with a dick .Okay that’s an over exageration. They probably would have passed it to me, if I really wanted to play. I didn’t really want to play though. Not a big fan of two hand shove. Monday we did sprints and stairs so my shins are still suffering from that. My friends/co-workers say I just need new shoes probably. Which is more than likely what it is. I have high arches and all. Ah well. I had planned on going to the gym today, but I couldn’t do it on lunch when I usually do because I had to relieve the secretary for lunch  a half hour earlier, then work let out late, I’m in a bad mood, and I’m starving . So I’ll have to haze myself tomorrow. During lunch and probably in the afternoon after I pick my uniforms from alterations… Long day.. so yeah. I’ll try to post up some more recent pictures tomorrow also.