Persistence & Consistency

that means i don’t have to work for 2 whole days. woo hoo! i had a pretty terrible day yesterday so i took the day off from the gym and i was in bed at 9:30. today, i feel recharged and i’m looking forward to showing the squat rack who’s boss. tonight battlestar gallactica and tcby. i love tcby, they have fat free-sugar free yogurt. i know it’s probably just a bunch of frozen chemicals and has little or no nutritional value, but it feels like a full on decadent cheat when, calorie wise, it’s not all that bad. tomorrow, iron man and lots and lots of cuddly-sweet time with my prince. there’s a show in shreveport next weekend, the lee haney something or other. ronnie coleman, victor martinez, and iris kyle are going to be there. i think i might try to arrange it so that we can go up there for that. that could be cool. i’m still planning on taking us to the europa in august. yep, yep.

i’m so ready for the weekend to begin.

i got real lazy yesterday and decided to get takeout. i ate a nice big jalapeno covered burger. yum. not too good for my fat loss i think, but i did stay within my calorie range, so it’s not all bad. and i did resist the urge to give the snowball stand next door a visit. the above mentioned laziness also kept me from going to the grocery store which prevented me from getting the necessary items for my lunch today. so, i went to subway for lunch. eh.

since combining my chest and back workouts on sunday, i’m left a little confused about what i should do today. i’m thinking the new schedule will go like this; sunday:chest/back (supersets)- monday:machine leg - tuesday:rest - wednesday: upper back - thursday: arms - friday: legs - saturday: rest or ss cardio. i’ll see how this works out this week.

i’m feeling pretty good today. i just got a really nice message from my better half so i think the rest of the day will continue to be good. i tell ya, i’m the luckiest girl in luckytown.

i can’t imagine why this is the case, but i am craving taco bell. i am sitting here eating my chicken breast though. i can’t really remember the last time i thought taco bell sounded good. weird. 

it’s a rest day. kinda lame. yesterday’s machine leg workout was really good. the only leg excercise where i really feel a burn is leg extensions, with everything else i feel something akin to jello. i just can’t move it anymore. however, yesterday i lowered the weight a little and tried to get 15-20 reps out instead of the usual 10-15, and boy were my legs a-burnin’. this is a good thing.

i’ve been a lot more active lately at work. i’m enjoying it immensely. i’m usually sitting in front of a computer or a microscope all day. i’ll get up like every 30-45 minutes and go to the bathroom or something, but mostly it’s fairly sedentary work. for the past several days i’ve been working on this huge inventory project we’ve got going on, and i’m standing most of the day moving boxes and whatnot. the only real downside to this is that i’m doing an inventory of dirt, old dirt, so i end up being covered in a nice layer of it by the end of the day. it’s nice to not be sitting all day though, so i’m so not complaining.

on another note, it’s idol night. why the hell is that wretched jason castro still there? seriously america? i mean, really? 

it was hard to get out of bed this morning. the weekend just went by entirely too fast. friday was really, really good. my workout as well as my evening were great. saturday was a rest day. it was nice. my husband and i got out and ran a few errands but it started raining like woah, and we ended up renting a couple of movies and just hanging around the house most of the day, and it was excellent. sunday, i decided to try doing chest and back together, since i’m not really concerned with building my chest up any more. i’m not looking to wuss out on chest at all, i like being strong, but i don’t mind where my chest is right now. i deadlifted 115, that really made me happy. it’s funny, today my chest is really sore but only my lower back is feeling anything. no sir, i don’t like it. i’m gonna hit it hard today. legs. today is machine leg day. uh huh.

keep looking up.

my leg workout yesterday was good. i’m pretty sore today. i didn’t go up as much as i hoped i would have, in fact i didn’t really go up much at all. my last set of squats i put on 155 and got up 6 good reps and 2 1/2-1/4 ones. they don’t really count. but that was it. i wasn’t able to up the weight in anything else. i ended up skipping leg extensions because of these really annoying teenage boys that were crowded around the leg press/extension machines and doing…..i don’t know what they were doing, they were just in the way. it was frustrating. today i do arms. i have to convince myself that i love that shoulder burn. i swear that burn in my shoulders last for hours afterwards. it’s crazy. nothing else i do burns like that.

i am going to try to remind myself to take some pictures this weekend. i know taking pictures will help keep me on track and/or inspire me to work harder. hmph.

it’s friday. i told my husband that we should go on a date tonight. we’re pretty broke though, so i don’t know what we should do. i’d like to do something nice for him. maybe splurging on sushi then cuddling on the couch with a movie. that sounds nice.

it’s been a weird week for working out, and my diet. i guess i just sort of took the week off. not that i went absolutely nuts with my diet, but i was certainly a lot more lax with it this past week. i did back on saturday and it was really good. i went up to 105 on my deadlift, this made me very happy. i really need to work on my forearms, they just scream at me while doing deadlifts. i’ll be going back today for as heavy as i can go on my legs. i’m really looking forward to it. i’m hoping that since they’ve had a nice rest i’ll be able to up my squat. that would make me really happy. being strong is good.

that title has no real reference to anything going on, i’ve just been listening to johnny cashs ‘when the man comes around’ a lot. it’s a good song. it’s kind of eerie.

so, wednesday i sldl-ed 95 lbs for reps. i’m very happy about that. my schedule is a little off this week, so it looks like i won’t be getting in 2 leg days this week. i wanted a day off from lifting between legs and back so yesterday was a rest day, or rather i didn’t go to the gym. today i plan on obliterating my back. uh huh. got to get that pull up done! got to get strong! i’m going to try to remember to get some progress pictures this weekend. i don’t know if i’ve made any significant changes, but i’d like to see the comparison with last months pictures.

i think i might get a snowball after the gym. 

everyday, everything is an exercise in something. and this is good. that’s today’s mantra.

i am running a marathon and i mean to win it.

i have a love/hate relationship with the internet. mostly hate, i think, or it’s very rapidly descending into mostly hate. so many things are so hard. some things that should be terribly easy are sometimes the hardest things ever. what the hell is that about? i saw a bumper sticker the other day that said ‘try not to hate people’ or rather my husband saw it and pointed it out. that is so right on. it’s so easy to hate people, to hate them even though they have not necessarily wronged you in any particular way.

it was a weird weekend so i didn’t go to the gym friday. saturday-arms it was ok, sunday-chest it was ok. i’ve got an appointment today, possibly tomorrow and my husband is sick, so i won’t be going today and possibly not tomorrow either. the worst part about this is that i am craving sugar like you wouldn’t believe. i’m feeling especially down and it feels like the only thing that might make it a little better is gobs and gobs of sugar in the forms of either snowballs, ice cream, dark chocolate, cake….how about a dark chocolate ice cream cake flavored snowball? *drools* then again, i kinda don’t want to eat anything at all. it’s a weird feeling. to really want to gorge yourself on something, and feel completely disgusted by it all at the same time.

sometimes i feel like i’m in the competition of my life. most of the time i am hopeful and know that soon i will cross the finish line way ahead of #2, and there are times when i feel there isn’t a chance that i could win. i have no choice but to keep pushing forward.

i just discovered that for some reason my blog from yesterday only partially posted. i’m not going to go back and edit it. basically i just said that, despite my childhood loathing of it, i’ve discovered that i now kinda like licorice. i told a little story about drinking a root beer and seeing that anise is a main ingredient (also the main ingredient of licorice) and how i wondered.. since i do so enjoy an ice cold root beer from time to time, maybe i would like licorice now. i came home to a bag of licorice nibs earlier this week that my husband got me as a little surprise (love) and lo and behold, yep, i kinda like licorice. weird. another food dislike turned to like: beets.

wednesdays  back workout felt great, so great that i just did back and omitted the biceps. so i’ve changed up my routine a little again. like to hear it? here it go: sun-chest; mon-heavy legs/abs; tues-rest; wed-back; thurs-light leg/abs; fri-arms; sat-cardio/abs(or rest), repeat until desired consistency is reached. it’s been suggested that 2 complete rest days are a good idea, but i don’t know if i can really deal with that, so i’m leaving saturday open for either some cardio, or if i’m feeling really beat i’ll do some ‘active rest’ of some sort. maybe some dance dance revolution or something.

i’m sort of restricting myself on the internet at work for a while, it’s just not very productive in some ways and downright detrimental in others, so i’m off to be a productive little worker! i can’t wait for the day to be over, go home, kiss my prince, and hit the gym!