fitdiva83’s BodyBlog

I’ve been doing well with my training, getting the cardio done, strength training diligently and eating pretty clean. It seems, lately, that I have no desire to eat anymore. It’s a struggle to get down three small meals a day much less five or six. I’m moving out of my NYC apartment and will be living in Boston for six weeks this summer. I will be close by to my figure competition prep team, which is very exciting to me. The competition I want to do is six weeks away and I’m nowhere near where I thought I would be by now. I’m loving my upper body, shoulders, especially. But not too happy with the glutes. As my upper bod leans out considerably and my lower bod lags behind, I’m looking more and more like a pear than ever. I’ve trimmed another inch off my waist, 28 inches. I don’t know if it’s physically possible to get it smaller than 27. But my real concerns are the hips and butt. I’m going to switch to a circuit routine for one of my leg training sessions, add a sprinting and stairs session once a week as soon as I reach Boston (there are no high school stadiums here in the city) and then add some pylometric activities on one of my upper body training days. We’ll have to see how tweaking the training helps. If not, then I’ll have to look at my diet. You are only supposed to change one thing at a time and lord knows, I don’t want to do any additional cardio (lol).

So I’ve been hitting the gym pretty hard for the past few weeks, doing cardio like it’s nobody’s business. I’ve been doing at least 30-60 min. each session, at least 4-5 times a week. This frequency is unheard of in my training, since I hate, hate most forms of cardio unless it’s spinning, kickboxing, dance or organized team sports. But my secret has been mixing it up: walking on an incline on the treadmill, intervals on the crosstrainer or bike, doing hills on the arctrainer. I have yet to attempt the Stepmill since I almost fell off the machine last year. Lol. And you know I’ve been diligent with the weights, focusing on legs, glutes and abs. And my diet has never been cleaner. See what trying to look like a million dollars in a designer bikini can do for a woman’s motivation? Here’s a sample dinner meal:

6 oz. of grilled halibut

8 asparagus spears

1/2 cup of strawberries (for my sweet tooth!)

It’s been months since I’ve posted or put an updated pic up. Soon I promise. I haven’t been able to really train for competition as I would like. 3 days a week will not cut it if I want to cut up. Lol. So I’ve put competing off until the summer and the early fall. The stress of my job should have ceased and I will have my master’s in a month! All the hard work on that end has paid off. Stay tuned for training updates.

So I’m slowly trying to get back into the swing of training and eating very clean and it’s a lot harder than it was last year. I think I’ve gotten just a tad bit complacent. Also working ten to twelve hour days has started to take its toll. I’m slated for a competition April 14. Lots of work needs to be done. But most importantly, it has to start mentally.
On another note, I would just like to comment on the negativity I’ve seen circulating the site….i.e the low ratings on people’s photos. I think that as a fitness community we should all be here to encourage one another. If you don’t have a good rating to give, don’t give one at all. It’s that simple. And if you are going to give one, man or woman up and leave a comment and tell the person what’s so bad about their particular bodypart, feature, etc. Stop being petty little biotches or weird bodyspace haters.

Today I did a full-body circuit followed up by a 45 minute walk on a 10-15 percent incline on the treadmill. My abs are aching as are my glutes. Those are my current areas of workout obsession. Nonetheless, it felt good switching up my routine. If I’m not sore, I don’t quite feel as if I achieved anything. I’m trying to slink into a teeny dress for the holidays. So the gym has to be a regular thing despite the hectic holiday schedule.  Let’s see just how committed I can be.

I’m teaching full-time six days a week, coaching basketball three times a week for two hours each session, plus taking two and a half graduate courses this fall. When’s a girl to go to the gym? They say good things come in small packages. My mom sent me Winsor Pilates with the Pilates ring. I almost laughed because I’m not one for fads except for when it comes to Core Secrets. I’ve been working out in the comfort of my home with resistance bands, eight-ten pound dumbbells, and my stability ball and running in Central Park. But the pilates program has been very helpful especially in the abdominal area. Even though we are approaching December, I still want to maintain a pretty solid workout program so that when January hits, I won’t be huffing and puffing on the treadmill with tons of bodyfat to shed. Anyhow, today was a short day at work for me, so I’m headed to the gym to get in an hour and a half of workout time. Besos.

So lately I’ve been obsessed with my lower abs. I’m still holding on to this region I refer to as the womanly pouch. I would prefer that sexy V-cut in its place. I love, love it on men and I think it is incredibly sexy on women. I’ve been doing hanging leg raises, crunches on the exercise balls, V-ups and reverse crunches in addition to sprinting. Now all I need to do is clean up my diet and I know that it will come! Any suggestions are welcome.

So I’m moving my fitness blog from Xanga to this more appropriate forum. I’m heading to the gym to do cardio. I’m obsessed with lifting weights and stretching. But we all know that to really effectively drop fat and drop it fast, some cardio must be included. I started running again a couple weeks ago. My job and school have been swallowing up most of my time not to add that I’ve been stressed and tired. Nonetheless, I’ve made it a goal to hit the gym for 90 minutes at least 3 times a week. Besides I am paying a lot of money to be a member at my current gym. I should be going all the time. So my goals for the month are to maintain muscle mass and to increase cardio workouts in order to reduce bodyfat. I’m aiming for 2-3 percent drop by the first week of November. Let’s see how that goes.

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