goddessamazon’s BodyBlog

Today I worked on legs. I’m trying to go heavy on my quads because they are not sore after I workout. My gluts and hams? OH YEAH! Hello pain! But my quads? Nada! Yeah I feel the burn when I do leg extensions and squats but after that the soreness in my quads go away! I don’t’ know what to do about it either.

My eating is still good. I had a cheat day when my friend Ms Denetra came to visit me this past Saturday. What did I cheat with? I had a veggie burger, fries and oreo blizzard for desert! Mmmmm Mmm!

I’m so proud of myself. I’m really sticking with this regimen. I ran out of BCAA’s but I think I’ll order more from the website instead of going to the vitamin shop because of a better deal. That reminds me too. I need to restock on a lot of stuff. I need to also go grocery shopping. **grumbles**

Oh and I have some good news. My ass stop shrinking! Whoo Hoo! Thank you lunges!

Tomorrow I workout with Brian! My arms are gonna feel like jello after working out with him.

Today was a good day working out with Kevin and Brian. As usual they talked a lot of smack to me when it was my turn to lift. I got mad a couple of times but used the anger to push the weights instead of talking back to them. Aunt Flow is here and I needed to get my hormones in check in addition to upping my carbs. So yesterday all I had was salads, hummus with pita bread and oatmeal. Today I took Red Raspberry, wild yam and Evening Primrose Oil.

IT WORKED!!!!!!

I was fine and dandy today during my workout. No matter how much they pushed my buttons I kept my mouth shut. But you know what? One day it will be my turn. Perhaps it won’t happen this year but it will happen and that’s a promise.

I got a call from my Ex-trainer today who apologized for taking me and my goals so granted. He said that he never had a female client who was really serious about fitness. All of his female clients do good and then go back to their bad habits when it’s all over. Some just stop coming to see him and gain all the weight they lost while others finish but go back to their old habits and gaining double the weight.

But what did that have to do with me? I didn’t come to him for weight loss! I came to him for muscle gain!

He asked me to give him another chance but that’s not going to happen. I’m having far more better results with Kevin and Brian (which cost me nothing) so why should I spend money on a man who didn’t believe in me in the first place! F*ck that!

I took a nap today and I think I’ll hang online for a few more minutes. After that I’m gong to do some cleaning around the house.

Today I took my progress pictures and I hate them. Why? Because yesterday "Aunt Flow" came to visit me and today I have 10 pounds of water weight! Grrrrrrrr! Why oh why is this happening to me today? This is unfair. I worked my ass off in the gym but if you look at the pictures of my lower body it looks like I didn’t do squat! Since I’m in the pear shape category I gain excess weight on the bottom portion of my body! That’s where all the water weight is. I’m also in a shitty mood so being around other people is not a good idea right now. I’m sweet as apple pie online but in person………..BEWARE!

The only good thing about my progress pictures is that my back has improved BIG TIME! I need more work on my arms. Maybe I need to lift heavy and do less reps. Ugh! I don’t know. I’m too crazy in the head to worry about it now.

Why does it have to hurt so much to be a member of the beautiful people?

UGH!

I worked out with Kevin today. Brian couldn’t make it so it was just me and Kevin. That was a good thing because I didn’t have to hear a bunch of sports talk! Blah, blah, blah the braves! blah, blah, blah the falcons! Who wants to hear that crap!

Instead we talked about health, weight lifting myths, etc. Then the conversation got really interesting. I begin to ask him questions about his job. "How does it feel to take off your clothes in front of a bunch of screaming women?" I asked. Boy or boy did he give me the 411 on his job as a male stripper. The money is really good to him because normally he wouldn’t put himself through such abuse.

Anyway, today was back, biceps and delts. My arms are sore and I can feel an improvement in my strength. Whoo Hoo!  Andy said that he’ll definitely be here on Thursday to take progress pictures for me to post for the month of April. So hopefully this Thursday I’ll have a good progress picture to show for this month.

I’m going back to the gym  later today to do my aerobics class. I’m also going to download some music from my aerobics instructor. She has the best beats.  I need those songs on my IPOD!

Ok, time to go eat.

Cya!

PS- I was told today that I’m a Pear shaped Ectomorph.

So now that I have some guys to help push me with my upper body physique and strength I decided to create a 6 week workout schedule.
 Weights
 

Monday – Quads, Hamstrings and Calves (Abs Obliques)

Tuesday – Back, Biceps and Forearm (Abs lower and Upper)

Wednesday – Triceps and shoulders (Abs Obliques)

Thursday – No weights

Friday- Quads, Hamstrings and Calves (Abs Obliques)

Saturday -  Back, Biceps and Forearm (Abs lower and Upper)

Sunday – OFF

It took a while but I finally uploaded my progress pictures. I am still trying to get a friend to take a picture of me for this month. I was promised that it will happen next Thursday *crosses fingers*

I’m going to take off from the gym tomorrow because my legs are still sore and so are my arms. I need a break anyway so the R & R should do me good.

I still haven’t uploaded a profile picture. I’m still holding back on that right now. I’ll upload a profile pic after being here for 6 months but for now? I’ll keep it blank!

Today when I woke up the only thing that was sore were my biceps. My back……….nothing! My triceps……….nothing. Nothing, Nothing, Nothing! I feel no pain or soreness in those areas. It’s as if I didn’t work them out at all! Dammit! So now I’m feeling like I’ve wasted money and that’s not a good feeling. Especially when it’s not cheap to live this type of lifestyle! This caused me to take some action so I headed to the gym around 11AM instead of early in the morning. Why? Because I have some male friends there who work out during this time. Now these guys are huge and they train hard. One use to play professional football (before he got injured during a game) – Brian and the other is a male stripper - Kevin.

I’ve worked out with Brian before and he did a good job making sure I used correct form and no cheating on the weights. Today Kevin and Brian were working on their triceps, deltoids and calves so I asked if I could join in. Especially since I worked out my triceps yesterday and feel nothing today.

This is what I said to my personal trainer today after doing one set of ab exercise. YUP! ONE SET! Today we worked on triceps, biceps and upper back. My personal trainer didn’t push me to my failing point and he wasn’t strict with me like he use to be. What gives? Did something change?

The only thing that we did different today was measure my body fat first. According to his scale and measurement I am at 21% body fat. After telling me that he said "Wow, you’re the only client I have with that low number of body fat. Most of my female clients are 37% and above." After that we went into my workout routine. By the end of it all I felt that we could have gone harder with the weights.  And what’s with the one ab exercise? Sheesh! I love ab work and doing 3 sets of 15 leg raises was just a warm up. I mentioned it to him but he said that he didn’t want to push me too hard? Push me too hard???? Are you kidding me? I don’t have wimp written across my forehead. I want these muscles to get builder so push me as hard as you want. Make me sweat, yell or cry. Do something but whatever you do I want you to make me work HARD!

Am I wrong to be disappointed? Is it wrong for me to expect a personal boot camp workout for each training session with him? Or is my personal trainer going soft on me?

I’m going to see how the next session is with him. If he doesn’t push me to the point where I’m begging for mercy like the last time then that’s it. I’ll be looking for another personal trainer. Preferably one with no soul! *giggle*

I am really proud of myself. I’ve been devoted to this eating regimen. I thought I couldn’t do the 5 - 6 small meals a day regimen but I am proud to say that I have it down. FINALLY!

I took this past weekend off and on Monday (yesterday) I worked on my legs.  I saw John and asked him to do some Abs with me. Once again he showed me another challenging ab exercise. I love to feel pain in my abs (except when the pain is from laughing too much). Ab exercises are my favorite exercise!
Today was aerobic day. Tomorrow I’ll work on shoulders and chest and on Thursday I’m going to have to skip my favorite aerobics class because I meet with John at 5PM for back and arms.

I’ve lost the 10 pounds I wanted to loose and now I have a 4 pack. At first I had a no pack. Hee Hee but now I see muscles in my stomach and in my arms. I take pictures tomorrow so I’ll be building up my progress portfolio soon. I’m so glad to see results. I guess that it took going to Germany for me to realized that I need to be serious about this. When I came back from that trip I was completely dedicated to my goals!

I intend to keep it that way.

Yesterday was emotionally draining. I had to deal with some pu$$y @$$ cowards in the forum. I hate cowards. Especially the ones who like to hide behind their computers. Without going into extreme details I was on a thread talking about vegetarianism. I posted a message directed to someone else that supported it. I don’t enforce my eating lifestyle on others nor do I insist they do it. I was simply talking to other vegetarians who felt the way I do.

Now my Momma always said when you throw a rock at a pack of dogs the only one who yells in pain is the one who got hit. Out of the blue this “kid” comes out and respond to my post with profanity and anger. Now I’m all about debating but when you want to argue with so much emotions then something is wrong with you. So I told the little punk in a ladylike manner that he didn’t have to talk to me that way. I demanded an apology and all he did was get lower and lower. He said I was insecure for insisting that someone talk to me with respect. Then when I continue to stand my ground I was called a feminist. Then it went on and on and on. So finally I gave up. But that wasn’t the end of it. He and his teenage friends all ganged up together and neg repped me causing me to go in the red. But when they neg rep me they would leave in the comment box MORON, STUPID, INDIOT, FEMINIST PIG, etc. Not once did I call anyone any names nor did I use any profanity in my posts. I didn’t degrade anyone nor were my posts filled with anger. I was ladylike throughout the entire attack. But when his buddies ganged against me and bombed me with a bunch of neg rep I felt helpless.

But there is a happy ending to this story. After all that I felt frustrated about the entire experience. Usually I would confront someone like this in person but cowards hide so that wasn’t going to happen. I’m a fighter and I have no problem defending myself as long as the fight is far. In this situation the fight was unfair. Very unfair. So I posted a message in the female forum (where I usually post) asking for advice. Once I asked for advice I turned the computer off and went to bed disgusted by the entire experience. I just wanted to leave the forum and just stick to blogging. The next morning when I woke up I logged onto the forum to read the advice made by other members. To my surprise (and happiness) I was out of the red. Waaaaaaaaay out of the red. It seems that everyone who read my post went into my post history to read what happened. They saw how the guy disrespected me and continued to do so while I defended myself in a respectable manner. So they all gave me positive rep and now I have lots of points. They all did this so the next time some little punk wants to get his friends to gang up on me unfairly they can’t make me go in the red.

But there won’t be a next time. I’m staying in the female forum from now on. Maybe I’ll go into the 35 and up forum every now and then but for now…….I’m staying where I’m safe from @$$holes. Oh and the guy that attacked me was banned.

So it’s good to know that there are some awesome people on this site. That made me feel really good. As a matter of fact, I felt all warm and fuzzy inside.

PS- Now that I have a lot of points. I still haven’t neg rep those idiots back in revenge and I have no intentions in doing so in the future. I’m going to continue to follow the rules and use the rep system the way it’s supposed to be used. I’m also going to let it go and let Karma handle them. Trust me KARMA DOESN’T PLAY! When she gets you………..you will know it! HA!

I took yesterday off from the gym and I decided to take today off too! My shoulders and abs are still sore. Normally I would go into the gym today and do cardio but I didn’t feel like it so I stayed inside. I’ll hit the gym first thing in the morning tomorrow for cardio and then come back later that afternoon and work on my legs.

For some reason all those naughty thoughts I was having about my personal trainer have disappeared. I even had one of my "booty calls" invite me to dinner last night and I turned him down. I wasn’t interested. *gasp* What is happening to me? Why am I loosing interest in sex? WTF!

The only thing I want to do is chill out. I don’t want to be caressed, cuddled, lied too……nothing! The only thing I want is peace and quiet.

My eating has been awesome. I manage to get that 4 - 5 small meals a day thing down. For three days I’ve been doing great. I’ll eat perfectly for the next 7 day and then I’ll have a great cheat day at waffle house the following monday! That’s so country. I want my cheat food to come from waffle house! Waffle house???!!!!! That’s putting the "K" in country! *sigh*
Talk to my friend Jazzmon to b*tch about loosing inches from my @$$. She told me that I am loosing fat now but I’ll gain muscles to replace it in the future. She said that if I keep up the squats I’ll have a bubble butt. Hee Hee! A bubble butt? No problem……bring it on.

I’m going to go to bed early today so that I can hit the gym for cardio very early in the morning because I have a lot of business calls to return and paperwork to file during the day.

Oh and note to self - Finish reading your bodybuilding book tomorrow.