goddessamazon’s BodyBlog

I didn’t sleep well last night. I woke up around 4ish in the morning. I didn’t wake up because of hunger pains. I have that under control thanks to the Casein powder. I woke up in the middle of the night because I kept thinking about my cut process. I was thinking about a lot of things…………the competition, my legs, my workout routine, cardio, eating clean, etc. My mind was none stop. I went to bed and slept with no problem but woke up in the middle of the night with that on my mind. It took three hours before I actually fell asleep again. I had some clients today so when my alarm went off around 9 AM I was exhausted. I didn’t want to get out of bed and when I was finished I sat in my chair completely warned out. At that point I decided not to go to the gym so I took a nap. When I woke up an hour later I felt really guilty about not going to the gym today. Then I thought about how I will regret not going to the gym today during my competition date. I imagined myself on staged not looking my best because I skipped working out today. Before I knew it I was packing my bags and heading out the door! GUILT! I got it bad!

Today I brought some hooks after watching "War of the Worlds" by Bob Chic’s
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/fitshow_warofworlds.htm

This series is pretty good especially for those who wish to compete. Bob gives some great tips during this video series. Thanks to him I decided to buy some hooks to assist in my back workout. WOW! He was right. I felt more muscles in my back working and little to none in my arms thanks to these hooks.

So today I worked on back and shoulders. I finished it off with 30 minutes of regular cardio. I’m a little tired but I’ll stay up until 11PM and then crash because I’m tired.

I wish upon everyone a very safe and successful 2008

cya

PS - THE REDSKINS KICKED THE COWBOY’S ASS 27 - 6 Hahahahhahahaaaa!!!!!!!

Right now I am spent! I am so tired that I am doing my best to stay awake because if I lay down I’ll sleep instead of taking a nap.

Today I did my Leg routine and followed it up with HIIT cardio. I saw Ron today and we had a decent conversation. Of course 75 percent of the conversation was all about him but I didn’t have any questions to ask so I let him have his moment. LOL

today was suppose to be leg and chest but I’ll do those tomorrow. I’ve been working all day and I’m tired. I really like this new schedule because if I don’t workout on Saturday I can make up for it on Sunday.

Lucky me!

stonecoldtruth asked a very good question in one of my blogs. He wanted to know if my gym is so hood why do they play oldies? This is a very good questions. So I thought I would take some time to give more details about my gym.

My gym is huge. It use to be a lumber warehouse back in 1998. One side is the gym and the other side is full of basketball courts. We also have a barber shop upstairs on the basketball side. The basketball side is very crowded during the summer and weekends. This is when my gym was playing rap music only. Things would get very heated over there and it would result in a fight. Actually a fight would break out almost every week. The fights would get worse and when two guys were thrown through the gym window (on two different occasions) the basketball side was temporarily closed down. So the manager had an idea. She thought that the fights were a result of the rap music being played so she stopped the rap and started playing techno. The people on the gym side complained that they don’t want to listen to techno because techno is for gay people. I think I’m gay because I love techno music.   So she stopped the techno and started playing gospel music. That only last for one hour until some brothers from the Nation of Islam complained. So finally after three days of silence she put on the oldies. No one complained so she let it stay. A month later she noticed that there were no more fights on the basketball side but some gym members started to complained about the oldies and wanted rap back. The finally decision was this. On days when there’s more than 12 people on the basketball side, oldies will be played. When it’s 12 or less, rap music is played.

So when I film my workouts and you hear oldies playing in the back ground you’ll know why.

Taraxatone

I decided not to take Taraxatone tomorrow. Today was my last day. The reason being is because ever since I’ve been taking it my DOMS have been very severe. I think that when you take Taraxatone it’s not wise to continue lifting heavy weights. Of course the last week before my competition I won’t be lifting heavy weights. Another thing about lifting heavy weights while taking Taraxatone is the burn doesn’t fade away. It last for several minutes.
Does it work? YES!!!!!! The reason I took Taraxatone is because some people said that it worked and some said it didn’t so I did a tester to see if it would worked on me. It does. Even though I continued to drink a gallon of water every day while taking taraxatone I could see less water retention in my body so this is some good stuff. There are two things that I don’t like about Taraxatone.

1. It makes you pee a lot. Even throughout the night all you do is pee, pee, pee!
2. It makes your mouth dry which makes you very thirsty.

Other than that it’s good stuff. I’ll be taking it 4 days before my competition.

Oh and one more thing. I only recommend this to competitors. I do not recommend Taraxatone for the average person looking to rid themselves of excess water weight. In my opinion Taraxatone should not be taken over 4 - 5 days. So why bother if you are not competing?

Yes folks it’s been one of those days. Ok now before I upload the last video blog clip I need to give an update on the Taraxatone because some competitors are watching my blog just for the reviews of that. Today is day two and I see a difference already. Now it’s nothing big but then again I’m still drinking a gallon of water a day which defeats the purpose but listen to my logic. If I’m drinking a gallon of water a day while taking this stuff and I can see a noticeable difference in my body then just imagine the difference I would see if I stopped drinking water. Right now it’s still too early to say if this is the bomb or not but I can honestly say that I noticed more detailed definition today then ever before. My weight is the same but I can tell the difference by looking at my body. Two more day before I give my full review.

Ok now here is my finale video blog from yesterday.

I went upstairs to the aerobics room to do my lunges. I don’t normally do my lunges up there. I usually do them downstairs but I wanted to spear your ears with the music so I brought it up stairs.  But the peace and quiet didn’t last long. My gym turned the music on upstairs during my leg posing. For some crazy reason they thought I wanted some music playing in the background while I was filming. **rolls eyes**  She said she’ll leave it off when I bring my camera up there the next time.

Yeah Promises…………promises!

Here’s the last bit

I came to my gym during my normal time and the gang was all there. I like the guys who workout in the morning. They are serious about lifting but have fun in the process. Another thing I like about the guys is when we get into a heated argument (and when I say heated I mean a bad verbal fight) all is forgiven the next day. I’m not going to explain the complete story because it’s too long to type but here’s the short version. Our gym has several bodybuilders in it and there’s one who I ask contest questions because he’s been competing for over 8 years. But every time I ask him a question about BBing contest he answers it by talking about himself…….over and over and over and over again!
For example:

Me-  Hey Ron? The Arnold Classics has an amateur division now. How does someone qualify for that?

Ron - Well see it’s like this………when I went to the Arnold Classics everyone was looking at me as if I was one of the bodybuilding competitors. Hell! I look better than them anyway and the ladies were all over me. One dude came up to me and ask me to represent his supplement company but I’m going to make my own supplements and have my own company because I figured out a way to really get big. All these "cats" wanna come in here and lift weights but they don’t wanna eat right. Me? I know the mathematics to this muscle game.  I look like I know what I’m talking about. That’s why everyone sweats me when I go the Arnold. I also attract some haters but that’s part of being who I am. I can’t have lovers without haters. You know? Speaking of lovers there’s a lot of freaks at the Arnold and ya boy here? He gets much p*ssy action when I step up in the place. Dudes be looking at me with envy asking other folks who I be. I can’t help it if I got it like that. But I never had to  work hard like these other "cats" cuz…………………………………..
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Oh and I’m exaggerating either. This is how he acts when I ask a simple question. He answers my question but doesn’t answer my question. It’s like he’s trying to play a Jedi mind trick with me or something. Well Monday I had enough of this. I asked him a simple questions about due dates for an NPC card and he goes into a long story about himself again. This time I stopped him in mid sentence and begin to tell him off. The more he defends himself the worst it got until finally I yelled "I hate to bring your simple ass back to level zero but it’s not always about YOU!!!!!" He sat there quietly and said nothing. I snatched my towel and walked away MAD!

So today he comes into the gym and we talk to each other as if Monday never happened. We even joked about it. He said that when I get mad veins pop out of my neck! LOL!!!! But he did apologize and said that he’ll be more mindful of not talking about himself anymore when I ask questions. See! Mad today happy tomorrow.

I think my gym is the only gym in the world with some many different personalities. It’s never a boring day when these guys are around.

Today I did back and shoulders finishing up with 30 minutes of cardio. I tried to do HIIT on the elliptical but my legs are very sore from yesterday and it hurt to do it so I listened to my body and got on the treadmill with no incline. I’ll have to save HIIT for tomorrow when the DOMS aren’t so bad.

OK so in between eating and running one of the neighborhood kids to the store I finally managed to edited two clips.

Ok this first video is an introduction and the first exercises is squats. Now be prepared to see me at my worst. I don’t believe in "glamming up" just to shot a video blog. Especially when I’m going to be sweating in the video. So you have been warned!!!!

I would also like to point out that I’m starting to lose the water and fat from my thighs! Whoo Hoo! This video is a huge improvement from my progress pictures taken almost 2 weeks ago.

Now this second video is different. I didn’t mute the second video so you will hear the crazy music playing in the background. My gym usually play either rap or oldies. UGH!!!

THANK GOODNESS FOR MY IPOD!!!!!!!!!

In the next video I noticed that my knees tend to come close together during my Leg Press exercise. I think I need to put the seat back a littler further. Please share your thoughts after watching the videos.

Critiquing and suggestions are welcomed.

One more clip is on the way

So today I decided to brave it out and video myself at my normal gym. Especially since doing it at the 24-hour gym yesterday was unsuccessful. Right now I’m in the middle of editing it and once I’m finished I’ll upload it to youtube and post it here in my blog. I went during lunch time. This is the time when all my crazy ass friends are gone and the gym is basically empty. Only 3 people were there so I got my timing down right!
I couldn’t find a brown posing suit online so I asked Mr Serge Nubret if black was ok. Here’s the response he gave me.

Click Here To Read It 

This is a simple thing to do. I know several seamstress and we have lots of fabric stores here in my area. What I’ll do is talk to my seamstress about the correct material for this suit, go to the fabric store and buy the color that match my skin. Ok, that’s simple enough. I’ll do just that.

Today is day one of Taraxatone. So far it’s been making me pee alot. Well DUH! My throats a little dry too but it’s better once I drink water. It’s still to early to see any results but I should see if it’s working by Friday.

Ok, let me go back to editing this video of my leg workout.

Be back later.

Cya!

I just woke up from a nap an hour ago and when I woke up I was sore. Very very sore! It felt like a couple of IFBB Pros used my arms as punching bags. OUCH!!!!! Thank goodness tomorrow is leg day.

I am on the hunt for brown posing suit. Yes, I know that sounds crazy but remember………I’m not participating in figure or fitness. I’m participating in female bodybuilding competition so my suit doesn’t have to be pretty with shiny stones all over it. I asked Serge Nubret his opinion on the color suit I should buy for my skin tone and this is the reply I got back.

Click here to read his reply to me

His answer makes sense and if you look at his body you’ll notice that it looks like he’s nearly nude. He and I have the same skin tone so a brown posing suit would blend in with my skin too. However, finding a brown two piece for women is very difficult. I’ve searched the internet for at least an hour and came up with nothing. I’m going to search for another week and if I can’t find anything then I’ll just get black.

OH by the way. For those of you who wanted to know how the Taraxatone works I’ll be taking that tomorrow for 4 days. I’ll let you all know if it’s a good product or not. It says on their ad page that I’ll see results in 3 days but since I’m a "special" case I’ll give it 4.

So this morning I received phone calls from my family up North. If I don’t go back to my hometown for the Holidays they usually call me. Most of them don’t know that I’m transforming my body for a bodybuilding contest in April. The only one who knows is my sister. The reason she knows is because she supports me in basically everything I do. So after talking to everybody for 3 hours I packed up my gym bag and headed out to the 24-Hour gym. I brought my camcorder along because I thought I was going to be there alone! WRONG!

When I pulled up to the parking lot the gym was empty but five minutes later cars started pulling up. DAMN! WHAT THE HELL! Why are these guys here? Don’t they know it’s Christmas? What really pissed me off is that three of them weren’t even doing shit. First they all did chest (which is typical of men), next two of them worked on biceps while the other worked on his back. After fooling around for a couple of minutes one works on his calves for two sets and then back to the chest again. The second one worked on his abs and then triceps followed by shoulders and the last one does abs (half assed) and then goes to working out his back. So as you can see these guys had no idea what the hell they were doing. They didn’t have to come in the gym today to do some bullsh*t routine. Who in the hell does back, chest, biceps, shoulders, calves and abs on the same day? Especially with heavy weights.
Suddenly another guy comes in there and he was the only one (along with myself) that was in there to really work. To my shock he didn’t work out his chest, instead he did Quads, Hams and forearms. After that he did a little cardio and was out of there. I was not to far behind him either. I was trying to wait for these guys to leave so I can video myself but when I looked at my camera I realized that the damn battery was dead! So after my cardio I left too.

To hell with that gym. I’m just going to bring my camcorder to my original gym. I’ll purposely come in there during a time when I know it will be very little to no folks there. Going to my gym during the times my friends are there is not a good idea. They "wild out" and I don’t want that caught video. LOL

Ok, I just finished eating so now I’m going to clean up my room and take a nap.

cya!

I want to see if anyone else is as twisted as I am when it comes to looking at themselves in the mirror. So I’m taking a poll to see how often everyone looks at themselves in the mirror a day (on avearge) Me? I look in the mirror at least 20 times a day. Maybe that’s a little too extreme but I won’t know until I see the results from the poll. Maybe it’s too much or maybe it’s normal. Help me find out. Vote now.

Click here to vote

My abs are really sore this morning. I guess those hanging leg raises did me some good. I’ll be leaving here in an hour to head to the gym for shoulders and back. After that I’m going to do 20 minutes of HIIT. I may even treat myself to some steam or the sauna. Who knows, just as long as I stay out of traffic today will be a good day. I’m going to the gym and come back home and stay put.

My cat woke me up in the middle of the night. Yeah, just when I got this sleeping thing down she does this stuff. She wanted some more shrimp and crawfish meat but her greedy ass ate it all last night so when I looked into her bowl there stood a small pile of dry cat foot! I have created a monster. So for the next two days I’m going to ignore her when she tries to wake me up in the middle of the night because if I cater to her demands she’ll never eat dry cat food again. She’s such a brat! But I made her that way I guess.
Ok, time to get ready to head for the gym.

cya!