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My Cytolean arrived today but I’m not going to take it until tomorrow. It’s too late in the evening to take it now. Lord knows I need it because I’m still cranky but I’m finding release by playing with a troll in the forum. They are good for something you know!
Today I did my back but didn’t get to workout my shoulders due to time but I will work them out later this evening here at home. I have some workout bands that I use when I don’t have time to hit the gym (which is usually NEVER).

So tomorrow I’ll take these and see if it will make me enjoy life again.

wish me luck!

Yesterday was a crappy day and I was in a very crappy mood but today is a NEW DAY and I feel great! I trashed my legs just like I said I would. As a matter of fact I puked during my last sets of squats! I’m glad I workout around a bunch of muscle heads because they saw it coming. I’m at the squat rack doing my thing and for some reason I felt like going really heavy on my last set. Yeah, I know I’m suppose to do light reps with moderate weights but I can’t seem to do that with squats. Anywho, the third set I did 10 reps of 155 with much better form than last week. So I added two ten pound plates to each side for 175 lbs. My intentions were to do only 6 reps. Even though the guys around me were doing they own thing they all were watching me through the mirrors.

1 - 5 reps not bad

6th rep was good but I wanted to do one more

7th rep after standing there I felt like I had more in me so I started to descend for one more.

8th rep I am exhausted and suddenly I starting to feel funny so I rack the weight.

When I turned away from the squat rack I must had that "I’m about to throw up" look on my face because one guy yelled "She’s bout to blow!" and the other instantly grabbed the thrash can and placed it in front of me. As soon as I saw it I just let it all out.  Once I finished I carried the trash can to the janitor’s room and left it there while I went to the Ladies room to freshen myself up. You know what? I felt like a million bucks afterwards! I wanted to go and do more damn squats! Don’t worry I didn’t. I just went to the leg press machine and worked out as if I never earled. The guys did the same. When I came back nobody said anything about what happened. It wasn’t a big deal to them and when they saw that I was alright they went back to doing their own thing.

This is one of the reasons why I like my gym. When you workout with other gym rats puking after or during your squats isn’t a big deal. But let that happen at some fancy gym that has pink dumbells everywhere. I would be told to either leave the gym or take it easy for the rest of the day.

The rest of my workout went very well. I did the moderate weight, lots of reps (15 - 20) for either 4 - 5 sets. Afterwards, I did basic treadmill cardio for 30 minutes because I didn’t want to feel too sore tomorrow.

Overall today was a very good day!

Can you believe I’m actually looking forward to Leg day? Once upon a time I would come to the gym dreading leg day and now I’m all "Whoo Hoo! Leg day! Hell Yeah! Bring it on! Light weight buddieeeeeeee!"

Yesterday evening I went back to the gym and did cardio and I made sure I had my IPOD with me. Not having an IPOD at my gym is torture! So now I have a check list and I make sure that I look it over before heading out the door for the gym.

Right now I have some work to do and then I’ll be leaving here to go trash my legs. I’ll come back later on and complain how I’m walking funny again. Yeah! Ya’ll know the the routine.

CYA

So you hear folks talk about people on steroids having "Roid Rage" but did you know that people who are cutting can have "Cut Rage"?

From my studies I noticed that other competitors experience this 3 - 4 weeks out. I’m only 10 weeks out and I’m not happy. As a matter of fact I’m in a very shitty mood. I noticed it yesterday. I was very snappy and easily angered. This morning was even worst. I was unhappy throughout my entire workout. What an awful feeling. Who wants to workout while being unhappy? YUK!
Last night I went to BB.com and ordered Cytolean.  I didn’t order it because it’s a fat burner. I could careless about that. I ordered it because BB.com folks said that it gives you energy and makes you feel good. "Cytolean makes me happy." - Mr Aries

Makes you happy huh? Well I’ll give it a shot. Feeling this way for a long period of time is not an option. I just hope this stuff works! I’ll keep you guys posted.

More weight is coming off and I am FINALLY seeing more definition in my legs. After this week I’m going to stop the HIIT cardio. Speaking of cardio, this morning when I went to the gym I forgot my IPOD and my damn gym was playing oldies again. UGH! So after I finished lifting weights I got the hell out of there. That’s the fastest I ever worked out. I did 5 biceps exercises and 4 triceps exercises and then I was ghost! I have a general rule. NO IPOD=NO CARDIO! So later this evening I’ll go back to my gym and do some cardio. I won’t forget my IPOD this time.

I feel like I’m in the twilight zone! It seems like it was yesterday when I posted a message saying "15 weeks out".

Today was just cardio and abs. After that I just relaxed in the sauna.  I only get a chance to enjoy the sauna on the weekends. Unfortunately I only have another month or month and a half to enjoy this luxury because I have to stop it 7 weeks out. Geez! No sauna 7 weeks out, no protien powder or sugar 4 weeks out, no salt 3 weeks out and no water 1 week out. Wait? Why am I doing all this?????????

While at the Quick Trip filling up my tank with gas I got hit on by some random guy. He was cute too but I wasn’t trying to get to know him better. My time is so compact right now that I don’t have time to make new friends. While he was talking to me I was trying to think of a way to turn him down nicely. Suddenly he reached in his pocket and pulled out a cigarette. I grabbed it out of his mouth before he could light it. "Are you trying to kill us? We are at a gas pump!" I said

He looks around and says "Oh yeah! You’re right!"

That was my cue to leave. I didn’t even bother saying good-bye. I just got in my truck and drove off. What an idiot. First I don’t like men who smoke. Secondly, I hate scare crow men. You know? Men you meet and say to yourself "If they only had a brain!"

So that’s the most exciting thing that has happened to me this weekend.

How about you?

Same story different day.

Eat, Cardio, Eat, Work, Lift followed by Cardio, Eat, Work, Eat, Play on the forum, Eat, read, drink casein powder, sleep!

Next day? REPEAT!

I have list of questions that I asked myself throughout the day and for some reason I can’t come up with the answers.

• Why do these DOMS hurt so much?
• Why do I want a cheese pizza when I drive pass Burger King? That’s right Burger King.
• Why am I walking funny from working out my legs instead of being “worked out” by a man?
• Why do people know what time it is by my presence in the gym and not by looking at the clock?
• Why does my cat thinks I’m her human bed??????
• Why do I have a huge urge to put on a blond wig and harass my neighbor? If she calls the police on me again I’ll just say that the blond woman who looks like me is my evil twin sister! Or the black Britney Spears.

Today was shoulders and back. My legs are really sore! REALLY REALLY SORE! I’ve been walking funny all day. Hell! It even hurts to put on sweatpants. All I want to do is sit still but if I do that then my cat will jump on my lap and go to sleep. She’s been taking advantage of this situation all day but that’s OK, I’ll fix her wagon tomorrow. No wet for her. HA!
Speaking of wet food I need to go fix something to eat now.

Cya!

I uploaded the final video blog to youtube and embedded here. I did several booty poses at the end so when I lose my azz I can always come back to this video and reminisce.

I am sooooooooo tired right now from my leg workout today. I have a feeling I’m going  to be walking extremely funny tomorrow.

oh joy

CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE VIDEO CLIP

So I uploaded my video blog to youtube and attached it here so you all can see it. It’s not long and I didn’t record all my exercises. Since the time limit for youtube keeps getting shorter and shorter I just decided to make these video blogs short and to the point. I have one more video to upload after this one and then that will be all for my video blogs for today.

I wish I had some Bodybuilding.com clothes to wear during my video blog instead of my regular workout clothes. **hint** **hint*

Ok let me go upload the other video.

BRB

If the video doesn’t play then CLICK HERE TO VIEW IT

Not much to say on my blog today. I feel like a zombie going through the motions. The strange thing is that NOW the entire gym knows that I’m competing so I’m getting all kinds of quesitons thrown at me like

• How can I get my stomach flat like yours?
• how many times do you eat a day?
• Where do you get your protein?
• Are you going to eventually use steroids?
• How much cardio do you do a day?
• How much do you bench?

Speaking of that question………..Why do guys ask me that? And it’s always the young ones asking me never the older ones. The young guys always asking me how much can I bench. Truth be told I don’t bench press with bar. I have a phobia being under that type of weight so I use dumbbells instead. Yeah, I blame it on all those comedy movies and TV shows that showed some guy getting pinned under a weighted bar while trying to do bench presses. I remember the first time I laid down under a weighted bar, all I could see what that bar and I felt an immediate rush of anxiety. For some reason I couldn’t breath and start to hyperventilate. This would start before I even lift the bar. Finally I couldn’t take it anymore and would get off the bench. I tried to bench press the bar twice and never succeeded without panicking. So I don’t bench press with the bar. I use dumbbells instead and when I tell the guys this they have this disappointed expression on their faces. LOL!!!!!!

Besides, who gives a crap what I bench? Ask me how much I curl or squat but I could careless about bench pressing. When you have 38D rack you don’t give a damn about bench pressing a bar.

OK time to eat.

Cya

This weekend has been interesting. Yesterday for the second time this week it snowed. As a matter of fact it snowed on both Leg days (Wednesday and Saturday). Regardless of the heavy snow fall I still went to the gym. Nothing was going to keep me away from doing legs. No rain, wind or snow was going to keep me away. Ain’t no mountain high enough. Ain’t no river wide enough! Ain’t no valley low enough to keep me away from leg day. Oh hell! Where’s my backup singers?

Ain’t no mountain hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh enough!

Ok, I’m back! Sorry about that I had to do my famous Diana Ross impersonation. I’m back to normal now. You all can put the phone down. No need to dial 911. I’m ok.

Anywho, Since it snowed so badly I had to cancel my posing time with Mr Thrasher. That’s two weeks in a row we didn’t meet but he wanted me to call him today so that we can meet during the week to make up for lost time.

Today was abs and regular cardio. I can’t believe that I’m saying this but regular cardio is a cake walk now. Seriously, I have to crank those machines up to get a good sweat. I blame it on the HIIT. The HIIT cardio is building up my endurance and regular cardio has to be elevated to a challenging level in order for me to feel the benefit.  For example, on the treadmill I use to do 30 minutes, 40 mph, elevating it 1.0 incline every 8 or 9 minutes (starting at a 3.5 incline). When 25 minutes hit I am at 12.5 incline and practically out of breath. So I don’t go any high than 12.5 BUT TODAY WAS A DIFFERENT DAY. I noticed at 10 minutes that I wasn’t feeling anything so I cranked it up to 10.0 incline at 40 mph. At 15 minutes I wasn’t sweating so I increased it to 13.5 incline. At 20 minutes I said what the hell and went to the MAX which is 15.0 incline. OK NOW I’M SWEATING. But I wanted more so what do I do? I increased the treadmill to 42 mph and when it was time for the cool down I felt good! WOW! That was awesome.

This week is another week for my video blog. I’m going to do things a little different this time. I’m going to feature two exercises and then do a recap. Oh! I’m also going to show my booty because I have a funny feeling it’s going to shrink big time in the the next few months so I think it’s a good idea that I have documented proof that I did in fact have an ass before competing.

Oh and FYI when I do show my ass it will be completely covered. No thongs or bare bottoms! Yeah, ya’ll know the BB.com rules. Having your azz out is not in anymore. LOL!!!!

Geez! Can you believe I’m 11 weeks out? DAMN! Talk about rapid time travel. February will be here before I know it and that’s when it’s time to order my posing suit. The next thing I know it’s gonna be the week of my competition. I wonder if I’ll be a train wreak by then. You know? Go all Britney Spears on ya’ll and do something extremely crazy.

OMG I am going crazy! Oh no it started early! The coo coo clock is ticking. I just mentioned Britney Spears in my blog! **gasp**

SOMEBODY DIAL 911!!!!!!!!!!!

For some reason many of you think I have a personal trainer. Truth of the matter is I don’t. If you want to know where I’m learning all this stuff from then the answer is books and bodybuilding.com. I had four personal trainers in the beginning of last year and they all sucked. None of them knew anything about bodybuilding for women and they definitely didn’t know how to train a TALL woman for muscle gain. So everything I’m doing, I’m doing alone. Granted, I’m learning a lot through trial and error **like bulking cough cough**………….**and not doing that shit again cough, cough!** but at least I’m learning. Bodybuilding is a science. When one formula doesn’t work, sit down and rewrite another one. If that doesn’t work keep adding and subtracting things until you find the right combination that works. For 7 months I’ve been hitting my legs pretty hard and heavy. The mass is there (along with the fat) so now it’s time to stop lifting heavy and rep them out. It’s burn out time.

My upper body is ahead of schedule so I’m going to continue staying heavy with my upper body but I’m changing some things with my lower body. Here’s my new plan starting next week.

Continue same WO with upper body. No changes. Change new leg WO to moderate weights, 3 - 4 exercises, 15 - 20 reps, 4 - 5 sets. This should start adding more cut to my legs and helping them match my upper body. Lifting heavy will make them mass out but going moderate with lots of reps will bring cut to the mass created during the last 7 months. I will see if this plan works come next month’s progress pictures. At this point I have nothing to lose when it comes to my lower body. I’m also thinking about doing something that Michel suggest (Keto diet for the weekends only). I may try that for two weekend just to see if it works with melting the fat faster. Only time will tell.

I appreciate everyone’s input and suggestions. Please know that I take them seriously and in high regard. In two days I’ll be 11 weeks out and time is moving by very fast. If I want to win that first place trophy it’s either give my all or nothing!

We’ll see how it works out.