Absent Without Leave
Yeah, I went AWOL. Nothing major, just life stuff and I am back. I am sorry I wasn’t around lately to cheer on the challenge, but I am still in the game. So exactly where are we? I think it is Week 3, but it must be longer. Actually I think it is Week 4 for the official challenge, but week 3 for my true start date.
So where we at? That is the question. As you may or may not know..or care, lol, I am not in the Last Man Standing Challenge. My diet doesn’t quite fit the guidelines, so on to bigger issues and that is Booty Time. I am in the Baby Got Back Challenge and I am making slow and steady progress. I am actually grateful for the progress I have made.
This last week, I was watching the Olympics. I LOVE gymnastics. I know I will never have that body again, so I was coveting the women track athletes. I said it before and I am going to say it again…these women have amazing bodies. And I don’t think it all weight training. I believe lifting is part of conditioning, as it was when I was a gymnast. Most of the training is actually doing the sport. Sprinting, jumping and all around being badasses. So that led me to thinking I should ramp up my version on track training. Bring on the plymetrics, bring on the sprints. I used to swear like a sailor during Bulgarian split squats, now I let is loose for vertical jumps and bounding. I think I am on to something here. It really targets those glutes in a whole new way.
GOD! How I loathe putting these pictures up, but here you go. Notice the lovely droopy, pancake a$$ in the first pic. The suit is NOT helping matters…although I do know this is more than an ugly cut suit..lol. The second pic, is slightly better. Still nothing to write home about, but better and I will take it. AND the larger version is in my progress pics. I am going to go out on a limb this time and let you actually SEE it at a normal size. The plan is to keep doing what I am doing. Rock on.
August 21, 2008 at 6:16 pm
LOL!!!!!! JJ- you are such a riot…and you are doing fantastic. You just finished week four of the bgb challenge…you are doing a great job lifting and such!! wooohoooo!!! wish i had such little mass to rise….oh, well… in time… all good things take time… and I have two more weeks to keep it lifting.
I am with you on the plyo stuff and all the other track like types of excercises…might be a good idea for me to mix it up and try some of dat!…
Regardless, everytime i look at your progress pics I am floored by how amazing your body is looking! girl… you look fierce!!!!
August 23, 2008 at 11:34 am
Oh so you’ve been gone too????
I’m with ya….and you and I were the ones really ready for the BGB! We should have known stuff would come up! Oh well…..I’m still making progress although maybe not as much as you! Your pics are EXCELLENT!!!! I’m so proud for you! I totally promise….PROMISE…I will have my husband take a pic tonight so I can post it. I’m ready to see some changes like you have!