juliet_virgo’s BodyBlog

Today is a day off of training, thankfully!  I am so incredibly sore.  Of course I do always start my day with cardio so I still put in the 30 minute ride, but if I had to lift today, I am afraid my body wouldn’t have the strength.  I did arms and shoulders yesterday.  Only 4 exercises, but 20 sets of arms, 10 reps each set for a total of 200 reps and 6 sets of shoulders at 10 reps each set, for 90 reps total.  This new training program is absolutely amazing.  I am so stoked to see how much size I can gain.  Long range goal for 1 year is to put on 5 lbs of muscle.  I totally believe I can do it…who knows, if I can, do I want to try another competition?!?!?  Peace. J~

This is day 2 of my phase I of GVT and I am loving it!  I haven’t felt this intesity in a workout in a long time.  I am honestly amazed.  If this doesn’t help me increase in size, I don’t know what will.  I am absolutely exhausted and by the 10th set I was totally fatiqued and almost couldn’t finish the set.  Now that is a workout.  Tomorrow is a day off and I guess this weekend I will have to drag my weights and bench along camping.  Sounds weird, but my RV is in a permanent spot.  Peace. J~

Interesting, my nutritionist put me on a new program to gain some size.  My diet has changed, my training has changed and hopefully my body will change.  After 16 weeks of dieting and training I realize that I am too light and small.  I really want to try and gain some size.  The first phase of this training lasts 3 weeks, then phase 2 is 8 weeks and then I am going to go back to my strength training and diet down again to see if I have gained any muscle.  Last year I actually gained 2 lbs which is really quite a lot for lean muscle mass gain.  I am aiming for another 3 lbs.  If it works, I am going to try a year long program.  Oh yeah, my diet has changed for this as well! Keep ya posted! Peace. J~

I am in my second day of my body cleanse and I am feeling really good.  I can’t believe I am not starving or really craving anything.  I think this is such a smart idea after the competition and waiting 10 days to do it is the way to go.  I am having a bit of a headache issue and I know that is the caffeine coming out.  I am sleeping like a log and have enough energy to make it through the work day.  Yesterday I did some cardio and arms (just light)  I know it says not to work out on the cleanse but I felt I just had to.  Today I won’t, I want to save energy to go visiting tonight, after all it is friday!  I have some computer work to do so I need to get that out of the way early otherwise it will be tough to focus.  All is good in my world. Peace. J~

Today I decided to step on the scale.  It has been 11 days since my first competition and I took last week off of training and eating, which I believe was the best thing to do for my body.  Today I weighed in at 156, 12 lbs of weight gain which I know alot is water back in my cells.  This is a good thing and I am very happy where I am sitting right now.  Looking back at my stats from the 16 week competition diet, I should be sitting at about 12-13 % body fat.  This is where I would like to stay.  Tomorrow I do my 2 day cleanse and I am looking forward to that.  I didn’t want to weigh in after the cleanse as I will probably drop a pound or 2.  I just wanted to have a good idea as to where I am sitting now, especially after chowing down last week.  Trust me, it was a GOOD week!  Now I am back on a sensible eating plan, one that is easy to follow and more importantly to prepare for.  I feel actually pretty good today.  I had a great workout this morning, back and cardio and now I am ready to rock and roll.  One thing I really enjoyed during this journey was getting up early to do cardio.  This way it is out of the way early and I can get a good solid lift in at work first thing in the am.  Also, I am able to take weekends off of training and spend it with family.  I feel great and refreshed, ready to take on the world, ok maybe just my work! Peace. J~

So it has been a week since the competition.  Last week I took off so that my body could get rid of the toxins and I could rest my shoulder and actually my whole body.  It was a great week with no worrying about what I wanted to eat or what I would eat.  Followed by a weekend of camping with my family and having a few glasses of a good shiraz.  Today I got back into the gym for the first time.  I had an awesome chest workout.  I am sticking to a heavy workout to try and gain some size.  My nutritionist has given me a gaining program as well as a maintenance program, I just need to decide which one I want to pursue.  I do want to gain some muscle, maybe 8 lbs or so.  If I stick to his off-season meal plan that should be the trick.  If I choose just to maintain what I have, I will stick with the Healthy plan.  After lifting today I felt totally psyched up to gain some size.  I felt really strong.  Finished off with some cardio.  That is the other thing I get to kick back as well.  20 minutes max for the gaining program.  Decisions decisions!  Thursday and friday I am going to do a cleanse.  Isagenix is a very reputable one.  I am still suffering from headaches from the caffeine.  Considering I was never a coffee drinking, now to get rid of the headache I have a cup a day.  I am hoping the cleanse will take away the rest of the toxins.  Can’t wait to hit the weights again tomorrow.  I seem to have a new energy level for my training and I want to keep riding that hi! Peace. J~