kermane’s BodyBlog

Or maybe I’m wrong and its not the new diet phase but I’ve gotten, not 1, not 5, but 15 different emails about being a vegetarian and I’ve never signed up for any vegetarian websites, but it seems all the fitness guru’s are jumping on board.

Whatever floats their boat but what floats my boat is an occasional ribeye. Or a nice chicken breast. Or some yummy salmon. And lets not forget my favorite during the winter holidays:turkey. Yes I love me some turkey during Thanksgiving and Christmas.

I think I’ll just keep working with want works best for my body. Once upon a time I jumped on all diet crazes. I even ingested Slim Fast and swore to myself it tasted yummy and not powdered chalk. No sir it was delicious.

What works best for me is protein, and greens with some healthy fats, if some people find a veggie only diet works best for them, then I say go for it. But don’t just hop on board because its the new "in" thing. Listen to your body and work with how your body responds to the way you are eating.

We’re all unique individuals. I know once upon a time in another life I probably chased a dinosaur down and killed it for my meal, and maybe once upon a time your ancestor only liked the taste of veggies. Like I said we’re all unique. What works for me will not work for you and vice versa.

I’ve been bad with blogging, its summer and I like to be outside with the kiddo when I can and not tied to my computer, he is at vacation Bible school right now. Last week I only did cardio because the bursitis in my shoulder was majorly bad, this week back to weights after having the flu this past weekend.

Tuesday was legs/abs and some HITT

Today was back/bis and some HITT and a little steady state cardio. I’m trying to be able to jog for 2miles with no breaks, I have a mental block that swears "you must rest and walk " when I get to a mile, I"ve gotten up to 1.5 miles jogging.

I’m not a runner though I’d like to think if my life depended on it I’d run like a cheetah. I watched a movie called Prey and a woman was running from a lion, she got in her car and one second later the lion hit the door, hopefully I’d be able to do that, LOL. Of course I’d like to think I would never be stuck out on a guided tour in Africa and have to watch my dumbass guide get eaten by man eating lions and realize the damn keys were with him.

who was the he: my son, what did he see: his fear of the diving board, what did he do: he finally jumped off and loved it, and jumped 6 more times.

I was so proud of him. Speaking as someone who freaked out at age 7 on the high dive and since then I haven’t been able to dive into a pool, I was very proud of him. Now of course I will have to do the low dive before the end of summer, so I plan on kicking my fear too.

One thing, when my fear started my parents didn’t force it, they just let it be to the point I was terrified of even diving in water. With me I have pressed the issue, I’ve went over and over it with him, Hell I bribed him with Ghostbusters for Wii if he did it. And he did it, at first he was like "oh well maybe I’ll get Ghostbusters for Christmas" at which point i said "oh no, Santa knows we had a deal and he will not violate it"

Yes I was evil with that comment but I was damned if he’d be an adult and still be afraid of the diving board like me. Wish my Dad had forced the issue, after my car wreck as a teen he made me get in the car and drive it, too bad he didn’t bribe, threaten or cajole me with diving into water.

I can swim fine, I have no issue of drowning, its just something about looking down into water freaks me out.

Today my kiddo jumped 15x from the diving board, does a Momma proud. I"m such a MOmma bear, I told him that the next time the kid in his swim class tried drowning him with splashing to give it back to him and he did and the kid treats him better. I told him that next time he saw the swim bullies(they look like the bullies from A Christmas Story, one’s ears are huge, poor kid) to drown them back too.

He went after one, and that kids Grandma was yelling "stop" and got between them and gave me a nasty ass look. Which I gave her my do you really want to say anything to me because I will let you have it look.

He did awesome at swim lessons and batting cage practice today too, I’m so proud.

Also proud of me, I worked my chest today, damn bursitis in my right shoulder, pec area is bugging me big time but I worked thru it. GRRRRRRRRRR

20min HITT on rbike

circuits: flat db flys: 28×6, 33×6x2

w/high cable crossovers: 40×6, 50×6x2

incline db flys: 23×6, 28×6x2 w/cable pec dec: 35×6, 40×6x2

decline dby flys: 20×6, 23×6x2 w/ low cable crossovers: 30×6, 35×6x2

After swim lessons I did: 20min weighted ss cardio on my treadmill

Put 30# in my backpack, need to adjust the straps darn weight was hitting me in my tailbone, I was a sweaty, smelly mess.

We saw Ice Age 3 yesterday, tried talking the kiddo into seeing The Proposal with me. I love Sandra Bullock, and Ryan Reynolds is so niiiiiiiiiiicccccccccccccccceeeeeeeeeeee to look at, no go though.

Have to take my heart rate monitor to a jewler and see if they can replace the battery in it, I miss seeing my hr while I work out and the calories I’m burning.

Saturday we are going to see Jet cars, should be fun.

Had a woman ogling me at the pool. Made me paranoid. Started looking to see if my girls had popped out or if my suit was up my crack. No. No. Then I got mad, more at myself than her.

Really who cares what she’s looking at, I strut in my bikini because damn it I put the time in to wear it! I never want to have to wear a t shirt over my suit like I see others doing, so I put the time in.

A great body doesn’t come easy, you have to give up all the yummy processed food. You have to lift weights, and you have to do, yes cardio.

Read Shannon’s blog and I love a phrase she used. NO MORE DICKING THE DOG.

That will be my motto when it comes to cardio. I can do weights no problem, I like doing weights, but cardio, well lets just say we have a love hate relationship, I love how it makes me sweat fat off, but I hate doing it.

Today was leg day and yes I did cardio:

20min fasted HITT on rbike

circuits: Leg press on Smith: 200×8x3 w/side step ups: 15×10x3

sumo squats: 125×8x3 w/ froggy leg curls:60×10x3

sldls: 115×8x3 w/one leg knee ext: 90×8x3

Pounded on Bob, knocked him on his dummy ass and yelled "How do you like me now BEETCH!!"

It felt good to move his 250lb butt with the power of my fist.  Felt like Juliette Lewis in Natural Born Killers when she pounds on the weirdo cop in her cell. Scrawny but a bad ass she was in that movie.

So this weekend we built a volcano with the cubscout troop. I have never paper mache in my life but it turned out looking like a volcano, so mad props to The Brady Bunch, which is where I remember seeing a paper mache volcano and had the idea how to lay the paper.

Sunday we went canoeing for 2 hours. We were in parts of the river with lots of woods on the sides at times and if I’d heard banjo music I think I would’ve burst out laughing.

Its very hard to push a canoe with probably 400# weight with just a paddle in shallow areas but we did it, I expect to be in pain with my shoulder tommorow since it takes 2 days for DOMS to hit me.

On the trip I wondered why tanned fat looks better than pale fat? Is it because its cooked? I mean think about a steak, with some fat on it, uncooked it is disgusting, cooked not so bad to look at it. HMMMM……..

Saturday night we watched UFC and I wondered exactly how you have to hit someone on their chin to knock their ass out. I mean that might come in handy, some witch pissing me off a store, BAM I knock her on her ass. Of course then I’d have to get my ass out of there before the police arrived but oh what fun it would be to knock someone out cold.

I’ve knocked someone on their ass before by punching them in their gut, but never out, maybe that’s something to work towards???

Also during UFC I watched the guys flex their pecs, imagine if women did that, OMG the wrecks we could cause making our pecs moves, ROFLMAO.

I’m kinda tired, can you tell? My mind is all over the place.

Today was cardio, 2 seperate sessions: 20min Fasted HITT on my treadmill

Later 30min ss cardio on my treadmill

I’m obsessed with reaching 1111 miles on the damn thing, I’m at 1049 right now.

I can’t drive 55. All sounds good to me. I know when I’m by myself in the car on some back road, I blare my music and drive like the Devil is chasing me sometimes. Did that on the way home tonight, I really am meant to have a convertible and live somewhere warm where I could drive with the wind blowing my hair, ahhh bliss.

It dawned on me today I’m very impatient with everything. I have no idea why. I want things to change asap, not slowly, could explain why as a teen I was bullimic. Also explains my frustration on how long it takes my problem areas to go away.

I also realized today I’m a big time body watcher. I’m looking at flabby bellys bouncing, butts hanging out of their suit, and shaking my head, I want to say "do you have any idea how long it will take to get rid of that???"

I also admire well toned bodies, for the muscle. I’m a muscle watcher. Sounds pervy, wonder if there’s a support group for it.

Anyhow after battling with my checkbook and finally balancing it I worked out.

20min hills on treadmill

circuits

squats: 145×8x3, w/calf raises: 145×10x3

rdls:100×8x3 w/good mornings: 70×8x3

butt squats: 90×8x3 w/lunges: 90×8x3

5min stretching with Bob(he’s missed me, poor guy)

Went to my friends 40th surprised birthday, she was surprised, only real gag gifts she got was from her hubby her turns 40 next year, paybacks a bitch.

So I’m feeling frustrated today because it seems no matter what I do I can’t lose my tiny saddlebags on my legs, I call them saddlebags because they are both in the same area on each of my legs. I’m so frustrated, I know I can’t spot reduce and I know they have shrunken so much that I can now wear a size small, but damn if they don’t make me feel like crap.

I can be struttin in the pool in my bikini and walk by those damn mirror windows and my eye is drawn right to my trouble spots on my legs. They’re strong legs, they can squat 225lb, leg press 450, curl 85, knee ext: 175, but the area that bugs me the most refuses to improve.

I swear if I had the money I’d get the damn things lipo’d out. It’s too bad I can’t walk around with my hands hold the areas smooth, but that would look freaky.

Anyhow I’ve been working out, baseball kept me away from the computer, and this week getting into swim lessons with the kiddo, he’ll be able to do the butterfly, etc while all I can do is the back stroke, and front crawl, oh well.

Yesterday I worked legs, today I worked back:

20min HITT on ellpictical, varied resistance, level 30 incline

circuits: wide grip lat pulldowns: 85×8x3 w/bicep curls: 23×8x3

seated rows: 100×8x3 w/front lat raises: 20×8x3

narrow grip underhand lat pulldowns: 95×8x3 w/side raises: 15×8x3

20min ss cardio on my treadmill, various speeds.

I’m just so frustrated over my legs, I’ve tried various things, and I’m wondering if I just need more cardio, I do HITT until there are spots of sweat all over the floor and I’m breathing like a perv doing a dirty phone call, so I’m wondering if I need to do it weighted with my weight vest

@@@****##### DAMN stupid fat deposits, any ideas to help with my problem area, I currently do legs 2x a week.

Last night we had our 1st tournament game against a far more experienced team and we were getting our butts handed to us. The other team, even when they were at 10 to zero took pot runs, I guess it was necessary to ground us down in the other coaches eyes even though it was obvious we were a team of all newbies.

Anyhow I digress, my son was in right field, all 3 balls that came his way he fielded great, then he fielded 2 balls in his teammates area because they weren’t paying attention.(It was getting close to 9pm, heck when your a second grader it gets hard to stay awake then) My son has been having issues with hitting from a pitching machine, we practice every day at the ball league place, he’s been working on bunting(a totally new thing for him) but last night on the second pitch he hit, a nice hard hit.

He ran with all his might, alas the more experienced teams infield(who some of them looked like they were big enough to be playing farm, and not pups) got him out, but the look on his face when he came off the field was of pure joy, his chest was sticking out with pride and he did a little dance in the dugout.

I was so happy for him, he’s been beating himself up with his issue of hitting with a pitching machine, but last night he saw he could do it, I’m hoping tonight he hits one too, so I’ll be praying to the baseball Gods to be kind and let him hit one tonight too.

I did workout yesterday, chest/tris, cardio

20min HITT on rbike

circuits

db flat bench press: 28×6,33×6, 38×6

w/incline pushups: 10×3

db hammer press: 20×6, 23×6, 28×6

w/decline pushups: 10×3

flat db flys: 23×6, 28×6, 33×6

w/manly(hehe) pushups: 10×3

20min ss cardio on my treadmill.

Today will be legs.

Tonight we have karate and a baseball game(if the rain stays away). The temp last night was high 50s, my shoulder is not liking going from 70s to 50 degree weather, hopefully it warms up by Saturday, which will be our last ball game of the year, and Sunday we sign up for flag football, Monday is swim lessons time.

My kiddo swims like a fish, now to get him use to the idea he will not belly slap everytime he goes off the diving board if he listens to Mom and goes feet first. Last year he hit his belly on the water and refused to try again after that.

no it’s not coffee! Are you insane? Do you want to see me on the news holding White Castle employees hostage forcing them to make me coffee? Besides I don’t think my 3 cups of coffee in the morning are that bad for me.

No I’m giving up my beloved berry paradise extra gum. I’m too addicted. I’m a true addict looking for my fix. Getting nervous and antsy if I’m out, snapping at clerks when they say they don’t sell that particular flavor. I’m afraid if my behaviour keeps out they will have posters at certain stores of me, barring me entrance. So I’m going cold turkey and I will probably not be pleasant to be around for 3 days.

I think its the fake sugar crap they put in the gum that addicts you, then makes you a beetch when you stop chewing it. So if it effects me like that what is it doing to my cells in my body, so better to have good honest real sugar occasionally then any of the fake stuff.

I did legs yesterday: squats,calf raises, sumo squats, standing cable kickbacks, squats with feet together, cable adduction.

Today was back/bis

20min HITT on rbike

circuits

seated shoulder press: 20×6,23×6, 28×6

supine pullups: 10×3

one arm db rows: 28×6, 33×6,38×6

back ext: 15×10x3

seated military press: 15×6, 20×6, 23×6

supine chinups: 10×3

15min ss cardio on my treadmill.

Had our last official ballgame last night, now tournaments, Thurs thru Saturday. So we hit the pitching machine place. My kiddo can hit great if you pitch to him, but has trouble with a pitching machine, did very well today listening to me and he hit several balls. Need to work on swinging quicker so not as many fouls. He’s been working on bunting and did great today.

Just getting reading to do my thousand squats, wish me luck. My shoulder is acting up with the weird drop in temps, so no pullups or pushups or my right arm would be dead weight and I’d be on antiinflammatories and muscle relaxants(though that might be nice for a good night sleep)