Pinki’s Journey

Rather than cross post stuff on a few different sites, I’m putting all my blog entries (training, thoughts, etc.) on my site… http://nevertrustablonde.com

…this week in the gym…

The Vest Dude
…you know those weight vest thingies… well… I understand wearing one while you climb stairs. I can somewhat understand walking in one…. BUT how does it help you when you are on a recumbent bike?! Someone please explain… its kinda like watching TV with a dumbell in your lap!!

The Perv
now let me tell you… I see nothing wrong with wearing shorts to the gym. Yes, sometimes I make the mistak of wearing kinda short shorts to the gym… but oh well. This morning I wore such a pair… and decided to climb stairs. Usually I go on the stairmill that is right up against the wall, so that there is a wall behind me and no one is looking up at my ass… today some fatass broke that particular machine, so I was forced to go on the machine in front of it… no biggie, it was 5AM. So this man comes along and goes on the BROKEN machine… where the steps just keep going and going and going… hence it is BROKEN and there is yellow tape all over it! Every other piece of cardio equipment was empty, as well as the other stairmills… this started making me a bit uneasy… although seeing him huffing and puffing in the mirror was amusing. I decided to move on to the treadmill… conveniently placed against a wall as well. People like this bother me but I usually ignore it… what bothered me about this man was the fact that he came up to me before I left and told me I was dressed inapporpriately for the gym (i had a big t-shirt on for a top… in case you were wondering)… I almost dropped my water bottle when I heard this. Dear sir… if you didn’t go out of your way to be on the machine behind me, my ass would not have been right in front of you! WTF?! I’m not workingout in a thong!! Come on now… had I been doing any other exercise (with the exception of SLDLs) those particular shorts would have been FINE! OK… rant is over… i’m still annoyed…

The Food
My gym had a "one day special" on membership going on… actually it was a "one day special" going on for 3 days in a row. Anyway… this "special" was accompanied with a table of free food for the people joining… I guess the plan is to make people eat, then they feel fat and join the gym… I dunno… but there should be a rule against having a table of goodies in a gym!

……being that I am in the gym so much with all the cardio I do, I get to do a lot of people watching… as always I am pleased to regail all with the stupidity I have witnessed in the gym in the past few days…

Strap Guy
…I read a post elsewhere about some brutal misuse of straps, so now every time I see someone using them, I pay special attention. Now someone please explain to me… why are some people compelled to use straps when training their biceps and triceps?! You look like a complete ass if you decide to use them for your 25 lb dumbell curls.. REALLY!! (true story!)… as well as any kind of arm movement involving cables! Yes… I said cables! Nor are they required for bench pressing or dumbell flyes (actually that may HURT… a lot)! I am still waiting for someone to use straps for their cable crossovers… I should start paying more attention.

Scale Obessed Lady
I watch her come in, weigh herself… work out for about 20 minutes… weigh herself… do some cardio… weigh herself… then weigh herself again… then on another scale… then do some more cardio… then back to the scale. I have been trying to figure her out for probably a week… I finally understand!   She is in the gym until she weighs less than what she weighed when she came in… I’m not even lying… all 98.4lbs of her!

Small Big Man
From far away he looks kinda like a "bodybuilder"… you know what I mean… big upper body, small waist, small ass, big legs… but it’s all an illusion!! He comes to the gym wearing a cut-off football jersey.. underneath which he wears a cut-off sweatshirt… under that may be another sweatshirt… and possibly 2 more under that… all this is cinched with a belt and you guessed it… he wears at least 2 pairs of pants… yup… they somehow are rolled up to the knee… and then theres knee socks… and boots… from far away the dude looks big… and what amazes me the most is he is wearing this get-up when it’s 70 degrees outside…. and what amazes me EVEN MORE is that he seems to be wearing the identical thing every day… AND he’s there when I do my AM cardio… AND he’s there when I come back at night to lift… *sigh*… maybe he’ll start stuffing his knee socks next…

… I ****ing hate that word.
<< pic is from a week and a half ago
THOUGHTS:
Just got the call to cut my cals to like NOTHING. The exact words were “Follow the diet, don’t worry about the calories”… UM.. YEA! It still adds up to like 1150! Girls that weigh 20 pounds LESS than me, eat more!… so i’m kinda sad, but I’ll get over it. I ****ing jinx myself when I say I’m not hungry… THIS is how the powers that BE repay me! Good thing is, my cardio is getting cut too… so only 45 mins in the AM, 30 mins PM… can’t complain about that, maybe I’ll actually spend some time studying. Personally I rather eat more and spend more time on the treadmill… but I digress… Good thing is I get those cals back in a few weeks, so gives me something to look forward to, I guess.

TRAINING:
Did legs… felt completely useless, since I’m not doing them heavy anymore. The light/high reps still kill though, as did the 200 or so lunges I ended up doing. I figure since I’m not doing them with a 50 or 60 lb bar as I used to, I might as well just do them until I can’t walk… since they are the last exercise I usually do. On that note… my ass hurts…
CARDIO:
72 min on treadmill in AM, 28 min on treadmill in PM (yea, couldn’t WAIT to leave!), 12 degree incline, 3.6-3.7 mph, exactly 1000 cals… oh wait, I’m not supposed to be counting cals… my bad
DIET:
I don’t even want to TALK or THINK or WRITE about food. The usual hilight of my day is the Micellar that I have before going to sleep… GONE! No more! I knew it was too good to be true ANYWAY! lol

THOUGHTS: I spent the last few weeks worrying about my shoulders and lats… well, today, as I stood there in my bikini and heels (ready for harsh criticism), I was told that they were much better than before! The more I stressed, the harder I worked, the better they got… it’s really quite simple. I think the biggest motivation for me to keep going is the progress I am seeing with my own body, rather than anything extrinsic.

TRAINING: Today I did back… and realized what was the problem in my training. The stupid thing is that I ALWAYS tell people to do this, but yet I was making the mistake myself. I wasn’t lifting ENOUGH… maybe a few months ago it was, but I neglected to increase the weight on a few key exercises, and I believe this is what wasn’t getting me results I strived for. Maybe it’s because I have a mental block when it comes to doing lat pulldowns with anything more than 85 pounds… or maybe it’s a fear of three-digit numbers, I don’t really know, but TODAY i got over it!

CARDIO:
63 minutes on the treadmill, 10-13 degree incline, 3.5-3.8mph, 700 cals.

DIET: I can’t stand weekends because they SCREW UP my diet… I’m used to the weekdays when I’m up at the crack of dawn (4:30AM), and have 8-9 small meals for the day and then go to sleep around 11PM, waking up at noon just gets to me because it messes up my schedule. You know what else is screwing up my diet? The huge bowl of fruit in the kitchen! No clue who the violator was that put it there, but I had 3 grapes, i couldn’t control myself!

Today’s Diet Looks Like…. 1389cals (249.1g/31.1g/20.4g…. pro/carb/fat)… maybe have an extra shake somewhere in between meals to get that to 1500…

i unintentionally did 3 hours and 15 minutes today…. how might that be? Well… after my first hour of cardio in the morning I got invited by my best friend to take a walk at the lake with her… little did I know, by "walk" she meant "hike"… big difference, and the lake turned out to be larger than expected. So about 2 hours later I finally got to my car, barely able to walk (since the last thing I had to eat was my shake the night before… on that note I’m really starting to like Micellar).

So… I completely slacked on my chest workout an hour and a half later. This is what happens when you wake up late and the gym closes at 6! Tsk Tsk Tsk Why do I even have to do chest?! I always wonder that… I never get a straight answer out of anyone though…

Not even going to go into what I ate today… lol

…****ing SHOWER!!

I was doing my AM cardio, on my very favorite treadmill, as some man got on the machine next to me. I swear he smelled like something that died in the 17th century! Maybe this could be semi-excusable if he had just been training for hours and was covered in sweat… but this guy just walked in! You might say, maybe he had a long day… well… this was at 8AM! It only took 2 dirty looks from me for him to realize he was invading my air supply. I watched him go from machine to machine, each time whoever was next to him would get off theirs and move elsewhere… it was just funny. Made the hour go by a little faster….

*sigh*

Off to do shoulders… wish me luck!