Heather’s BodyBlog

Holy crap.  Mike kicked my ass today.  Seriously.  I did: leg extensions, hack squat, leg press, leg curls, abductors, adductors, one leg lying leg curls, and calf raises.  I could barely walk by the end.  It’s a good thing that I did cardio this morning because I definately am going to be sore tomorrow…and the next day…and the next.  Hah.  I did intervals again for 30 minutes.  I was supposed to do my triceps today too but Mike advised against it because we did my legs so hard.  He was joking that he was going to make me throw up, but I didn’t.  That would have been embarrassing!

Oh, and I lost another 1.5lbs.  That’s 3 total since Friday.  Woohoo!  Go me.

I worked out pretty hard.  I did the new workout that the trainer gave me for my back and then I did my own little biceps workout.  Next Wednesday I’m going to meet with him again and he’s going to show me stuff for my biceps/triceps/shoulders/abs.  That should be fun.  I’m pretty excited about it.  I went to the abs class before I worked out but it was a different teacher and I didn’t like it as much.  I didn’t feel like we went nonstop like we do with Susan.  Oh well, now I know.

I went to the gym this morning and did intervals on the treadmill.  2/3/3/3/2 for about 2 miles over 30 minutes.  Then I went back after work and did my chest (incline DB press and incline flyes) and delts (arnold press, upright rows, side lat raises, and rear lat raises).  Then I went to bowling and bowled a 116, 147, and 146.  Phew.  Which would make my average for the night 136 and for the league 132.5.  Not too shabby.  We swept tonight, winning all 7 points.  Woohoo!

I consumed 1296 calories today, and 135.3g protein, 140.5g carbs, and 32.1g fat. That comes out to 44% protein, 46% carbs, and 10% fat.  Pretty good.  But I kinda feel like I’m going to puke now…blarg.

I’ve been keeping track of all of my workouts on paper because it’s hard to me to find enough time to write a blog on here everyday.  By the time I come home from work and the gym I just want to eat dinner, relax, and spend some time with my boyfriend.  Writing a blog sometimes feels like it’s just a task and it takes away from that, so I’d rather keep track of my workouts on paper, then update my bodyspace when I get the time.

I’ve been doing well.  Did cardio everyday this week that I had planned.  On Wednesday I spoke with the personal trainer at the gym and he’s working with me to create a new workout.  He told me that for my cardio, I should be using the HIIT (high intensity interval training) technique so I’m going to start using the treadmill instead of the elliptical.  That’s going to be kinda hard for me because I’ve always found the treadmill to be boring and difficult.  I went on it for 30 minutes Friday morning and by the 20 minute mark my knee was starting to bother me again.  It’s so annoying but I pushed threw it and popped a few asparin afterwards.  We’ve also changed our diet a lot.  We’ve been eating good for about 2 weeks now, and now that we finally got our supplements I can seriously step it up.  It’s so much easier for me to feel good about working out and want to do it more when I have my supplements because I know that they’re going to help me and I know that I had to spend my money on them so I don’t want my money to go to waste.  That makes me work that much harder to make my workouts better and be sure that I’m eating better.  This whole eating every few hours thing is hard! I feel like I’m constantly eating but I never actually feel HUNGRY!  It’s the oddest thing.  And the hardest thing about eating right is trying to find things that are low in carbs, especially after a certain time of the night.  It seems like everything I like has carbs, even the high protein shakes and bars that I found.  OH well, what can you do, besides more cardio? :]

I calculated almost everything that I plan on eating in a regular day and it came out to about 875 calories and about 110 grams of protein.  That’s pretty good, I think, especially when it seems like I’m eating so much!  My day looks something like this:  a little something to get my stomach working before I do cardio in the morning (like a piece of fruit), oatmeal after my cardio, a mini whole wheat bagel with peanut butter and a protein shake for a snack, some hard boiled eggs and a piece of chicken breast for lunch, some fruit and some peanuts and maybe a protein bar for another snack, then a protein shake after my workout and some more chicken breast for dinner.

I’m really picky so I’m curious to see how these new supplements taste.  The Optimum Whey smells super good so I hope it tastes the same way.  I’m also taking the Orange NO-xplode and the fruit punch Cell Mass.  I’ve tried the ready to drink Muscle Milk shakes and they were kinda nasty but the ready to drink Myoplex was DELICIOUS! I’ll keep ya posted. Wish me luck. :]

We’ve been eating well since Wednesday and I was back in the gym yesterday.  I have an entirely new workout program that I’m doing, so hopefully, when our supplements finally get here it’ll be balls to the wall. :]

I did some cardio yesterday morning and then after work I went back to the gym and worked out my quads.  I superset squats with leg extensions and the leg press with walking lunges.  Then today I went to the gym after work and I did my triceps and my abs.  I superset overhead dumbell extensions with kickbacks and reverse grip pressdowns with overhead cable extensions.  Then for my abs I was supposed to do cable crunches but there were tons of people there and I felt silly.  I was supposed to superset those with x-body crunches so I just did both sets of crunches on the BOTHSU.  Then I was supposed to do decline crunches, which I did, but I didn’t do the reverse decline crunches because I felt kind of silly doing those, and I wasn’t quite sure WHERE to do them.  Oh well. There’s always tomorrow…and then there’s always Bodybuilding.com to show me the way. Haha.   After that I did like 10 minutes on the treadclimber.  I was going to do 20 but my legs were buuuurning so I quit and decided to save them for cardio tomorrow.

On the way home I stopped at Vitamin Shoppe and I got a few different protein drinks to try out.  I had Muscle Milk after the workout.  It was alright…kinda thick but not chalky.  Although the flavor should be "chocolate coconut" or "chocolate with a coconut/cardboard aftertaste" but it was bearable.  Who knows, maybe if I have it enough it’ll grow on me…kind of like that peanut butter on a bagel thing.

Alright.  Time for dinner and relaxing with my love. :]  Peace.