scouter99 transformed

I have had some really great workouts this week- as evidenced by my extremely sore upper body (is breathing really necessary, because it really hurts!!).  Lifted Back and Biceps at home on Monday night to Cathe Friedrich’s STS disc #15- and OMG did my traps hurt Tuesday and yesterday!!  BAD BAD BAD…. note to self… do that workout again!

Tuesday I did Back and Biceps at the gym with my favorite lifting partner!!  Benched 135 for 5 reps- oh yeah!!  I can’t wait until I can get 150!  I’ve done 145 once so it’s only a matter of time.  Highlight of the night?!  When this chick came up to Chad and I and said that we make an awesome couple and that she wished she could get her boyfriend to come to the gym with her.  Couldn’t stop grinning after that!  Caught her checking us out A LOT the whole time we were there.  That’s alright- I know we’re awesome

Yesterday I did a killer kickboxing workout called Kickbox Xtreme by Amy Bento.  That rocked me and totally finished me off.  Tonight I think we’re going go kill our legs…. it’s about time they got a royal a$$ kicking so why not?  I’m not sure what we’ll do…. I’m kind of in the mood for something different, so if you want to give me a shout out with some leg exercises you think I should do….then get to typing!  Besides, my air conditioning went out on Monday and today is supposed to be 90 and humid… so I’d rather be at the gym then at home.  

Have I ever mentioned on here how much I love to workout???  Why or why can’t a killer body be 80% workouts and only 20% nutrition instead of the other way around???  I could really rock it then!

Ok- awhile back I posted my lifting play list…. Which is VERY different from my cardio play list.  Lifting I need HEAVY stuff- Disturbed, Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, Stone Sour, White Zombie, Godsmack… that kind of heavy.

For cardio that type of heavy just won’t do!  So- thought I’d post my cardio play list so that maybe I could get some more suggestions for some rockin beat music that I can add to my list.  Thanks in advance to you cool people who will share with me!

U and UR Hand- Pink
It’s not My Time- 3 Doors Down
I Wanna- All American rejects
You’re Gonna Go Far- The Offspring
Kryptonite- 3 Doors Down
My Life Would Suck Without You- Kelly Clarkson
Girlfriend- Avril Lavigne
I’m Not Okay (I Promise)- My Chemical Romance
Never Again- Kelly Clarkson
Hot- Avril Lavigne
Sk8er Boi- Avril Lavigne
I Do Not Hook Up- Kelly Clarkson
Crazy Bitch- Buckcherry
Get Inside- Stone Sour
Womanizer- Britney Spears
Sex Type Thing- Stone Temple Pilots
Volcano Girls- Veruca Salt
Gives you Hell- All American Rejects
Vasoline- Stone Temple Pilots
Mercy- Duffy

I have more but I never get past about I Do Not Hook Up…. That’s about 40-45 minutes or so…. And I frequently do HIIT lasting no more than 30 minutes including warm up and cool down.  For longer stuff I prefer kickboxing and step aerobics.  

So- whatcha got?

So this past weekend I was recreating with my favorite recreating partner (like a sparring partner but different) and he made a comment about my rock hard derriere (as in “OMG baby you have a rock hard a$$!”.  Before you scream ewww TMI and run away, just listen.  As a girl who squat thrusts, split lunge jumps and cardio kickboxes herself into a frenzy, being told I have a rock hard a$$ is a pretty freaken’ cool compliment!!  I mean- I don’t really do all those lunges, sumo squats and butt raises for nothin’ , right?  But, as a girl who is also never ever satisfied with anything, I can’t just accept that compliment and call it good.  I smiled, of course, but then immediately thought about the one body part that consistently lets me down in the rock hard category.  This body part must have some sort of contractual monopoly on all the fat cells in my body.  Somewhere after my 13th birthday my abs decided that hoarding fat for themselves (hmmmm, abs should be plural, no?) was the way to go.  No amount of coaxing, threatening, pummeling or the like seems to make any different to that upper and lower pair of traitors to the rest of my body.  

So what’s a girl to do?  I decided to ask my a$$ to have a sit down with their black sheep cousins to north.  What’s the saying, you mess with the bull, you get the horns?  Well- if there is any part of my body that could be classified as the “horns”. It would be left and right butt cheek.  So I sic’d the backside on the front side and this is what happened…. They ganged up on me!

After the conversation this is what was decided.  Instead of blaming my “rectus abdominis, external oblique, internal oblique, and transversus abdominis” as they apparently like to be called, I have been asked to take a long hard look in the reflective glass we like to call a mirror.  I was informed that the handful of Doritos I pilfered from my son’s lunch plate last week were more to blame than the awesome foursome sitting in my mid-section.  Somehow- that night of binge drinking a week and 2 days ago just reinforces the ‘protective padding’ on my tummy and allows it to keep playing house, happy as a clam.  And don’t even get them started on that Burger King Chicken Tendercrisp Sandwich I ate 2 weeks ago because they screwed up and didn’t give me the plain Tendergrill I had ordered and I didn’t have time to go back and fix it because we were already late for baseball….

So I guess the smackdown was really on me!  

The moral of the story?  Quit yer bitchin’ and get to work.  Eat clean, workout hard.  It’s really not rocket science!

Next blog- my thoughts on freaken rocket science- what’s the deal with that BS anyway!!!  Till then- keep striving for those rock hard A$$es and Abs of the world!  I know I will!

I just thought I would create a random list of things that I really like!!  Why not- it’s my blog!

1.  Chad, my true, soul mate, ‘fire from the tips your toes to the ends of each strand of hair’ love- it’s still hot as hell everyday…. you can go throw up now

2.  Lifting at the gym- the heavy-a$$ed weights that make your eyes, ears and knees bleed kind of weights (it’s bodybuilder’s Ebola except you live to tell about it, most of the time!)

3.  Halestorm- it’s a band and they are pretty damn good!  

4.  Cottage cheese and warmed apple with cinnamon and splenda- try it before you knock it, bet it knocks your socks off!

5.  Nike low rise yoga capris, make my a$$ look nice (hey- if you’re on this site I bet you look at your own a$$ too!)

6.  Summer- I live in Minnesota and holy crap is winter long!!

7.  My BlackBerry- well, actually I’m sick of mine and want a new one…. and yeah, I’m like a teenager with that thing

8.  Bodyspace- there are some blogs that just make my day every time I visit them…. hell yeah!

9.  Captive Tan- best tanning place I’ve ever been to!

10.  Ebay- Oh man do I love Ebay

11.  Woot.com- another fricken awesome site for the shopaholic looking to SCORE big!

12.  Freedom to divorce…. some of you probably understand….

13.  Napster- because I love my BlackBerry but dammitall- it will only play Mp3’s!  No DRM music for me!

14.  My boss- because she lets me work a kick a$$ schedule which allows me to be a mom on top of everything else

15.  My cardio playlist- pumps me up and helps me kick some treadmill/elliptical butt every time!

16.  My three kids- they keep me real and remind me that sometimes, everything else really is just bull$hit

17. Athleta.com- if I ever won the lottery, I’d spend the first 5K there.  Seriously.  In like, an hour.

18.  The Twilight series: vampires, warewolves and true love…. what’s not to like?

19.  My cuddle pillow, because I’d never get any sleep without it

20.  My basement- because when I can’t get to the gym (because of their f’d up childcare hours) then it’s the next best thing!!  I’ll miss it when we have to move

21.  The Wizards of Waverly Place, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Hannah Montana and the DVR Function of my TV- because of these I am able to be on here right now writing this list….

22.  Egg Foo Yung, because it’s oh so bad and oh so good!!  

23.  BlackBerry IM- because sometimes in the middle of the day you gotta set the stage for sexy time later that night…. dirty IM’s are a beautiful thing!

Anyone out there into powerlifting?  Yesterday we were looking at a powerlifting magazine that came with an order I placed on House of Pain.com and Chad commented that I could totally do that.  With some focused training it’s possible that I could lift weights like that… I mean, I’m already way exceeding what I ever thought I could lift and I’m not even really focused on that.  What if I designed a training routine geared toward some powerlifting moves- what then?  

Hmmmm, just something to think about.  One thought I did have, though, is that I would still rather look like a bodybuilder than a powerlifter…. at least, some of the pictures of women powerlifters I have seen are more, um, butch looking than I would like for myself.  Am I stereotyping and generalizing?

If I were to consider doing this… what advice would you give me?  I’m not sure what areas of powerlifting I would want to try, but I definitely could not do squats.  I can’t even get down into a deep squat with just my body weight, too much scar tissue and such from having had JRA as a kid and teenager… but bench, deadlift…. oh yeah….

Anyway… not sure this is at all what I would do, just the very germination of a tiny little though.  Bodybuilding is still my love because, well, it would be AWESOME to look like that AND be strong like that!!

I deadlifted 205lbs for 5 reps!!  

I did bent over rows with 135 lbs (for 10 reps)!

Clean and press with 75 lbs for 10 reps (OMG is that hard)

Squatted 255 for 10 reps!

The strength is there folks!!  I can’t believe my progress in the last year.  It is overwhelming!

Whew- yesterday’s post was a bit of a sinker for me…. normally I just power through and push aside all that bitching for something a bit more productive.  I must say, though, that the support I got was awesome and now I’m back up there and ready to keep kicking ass so THANK YOU ONE AND ALL!!

I thought today I would post about what I love best.  LIFTING!!  I am currently beginning my 3rd week of a 4 day split that I am in love with!!!  It is super tough and my weight amounts have increased so much that sometimes I even amaze myself!!  If I can lift like this then I certainly shouldn’t let a little belly fat bring me down!  Just fix it, right?!?!

So- here is my split and I’ve attached my last lifted weights for the exercises as well:

Chest, Triceps

BB Bench Press: 4×10…. 95, 105, 110, 135×2 (my 1 rep is currently 145, tried 150 but no go)

SUPERSET (no rest in between the 2 exercises)
Cable Crossovers 4×10….70, 80, 70, 60
Cable Pressdowns 4×10…130, 140, 130, 120

SUPERSET
DB Flye 3×10…35, 40, 40
Weighted Bench Dips 3×10 (plates on lap)…70, 70, 90×6 then dropped to 45 for last 4 reps

SUPERSET
BB Decline Bench 3×10… 105, 115×6, 95
DB Pullovers 3×10… 50, 50, 50

Legs, Abs

BB Squats 4×10… 135, 225, 225, 225

SUPERSET
Leg Extension 3×15… 90, 105, 120 (these hurt my knees so I go lighter for more reps)
1 legged Leg Curls 3×10… 35, 40, 40

Leg Press 4 set, reps vary… 450×12, 540×10, 720×8, 720×8

Static Lunges with barbell on shoulders 2×12… 70, 80

Step Ups on Bench with barbell on shoulders 2×10… 60, 60

Standing Calf Raises 3×10… 180, 195, 210

ABS
Weighted Crunch (plate) 3×15… 45, 35, 35
Roman Chair Leg Raises 3×15

Back, Biceps

BB Deadlifts 3×10… 135, 155, 185

SUPERSET
Lat Pulldowns 3×10… 135, 120, 120
Cable Curls 3×15… 90, 90, 90

Bent Over BB Rows 3×10… 95, 135, 135

Hammer Strength Machine Curls 4×10… 54, 56.5, 56.5, 54

SUPERSET
1 arm DB Rows 3×10… 45, 45, 45
Concentration Curls 3×10… 20, 25, 25

T-Bar Rows 3×10… 80, 90, 100

Shoulders, Abs

BB Clean and Press 3×10… 65, 65, 70

Smith Upright Rows 3×10… 85, 70, 75

DB Lateral Raises 2×12, 1×20… 20, 20, 15

DB Rotator Cuff 2×15… 10

BB Military Press 3×10… 50×12, 60×10, 60×8

BB Shoulder Shrugs 3×12… 105, 110, 130

ABS 2×12 all exercises
Hanging Leg Raises
Weighted Obliques on back extension (plate)… 10, 10
Weighted Back Extensions (plate)… 25, 25
Russian Twists (plate)… 10, 10

I have been coming here for the last 2 weeks now to write a post about how much I currently dislike hate my body.  I keep starting and then erasing because I really really don’t want to be one of THOSE people who just bitches and whines about something that supposedly is completely within my control to, well, control.  But I just can’t get over this and then it occurred to me, that I can still post about these horrible feelings I have toward my perfectly good, extremely functional body under the guise of asking a rhetorical question.  That being- how the heck do you pull off bitching without sounding like a whiney baby?

Ok- now that I’ve asked the question… here is my bitch.

I carry all my fat in the mid section of my body.  No matter how much I transform the rest of me… this part of me stays fat!  I have gone down in clothing sizes, my muscle has become visible to the naked eye in my arms and legs, but still, I house rolls of blubber around my middle.  Now- I know this is largly a problem of diet.  I just can’t seem to get it right and frankly- it is making me want to give myself a fat-ectomy with a very sharp knife and call it good.  

I am super motivated when it comes to working out.  Hell- if that’s all it took I’d be one rock hard mofo… I just really hate that it is this hard for me to lose my stomach fat.  I am really trying hard with diet and am logging my food… but I am so hungry all the time!!  I just can’t eat less than about 2200 calories without feeling like I am digesting myself from the inside out.  I have determined that one of my migraine triggers is letting myself get too hungry or going too long without food.  This poses a problem bigger than my mid-section.  I live in terror of migraines so therefore, I try to make sure I always control THAT trigger (there are others I haven’t figured out)!  But that means, then, that dieting in the traditional sense doesn’t work for me…. I simply can’t just tough out the hunger… plus… I don’t know what my wiggle room is on this so therefore if I start to feel shakey, weak, stomach pangy- I rush to eat something just in case!!

I pack my food every day.  I make sure to eat every 2-3 hours (honestly I can rarely make it to 2 hours without being ravenous) and really focus on portion sizes (so I’m not eating 6 king size meals, a problem for me in the past).  I am trying to limit starchy carbs and focus on lean protein and lots of veggies.  What am I missing here?  How the hell can I pull this off?  I have put on so much muscle at this point that carrying around extra fat is making me look huge… and not in a good way.  

So- what that whiney?  If you feel I need an ass kicking- give it to me.  If you have any helpful tips on how I can overcome this extreme hunger problem- I’m all ears.   I simply cannot focus on anything else right now.  This body hatred is beating me down.