Buffy Buffington gets Buffer

I’m gonna try to keep this short & sweet!  I’m gonna try…

Background: A few months ago, I decided to take squats & deads out of my workouts as an "experiment" after reading many, many forum threads, especially in the female sub-forums, about concerns that these exercises would either "broaden" the waist, or keep it from getting smaller.

Realization:  As I was writing out last week’s leg workout, I realized that over the past few months I had been deeply discouraged by my lack of progress and general feeling of "softness" in the prior months.  Now, yes, I CAN blame poor diet on some of the regression; however, I now believe that at LEAST 25% of the regression was because I stopped performing these essential compound exercises.

FACTS:

• Performing squats and deads stimulate production of growth hormone and testosterone, the primary muscle-building hormone (see http://www.bodybuildingweb.net/blog/squats-deadlifts-and-release-of-testosterone-and-growth-hormone/)
• Performing squats and deads will NOT make women “bulky”, they will only give you the gorgeous, shapely sticks (and just about every other major body part, abs included) you are working so hard to create
• Performing HEAVY squats and deads is HARD! If they was easy, the squat rack wouldn’t look so damn lonely over there with no one using it (or be used only for bicep curls or shrugs, which irritates the HELL outta me when I wanna do my damn squats!)
• My goal is to be a hard body.  Without squats & deads, it just is NOT gonna happen!
• I would rather have a hard, trim 29″ waist, then a soft 27 or 28″ waist any day of the week.

Conclusion:  Ladies, please, please, please, if squats are not a part of your regular leg workouts, add them in immediately, and let me know how you feel 4-6 weeks from now.  If they are a part of your workouts, then kudos to you!  Keep up the great work!!

P.S.  Keep your eyes open for my new "after" pics in November!

The chicken breast.  Hate it.  Used to love it.  Then I hated it.  Then it was tolerable.  Well, I’m back to hating it.  Started a new transformation challenge this morning, and I cooked up a crapload of breasts for my work lunches.  Cannot even stand the freakin’ SMELL of it, and I don’t even re-heat those lil b!tches.  I just eat it cold.  Reheated?  DIZZZ-GUSTING!!!  What am I gonna do?????  Perhaps I’ll smother it in ranch dressing…  No.  I won’t.  I’m just gonna have to figure out a different source of lean protein that I can stomach.  I already supp with protein powder 2-3 times a day.  Don’t wanna rely on it so much.  Trying to stay away from the deli meats.  Love red meat, but you know you need to watch it.  Love cottage cheese most days, but it’s becoming more and more like the breasts.  Some days, icks me OWT!!  Crap.  Egg whites?  Eh.  I can only handle ‘em so much, and I really, really only like ‘em with toast.  Maybe I’ll try oatmeal/pp for breakfast, and move my egg whites/toast to lunch. 

 Any suggestions are appreciated!