Spanishbelle’s BodyBlog

This week has been quite a challenge in the gym and out of the gym.  My upper body workout is a bear and I’m struggling to get my last set in.  I plan on cleaning out the garage and get in the last set at a later time during the day.  It’s not the first time I’ve had to split up a workout in order to get the whole thing in.  As for the leg workout, I was considering increasing the weights except I felt a couple of old strains in the quads acting up.  My mind says yes, my legs say no and the legs win out.  I don’t want to put myself out of the gym.  My cardio is on track, I’m running strong.  I had an intense session on the treadmill about an hour ago, ran two laps on an 8 with a 2 minute rest 5 times.  I had a 1 mile warm up on about an easy 6.5 pace and a 1/2 mile cool down on a 6.5 pace and I followed it up with some AB work.  I’m splitting up the cardio and weight lifting.  Both programs are intense and I’m not in good enough shape to give it my all in one day. 

Two little boys go into the grocery store.  One is nine, one is four.  The nine-year old grabs a box of tampons from the shelf and carries it to the register for check-out.  The cashier asks "Oh, these must be for your mom, huh? The nine-year old replies, "Nope, not for my mom."  Without thinking, the cashier responded, "Well, they must be for your sister?"  The nine-year-old responded, "Nope, not for my sister either."  The cashier had now become curious.  "Oh.  Not for your mother and not for your sister — then who are they for?"  The nine-year old says, "They’re for my four-year old little brother."  The cashier is surprised:  "Your four year-old brother?"  The nine-year-old explains:  "Well yeah, they say on TV if you wear one of these, you can swim or ride a bike–and my little brother can’t do either of those things."

One day a little girl came running into her house yelling, "Mommy, I got five dollars!"  The mother was curious, so she asked her child where she got the five dollars from.  The little girl replied, "Tommy down the street gave me five dollars for doing a cartwheel while he sat in the tree.  The mother told her daughter, "Don’t you know that Tommy is just trying to see your panties."  "OOOOhhhh," said the little girl.  The next day the little girl came running into the house yelling, "Mommy, I got ten dollars."  The mother asked, "Where did you get the ten dollars from?"  The little girl replied, "Tommy down the street gave me ten dollars for doing a cartwheel while he sat up in the tree and laughed." The mother replied, "Didn’t I tell you that he is…"  Before the mother could finish, the little girl said, "Wait Mommy.  I tricked him, I didn’t wear any panties today." 

One day there were two boys playing by a stream when they saw a woman bathing naked.  All of a sudden one of them took off running.  The other boy took off after his friend.  After he caught up to him, he asked why he ran away.  "Well," the boy said, "My Mom told me that if I ever saw a naked lady I would turn to stone and I felt something getting hard so I ran!"

 
A little boy and little girl were playing on the beach.  The little boy glances over at the little girl and says, "I have two nipples."  The little girl looks at him, pulls her bikini top to the side and says, "SO…so do I."  They continue playing, writing in the sand.  The little boy looks over at the little girl once again pointing to his belly button and says, "I have a belly button."  She shakes her head, rolls her eyes and says, "SO DO I."  The little boy is not happy.  Suddenly he pulls down his shorts with a big grin on his face and says, "I have one of THESE."  The little girl pulls down her bikini bottom, is stymied a little and then looks up at him and says…"SO….I HAVE ONE OF THESE and I (pointing at his penis) CAN HAVE AS MANY OF THOSE AS I WANT!" 

Alright, I’m turning myself in.  You know that AVI in the little red number….LOL…yeah, well it’s a fraud.  Sorry to say, it’s just not me.  I don’t know how much body fat that girl had on her at the time, but things most certainly don’t look that way right now.  Let me apologize for what you are about to see….it is what it is.  Things will be looking up though, I’m hitting the gym, doing my cardio and eating so clean…hell,  I squeak when I walk.  LOL. 

I’ve been busy, worked it all up, diet, workout (always have to customize) and cardio.  I’m using Hal Higdon’s 5K training program.  A couple of things here, keeps my training up for any future races I might enter and it is an 8 week program so it will carry over onto my next workout.  Rest days between the two programs were different, I improvised and I’ll be doing double cardio on Fridays.  Therefore, my days off are just that….DAYS OFF!  Something I am excited about.

So the girl can plan, now here comes the real test, will this girl do her time?  LOL…but of course.  I’ll be turning my frumpy ass in on Monday, a picture with all my glorious 23% of bodyfat.  TWENTY THREE PERCENT,  I’m still tripping over that.  Here’s what my workout looks like tomorrow:

Cardio:  5 mile run

BACK (sets/reps)

Deadlift 4×12 superset w/Pull-up 4×12

Wide-Grip Bent-Over Row 3×12 superset w/Seated Row 3×12

T-Bar Row 2×12 superset w/Lat Pulldown 2×12

BICEPS

Barbell Curl superset 3×12 w/Incline Dumbbell Curl 3×12

Preacher Curl superset 3×10 w/Seated Dumbbell Curl 3×10

High-Cable Curl superset 2×12 w/Hammer Curl 2×12

ABS

Decline Crunch 3×35, Cable Crunch 3×35, Wood-chop 3×35

I’m a skinny fat girl right now.  My body fat has gone up from 19.5% to 23%, what the hell?! At first, I thought there was something wrong with my scale.  LOL.  The nachos I ate during the holidays could not have caught to me that quickly!  Taking a look in the mirror in the gym though, well….nachos, beer and fried venison all over my stuff.  I weigh less than what I have in quite some time, a mere 102 and now with 23% bodyfat….DISGUSTING!  I am so craving fatty foods.  The stuff that kills you, gravy, biscuits, fried venison, and Hot Fries.  I made a sandwich for my husband yesterday with some bacon in it.  That pig was chanting my name.  I didn’t eat one morsel of it and what was left over, down the garbage disposal.  I didn’t even lick my fingers!  That was tough.

I’m in the house of pain right now.  The soreness is catching up to me.  Doing well though, three days into my trial week.  Worked on Shoulders and traps.

Shoulders (sets/weights/reps)

Overhead Dumbbell Press 4/12/15 superset w/Dumbbell Lateral Raise 4/12/10

Upright Row 3/12/40 superset w/Dumbbell Front Raise 3/12/10

Arnold Press 2/12/15 superset w/Bent-Over Lateral Raise 2/12/10

Traps

Barbell Shrug 4/8/50 superset w/Incline Dumbbell Shrug 4/12/15

Unfortunately I did not work up a sweat today, not happy about that. I did reach failure on some exercises and in the end, not a killer workout but it was invigorating none the less.

Have you ever said something nice about your spouse then for some unknown reason his/her "stupid" shows up?  My day got away from me yesterday and I didn’t end up going to the gym until about 7:40 p.m. or so, made it back home about 10 p.m.  My husband was not happy.  He spends about 4 days out of town, so he likes me to be home when he is in town.  Here’s the deal though, he wasn’t even home for a minute before he placed his call to me, the 8 year old told on him.  I did not handle his shitty reaction well.  He proceeded to tell me I had all day to get my workout in.  LOL, you know, one of those laughs where you’re thinking you’re about to hurt someone.  Yes, my head started spinning like that girl on the Exorcist.  In my observation, when I say something nice or good about my man his "stupid" shows up.  So, I think I’ll keep "nice" about him to myself.  He gets me most of the time, it’s when he has those moments that it really annoys the F*#! out of me.  He saw some show on TV while out of town about love and relationships and he wants to have a conversation along those lines. My take on this, "Can’t we just have sex?"  LOL.  Yeah, the whole lets talk feelings stuff….. I don’t do that well.  Once in a blue moon I’m cool with it and my moon is not blue right now.  OKAY!  SORRY FOR BITCHING AND VENTING, my best-friend is out of the country and I had to get it out somewhere!  LOL.

Moving on, this girl can eat!  I didn’t make the 1440 caloric intake yesterday, but I was close.  So far, this is what my breakfast looked like this morning:

4 slices of Canadian Bacon, 1 Go lean waffle, 1/4 cup Egg Beaters and a 4 oz cup of Light Activia Yogurt.  A Total of 245 calories, 32.5 g. carbs, 3 g. of fat and 25 g. of protein. 

I had a great leg workout yesterday.  Unfortunately this program only works legs once a week, not sure I’ll stick to that.  My lower body needs more attention.  Also, this 8, 10, 12 rep sequence doesn’t work for me.  I’m changing to the same number of reps for all exercises or until I reach failure if I can’t get to 12.  I burned 356 calories on the treadmill and I’ve decided 350 is going to be my minimum for this 4 week training program.  Here’s my leg workout:

Quads: sets/reps/weight

Barbell Squat  4×8x50 superset w/Leg Press  4×8x110

Sissy Squat  3×10xbodyweight superset w/Leg Extension  3×10x70

Hamstrings:

Romanian Deadlift  2×12x50 superset w/Lying Leg Curl   2×12x50

Calves:

Standing Calf Raise 3×20x100 superset w/Seated Calf Raise  3×20x20

ABS

Reverse Crunch 3×35 superset w/Decline crunch 3×30x15 (the training program only calls for 12 reps, that won’t do for me).

Not much else, headed to the gym today, working on shoulders, traps and taking a break on the cardio.  HAPPY WORKOUTS!

Along the way I’ve received many private messages, all kinds of tricks…men and women.  Sorry, no nudes here, husband or no husband approved.  Yeah, that gets thrown in there by some guys…LOL.  One of my favorite PM’s is when a young thing lets me know I’m old enough to be his Mom but I’m hot anyway.  Cracks me up.  There has been some PM exchanges that make me go….hmmm.  So there’s trouble at home and a separation is at hand.  I wonder about that.  I wonder if at some point spouses or couples were happy and unfit together then one spouse decides to get in shape and now you have the "HOT" factor going on and your interest in your partner falls to the wayside.  The time spent in the gym brings about so much more than just physcial changes, it would be narrow minded not to think otherwise.  Sometimes I wonder, could be he/she has grown over the years, no longer what he/she used to be but in the double digits.  Is that the reason?  Is it a reason?  Love and fitness, where do you draw the line?  Is it a number in size, years?  I have to say, sometimes my husband gets up there and that belly of his…LOL…I tease him about it.  Doesn’t take him long to get his ass back in shape.  What if he decided to give up?  So far, fitness is working well in this relationship.

and in the gym!  Now let me tell you, stuff is most certainly not where it needs to be.  I’m weighing about 102.5 but the way my stuff looks in my hot shorts…..HA!  There’s no denying what falls out and over or the stuff that’s a little squeezed here in there.  LOL.  Yes, it’s a little sad but a motivating factor looking at my own junk.  As for the workout, picked a fat burning workout from M&F magazine.  This is a trial week, figuring out what weights to start with and getting a feel for the workout itself.  Chest day today and I’m so weak, it’s disgusting.  I’ve done the math and I’ll be taking in 1440 calories on workout days and 1230 calories on non-workout days.  A breakdown of that is 133 grams of Protein, 155 grams of carbs and 32 grams of fat for my workout days.  I’ll be doing cardio 6 days out of the week.  Funny thing about getting all this figured out, I showed up to the gym and into the workout there were a couple of exercises I had no idea how to do.  LOL….Note to self:  don’t take yourself too seriously! 

Here’s a rundown of todays workout, exercise, followed by sets, reps, weight. Protein shake 30 minutes before workout.

Chest: Incline Bench Press 4×8x50 superset with Incline Dumbbell Flye 4×8x10; Flat-Bench Dumbbell Press 3×10x15 superset w/ Flat-Bench Dumbbell Flye 3×10x10; Decline Bench Press 2×12x55 superset w/Cable Crossover 2×12x? (wasn’t sure about this one).

Triceps: Bench Dip 3×8xbodyweight superset with Lying Triceps Extension 3×8x20; Close-grip bench press 3×10x30 superset with Triceps Pressdown 3×10x40; Overhead Dumbbell Extension 2×12x10 superset w/Close-Grip Push-up 2×12, bailed on this one, spent! I threw in some AB work, cable crunch 3×25x90 then headed to a treadmill, ran 3 miles burned a total of 350 calories.  Powered a protein shake. Not much else going on, I’m tired and there was no freaking eye-candy at the gym!