superstar34’s BodyBlog

HAHA. Thank you Oscar Wilde.

Anywho, today was an AWESOME day!!! But time just needs to go by FASTER!!!!! I reached a new level of confidence (and some rug burn ha) in my mma training today with Duane….its so great to train with someone who has such faith and confidence in my abilities and who can push me far enough to have basically an ‘out of body’ experience everyday….to bring out ‘the best (and beast)’ inside of me and use it productively….then later on today I kicked my ass again with some good ole resistance training in the el gym, woot:

Chest, Bis, Abs

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 12)
Incline Hammer Press
Decline Dumbell Flye
Reverse Crunches (20)

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 12)
Machine Chest Press
Upright Cable Flyes
Hanging Knee Raise (20)

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 12)
Seated Alternate Dumbell Curls
Straight Bar Cable Curls
Oblique Crunches (20)

Giant Set 4 (4 sets of 12)
Machine Hammer Curl
Reverse Straight Bar Cable Curls
Bicycles (1min)

Am SAYing…..

Yester’s workout!!

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 20)
Single 45 degree angle leg press
Sumo Smith Squats
Lying Hamstring Curls

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 20)
Single Leg Extensions
Walking Lunges
Abductor

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 20)
Adductor
Explo Step Ups
Singe Standing Calf Raise

Superset 1 (4 sets of 20)
Seated Calf Machine
Tibialis Anterior Raise

hahahahaha I’m so lazy sometimes. Just kidding. Well not with working out. So Thursday and Friday I took off from resistance training but MMA trained and had awesome workouts both days!!! The only thing was that by Friday and the first half of yester I was having a ‘girl moment’ and ‘feeling fat’??!! WTF???? Yeah retarded I know but I got back into the gym (my fave bigger 24) and killed my shoulders and arms for almost two hours…I had to say BACK AWAY from the weights Christen ahahaha….so of course during and after that I felttttt a million times better. Taking 2 days off in a row resistance BLOWS, but I know it did my body good. Later on today is going to be legs HEEEAVEN. yaya!!!!!  

Here it was:

Shoulders, Arms, Abs

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 15)
Smith Machine Military Press
Seated Bi Lateral Dumbell Raises
Plate Front Raise

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 15)
Rear Delt Cable Lateral Raise
Smith Shrugs
Medicine Ball Toss Vertical (1min)

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 12)
Incline Hammer curls
Flat Bench Dumbell Skull Crushers
Oblique Crunches on hyper bench
Hyperextensions

Giant Set 4 (4 sets of 15)
Alternate Dumbell Curls
Overhead Tricep Rope Press
Reverse Crunches
Seated Leg Raise

Giant Set 5 (4 sets of 15)
Upright Rope Curls
Tricep EZ Bar Pressdowns
Leaning Plate Lateral Raises
"Kettlebell" Dumbell Raises
Ball Crunches

So today was an awesome and productive day!!! I was a bit nervous (yes Ill admit it hehe) going into mma training cause my coach said that he had a surprise for me today, I was like uh oh!!! =0P But anywho, it was that I ‘graduated’ into a new level of training with the addition of conditioning! Now in mma training, ‘conditioning’ basically refers to letting your body/muscles (and mind) get used to being hit, cause hey, its gonna happen!! So this was just on another level of experience for my body and as a consequence hard to explain but an example is teaching someone who is not used to resistance exercise how to do a squat, I call that the ‘new movement’ phenomenon (which usually is accompanied by ‘new movement’ face which is always entertaining =0P) in which the body basically goes, "hey, what the hell are you doing to me??? " But then our bodies are basically adapting machines so with consistent repetition it goes okay looks like we’re gonna have to get used to this….So that basically was the feeling I was getting for the first time ever when I started feeling punches on my head (with headgear on!), sides, abs, and legs but whadddooo ya know after a few mins the initial shock wore off and its like I just went in the zone with the drills we did after that and it was just awesome….yeah maybe im a lil nutty like that but ya know, im channeling my inner aggression productively now and each time I leave I feel a peace and sense of control over myself that I’ve NEVER felt before!!! So then later on today I did my resistance training before my PM victims and here it is!!

Chest, Back, Abs

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 15)
Incline Cable Cross Flyes
One Arm Cable Row
Hanging Knee Raise
Captain Americas woot

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 15)
Decline Dumbell Press
Wide Grip Assisted Pull Ups
Reverse Decline Crunches
Decline Crunches

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 15)
Flat Dumbell Press
Straight Arm Dumbell Decline Pullover
Planks
Reverse Planks both at 1 min

Today’s asssssssssssssssskicking woooooooooot:

Legs
Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 20)
Smith Jump Squats
Walking Lunges with 10 pound weights 40 steps total
Walking Sumo Lunges 40 steps total

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 20)
Reverse Smith Lunges
Single Leg Extensions
Lying Hamstring Curls

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 20)
Seated Calf Rais
Single Standing Calf Raise
Tibialis Anterior Raises

Today was just getting my ass kicked MMA style today =0) Training is going very well, still learning new things everyday and I even got my first ‘mini shiner’ under my right eye, here’s yesters workout that was done in the PM :

Back Tris Abs

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 15)
Assisted Wide Grip PUll Ups
Overhead Standing Rope Extensions
Wide Grip lat bar machine row
Overhead Single Tricep Dumbell Extensions

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 15)
Explosive One Arm Rows
Single Arm Nylon Tricep Extensions
Straight Arm Dumbell Pullovers on decline bench

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 15)
Decline Crunches
Hanging Knee Raises
Side To Side Floor Leg Raises
Mountain Climbers (1 min)

Wow I’m so about to pass out but in a good way, faaaareaking tired. =0)

After the am clients I got my ass kicked with the mma training and this evening in between the PM clients I resistance trained:

Chest Bis Abs

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 15)
Medicine Ball Push Ups
Incline Dumbell Flyes
Cable Woodchoppers from the bottom up
Seated Alternate Dumbell Curls

Giant Set 2 ( 4 sets of 15)
Decline Push Ups
Kneeling Upward Cable Flyes
Cable Crunch
Machine Hammer Preacher Curls

Today was a fantastic day hanging out with the fam for mum’s day!! we took mum out to a local brazilian steakhouse for dinner O-M-G meat heaaaaaaven. =0) we all stuffed ourselves silly and I actually ate some chocolate cake (no frosting tho!!) which gave me the sugar shakes ha and I feel pretty guilty about that but then I punished myself tonite with a great leg workout at my hometown 24, yaya:

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 20)
Single Leg Explosive Lunges
Single Leg Extensions
Lying Hamstring Curls

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 20)
Jump Squats with 10 pound medicine ball
Step Ups with 10 pound weight
Smith Sumo Squats

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 20)
abductor
adductor
Seated Calf Raise
Single Standing Calf Raise

Today was another productive day, kicked asses, got my ass kicked, learned a bunch of new stuff, worked out again and then more ass kickings =0)

So Dejan (Serb4ever) gave me a great idea, making a vid of my training so maybe when I suck less Ill do that! Today I worked on a lot of floor wrestling stuff =0) Anywho later on tonite I resistance trained:

Back, Bis, Abs

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 15)
Machine row with lat bar wide grip 60, 70, 80, 80lb
Standing Cable Straigth arm pulldowns (on Dual) 15lb each arm
Reverse Cruches
Hyperextensions

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 15)
Wide Grip Lat Pulls 65lbs
Straight Leg Deadlifts 80lbs
Side Oblique Crunch on hyperextension bench with 10lb plate
Hanging Knee Raise

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 15)
Seated Alternate Dumbell Curls 15lb each arm
Machine Preacher Hammer Curls 50lbs
Farmers Walk 15lb ea arm yikes! =0)
Wrist Curls with dumbells on flat bench 10lb ea arm

Today was a verrrrry exhaustingly great loooooong day. =0) Lots of kicking butt of others and my own!! SO thoughts:

Change happens, that is for sure, and not just in our modern, 21st century era. It seems that the stress of the new affects most people in every age. So the trick is not to resist it, but to go with it. The real problem for the creative person is getting over the resistance of those who don’t want to change……and boy has it been changing very recently….I was looking back at my last couple of blogs and I had NO CLUE that on Aprill 22nd JUST wat opportunity would come my way, I def succeeded in freakin myself out a little in sensing the impending course of events that would unfold (especially since I mentioned being interested in a ‘contact’ sport =0) ….okay enough of the ‘being mysterious’ ha. So an opportunity came my way a week and a half ago when I found a man who was looking for a female competitor to train, met with him and started training with him the next day and have been everyday during the week. HOLY HELL. So anywho yeah, the sport is good ole mixed martial arts and muay thai, (thailand’s ‘kickboxing’), both of which he is training me for….yes MMA is all popular now and I totally cringe at ‘popular’ stuff and like a good friend once told me, everyone (i think he was thinking in his head dudes, ha) thinks they’re a fighter which I agree with =0)
Well anywho, I’ve always had a deep curiosity and appreciation for martial arts, especially the discipline and mastery of the body (and mind) involved but have never been trained for it, well as soon as I got the offer I have decided to take it and like I had forseen, never look back…..

So far this past week and a half has been AMAZING. I can see why fighting can be addicting to certain personalities. For one, I love being coached/mentored and learning new things, I love PAIN, sweating my ASS off (everyday i look like I ran through a sprinkler repeatedly), and I have deep rooted aggression/temper issues that are now being channeled more productively (whooooops =0P). So everyday during the week I am training with Duane (who is inspiring me everyday with his positiveness) for about an hour and a half doing drills using weights, kettlebells, shadowboxing, etc, and everyday is different!!! I’m kind of going with the flow on my diet, I’ve just basically upped my protein a bit as I’ve noticed right away I’m way more hungry and yeah, I’m not doing mindless gerbil activity (cardio) anymore yaaaay. But I AM lifting still thanks to Weaponx66’s continuous guidance on the workouts and I’m watching myself to make sure I get enough rest cause overtraining is a BITCH.

Everything I’ve done in the past is leading up today……

Day 1 Done in the morning……
Chest, Shoulders, Tris

Giant Set 1 (4 sets of 15)
Push Ups
Standing Dumbell Shoulder Press 30, 40, 40, 40lbs
Single Arm Dumbell Tricep Kickback 10, 10, 10, 10lbs ea arm
Cable Cross Flyes 25, 30, 35, 35lbs

Giant Set 2 (4 sets of 15)
Plate Front Raise 15lb
Dumbell Side Laterals 10lb ea arm
Incline Dumbell Press 50, 55, 60, 60lbs
Decline Push Ups yikes =0)

Giant Set 3 (4 sets of 15)
Rear Delt Machine 40lbs
Rope Pressdown 40, 40, 45, 45lbs
Cable Crossovers 25, 30, 35lbs