thorra’s BodyBlog

 So easy a caveman could do it!!

Pre Workout/Breakfast: Water, oats, yogurt, apple, glutamine, cinnamon, whey.

Workout: Water, creatine, dextrose, cinnamon,whey.

Post Workout: Water, banana, cinnamon, whey.

Post Post Workout: Water, oats, cottage cheese, apple, flax, cinnamon, whey.

Meal 5: Burritos and Ruf***e

Snack: Rice Chips

Meal 6: Water, oats, cottage cheese, apple, flax, cinnamon, whey.

Snack: Almonds and milk

Meal 7/Good Night Shake: Water, cottage cheese, peanut butter, cinnamon, whey.

Another easy day.  I’m kinda missing the ol’ cravings.

No cravings

No snacking.

Lots, upon lots of water.

Spot on!

Holy-oppressively HOT-Batman!!

Those first few seconds after stepping out of a nice, cold building or car and into 95 degrees of beautiful, anything’s-better-than-winter heat, SUCK!!!

Today’s workout came dangerously close to being perfect.  It was short, intense, and every rep felt amazing- except for maybe the chest supported rows.  It wasn’t too bad, but I’ve had better.

Long Bar Rows

70 (12)

140 (12)

195 (11)

220 (8,8)

195 (10)

Dumbbell Rows

120 (10,9,9)

Done with an arm and a leg on a bench.

Dumbbell Row (Chest Supported)

85 (10,8,8)

Pull-Ups (Close Grip)

(12,8)

Finished off with a couple of quick sets of close grip damned-if-I-know-the-name-but-I-was-standing
-at-the-lat-tower-and-just-pulling-to-my-upper-chest-and-squeeeeeeeeezing-my-back!

EZ BAR WRIST CURLS

Wide Grip

60 (18,12)

Medium Grip

60 (14, 10)

Close Grip

60 (10,10)

Reverse Grip (Medium)

30 (16, 12)

Reverse Grip (Close)

30 (10)

Cardio was a 22 minute BOOT-AY! shaking, dash on the elliptical while listening to Disturbed and Faith No More.

FIN
 

-The extra chest work made up for my lack of strength today.  I’m all types of aching sore right now- and I’m talking about the good kind of aching sore, not the bad kind of aching sore that comes from trying to go for an extra rep and failing and not being able to rack the weights and refusing to call for help or just tipping the damn weights off because you’re so stup- I mean angry with yourself that you’re determined to roll the damn weight down to your thighs (Hey!!  Watch the peanut!!), stand up with it and rack it and you do a pretty damn fine job getting up with the weights, but then you realize that you still have to turn around with it and you trip and the weights start to fall off one end but you refuse to let them and just as you’re fading fast you just manage to rack it…

…not that that happened to me today!

What kind of idiot do you take me for?

-"Anyone who hates children and animals can’t be all bad."

W.C. Fields

-Back (YAY!) and forearms tomorrow.

I’m a man with a plan!

I’m in the zone!

I’ve got my eyes on the prize!

I-

(Should probably stop babbling now and just get to it!)

Pre Workout/Breakfast: Water, oats, yogurt, apple, glutamine, cinnamon, whey.

Workout: Water, creatine, dextrose, cinnamon, whey.

Post Workout: Water, banana, cinnamon, whey.

Post Post Workout: Water, oats, cottage cheese, apple, flax, cinnamon, whey.

Meal 5: Burritos and Ruf***e.

Meal 6: Met Rx Protein Plus Power Bar*

Meal 7: Water, oats, cottage cheese, apple, flax, cinnamon, whey.

Snack: Almonds and milk.

Meal 8/Good Night Shake: Water, cottage cheese, peanut butter, cinnamon, whey.

*Over a year later, the Met Rx box is finally finished!!

No problems today.  It was too hot to have any cravings for anything besides lots of water, which I’ve been guzzling like crazy.

No snacking.

Spot-frigging-on!!!!

BOOYAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 

*YAWN* 

No pep today.   

I’ve just been plodding along, all zombie like, looking for some energy. 

As a result, t’was a so-so/okay workout today!  Strength wasn’t there for me and I didn’t hit the reps I would have liked, but I still managed a good stretch and pump. 

Barbell Bench Press

115 (6,6)

210 (10,10,8)

Decline Bench Press

210 (7,7,5)

1 SCOOBY DOOBY! Pause at the bottom.  No energy for the DOO!

Barbell Bench Press

185 (5)

165 (7)

145 (10)

Set the pins just above my chest and just worked some partials into the mix.

Dumbbell Pullover

90 (10,9)

Dumbbell Flyes

45 (12,10)

Single Leg Calf Raises

60 (15)

70 (15)

80 (10,10,10)

35 (12,12)

Bodyweight (20,18)

All done on two stacked 35# plates- except for the bodyweight sets.  Those were done donkey style!

Finished up with some stretching for both chest and calves.

Cardio was 10 minutes of HIIT and then an hour and a half of mowing a while later. 

FIN.

*YAWN*

-Today I weighed in at 206.2 (+2.2).  Nothing new with the diet, so I’m fairly certain that I just put back on the water I had lost. 

-I can deadlift 450 lbs.  I can bench press 275 lbs.  Without even the aid of straps, I can dumbbell row 130 lbs.

So why the Phuch can’t I pull the damn tab off of a gallon milk container?!?!?!

(How idiot proof do they have to make these things?!?!)

-"I’m going to make you tap!"

Chris Benoit (1967-2007)

-I’ve just discovered that even watching 30 seconds of wrestling with my two year old son is a really bad idea and detrimental to my health!

-Chest and calves tomorrow.

Low carb?

Bah Humbug!!

Pre Workout: Glutamine and green tea.

Workout: Water and whey.

Post Workout: Water, oats, cottage cheese, apple, flax, cinnamon, whey.

Meal 2: Met Rx Protein Plus Bar*

Meal 3: Dried Twigs** and milk

Meal 4: Water, cottage cheese, peanut butter, cinnamon, whey.

Meal 5: Steak

Snack: Pecans and milk.

Meal 6/Good Night Shake: Water, cottage cheese, peanut butter, cinnamon, whey.

*On The Road Food!  Excellent when paired with Ban Cha tea.

**What?  Kashi Go Lean hasn’t changed it’s name yet to Dried Twigs?!?!?  My bad!!

Alrighty!  Not a bad low carb day.  Energy levels dropped in the late afternoon, but nothing I can’t manage.

Lots of cravings (Banana Split- you will be MINE!!)

No snacking.

Spot on!

I found myself hopped up on energy at the buttcrack of dawn this morning.  Maybe it was earlier than that, because by the time I was done, everyone was still sleeping, which is weird because it was Karaoke Cardio today and I thought I was loud enough to wake the dead.

Incline Leg Lifts

+7.5 (15,12,12)

Incline Reverse Crunches

(12,10,10)

Decline Crunches

+25 (10,10,10)

Cardio was 45 minutes of Karaoke Cardio on the Elliptical of Joy.  Judas Priest, Megadeth, Primus, Cyndi Lauper-you name it and I was belting it out. 

The judges were all sleeping, but it doesn’t matter because I’m sure I rocked!

FIN

-It was definitely a good workout.  Not only are my legs done in, but my entire body is spent as well!  Squats and deadlifts can be a brutal combo.

-WAHHHHH!

(Sorry.  So many other people were whining throughout the day, I thought I’d give it a try!)

-"A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention, with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequilla."

Mitch Ratcliffe

-Abs and cardio tomorrow.

It’s a living!! 

Pre Workout/Breakfast: Water, oats, yogurt, apple, glutamine, cinnamon, whey.

Workout: Water, creatine, dextrose, cinnamon, whey.

Post Workout: Water, banana, cinnamon, whey.

Post Post Workout: Burritos and Ruf***e.

Meal 5: Water, oats, cottage cheese, apple, flax, cinnamon, whey.

Snack: Lundgren’s Rice Chips-Santa Fe Barbecue Flavor*.

Meal 6: Breasts of a Chicken and Sweet Potato

Snack: Almonds and milk.

Meal 7/Good Night Shake: Water, cottage cheese, peanut butter, cinnamon, whey.

*Okay, my rice fetish aside, this tasty little treat really is a Bobsend. 

LONG LIVE THE RICE CHIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Another easy day.  Of course, there’s no way I’m going to bust my butt on a dreaded leg day and then not eat perfectly.  Even my stupidity has limits.

No cravings.

No snacking.

Spot on.