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buttercup78

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Well I got in some yoga yesterday and it was really what I needed. I was so tight and sore and I could feel the tension and stress leaving my body. I am really going to try and get that in a few times a week especially on the day I feel nuts. Diet was terrible this weekend, but I cooked last night and am ready to get back on track. The only thing that annoys me is being in this vicious cycle of eating well and then going nuts. I need to meet in the middle so I don't swing out of control either way...that's the plan anyway. Today will be TB workout and 20 hill sprints.

meals for today:
m1-smoothie (berries, almond milk, wheat germ, BSN protein powder, milled flaxseed, and a splash of OJ)
m2-1/2 bagel w/ 1 slice LF cheese cheese and 1 sauage patty (not the best, I know, but I need to get rid of some stuff)
m3-SW salad w/ ground beef
m4-greek yogurt, apple, almonds
m5-roast, potatoes (1/2 c), 1c roasted mixed veggies

BBL
Theresa
 
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Well, today was Meso 3, Week 2, Disc 29, Plyo Legs. Before I get into the workout, yesterday I had lunch with my mom and we had linguini alfredo w/crab. Ever since I've had a screaming headache and an upset stomach. Yesterday all I did was lay on the couch and dozed in and out. I felt pretty good this morning when I got up, but 3/4 way through this workout I felt like I was going to puke and my head started hurting really bad. I decided to stop the workout, which I don't believe I've ever done before.

This was the workout, it was different from last week which surprised me. I liked it, but the plyo work was really hard for me today. I know it's because of how I feel.

Squats - 35's/12 reps
Down- Up Jumps
Step Up with Hand Weights - 25's/12 reps
Butt Kicks Over Step
Close Stance One Leg Squats - 12's/12 reps each side
Rock Climbers on Floor - (these sucked!)
Drop Side Lunge onto Step - 20#/12 reps each side
Straddle Down jump Up with Knee Lift
Back Lunge Alternating off Step - 15's/24 reps
Explosive Running Man - (I liked these)
Deadlifts Wide Stance - 30's/12 reps
Lateral Crossovers on Step with Weight - 8#
Drop Side Lunge on Floor into Leg Abduction - 20#/12 each side
Squat thrust and Jump onto box and Step Off - (These sucked too)
Alternating Front Lunge - 15's/24 reps
Lunge taps on Step with Finger tips touching
Static Lunge - 15's/12 reps each side
Half Turn Jumps Right Side - 8#/15 reps to right
One Leg Sit N Slide with Paper Plate - 12#/12 reps each side
Plyo Jacks - Here is where I thought I was going to lose my protein shake
Plie Squats Alternating Hand - 25#/12 reps
Tuck Jumps - Did these half-assed and this is where I sotpped.

Didn't do these:
One Leg Elevated Lunges
Half Turn Jumps Left Side
Sit N Stands
Power Scissors Alternating
Sequential Lunge Into Front Kick Combo
Slow Air jacks

Still have a headache and upset stomach. I wish I could take today off but it's invoicing day.

On a positive note, I got two new CD's this weekend: Pink, "Funhouse" and Breaking Benjamin, "Dear Agony". I was so estatic to see a new Breaking Benjamin CD. It is SO GOOD too!! And Pink's CD is really good too. She's awesome!
 
Good Morning Maniacs!!!

Doing GS Legs and ab work today.

Debbie,

I have Pink's Funhouse cd. I think you will love it. I gotta check out the new Breakin' Benjamin song. Sorry to hear about your headache. Do you have any advil with you? Great workout though

Theresa,

Nice workout set up and plan... I go thru a vicious cycle with food right before TTOM especially,and I think most others do too. Just stay focused and find other things to do besides eat when you don't need to eat...etc. Hey...you can go shopping!!!! :eek:
 
Theresa - Sorry about your struggles with eating. Unfortunately, I don't have any great words of wisdom, but just want to let you know you are not alone with the binging. I too will do the same stupid thing.

Debbie - Wow, sorry you are feeling so lousy. Do you think it's food poisoning? Nice job getting as far as you did on Plyo Legs.

Char - How things going? Are you still working?


Today was Workout B from Turbulance Training. I am really starting to think the Pullovers in the first Superset are affecting my Chest Press numbers. You have an option to do Pull-ups or Pullovers, and a year ago I did the Pullups. However this time through I did not feel like doing Pullups, Chin-ups and Inverted Rows all in the same workout, so I choose the Pullovers and now my Press numbers are down (in this workout anyway) In the other one my Press numbers are great!:mad::confused:

Superset 1
Pullovers
8/8/8 - 48#
DB Floor Press
8/8/6 - 40's (got more reps this time, but not all of them and last year at this point I did 42's and all the reps:mad::confused:)


Superset 2
Chin Ups
5/3, 4/4, 4/4 (first number unassisted, second assisted)
DB Incline Press
8/8/8 - 36's (Last year I did 40's at this point, tried them but wasn't happening:mad::confused:)

Superset 3
Inverted Rows
14/12/12 - BW
Decline Pushups
12/12/12 - BW

Then did HIIT cardio using Disc 29 Plyo Legs, do eight rounds of 30 second work with 60 second rest. Workout was 55 minutes and I burned 431 calories.
 
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I decided to go ahead with STS Mesocycle 3 but am doing most of it with the Bowflex this time. I also think I will do plyo legs. I may change my mind though and do some of the heavy workouts. I was just going over my work sheets from last time to see what all I did. I really wasn't feeling all that energetic when I started but still got in a pretty good workout. I started with the treadmill to w/up and went 1.5 miles in 20 minutes staying between 4-6mph and burned 138 calories. I then started Mesocycle 3 chest and back using mostly the Bowflex except for deadlifts which I used a 90# barbell for. Then I did 200 kettlebell swings, 5 sets Bowflex kneeling crunches with 160#, Barbell rollouts with 65# on toes 2 sets 10 reps, 10# med ball rocket shoots 2 sets of 16 reps., I finished with STS extended stretch. Total calories burned today was 614 55% fat. I have my dentist appointment this afternoon.

Chest and back:
bench press 2 wup sets then alternating with rows on the Bowflex
4 sets 8 reps each alternating
30# each hand Bowflex bench press
80# each hand rows Bowflex
4 sets 8 reps each alternating
chest flys 30# each hand Bowflex
1 arm row Bowflex 2 sets at 70#, 1 set at 80#, 1 set at 100#(took a bit to figure out what weight I needed)
4 sets 8 reps each alternating
incline bench press Bowflex 30# each hand
barbell deadlifts 90#
4 sets 8 reps each
incline chest flys Bowflex 30# each hand
one arm horizontal row Bowflex 1 set 80#, 3 sets 100#
 
Morning Maniacs -

This morning I did Val's AHB - Burn 2. At the end, I repeated each of the circuits in one giant circuit to make the workout longer. Then I added on Tracey Anderson Arm Webisode. Workout was 74" and I burned 520 calories. Max HR was 152. I used heavier weights than Val, kickboxed thru a few of the breaks and then I took a few of the breaks.

Have great workouts everyone. Off to get ready for work...as I work late today.
 
Theresa, I think we all go nuts once in awhile. I went nuts yesterday on the chinese food:eek: Then last night I ate 1 girl scout cookie. Wish dh didn't bring them home. The girls just gave a bunch of boxes to the police station. They are lemon and I can't get all of my grandchildren to eat them. I agree with Charlotte, sometimes to break the eating cycle when not hungry I find a project that keeps my hands busy so I can't shove food in my mouth. Yard work, painting, knitting or crocheting, art work. Can't eat doing those things. Reading and television leaves me wide open to mindless eating.

Charlotte, are you doing a GS rotation? I haven't done GS in a long time.

Debbie, sorry that you are not feeling well. That is too bad that you had to stop before finishing the workout. Maybe you are coming down with something and it is just coincidence that you happened to be eating something different.

Linda, I wonder why the pullovers lower your chest numbers. I am sorry you are not reaching your numbers. I have not been doing so great myself and am not sure why. The energy and drive just doesn't seem to be there right now.
 
Morning maniacs! Wanted to pop in and tell ya I loved the Zercher Squats! I thought they would be a bit awkward as the placement of the bar is different but they were actually easy...well not easy, but better than expected. I thought I was going to have to lower the weight to balance the bar but I was able to use 70#. I was able to use proper form and go to 90 degrees. I definitely felt it in my quads for the next two days. I would recommend them!

Meals:
M1: eggwhites/oatmeal/blueberries
M2: protein shake/fruit
M3: chicken/brown rice/black beans/salsa
M4: apple/pre-workout drink
M5: post workout drink
M6: flank steak/spinach and veggie salad
M7: eggwhites & spinach/almonds

Debbie...sorry u r not feeling well. My stomach does not do good with alfredo sauce.

Linda...48# on pullovers...NICE!!!!

Hello to everyone else. I can see you all are still kickin butt! :D
 
Sonya, I checked out those Zercher squats. Interesting way of holding the bar. It doesn't bother your elbows at all? It sure seems like the quads would feel it. Thanks again for sharing eats:D
 
Theresa - Yoga is awesome, isn't it? I really wish I had more time to do it. Sometimes I feel like just canning my whole workout routine and doing only Yoga and cardio. But I love weights too much so I don't want to give that up. It's so hard to fit everything in that we want to do, you know?

Linda - Nice workout today. Sorry your press # didn't get as high as you wanted, but you still did really well with it. Nice job on the pullovers! Have you had a chance to preview P90X yet? If so, what do you think?

Char - Hi girl! Hope you have a great GS workout!

Diane Sue - Nice workouts today. That should be interesting doing Meso 3 with the Bowflex. Pretty cool idea! I sure hope I'm not getting something. I still have a pretty good headache right now.

Lora - Nice workout and calorie burn! Hope you have a good day at work, even though working sucks!

Sonya - I googled Zercher Squats. They look weird. LOL!!! I'm sure they do get the quads quite sore. They remind me of Front squats sort of.

Question: Anyone ever hear of a workout called Body Combat? If so, who does it and is it on DVD?
 
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Sonya, I checked out those Zercher squats. Interesting way of holding the bar. It doesn't bother your elbows at all? It sure seems like the quads would feel it. Thanks again for sharing eats:D
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Sonya - I googled Zercher Squats. They look weird. LOL!!! I'm sure they do get the quads quite sore. They remind me of Front squats sort of.
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That was my concern.... the way the bar is held. It does look weird! It does resemble front squats but holding the bar this way is easier than the tradtional way of holding for front sqauts (at least for me). It didn't hurt my elbows at all....in fact when I did the squat I would touch my elbows to my knees.
 
Linda-nice work. I could see how pullovers would affect the chest, but yes that is a lot of pull up variety for one workout. Maybe you could switch them?

Debbie-sorry to hear about your sickness this a.m. Had it been awhile since you had eaten? Hope you feel better. And yes, I love when I do it, I just don't do it enough. I did the 20 min stress relief one from Gaiam, it really gets in there and stretches everything that is tight on me: shoulders, neck, back, and hamstrings. I could melt into the floor when I am done.

sonya-I need to look up those squats. I've heard the name before, but never got much further than that.

Diane Sue-I read about your recipe from this weekend. Sorry it was no good. Nice workout by the way

Lora-nice work. you must have the neatest collection of workout videos, there are some I have not heard of.
 
Debbie, I used the Bowflex for most of Slow and Heavy Before and it worked out well. Most exercises are easy to change up the weights and bench for. Hope you get rid of the headache too. I watched a youtube of that combat workout. I haven't heard of it before. It looks interesting

Sonya, I watched a youtube of the zercher squats. I always have to lower weight on front squats because it hurts my arms and wrists.. I will have to try it that way and see if it works better.

Theresa, DH said for me not to give up on the recipe but make changes that I mentioned to him. If I do it again I am going to peel the orange after cooking and just add a little fresh peel and some of the dried fruit instead of making the fruit compote. It just tasted a lot like that white area of the peel that is kind of bitter. I hated that I wasted all of those almonds though.

Lora, nice workout. You got a good calorie burn out of it.
 
Diane Sue - I wonder if you can get it on DVD? I heard it's an excellent workout but can't find it anywhere. Can you post the youtube link?
 
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