Whew!
What a great workout today! Even worked my triceps to failure 
For some reason whenever I’m at that failure point, I stop growling and just start laughing! Here I am struggling against the impossible chance I’ll finish that last rep or two and just giggle at the sight of myself stuck! It’s good to have a sense of humor in the gym! You still gotta smile when you’re giving it your all!
I have also discovered that I am going to learn to do a one-handed push up if it kills me! I’ve wanted to be able to do it for a while… I feel like I have the strength, but not the technique… I can’t even do _one_ on my knees, and that doesn’t seem right. I’m going to keep working on it though, I’d like to show that off to my husband! 
At the end of my training, without even realizing it, I gave myself fist-bumps in the mirror, like “Good Job Me!” Which is also pretty comical. It’s good to feel good y’all!
In the passed couple days, I’ve found myself really feeling a renewed passion for my training. I am always passionate.. but lately I’ve had this feeling of intensity that you just don’t feel every day no matter how much you respect something. It is very much like the feeling of falling in love~it takes over your thoughts, you see beautiful details, you have butterflies and even a little fear of how much it deserves your best. Nothing else makes me feel like this. I am constantly researching, thinking about what I researched, reading about or just daydreaming about all things fitness. I watched one of the youtube videos of the WBFF World Championships the other day~ maybe most people might have thought it was cool, but to me it made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I just can’t even imagine the sense of accomplishment those men and women had, standing on that stage! Even if you didn’t win or even place, you made it to something so big… were part of it because of your determination, discipline, dieting, hours of training, the tedious details, micromanaging every hour and calorie and form execution. What struck me was… that CONFIDENCE. It made my skin goose bump! Wow. These people are my role models. I can’t even imagine how I’ll feel when I (finally!) make it to The Arnold and can actually attend some of these events! Even if I don’t know how all that works, it inspires me none the less. Now back to research
Today’s workout was great, and a question came to my attention… I wondered, “Am I the only one who gets goosebumps when they’re training?” Not everyday, like it’s normal, but when you’re absolutely giving it everything you’ve got and you get into “the zone” or even pass it. It just feels _that_ good and your skin rises up enough to make you blush! A couple times I’ve even felt my teeth tingle.. like after novacaine is wearing off from the dentist. Kind of a cool sensation! Well I’m off to a recovery protein drink and listen to the thunder roll in!
I’m feeling great after today’s workout!
It’s my third day in after some serious vaykay! Sure it’s fun to loaf, sight see, eat a little unhealthily here & there and booze it up with friends… but to be honest, by the last evening I was ready to get back to my goals. I used my last day of recovery to get myself back into the headspace that keeps health, nutrition and training at the forefront of my thinking. So cleaning up the gym and making it comfy and sparkling was a good step towards motivation. Getting my latest issue of Oxygen helps quite a bit too!
Once I suited up and got back in my gum, It felt like I had been gone forever! I felt a little weakness and some real hurt on my endurance, but refreshing nonetheless. I’m coming to the decision to step out of my comfort zone and try a program that has been collecting dust for a couple months on my shelf.. more on that in later posts. I do feel kind of silly using it, but like I said, it’s out of my comfort zone, and really, what’s the harm!
Glad to report my husband Jamie is back to riding his bike in the mornings! getting up at 5am isn’t fun at all! Especially to bike before a full day of work and appointments! So hats off to you my love!!! <3
In the mean time, I’m still detoxing from my travels, and feeling good about it! No sugar, crap food or alcohol till Tuesday at the earliest, and of course whole foods, raw foods, fruits, veggies, protein and h2o!! So back to the norm really
Ahhhh!
Well Someone here needs to be called out. Yours truly has had an awful month for training and should fess up.
There are no excuses… at least none that I’d buy as enough. All together the month has been a set back… I can absolutely feel differences in my moods and levels of happiness In my life when I’ve been in or out of the gym. Quite a few things came up that month, but it was also supposed to be one of the harder working ones. Not having AC is huge for me, also a foot injury, dozens of obligations and now a new tattoo… but If I’m ever going to accomplish more, none of those things can matter above training how I want to. So It’s disappointing. Especially knowing that results, or lack thereof, are linked indisputably to your level of commitment.
That said, It is a new month, and I’m thinking about how I’ll redesign my workouts. I’m excited to get things going! There will always be short breaks in life, and you do have to allow yourself little vacations. I’m making the best choices about how I spend mine!
And a BIG shout out to my husband, who designed the pretty image of my name up there.. it’s so Anj! He also made the entire site here, and built the home gym right along side me, and financed its creation.
I love you so much Jamie, you have always supported me in this! Even I don’t know where this could go…
As most of you know, health and physical fitness is pretty much 80% nutrition… how you eat and what you eat can make or break your goals.
Training hard does not give you carte blanche to eat whatever you want.. and having a tight diet wont give you abs of steel. It’s a combination of both that works. Tried and true people! So to help with that 80% (and because a girl can’t live on plain oatmeal and spinach alone!) I’ll be adding a link to BodyFuel TV; another source of healthy recipes from the Nutritionists that know what’s up!
Also, they’re Canadian <3
http://www.bodyfueltv.com/
Well it certainly is interesting to use a small injury to be creative with one’s training! Yet another blow to the left tootsie has me changing up my training till it has more healing under its belt. No standing exercises; so that leaves machines, chair, and seated or laying exercises. So much to chose from there’s never an excuse to take time off from the rest of the body even if one part is immobile. No excuses!
Well, I’m back from a couple weeks off. Starting the new job and restructuring life itself took some time… to learn how to fit everything in while not feeling rushed to the point of stressing on top of stressing.
In the couple weeks before I was working, I was training twice a day 4days a week. (4days because weekends hardly are reliable to get training done and mondays are even worse.) I wanted to work everything twice a week, and since everything needs 48ish hours to heal, I had to come up with a plan. Plus, training 4 body parts at a time was running me down.
I split it up in my day:~ A warmup of cardio, yoga or kickboxing followed by 2body parts in the morning, then a minimal warmup followed by 2body parts in the evening +stretches. Breaking it up let me really focus on those 2body parts at a time, with more exercises. I could take a break in the middle, (get other things done,) and then rev up my metabolism again in the afternoon. With a clear head I came back to training and put my muscles to work. Its much easier to approach it twice then try to expect my last reps to truely be quality if I’ve been working out for 2hrs already.
Par example:
Tues= biceps & triceps in the am. Chest, upper back, shoulders in the pm.
>Weds= legs &glutes am. Abs&lower back pm.
>Thurs= chest, upper back &shoulders am. Bis &tris pm.
>Fri= abs, lower back am. Legs &glutes pm.
Of course there’s all kinds of other things thrown in, depending on the day… but you get it. Also they are opposing muscle groups to maintain ballance, etc. There’s a name for that kind of training I just can’t recall it at the moment.
But anyway, I’ve been layed off for the time being so maybe I’ll just go back to that twice a day sched… who knows? Maybe something totally new! All I know is I miss my beautiful gym &I can’t wait to get back there. Love this beautiful weather!
I feel so great right now. I finished a solid workout and spent some time in the sun with my Oxygen magazine that came in the mail today. The combination of some heavy lifting, my first sun of the spring, and this beautiful diamond on my finger is such happiness. Nothing else is as reliably good as my husband and this new gym I have. I’m in love with my man and my weights!! Good thing they’ve met! Ha ha! I’m lucky to have two great loves in my life.. some people can’t find even one. So with my fortune I will take pride in what I do.. and make my efforts count.
