where’s your next trip?
Uh oh we are not going to lose you to some online game for a few days are we 
I hears yous have a heat wave over there too.
Next trip will be the California parks plus Lagoon in Utah. I’ve been to the LA parks before but not since 1998 so there’s a lot there I’ve not yet ridden. I’ve not done the SF parks before, or Lagoon, so it’ll be a nice trip for me.
No plans for online gaming. I learned my lesson after seven years spent on Ultima Online.
And yeah, it’s stupid hot for September - 28 degrees C (in the 80s F). The Tube is pretty unpleasant.
hmm… I never played ultima… but i did get into world of warcraft for a while there (blush). have discovered dofus at the moment… which is good enough to play but not good enough to be life destroying… i miss world of warcraft sometimes, actually, but once i got into the gym i didn’t have time for both.
Warm-up:
20 hypers
20 reverse hypers with V at top
20 clams (per leg)
20 single leg hip thrusters (foot on high bench) (per leg)
20 overhead bulgarian split squats, 5kg body bar (per leg)
20 good mornings, 5kg body bar
In the free weight room:
10 stepovers pin 8
10 stepovers pin 10
Squats:
Bar x 20
30kg x 20
40kg x 15
45kg x 12
50kg x 10
3 x 55kg x 6
Decided not to go above 55kg today but to do more sets at it. I think it can be mentally draining and not always a good thing to try and hit your max every time. That’s how I fucked up my rotator cuff, 20 years ago.
I was happy I replicated the reps I did last time (as I’d added reps to all my sets on Monday). Everything still felt hard and I notice I now growl a bit on the heavier sets.
Bulgarian Split Squats
2 x 10 x 20kg
Same as last time, but they felt slightly easier. Slightly.
Good Mornings:
Bar x 10
25kg x 10
45 minute spin class.
Some older woman with a Kimba-type body always sits on a bike two rows in front of mine. Today she was wearing tiny tight shorts and I got this horrible urge to drill her arse with a strap-on. There are times when I think, deep down, beyond the XX chromosomes, I’m actually a man.
Weight: 10 st 13lbs (153lbs or 69.2kg for the benefit of Alexus) - no change on last week.
I’m going to be on a poverty diet for the next three weeks - I had to pay the deposit on my holiday this month which has knocked out a third of my pay packet, and I’ve also had to buy more whey and train tickets to my parents. After bills I have maybe £100 to last three weeks. Ack.
I had to laugh on your thinking you may be a man 
Money sucks donkey balls too doesnt it? And you are right about always trying to reach your max. Its good to take breaks from that!
next three weeks sound rough.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Some older woman with a Kimba-type body always sits on a bike two rows in front of mine. Today she was wearing tiny tight shorts and I got this horrible urge to drill her arse with a strap-on. There are times when I think, deep down, beyond the XX chromosomes, I’m actually a man.[/quote]
Were this actually me, I’d have been very flattered.
Sorry about the penury. At least its for the benefit of a holiday and not some mundane and unfun monetary emergency.
Yeah, it’s self-imposed so I’m not crying over it. And I’m hoping I will lose a bit of weight in the process.
(Your body is definitely better, btw - the lady in question has a similar build but she’s not quite as buff).
Did Circuits today. Even tougher than last time. 2 x 16 stations with lovely activities such as burpees and various things with kettlebells and ViPRs. Abs are going to be SORE tomorrow.
Still hot here but it’ll die down in a couple of days. Rain forecast for Thursday. It’s weird having summer heat in October! I must admit I haven’t been out enjoying it either. I told myself to take a walk but then couldn’t be arsed. That’s bad isn’t it?
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Some older woman with a Kimba-type body always sits on a bike two rows in front of mine. Today she was wearing tiny tight shorts and I got this horrible urge to drill her arse with a strap-on. There are times when I think, deep down, beyond the XX chromosomes, I’m actually a man.
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hahaha. not sure why but i’m thinking you are one of the coolest chicks i know, right now. i’m pretty sure i’m not even bi… though i was involved in a lesbian relationship once (weird, i know) but thoughts like this occur to me sometimes, too.
the poverty food situation sucks. hang in there.
I almost didn’t go to the gym today - I was feeling tired. That circuit class really did me in, heh. I have a lot of fatigue in the core, particularly the back and sides. Deadlifts were definitely out so I decided to do shoulders. However, the workout itself was not brilliant.
Warm up:
20 hypers
20 lateral raises
20 front raises
20 dumbell presses
20 curls
20 hammer curls
20 L raises
20 bent over raises
Military Press:
Bar x 10
25kg x 10
30kg x 8
32.5kg x 6 (went for 7 but failed)
35kg x 3 (-1 - failed on the fourth rep)
After that lacklustre performance I decided not to go higher.
Superset:
Rear Delt raise: 6kg x 10, 8kg x 10
Push-ups: 10, 7* - I was using dumbells as push-up handles because my right wrist was testy (not a new problem - I have a bit of carpal tunnel from using the mouse) so I was getting low at the bottom. On the second set I felt some discomfort in my left bicep so I stopped. It’s likely down to fatigue from the circuits but I’ve started to listen to my old body when it makes warning sounds. No pain in the arm now so hopefully crisis averted.
After that I wasn’t in much of a mood to do anything but I did some waiters walks.
Waiters Walks:
20kg, one lap of the main gym x 2 per arm
Worked on my handstand for a bit before spin.
Spin class went very well - I pushed myself (to the extent I was struggling to keep my water down. I am bone tired now!
I really feel I need to do some deadlifting but I will have to play it by ear. Flo’s in town as of Friday evening and I know that makes me a little more tired than usual. I will see how I feel tomorrow.
I haven’t recorded eats in a while - I must admit that’s down to laziness. For the last two days I’ve had a protein shake after the gym, minced beef in a tomato sauce with white rice and broccoli for lunch, and a bag of carrots with houmous for supper. I haven’t made any progress in terms of body comp but I’m going to hit the gym hard when it gets to half term holiday (only three weeks away!). Although there is an amusement park trip so there will be some crappy eats on one weekend at least, heh.
A couple of other things. I have a podiatry appointment on the 17th. They seem to be more geared up to motion analysis and orthotics but I know the foot pain stems from that lump and nothing else. I guess they will look at it and refer me for a scan so there will be even more waiting. It’s been a little sore the last couple of days. I don’t notice it when walking but I felt it after the circuits due to the warm up (lots of jogging on the spot, star jumps etc, then some plyo stations in the circuit itself). I just think the damned thing needs to come out, whatever it is.
The other thing is someone who runs after school clubs asked if I’d be interested in teaching a gymnastics class at another school. Given my lack of cash, it seems daft not to, but it’s only around 30 quid (approx $46) for an hour’s work. If it was local I’d definitely do it, but it’s over near my school which takes me around 1 hr 15 to get to, so I’m looking at 2 hrs 30 travel for a 1 hour class (which wipes out my entire Monday afternoon), plus a six quid train fare which means I’d make closer to 20 quid ($30) for an afternoon. Opinions?
Hmm, that’s a tough one, 2 hours and 30 minutes is a lot of time for travel for one hour. You’d be essentially making 7 quid an hour of your time. Would this gig possibly get you more gigs in the future, is there some other type of “return on investment” for doing it? Perk up your CV more or something, learn something new???
being tired is no excuse, take it from Glad you got that training in.
I wouldn’t do that class. Seems more stressful than anything. Unless your looking for something to do/something else to put on your resume, etc
Well, I always said I could put up with that commute three days a week, and that’s with a seven hour day. Doing it for one hour seems, well, a bit daft. I’ll think about it. I did give the guy who asked my phone number but he hasn’t called so I guess we’ll see.
I just couldn’t face the gym this morning. After three days in a row I guess I was sick of it. But I made a deal with myself - if I wasn’t going to the gym, I was going to do some stuff at home, namely grease the groove on pull-ups (band assisted, mind you).
Started with a lovely triset at 8.45am:
Band assisted pull-ups: 8 (rep PR), 6, 5, 5
16kg KB swings: 20, 20, 20, 20
Push-ups: 12, 12, 12, 12
Short rest to catch my breath between each triset but not too much.
Thereafter, banded pull-ups throughout the day:
6, 5, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5, 5
School tomorrow. I am planning on doing spin in the evening but it’ll depend on how wasted I feel.
Off to bed!
3 days in a row is brutal.
ha! thinking like a man-i hear ya sista. I consider it just appreciating the human body, or appreciating someone’s hard work.
Home workout looks good-kill the spinning tonight.
I did go to spin class. I didn’t enjoy it. I felt pretty fatigued so I didn’t do much to warm up other than stretch my back over a bosu ball and throw a few handstands at the wall. The class wasn’t taught by the instructor I’d expected (my favourite) but someone else so although it was OK, there were a couple of sections I didn’t much like and I didn’t care for the music. Still, I got it done.
It’s getting darker now - it was pitch black when I left the gym - and I can see my desire to go train after school fizzle once the clocks change.
In other news, my hips are down to 39". Midsection is getting tighter but there’s still a lot of fluff obscuring my abs. My goal is to have them visible by June (when I go to the US on holiday) so there’s plenty of time, assuming I stay healthy and don’t have a pre-Christmas food meltdown (again).