[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Thanksgiving is behind you. You are exactly right to forget it and focus on today’s food. The bloat will be gone soon enough.[/quote]
Couldn’t agree more. The way I see it, these celebrations are few and far between - embrace them and move on.
You’ll be back to your old self in no time! At least this is what I tell myself. lol!
benching 105 for reps is awesome btw. Same with those lat pull downs. Strong stuff!
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
[quote]kimbakimba wrote:
Thanksgiving is behind you. You are exactly right to forget it and focus on today’s food. The bloat will be gone soon enough.[/quote]
Couldn’t agree more. The way I see it, these celebrations are few and far between - embrace them and move on.
You’ll be back to your old self in no time! At least this is what I tell myself. lol!
benching 105 for reps is awesome btw. Same with those lat pull downs. Strong stuff! [/quote]
All I gotta say is, eating thanksgiving on a daily basis will make you Brolac considering you don’t eat the desserts.
105 for reps is awesome weight Nikki.
Don’t you dare worry about the past, worry about today and base your decisions on how you see yourself now. Everyone will have rough patches, you eat bad a few days in a row and you aren’t your normal self, well it’s just as easy to correct those mistakes as it was when you made them. To be honest I don’t even worry about the future when it comes to weight lifting. I do my best today and that is all that counts, when I do my best today and the next day and the next day, well a year from now I am doing my best and am better, but the simple fact that I tried my hardest is enough to keep me motivated…(Not saying you aren’t motivated at all, just speaking the truth and making sure you are doing well :), I really can’t wait until you killllllll it in the figure comp!!! Make me proud but make yourself proud first. When you do something for you…you will do it, it makes it that much more important and achieving the victory that much more gratifying.
Aww thanks guys 
Kim, you’re a beast, I’m sure you can do weighted push-ups.
Nd Austin, if you didn’t know, I <3 you
;D
And Maschy. Menage trois anyone?
OK, if it wasn’t because I hate to break my promises, that damn pic won’t even be posted.
It’s like, everytime I pose randomly like in class or the store or before bed, it’s perfect. Then I take a pic and it’s crap. My arms look like a damn scarecrow, I forget to flex my arms, my back isn’t up to par.
Anyway, my back has made the most progress since my last pics, although it doesn’t show well. But next week is another week.
Anyway, I checked BF today, and I’m down to 24%. So I’m content.
Gym time is happening after I clean the aquarium. Ugh.
great work ! at least clean the fish tank nekkid.
Stupid pic didn’t show…
Awesome training! Good job on the body fat loss!
[quote]timmyo wrote:
great work ! at least clean the fish tank nekkid.[/quote]
Is that when you feed them worm?
Nik? Great job on the BF. Sounds like everything is getting dialed in nice & tight.
Hey Nikki…wtg on everything!!
keep on keepin on! :rockhands:
Thanks for the comments guys. If anyone doesn’t remember, I was at 26% a couple months ago, so progress is being made.
I took some vids of feeding time at the aquarium 
The fish staring at me from :14-:20 seconds is Coy. You can see why I love her <3
Here is when we give Mikey his algae food, but all the other fish decide to eat it instead.
It’s not on vid but everytime Mikey picked up his food, another fish will knock it out his mouth.
My fish are little bullies.
“You’re just an earthling, you’ve never been to Nikki’s world.”
ahem
Lower body today, moderate rep range
First was a walk/random jogging to the gym, which cut my 60 minutes to 40 minutes. Surprisingly I didn’t collapse under the barbell.
A1) Front Squat
A2) GMs
95x10, 105 x 12 REP PR, 115 x 9
65 x 10, 85 x 10, 95 x 10
How nice, I got a vid of the PR. Oh yeah, and the end of the vid is when I went to do my GMs superset, of course
B1) Deficit Deads
B2) Hack Squat
95 x 12, 135 x 10, 135 x 10, 135 x 10
4 plates for all sets
C1) Leg Extension
C2) Prone leg curl
120 x 10 x 2, 130 x 10
60 x 10, 70 x 10 x 2
D1) Leg Press
D2) DB Walking lunges
8 plates for all 3 sets
20s x 15, 30 x 12 x 2
Glute Kickback Machine
110 x 3
Smith Machine Wide Squat
50 x 10 x 3
Seated Calf Raises
FST-7 with 50 lbs
Forearms
Only cuz I wanted to see my veins really pop
Hour walk home
I don’t know shit, but your front squats look pretty to me. Nice work.
those fron squats look good to me, first reps were nice and deep too.
Yeah for PR 
nice to know you can still hit those on a diet.
Put some weight on the bar!!
WOOT WOOT! Awesome work on your PR!!
HAHAH! “Don’t you think Mikey should be celebrating with everybody?” Mikey is a bit slow - you snooze you looze buddy.
First of all - yay for vids! Those front squats looked great! the weight did look too easy but 105 for 12 is silly hard. And you got a PR! Good work chickie.
I also see that you’re not joking when you say “superset” and run off to do the next lift. HAHA! My supersets are much more relaxed. lol! God I’m mediocre.
I’ve never thought to train my forearms…
Dude, all your walking to and from the gym is insanity! Way to keep it real bitch - you’re making me look bad
[quote]Nikki9591 wrote:
My muscles are happy, Nikki on the other hand… not ;D
Got the idea from Nick Tumwhatever haha
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I’ve seen those complexes and was quite intrigued by them.
Phew, you cram so much into your workout it makes my head spin! Great job on the PRs and the bf% progress! It is awesome when you can look back and see your numbers change over time. Keep killing it!
[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
I don’t know shit, but your front squats look pretty to me. Nice work. [/quote]
Bah, you know a lot. Thank you!
[quote]nlmain wrote:
those fron squats look good to me, first reps were nice and deep too.
Yeah for PR nice to know you can still hit those on a diet.[/quote]
Diet AND after cardio. But yeah, it’s nice to know that I can still kill it despite the odds.
Thank you darlin.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
Put some weight on the bar!![/quote]
Aww you make me blush.
[quote]coyotegal wrote:
WOOT WOOT! Awesome work on your PR!! :)[/quote]
Thanks lovely
[quote]Mascherano wrote:
HAHAH! “Don’t you think Mikey should be celebrating with everybody?” Mikey is a bit slow - you snooze you looze buddy.
First of all - yay for vids! Those front squats looked great! the weight did look too easy but 105 for 12 is silly hard. And you got a PR! Good work chickie.
I also see that you’re not joking when you say “superset” and run off to do the next lift. HAHA! My supersets are much more relaxed. lol! God I’m mediocre.
I’ve never thought to train my forearms…
Dude, all your walking to and from the gym is insanity! Way to keep it real bitch - you’re making me look bad :)[/quote]
Poor Mikey, now the other fish hide his food from him.
I can’t wait to up the weight next time, I was shocked that they felt easy.
NOTHING about you is mediocore ;D
Strangely, I like the cardio now. And might as well get used to it.
[quote]LastStand wrote:
I’ve seen those complexes and was quite intrigued by them.
Phew, you cram so much into your workout it makes my head spin! Great job on the PRs and the bf% progress! It is awesome when you can look back and see your numbers change over time. Keep killing it![/quote]
Oh yes, his complexes are fantabulous.
Thanks for the comments :*
I played basketball in gym today. Finally, we owned the other team. Even with the best player in class on the other team. I’m really not that great, can’t shoot for crap, but I’m good rebound. OK, still not 100% sure what that even means, but that’s what people keep telling me.
Hey now, I’m not an expert at sports, I just like to play them.
Diet’s okay. Kinda got sidetracked today with some trail mix. I did NOT abide to portion sizes when it came to the chocolate yogurt covered raisins. But it’s all good, had a Subway salad for dinner, might have some squash for a snack later.
My calories are creeping to 1500 calories today, I don’t have the macro breakdown, but a lot of it came from carbs. Eh.
My workout today wasn’t interesting. I learned that I don’t like rowing in the low rep range, and that kind of dampened my mood for the rest of the workout.
Anyway, the workout was short. First I supersetted bench with neutral grip pull ups. I’m not going to go through that, just the highlights were 135 x 1 and 9.5 pull-ups.
The bench isn’t a PR, but it was definetely easier to do today than when I last benched that weight. So, I’m happy.
The pull-ups are a PR.
When I get better at them, I’ll have to work on a better range of motion.
Then did some single rep rows with 145#, superset with 12 push ups, but I hated rowing with that weight. Next time I’ll try low rep T-bar rows, I just didn’t have the time to experiment with that today.
Then HSPUs superset with lateral raises with 20 lbs, 5 reps.
Cardio was my walk to the gym.
I think that’s everything. No arms, but I worked them yesterday so it evens out
Wow, I look kinda of evil at the end there. Kinda possessed… just ignore that.
I just remembered something that picked up my spirits a little. A personal trainer was showing someone how to do Smith Machine Curls.
Wicked.
Fuck yeah! way to go on the pullups! Actually a trainer once told that not going full ROM on pullups and just bustin out a bunch of consecutives is a good training method for increasing number of pullups…but now I can’t remember the logic, something akin to do partial squats…If I see him I’ll ask him.
Anyways, looks like a killer upper body workout - good job!
And listen short-stop, you just be the best point guard you can be! HAHA!