You making progress that’s measurable, that’s always good!
LOL about not posting a bad pic.
You should feel good about your progress, this fitness thing is a journey.
You have a very nice hour glass shape from the last pic you posted.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
just keep going!!! (that’s the hard part)
who doesn’t love the hourglass shape? nom
I’ve taken pics of my handfuls just to prove it. lol [/quote]
Yeah, just put your head down and fucking do it. I’ve been playing with what I eat lately, rather than just how much. There’s definitely a lot more I could be doing in general, I’m just going for the balance of achieving my goals while also enjoying life.
I do go to they gym guys! I will post workouts in a bit, though they have been super random lately.
Monday
AM: More time with the foam roller. With the amount of time I spend with it, you’d think I’d be all loose and jello like, but nope.
I’ve been hard on my shoulders this semester. They’re stronger for sure, but I’ve had to baby them a lot lately. So it was a morning of shoulder care. Involving Robertson’s shoulder stuff, dislocates and YTLP. I didn’t really feel the benching DOMS until the dislocates!
PM:
Warm up
A1) Inverted rows 10,10,5
A2) Incline Pushup 10,10,5
Such a drastic change from normal, I know!
25lb Kb swings 25,25,50
BSS I held a 15lb KB goblet like. I don’t know where I go that idea from, would using a body bar on my back be better?
BSS 5x5 each leg
Then steam room. I thought about doing more, but the gym was too crowded. Also, the guys in the weight room have started talking to me. I got almost a year of being invisible, which was great, but now I’m not. I’m not exactly sure what’s changed, but I’m attempting personable.
T AM
Spin - It felt super hard, I’m not sure why. I’m also starting to wonder if hold my head up for spin is adding to my neck issues.
W AM
Yoga - She thought she’d be cute and have us do weighted shoulder stuff, so I ditched the weights and just moved my arms around. We did spend sometime balancing with our eyes closed. It makes it exponentially harder!
[quote]Hallowed wrote:
Lovely poetry Peaches. Gawd I love poetry. <3
You are looking amazing I hope you are pleased with yourself. No we’re never DONE but what youre doing now is just the ‘bestting’ part.
(Pic completely and randomly unrelated just kinda cute)
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“Besting” that’s a cool way of putting it, lol.
And for you an equally cute pic!
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I kwim about the goals(especially the aesthetics)
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Kwim?
[quote]minimaltechno wrote:
Here’s another one for missing yesterday.[/quote]
Thank you, your balance has now been paid off.
Here’s my Sammy, for those of you that don’t see me in other circles. If you did see the pic, he’s cute enough to be repeatedly posted.
I meant kwYm. not what I mean, lol.
Life is a balance!
And I understand about finding things that we can still do. I started wearing my pedometer again and am really geeking out with it.
I like your inverted rows and push ups…how are doing those btw? I mean, by incline you mean off the bench or what?
[quote]cholulalula wrote:
I know that’s a lot of quoting ^^^ but I just feel all of this. I have never understood how some people just seemingly don’t care about what their body looks like, or aren’t aware enough of their body to feel the bloat etc we all complain of. What is it about us that makes it almost an obsession? It IS such a weird balance. Too much insecurity can be debilitating, yet we are not so insecure to put on spandex and bounce around the gym. [/quote]
I have no idea how people can be unaware, I have a lot of friends in the health field and some of the stories are ridiculous.
I heard this gem from a nephrologist this week: He had a patient who was starting to show signs of kidney failure, during the consult he told the guy to start drinking more liquids. A few weeks later the guy shows up in the ER. When the he asked the guy about diet and fluid intake, dude said yeah, he’d been drinking more liquids. Since the initial appointment he’d increased his liquid intake by drinking 6 beers every evening. And that is how little people think.
Lol on the bouncing around in spandex. I’ve never understood that about myself either. I feel huge, yet wear skin tight pants to the gym? We’re all enigmas.
I pep myself up out loud before big lifts. I tend to crank the head phones, because if I can’t hear me, no one can hear me. Right?
[quote]Patch-you should feel good about yourself and I’m glad that you do. I wish for one day we could all see ourselves how others see us, you know? (Im’ pretty sure I stole that from hallmark). Love that poem by the way, how true.
Also for the neck issue-I duct tape two tennis balls together (yes, it’ll look like a nut sack) and then let that hang underneath your skull, that’ll get both sides.
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Yup, I think I saw that commercial on lifetime.
I tend to put the LX ball on one side and my fist on the other to hold my head up, 2 balls (lol) may be too much for me at this point.
[quote]atypical1 wrote:
[quote]cholulalula wrote:
“I am strong, my body is powerful, I am thankful for what my body can do for me.”[/quote]
I think that’s a good quote and I think too many people get caught up in trying to trim fat here and there (yeah, I know there’s a large BB and Figure Athlete contingent here) but I think that most people just need to train and eat for overall athletic ability and let the rest fall into place. But perhaps that’s a difference between people. My self image has always been wrapped up in my athletic ability versus how I looked.
Oh Patch, you were definitely right about what you said on your log in G+. I see fashion, amusing cat pics, and some training thrown in for good measure…lol.
james
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James! Thanks for stopping by my log.
That is a good quote, and I am super happy with what my body can do. I’m way better than the average american, but as a result, this is one of the few places where I can complain about what I can’t yet do. The very fact that I can even make it through a spin class tends to be such a big deal to most people, that when I talk about needing to work on activating my hamstrings while peddling they dismiss it. When I tell people in real life I’d like to do pull ups, I get a lot of confused looks and questions? So then we never even get to a point where I can tell them I’m happy about inverted rows. If I try to talk about wanting to lose fat around my midsection, I am immediately put into the judgmental bitchy girl category.
So then all of those thoughts, and the things I want to talk about get focused here. I can talk about it here, so I do; it’s not that body image issues are all that I focus on, they’re just weighted here because it’s an accepting environment. Does that make any sense?
My goals are ability focused, I have a list of stuff I want to do, and am slowly making progress towards it, and I do talk about it, but when it’s grind time, there’s not much to discuss, it’s mostly just doing. So I log, but then discuss my shoes.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
I meant kwYm. not what I mean, lol.
Life is a balance!
And I understand about finding things that we can still do. I started wearing my pedometer again and am really geeking out with it.
I like your inverted rows and push ups…how are doing those btw? I mean, by incline you mean off the bench or what?[/quote]
Ah!
I’m using the smith machine, at the lowest bar setting. It’s one of the only ways my wrists don’t complain. I should probably move to DBs on the floor soon, but I don’t know if I can.
only one way to find out.
[quote]Patch2 wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
[quote]Patch2 wrote:
[quote]2busy wrote:
I’m going to try a yoga class.
There are alot of cute girls in them.[/quote]
Dude, you don’t want to be the guy that goes to class to hit on girls. Go to class to feel better, maybe catch a few images for the mental Rolodex (is that still a thing?), but don’t go looking for sexy time. [/quote]
My sister teaches the yoga class at the gym…
There would be no looking for sexy time, she would be picking on me.[/quote]
Oh, dude, then do it.
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I stopped by to say hi to my sister just before the yoga class started.
She told the class over the speakers I will be doing the class next Monday…
are BAMF supposed to care if they have little love handles? I thought BAMF was about being strong and agile and quick and just generally wonderfully bad 
I have some belly fat. fuck it. I can deadlift 300lbs.
Big Yeah on the X shape: shoulders/smaller waist/ and BOOM hips
Oh. I haz 41" shoulders too gorl! An my shoulders are NOT fucking around.
SRS. BIZNASS.
You have good proportions - that’s a start. My hips are similar but I don’t have the boobage to balance it out. Fortunately, like a certain brand of sanitary towel, I have wings. Work your back a lot - it helps. It’s easier to grow lats than widen your shoulders, at least, I find it is.
Good progress at any rate. Inch loss is always good. And focussing on abilities is better. Setting goals like lifting x amount of weight or running x miles or x number of sprintervals is more tangible than saying you want to lose some fat.
you had me at ‘pizza’…
sigh
fuck YES on x factor
I <3 brown juggs
and YESYESYES xfactor
looking good.
I liked the shiny shirt pics too
you might like alexander technique
it is a breathing and relaxation
hokus pokus that helps realign things like the neck.
you know I am broken neck guru yes?
apply heat- and stupid hot crazee showers
someone mentioned the two lx ball thing
do it for your thoracic, neck pain isn’t always localized.
Drive by photobomb, since I don’t think I’ll be at the computer today and can’t post pics from my phone. I’ll be a little more BAMFy in here, since it seems to be needed.
No classes just meetings all day, so guess who’s wearing a totally fitted outfit?
lookin BAMF to me
curvy and tight, what’s not to like?