Your workout sounds puketastic. Are you doing the supersets to help you recomp? (I’m in that place too, since none of my clothes fit properly. Oops).
no sarcasm, glad to have you with us once again~
(grabs a cupcake)
(runs tongue across the top)
(makes yukky face)
oooohh - this doesn’t taste like…well…it tastes like vanilla, not…well, you know.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
love all the supersets!!!
do you plan them out yourself? We can borrow ideas from each other :)[/quote]
Nah, I have a CPT that I see once in a while when I get stuck or need to shake it up a bit. I hate training like this, but I get the best results from it. I would rather do just body parts or splits, but when I am trying to fit back into my work clothes I will do whatever it takes! You are more than welcome to borrow/use any ideas 
Cal: I totally hear you on the wardrobe issue. I have managed to amass a respectable closet, sadly everything is a size 4 or 6 and these days I am pushing 6 or 8. As for ‘puketastic’ just wait until Friday…
Woke up and stepped on the scale proceeded curse up a storm and almost shattered the thing. I?ve been trying to stay away from it. It is not a healthy thing. The mirror fucks with me as well.
Still a buck forty. Drives me bat shit. So of course I flip and begin trying on everything in my closet that I couldn?t breathe in before and? fuck me what do you know? Most of it fits; no it all fits. Not all of it as comfortable as I would like, but we are getting there. Huzzah! I will test my body fat tomorrow (BEI), but I don?t trust the accuracy of the damn thing, I try to just chart trends with it but the readings fluctuate so much.
Easy day at the gym:
Rotator cuff pre-hab stuff
30 min precor
30 min walking on treadmill on incline
Caught up on some light reading
Eats:
Higher Carb/Higher Cal Day (P 130/C 160/F 30)
M1: Oats, Greek yogurt, banana, strawberries ? coffee with H&H
M2: Ezekiel bread, turkey, hummus, apple
M3: Chicken breast, brussel sprouts, Japanese sweet potato and a couple of little blue potatoes (these rock and they are loaded with antioxidants).
M4: Protein pancake with peanut butter
So I started a new protocol on Friday. I had been checking out a Biosignature thread and it was pretty interesting. Many of the ideas/protocols are eerily similar to what a good Naturopathic Doctor would do for patients so I put myself on an estrogen modulating/detox protocol. Perhaps it will help with the junk-in-my trunk. Can?t hurt.
I am also trying to work on my digestion, most people use betaine/HCl supplements at meals. They are too strong for me so I?ve been using bitters before meals and adding lemon to my water. So far, so good.
Dentist tomorrow…JOY! (at least he is hot!)
Congratulations on the wardrobe progress - there’s obviously some recomping going on there.
The eats sound tasty - I had some purple potatoes once - wonder if they’re similar?
I have gotten to the point where I don’t care what my weight is, but how I look and what’s my body fat percentage is.
Of course, it’s gives me something else to not be happy about…
[quote]Edgy wrote:
no sarcasm, glad to have you with us once again~
(grabs a cupcake)
(runs tongue across the top)
(makes yukky face)
oooohh - this doesn’t taste like…well…it tastes like vanilla, not…well, you know.[/quote]
Cal: Yes, purple potatoes/blue potatoes same thing. Technically I think they are called purple, I find blue food erotic so I chose to dub them thusly.
2busy: I know, I know. It is one of those head games with me. I know it means jack shit, but it is a concrete #. It is data. As I mentioned the mirror fucks with me and I don’t trust BF calculations with the bioelectrical impedence devices. Especially for females. I need to find someone gifted with calipers.
Tape measure never lies.
[quote]Cal Jones wrote:
Tape measure never lies.[/quote]
It always lies when I am holding it. I never get the same spot twice and always pull to tight to try to fudge the #s. I need a professional measurer. Like him…
Ran into a student at the gym today. I hate that. I like to train in shorts or yoga pants and wife beaters when I am at my gym. If I train in the University rec center then I dress in track pants and tees. At least it was a female. Grant it she was wearing a similar outfit, but I am tattooed and rather muscular, almost twice her age and a professor. Awkward.
Stopped to have dinner with my Mom and didn?t end up coming home and drinking or raiding the fridge. Huge progress! Hahaha. Our relationship is strained to say the least, but we are working on it.
Training (all for 10 reps):
Superset 1
Row Machine: 35/35/40
Seated incline DB bicep hammer curls: 15/15/15
Bench Step/knee tuck w 1 arm DB shoulder press: 15/15/15- 10 reps each leg (ffffuuuuu)
Superset 2
On peck deck
Chest fly: 65/75/80
Rear Delt fly: 50/60/65
Superset 3
Flat DB Press: 30/35/35 (like buttah)
Skull crushers: 20/30/30
Superset 4:
Hanging Straight leg raises alternated with single leg bent knee raises. I look like an ass doing these. Very invisible bicyclesque.
15min HIIT (treadmill sprints)
This is the easy routine. The next one sucks balls.
Eats: (P 155/C 130/F 40)
M1: Greek yogurt, fiber cereal, blueberries, tea
M2: Protein French toast (Ezekiel bread, egg whites, protein powder, and cinnamon), low cal syrup, strawberries ? Americano w h&h
M3: Chicken and brussel sprouts
M4: Beef, salad, small slice of plain pizza, small cannoli, 1 glass of cabernet
I will probably take tomorrow off from training. I have to see my doc as I am in the same boat as MiM with the thyroid and my blood pressure is being retarded. I also must pop by the office to send out some grad school recommendations, then off to my massage (holy fuck, I can?t wait!) May or may not have my REAL free meal tomorrow, I was just practicing today.
Sorry to here about the thyroid issues.
Diverse menu, lol @ the cabernet
I understand the concerns about BF measurement.
I’ve never been happy with my mine. Inconstancy, sigh.
Massage? Lucky.
I could think of other things to do with him than have him measure my fat bits.
Sorry to hear you’re in the dodgy thyroid camp as well. I’m pretty sure I’ll be heading there myself as my mother has it and I’m physiologically similar. I already put weight on easily as it is. Maybe you’d do better lowering the carbs a bit and sticking with a more Paleo-type diet. I know I am healthier when I stay away from grains (and sugar).
Blood pressure is on the low side but the downside is that my extremities get cold very quickly and I sometimes grey out standing up too quickly or doing gymnastic-type stuff. I’m happy it stays that way, though, as both my mother and father have had strokes and I definitely don’t want to follow suit.
Hope all goes well.
MY BP has been high and I’ve been having heart palpitations like a mutha…especially towards the evening when I’m just plain worn out.
Not sure if there is anything to do about it. Hoping it goes away as I get better.
I’m sorry your gym encounter with the student was a little awkward, but I have to say, if I was that student I’d be impressed! So far I’ve run into two professors (both male and older) while at the gym and I was thoroughly disappointed to the point of losing respect for them. I felt like I could have knocked either over with a strong breath. You should be proud of your body and especially of your training here. Students need to see that so they know they don’t have to end up like my professors.
I once ran into my dentist at the gym - she said it was awful because she kept running into her patients who would come and talk to her, when she just wanted to be left alone to do her workout. I didn’t see her there again so I guess she found another gym.
[quote]Doc L wrote:
Ran into a student at the gym today. I hate that. I like to train in shorts or yoga pants and wife beaters when I am at my gym. If I train in the University rec center then I dress in track pants and tees. At least it was a female. Grant it she was wearing a similar outfit, but I am tattooed and rather muscular, almost twice her age and a professor. Awkward.[/quote]
This is why I don’t train at the campus gym.
2busy: Mmmm massage FTW! Although I will say it is a bit more PT than massage where I go. Lots of stretching and painful ART, less relaxing but more effective.
Cal: Haha, yeah I could think of many tasks for him as well! I have, and generally tend to eat more paleo but in the past I have gotten my best results carb cycling. I don’t eat a shitload of grains but I am blood type A and “supposedly” we can handle them. I fiddle but admit that I can do more to ‘clean it up’.
In my previous line of work, low blood pressure and orthostatic hypotension are signs that your adrenal glands are a bit toasty. From a holistic perspective, low is almost as bad as high. Just sayin’
MiM: That sucks and is most likely due to the thyroid hormone (although tons of caffeine doesn’t help either which is part of my issues, haha). There is such a delicate balance between getting enough hormone so you feel good while minimizing the cardiovascular side effects. If you don’t mind me asking, are you on Synthroid, Armour or other?
Ironcross: Hey thanks! Really nice stuff to hear
Patch2: Thanks for stopping in! I think you misunderstood. I dress appropriately to interact with students when at the campus gym. At my private gym I dress differently, which is where I ran into said student.
I know that I should expect to see students anywhere at anytime and perhaps I should keep that more in the forefront of my mind before I get dressed. (no sarcasm or snark, for realz)
[quote]Doc L wrote:
before I get dressed. [/quote]
Welcome back Shuga! I’ve missed oogaling that incredibly, voluptuous, sweet sweet ass of yours.
Post pics soon!!
I’d agree there. Back in 2007 I tried Crossfit (didn’t go to an affiliate - just followed the WoDs as best I could at my local) to try and get leaner and ended up burning myself out big time. Got every virus going for about 8 months (Cold, flu, bronchitis, a nasty bout of cystitis and a 48 hour vomiting bug) and I was greying out a lot.
Realised my old bod couldn’t hack doing intense metabolic workouts quite so frequently so I went back to power-type training with lots of rest between sets, and took adrenal glandulars. It seemed to work and I learned my lesson!