What the hell is a hello dolly?
Looking at you, your quads are pretty damned good - just need to bring up the hams and booty to balance out your, uh, assets. Jumping squats (no weight) are pretty good for that.
Be sure to log your running! I’m excited to read about it.
hehe LP…not gonna let me outta this one, huh? Thats cool 
I’d like to do a meet early next Spring, but the schedules don’t go that far out just yet…from what I can see anyway… So starting soon, I’d like to work a program that focuses on strength.
Just go FOR IT! Which also means, I have to eat, which I’m kinda nervous about. But as long as I focus on eating clean food, there shouldn’t be a reason why couldn’t gain strength/maintain body comp…
Thoughts??
Cal- yes, I need to ‘bring up my assets.’ haha…hello dollies are what we called em in the military…just the opposite of scissor kicks. Instead of up and down, your going out and in…
Nadia!!!
Ok, today I walked for 5 minutes, then alternated 60s jog w/90s walk for a total of 20 minutes or 8 intervals…
Not bad…and my shoes are awesome!! 
I can’t even imagine running a whole 5k…that will be something new and exciting. A different sort of challenge anyway.
And so far my knees feel great!
Mim: Excellent about your knees. And don’t look too far ahead. This running experience will leave you marveling at your body’s ability to adapt. Your heart is an extraordinary muscle and by far the easiest to train! I’m glad you’re excited. I’m excited for you too.
Thanks!
And I’m excited that your excited that I’m excited!
I’m trying to avoid the kitchen right now…made spaghetti for the kidlets…pasta is my kryptonite.
Hola, Betty!!
So, much going on here…new shoes, new rack…Oh, my!
You’ve been busy! I think your days have extra hours in them or something…you’re daily activities are mind boggling sometimes.
Good luck with the running. Awesome news that your knees are feeling fine!
I was also curious about the hello dollies. Thanks for the explanation.
Very excited to see you shift towards strength focused training. And you will have no trouble eating clean if you do the CSA. You will be eating so much veg that it is impossible to get your diet too far off track. Veggies FTW!
Do a meet! Awww yeaaah
Mims - You’re looking great! I think the booty-gone pic is just a weird camera angle. If you decide to do a food log, I like fitday. Free version online is plenty good. Ah running - I enjoy it sooo much. After about the first 1.5 miles, the endorphins really kick in for me. Wonder Woman! I will admit, I’m having more fun with lifting right now.
Skye!!!
Grny- lol, what do you mean? Sometimes I feel like I don’t do enough. My hours are flexible but I don’t get paid that much… I’m my own boss though, so that’s pretty cool! Honestly, I would be a stay at home mom/wife if I could figure out a way to earn a more steadier income. Even just a little bit would help. Which is why I thought the at-home training thing would be good for me!!
I’m rambling, sorry!
Veggie- we missed the deadline for the CSA…tartar sauce! So we vowed to go the local farmer’s market instead. At least that way, we can pick exactly what we want…and even travel to different ones to get different things. That would be fun for the kids and I to do during the week anyway. The list they had for the items in the share could probably feed ME. haha! For EX----
early July:
three to four pounds of new potatoes
sweet onions
Provençal herb blend
5 cucumbers
3 yellow and green summer squash
2 pounds of cherry or heirloom tomatoes
yes, looking forward to STRENGTH training, --HULKS UP-- RAWR!!!
…now to find a suitable program I could see myself sticking to. I’m leaning towards west side stuff…but I haven’t done any formal research. I also like the sound of ‘POWERBUILDING.’ 
Trav- ya, we’ll see about that!!
pPuff!! hiya! yes, I’ve had an account with fitday for a long while… glad your having fun with the lifting!!
Now off to get a quick training session in, then off to the store…need more CABBAGE!!!
I’ll leave you with this question though, for anyone to answer…I’ve not experimented with BCAA’s or creatine. My protein powder has bcaa’s in it, is that enough?? I’d like to try creatine…anyone use this??
The only supps I use are fish oil, move free a multi and I’ve been taking l-glut-amine before meals…Is coffee a supplement? 
I thought the bcaa’s would be good since I do a lot of training fasted. Not on purpose though. Just not very hungry in the morning…and the coffee pretty much blunts my appetite anyway.
re BCAA: recommend 3-6 grams of BCAAs before and after workouts; take about 3 grams for each 50 kg of bodyweight.
Pure BCAA powder is the cheapest shouldn’t cost you more than 20-30$
check to see how much BCAA you protein has and then compensate with the powder perhaps.
re creatine: I did not do the loading part. I simply take a scoop after really harsh trainings. I have not noticed much difference but then again I am not following directions. According to instructions this should be “loaded” (read high disage for a week) and then tappered of and taken daily in smaller amounts. Some people have mentionned water retention.
again you can get a really good basic creatin for cheap.
Not much help here except to say that these are cheap, have been known to work and might be worth experimenting with.
I know Chi-town mentionned only using whey and creatine.
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
The only supps I use are fish oil, move free a multi and I’ve been taking l-glut-amine before meals…Is coffee a supplement?
I thought the bcaa’s would be good since I do a lot of training fasted. Not on purpose though. Just not very hungry in the morning…and the coffee pretty much blunts my appetite anyway. [/quote]
I only take fish oil, vitamin d and some protein powder but to my understanding bcaas are good for fasted training. Some say it’s not fasted anymore however. When I run in the morning I take only coffee with a bit of cream.
I’ve never taking creatine but I eat a lot of meat so I never thought I’d get much from it. But if your meat consumption is low I think it’s recommended.
Done!
Training-
Military Press 5x5x75 - playing with seated and standing—no lowering to the chest= 10lbs more weight than last week! good or bad, I’ll take it…may be easier on the shoulders that way??
Wide grip pull ups–bench asst. 5x10
Delt triad
3x12
lat raise- 8s
seated db press-25s
front raise- 8s
3x12
db rows
3x12
lying back flies?? got a vid in case…hits the rear delts purdy good!!
I’ll upload vids when I get home…Mommy’s gotta go to the store… Play nice out there
Westside maybe eh? Seeing as I just started following the conjugate training method mahself, I’ll PM ya a bunch of links I’ve found useful, if ya like. It’s a sweet program, PR smashing all the time, and you can include a wide variety of max effort exercises and play around with bands and stuff. Fun times!
Oh, and keep kickin ass in here with everything
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Thanks for the info about the bcaas/creatine…
I’m going to try the bcaa’s first, since it makes the most sense, training wise… creatine helps you train longer, harder, faster, etc…but I feel like that should come from within, ommmmmmmmmmm
Ink- yes, links away!
As a side note, I was thinking how GREAT it would be to grow our own vegetables! Must be tricky if you don’t want to use a bunch of pesticides and what about the critters?? Lost of squirrels, rabbits, um, DEER around here!!!
…I’ll have to read up on organic growing. It would be fun…at least try a couple small things like peas/tomatos?? carrots would be good and my favorite, CABBAGE!!!
the hubby has got farming in his blood…Im sure we can figure it out!
some vids:
gettin strong Bettie-Sue…
when Hubby gets back He’ll be in for a big surprise!
Lookin great~