alright you whiny little bitch wash the sand outta your panties and listen up.
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how many times in one post do we need to hear that you’re weak? You’re certainly not, as you’ve proven to us time and time again. You got a rep PR and equaled your best bench effort. Fucking hell. Congrats anyway.
you are not walking into the gym with the right attitude. you certainly are not walking up to the barbell and dumbells with the right attitude. ruminate all you want, power doesn’t come from a good meditation until you learn to pick a fight with that weight, and gravity, harness every bit of anger, resentment, sadness, and joy that you’ve ever felt, and then leave it with the weight.
Learn to fuck with your own head. Get your adrenaline going, use it, and leave it at the gym. Enjoy the endophins on the way home. Think of it as assassin meditation. It may take a few weeks to be able to make smooth transitions, but you can practice when you’re not in the gym, too.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
alright you whiny little bitch wash the sand outta your panties and listen up. [/quote]
I’m now nekkid next to a huge pile of wet sand.
Thanks mistress (for the attitude adjustment).
[quote]you are not walking into the gym with the right attitude. you certainly are not walking up to the barbell and dumbells with the right attitude. ruminate all you want, power doesn’t come from a good meditation until you learn to pick a fight with that weight, and gravity, harness every bit of anger, resentment, sadness, and joy that you’ve ever felt, and then leave it with the weight.
Learn to fuck with your own head. Get your adrenaline going, use it, and leave it at the gym. Enjoy the endophins on the way home. Think of it as assassin meditation. It may take a few weeks to be able to make smooth transitions, but you can practice when you’re not in the gym, too. [/quote]
I haven’t learned how to do this at all. Either the pain is real and in real time, and I’ll do mental gymnastics to avoid it, or I’m a sickeningly upbeat, sunny sort of gal. A puzzle that will be solved.
[quote]nlmain wrote:
Hey Kimba I’m checking in everyday wondering if this is the day we get to see you awesome boudoire pics and such:) We all have days like those but you kept pushing. That builds muscles in the brain, super strong character muscles. You just don’t see them as much as biceps.[/quote]
If I could get my photographer pinned down to a date for this shoot, then all of us would be happy. grrrr.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
alright you whiny little bitch wash the sand outta your panties and listen up. [/quote]
I’m now nekkid next to a huge pile of wet sand.[/quote]
claire’s grumpiness is good for somethin!!!
i was going to jump you on the same thing though. damn woman quit it with the weak stuff. weak is staying on the couch and whining that you should be at the gym.
[quote]CBear84 wrote:
alright you whiny little bitch wash the sand outta your panties and listen up. [/quote]
I’m now nekkid next to a huge pile of wet sand.[/quote]
claire’s grumpiness is good for somethin!!!
i was going to jump you on the same thing though. damn woman quit it with the weak stuff. weak is staying on the couch and whining that you should be at the gym. [/quote]
I love the tough-love.
So, I mentioned awhile back that I was going to track my nutrition on Fitday for awhile to see where I was at with diet. My goal is maintenance of weight and muscle mass. Previous to this, I had absolutely no idea what calorie level I was eating at or what my macro breakdowns were.
I managed to log for about 10 days before (1) getting bored with it and (2) figuring out that by watching every calorie I was actually CHANGING what I was eating. Both because I didn’t want to eat new stuff that I’d have to work at entering, and because I wanted to only report “good” food and “good” calorie intake, whatever that is.
The average calorie intake over all the days was 1805, broken down P24/F37/C38/Alcohol 1%. The lowest day was 1486 and the highest day was 2180. My protein intake averaged 105.8 g/day.
My weight and muscle mass remained pretty steady throughout this time, with AM weight being 110.5 - 112.5 which is normal for me. I was tracking during a deload week, so unfortunately I couldn’t really correlate gains in the weight room with nutrition.
I am much happier NOT watching my food intake like a hawk. So I won’t be micromanaging my nutrition to make weight training gains. Maybe I’ll try for more calories on lifting days, but that probably happens naturally anyways.
speaking of, what DO you eat? I find it interesting that you also limit even the starchy carbs…I dont always feel I ‘need,’ them, but know I can have them pre and pwo…sometimes I just dont want to!
I’d rather have fats than carbs(good fats of course)
[quote]mom-in-MD wrote:
speaking of, what DO you eat? [/quote]
Here is a typical day for me:
Breakfast
1/2 cup oatmeal
1/4 cup 2% milk
3/4 scoop Grow Whey natural flavor
1 banana
1/8 cup frozen blueberries
1/8 cup slivered blanched almonds
Green tea
Morning Snack
Almonds
Lunch
Spinach salad
1/2 an avocado
tomato and carrot
balsamic vinegar
2 hardboiled eggs on top or left-over chicken breast/pork/salmon etc.
Handful of Stacey’s Cinnamon Sugar pita chips (love these)
Snack (if I’m hungry and I’m not always hungry)
Cottage cheese or greek yogurt with some almonds and/or fruit or honey or an apple with peanut butter
Dinner
Turkey chili with kidney beans, onion & green pepper
Liberal amount of shredded cheese on top
Handful of tortilla chips
Some cut up pineapple or cantaloupe
a couple of dark chocolate covered almonds
Another typical dinner is a lean protein like fish, scallops, chicken (or not so lean protein like pork or chicken sausages) plus salad and/or squash or kale or another veggie. I’m known around my house as the “vegetable vacuum” – love my veggies.
On lifting days I’ll have a scoop of Surge in water during and after.
I do really limit starchy carbs like bread, grains and cereal, and sugars including honey. I feel better not eating too much of this stuff. And, I’m totally able to just have a little bit when I’m having a starchy carb craving.
We eat a lot of the same foods, Kimba, but I take in far more calories . . . probably close to 3,000/day. I have tried to track my food intake in the past but find that I do exactly what you do . . . start eating as though I’m. being. watched.
I too, eat the same foods, minus the handfuls of goodies here and there…and no fruit at night…I dont eat by the clock tho,or track macros, and my appetite varies…eat when hungry, stop when full
I try to do carbs in the first half of the day, fats at night…but lately, I havent been eating many carbs!
Snapper, you must train intensely and frequently to burn up 3000 calories a day! Or have a rocket fuel metabolism. If I regularly ate more calories than I do, I know that I couldn’t maintain my weight. And I’m not entirely sure that I could train any harder without really risking injury.
Nutrition is so interesting. Everyone reacts to differing diets so individually.
MIM, handfuls of goodies are a real downfall. Correct me if I’m wrong, but you are now getting your first “taste” so to speak of maintaining a sudden weight loss. Please be careful with that, K?
yes, I know…
I know allll about the bites licks and tastes and how they can add up…
Don’t do the things that got you overweight to begin with(for me, thats platefuls of pasta and lack of exercise) but I was pregnant on bed rest, if thats any excuse! which it’s not…
so, yes, I will and AM being careful Maintainence= equals same habits different day…FOREVER!
Kimba, thanks for sharing your little nutritional experiment. I’m also currently in the business of maintaining, and like I said, I use fitday, so its interesting to see how its worked for you.
I find that when Im more lax on my food watching I automatically eat +/- 200 cals of maintenance (unless I know I’m going balls to the walls on some serious eats). So for me, fitday actually helped me conceptualize how much of the right foods are the right amount to be satiating.
I haven’t learned how to do this at all. Either the pain is real and in real time, and I’ll do mental gymnastics to avoid it, or I’m a sickeningly upbeat, sunny sort of gal. A puzzle that will be solved.[/quote]
It takes a while to learn how to focus through a pain that you’re willingly putting your body through, but once you achieve that ability it’ll almost make you feel high.
I come at it from the opposite side. I learned to deal with pain through yoga which basically forces you to stay completely present in the moment and accept what’s happening, maybe even come to find that you like experiencing it.
Using anger to get through sets works for many people, but so does extreme focus without calling on “rage stores”. Find something to stare at, think about your breath, and focus on the sensation of pushing with everything you have instead of mentally running from it.
I haven’t learned how to do this at all. Either the pain is real and in real time, and I’ll do mental gymnastics to avoid it, or I’m a sickeningly upbeat, sunny sort of gal. A puzzle that will be solved.[/quote]
It takes a while to learn how to focus through a pain that you’re willingly putting your body through, but once you achieve that ability it’ll almost make you feel high.
I come at it from the opposite side. I learned to deal with pain through yoga which basically forces you to stay completely present in the moment and accept what’s happening, maybe even come to find that you like experiencing it.
Using anger to get through sets works for many people, but so does extreme focus without calling on “rage stores”. Find something to stare at, think about your breath, and focus on the sensation of pushing with everything you have instead of mentally running from it.[/quote]
Oleena, thanks so much for your thoughts. That is very useful.
