The bucket of candy. See those pretzles with the giant chocolate rats…sweet and salty is so delightful.
One of the ten bazillion reasons I love living alone.
No halloween candy in mah house.
story of my frickin life. Stay at home Mom here!!! lol
fingers crossed for gymnastics videos*
Ok and a question too–I’ve been carb cycling similar to what you described—carb free (ish) on non-training days, then higher carbs on training days. But I notice that I feel more drained on training days doing this, I’m not sure if it’s because I don’t have carbs stored from the day before…?I’ve almost thought about doing higher carb days the day before training and keeping carbs lower training days, aside from post work out. So long question short, do you notice this energy shift at all?
I’m not Nadia…but I know Maschy eats in a similar fashion Warrior Diet style. Nibbles on dairy, protein, nuts, etc through the day, then a big dinner at night.
Cho- only one way to find out!!
i think you husband needs a new bar for christmas too 
Hallowed: I actually think one of the reasons my husband and I have stayed happily married is because our junk food spheres do not overlap. I will never come home from work to find my stash of bread products or cookies decimated by him…and I don’t eat his spicy chips. Of course, this is not helpful when dieting. Eat the fucking candy please!
Mim: Stay at home mom is the hardest job. Yesterday I did laundry as ineffeciently as possible. I felt like a caged animal. It soothed me to take an extra 80 billion trips up and down the stairs.
Lula: I had a little bit of trouble with my energy levels when I first cut back on the carbs. I got around it by trying to shovel some carbs down while training. One of the joys of training at home is that you can eat spoonfuls of oatmeal between squat sets. The effect was probably purely psychological, but it still helped me–that or the extra rest while I cooked the oats… Right now I feel like my body runs like a hybrid car. I ran this morning after eating low carb yesterday and felt like a rockstar.
Frenchie: I’m having my doubts about splurging on a new bar now…I dont’t think HE actually wants one. We’ll see.
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I ate zero dirty carbs yesterday. Today is another low carb day for me. And possibly another stay at home with a sick child day.
I don’t do well missing work. By the end of the day yesterday, I was grumpy as fuck.
Gymnastics. An achy shoulder kept me from doing much. I thought about not going, but I needed out of the house. I worked basics. Still trying to improve balance, flexibility, control. It would also be nice if I would keep my legs STRAIGHT!
This am. It was dark and cold. But I got up and ran. 6 miles. Feels great to be strong and well conditioned. To be able to move freely and effortlessly by the force of your own body. I Can’t imagine what it feels like not to be able to run or move with ease. I am lucky. And I will not be grumpy as fuck today.
Repetition–the training methodology of gymnasts. Do it, do it again, and then again, and again…
Actually Lula–as I think about it–I wasn’t training very hard for the bulk of my cut because I was nursing the sciatica. It is certainly much easier to diet when you are not squatting and deadlifting.
Watching that last cartwheel/walkover video make me realize why you’re so successful at lifting. You have serious musculature. I have been trying to build that physique for years. It just won’t happen for me. I just am lanky with the exception of my thighs.
I could watch you doing gymnastics all day. You have such wonderful poise and flexibility and whilst I know you beat yourself up for not being perfect, you move in a way that I can only dream of.
I’m glad your sciatica has improved and you’re running pain free.
Ah Lawd! The gymnastics… frakking awesome awesome awesome.
I’m get a crush.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Watching that last cartwheel/walkover video make me realize why you’re so successful at lifting. You have serious musculature. I have been trying to build that physique for years. It just won’t happen for me. I just am lanky with the exception of my thighs. [/quote]
Snap: We may have different body types. But you give more power to that and to something that you can’t change about yourself than I ever would.
I think my back is bigger and stronger than yours because we train differently. I routinely work in a much higher rep range than you do. I rep the shit out of what are heavy for me dls and I bust my ass at pullups every week–and I have since I started lifting.
You want a back like mine. Train like me. 5-3-1 + BBB + carbs= muscle. And pullups. Lots. ANd then some more–until you have a relationship with your pullup bar that sometimes makes you want to weep.
Let’s see it. I dare you. Or don’t and prove yourself right.
lol. i get jealous of nadia’s back, too… but yeah, she did her time with that pull-up bar, alright. once i’m moved in somewhere i’ll sort out a pull-up bar and really get stuck into them methinks. if i can only make it to the gym 3x a week i should have at least one serious training session at home…
your gymnastics is so graceful and controlled nadia!
[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Watching that last cartwheel/walkover video make me realize why you’re so successful at lifting. You have serious musculature. I have been trying to build that physique for years. It just won’t happen for me. I just am lanky with the exception of my thighs. [/quote]
Snap: We may have different body types. But you give more power to that and to something that you can’t change about yourself than I ever would.
I think my back is bigger and stronger than yours because we train differently. I routinely work in a much higher rep range than you do. I rep the shit out of what are heavy for me dls and I bust my ass at pullups every week–and I have since I started lifting.
You want a back like mine. Train like me. 5-3-1 + BBB + carbs= muscle. And pullups. Lots. ANd then some more–until you have a relationship with your pullup bar that sometimes makes you want to weep.
Let’s see it. I dare you. Or don’t and prove yourself right. [/quote]
I didn’t expect that kind of response.
I’ve been seriously lifting for six years. I spent the first three years training “high” reps (8+) and worked out with a trainer for a time and then an Oly lifter training partner, both of whom pushed me very hard. And I definitely built some musculature. But nothing approximating what you possess. I continue to train my accessory work in the 8-12 rep range.
I do believe that people are genetically designed to have a certain build. Some people are far more mesomorphic than others. I have to heartily disagree that I would ever build upper body mass like yours. Kimba trains 5/3/1 with BBB but has a very similar upper body to mine (extremely lean with minimal mass) even though she’s been following the same program as you for some time. I think it’s naive to assume that following a particular program will give everyone the same physique results. Everybody’s body reacts differently to training. And some people build muscle way more easily than others (hard gainers).
I have a theory that having been a competitive gymnast gives you a huge advantage. Your body probably created neural pathways that are not accessible to someone who starts lifting at 40 years old. Of course, that’s just a theory I have.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Watching that last cartwheel/walkover video make me realize why you’re so successful at lifting. You have serious musculature. I have been trying to build that physique for years. It just won’t happen for me. I just am lanky with the exception of my thighs. [/quote]
Snap: We may have different body types. But you give more power to that and to something that you can’t change about yourself than I ever would.
I think my back is bigger and stronger than yours because we train differently. I routinely work in a much higher rep range than you do. I rep the shit out of what are heavy for me dls and I bust my ass at pullups every week–and I have since I started lifting.
You want a back like mine. Train like me. 5-3-1 + BBB + carbs= muscle. And pullups. Lots. ANd then some more–until you have a relationship with your pullup bar that sometimes makes you want to weep.
Let’s see it. I dare you. Or don’t and prove yourself right. [/quote]
I didn’t expect that kind of response.
I’ve been seriously lifting for six years. I spent the first three years training “high” reps (8+) and worked out with a trainer for a time and then an Oly lifter training partner, both of whom pushed me very hard. And I definitely built some musculature. But nothing approximating what you possess. I continue to train my accessory work in the 8-12 rep range.
I do believe that people are genetically designed to have a certain build. Some people are far more mesomorphic than others. I have to heartily disagree that I would ever build upper body mass like yours. Kimba trains 5/3/1 with BBB but has a very similar upper body to mine (extremely lean with minimal mass) even though she’s been following the same program as you for some time. I think it’s naive to assume that following a particular program will give everyone the same physique results. Everybody’s body reacts differently to training. And some people build muscle way more easily than others (hard gainers).
I have a theory that having been a competitive gymnast gives you a huge advantage. Your body probably created neural pathways that are not accessible to someone who starts lifting at 40 years old. Of course, that’s just a theory I have.[/quote]
Now this is an interesting topic! And I’lll have to agree with Snapper.
You simply can’t run the same training template and assume the same results. Surely, they will be similar, but without knowing what kind of training background a person has had, as well as their genetic potential, you won’t really know whether a kind of training will work for them or not.
I was actually just discussing this with someone the other day re: my glute firing issue. I argued that my glutes not firing are due to them being weak, and he argued that by the mere fact that I have been a soccer player since childhood having weak glutes would be somewhat improbable and thus my glute issue is really symptomatic of a different problem.
I guess what I’m trying to say is that I can run the same exact program as someone who is looking to strengthen their glutes and while they will have maximal results, I on the other hand can do hip thrusts and glute bridges until the cows come home, but won’t see any progress (and in my case, may actually see negative results).
Great discussion ladies 
[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
you have a relationship with your pullup bar that sometimes makes you want to weep.
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Btw, this line is fucking incredible! This is why I love your log, Nadia. You’re fucking nuts. HAH!
Lovely gymastics as always, mama. Simply beautiful.
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
[quote]Nadia Comeandeat wrote:
[quote]kpsnap wrote:
Watching that last cartwheel/walkover video make me realize why you’re so successful at lifting. You have serious musculature. I have been trying to build that physique for years. It just won’t happen for me. I just am lanky with the exception of my thighs. [/quote]
Snap: We may have different body types. But you give more power to that and to something that you can’t change about yourself than I ever would.
I think my back is bigger and stronger than yours because we train differently. I routinely work in a much higher rep range than you do. I rep the shit out of what are heavy for me dls and I bust my ass at pullups every week–and I have since I started lifting.
You want a back like mine. Train like me. 5-3-1 + BBB + carbs= muscle. And pullups. Lots. ANd then some more–until you have a relationship with your pullup bar that sometimes makes you want to weep.
Let’s see it. I dare you. Or don’t and prove yourself right. [/quote]
I didn’t expect that kind of response.
I’ve been seriously lifting for six years. I spent the first three years training “high” reps (8+) and worked out with a trainer for a time and then an Oly lifter training partner, both of whom pushed me very hard. And I definitely built some musculature. But nothing approximating what you possess. I continue to train my accessory work in the 8-12 rep range.
I do believe that people are genetically designed to have a certain build. Some people are far more mesomorphic than others. I have to heartily disagree that I would ever build upper body mass like yours. Kimba trains 5/3/1 with BBB but has a very similar upper body to mine (extremely lean with minimal mass) even though she’s been following the same program as you for some time. I think it’s naive to assume that following a particular program will give everyone the same physique results. Everybody’s body reacts differently to training. And some people build muscle way more easily than others (hard gainers).
I have a theory that having been a competitive gymnast gives you a huge advantage. Your body probably created neural pathways that are not accessible to someone who starts lifting at 40 years old. Of course, that’s just a theory I have.[/quote]
Since april of 2009, I have been training to accomplish a goal of 25 pullups. I started with 5 sets of 2 reps. The back musculature I possess is born of those efforts. Last year I hit 23. This year I hit 24. Do you know how much I wanted that last rep? How much missing that goal a second time around hurts me? How hard and how consistently I have trained to reach that goal?
YOur willingness to reduce my accomplishments to the fact that I was a gymnast when I was 13 and have a certain body type is offensive to me–especially this week. Maybe if my arms were just a wee bit shorter I would have gotten that last rep or perhaps one more year in gymnastics would have done it for me…what do you thinK? What’s your theory?
You have no idea how hard I train. How much emotion and effort and work I put in to get the results that I have gotten. And that is why you didn’t expect the response that you got.
You can justify your training results however you want. You don’t get to minimize mine. Thanks.
And this is why I love you even more. There is definitely something to say about individual will. If you want it bad enough you gotta be hungry for it. Makes me think about all those times I said I would tryout for the pro league and never did.
could nutrition have something to do with it, too? i don’t know…
typically when people say they are ‘hard gainers’ over on the bodybuilding forum people tell them to eat more…