Long overdue...

Yes, that's right. I am a lazy ass. I should be updating this more regularly, but out of sheer lack of will power to force myself to go to my car and get my lifting journal out, I haven't. So much for wanting to cover 10,000 steps a day...

Anyway, I won't bore you with the details. Here's the latest workout D and I did yesterday. I think we have a week or two more before we wrap up phase 1 with the AMRAP workouts (oh god...):

Squats (sets/reps/weight): 2/10/75#
push-ups: 2/15/bw -- I was hoping to increase the reps by now, but the last two or three of these are still kicking my ass. I will say the first five or ten are a lot easier than when we first started.
seated rows: 2/10/75#
step-ups: 2/10/55#
prone-jackknife: 2/12/bw

On a side note, we've run into a couple of very helpful strangers at the gym who've offered us some good advice on form. It makes me wonder what else I've been doing wrong...

After working out last night, I went to a bible study group, where I met a literal doubting Thomas (his name is Thomas, haha). I told him what D and I are trying to accomplish, and the first thing he said to me was "be careful, you don't wanna do too much weight because you don't want to get bulky, right?" Ugh... and *sigh* It makes me wanna get bulky just so i can kick his ass. Just kidding. That wouldn't be very Christian of me. :P

I will say, tho, that talking to ppl like that just makes me wanna do it more so i can prove them wrong. Now if I can only clean up the eating and get lean to show off the awesomeness that is developing under my layer of flab (I've noticed my shoulders have great tone... too bad the arm flab masks it, dammit)!

work and holidays really mess with my motivation to work out. I was supposed to work out on my own on Thursday and Saturday last week while D was in Vegas. Did I? noooooooope.

what did I do instead? I went out to Chipotle on Thursday with my bro and ate half a burrito bowl (I would get credit for not eating the whole thing except that I finished it off later that night... dammit).
Friday was July 4th, which started off with McDonald's Bfast (nailing my coffin shut here), a burrito, iced vanilla late from coffee bean, wine tasting in Santa Barbara followed by an ice cream cone at the pier, and vegetables and pasta for dinner. H-ohhh boy.
We didn't get back from SB until about 2 in the morning, so I spent Saturday recovering from the previous day. Had a "sensible" late breakfast, and skipped lunch. Went up to LA for dinner at C&O Trattoria with the bro again, where I managed to stop myself from eating the entire pasta dish... but not before I had eaten five or six (or eight) garlic knots. Ay me.

By the time Sunday rolled around, I was feeling pretty guilty about having gorged myself all weekend and not worked out, so I went to the gym:

exercise: (sets/reps/weight)
squats: 2/12/65#
push-ups: 2/12/bw
seated row: 2/12/70#
step-up: 2/12/2x20#
prone jackknife: 2/10/bw

I am really starting to hate step-ups. They are te.di.ous. I upped the weight considerably from last workout cuz according to alwyn's plan, i'm cutting down on reps. This is where i was before my long-ass break from working out when i moved down to so-cal. It'll be interesting to see how far i get this time.

I was still feeling guilty about not working out all weekend, so I decided to catch up by going to the gym again last night (two days in a row is not recommended, so I didn't push myself):

deadlift: 2/12/65#
dumbbell shoulder press: 2/12/2x15#
wide-grip lat pull-down: 2/12/70# (second set at 80#... ugh... might be too much)
lunge: 2/12/2x15# (forearms got tired, so switched the second set to a 40# bar)
swiss-ball crunch: 2/20/bw

i have another workout scheduled with D tonight. I'm not too sore, so I think I should be able to manage it. Hopefully i'm not ruining myself by doing these workouts back-to-back. Moral of the story? DO NOT PUT OFF WORKING OUT AND TRY TO CATCH UP!!!

today was my day off, so any activity was "bonus."
I went for a walk with Alfie, and got some NEPA in by making multiple trips from my car to my office, and to clinic. Wish I'd worn my pedometer, cuz I bet it added up!

really need to clean up my eating, cuz I can feel my core flab building up again. I managed to not eat too terribly today... not unhealthy food; prolly just too much of it. :)

ah well. Tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it!

Ain't nothin' but a G thang, baby

and by 'G thang,' I mean Girl thing.

I decided to join the club and start a fitness blog.  If you wanna read the inner workings of my mind, go here. It may not be public for long, tho, because I'm gonna start teaching soon, and I don't want my students to read my rants about how terrible they or I have been in clinic.  :P

   

Daph3000 and I have been consistently working out for a week, and I am damn proud of us.  We are 4 workouts into Phase 1 of the NROL for Women workout, and are showing the boys how it's done.  

I start work this week, so my schedule's gonna change, but hopefully we can still keep a workable schedule for us both to follow.  I'd hate to have to start over yet again.

I wimped out on my workout today and lifted the same amount of weight as I did last workout because I was feeling like sh*t all day, but D dropped it like it's hot (in the 4 workouts that we've done, she's lifting as much weight as I am in most of the exercises, and has passed me in some of them!):

WORKOUT B2 (how come I can't underline??):

deadlifts (sets/reps/weight): 2/15/50

overhead dumbbell press: 2/15/2x15

wide grip lat pulldowns: 2/15/65

lunges: 2/15/2x15

swiss ball crunches: 2/15/bw

it's not a good time to weigh and measure myself (i'm sparing you from tmi), and I don't think I want the www to know my stats, but I'll post in the form of X+/-.  Hopefully it'll all be minuses, but realistically, I'm aiming for mostly minuses.