Woof

Yee haw!

Sat, 08 Apr 2006 05:00:45 GMT

I decided to be a little braver tonight and wrangle the free weights instead of the machines. Doing chest was...interesting. Every time I went to sit up after a set, my abs screamed "OH GOD, NO!" Haha, hm...maybe I should be a little more wary that they're not completely healed yet.

Other than that, I've been sore as FUCK since a couple days ago. Me likey.

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Weights (50 min):
30 reps/3 sets each

seated leg press (glutes, quads, hams): 95 lbs
hip adduction (inner thigh): 50 lbs
214 low row (lats, traps, delts): 40 lbs
inclined dumbbell press (chest): 20 lbs each hand (20 reps)
curved barbell curl (biceps): 25 lbs
shoulder press (delts, tris): 25 lbs

Cardio:
Treadmill (jogging)
1 mile - 12:12

Mmmmm, tasty.

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 01:43:43 GMT

Shorter workout today; just did the machines rather than free-weights, so it went faster.

Weights (50 minutes):
30 reps/3 sets each

hip adduction (inner thigh): 55 lbs.
hip abduction (ass): 40 lbs.
lower back machine (erector spinae): 75 lbs.
chest press (pecs, triceps, delts): 30 lbs.
lateral raise (delts): 20 lbs.
arm curl (biceps): 30 lbs.
abdominal machine (abs): 55 lbs.

Cardio (40 minutes):
Elliptical ski machine
Average heart rate: 180-185 bpm
Calories burned: 542

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Down to about 141 pounds now. It's falling off fast.

Mmm, exhaustion.

Mon, 28 Nov 2005 03:06:46 GMT

Today was weird with the food. I got up this morning and went to work without a chance to get something to eat. Then I went to the gym right after work, so I didn't actually get any food in me until almost six o'clock this evening.

The whole entire day I wasn't hungry. At all. Not even one little hunger pang. Hm. Must've been all the left-over sustenance from that crazy eggnog latte I had last night. LOL

Oy, now I'm deader than a doornail, and it's not even 7 p.m. yet.

Weights (1 hour):
30 reps/3 sets

Leg extension (quads): 45 lbs.
Leg Sled 202 (all major leg muscles): 80 lbs.
Cable Cross machine (back, traps, delts): 10-15 lbs.
Cable Cross machine (chest - fly method): 15 lbs.
Arm curl machine (biceps): 20 lbs.
Shoulder press (delts, triceps): 20 lbs. (or was it 30? crap...I can't remember and for some reason I forgot to write it down)
Abdominal machine (abs...obviously): 40 lbs.

Cardio (40 minutes):
Elliptical cross-country ski machine
Average heart rate: 175-180 bpm

Post-Thanksgiving workout...ugh, Jesus.

Sat, 26 Nov 2005 06:43:15 GMT

Ovary was being a little bitchy again (it's that time of the month, no wonder), so cardio was cut a little short. I hate that.

Can't tell if my abs are sore from all the damn food or from the mad workout I gave them a couple days ago.

Weights (1 hour):
30 sets/3 reps of each

Standing calf machine (calves): 30 lbs.
Hip adduction (inner thigh): 50 lbs.
214 Low Row with V-grip (back): 60 lbs.
Barbell benchpress (chest): 40 lbs.
Dumbbell curls (biceps): 12.5 lbs. each hand
Lateral raise (deltoids): 20 lbs.
Inclined leg lifts (abs)

Cardio (12 minutes):
Elliptical cross country ski machine
Average heart rate: 185 bpm

Definitely going back tomorrow. Cardio was piss-poor tonight.

La la la la.

Sun, 20 Nov 2005 08:19:01 GMT

Okay, I had WAY too long of a break from the gym. It had been 13 days since my last workout (which was crappy, I might add), and I was seriously beginning to feel like an utter blobby piece of pathetic ass. But I feel great again, yay! It's amazing how the gym cheers you up. I made sure to do a nice thorough work-out tonight.

Weights (1 hour):
30 reps/3 sets as usual

Seated leg press (quads, glutes, hams): 135 lbs.
Seated leg curl (hams): 45 lbs.
Lat pulldown (lats): 50 lbs.
Incline chest press with dumbbells: 20 lbs. each hand
Dumbbell shoulder press: 12.5 lbs. each hand (only did 3 sets of 15 because my right shoulder was popping and pinching all weird-like)
Curved barbell curls (biceps): 25 lbs.
Giant ball (abs)

Cardio (40 minutes):
Elliptical cross-country ski machine
Average heart-rate: 180
Calories burned: 575

Now I shall finish my consumption of 0-fat/low cal fish cake with lite low-sodium soy sauce. Yum.

Bwee-le-poo-pwah.

Wed, 26 Oct 2005 06:50:56 GMT

Earlier...
Me: Come on. Time to go to the gym.

Body: *whines* Nooooooooooooo, I want to sit around and do NOTHING! I want to eat and be blah!

Me: *sigh* Wellllll...

Body: PWEASE?

Me: ...NO, goddamn you! *throws yoga DVD on* if you don't want to go to the gym, then we're going to do something HERE! You WILL do something!

Body: *wibble* *does yoga*

Me: That's more like it. Bitch.

20 minutes later

Body: Ooooh, I'm all nice and warmed up now. Let's go to the gym!

Me: DAMN RIGHT.

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I've come to the realization that if I were a man, my chest would look awesome. Damn these boobs for covering up my nice pecs!

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Weights (1 hour):
30 reps/3 sets each. Still going up in weight, w00t w00t!

Leg press (quads, glutes, hams): 50 lbs.
Seated leg curl (hams): 60 lbs.
Compound row (lats, biceps, traps): 55 lbs.
311 chest press (pecs, delts, triceps): 30 lbs.
Arm curl (biceps): 30 lbs.
Lateral raise (delts): 25 lbs.
The Abench (abs)

Cardio:
Pussied out and only ran a mile. I could hear my damned homework screaming at me from the apartment.

:(

Feelin' manly.

Sat, 22 Oct 2005 01:06:28 GMT

So, I decided to shake things up a little bit by doing chest BEFORE back! OMFG. On top of that, I did a whole hour of cardio.

God, I'm bad-ass.

Weights (1 hour):
3 sets/30 reps of each

Butt Blaster machine (glutes, quads, hamstrings): 25 lbs
Hip adduction (inner thigh): 65-70 lbs
Chest press (pecs, delts, triceps): 30 lbs
Dual axis row/rear delt (lats, delts, traps, biceps): 50 lbs
Arm Curl machine (biceps): 15-20 lbs
Shoulder press (delts, triceps): 20 lbs
Abdominal crunch machine (rectus abs): 20 lbs

Cardio (1 hour):
Cross Country Ski Elliptical
Average heart rate: 185 for first half, 175-180 for second half

Back on track!

Wed, 19 Oct 2005 06:16:06 GMT

Well, after missing eight days of working out due to having to study for the the 80 million tests from hell, I'm back in the game. Let me say, it's hard to get back in the groove when you mess up your routine even a little bit. I really had to drag myself back to the gym. I just did not want to go! But I knew I had to beat my own ass into submission, lol. Once I finally got in the car to leave, I was rarin' to go.

I've been a little (just a little!) gluttonous lately as well. *shamefully slaps wrists* I swear, all that Halloween candy's gonna be gone before Halloween even gets here. This is always the time of year where everything just starts to go downhill, though. Once the holidays begin, it's all over. And there just happens to be a crapload of holidays at the end of the year.

Weights (1 hour):
30 reps/3 sets of everything.

Seated leg press (quads, glutes, hamstrings): 120lbs.
110 Leg Extension (quads): 30lbs.
Weight-assisted chin-up (back, biceps, abs): 140lbs.
Weight-assisted dips (chest, back, triceps): 140lbs.
Preacher curl (biceps): 20lbs.
Lateral raise (delts, traps): 30lbs.
Exercise ball (abs - laying flat on back, passing ball between hands and feet): 30 reps/3 sets

Cardio (40 minutes):
Elliptical Cross-Country Ski Machine
Average heart-rate: 175-180

Actually, I think my little hiatus helped out a little. I was able to lift the same sets/reps with about 5 more pounds on than usual. Yay!

Rawr.

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 06:27:22 GMT

Weights (1 hour):
3 sets, 30 reps of each.

Standing calf machine: 40 lbs
Hip adductor machine (inner thigh): 70lbs
212 Lat cable pull-down w/ v-grip attachment: 50-60lbs
Barbell benchpress (chest): 40lbs
Barbell arm curl (biceps): 20lbs
Dumbbells, straight-arm lifts (shoulders): 5lbs each hand
Ab crunch machine: 70lbs

Cardio (40 minutes):
Stationary bike
Average heart rate: 163

Biceps and calves starting to look damned great.

Well la-tee-dah.

Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:01:02 GMT

I ate so much cake this weekend it's not even funny.

Weights (1 hour):
3 sets, 30 reps of everything...

Leg extension machine (quads): 35 lbs
Seated leg curl machine (hamstrings): 60lbs.
Cable row (back, traps): 40-50lbs.
Dumbbell bench press (chest, triceps): 20lbs. each hand
Dumbbell arm curls (biceps): 12.5lbs. each hand
Dumbbell press-ups (shoudlers): 12.5lbs. each hand
Large exercise ball (abs): laid on back, passed ball from hands to feet to hands again. 3 sets, 20 reps each.

Cardio (40 minutes):
Cross Country Elliptical Ski Machine
Average heart rate: 160-165

Hm. My hamstrings are getting ni-i-i-ice.

Bada bing.

Thu, 29 Sep 2005 06:36:24 GMT

Well, I skipped out on the gym last night since I was still so damned sore from a couple days ago. Not to fear, though. I'll still have a good 3 or 4 days in by the end of this week.

Tonight's goods:

Weights (50 minutes):
111 Leg Curl Machine (hamstrings): 3 sets, 30 reps, 40lbs.

45-degree Selectorized Calf Machine (calves): 3 sets, 30 reps, 80lbs.

Weight Assisted Chin-Ups (back, biceps, abs): 3 sets, 30 reps, 130-150lbs (God, I'm a pussy...that's almost my entire body weight, lol).

Weight Assisted Dips (pecs, triceps, back): 3 sets, 30 reps, 140lbs.

Arm Curl Machine (biceps): 3 sets, 30 reps, 20lbs.

Shoulder Press Machine (deltoids, triceps): 3 sets, 20 reps, 20lbs.

Abdominal Machine (abs): 3 sets, 30 reps, 60lbs.

Cardio (40 minutes):
Stationary Bike
Average heart rate: 153

~~Really shouldn't have eaten those Doritos today....~~

lip curl

Mon, 26 Sep 2005 05:58:59 GMT

Kind of an unfulfulling night. Here's the goods:

Weights (50 minutes):
Seated leg press machine (quads, glutes, hamstrings; pushing footplate away from body): 3 sets, 30 reps, 135lbs.

Hip adduction machine (inner thigh): 3 sets, 30 reps, 65lbs.

Lower back machine (erector spinae): 3 sets, 30 reps, 95lbs.

Chest press machine (pecs, triceps, deltoids): 3 sets, 30 reps, 30lbs.

Arm curl machine (biceps): 3 sets, 30 reps, 25lbs.

Lateral raise machine (deltoids): 3 sets, 30 reps, 20lbs.

Ab crunch machine (abs, obliques): 3 sets, 30 reps, 70lbs.

Cardio (40 minutes):
Stairmaster, average heart rate: 150-155

I'm a little concerned about this low heart-rate "fat burning zone" thing. I don't know about the rest of you guys, but keeping my heart rate this low gave me a perceived exertion of nothing more than a brisk walk. And not even a speedwalk at that. It takes a heart rate of about 170 before I even think about beginning to breathe through my mouth. I'm really not understanding how this can be effective fat-burning when I'm hardly exerting myself at all.

Maybe I'm just weird? I've always been harassed by Air Force "professionals" about how weirdly high my heart rate is. Maybe I'm just one of "those" people.

Silly.

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 08:41:30 GMT

Haha, I was going back through my archive, and I found this funny little post that I made in my other journal a little over a year ago:

Whew. Another killer time at the gym. Craig and I did an hour of yoga, then worked the shit out of our chests and triceps, then I ran until I got blisters while he did the elliptical. Stayed for about three hours. During our time there, I took the time to make some observations:

My Top Five Gym Peeves of All Time:
1. The chicks that go just to look pretty. Seriously...I saw like two or three girls in there, dressed in tight little shorts with their tight little midriff tops with their perfectly round huge fake boobs practically falling out. They were in the free-weight room, which is typically a pretty guy-infested area. I always see them in there flinging--yes, literally flinging--these little five-pound dumbells and ten-pound barbells around, obviously not putting any effort into it at all.

2. The dudes that think they own the benches. For the love of fucking God, yes, I would like a little bit of space to work. Is that okay? If you're not using the goddamned bench, then step the fuck off. Clear some freakin' room.

3. The 'support groups.' Something common I see is when guys go to the gym with like their twenty friends, who help each other with the massive dumbells. Like tonight, there was this dude doing chest, and the weights he was using were so heavy that he had to get into position on the bench first, then have his buddies haul them over to him. That wasn't the particularly obnoxious part, the obnoxious thing was that when he was done, he'd throw them down onto the floor.

4. The flirts. Ho-ly piss. The gym is NOT a bar, people! It's not a dating chat line! If you're going to flirt and try to pick someone up, get the fuck out of my way and stop blocking the machine I'm trying to use. That happened tonight...some chick was smiling and blabbering and flipping her hair at some guy. Craig got pissed that she was in our way and ended up smacking her with a barbell. She turned around and said, "Oops! *giggle* Sorry!" Yeah, that's right, bitch. You better be sorry.

5. The people that think they're made of rubber. I saw some guy yesterday bouncing up and down on the calf machine like a retard. I'm suprised his knees didn't snap backwards.

Tonight's adventures in Gym-Land.

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 06:46:43 GMT

Well, Dea gave me a couple really good suggestions, so I altered my routine a little tonight. Here's the goods:

Weights (one hour):
Wow, this all was quite interesting...I had never really dabbled too much before with the whole "less-weight-more-reps" technique. The feel was definitely different - not so much of a localized burn, but more of all-over burn with this method. Carmie likie.

Seated leg curl machine (hamstrings): 3(4? lost count) sets, 30 reps, 60 lbs.

Hip abductor machine (ASS): 4 sets, 30 reps, 40 lbs.

Compound row machine (lats, delts, biceps, middle traps): 4 sets, 30 reps, 55 lbs.

Dumb bells (incline chest press): 3 sets, 30 reps, 20 lbs. each hand.

Dumb bells (sitting bicep curl): 3 sets, 30 reps, 10lbs. each hand.

Dumb bells (shoulder press, straight up): 3 sets, 30 reps, 10lbs. each hand.

Rotary torso machine (obliques): 3 sets, 30 reps, 30 lbs.

Cardio (40 minutes):
Elliptical cross-country ski machine, average heart rate between 165 and 170.
3.09 miles, 568 calories...about 200 less than what I normally do >:(

Man oh man. I'm so not used to keeping my heart rate that low, but I guess it still wasn't low enough to be in that favored 'fat-burning zone.' I felt like a racehorse being held back, lol! It was funny trying to restrain myself. But God, was it leisurely! I felt guilty about it, almost lazy LOL! But hey, if my ass gets smaller from lazyness, it's all good. I think I'd die though if I didn't throw in a couple hardcore, high-heart-rated grindings each week. Must...push...to exhaustion! Hahhahaa.

*sigh* I'm looking forward to seeing how I'm going to feel when I wake up tomorrow.

PS: I updated my user info with a really cheesy picture, ahhh hahahahaa:
http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=traps_of_doom

Shitty workout.

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 02:39:23 GMT

Wow, was it a crummy night at the gym. I managed to screw myself over in several ways.

First off, I made the mistake of going at like 5pm when the place was packed. This being the case, all the cross-country ski machines were being used. I reluctantly got on a treadmill, and after about 10 minutes, I developed these horrendous walnut-sized blisters on my arches. As I knew would happen. Which is why I hardly ever run. So I had to walk the rest of my twenty minutes. But I made up for it by hiking the incline way up and speed-walking that bitch to keep my heart-rate up.

Anyway, here's tonight's routine.

Cardio:
Warm up: 5 minutes at 6.5mph pace
Alternated each minute afterward with 6.5mph and 5.6mph for 5 minutes
Speedwalked at 15-degree incline for ten minutes
1.63 miles, 204.6 calories

Weights:
Leg press machine, the one where you push your body away from the footplate (hamstrings, glutes, quadriceps): 4 sets, 10 reps, 80lbs.

Leg extension machine (quadriceps): 4 sets, 10 reps, 90lbs.

Lat pulldown (lats, biceps, traps, pecs): 4 sets, 10-16 reps, 70lbs. My teeth started to go numb around my 3rd set, wtf?

Cable cross machine, fly method (pecs): 4 sets, 10-12 reps, 35 lbs.

Straight barbell (biceps, slight concentration on forearms): 4 sets, 10-15 reps, 30 lbs.

Overhead press machine (deltoids, triceps): 4 sets, 10-15 reps, 45 lbs.

Abdominal crunch machine: 4 sets, 12 reps, 35 lbs.

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Yeah, I pussied out early and neglected to do my last 20 minutes of cardio.

I'm gonna go make myself a nice fat sandwich now.