It's Just a Ride! And it's time to hold on tight!!!!

Good on you, Keep up the good work!

Cheers Audio!

Not a bad day all in all....nothing special really. Just work and trained, moooched roung the Trafford Centre after work and had something to eat.

Back n Shoulders today

Lat Pull Down Wide Handle Grip
8 - 12 reps
1x 5 plates, 2 x 6, 1 x 7

T Bar Rows
8 - 12 reps
1 x 20kg, 1x25kg, 2x30kg

Standing Single Arm Rows on the cables
12 reps
1 x 5 plates, 1x6, 2x7

Rope Rows again on cables
12 reps
1x5 plates, 1x6, 1x7

Shoulders

DB Press
8 - 12 reps
1 x 20lb 2 x 25lb

Upright Rows on cables
12 reps
1 x 6 plates, 1x7, 1x8

Giant Set
Side Laterals, Front Laterals (both with 5 kg plates) and rear delts on reverse PD (3 plates)
3 sets of 10 reps each. Starting with a different excercise each set.

Finished off woth 2 sets Seated shoulder press.
10 reps 40kg.

10 mins incline cardio pre WO
30 mins post WO

Not the most exciting day but hey....not a bummer either. Building any mucle seem academic at the moment as I won't be able to train for at least 6 weeks in 3 weeks time which is going to be a bugger. I hope I don't turn into Mrs Lardy ar*e pmsl.....hide the ice-cream.

Have I missed something? Why the break from training that's due?

Am getting rid of my kangeroo pocket hun! Actually it's thanks to Rags that I've made the final step. I've wanted it done for years and I know NO amount of excercise/training will get rid of it. I went up to 92kg when I was pregnant....I was bloody HUGE. So on July 18th I'm booked in to be nipped n tucked! Am absolutely cacking myself to be honest and am dreading 6 weeks no training AND no Kung Fu. I don't do nothing well lol. But while I still can for these next 2 weeks am still pounding away the weights lol!

I was going to do a light quads today as I go on a 4 day course tomorrow that is going to be very intense but it didn't quite go to plan....am cr@p at doing light legs lmfao

I had a client in before I trained for an hours treatment so I figured that was a good enough warm up.

Leg Extentions
1 x 12 (4 plates)
1x12 (5)
2x10 (6)

Leg Press Close Middle
12 x 100kg
12 x 120kg
12 x 140 x 2 sets
Plus the bloody concrete block that Paul has planted on top of the press lol

Squat Machine
12x20kg
12x30kg
12 x 40kb x 2 sets

Dumbell Leg Extensions
12 x 25lb
12 x 30lb
12 x 35lb
12 x 40lb

Then finished off with 30mins incline treadmill followed by another 30 min treatment.

Well that will be me for this week. I've just about packed my bags to scoot over to the other side of the Pennines for my happy clappy course. I hope you all have a dapper weekend!

XXX

Well I survived my 'happy clappy' course and I have to say 'WOW' what a weekend. It was 4 days of VERY intense training to become a No Hands Massage licensed practitioner which I now am!!!!!! The 4 days were exhausting and exhilerating and I met some fantastic people and I was able to take my bodywork to a totally new level so I'm buzzing!

After such a tough few days I decided not to train in the gym today but I did do 3 treatments and 90 mins Kung Fu......so much for a rest for a day lol.

I did eat quite alot of cr@p over the weekend but we were at a hotel and food sources were limited and I figured that I'd burn off alot of it. I didn't over eat and managed not to eat just cr@p but I know I didn't drink anywhere near as much as I should have done. Never mind back on track for the next 2 weeks.

Have you got a date for surgery?

If so you have to get your mind into gear for clean eating as much as possible to keep your fat levels from rocketing. Get everything you may need to keep you going so that you don't need to go out and get it. Get every single piece of crap out of the house so that you don't get tempted.

If you get prepared it will be a walk in the park. I went to the gym and just hung out after the first week to keep my mind in sync.

Hey there Honey!

Yeah it's on the 18th of this month....so 2 weeks from today I'll have been done! Thanks for the tips food wise. I will deffo make sure that we don't have anything in....don't that we do anyway really but I'll make doubly sure. I am such a cr@p ill person so I'm hoping not to feel as bad as I think I am but I also know I will have to take it easy so that I heal. How long was it before you were comfortably up and about? Were stairs a problem at all at any time? I'm worried that I'll be stuck upstairs for a couple of days because that's where the loo is lol. I'll have to practise going up and down them on me bum lol. I'm sooooooooo excited and soooooooooooooooo nervous all at the same time and I'm dreading not being able to train or do my Win Chun or my wonderful massages Any more tips you can give me would be greatly appreciated and a big thankyou again to you Rags because I think if I hadn't met you I wouldn't be doing this right now|So Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trained Chest and arms today.

Bench Press
3 sets 8 - 12 reps 10g x 1 , 20kg x 2

Incline Bench Machine
4 sets 8 - 12 20g, 30kg, 40kg x 2

Flys(20lb) ss with BB Pullovers(30lb)
3 sets, 12 reps each


Cable Cross Overs 4 plates
3 x 12

Bi's & Tri's

Giants Set x 4 each time starting and finishing with a different excercise. 12 reps

All on the cables.

Standing bi curls (30lb)
Push Downs Rope (50lb)
Push Downs EZ bar wide grip (40lb)
Standing lateral cable curls (40lb)

Seated overhead rope pulls
12 x 20lb
12 x 30lb
12 x 30lb

Cross Chest Single Bi Curls on Cables
12 x 30lb
12 x 30lb

40 mins Incline treadmill

It was a really good session and I'm really enjoying training with the lass that I am at the moment. We seem to work really well together and it's great for both of us to have someone there to spot and push each other. When I've had my 2 weeks off I'll be in the gym anyway as Paul has bloody jury service so I'll be there to spot for her and push her....and be really jealous lmfao!

xx

What mad couple of days! I've put an offer on my treatments and boy am I being taken up on it lol! I'm doing half hour NO HANDS massages for a bloody tenner and an hour for 15 quid for gym members and my Kung Fu buddies. I wanted to get as much massaging done before I have to have time off after the op to perfect the approach. And I've still beeen training as well AND doing the Kung Fu. I was shattered last night. I've got 4 1/2 hours of treatments tomorrow and my smallest client is about 16 bloody stone so it's going to be a cracking workout that's for sure!

Thursday Legs

We did a warm up on vertical leg press with 20kg.
2 sets of 40 - 20 close and 20 wide.

Tri Set
Standing Calf Raises on the Wheelbarrow 80kg
3 x 10
Calves on the leg press 130kg3 x 15
Leg Press 130kg
3 x 12 close middle
3x 12 wide
3 x 12 close top

Squat Machine
15 x 20kg warm up
12 x 40kg
12 x 80kg
12 x 100kg

I wish I could squat without the machine but my legs are a funny shape...my tibia is proportionately very long in comparison to my fib meaning that even though I have long legs (too long for my bloody body) my knees are very low down. So I can find people with much shorter legs than me but my knees will be lower than theirs. I can't free squat down without serious danger of either tipping backwards, over compensating and bending too far forwards putting way too much strain on my lower back or tippy toeing! There is no way I'm risking puttin my back out just for the sake of my ego that's for sure!

Standing Leg Curls (single)
2 x 10 1 plate
1 x 10 2 plates

Superset
SLDL with DB
12 x 30lb DB
12 x 35lb DB
12 x 40lb DB

DB Leg Extensions
12 x 30lb
12 x 35lb
12 x 40lb

40 mins incline treadmill

Fri

Back & Shoulders

Lat Pull Downs with the handle at the end bar thingy
15 x 60lbs warm up
12 x 75
12 x 80
12 x 80

Superset 3 sets
Straight Arm Lat Pulldowns
12 x 40lb
Kneeling Underhand Pulldowns
12 x 60lb

DB Press
12 x 20lb DB's
12 x 20lb DB's
10 x 25lb DB's

Triset - 3 sets starting with a different excercise each time.
Eah 10 reps
Side Laterals with 5 kg plates
Fronts with a 15kg plates
Reverse pec deck 45lb (3 plates)

45 Mins incline treadmill.

I have to apologise for the mix of 'lbs' and 'kg' but that's just the way it is at our place and I'm crap at maths. I was really chuffed with the DB shoulder press with the 25's, just a shame that I'll have to start all over again in a couple of months.....ah well the consolation is I will have a real belly button lmfao!

Well had a not very restful Saturday this weekend. I didn't train but I did do nearly 3.5 hours of treatments between 10.30 and 3. I was a wee bit pooped when I'd finished. They were all blokes and they went up in weight as the bloody day went on ending with a friend at 18stone

Did Chest and Arms today. Pretty much the same as last week really.

Incline on Isolateral Bench Press machine thingy
12 x 20kg
12 x 40kg
10 x 50kg
10 x 50kg

Flat Benchwarm up just with bar
12 x 10kg
12 x 15kg
12 x 20kg

Decline Chest Press
12 x 3 plates
10 x 4
10 x 4

Cables Cross Overs
12 x 4 plates
12 x 4 plates
10 x 4 plates

Did the usual superset for Bi's n Tris and we managed to do the 4 sets in juts over 15 mins.....we were bloody knackered.

Tri Push Downs on Machine
12 x 10 plates
12 x 11 plates
12 x 11

Finished of with Hammer Curls (standing)
10 x 10kg for 3 sets.

Only did 20 mins treadmill then had a 10 min break and did a back treatment for half an hour.

All in all not a bad one again.
I'm so going to miss all this as of next week. I never thought I'd say that ffs. I can't believe how much I enjoy the weights and how my strength has improved. I'm never gonna lift mega weights but it's certainly soooooooooooooooo much better than when I started. Ah well......just think of my new belly button!

Do I mention that I've just taken a peanut Butter Banana bread out of the oven and it smells bloody divine!

ORIGINAL: ElfinTan

Do I mention that I've just taken a peanut Butter Banana bread out of the oven and it smells bloody divine!

Save a piece for me please

Sounds like you're really getting into the weights now. We'll get you on that stage if it's the last thing we do

Will do hun!

The only way I'm getting on stage is to sweep up! But you're right I'm really getting into the weights now and I'm sure gonna miss em.

Did Hams and Gluteybottoms today.
15 min warm up incline TM

Triset - all 10 - 12 reps
Seated Calve Raises, 5 plates, 6 plates, 7 plates, 8 plates (12lb plates
Hyper Extensions
5kg, 10kg, 15kg, 20kg (well actually a 45lb DB as we couldn't hold the 20kg plate lmfao)
Dead Lifts close stance
10kg, 20kg, 30kg, 40kg

SS
SLDL with DB wide stance
30lb DB's, 35lb DB's, 40lb DB'sx 2
all 12 reps

with

Hamstring Extensions
4 sets 12 reps

Alternated the starting excercise.

These Hamstring Extensions are awesome when done right. My sadistic other half introduced me to them.
Involves.

Getting a backed seat (we use the seat on the isolateral shoulder press)
You kneel on the seat and tuck you feet inbetween the back and the seat (back and seat need to be close enough to anchor you in.
Spotter stands just over your head height away from you if you were horizontal and you wedge a pole firmly into the floor and their foot 9so the pole doesn't slip.
Then you go forwards until straight (flying) keeping your shoulder height above your hip height.
Then you pull back through your hams.

I think there is a clip on youtube of Paul doing these as they are a bugger to explain.

Did 30 mins incline cardio

Am totally jiggered.....so much so that I've not gone to Kung Fu tonight!

Here they are!

Like I said easier to show than explain!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dn2m4benIqI

Hey just caught up about the surgery. Good luck with that. I'm beginning to think I may need some myself

Great video

Cheers! Counting the days down now!

Vidz were done for guest spot prep and comp earlier this year! It certainly helped to keep me sain and gave us both something to do together, It made me feel really involved with Paul's training and part of his prep and it certainly had a p[ositive effect on us keeping it together during that time. You know how bad it can get and BB is such a selfish sport.....but it's what he does and he does it pretty well too

Oh Yeah

YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY my avatar is here....it's only taken me 3 bloody days to work out how to put it up ffs!

Well training on Thurs (quick back n shoulders) and Quads on Friday went pretty well. Especially Friday's sesh. It was pretty much the same as last weeks (ish). Weight wise was the same which has given me my goal when I come back to train after my op. I have PB's now to aim for and hopefully exceed. Having the op round the corner has really pushed me to see what I can do and to stop faffing around really. I wanted to be in the best poss shape in that short space of time so that hopefully it will help me recover that wee bit quicker.

I had my pre op on Thursday and had some questions answered but my head is sooooooooooooooo up my jacksy. I am really cacking it. TBH the timing hasn't been the best and I've got 'other' stuff going on too which is not helping matters any and I'm feeling very anxious. Had too dreams about waking up from the anastaetic last night lol.
I've wanted this for so long now and now that it's nearly here I feel sick.

Enough of that bloody winging anyway lol.

Goals when able to return with vengance (whoever that is!)

Train to regain lost muscle mass.
Take a serious look at diet and tweak where needed to loose some BF.
Buy a bikini and not look a complete tw@t in it! (not had one of these since I was a teenager ffs)
Overall I am happy with my shape as it is now but I need to cut down on BF to get some more maintainable definition. Looks like me and the treadmill are gonna be great friends lmfao.

I'm gonna get Paul to take some pics.....including the jelly belly kagaroo pouch so that I can see where I am at now so that I know what I'm aiming to get back and hopefully improve on. And then we'll see what happens!

Ah Well.... One training session down and one more to go tomorrow.

I decided just to carry on as normal this week to keep me in some form of insanity. So it was chest and arms as per for a Monday. My training partner has fallen off the planet today so I was on my lonesome so I got Paul to spot me.

Chest

Isolateral Incline Bench
12 x 30kg
12 x 40kg
10 x 50kg

Flat Bench
12 x 10kg
12 x 15kg
8 x 20kg

Decline Chest press Machine
12 x 3 plates
10 x 4
10 x 4

Cable Cross Overs
12 x 3plates
12 x 4
10 x 4

I decided just to do 3 supersets for Bi's n Tri's

'Jesus' Bicep Curls (the ones to the back of ya ears.)
12 x 4 plates
12 x 4 plates
10 x 5 plates
10 x 5 plate

With

Skull Crusher Thingies.
12 x 25lb DB
12 x 30lb
12 x 35lb
12 x 35lb

Concetrated Curls & Kick Backs on the cables - single arm - 4 sets
Bi's 10 x 3plates
Tri's 10 x 2 plates

Tri Push Down Machine with Standing Bi Curls - 4 sets
Tri's
10 x 10 plates
Bi's
10 x 20lb DB's.

I did 40 mins incline cardio this morning at about 11 when I got to the gym & did and hour after my workout.

Well like I said one down and one to go until I get my new belly button. I spoke to my sister yesterday and she wondered if they could put it somewhere else just to be different. We decided that maybe I could have one like a 'Cindy Crawford' mole just over my lip!!!! Interesting....would certainly be a conversation starter thats for sure!

PMSL, try the middle of your forehead then you can walk pretending to be a cyclops or maybe swap it round with a nipple....that'll confuse Paul

Confuse...
Or amuse lmfaooooooo!!!!

I've told him he's not allowed to make me laugh as it could get messy....not a bloody chance!

What a lovely cheery Journal... a pleasure to read !

Best of luck with the surgery