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#3001 |
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BODYBUILDING SUPPLEMENTS
High Quality Supplements For Bodybuilders and Athletes. www.ironmaglabs.com Dev.How are ya sweetie! I see you're having trouble with dropping some pounds. I'm trying to catch up so bear with me. Do you think you have a good idea of what to do now? Forgive me for not looking back, but where do you sit right now? I thought I remembered not too long ago, you were right there with me???? I'll be following along with you sweetie |
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All the glory to God! We have a baby on the way.
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Trouble- Points taken. I will correct my sleep habits, clean up the diet, work on stress management, and work on by passing the scale. Question, what is the significance of body temp being 98.0-98.1 upon waking in the AM?
Fitgirl- I sent you a pm with an update. As of this evening, I'm sitting right at 126. |
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I actually got to the gym somewhat early this evening, but I cut the cardio a bit short to give my legs a little break. Plus I will be working with a trainer tomorrow and not sure what body parts he will want to hit.
Cardio- 50 minutes Treadmill-35 minutes 5 minutes @ 3.7 10 minutes @ 5.5 1 minute @ 3.5 4 minutes @ 3.8 10 minutes @ 5.3 5 minutes @ 3.8 Miles: 2.71 Recumbant bike-15 minutes Level: 3 Miles: 5.4 Sauna 30 minutes Hamstrings felt like they were getting tight while jogging, but worked through it. Heart rate is maxing out at 170 right after jogging and maxing out at 155 when on the bike. I really need to get a heart rate monitor instead of relying on the handheld sensors on the treadmill and bike. |
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this is why I'm hot!
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glad to see you getting some help/feedback Dev! Remember....we could ALL use some extra sleep and stress management
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No gym tonight. Instead I left work early and drove up to Louisville to see Red before he left for the airport. It's pretty much official
, Red (my ex) and I are getting back together. Unfortanetly, he left today for another tour in Iraq , but hopefully if all goes according to plan, it will be a short tour as well as his last tour. It won't be easy for either of us while he is away, but atleast we can chat online frequently. |
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#3008 |
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Anti-mediocrity
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1. Don't know what your resting HR is, but I guessed at 60 bpm.
Thats puts your anaerobic threshold at 167-174 bpm @ 85-90% effort. If there is an elliptical trainer at your gym, you should use it for HITT workouts, 20-25 min, with a 5 min cooldown and warmup, for interval training for GPP, as you work on improving sleep habits (which I need to do as well) and we start to discuss meditation, deep relaxation, and visualization for stress management. Your running isn't providing you with the benefits you want for fat burning. We want to slide effort back and forth, seasaw, across that anaerobic threshold for a 45s to 1 min, then slide it back down and ramp up intensity, in one min increments (settings of resistance, at constant peddling rate, of say 150 on your elliptical). You should peak, then drop it back down, work you way back up to max (which is 16 on the elliptical I use, I start at 6, but first off, I started at 1 to warm up). You strive for 2-3 peakings per workout. Now, this is the cool part. Peddle backwards half the time. We want the posterior chain engaged as though you were walking downhill. This increases glucose utilization and improves glucose tolerance via cardio, faster than forward locomotion. Has to do with the relative size of the muscles involved and the proximity to fat mass. 2. HR monitors should go on sale shortly; you really should purchase one. 3. How do I put this delicately...? You and Red are going to consider attending couples counseling when he returns and before you set up home again together, I hope. Repeat tours of the ME are a physical and emotional trial, a polyglot of extreme stress and loneliness. Men and women soldiers, regardless of duty type, aren't in very good shape when they return. The heat shock stress alone is killer, and thats the very least that most face. Red will need to readjust to civvie life again, and will need periods of time by himself, to adjust, even if he is desparate to spend as much time with you as possible. He won't have had *any* privacy or time to himself for many months. The armed forces, sorry to say, have dumped the responsibility of social and emotional acclimation for returning soldiers on local community service programs - city and state programs that are already cash-starved, d overburdened, and understaffed. Might be best to let him accomodate slowly when he returns; well before then, you should bring up this point of counseling. He won't be happy, but discussion needs to take place on values, priorities, responsiblities, and couple outcomes - joint life goals, brokered between you in terms of priorities. Can't do it all at once. The couple that do best together, the longest, have an equal share in both burdens and rewards. Nuff said. Pardon my intrusion on this personal space. 4. I'd like you to add grapefruit to your daily diet; I'd also like you to purchase aromatic grapefruit oil, and use it like an inhalant. We are going to nudge your cAMP levels up, and nudge your energy levels up. You should use the inhalant before cardio and resistance training. 5. Daily walks. Even if just for 20 min, it should be part of your daily routine. I enumerate the benefits and suggest the reasoning for it, and the use of mood directing music, during cardio. http://www.ironmagazineforums.com/sh...ad.php?t=68253 (Need a good mass cycle?) Trance / relaxing music should be used with alternating periods of quiet meditation, and for visualization. I'll be checking back here to discuss meditation techniques soon. 6. Please begin to post wake up heart rate, please. We need a baseline to assess progress for stress management. Also begin to log your sleep patterns, if you will please. |
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Thank Trouble.
1. I have't kept track of resting heart rate, but will start. Eliptical: I have to watch which one I use at my gym. A couple of them bother my left knee for some reason. I think it is due to the degree of the ramp of the elipical's (we have EFX elipitcal cross trainers mostly). As long as I decrease the ramp I can handle the elitpical. Jogging/Treadmill: I have been hitting the treadmill and jogging a lot because I would like to be able to do a 5k or more with ease. I have set a goal to be able to do a 5k in 20 minutes or less. 2. Picked up a heart rate monitor today. The one I got can store multiple workouts and can transfer the data onto my computer (I hope it works). 3. Techinically Red is a marine, however, he is not over in Iraq with the military. He is there with a government contracted security company. His life is much different than the military life over there. His life is not as regimented and has more perks such as non military living quarters, almost unlimited internet access and other things that are not coming to mind right now. He has access to counselors and docs and if he gets too stressed they give him leave to come home. We get lots of chances to talk online, discuss many things from everyday life to the future, and he checks in here too . This tour is scheduled to be about 14 weeks long. 4. Will check out the grapefruit and grapefruit oil. 5. I keep telling myself I need to add some of my Enya cd's to my mp3 player, but it keeps slipping my mind. 6. Will try to get the waking heart rate and will try to journal sleep patterns. |
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Super Hero in Training
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tip of the spear!
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hey hottie!
sorry haven't bene able to keep up w/ the journal....been busy...actually WORKING to earn my paycheck....and not had access to a computer.... will be back in a few days to get back on track. |
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Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results
Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem THERE IS NO TOMORROW! - Appollo Creed |
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Anti-mediocrity
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Eliptical: I have the same problem (as do a horde of other users) with the EFX ellipticals. Plus, ours breaks down frequently (flywheel brake problems).
Jogging/Treadmill: I have set a goal to be able to do a 5k in 20 minutes or less. Yes, m'am, this maybe, but you are taxing your energy stores with your current stress load and sleep problems. Reduce the ramp, back off on the resistance, or shorten the duration when the HR drives up above 65 at the end of your workout. http://walking.about.com/od/fitness/a/intensity1005.htm >Techinically Red is a marine, however, he is not over in Iraq with the military. He is there with a government contracted security company. This is, in fact, a much higher paying job, with fewer casualties...however, he still has the heat stress, and the living conditions aren't great, just better than your avg grunt sees. Still will have physical and emotional stresses to deal with, no matter how well paid he is..plus, whatever chemistry caused your initial breakup needs attention. > keep telling myself I need to add some of my Enya cd's to my mp3 player, but it keeps slipping my mind. *burst out laughing* (1+1=2) Ha! That's why you keep blockering her from mind. Enya would not be first choice for cardio, and hardly my first choice for relaxation. Bleh. Please read my sticky on belly breathing in the Health Section. I will add more, as need arises here. You are good incentive for me to build up the meditation, visualization and relaxation guides in my section. Last edited by Trouble : 08-25-2006 at 02:22 PM. |
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this is why I'm hot!
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hmmm...grapefruit, and grapefruit oil....*runs to add to grocery list*
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I am so glad I took yesterday off from the gym. I had a fantastic,kick ass workout with my new trainer tonight.
Cardio + Weights- 57 minutes Stairs(21 up) 5 minutes Lunges ss Stairs- NO RI +20 pounds x 40 ft...ss...1 round trip on stairs +20 pounds x 40 ft...ss...1 round trip on stairs +20 pounds x 40 ft...ss...1 round trip on stairs Pushups ss Stairs 1 minute...ss...1 round trip on stairs 1 minute...ss...1 round trip on stairs 1 minute...ss...1 round trip on stairs Walk 1/8 miles Reverse curl on incline board 2nd rack from floor x 5 minutes Situps 5 minutes Butt Buster(Lifefitness) RI= 30 seconds SL 5 plates x 10, 10, 10 Abductors (outer thights)(Lifefitness)RI= 30 seconds 60 ds 50 ds 40 x 1 minute total 40 x 1 minute 40 ds 30 x 1 minute total Lat pulldowns(Technogym) RI= 30 seconds 50 x 15, 15 40 x 15 Tricep pushdowns(Technogym) RI=30 seconds 3 x 20 x 1 minute Bicep curls(Technogym) RI=30 seconds 15 x 1 minute 10 x 1 minute 5 x 1 minute OMG this workout kicked my butt. My whole body felt this workout ![]() |
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Super Hero in Training
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tip of the spear!
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Hey Ms. D!
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Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results
Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem THERE IS NO TOMORROW! - Appollo Creed |
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#3020 |
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MP Minister of Pain!
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well seems your doin great as always!
hows the plants hangin in? My tomatoes all died with me working so much no time to water em! ![]() |
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"Only in dictionaries does SUCCESS come before WORK." -Alfred K. Henderson
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#3021 |
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Super Hero in Training
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Tip of the spear!
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murderer!!!!!
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Success leaves clues. People who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results
Nobody cares what you did yesterday or what you are going to do tomorrow. What is important is what you are doing NOW to solve our problem THERE IS NO TOMORROW! - Appollo Creed |
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Quote:
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Busy as always is more like it. My tomatoes are more than making up for your dieing. I have one plant that is taller than me (I'm 5'4") Actually I have to prune some of the tomatoes back because they were overtaking my balcony. I have them a bit more manageable, but they still are growing over the railing. |
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Did I mention my legs are killing me today
The DOMS kicked into my quads mid morning, but my calfs were hurting first thing this morning |
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It's a very sad day today. I'm sure most of you have heard about the plane that crashed this morning killing 49 of 50 people on board. The plane crashed just a few miles from my apartment. They are saying many people on board were local kentuckians and I'm hoping and praying no one I know was on board. Regardless, my thoughts and prayers go out to all of the familes affected by the crash.
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