Ice's Journal.

[IceDragon]

Did okay at the gym today but timed my meals wrong, so I'd only had one before I hit the gym (resulting in me feeling very tired and lethargic - not good).

10 minutes cross-trainer, HR 140-165.

Bench 1x12@50.5, 1x10@56, 1x8@61.5, 1x6@67
Pressdown 2x12@25.

Chin-ups 1x12@60, 1x10@55, 1x8@50, 1x6@45
Dips 2x12@45.

10 minutes cross-trainer, HR 160-180.

10 minutes treadmill, HR 135-165.

Diet 1421 cals (double-checked I'd included everything). 38% carbs, 52% protein, 10% fat.

Went well, even managed to get in some home-made chilli (extra lean mince, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, onions, red kidney beans, delicious!).

Done something to my knee on the treadmill so it's touch and go on whether I do legs tomorrow. Feels like the right knee is bruised on the inside lower part of it but I haven't banged it or anything, just did some light jogging on the treadmill when it started acting up.

 

[IceDragon]

Trouble is, I got a report like that and then just slammed into a wall training-wise.

I think I just burnt out, so I've just taken the entire week off - no training at all, still ate about 75-80% clean but relaxed it a lot considering what I was on.

Basically, I was thinking about food all the time, and when I wasn't thinking about food, I was planning my next workout. Even during my sleep! How sad is that??? I started dreaming about my next workout for f*cks sake!

So...week off, and I think I needed it because I'm now champing at the bit and I'm desperate to get my arse back in the gym. I'm also writing out a new WORKABLE training regime and upping my cals by about 500 a day because I think I need to (and yeah, I know you guys have been telling me that for ages now, but I have a very thick head).

 

[b_reed23]

I am so glad you decided to take a week off, and you def. need the extra calories girl!! I just hate that you had to learn the hard way!!!

 

[IceDragon]

I am so glad you decided to take a week off, and you def. need the extra calories girl!! I just hate that you had to learn the hard way!!!

I know this will sound remarkably sexist, and I don't mean it to be, but I was trying to cut like a bloke would, and since I'm obviously not a bloke, I just hit burn-out.

I'll do better, though...start Monday on the new workout regime and diet, so it's all good.

 

[countryboy]

Cool!

Time away helps... Take a breather and come back with a vengeance.

I hear ya on the cals... I am upping mine as well, or at least trying to!

 

[IceDragon]

Cool!

Time away helps... Take a breather and come back with a vengeance.

I hear ya on the cals... I am upping mine as well, or at least trying to!

I'll start at about 1500 or so and work up from there, although I'm actually seriously considering about starting at 2000 and dropping or upping it every couple of weeks by 200 until I hit an optimum performance level (meaning I'm still full of energy at the end of a workout instead of being shattered halfway in).

Kind of the reverse way of what I've been trying to acheive, anyway so could be worth a try.

 

[IceDragon]

First day back at the gym after a whole week off and I'm feeling AMAZING!

10 min warm-up on cross-trainer, HR 140-160.

Bench 1x12@5kg, 1x10@9kg, 1x8@10kg, 1x6@13kg
Pullover 2x12@12.5kg
Kickback 1x12@2.5kg, 1x10@5kg, 1x8@9kg, 1x6@10kg
Concentration curl 2x12@5kg*
Hammer curl 1x12@2.5kg, 1x10@5kg, 1x8@9kg, 1x6@10kg
1 arm db cross ext 2x12@2.5kg*

10 min cool down on bike, HR 160-185.

* needs to be upped.

Weights all in kg, can't be bothered to convert them.

Diets going really well, all planned out but should be 28% carbs (184g), 50% protein (239g), 22% fat (47g), making a total of 2066 cals.

Just to reiterate - I feel great, full of energy and I'm running around like a headless chicken right now...

 

[countryboy]

Workout / diet is looking good..!!

Nice to be back... isn't it!

 

[b_reed23]

SO great to have you back!!!!!!!!

 

[IceDragon]

Workout / diet is looking good..!!

Nice to be back... isn't it!

SO great to have you back!!!!!!!!

Fantastic to be back, feel absolutely incredible, actually. I'm not tired anymore, got bundles of energy and I'm not getting knackered midway through a workout.

Did something a little different today.

1600 cals. 46% carbs (all oats, fruit/veg), 40% protein, 14% fat.

55 minutes belly-dancing (and there went my preconception that it would be comparable to a yoga workout...my heart rate must have hit 150 easily), 20 minutes tae-bo.

Damn good day, actually.

 

[IceDragon]

Couple of new pics...and I need a decent back shot, dammit!

*throws hissy fit*

(btw, my hair isn't actually this colour, I'd just got out of the bath and my hair was wet)

And a leg...just for Sam, perv that she is...

 

[b_reed23]

ooh...and you've got your pants hiked up too!!!


seriously though.....looking great!!

 

[IceDragon]

Forgot to write up yesterday's workout so will do that tomorrow as I'm absolutely shattered.

No workout today and pretty much no diet either, since I spent a lot of time at the hospital with my eldest (she's 10). She's been up all night with abdominal pain and a fever and I actually took her into hospital as it got really bad.

Luckily it turns out she's just got a UTI so she's on antibiotics, but it had me worried there for quite a while. She's okay, though, and that's what counts so bugger the workout, I'll catch up later on.

 

[katt]

whats a UTI? I'm glad she's ok... it's so stressful when you children get sick..

 

[b_reed23]

Katt..you ARE having a blonde day today... it's a Urinary Tract Infection!!

 

[IceDragon]

LOL She's okay now, so that's something...

Wednesday's workout:

15 min bike, HR 135-160.

Squat 1x12@45, 1x10@56, 1x8@67, 1x6@79
Lunge 2x12@2.5kg

Leg curl 1x12@10kg, 1x10@15kg, 1x8@20kg, 1x6@25kg
Lying torso/leg raise (tougher than it sounds) 2x12

One-arm db row 1x12@3kg, 1x10@5kg, 1x8@7.5kg, 1x6@10kg
Straight-arm pulldown 2x12@3kg

10 mins cross-trainer, HR 160-180.

 

[IceDragon]

Saturday's workout:

About five to seven hours of digging, carrying 2.4 metre fence posts for about two miles and also assorted lugging about of paving slabs and various sized chunks of masonry.

Talk about knackered...

 

[IceDragon]

Sunday's Workout:

Hour-long circuit class at the gym, another couple hours of digging and carrying yet more masonry about and also managed to fit in an hour of tai chi.

Bsuy, busy, busy...

 

[b_reed23]

what kind of Tai Chi do you do?? I do yoga and pilates occasionally, and was thinking about trying some Tai Chi...I here it's very relaxing

 

[IceDragon]

what kind of Tai Chi do you do?? I do yoga and pilates occasionally, and was thinking about trying some Tai Chi...I here it's very relaxing

Yoga makes me sleepy, tai chi refreshes me, or at least I've found.

I use a DVD of the Tai Chi Qigong or something like that. I've only just started doing it, but I really like it for some reason. On the DVD, the sequence I use takes an hour, but once I actually know it, it'll take about eight minutes.

 

[countryboy]

Hey ICE!

coming along nicely...

.. and belly dancing! now that is erotic..

 

[IceDragon]

Hey ICE!

coming along nicely...

.. and belly dancing! now that is erotic..

Erotic? Damn...you try it as a workout and I doubt sex will even cross your mind.

Talk about hard (no pun intended) LOL

 

[b_reed23]

 

[countryboy]

.. for me...

Belly dancing is a spectator sport..

 

[IceDragon]

Dammit, why did I get out of the habit of writing down what I've been doing?

Dumbass.

Did three workouts last week, one upper, one lower, one core (was rushed off my feet last week and couldn't seem to fit any of it in).

Diet going well, consistantly clean, approximately 1600 to 1800 cals a day.

 

[IceDragon]

Today's workout, and it was a doozy! :laughing:

15 minutes bike, HR 130-140.

Squat 1x10@67, 1x8@78, 1x6@89

Deadlifts 1x12@110 1x5@154, 1x5@176, 1x5@198, 1@210 PR

10 minutes bike, HR 140-150.

Those deads just about killed me...holy shit...

 

[IceDragon]

Well, basically for the last two weeks near as dammit, I've been completely out of commission when it comes to actually being well enough to eat, let alone working out.

Got one of those bloody awful vomiting bugs, and just as I got over that, I got another but different...

At my St John Ambulance Induction on the 17th May, it was recommended that we make sure all our jabs were up to date. I phoned the doctor on Tuesday to see when my last tetanus jab was, only to have my jaw smack the floor when he said my last one was in 1988.

Oh shit.

Consequently, I went in last Wednesday to have it done, and within 12 hours I had the more unusual side effects (nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, etc, etc) and it was only on the 28th that I actually felt a little bit better and able to eat something (and keep it down).

Generally speaking, today is the first workout I've managed to feel well enough to complete since the 21st. Which doesn't say a lot, really...

I hate injections. Blah.

 

[IceDragon]

10 minutes cross-trainer, HR 110-130

Squat 5x5@78
Lunge 1x10@12
Leg press 3x12@110
Bench 5x5@56
Chin-ups 5x5@45 (technically)
One-arm db row 3x12@10
Skull-crushers 3x12@10
Kickbacks 3x12@10
Cable row 3x12@35
Decline crunch 2x10
Cable crunch 2x20
Crunch 2x20
Oblique crunch 2x20

10 minutes bike, HR 130-140.

Took it easier today, diet is floating around 600 so far but it's only midday so I'll try to get that up considerably, since I've been sub-1000s again (and hating it). Felt very weak by the end and couldn't stop yawning.

 

[IceDragon]

20 minutes cross-trainer, HR 160-180.

I'm too sure for much more than that, can still barely walk lol.

 

[IceDragon]

10 minutes bike, HR 140-160.

Plank (40 sec)
Weighted crunch
Leg-raise crunch *
Combination *
Oblique toe-touch *

15 minutes cross-trainer, HR 150-180 (getting really hard to get my heart rate up there now, so it must really be getting efficient)

Did 1 set of 20 of each exercise, rested for a minute then repeated it. The (*) marked exercises I've kind of had to make a name up for. I've seen them done but I have no idea what they're called.

Oh, and it's the first workout I've ever had where I've almost shared my breakfast with the rest of the gym LOL