Quest Progress

I decided to stop lying.

:-*

Okay, so today I’m still sore (maybe it was from Squats, possibly it was the rocks) and I’m not sure if I’m going to work out.

I mean, if I did, I have to do it in 90 minutes and I don’t know if I can finish. I tend to take long rests. Up to two minutes between sets, I think. So let’s math it out… ten sets, three exercises. That’s 30, plus abs, making it 33. Times two? 66. An hour of rest.

I’ll have to work quickly.

I’m also assuming I weight somewhere around 170, but I’ll check as soon as mom wakes up and I can run into her bathroom to use the scale within. If I am 170, then my max calories is anywhere from 1700 to 2040. Until I can get a proper estimate (haha) I’ll just take the safe assumption of 1700.

8AM- Clean Protein

1 scoop protein powder, mixed in water w/ 3 ice cubes
1 multivitamin

Calories: 110
Calories Left: 1490

8:55AM- Working It

This is my workout for today:

(Chest) Flat bench press
incline dumbbell flys, superset (weights/reps listed are for BOTH exercises, so “3 reps” means 3 presses and 3 flys, back-to-back)

1. 40lbs.- 3 reps (I’m trying to get used to the low-rep range, so even during my warm-up…)
2. 40lbs.- 4 reps (warm-up ends)
3. 80lbs.- 3 reps (noticeable effort, but doable; may increase weight after next set)
4. 80lbs.- 3 reps (now I don’t want to, I just want my omelet…)
5. 90lbs.- 3 reps (I did one set of benches at 100, but I couldn’t even do one fly, so I lowered it to 90 and re-did the entire set)
6. 90lbs.- 3 reps
7. 90lbs.- 3 reps
8. 70lbs.- 3 reps (starting to cool down; thinking about doing incline benches next week)
9. 70lbs.- 3 reps
10. 40lbs.- 3 reps

Time: 9:35AM

Shoulder press
seated forearm lateral shoulder raises, superset (weights/reps listed are for BOTH exercises, as with the chest exercises)

1. 40lbs.- 3 reps (warm-up on press, little-bit more on raises)
2. 40lbs.- 10 reps (already feeling a bit of a pump in my shoulders… sooo weak, haha)
3. 60lbs.- 6 reps
4. 60lbs.- 3 reps

Okay, so I stopped after the third set to talk to my mom and I wound up cooling down so much that the next set was almost impossible. It’s almost time for my eggy meal, so I decided to stop here. I’m skipping my triceps and abs part of the workout, along with the latter portion of my shoulder routine.

My shoulders are feeling pretty good right now, though. But I don’t want them destroyed before I see Katie tomorrow.

Time: 10:13AM

Speaking of meeting new people, my ass is looking great.

And I checked my weight: 160 on the button! Nice.

Before I lose the card I wrote it on, here are my measurements from 5.16.08:

Height: 5′ 11″
Weight: 169
BMI: 23.6
Waist: 36.6″
Hips: 38.5″ (Ratio: 0.948)
Chest: 33.5″ / 36.25″ | normal / expanded
Neck: 13″
left / right
Biceps: 10.25″ / 10.5″
Forearms: 8.5″ / 8.75″
Wrists: 6″ / 6″
Thighs: 21.5″ / 22″
Calves: 14.5 / 14″

Body Fat Percentage: 40% (ew, gross, yuck, nobody loves a fatty!)

I don’t know why I have such a ridiculous appetite. Before I worked out I could have eaten fifty eggs. Now I barely want two. The next ten minutes shall be interesting.

Or full of Will & Grace.

10:27AM- Egg Whites and Kraft Single

½ cup Egg Beaters egg whites
2 slices ham
1 slice Kraft single
1000mg vitamin C supplement
1000mg flax oil supplement

Nuked for 2 minutes and rested for 5.

Calories: 150
Calories left: 1340

I would have preferred two regular eggs alone, but since mom used them in her own scramble yesterday, I settled for some expired (but not yet opened) Egg Beaters. Whites are also really bland, so I threw some other unhealthy nonsense in it.

Going to have to read up on vitamin C and flax a little more to see what I should take on a daily basis, but I figured I’d hop on the wagon now so I don’t go “GAWH!” later.

Noon - Dairy Queen

Went to go visit my grandmother to mooch off of her for grocery money; stopped at DQ on the way for a quick bite.

1 Grilled Chicken Sandwich
1 large Diet Coke

Calories: 310
Calories left: 1030

3:20PM - Quick Snack

Leaving for a Ladies’ Night Out: Dinner at Texas Roadhouse, then going to the movies to see Sex and the City. Before that, though, I’m having a quick recharge. I don’t know when I’m eating dinner, but apparently we’re all meeting up at around 5:20 soo… K.

I’m supposed to be eating around 7:30, but I figure if we eat earlier then my meals won’t be too close together:

1 stick of string cheese
1 South Beach Living High Protein Cereal Bar (Peanut Butter)
4 Mini Snickers (don’t sneer: LOW BLOOD SUGAR OKAY!?)

Calories: 380
Calories left: 650

Yikes. Gunna have to go easy at dinner…

This bar is surprisingly good. Going to look up recipes to make lower-calorie versions for myself later on tonight, if not too tired.

—

Bleh. Eating out really screwed everything up. I was doing so well until I started eating dinner rolls and ordering marshmallows on my sweet potato (though honestly, other than ketchup with steak, those were my only real faults here.)

Best case scenario: my overeating only caused me to hit the upper limit of my caloric intake limit of 1920.

Sex and the City was fucking AWESOME, though. Proper review forthcoming.

Just got back from Summerfest.

I haven’t been there in maybe six years, and I had a great time.

Jfin and I took a bus from a nearby Target to get there. We get there, buy our tickets, wait for his friends to meet up with us, and we sit on some rocks for maybe thirty minutes before I get this NASTY voicemail from his mom telling him to be home by 10:30 or his girlfriend can’t come over this weekend.

I didn’t go back with him, I wanted to stay and watch fireworks.

Manders n Me

Who wouldn’t stay for that?

Man, do my legs look ridiculous today.

My quads are all swollen, but I’m still fat, so I’ve got these muscle poppages surrounded by sagging fat. Gross.

But, since I’m not working out today, I thought I’d concentrate a little on diet. My first meal kinda screwed up my caloric schedule, but that was because I woke up at 4AM with massive hunger pangs. Luckily I didn’t do anything too evil, just some chocolate chips in my oatmeal.

That wasn’t a euphemism.

4AM: Chocolate Chip Oatmeal

1 cup oatmeal
1 cup 1% milk
5 (or so, some were stuck together?) chocolate chips

Calories: 400

8:30AM: Protein Shake

1 scoop protein powder
1 cup 1% milk

Running Total: 620

10:41AM: Ham Cheesy Omelette

2 eggs
3 ham slices
1 slice of Colby jack cheese

Running Total: 990

11:04AM: BBQ Curds

1oz cheese curds
1 Tbsp. BBQ sauce

Running Total: 1170

[Note: I started writing this at around noon, so I still have meals coming up. I just wanted to say that since I had two meals that WERE NOT part of my plan, I will be skipping my last two meals and going to bed early.

...I feel like I'm punishing myself, now. Hm. It's what I get for sneaking in naughty calories?

"NO DINNER. NO DESSERT. GO TO BED!"]

1:30PM: Low Sugar Oatmeal

1 medium apple
2 packets of maple & brown sugar low-sugar oatmeal
1 cup 1% milk
1 Tbsp. chocolate chips

Running Total: 1660

2:12PM: Fuck it

1 lean cuisine, chicken n green beans (or something, 150 cal)
another oatmeal packet, made with water, but there’s still chocolate chips

Running Total: 2000

I am 40 calories under my daily allotment. I cannot BELIEVE how unsatisfied I feel when my stomach isn’t distended.

It’s fucking disgusting. Such a pig.

Here’s hoping I can get through the rest of the day without eating.

…

Alex already told me, twice, that she likes me and wants to be with me.

And I have said, twice, that I just want to be friends.

And I am a horrible, terrible liar.

Started today’s workout at about 10:30AM. It’s been an hour and a quarter since I’ve started, and I’ve just finished my Squats. Ten sets of them. My idea is to do high-set, low-rep work to increase my size and strength, so what I’m trying to do is figure out what my three-rep max is.

I kinda screwed around and did high-set, high-rep. No set today went below 10 reps. But the poundages went above 100, and I’m very happy about that.

Squat Sets!

1. 40lbs.- 20 reps
2. 60lbs.- 20 reps (end of warm-up)
3. 100lbs.- 20 reps (this highly surprised me, just a few weeks ago I could barely crank 10 reps at this)
4. 110lbs.- 20 reps
5. 120lbs.- 10 reps
6. 130lbs.- 15 reps
7. 130lbs.- 10 reps
8. 130lbs.- 12 reps
9. 70lbs.- 30 reps (cool-down starts here)
10. 50lbs.- 40 reps

I did as many reps as I could without compromising form. Once I hit 130lbs. I decided against increasing weight, as I was starting to tire both physically and mentally (I’ve never done ten sets of one exercise in one session like this, so both faculties were strained.) However, using a one-rep max calculator on my best set comes out to 192, which I don’t think I have the power rods for on my Bowflex…

Fortunately, I’m using 80%, which comes out to 154 and which I’ll be rounding down to 150 for my workout. Hopefully by the time I outgrow this I’ll have a job and can go to a real gym with real weight. Bleh!

The warm-up and cool-down will be changed to being 100 pounds. I’ve read around, and it seems about 50% of 1RM is good for this purpose. Though 96 is my 50%, I had very little trouble lifting 100 (despite already being warmed up, I doubt by next week I’ll have any trouble with it at all) so I’ll just round it up.

Now, onto the calf raises! (checkpoint: 12PM)

Calf Sets!

1. 50lbs.- 20 reps
2. 50lbs.- 30 reps (end of warm-up)
3. 80lbs.- 20 reps
4. 80lbs.- 20 reps (I’m about halfway through my calf workout when I realize that Bowflex intentionally sets up with such low weights so you are forced into high reps unless you want an ineffectual workout. Sneaky bastards. No wonder everyone gets so lean.)
5. 80lbs.- 20 reps

They’re starting to get difficult now, but part of me wants to believe it’s because of the way I have to perform them. My forearms are getting a killer workout trying to hold those hand grips, even though I already did grip training during my between-squat rests.

Going to cut it short here and start on some very light cardio. I’m handing in a job application at a gas station and my neighbor wants to walk with me because he’s applying at a dealership across the street. When I get back, ABS!

(Checkpoint: 12:23PM)

3:36PM now, the walk was good, but I still haven’t done anything abs-wise. I’ll probably hit it after my 4:30 snack, but I don’t know. I did do them yesterday and I’m told three times a week is ALREADY too much, which I’ve already done. Maybe this week will just be weights?

HAHAHA, no way! I’ll do my leg raises and crunches for my other two workouts this week, but today I think I’ll just call it a day.

And it was a good day.

Chillin’ w/ mah bro. Enjoy.

Vampfin

Broze

He\'s the Dealer

He gets money!

JFIN 4 LIFE

Squee! Met Daisy at the coffee place downtown. Walked around.

Got super-tickled.

Had a lot of fun.

TICKLE TREKKERZ

So I’ve been working on figuring out yet another workout regime/program.

And I got all excited about it because I’m fairly sure about it. The problem is, though, I did today’s latter half of the workout last night. And I haven’t slept yet. So I’m just “skipping” today to start things new tomorrow. Off to a great start hey? Already putting stuff off.

But like I said, I was excited. So I decided to work something I’m planning on working every day: abs.

And today I finally was able to crank out 5 sets of 25 reverse crunches in one session.

I’m really just proud of THAT.

Now to undo all that work and have a plate of pancakes with mommy.

Angels

So yesterday I went to a party hosted by Alex.

I had a great time, got to meet some of her friends, got into an extended tickle-war with Liz.

…Met Alex’s boyfriend…

Someone brought the Footloose soundtrack, which kicked my ass all over the place. It’s extremely rare that there are ever any songs played that I know. I was pretty out of it yesterday, though, mentally. Couldn’t really get into any songs and felt reaaaaally awkward and mechanical when I tried to dance.

Probably something to do with lack of sleep and preoccupation with crushes.

So, no blow-by-blow recap. But I love hanging out with Alex, and Liz is really great too. I can’t remember if I’ve ever even hung out with Liz before, but if I haven’t…

…I suppose it doesn’t matter. I’ll have to watch out for tickle-attacks, though. She’s really good at that. I can usually ignore how ticklish I am!