ixaera keeps on going~

[ixaera]

Busy freakin' weekend, y'all.

 

Friday I built the machine (after a legs and back follow up since I missed the second half of it on Thursday). It is amazing. I played on it as much as possible this weekend. It is my first SSD so being able to hit the power button and get going before a minute has passed is incredible. D&L loads in 1/4 of the time. No more long loading screens in FF.

 

Saturday I went out with my best friend for her birthday and we sang karaoke and pretended it was 1997. (To be fair, *I* sang karaoke, no one else did in our group.) It was stormy, the power went out once (this is where we pretended it was hot tub dive bar and the lightning strike sent us back in time). Sunday, I did OHP and shoulders. I program sets of bench on OHP day but a lady was on the good bench ... she got there on my second to last OHP set and was still there when I finished shoulders. I tried to use the old bench I used for wide grip but something has happened and I cannot use that bench anymore. Maybe if I used wide grip. I should have either used wide grip or asked to work in, but my shy introversion took over and I just skipped it.

 

Then we cleaned and went to Cidercade, which is exactly what it sounds like and amazing.

 

Cut is going okay. OHP felt heavy, but managed 2 reps at my top set of 57.5, and got a new 7 rep max.

[shaar]

2 hours ago, ixaera said:

No more long loading screens in FF.

 

Maaan isn't this the best??  I'm always the first to load in anywhere out of my FC.  /golddance while waiting~

 

2 hours ago, ixaera said:

It is my first SSD so being able to hit the power button and get going before a minute has passed is incredible.

 

Isn't this the craziest thing ever?!!?!  Like literally 10 seconds between power button to desktop ready to go, and I'm like... 'keanu-whoa'.  Technology.

[CourtnieMarie]

2 hours ago, ixaera said:

Then we cleaned and went to Cidercade, which is exactly what it sounds like and amazing.

 

TAKE ME!

[ixaera]

21 hours ago, shaar said:

 

Maaan isn't this the best??  I'm always the first to load in anywhere out of my FC.  /golddance while waiting~

 

 

Isn't this the craziest thing ever?!!?!  Like literally 10 seconds between power button to desktop ready to go, and I'm like... 'keanu-whoa'.  Technology.

 

It's amaaaazing. My previous machine I rarely turned off because the boot was soooo long. 

 

 

20 hours ago, CourtnieMarie said:

TAKE ME!

 

If you are ever in Dallas, FOR SURE. It's fantastic. Too much of a drive for me to go to regularly (like 15 miles down I-35, which nope, but it was a special occasion), but soooooo worth it.

 

Yesterday I did 30 min on the elliptical and 2 walks at work. I'm wearing my fitbit again, and I got over 13k steps. Today I went and did 5/3/1 day bench (training max currently at 90 lbs, so no PRs today). Got there at the same time as two 16 year old girls, and their trainer (?? I guess?? or just a random 40 year old man they knew, so I HOPE it was their coach) were ALL doing bench. The trainer was already set up on the good bench and he had his slingshot nearby so I knew there was no point waiting. I have work to get to. 

 

Meanwhile the girls are like "WOW THERE'S A MILLION PEOPLE HERE"
Uh, literally the only other person is me, so I guess me = a million people ok got it sure

 

I suck it up and get on the bench I tried Sunday. I know it didn't work for close/medium grip, so I just go back to my old wide grip. Worked fine. So, that bench is fine, as long as I don't want to train any other grip. But it was the only other one with safeties, and the girls were a pair, so I figure they can spot each other, but I have heavy work and AMRAPs to do.

 

Meanwhile they end up working up to 135 lb bench, which I am envious of (but each girl probably does weight AT LEAST 10 lbs more than I do, if not 20, most of it lean, so it's not weird, just ... I wish I were 16 and lifting over my bw )

 

Also meanwhile, I hear the trainer quoting Ave Q "everyone's a little racist" at the Asian guy I see there a lot. Yeah ok that's not in bad taste, whatever. I hope they are good friends and there's a background there to make that less disgusting????

 

Anyway, got me a new 7 rep max on bench (85.5 lbs), but jokers did not go over 99 today, which I did a single of, and MAY have had a 2nd in the tank, but I was feeling a little tightly wound and didn't think so enough to grind another rep out. 

 

The rest today is all just bodybuilding accessories, and I'm either going to try to get more steps at the rec center and use their dumbbells, or go home and do it.

 

Happy Tuesday, frands

 

[Jord]

On 8/15/2017 at 10:01 AM, ixaera said:

 

 

Meanwhile the girls are like "WOW THERE'S A MILLION PEOPLE HERE"
Uh, literally the only other person is me, so I guess me = a million people ok got it sure

 

 

you are just that impressive

 

On 8/15/2017 at 10:01 AM, ixaera said:

 

Also meanwhile, I hear the trainer quoting Ave Q "everyone's a little racist" at the Asian guy I see there a lot. Yeah ok that's not in bad taste, whatever. I hope they are good friends and there's a background there to make that less disgusting????

 

 

 

gross GRRRR

[ixaera]

5 hours ago, Taddea Zhaan said:

you are just that impressive

 

I was going to say hahaha i wish or perhaps someday!

but truth is, I have IRL non-fitnessy friends who think I'm really strong and dedicated and are impressed and tell me so occasionally, and I'm definitely strongER and really good at holding down a general fitness schedule, so I decided that response was unfair to myself.

 

YES. YES I AM.

:3

 

Anyway, sorry for lack of updates. On the fat loss front I've actually lost 3 lbs (some of this is the bloats) and my jeans feel looser. I have not yet measured. So I'm feeling more successful there. Protein's been hit or miss, but I'm doing better this week at it than last.

 

Still lifting. I skipped today though because of a torrential downpour and lack of sleep, plus I'm working from home tomorrow, so Friday is an overall more sensible day to get lifts in before the trip

which begins tomorrow afternoon~

 

Lack of updates is in due in most part to Dealing With Stuff, family + other

It has just left me with too little energy for logging much or talking about things, but I'm still DOING the things. I haven't cooked this week due to not wanting to throw out leftovers pre-trip, but I'm having protein oatmeal, veggie salads (today was spinach and bacon and egg), Cowboy Chicken and veggie turkey rollups. (Turkey slices with guac and spinach)

 

Speaking of Cowboy Chicken, my cat generally hates people food. She will sniff at it and meow, but if you offer her something she turns her nose up. SHE STOLE A CHICKEN BONE. I had to chase her to get it back afraid she'd choke (she's not smart). Gave her a scrap of the chicken instead. Instant hit. I have cooked chicken for this rascal before with no luck, so Cowboy Chicken is clearly magic.

 

[ixaera]

Still kind of Dealing With Stuff, and vacation starts this afternoon. Dealing has involved some epic sadness, so I finally know what it takes for me to be like "no. no gym. going to just lay here instead"

(The answer is a whole lot)

 

Do not worry, no one has died. A relationship (sister) has changed drastically, and it is not-happy place.

 

I will be back at it Next Monday and I hope to have time to post a few pictures at resting points

[Urgan]

Family is hard. Wishing you feel better soon and resolution (whatever that looks like) comes quickly. 

[Jonesy]

1 hour ago, Urgan said:

Family is hard. 

 I second and say sometimes unbearable! 

 

I hope you find sometime on your vacation to relax and have some self care time. 

[ixaera]

Quick summary/check in

Vacation was awesome, A+++ would vacation again

I got sick tho

also period

also also Monday

 

In summary, the program I was starting today is postponed, but back to eating healthy and tracking.

[CourtnieMarie]

yay vaca!

 

boo mondays and sharks and being sick  

[Urgan]

Mondays post-vacation hit hard. 

[ixaera]

[ixaera]

There needs to be an entry in mfp for all the fudge

all of it

[CourtnieMarie]

10 hours ago, ixaera said:

There needs to be an entry in mfp for all the fudge

all of it

i adore fudge. i haven't had it in so long actually. time to go down to a beach town and into a candy shoppe and eat all of the fudge. ... let me know if you find that entry  

[Jord]

10 hours ago, ixaera said:

There needs to be an entry in mfp for all the fudge

all of it

 

mmm, I like the way you think. post-vacation-monday-fudge <3 

 

[ixaera]

On the trip, we went to two fudge places. The first was in this super podunk tiny town in Wyoming called Meeteetse (hehehehhehehehehhehehe), and besides a couple of cowboy bars and this chocolatier, there is nothing else there and the Conoco station is the grocery store. But let me tell you

 

HOLY cow batman

So, we were late and we arrived right at closing, but luckily she hadn't closed up shop yet and wasn't too annoyed with our presence (I was ready to zoom right back out the door if it looked at all like we were bad news to her, being in there at closing). The place was fresh out of every chocolate but one flavor, the name of which i didn't get, but it was a sweet dark chocolate with marshmallows and coconut. AMA-ZI-NG

Top 3 best chocolate I've had in my life

One of the ingredients is probably virgin tears or something

 

The second place was in Jerome, and they sold by the pound of course. I got 4 "quarters" in orange dream, salted caramel, rocky road, and jalapeno

 

All very good, very very good. And I say this with meaning: STILL not as amazing as Meeteetse, by far. Even as good as it was.

 

Anyway. It's all gone now. All just a memory of sugar and cacao.

 

Chocolate rambling brought to you by dayquil delirium

 

Today I woke up with half a voice (well, no voice until I had some water) and a cough that physical hurts kind of significantly. So still no getting back on program. My body is still asking me for more respite, so I suppose I'll oblige. I'm working at home today to avoid coughing all over everyone.

[CourtnieMarie]

aw man feel better! lots of vitamins and water

[Urgan]

Ix is armed and dangerous, work from home time is better than no pay sit on ass time, at least. Hopefully the cough passes soooooon.

[ixaera]

is Halo Top a vitamin?

asking for a friend...

[ixaera]

I took a remote day yesterday to avoid coughing on everyone, because I woke up with a chest/throat on fire and was having some coughing fits, and I took some Mucinex which appears to have gotten me back over that hump. I feel somewhat better today. Been keeping up on emergen-c's for those vitamins, too.

 

Still full of mucus, but no longer feel like hot garbage. I slept probably 14 hours yesterday, with a break for Dark and Light.

[ixaera]

All that sleep did a lot of good. I had a much better day cold-wise yesterday, and feel nearly normal today. Normal enough for

 

DUN DUN DUNNNNN

 

GYM TIME

I'm real excited to get back to it. I'm starting a bodybuilding program currently for a change of pace and to see how I like it. If I don't like it, I have another strength program in mind for trying out :3

Taking it easy-ish and feeling out the workout today as it goes b/c of kicking illness.

[ixaera]

HOLY LEG DAY BATMAN

 

[Figure 1]

 

The first day didn't look so bad, went a bit light because first day in two weeks but STILL going down the 3 stairs leaving the rec center was like Figure 1 up there.

 

10 min treadmill warm up

 

Leg Curls

3x10 40 lbs

Leg Extensions

3x10 25 lbs

Just to activate here

 

DB Bulgarian Split Squats (in lieu of actual squats since no barbell today)

4x12 40 lbs

fffffffffff sweat city

 

DB RDLs

4x10 30 lbs

Easy, but meant for it to be, because not yet sure what back can handle and I'm easing into things there (planning to actually try deadlifts though?)

 

DB lunges

4x10 30 lbs

got pretty wobbly at the end, struggled on final reps for reals

 

Leg Curls

3x10 55 lbs

Leg Extensions

3x10 40 lbs

 

Looks easy right??

lol

excuse me while I roll myself to the nutribullet

 

[ixaera]

arg it's 10 pm and I have undereaten due to funky scheduling and mysteriously fast time passage *sci fi noises*

brb finding things to nom pre-sleep

[ixaera]

turkey slices and mini guacamole packs are life savers

 

Today, my legs are kind of doing their own thing and they hurt all the way down lol (two weeks out of the gym, no adaptation, womp womp)

 

Woke up early to do upper day, got most of that done. It takes forever, even with the prescribed shorter rests, and I ended up cutting the ab circuit in favor of just doing some knee raises and getting to work only 30 min late >.>

 

Don't want to neglect abs though, so I'll do some sets with the ab wheel later today I guess. 

 

ANYWAY

it was a storm of supersets

DB overhead press

4x8 30 lbs

Cable Row

4x8 60 lbs

 

Barbell Bench

2x12 65 lbs

1x7 65 lbs 1x5 60 lbs

1x12 60 lbs

TOO HEAVY OOPS

Lat Pulldown (used the hammer strength lever version)

4x10 60 lbs

 

Lying Tri Extension (no truth telling ones, I guess)

4x10 16 lbs (8 each hand)

DB Chest Flies

4x12 24 lbs (12 each hand)

 

Cable Straight Arm Pull Downs

3x12 40 lbs

Seated DB Curls

3x12 20 lbs (10 each hand)

 

Cable Tri Push downs

3x12 40 lbs

Incline Hammer Curls

3x12 20 lbs (10 each hand)

 

Somewhere in there I did a 4x10 of knee raises, too.

 

Arms didn't wanna work after this so, effective at what it advertises.