Monthly Archive for February, 2007

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Waiting for sun to go down so I can go to bed!

Published on February 4, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Excuse the mess of photos, I have no clue on how to set them out properly. This ‘pictorial’ shows how I’ve added a little bit of size over the years. First pic is first comp 2002, 2nd comp 6 months later, then in 2004 and then last July in 2006. Check out the arms, they have certainly grown! The change in overall muscle density is very apparent. I’ve got some great chest ones, I will have to do that one another time – in my first comp I looked like I had come direct from a concentration camp!
I am so tired – it’s 8.22pm and I am sitting in bed typing this, barely able to keep my eyes open. As always, when tired, my salt cravings have gone through the roof. I would estimate I’ve eaten at least 2 tablespoons of big crunchy sea salt just tonight. I wish I knew why. Anyway, I will just have an early night. Didn’t get much sleep last night. Jodie and I had bootcamp this morning, which was great – we did an hour all up, including the walk there and back. Then I had my chest and triceps session this arvo – it only took about half hour – had a few supersets and drop sets in there which probably made it quicker. My upper body is aching all over again. I would have done calves but I seem to have a small tear or something – it’s a bit sore from step class so didn’t want to risk it.

Tomorrow is cardio only. It’s going to be 42 tomorrow – reached 41 today. I don’t feel it anymore, this a/c is marvelous :)

I predict I will start my comp diet on 1st April. Means I get to miss out on celebrating my birthday and wedding anniversary two years in a row. Not that the birthday is anything to ‘celebrate’, best it just slips on by really :)

Di – well my GHD’s don’t do anything for me in humidity! As soon as I step out into the ‘atmosphere’ my hair is a frizz ball. That night that picture was taken I remember I spent ages straightening it and then went out on the balcony for a pre dinner drink and within seconds it was a damp frizzy mess. So that is why I tied it back and flattened it! And oh yeah we are so heeuuuwwge. ;)

Hilds – in winter you will remember why you live in Cairns :) No, I don’t blend my cherries I just add them to the thick chocolate mixture.

Kelly – how did you guess!! Yes, I do love blue :) I didn’t realise it was that obvious! Great to hear from you. What do you have to do now for your cholesterol? Seems odd doesn’t it…

Hils – yes Selina already told me you told her I was a short ass :) Am I ‘false advertising’? I can’t help it!! Thanks re the sugar thing – it’s rather weird for sure. Hope you are feeling a lot better.

Lisa – send me an email and we can chat about the possibility of catching up! There are a few of us trying to get together…

Ok well that’s about it for tonight. I think I need a bit drink of water and then to hit the sack.

Love Monday’s…am I the only one?

Published on February 3, 2007 in Uncategorized. 4 Comments

Sam W – You should have finally received my reply by now :)
Lisa – great to hear from you and good to know someone out there is aware of the virtues of a jumper around the waist! I got your mail and will be getting back to you soon.
Hilde – Ms Magazine Star (everyone buy next month’s Women’s Health & Fitness!) – did you try the bootcamp yet?
Jode – well thank goodness they have finally cleaned them…
Liz – nice of you to visit! You need to be kept warm up there in Qld?!!! My puddy cat is very fussy – he likes his Fussy Cat, and he’s a bit partial to ham off the bone and metwurst – generally anything other than that he won’t touch it :) I’m so glad to hear you saved him in the dream – I hope you wouldn’t tell me if something bad had happened to him :) Isn’t it interesting what we dream!
Hils – I hope we can catch up in Feb – great to hear you’ll be Phat Camping!
Michelle – yes we all have weird little quirks – I bet Carolyn thinks one of ours is not ironing our gym clothes :)
Ali – yes he’s well and truly over it – knocked him for 24 hours and then he was fine. Thanks. I hope your training and dieting is going well.
Deb – great to see you! Yes well I’ve moved on from the flicked back hair of the 80′s but I guess the jumper thing must have stuck :) My music taste is probably still stuck in the 80′s too :)

Ok, well it’s very bloody hot here this weekend so I’m not venturing out if I can help it! Tomorrow Jodie and I have bootcamp – Bec if you are intetested, 9am same place. Getting it done early to avoid the heat. I did a step class this morning, and was going to train but got caught up in writing programs – plus my shoulders are aching from yesterday’s workout! So, tomorrow wil train chest, tris and calves. I changed my split around so did shoulders and bis yesterday. Both are sore. I worked up and down the dumbbell rack for lateral raises, that was hard work. Hence the soreness. Started with Military Press to front on smith machine, then 2 heavy sets of lateral raises, then drop sets, up and down stack. Then DB rear delts supersetted with resistance band rear delts (love these) and then finished off with some Mil Presses to the back, with the olympic bar. Then biceps. I’m starting to get sore wrists and forearms again. Doing a lot of grip work with the heavy stiff leg deadlifts and pull ups and stuff and my poor hands and wrists are starting to feel it. I need some new wrist wraps and also have not been able to find new lifting gloves yet.

Went out for dinner AGAIN last night. I am living the high life, I better not get too used to it because that will all be stopping in a couple of months. Will enjoy while I can though! I had salt and pepper squid and a couple of nice chardy’s.

I had my Women’s Health Check at the doc’s on Thursday. Blood pressure 100/60, and get this, I had high blood sugar! The nurse was like “you don’t look like the sort of person who would have high blood sugar, but we better do it anyway”. It was 6.9 and she’s like ‘oh! we better do this again – have you been touching any sugar or anything?’ I said I’d had a few sultanas in my oats for breakfast that’s all. So she wiped off my finger and squeezed out some more blood. This time 7.3. So, doc wanted me to have a fasting blood test and a glucose tolerance test – but they keep you in for 2 hours and I had about 4 hours sleep that night so it wasn’t going to happen. He did say I could just have the fasting one and that would show if there was any problem. So, the results were supposed to come back yesterday but didn’t. I can’t believe my blood sugar was high!! WTF??? What are they going to tell me to do – cut out the sugar from my diet (what sugar?) and exercise??? Anyway, shall see what happens.

I’ve one more program to write tomorrow and that will be it for this week. Next week is already looking very busy with new clients.

Just finished my yummy MRM Choc Whey Pumped and cherries and now it’s time for a little nap with Rexy. :) It’s a tough life…

I will see if I can add a picture – this is the one I was trying to post a while back, when Adam left. This was at Phat Camp 2005. The other pic is when Di and I first met in person! Noosa, March 2004??

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Published on February 3, 2007 in Uncategorized. 1 Comment

Here is a cut and paste from my “News & Views” section – my blog wasn’t working when I last made a post:

…So I will have to use this for my personal blog until I can get it figured out! I need a permanent IT specialist here! It’s a full time job just trying to get/keep things working as they should! I also don’t seem to be able to post pics in this area, so I have submitted a support ticket.

So, to my training. Today was my final check in with my trainer for this 12 week program that I have just completed. I called him at 11am and we chatted for about 20 mins. I will be re-signing in about 8 weeks when I am due to start my competition preparation. I’m sitting at about 8% less body fat than I started my last comp prep, so, that has got to make it a little bit more bearable I sent Kim a photo of where I was at this time last year, OMG it was scary. I was in my bulking stage and feeling VERY uncomfortable. Kim was happy with the progress I’d made, he believed I’d lost from 2-5% body fat from when I started 12 weeks ago. The measurements say I’m the same, but he feels from looking at the photos that I have changed my body composition, that I’ve lost fat from hips and inner thighs, that my upper body is ‘cleaner’ and tighter and I’ve kept my back width and shoulder caps. So, his simple instructions for the next 8 weeks are to maintain my current condition. I’ve been doing that relatively easily so this should not be a problem.

Kim says that with my condition the way it is now, it will make the dieting easier, and will not be so hard on my body, and, importantly, I will be able to hold on to more muscle. It was quite funny, as he said to me ‘because you are so tall with long limbs…’ – I said “I’m not tall!! I’m 5′3″!!” He laughed and said ‘well it must be the shoes and the camera angle because you look very tall in the photos! But you still have long limbs…” I told him that everyone is surprised when they meet me in person because they all think I am tall. And, I’m so not! Actually I don’t mind being little :)

When I train upper body I get so pumped, and when I do my front relaxed pose I am getting a very nice v taper. I have a good lat spread from the front, I just need to perfect the back pose. I’ll be seeing Jo Rogers of Style on Stage for that, when I head up to Brissy in a month’s time. I hope to also catch up with Hils while there. I also found out that Deb, another client, will be attending PHAT Camp on the Gold Coast too, so there is another lovely client I will get to meet! If there are any of you in Brissy, Sunny Coast, Gold Coast area that would like to get together, maybe even for a training session please email me!

So, today i did my own training plan – still in various stages of devision (is that a word???) You know, I’m still devising them Today was legs. I started with supersets of heavy stiff leg deadlifts, for 10-12 reps, supersetting with smith machine lunges. 3 supersets. Followed with high wide leg press, 20 rep, 300lb. Then a triple drop set, 8/8/8 of seated hamstring curls. OMG. I was seeing stars Another set of leg press, 15 reps at 360lb. Then another triple drop of seated curls. One more set of 10 leg press, 400lbs.

Then on to knee extension – triple drop set. I was starting to feel a little ill after these 2 sets Followed that with 3 sets of BB Squats for 12 reps each. Took that fairly easy as I haven’t done free squats for about 3 months. So I used 40kg for 3 sets of 12. My legs were like jelly before I started them, but I actually managed these quite well and I will probably be able to increase this a fair whack next couple of weeks. Workout only took about 35 mins but it was intense. My heart rate was racing for the entire session. It was up to the high 160’s at one point.

So, I think I’ll do shoulders and chest tomorrow. I’m going to try training shoulders 2 x week, instructions from Kim. Kim by the way, is Kim Oddo – trainer of the amazing Monica Brant and many other sensational Figure competitors in the US.

I have my music cd burned Di, so I will send that to you so you can make me an awesome routine :)

Ok, well I just wanted to check in and let you all know how my training is going, since you can’t read my blog.

“When one door closes another one opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.”Alexander Graham Bell

Published on February 1, 2007 in Uncategorized. 3 Comments

testing my stoopid blog….

wow, looks like it worked. Here I am learning something from the pro, Jenn Hendershott, April 06