Kureransu's Log.

hey all.

Today is going to be an interesting day. Went to the gym this morning to find it closed. Turns out the person working had a family emergency and had t leave before open to take care of the situation. she couldn't get a hold of anyone fast enough to get in for her, so they opened late. I can't fault her, i mean her shift starts at 4 am... I think anyone would have had a hard time trying to find someone to cover at that time of day.

What this means for me is that i have to go to the gym after work. This kinda sucks because i play wally ball from seven til nine. i'll be at the gym most likely from five-thirty-six-thirty. So i've thirty min (travel time) between the two workouts. I'm also kinda pumped because i know i'll be full of energy! RAWR! it'll be like this past monday all over again. should be fun though.

In other news i'm in the 230's now, clocking in at 239 flat. hoping for like 235-237 for the start of april. things are steadily looking good....
 
OH yeah! After much consideration. I think i am going to revamp my routines! Instead of 8 week routines, they will be six week. I miscalculation in my math had me thinking there were a lot more than 52 weeks in a year lol. So while i've enjoyed this endurance based routine i think today is the last day for it. It'll be 12 on 1 off, which 13x4 is 52, so the als week of the year i should be on break, which is when i usually go out of town. I'm going to take next week as a rest week and pretty much just do light cardio a couple times. I will still play my sports, so i will be pretty active, but i need to thank my muscles by give them a full week of recovery for a job well done. Next session well be 5-8 reps and pretty heavy, which will be fun but challenging. I've a cali trip the first week of june for E3, which will 4 weeks earlier than i planned. the benefit is that i think i'll be able to get in the gym at least twice that week so i should be fine.
 
Hey all. Just wanted to catch you all up.

Friday:

Well the i didn't make it to the gym... i was going to leave work a little early to go before wallyball, but my boss has an uncanny ability to ask you to do something within an hour before you want to leave, thus keeping you there WELL after you intended time. so by the time i was done. wallyball was to start in an hour, which is how long the routine would take, so i said forget it. Wallyball was fun though, i thoroughly enjoyed myself.

Saturday:

After My class was over, i met up with a friend at her gym, which i wanted to check out anyway. I thought she was going to do her routine and I mine, but she decided to follow mine as well. Well that didn't turn out so well, since she didn't eat enough..... After wards we tried to go out to eat and her blood sugar was soo low she felt like she was going to pass, but she thought it was a panic attack coming on... She's fine now though.
back at the gym, I did do my routine, albeit a little slower than normal, but it was pretty good to get it in one last time since i'll be resting this week. I can honestly say i am glad to be done with that indeed. Oh yeah, the gym i went to had dumb bells that went up to 125lbs, so you know i had to try and get them up at least one time after my workout. I managed to get them up ONE good time and i was done after that, perhaps i should have did it before my routine, but i was more than satisfied. i pretty much relaxed the rest of the day after that.

Sunday:

Today was something else. Did my cardio circuit class from 11-12:15, and i had a lunch day at 2, so i just hung around and killed time. I ended up walking a half mile then getting on the treadmill and running a mil at a 7mph pace. i wanted to do a 8.5 min mile, but it turns out 7 mph is a 8:40 mile, but i'm not too disappointed. its about what i did when i ran my 5k back in jan of 2010. My 2 0'clock canceled on me at 1:45, and i was kinda not wanting to just sit around the house so i called my friend and see if he was up for tennis, despite it being on 30 degrees today. He said yes and we met up at 3:30 to play. after a while i was feeling EXTREMELY worn out! i'm like i think i'm going to have to call it quits, i can really move much anymore. Look at the clock and it's FREAKING 6:55 PM! 3.5 hours of tennis on top of 1.5 hours of cardio... Now i see how i lost the weight so fast in summer of 09... I played tennis like a mofo, and i know i wasn't and conditioned to play as i am now, so the calorie burn must have been insane! Needless to say i am beyond exhausted and i asked my gf to come over and make me dinner, because i just don't want to move anymore....
hope everyone else is doing well!
 
Oh yeah!

When i went to the other gym. I had to go through this whole process of them trying to selll you a membership. So she was asking me about how much weight i want to lose and argued with me how you can tone up and not lose weight. She says, say this lady weighs 120, but she has a stomach she wants to get rid of, but she wants to keep the same weight.. I tell her well she'll have to lose the fat to lose the stomach, and then build back up. I don't think you can lose fat and gain muscle at the same time where your weight will stay the same, you need to eat more for one and less for the other.. She was like "we'll agree to disagree" lol she continues to tell me how a trainer can help me lose weight and i can get the results since they know what they are talking about. I simply told her i'm only listening because its your job to tell me this info, but know now that i'm not interested in joining. She was liek don't you want to lose weight? i took out my phone and showed her my before pic and she completely changed her toned and hurried along through her spiel and was really nice to me lol. I love it when people assume you don't know what you are doing at the gym... Never mind the fact that i told her i was happy at my gym and just wanted to check out this club....
 
ok let me catch up here, i've been lazy since i haven't been to the gym..

Monday night was my soccer game, and we lost. I was disappointed because we just played bad. Its one thing for them to just get the best of us and such, but we just weren't playing soccer at all.

Yesterday, i played about 2 hours of tennis, and did about 30 min of just passing and shooting drills for soccer. nothing too strenuous, kinda like casual play. I am finding that i have to move a little bit! I can't spend a whole day doing nothing.

today i am supposed to be doing kickboxing class with the gf. so i'm looking forward to that.

I've been eating less, but i noticed i'm snacking on peanuts a lot. i need to watch that... otherwise, everything seems to be going pretty well. my face seems to be getting smaller, which i'm happy about. but nothing much else to report. things are fine on this front.
 
alright everyone, i'm back from my "rest" week. I'll give you a rundown of how it went, since it was more fo an active rest period..

Sunday:
Cardio class for 1.5 hours and 3.5 hours of tennis.. (ouch)

Monday:
Soccer

Tuesday:
2 hours of tennis and 30 min soccer practice (pretty basic passing drills and such)

Wednesday:
One hour kick boxing class

Thursday:
2 hours of tennis and 30 min of soccer practice

Friday:
2 hours of wallyball

Saturday:
30 min of soccer practice

Sunday:
NOTHING

In all i had a blast and kept pretty good on the food compensating for no gym time mon- friday morning. The end results is that i feel much better and i even lost a pound, putting me at 38 to go now. things are looking pretty good. I'm going to make a separate post about the routine i'm doing, this is getting a little long.
 
so today i'm doing a new routine. This one requires heavier weights and i'm doing a pyramid of sorts. today was chest and tris, and its six sets of 5 reps, if i can get to five. I was super setting between the two so the top were a super set and the bottom 2 were the other.

Incline Barbell bench: 225x5 245x5 275x4 275x3 245x5 225x5

Tricep pushdown: (2-handed rope): 60x5 85x5 100x5 100x5 85x5 70x5

Decline BB bench: 230x5 250x5 280x3 280x3 250x5 280x3 230x8(burnout)
(i was feeling REALLLY good so i wanted to try for 5 again on 280 but still only got 3)

Skull crushers: 80x5 90x5 100x5 100x5 90x5 80x5

I plan on increasing weight consistently over the next six weeks of this. also, i've been off a week so this week i figure i'm just rebuilding and readjusting to lifting heavy again..

oh yeah, this is obviously going to be a split routine. i just haven't figured out what i'm going to do for back, bis, shoulders and legs.
 
Catch up!

Tuesday:

30 min of cardio at the gym in the am, then in the evening 1 hour of tennis, followed by an hour of soccer practice, whihc wasn't too intense, but i was definitely moving around.

Today:

Well today i decided to do lower body, it needs tweaking as i need to get my calves in there a little. I really had to work on my form with my deadlifts, its been a while since i did them and i have a bad habit of not raising my head when i come up, as someone pointed out when i asked to asses my form. I was trying to figure out how i was ending up in a straight leg pose.

You'll notice i did a few more 1 rep for my DL. I was trying to find a comfortable weight where i could do 5 reps and it felt good. I adjusted the other weights accordingly.

Deadlifts: 225x5. 315x5. 405x1, 365x1, 345x5, 345x5, 275x5, 225x5

Lying leg extensions (single leg): (not sure if that's the name but it works hams and glutes) 80x5, 98x5, 120x5, 120x5, 98x5, 80x5

Seated Leg Press: 405x5, 495x5, 675x5, 675x5 495x5 405x5

Seated Leg Curls: 195x5, 225x5, 255x5, 255x5, 225x5, 195x5

In other news my girlfriend purchased me the Arnold Schwarzenegger Encyclopedia of Modern Day Bodybuilding as a surprise. Haven't got to really go through it, but i'm looking forward to diving into it.
 
OK! so yesterday was just 30 min of cardio, so i didn't really have much to post, although i could talk about life in general.. but first today's workout! Biceps and Back!
with the db preacher curls, i think next week it will be 65, since i was "feeling it out" this week i went for 70 and realized i wasn't going to get five right a way, i went immediately into 65s, and just did 60 to be safe for the next high rep set. next week it'll be 45 55 65 65 55 45,


Single arm Dumb bell Preacher curls: 45x5, 55x5, 70x1, 65x3, 60x5, 50x5, 45x5

Single arm Dumb bell bent over rows: 80x5, 90x5, 100x5, 100x5, 90x5, 80x5

2-arm cable curls: 65x5, 80x5, 95x5, 95x5, 80x5, 65x5

Bar Bell pull overs: 80x5, 100x5, 120x5, 120x5 100x5, 80x5

I can't really complain about my life. its pretty darn good. i've not a lot going on in it,a nd not a lot of responsibilities outside of paying bills. I've a job people would dream of and I guess i'm just in good favor. I've been freelancing for a few years now, primarily with this same company. yesterday they told me there are interested in bringing me on full time, if i want it. Generally, as freelance you make more an hour, but obviously you have to pay for your own insurance and such. Well they told me they can pretty much pay me salary wise the same hourly rate, which is awesome. The best thing about it, (besides the cheaper insurance) Is that every time i take a week off for vacation i still get paid! lol I've not had that in years. Even though i don't really worry about money to that extent, ever week i take off, depending on how busy or slow the studio is, is between 1k-2k i just miss out on. That's not counting the money that i will be spending while on vacay too. So it'll be a nice change of pace for me. I'll have 3 weeks vacation time (they'll grandfather me in since i've been freelancing for them for 4.5 years now.
 
so i had a busy weekend.
friday was my gf's mom birthday dinner, so no wallyball :(

Teaching, then i went to go get my racquets restrung to find out one of them had a cracked frame and was non repairable.. A little disappointed, but I was excited to buy a new racquet! So now i have a new racquet and all is well. Met up with from friends for lunch while they were being restrung. After i picked them up, naturally i wanted to try it out! so i played a couple hours of tennis, then went to a birthday celebration, followed by a game night with high school friends.

Sunday I did my cardio class, went to a play with my gf, then we met up with a college friend and her husband for dinner and a few games of bowling. I was happy with my scores, bowling a 191 in game 2 with an overall average of 173.

Today was chest and tris, which i was very satisfied with. i hit five on EVERY set, which is more than i could say for last week.

Incline Barbell bench: 225x5 245x5 275x5 275x5 245x5 225x5

Tricep pushdown: (2-handed rope): 60x5 85x5 100x5 100x5 85x5 70x5

Decline BB bench: 230x5 250x5 280x5 280x5 250x5 230x10(burnout)

Skull crushers: 80x5 90x5 100x5 100x5 90x5 80x10
 
didn't post yesterday, Lazy again. Monday night was fun. really enjoyed soccer ended up being tied six-six, which was a little disappointing, but its better than a loss.

Yesterday was a simple day, 45 min of cardio on the elliptical, then i did a bout 2 hours of tennis in the evening.

Today was lower body, with much better results (at least to me) on DLs than last week

Deadlifts: 225x5, 275x5, 365x5, 365x5, 275x5, 225x5

Lying leg extensions (single leg): 82x5, 96x5, 120x5, 120x5, 96x5, 82x5

Seated Leg Press: 405x5, 495x5, 675x5, 675x5 495x5 405x5

Seated Leg Curls: 195x5, 225x5, 255x5, 255x5, 225x5, 195x5
 
Hi. I've just had a bit of a read through yours pages. There's too much to read the whole lot. Great to see you have lost quite a bit of weight. Great to see you are doing team sports and mixing it up a lot.

I am not into big body builder types guys. I don't really buy the big boned guy thing. Just sounds like an excuse to me for not getting into the healthy weight zone. I reckon, keep working on it til you get to looking fabulous. I don't want to see any flab by the time you reach your goal weight.

Ok you are probably going "go jump..." and you are entirely within your rights to say it but well, this is where i suggest you will be happiest and you will find this out once you get down to your high "goal" weight. 20kg overweight (or whatever it is) you will still look fat so keep going til you don't look fat anymore, whatever it is you weigh. I want to see a bit of muscle definition. I know this because i am well in my healthy weight range and I still won't be looking too hot down at the beach in a bikini. I"m a woman so its all little different in terms of numbers and stuff but if you are "overweight", not even "obese" you are fat. So don't get slack.

I'm only talking to you in this way because i think you can take it. Obviously you are doing a great job so far. I'm just saying, don't ever get so relaxed that you stop before you get to where you really want to end up.
 
fortyfour said:
Hi. I've just had a bit of a read through yours pages. There's too much to read the whole lot. Great to see you have lost quite a bit of weight. Great to see you are doing team sports and mixing it up a lot.

I am not into big body builder types guys. I don't really buy the big boned guy thing. Just sounds like an excuse to me for not getting into the healthy weight zone. I reckon, keep working on it til you get to looking fabulous. I don't want to see any flab by the time you reach your goal weight.

Ok you are probably going "go jump..." and you are entirely within your rights to say it but well, this is where i suggest you will be happiest and you will find this out once you get down to your high "goal" weight. 20kg overweight (or whatever it is) you will still look fat so keep going til you don't look fat anymore, whatever it is you weigh. I want to see a bit of muscle definition. I know this because i am well in my healthy weight range and I still won't be looking too hot down at the beach in a bikini. I"m a woman so its all little different in terms of numbers and stuff but if you are "overweight", not even "obese" you are fat. So don't get slack.

I'm only talking to you in this way because i think you can take it. Obviously you are doing a great job so far. I'm just saying, don't ever get so relaxed that you stop before you get to where you really want to end up.
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your preferences on what type of guys you like or don't like is pretty much irrelevant. when it comes to getting fit, it only matter what YOU thing for your body. You're more than entitled to your opinion on body builder types.

As far as being big boned... sorry you can choose not to believe all you want, but people ahve different builds, some bigger than others. heck they even have it listed when looking up target weights for BMIs and such.

Fat is not a concern of mine. It'll come off as i continue to enhance my fitness goals. And we all know being overweight is still fat, so no argument there.

As far as muscle definition, i've quite a bit of it, but i'm not at all satisfied at where i'm at. the more fat that burns off the more definition will come out. so.

You're entitled to your opinion, so i wouldn't tell you to go jump anywhere. the beauty about opinions is that they only matter to the one giving them and no one else, unless they choose to be affected by it. So no worries. Your direct and straight to the point approach is a little unbecoming,especially when you've never posted in here before nor have i even posted a pic for you to critique that isn't at least a year old now. so its all good. i hope you are doing well on your journey as well.
 
Last night i played two hours of tennis, which was a bad idea playing 2 days in a row like that. Now my elbow is a little tender.

Today i just went in and did my 45 min of cardio, and i'm relaxing tonight.

I was also proud of myself for eating like 2100 calories yesterday, its so hard fro me to get my cals up, its crazy. i usually end up at like 1500-1600 cals for the day. So i need to make sure i keep that up!
 
been away for a few days, figured i'd play a little catch up and hit the other journals tomorrow, since all i have is cardio on the plate.

Friday morning strength:

Single arm Dumb bell Preacher curls: 45x5, 55x5, 65x5, 65x5, 55x5, 45x5

Single arm Dumb bell bent over rows: 80x5, 90x5, 100x5, 100x5, 90x5, 80x5

2-arm cable curls: 65x5, 80x5, 100x3(couldn't do anymore..), 95x5, 95x5, 80x5, 65x5

Bar Bell pull overs: 80x5, 100x5, 125x5, 125x4.5 100x5, 80x5

While at work waiting for my friends to meet up for wallyball, a coupe of ladies at my job went decided to train for the half marathon they are going to run, they would do a 5 mile run. I decided to join them for a mile, but it turned into 5 for me as well. ran the whole thing outdoors in my Vibrams, and it was great. It was full of hills and it was crazy. After that i went and did my 2 hours of wallyball, whihc was a blast.

Saturday i rested, but boy was i sore frim that run, you really use a lot more muscles running with those. i was sore from my butt down, i've never had a sore butt from running!

Sunday:

Did my cardio class, good times, nothing too much to report except that i lead the pack in running the stair for the second week straight, and i always lead the pack when we sprint our one lap after the circuit is finished.

Today:
Morning Strength Training:

Incline Barbell bench: 225x5 245x5 280x5 280x5 245x5 225x5

Tricep pushdown: (2-handed rope): 60x5 85x5 100x5 100x5 85x5 70x5

Decline BB bench: 230x5 250x5 285x5 285x5 250x5 230x9(burnout)

Skull crushers: 80x5 90x5 100x5 100x5 90x5 80x10

I've been adding like 5 lbs to my workouts where i can (the DBs don't go over 100) to try to get an increase in strength, and so far i'm achieving success. Soccer tonight, which i'll fill you guys in on tomorrow. Oh yeah i got my order of Vibram classics in today, which is awesome, seeing that i ordered them on Thursday afternoon. hope all is well with everyone!
 
workout today:

* Barbell Incline Bench Press:
o 225 lbs x 5
o 245 lbs x 5
o 285 lbs x 5
o 285 lbs x 5
o 245 lbs x 5
o 225 lbs x 5
* Decline Barbell Bench Press:
o 230 lbs x 5
o 260 lbs x 5
o 300 lbs x 5
o 300 lbs x 5
o 260 lbs x 5
o 230 lbs x 5
* Cable Rope Triceps Extension:
o 70 lbs x 5
o 85 lbs x 5
o 100 lbs x 5
o 100 lbs x 5
o 85 lbs x 5
o 70 lbs x 5
* Skullcrushers:
o 80 lbs x 5
o 90 lbs x 5
o 100 lbs x 5
o 100 lbs x 5
o 90 lbs x 5
o 80 lbs x 5
* Elliptical Trainer:
o 45 minutes

didn't hit the weights yesterday, just played soccer, decided to play catch up today and get a good one in.
 
hi guys! today i will be visiting other journals to say my hellos and see how life is treating everyone else! here's today's workout.


* Barbell Deadlift:
o 225 lbs x 5
o 315 lbs x 5
o 405 lbs x 5
o 405 lbs x 5
o 315 lbs x 5
o 225 lbs x 5
* Glute Kickback: (5 per leg)
o 72 lbs x 10
o 96 lbs x 10
o 120 lbs x 10
o 120 lbs x 10
o 96 lbs x 10
o 72 lbs x 10
* Leg Press:
o 405 lbs x 5
o 595 lbs x 5
o 685 lbs x 5
o 685 lbs x 5
o 595 lbs x 5
o 405 lbs x 5
* Seated Leg Curl:
o 225 lbs x 5
o 240 lbs x 5
o 255 lbs x 5
o 255 lbs x 5
o 240 lbs x 5
o 225 lbs x 5
* Seated Calf Raise:
o 90 lbs x 5
o 180 lbs x 5
o 230 lbs x 5
o 230 lbs x 5
o 180 lbs x 5
o 90 lbs x 5
 
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