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And you all thought you'd finally got rid of me =P I've been busy with this and that - moved to a different state (a couple of times in fact!) and signed up for college (again) but now that I've settled, unpacked, and enrolled, I'm back (again again)! Turns out that being super busy leads to a whole lot of fast food and slow movement, so I'm not proud of where I'm at, but I've shaped up before and I'll do it again! Soooo here's the damage as of today:

(Also, for reference and those who don't know me, I am of the lady species)

Current State of Slovenly Being (NEW: gonna start putting the difference between then and now beside the original measurements in parentheses, for fun and tracking!)

Height: 5'11"
Weight: 168.6lbs
Bust: 36.5 in (-0.5in)
Waist: 33.5 in (-2in)
Hips: 42.5 in (-0.5in)
Thigh: 25 in

And according to my super-scale which may be full of lies (since I got it at Bed Bath & Beyond):

Body fat: 38.4%
Muscle: 25.4% (+0.6%)

So! Must fix. I started some GNC 7-Day cleanse thing today which was recommended to me as a great way to jump start myself since there are probably McDonalds burgers fossilized to my interior lining, and I'm keeping a calorie-counting food journal (made easy for now by the fact that the cleanse involves meal replacing smoothies). I calculated that for weight loss I should be aiming for around 1300-1400 calories a day, so that's the idea.

As for work outs - you know I always have to do something interesting right? Well there are no pole dance studios near me this time (alas!) so I picked up roller derby last month. It practices twice a week, one day is an endurance day (read: cardio) and the other day is skill development and such (read: things that make my thighs and butt burn). I've been looking into gyms in the area, and turns out for a college town the options were pretty depressing. We do, however, have a CrossFit, and since my sister and several of my friends have been crazy enthusiastic about it, I figure may as well give it a shot. Tomorrow I'll be going in for my first workout and hopefully I don't die =D Assuming I survive, the plan is to get at least 3 of those workouts in per week until I get in better shape, then increase if I can.

So wish me luck, I've been a lazy sodium-wallowing sugar-gobbling slob these past several months (or year...) and this turn around is going to buuuuurn =D
 
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Hey Red Panda, welcome back!

Can't wait to hear about your adventures in Cross Fit!
 
Quick update on my weekend and such =) Apart from a brief slip from the cleanse program (I spent the day in NYC and it wasn't easy to mix up the shakes - I did eat healthy though!) I've done very well and kept my food journal strictly. My calorie intake is still a couple hundred higher on average than I'd like for weight loss, but I've just started to exercise again so that's probably not too bad a thing right now while my body adjusts and builds new muscle.

Thursday was my very first CrossFit workout - it buuuurns! I left there at the end of an hour sweating like crazy and a little dizzy, but feeling great, and spent the next couple of days walking off the soreness (no really, I walked several miles). Today I'm feeling refreshed and ready for more punishment, so back I go! More updates to follow. I'll be weighing in once a week to check my progress =)
 
Hey guys! I'll preface this announcement with a brief explanation of how joining a roller derby team works; when you first sign up, you are "fresh meat", level one, in our league you get a red stripe on your helmet denoting you are new and inexperienced. After attending a minimum of eight practices you can take a level 2 test to get a yellow stripe. With this stripe you are eligible to being contact drills. Later on you can test for a white stripe to be eligible for scrimmages, then the last test gets to on the roster and on to a competitive team.

So, all that said, last night after almost two months of training I passed my level 2 and now have my yellow stripe! Contact drills begin tomorrow for me =D Very excited. Of course, this means I'll be working harder and building up more strength - have to be able to withstand hits now as I'm skating, and hit back too!

Other than that, I also did my second CrossFit workout yesterday, and it buuurns. Still doing everything scaled slightly since I'm new and learning the motions, but its hard work! Sore all over today, particularly in the thighs (as I used them for both that and derby). But a good feeling, tells me I did good work =) Now for hot showers and tea!
 
Goldfish said:
What did you do at CF yesterday?
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We warmed up with these sort of low balance beams that we used for pushups and dips then an (attempted) L sit, then did rowing machines, thrusters, and pullups (I think some of these combos have names but I don't know any of them yet =P).

And welcome everyone to Weigh-In Wednesday! Yep, I said I'd be checking in on that weekly, so that's today. Let's hit the scale and see what happens:

First Weigh In

Weight: 166.6lbs
Bust: 36 in
Waist: 32 in
Hips: 42 in
Thigh: 25 in

Body fat: 37.6%
Muscle: 25.9%

So that looks pretty good for a first week! Assuming some of the weight change is normal fluctuation, I think some of is still legit fat loss (seeing as super-scale here says I am a little bet less made up of fat and a tiny but more of muscle this week) and I'm half an inch down in the waist and hips, which are the real problems areas so I have no problem with them going first!

Plan for today: I am meant to have roller derby practice, but the day will tell whether I'm able to manage it. Turns out CrossFit and level 2 test on the same day was very taxing on my quads and I can barely walk as of this morning. If they don't loosen up throughout the day I'll give myself a recovery night - I already had a nice hot bath, so hopefully that helped them a bit. Wish me luck!
 
So the quad pain was rough - really rough - for a few days. I was pretty much limping. I opted to take a few days off to let my legs heal up (I need them!) while continuing to watch my calories and such. They were finally down to a very dull burn by Saturday so I hit the gym again with renewed enthusiasm! The warmup was the same as last time I was there, pushups and dips on the paralettes (I learned what they were called yay!) then we divided into teams - in my case I was on the "new people" team so we could continue to learn good posture and do something a little scaled down. We did a rotation of: 25 box jumps, 10 deadlifts (at 45lbs for me), 2 minutes on the stationary bike, and went through this rotation three times. Our team of three managed it in 31 minutes 51 seconds, not that there is a frame of reference for scaled workouts, but yaaaay haha!

Today I sure felt those deadlifts in my back and hamstrings, but no where near the pain of last week. Planning on heading back to the gym tomorrow afternoon, followed by derby practice (I would divide the two up more if I could, but my class schedule sucks and anyway its cardio day at derby so it shouldn't put too much extra stress on whatever I work out). Also of note, I have been stretching a lot after both derby and CrossFit and have already noted a substantial increase in my flexibility in several muscles, which is always a plus!
 
Had a GREAT start to my week! Had class this morning, followed by a trip to the chiropractor, an hour and a half of Thai/sports massage (I neeeeded it!), a tasty (and healthy!) sandwich, CrossFit, a quick sushi dinner, derby practice, and a nice hot shower. Ahhhhh. I feel jump-started alright!

Today's CrossFit workout (for the new people group at least) was to learn the proper form for a snatch using the pvc pipe, then the correct form for the power clean. After learning these, the workout was to do 6 rotations of: 3 power cleans (only the 15lb bar for me since I was still working on form), 6 pushups, 9 air squats. Then in derby this evening we had endurance day; we did three rotations of back and forth "sprints" across the track, hitting and pushing exercises, and calisthenics of choice (I opted for sit ups, to work something that wasn't already exhausted). Then we did some skill work, and some stretching.

I can already feel where I'll be sore tomorrow! Hopefully not as beat up as after last Monday, but I won't know until morning. I stretched thoroughly, showered hot and long, and drank lots of water, so I've done all I really can. Now to sleep!
 
Hello, and welcome back to another exciting Weigh in Wednesday! Hooraaaay! Let's see how I'm doing:

Second Weigh In

Weight: 167.8lbs (I winced a little at first, but wait till we get to the percents)
Bust: 36 in
Waist: 32 in
Hips: 42 in
Thigh: 25 in

Body fat: 36.6%
Muscle: 26.7%

So an interesting weight in. Measurements haven't changed at all, and I'm up about a pound - BUT that's ok! Because a) weigh fluctuation within a pound or two is normal, and b) Check out what else Super Scale had to say! Down a whole percent on my body fat, and up almost a full percent on my muscle. And as well all know and repeat constantly, say it with me, muscle weighs more than fat =D So I'm not worried, building more muscle is excellent and when my body is made up of more muscle, the fat burning will follow and then too will slimming. As far as I can tell, I'm on track.

Moving on: yesterday was a rest day, but I'm still feeling some crazy burn in my arms from the combination of CrossFit and moving derby sport track around for the bout. I think they'll loosen up by after class though enough to get back in there, especially if the WOD isn't another lifting workout. Either way, I have derby practice tonight so I'll get some workout in there. And so it continues!
 
Wow gurl, you're doing real GOOD! Keep up the good work and I love how you keep us posted on what's going on in your wkts. thanks :)
 
Thank you everyone for the encouraging words! And:

ieclifton said:
So far, the only entertaining thread on this forum.
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You're welcome! I'm glad you enjoy my writing style, I mostly try to type up my daily reports the way I would talk to someone - and if I spout things in too boring a manner, they tend to just drift away and poke at shiny things. As for the forum, this used to be a very fun and active place, but it seems in my last absence most of the active posters I knew sneaked away... sad, really.

In today's news: my biceps did not in fact loosen themselves up during class. Something about hunching over a desk writing notes is apparently not helpful in this process, who knew. As a result, I opted not to go to CrossFit today, especially since the WOD involved pullups and presses and other arm-torturing goodness. I was feeling pretty wimpy about this until I got to derby practice, where I learned a whole new meaning of pain in my new level 2 skills group. Nothing burns the thighs like getting low and pushing other skaters around with your hips while trying to stay upright (with mostly success!) yourself.

Some stretching and a hot shower later I can only hope my quads won't feel tomorrow the way my arms do today! At any rate, tomorrow is an off day due to class eating up all my time, so I have until Friday to rest up for my next foray into CrossFit. Goodnight forum!
 
hey there guys :)

well done on your fitness moves for today,great isnt it that whatever you do today,you will awake feeling the benefits of tomorrow.
fantastic.
enjoy your crossfit :)
 
Hello again! Had a bright and early CrossFit morning today. Went in and warmed up with 2 rounds of overhead squat (again, pvc pipe because I'm a newb), what I'm pretty sure was 50 meters of Spiderman crawl, 10 kipping toe-to-bar pullups (which for me meant "raise knees as high as possible"), 5 cossacks, and 10 pullups (with the thick black assist band). After that we got a break, then divided into teams to to do 5 rounds (or as close to it as we could in 30 minutes) of rotating through 500 yards of rowing, 40 pushups (with a green/blue band combo for me), and a rest period. Our group got soooo close to finishing the 5 rounds; we made it through the fourth and were on the last station each of the fifth when time was called. Time to stretch it out.

I push myself hard; like dizzy and panting, take some heaving breathes and dive back in hard. My method is pretty much to beat myself into submission. I've never thrown up at a gym or anything, never fallen over gasping, and I do keep hydrated and breathing, but I do push myself as far as I think I safely can. Apparently my body decided I had been beating it up a bunch this week and it wanted to sneak in some payback - I came home, sat on the couch for a minute to drink my whey protein, thought "oh, I'll lay back and catch my breath for a few...." and woke up about 2 hours later =P Apparently my body wanted a nap, so it just went ahead and took it with or without me planning on it! But I feel great now that I'm showered and awake and getting some delicious home-made shepherd's pie in me! That's healthy right? Made sure there were tons of veggies in it, and I sure need the protein! Tomorrow is a rest day, and we'll see how sore I am but I will probably get back in there Sunday or Monday - hopefully Sunday so I don't double up CrossFit with endurance day at derby again, that's been rough!
 
ha ha ha! cute
 
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