April 20, 2010
Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 6:31 PM filed under Diet & Nutrition postings
I had already been considering not taking a daily multivitamin anymore after the bottle I have is gone, but this study is convincing me even more that I don't need it and may even be better off without it. I have been monitoring my intake of essential vitamins and minerals and I am getting plenty of everything w/o the vitamin and I am WAY over on vitamin A - which concerns me some.
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April 16, 2010
Friday, April 16, 2010 at 12:01 PM filed under Exercise & Fitness postings
How strong is your butt?!
Check out this article from the Figure side of TMuscle: http://figureathlete.tmuscle.com/free_online_article/most_recent/how_strong_are_your_glutes_really
*I am not a figure competitor nor do I wish to be but I find this site to be a treasure trove of useful information for body building, fat loss, strength training, and generally getting into phenominal shape.*
I consider myself to be
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March 15, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010 at 11:01 AM filed under Exercise & Fitness postings
Half jokingly - I am giving up cardio machines for Lent. Instead of doing warm-up and cardio intervals on a machine (treadmill, stepper, elliptical, etc) lately I've been getting creative w/ body weight pulse-spikers and I feel like I'm working a LOT harder. My metabolism has been up a lot more too, I'm constantly eating and also feeling more lean.
Warm up fav: 50 front kicks, 50 side kicks, 50 pony kicks, alternating legs, resting between sets. + arms: 50 front jabs, 50 uppe...
October 15, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 9:46 AM filed under Exercise & Fitness postings
I have been reading Lou Schuler's book, "The New Rules of Lifting for Women: Lift like a Man, Look like a Goddess", and have decided to start using the workout program in his book beginning Monday, Oct 19th. It's a 6-month program divided up into 7 stages which get progressively more difficult. I've entered stage one into Fitclick under the plan name, "The New rules of Lifting Stage 1", you can also find it by searching on Schuler or my username:...
August 21, 2009
Friday, August 21, 2009 at 9:01 AM filed under Exercise & Fitness postings
Since I started tracking my workouts with Fitclick (2 months ago) I have seen big changes!
Body fat has gone from 34.04% to 25.34% - that's a 25% change!
Weight has gone down 2 lbs
Lbs of fat has gone from 45.95 to 33.70 - I've lost 12.25 lbs of fat (27% change)
Lbs of muscle+water as gone from 89.05 to 99.3 - I've gained 10.25 lbs of muscle (12% change)
Feel good. :-)
July 6, 2009
Monday, July 6, 2009 at 10:03 PM filed under Exercise & Fitness postings
Had a great workout today - went up on weight, down on reps. Felt like I could have done more reps on everything. This morning checked my measurements and plugged them (and original ones from 2 weeks ago) into livestong.com's BMI calculator - I've lost 6 lbs of fat and gained 5.5 lbs of muscle in TWO WEEKS...this is definitely the fastest I've seen changes in my body, including stints with 3 different trainers.
Warmed up with a 1 mile treadmill run - ran the first 1/2 mile at 5.5 on a 2 i...
