You could have made a motivational fitness video of my workout this morning. Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to try out a sample of a fat burner I had laying around the house. The package said to take on an empty stomach, pre-breakfast and to take a second one if didn't feel any results. Harmless I thought. Good way to get a little extra energy for my workout since I've had about 10 hours of sleep in the past 3 days thanks to my stupid offer to watch my parent's puppy this weekend who can't seem to sleep more than an hour without needing to pee.
I popped the pill, let the dogs out, and began to make breakfast. About 20 minutes later I'm sitting at my kitchen counter struggling to eat as I became overwhelmed with nausea and uncontrollable shakes. I don't mean jitters like when you've had too much coffee. I mean seriously shaking to the point of wondering if I needed to get myself to the emergency room to get my stomach pumped! I forced myself to finish eating, praying that it wasn't going to come back up (thank god it didn't!), and decided to go lie down for a while. Then I started crying for no apparent reason while my body temperature rose about 30 degrees so I thought maybe some fresh air would do me some good...especially since both dogs were looking at me begging to go for their walks. Eventually I got my act together enough where I felt like driving wouldn't be a hazard and made my way to the gym.
Today was my half-leg and half-core day and I have to say, despite feeling like shit and knowing I looked even worse with my red face and bags under my eyes, I had the best workout I've had in a long ass time! This week I've been listening to Pandora's Hard Rock Strength Training station and it's been the most motivating one yet! I turn it up way too loud for my poor ear drums, tune everyone and everything out and bust some serious ass. My favourite lifting song, Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff", came on this morning and it totally made my day. Wish I could put Pandora on repeat LOL. This was today's routine:
-Cable deadlifts
-Cable side & back glute squeezes
-DB step-ups
-Cable 1-arm side crunches
-SB Tee Pees
-Hanging loop leg raises
-SB planks w/side toe touches
New PRs in EVERY exercise! I think the fat burner partially numbed me to pain as I didn't seem to be remotely bothered by upping both my weight and reps. Going to be seriously sore tomorrow. Despite this amazing effect though, I will most definitely not be trying out a fat burner again in the future. Maybe a 300 lb. male could handle it but the package should have at least suggested cutting it in half to start-out. I'm just glad there wasn't a second one in there. Imagine what would have happened if I had taken two?!! I'm not sure I'd be alive to type this out right now. As I lay here on my couch I still feel shaky and my heart is racing but at least I'm not nauseous anymore. I've been chugging the water all day in hopes to flush it out of my system before I try to sleep tonight. Lesson learned.
Aside from my lack of sleep and apparent drug overdose, the weekend has been great! One of the girls doing the Maine Event came down from her home in Calais and we spent Friday night and Saturday morning getting in tons of posing practice. Despite feeling like my physique is shredding-up on schedule and feeling pretty good about my walk, I've been psyching myself out thinking about the competition. Oh...did I mention I am doing the Maine Event as well?!! I actually decided to do it a while ago but didn't want to publicly commit until I felt ready and was positive I would not have to back out. Shortest prep yet, having decided to take it on only 6 weeks out. I know all I can do is train as hard and smart as possible and bring my A-game but knowing how great the other girls look is really messing with my head...and these are just the girls who I know are competing. There's always unknowns who show up unexpectedly. Must came myself down here. Three weeks to go. GAME. IS. ON.
I've been managing my shin splints fairly effectively by doing only low-impact cardio these past few days. Yesterday I tried out a new machine. I don't know what it's called but basically it's an elliptical stair master. I actually really liked it as I felt like I was getting an ass burn without too much stress being put on my injuries. I don't have to do cardio again until Tuesday so right now I'm a happy camper :)
It's time to take the doggies for a midday walk now so that's all for today. Gotta take advantage of this motivational high I seem to be on while I can! I found the picture below online the other day and it pretty much sums up how I feel about this show. Someday my back will look like that LOL. 'Til next time, happy gymming...and stay away from fat burners!
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I popped the pill, let the dogs out, and began to make breakfast. About 20 minutes later I'm sitting at my kitchen counter struggling to eat as I became overwhelmed with nausea and uncontrollable shakes. I don't mean jitters like when you've had too much coffee. I mean seriously shaking to the point of wondering if I needed to get myself to the emergency room to get my stomach pumped! I forced myself to finish eating, praying that it wasn't going to come back up (thank god it didn't!), and decided to go lie down for a while. Then I started crying for no apparent reason while my body temperature rose about 30 degrees so I thought maybe some fresh air would do me some good...especially since both dogs were looking at me begging to go for their walks. Eventually I got my act together enough where I felt like driving wouldn't be a hazard and made my way to the gym.
Today was my half-leg and half-core day and I have to say, despite feeling like shit and knowing I looked even worse with my red face and bags under my eyes, I had the best workout I've had in a long ass time! This week I've been listening to Pandora's Hard Rock Strength Training station and it's been the most motivating one yet! I turn it up way too loud for my poor ear drums, tune everyone and everything out and bust some serious ass. My favourite lifting song, Limp Bizkit's "Break Stuff", came on this morning and it totally made my day. Wish I could put Pandora on repeat LOL. This was today's routine:
-Cable deadlifts
-Cable side & back glute squeezes
-DB step-ups
-Cable 1-arm side crunches
-SB Tee Pees
-Hanging loop leg raises
-SB planks w/side toe touches
New PRs in EVERY exercise! I think the fat burner partially numbed me to pain as I didn't seem to be remotely bothered by upping both my weight and reps. Going to be seriously sore tomorrow. Despite this amazing effect though, I will most definitely not be trying out a fat burner again in the future. Maybe a 300 lb. male could handle it but the package should have at least suggested cutting it in half to start-out. I'm just glad there wasn't a second one in there. Imagine what would have happened if I had taken two?!! I'm not sure I'd be alive to type this out right now. As I lay here on my couch I still feel shaky and my heart is racing but at least I'm not nauseous anymore. I've been chugging the water all day in hopes to flush it out of my system before I try to sleep tonight. Lesson learned.
Aside from my lack of sleep and apparent drug overdose, the weekend has been great! One of the girls doing the Maine Event came down from her home in Calais and we spent Friday night and Saturday morning getting in tons of posing practice. Despite feeling like my physique is shredding-up on schedule and feeling pretty good about my walk, I've been psyching myself out thinking about the competition. Oh...did I mention I am doing the Maine Event as well?!! I actually decided to do it a while ago but didn't want to publicly commit until I felt ready and was positive I would not have to back out. Shortest prep yet, having decided to take it on only 6 weeks out. I know all I can do is train as hard and smart as possible and bring my A-game but knowing how great the other girls look is really messing with my head...and these are just the girls who I know are competing. There's always unknowns who show up unexpectedly. Must came myself down here. Three weeks to go. GAME. IS. ON.
I've been managing my shin splints fairly effectively by doing only low-impact cardio these past few days. Yesterday I tried out a new machine. I don't know what it's called but basically it's an elliptical stair master. I actually really liked it as I felt like I was getting an ass burn without too much stress being put on my injuries. I don't have to do cardio again until Tuesday so right now I'm a happy camper :)
It's time to take the doggies for a midday walk now so that's all for today. Gotta take advantage of this motivational high I seem to be on while I can! I found the picture below online the other day and it pretty much sums up how I feel about this show. Someday my back will look like that LOL. 'Til next time, happy gymming...and stay away from fat burners!
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