Hi everyone! It's getting late here on a Thursday night and I'm pretty tired from a long day at work and a serious back attack but I'm so excited about a new partnership that I just had to tell you all about it as soon as possible! Have you ever heard of myOatmeal.com? It's a great company that allows you to customize your own oatmeal flavors and will then ship them to you however often you want! Check out their website - you will surely find yourself feeling hungry while perusing all of the options! This company has thought of everything; how much you want, what kind of oats, what flavors you might like, how sweet you want it (if at all), whether you want any fruit, nuts or seeds included, and even provides you with the nutritional information as you "build your brand"! Well, they have given me the opportunity to be a product reviewer of their latest customized concoctions! They will be sending me different flavors in the mail and I will be sampling them and posting my reviews on this site and also on my personal training site fitfiercefun.com. Of course I'll be sending out lots of tweets from both @PortlandGymRat and @FitFierceFun so you don't miss out on my reviews. How great is this?! Okay, maybe I'm a little over excited but you all know how much I LOVE oatmeal and especially how much I love creating my own crazy concoctions like my pumpkin pie or strawberry rhubarb delicacies! I think I'll even be getting a discount code from them so you'll be able to order at a discount too! Yum yum yum...I can't wait!
On a totally different note, tonight for the first time EVERY I finally got my Dad to workout with me! My Dad; the guy who has always been anti-gym and doesn't see the point of working out inside when he gets "all the workout he needs" by hunting and fishing LOL! I can get people in for free at World's on Thursday nights so every now and then I ask him to workout with me always knowing the answer will be "no". Well, by some sheer strain of luck when I decided to ask again yesterday he actually changed his tune! I don't know what brought this on. He claims he just simply wants to get in better shape. Maybe it's the fact that his birthday is next week and I know he HATES turning another year older. Whatever the reason is though, I'll take it! I got a little worried as the day progressed and I started hearing the "I'm too tired", "I'm not feeling well" and "I'm injured" complaints. He even went so far as to tell me that he would be doing an hour on the bike and nothing else because his bad knee was too sore to lift anything. BULLSHIT I said. We would be doing a back workout only with the intensity solely depending on how heavy he wanted to lift and thus would have little to no impact on his legs. Well it appears all the complaining was just to get me worked up because when he arrived at my house after work he was in GAME-ON mode and I was impressed! He even let me put a scoop of BCAAs in his water bottle! Although he did ask me what kind of "roid juice" I was feeding him :P
When we got to World's we started with a 15 minute cardio warm-up (I let him use his precious bike LOL) and then moved into the weight area. Luckily it wasn't as crowded as it has been recently so we could workout without too much bother. This was the rundown of our back session:
-Standing BB bentover rows
-Sitting wide-grip cable rows
-Cable straight-bar pulldowns
-Lat pulldowns
-DB wide upright rows
I wanted to finish off with a little lower back action on the back extension machine but it was taken so we stopped there and did a little core work and stretching on the mats. For core we did 3 sets of bosu ball pushups and 3 sets of 30 second planks (front, right, and left side holds). I honestly don't know if he pushed himself hard enough to be sore tomorrow but I tried my best to get him to go as heavy as he could without hurting himself. I think he might have been faking difficulty to some degree for my benefit but I think once he realizes that going heavy does not mean you are going to injure yourself, he may then amp up the intensity level. At least he finally got a good idea of what my training is like and seemed to be engaged enough to want to try it again. I said we could make it a Thursday event and do different muscle groups each time so here's hoping! I think that generation still has it in their head that gyms are just for bodybuilders and the average person doesn't need to go to one. I think I proved him wrong tonight though!
Anyway, time for me to pack my meals for tomorrow and then hit the sack. Breakfast is going to be oatmeal with vanilla whey and cinnamon almonds, yummers! The sooner I get to sleep the sooner I get to eat it LOL. Have a good night gym rats and be sure to stay tuned for my upcoming customized oatmeal reviews! xo
On a totally different note, tonight for the first time EVERY I finally got my Dad to workout with me! My Dad; the guy who has always been anti-gym and doesn't see the point of working out inside when he gets "all the workout he needs" by hunting and fishing LOL! I can get people in for free at World's on Thursday nights so every now and then I ask him to workout with me always knowing the answer will be "no". Well, by some sheer strain of luck when I decided to ask again yesterday he actually changed his tune! I don't know what brought this on. He claims he just simply wants to get in better shape. Maybe it's the fact that his birthday is next week and I know he HATES turning another year older. Whatever the reason is though, I'll take it! I got a little worried as the day progressed and I started hearing the "I'm too tired", "I'm not feeling well" and "I'm injured" complaints. He even went so far as to tell me that he would be doing an hour on the bike and nothing else because his bad knee was too sore to lift anything. BULLSHIT I said. We would be doing a back workout only with the intensity solely depending on how heavy he wanted to lift and thus would have little to no impact on his legs. Well it appears all the complaining was just to get me worked up because when he arrived at my house after work he was in GAME-ON mode and I was impressed! He even let me put a scoop of BCAAs in his water bottle! Although he did ask me what kind of "roid juice" I was feeding him :P
When we got to World's we started with a 15 minute cardio warm-up (I let him use his precious bike LOL) and then moved into the weight area. Luckily it wasn't as crowded as it has been recently so we could workout without too much bother. This was the rundown of our back session:
-Standing BB bentover rows
-Sitting wide-grip cable rows
-Cable straight-bar pulldowns
-Lat pulldowns
-DB wide upright rows
I wanted to finish off with a little lower back action on the back extension machine but it was taken so we stopped there and did a little core work and stretching on the mats. For core we did 3 sets of bosu ball pushups and 3 sets of 30 second planks (front, right, and left side holds). I honestly don't know if he pushed himself hard enough to be sore tomorrow but I tried my best to get him to go as heavy as he could without hurting himself. I think he might have been faking difficulty to some degree for my benefit but I think once he realizes that going heavy does not mean you are going to injure yourself, he may then amp up the intensity level. At least he finally got a good idea of what my training is like and seemed to be engaged enough to want to try it again. I said we could make it a Thursday event and do different muscle groups each time so here's hoping! I think that generation still has it in their head that gyms are just for bodybuilders and the average person doesn't need to go to one. I think I proved him wrong tonight though!
Anyway, time for me to pack my meals for tomorrow and then hit the sack. Breakfast is going to be oatmeal with vanilla whey and cinnamon almonds, yummers! The sooner I get to sleep the sooner I get to eat it LOL. Have a good night gym rats and be sure to stay tuned for my upcoming customized oatmeal reviews! xo
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