Workout Log

Don’t you love the mandatory PE class in college?  (drooling with sarcasm).  Unfortunately, the counselor told me I have to retake it (OK, was that a slap in the face? I’m there thinking maybe this robust lady should take it for me) So here I am back taking PE again.  I should have walked into the first day of class with a bikini on and said

Look at me, do I need to be here?  HELL NO~!

Anyways, for class we need to have a “Behavior Contract” this  shows our committment on engaging in some physical activity or behavior that is healthy.  I’m not giving up coffee, don’t really plan on changing my diet.  So after racking my brain on how to improve upon my physical appearance (I know that sounds conceited …. add to my list of public self adjectives) I came up with wanting to look a little more defined in the upper body. 

So, I have decided to start keeping my workout log here.  This will help me keep to my routine as well as keep up with my PE homework.  I will also note the mistakes I make in my diet.

Fri 2-9

30 minutes bike (level 2), 1 hour treadmill walking (2.7 speed at level 5 incline)

3 sets of dips (50lb assist), 3 sets of close-grip & 3 set wide grip pull ups (50lb assist)  3 set of lateral raises for side delts with 5lbs

150 abdominal crunches

Dietary blunder : Ate whole turkey meatloaf in one sitting after work, wanted to puke.

Sat 2-10

40 min stationary bike (level 2) 45 minutes of walking on treadmill (2.7/5)

150 abdominal crunches

Dietary blunder : Shared a bottle of wine with a friend.  I drank 2/3 of the bottle (how many calories was that?)  We were discussing my important financial decisions and life changes, maybe not a good idea over alcohol, but whatever.

Sun 2-11

30 min of stationary bike (level 4), 15 min of treadmill walking (2.9/5.0)

3 sets of dip and close-grip pull ups (50lb assist)

Dietary blunder : I wolfed down a 3/4 bag of trail mix in one sitting.

Mon 2-12

15 mi cardo, full body light weight workout for 1 hour.

Tues 2-13

1 hour of stationary bike (level 5)

Wed 2-14

30 min stationary bike (level 4) 30 min walking on treadmill (2.7/5)

10×3 dips and close-gip pull ups (50lb assisted weight)

Glutes and 150 abdominal crushes

Thu 2-15

Did not work out. 

Fri 2-16

Did not work out

Sat 2-17

45 min stationary bike (level 4) 25 min walking on treadmill (2.7/5)

Dips & Close grip pull ups 3 sets 10 reps (50lbs assist)

Lat Raises : 1 set 35 reps 5lbs

Barbell curl : 1 set 10 reps 35 lbs, 1 set 10 reps 30 lbs

Tricep extensions : 2 sets 10 reps 50 lbs

150 abdominal crushes, 20 legs raise

Sun 2-18

Did not workout

Mon 2-19

Did not workout again – slob

Tues 2-20

1 hour run outside (FINALLY) 

Wed 2-21

Did not workout. Had school then spent my afternoon catching up with sleep since I was sleep deprived.  I was vomiting all night long from bad sashimi tuna.  (more effective in losing weight than working out, I lost 3 pounds)

Thu 2-22 & Fri 2-23

Only ate crackers, stomach was not feeling right.  Too weak to workout.

Sat 2-24 & Sun 2-24

Busy, did not workout

Mon 2-25

25 min cardio, Full body weight workout

Tue 2-27

Did not workout, but ate billions of Italian

Wed 2-28

1 hour run outside

Thu 3-1

Did not workout

Fri 3-2

35 min of stationary bike

3 sets of close-grip pull-ups (50 lbs assist) alternating with

3 sets of dips

100 abdominal crunches

Sat 3-3

1 hour run outside

Sun 3-4

Did not workout

Mon 3-5

30 min cardo, full body workout.

Tue 3-6

55 min eliptical machine (cardio)

2 sets of pull ups and dips (50 lbs assist)

100 abdominal crunches

Wed 3-7

Did not work out

Thu 3-8

45 minutes stationary bike

3 sets of pull ups and dips (50lb assist)

100 abdominal crunches

Fri 3-9

50 min run outside

Sat 3-10

1 hour run outside

Sun 3-11

55 min run outside

Mon 3-12

3 min run & 5 min walk.  Knee complained, I stopped running and walked home.  Lower body weight training is not agreeing with my knees.  I’m rebelling next gym class.  “No more Leg press”, I say.

Tue 3-13

45 min run with extra stretching exercises.  Knees were a little hateful, but I took it steady.

Wed 3-14

45 min run with extra stretching.  Knees better today.

Thu 3-15

Did not workout

Fri 3-16

30 min stationary bike

Sat 3-17

1 hour run outside

Sun 3-18

Did not workout

Mon 3-19

Did not workout

Tue 3-20

1 hr and 20 min run outside

Wed 3-21

Did not work out

Thu 3-22

25 min cardo, upper body weight workout.

Fri 3-23

Did not workout

Sat 3-24

1 hr and 30 min run outside

Sun 3-25

Did not workout

Mon 3-26

25 min cardo.  Full body weight workout

Tue 3-27

45 min run outside

Wed 3-28

1 hr and 20 min run outside

Thu 3-29

Travel day, did not work out

Fri 3-30

Forgot running shoes on trip (can’t believe it!).  1 hour on Elliptical trainer with sketchers

Sat 3-31

With a new pair of running shoes,  15 mins on Elliptical trainer (it was pouring down raining then rain stopped) to a 30 min run outside

Sun 4-1

Travel day, had the sadness all day so I did not work out.

Mon 4-2

25 min cardio, Full body weight workout

Tue 4-3

Did not workout

Wed 4-4

1 hr and 20 min run outside

Thu 4-5

Did not workout

Fri 4-6

1 hour run outside

Sat 4-7

Did not work out

Sun 4-8

Did not workout

Mon 4-9

25 min cardo, Full body workout

Tue 4-10

1 hour run outside

Wed 4-11

1 hour run outside

Thu 4-12

Did not workout

Fri 4-13

30 minute run outside

Sat 4-14

Did not workout

Sun 4-15

20 min cardo, full body workout

PROJECT OVER 

 

 

Anything but HOT

For a communications class I have to analyze my Public and Private Self. 

Definition :

Public Self  is the public image the way we want others to view us. 

Private Self is the person you believe yourself to be in moments of honest self-examination. 

Why is this so hard?  Am I that out of touch with myself?  Or am I just taking this task too much to heart?

So help me cheat.  From the information provided from this blog or from knowing me, what adjective would you use to describe me?  Please don’t say

HOT

Teach will not be impressed.  Thanks.

My biggest motivator

MYSELF!

After posting the past pic of myself, the top-less one, I realized I want abs and my upper body a little more defined.    As you see in the recent pic, I’m not too shabby, but there is always room for improvement.  So today I actually went to the gym.  That was a big feat since I despise going.  If  the air temperature is at least in the 20s, I would much rather run :

 I don’t have to drive there.   I don’t have to deal with the crowds and the people who may be sick.  The funky smells that come from other people who are working out next to you.  (when was the last time they washed their gym clothes? )

I just have to throw on the running shoes and feeling the freedom of myself and the road.  The weather for me is usually not an obstacle, just a challenge I’m willing to face. (and if I fart, who cares?)

But not this week, that wind chill is brutal.  So to keep me on the cardio equipment for more than 15 minutes, I took a school text book to read. 

After 60 minutes I *gasp* lifted a weight.  Now I have not touched a machine since my kickboxing days of 2004. 

With much grumbling on my part, my then trainer would make me round kick and front kick with cables strapped to my feet.  He would then make me hammer punch, jab, cross-over punch and even hook punch while holding on to cable weights.  This was all for power, which just made me better able to beat his ass during training….I think he was masochistic.

With little enthusiasm, I did assisted Dips and Pull-ups (wide and close grip) as well as 150 ab crunches.  Of course, I stretched forever.  In part, I love showing off my flexibility whenever I can, and who doesn’t want to bend like a pretzel?  Takes work to be a flexible runner.  The Daredevil runner is very flexible.

So I’m pleased with myself.  But I still wanna run.

Gibberish?

I cna’t blieeve I am radeing tihs 

and albe to chnopmreed waht is

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Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t

mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in

a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt

tihng is taht the frist and lsat

ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The

rset can be a toatl mses and you

can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.

Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid

deos not raed ervey lteter by

istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.

This is why it is easy to  misspell a word.

One of my professors showed this to the class today. 

I wlil sartt tniypg my bolg lkie tihs, waht do you tnhik?

However, the sentence and words can not be too difficult…

 Here is the link on more information about the subject.

http://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/~mattd/Cmabrigde/

Book Reviews

 Here are three book reviews from books that I read over the school Christmas break. 

The Bright Forever :Just finished this novel on Sunday.  I started it on a lawn dart from Ohio.  The engine noise and turbulant flight would have been a distraction for any other read; however, this novel was so gripping it easily distracted me from my hellish state.  Reading the rest of the novel was quite enjoyable in my purple bikini.  I recommending reading this novel pool side in 77 degree weather in Orlando, your enjoyment is elevated when you know your friends are freezing there asses off.  

Tuesday’s with Morrie :Such a fast read you can blow through it while taking a dump.   With toilet paper suck to your shoe, you will wave this book to your S/O saying you should read this you materialist SOB. 

In mountains of Asheville, NC while lounging by the spa in my black bikini was perfect timing for me to read this book.  It was easy to reconnect after breaking concentration.  Even when I stopped reading every 2nd page to rub my Honey’s leg to tell him how horny I was, it was easy to jump back into the story line.

Blackbird :Since misery loves company, this is a great companion after you had a fight with your Honey.  Spend your time reading while crosslegged on the beach of Fort Lauderdale.  The waves crashing on shore, seagulls squalking over head and children laughter will lift your spirits only enough to continue reading without breaking into a crying fit.  Recommend only to females with issues.

What is Family?

I hear if you don’t have your family you have nothing. 

But, what if you don’t have much family.  What if the family that meant the world to you is dead or made it clear they don’t want you in their life?  What if just want to say to all the others? 

“I love you but I don’t like you, leave me (the fuck) alone.” 

 I’m tired of mending the same old, worn out fences.  It should be turned into firewood.  They can then smoke signal my happy ass, since I feel like changing my phone number.  I may just decide to spend this winter hypernating with the bear (he’s fuzzy and warm) that way I don’t have to deal with them till spring:

I’ll hang with family.  Make niceties, with my thumb up my ass and pretend I want to be here 

OR

Go swimming in the back yard pool in a string bikini.  Get shitfaced on a mediocre zin and flirt on my aunts cute husband and passout on a lawn chair.

I’m hopeless.

Another new year, another 3 hour phone conversation with parent.  Will this be the year that I will want to be wanted by my blood?

Or will I continue to be satisfied with the family that I made for myself?  We are not force together by blood, but we choose to be together.  I feel pretty special to be chosen by my loved ones.

Humans

Today it was 67 degrees, simply amazing for a January afternoon.  Clear skies, light breeze, I must run. 

My endorphins are soring and my step is light my spirits are high.  My head roams free with drifting thoughts of loved ones and my clean shiny ride I just detailed.

I come to an intersection from a residential community, not mine, one with beautiful new single family homes with brick fronts.  Children’s laughter behind me.  I begin to cross this four lane road. 

This car needs waxing.  It must spend its days sitting underneath a tree.  The hood is freckled with debrie…side shuffle to the right.  skip back, back, quickly…

Am I playing backwards hop scotch?”

Please don’t hit my legs is all I can think,  not my legs.

Back, skip, skip, back.  Staring at the hood of the car,  back back, avoiding that hood.  In the middle of the lane on a busy road. 

Will the driver ever notice me? 

Will I be hit by another speeding down the road?  200 yards I see a silver mini van coming my way… 100 yards.

The attacking vehicle stops.  Out of frustrations, I drop kick the hood of the car.  Black rubber trail is left.  I hope I left a dent.   Dark on contact, then lighter on the white paint as my heel dragged toward my body.  I look at my mark,   with wicked contentment, right in the middle of the Honda’s headlights.  It could have been my blood.

I stare at the driver that never gave me a cautionary glance when making that right on red. 

Mid thirties, brunette, plain looking.   Fear, regret, compassion, so many emotions were experienced.  I saw them all when I looked straight into her eyes.   Her hand over her heart, mouthing the words.  

“I’m so sorry”

 I left her as quickly as a came. 

I was not significant to watch for before, but now you see me running away….I’m running away…still able to run. Thank you.   I look over my shoulder.  She is in shock, car frozen in the middle of the road.  I run up the hill, you are still frozen.  I bet you see me now.  I’ll bet you will look for me now. I feel vindicated.  I’m pumping my arms faster as I race up this hill.

Vindication.  I make a left onto a bike path.  Slow down, you don’t see me now.  Breathe.  I slow down.  Oh my god.

My mind’s eye sees your face.  I immerse myself in the emotions you must have felt.

If I was not so quick and nimble you could have hit me.  I could have been a child.  You could have seriously injured me today.   I could have been a child.

You could have taken a life with your neglect.  I hope she realizes that.  I hope everyone that reads this realizes that.

Please don’t hit me. 

Please watch out for humans.

 

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

This is part of the serenity prayer that was shared with me.  I look at it daily.   It helps me, I hope it will help others.

For the full prayer here is a link.http://www.cptryon.org/prayer/special/serenity.html

Gratitude.

To the gentlemen who give their warmth, tenderness and passion.   I appreciate you all.

Thank you.

Jessie 

I’m asking you~!

I’m having a writer’s block, well more like the whole building.  So I’m asking you all out there. 

What do you want me to write about ?

Please respond under comment.

Jessie