Okay dookie.

Weighed in again this AM- 176- still solid gains.

I ate VERY light this weekend considering what I should have been eating- I've been struggling on the weekends getting enough food- esp protein.

Anyway- I had a VERY long weekend-
Friday
Work all day
Run home- shower- make up- pack
Rush to work
Danced 4 sets Friday night- so 45 minutes of balls to the wall dancing.
OOAF.
Got my little Chai tea thing from wawa and drove myself home- immediately crawled in bed (so around 12-1230.

Saturday
Every intention of getting up to lift- but HA- not so much- woke up at 830
Class was 11 AM- so did about an hour work on my costume- then off to class
Class was a sweaty mess- hard work for almost 2 straight hours- but good- really a good place to be working
Costume work shop from 130-5.
Wrapped up there
Gym time 530-7

. I failed 175 massively-
I was 175's Bit*h
I only got 10 reps- my form really struggles under load. So I was chatting with the guy next to me after he helped me get the bar back up (I failed- like failed and sat down on the pins) and we talked about form and he watched me do 175 again for like 3-5 more reps. talked so more about weak points.
Then I deloaded and just worked 135 for 3-4 sets of 5 reps a piece.

Banged out my
OHX 1 x 20 @ 25 lbs
OHP 3 x 8 @ 55
BB rows- 3 x 10 @ 115
SL DL 1 x 15 @ 165
Cable Incline/Decline 4 x 8 @ 70 and 110

Sunday
Up early for work
Headed to the gym to work with my friend- he's recouping from surgery so he's working closer to my level and was helping me trouble shoot- we talked squat form/depth breathing and where I"m failing.

Did 135- 155 lots of 135- jumped to 185 then pause squats at 95.

We did bench- I think I made it to 155 and that was about all I had in me.

Then we did some cable work because his wrist was only going to take so much benching.

It was a great workout- about an hour and 45 minutes. Had a lot of fun. But I'm definitely feeling beat up today. Just all over.

Showered- make up- ran back picked up a girl at the studio-and away we went to a dance event- it's an expensive event- but it's a ton of fun- high level of dancing- professional quality- just super fabulous. Amazing weekend.

I am really beat up today- both my knees hurt- my foot is bruised and swollen from something that happened on Saturday- I have no idea what- and as of yesterday the back of my hand was puffy and swollen.

I am not getting the rest that I need. I absolutely know this. I also am seeing issues in my finger nails- and a quick discussion with my co-worker leads me to believe between the knee (inflammation) and nails- I have something missing in my diet. So today is officially the last day of my bulk.

I'm deeply relieved. I really want to start cutting to get ride of this weight and be able to wear all my old clothes.

I am going to shoot for maintenance this week- my BF and I are taking some time off- so we have an extended weekend together and I'll probably be a little sloppy with food- but I'm going to start reeling the food in as quickly as I can.

I also emailed a powerlifting/oly gym about a technical evaluation- so I'm hoping to make progress with my form by making a trip down to see them.

I think I should have not come to work today- I needed a day off and some sleep - and I absolutely did not get it this weekend. sigh- oh well. Friday- I'll be sleeping in on Friday GO ME!

Stay tuned for a full write up!

heh- nope!!!

needs pictures and chit!!!

in other news...

MY LIFT EVAL IS SCHEDULED!!! WOOT WOOT so excited!

so I have several paragraphs written- pulled up some older threads from November and on to help my consolidate- I'm still not satisfied- it was much more daunting than I thought to sit down and write up 4 months of my life LOL

I'm trying to organize the pictures into one image to compare side by side.

It's coming along- just a little bit more slowly than I expected.

I started cutting Tuesday the 1st.

I'm down as of this week to 173- which I'm assuming the first 2-3 lbs are all water weight- I'll be interested to see what 2-3 weeks of deficit does- I've thrown in some cardio at this point- but might need to up it. This weekend was a little lax- but I was on a HEAVY deficit the first 3 days to compensate for long weekend (BF and I took off 2 days so we both had some over lapping time together)

Very satisfied with my lifts- but I've really only had 2 solid lifts since cutting and they were okay.

Saturday: 2 dance and a day off.
Sunday- 1 hr dance class
1.5 hr West African Dance
2 hr Drum solo workshop

I felt like it was okay omitting my sunday workout LOL.

I'm trying to figure out when to start my peaking program- I am aiming for 8-9 weeks or program- I'm getting pushed at the Sheiko program and I have a modified version I'm leaning toward- it's shorter (5 weeks) but I think might be a good option and I'll just mod it a little bit by extending it a week or two.

I go in for my technical evaluation on the 18th- so I'm not too eager to get ahead of myself with the work- but I obviously can't just stop. LOL

Definitely need to get some cardio on today- I need to figure out how to get up early and go run or jump rope or do something so I can split my work out up into more manageable pieces.

Down to what appears to be 172- my stupid scale is hard to read- might still be hovering over 173.

I unquestionably have not been responsible with my calories- my net calories for the last week have been way to low. And I deeply suffered the consequences yesterday.

I sat down to show someone what a bridge lift was- and was to close to my DL bar- which means I now have a lemon size lump on the back of my head.

Then doing walking lunges I pulled something- strained- tore- knotted- whatever- in the top of my thigh- not hip flexor- not the 'quad' as we tend to think- just the upper meaty part of my thigh- which is still quad I know but not the bottom part LOL. Just apparently super clumsy and not on top of things.

Either way I limped home after abandoning hope of my cardio and bailed on a dance workshop- and made myself my left over steak sweet potatoes and asparagus with a Fresca 'soda'. Then had a good scoop of ice cream and strawberries with some tea while I watched Futurama and almost passed out by 8 PM. Rest seemed significantly more important than cardio.

It's still tight and uncomfortable today- but it's not doing weird numb/tingely thing so I'm not going to the doctor- just anti-inflammatory stuff and ice- and gentle massage. I have to dance tomorrow so I'm hoping it's functional- no training today- definitely none tomorrow- and I may even not do anything big on Saturday- would be a squat day if anything and I'm not sure that's a good idea.

I feel okay eating what I'm eating- I mean I'm hungry but I don't feel like I'm starving myself but my body clearly disagrees LOL So time to be more pro-active about hitting the bare minimum. That being said- it seems the scale hasn't moved- but I feel like I look smaller/more defined- but it may just be a placebo affect LOL.

YAY go me.

Down to 169 this morning. WOOT WOOT.

Had my technical evaluation session yesterday at Iron Sport Gym. Had a good time- learned a lot- and did a lot of work. Hit a 215 squat solid- pretty pumped about that. Should be able to add some weigh to that now that I know what I need to working on really.

Dead lift is OKAY- hit 275 which was solid- need to work on that- tired to pull 295 or 305 and failed- gave it 3 good goes and had it not quiet 1/2 way up- sticking point is on the ground- we tweaked form so struggled with that.

Bench I really don't care about - but we worked it- and that felt pretty good - just need to work with the form adjustments and what not- I'll probably go back down if I have the money there and run through a session practicing commands and stuff.

I felt solid- sore and tired but solid after I left ( it was a 2 hr session) so I hit the fabric store- and then hit the HS track before I came home. Did an hour of sprint work- ran 1.5 miles intervals with stair sprints every 1/4 mile. Was kind of a fun afternoon.

4 hrs of dance workshop today so no gym- no sprints for me!

took my booty shorts for their first test drive!


Earned one of these some how- not still 100% certain- thinking it was on the rack pulls- undecieded

thanks- I was pretty happy that I didn't die- or my vagina didn't fall out LOL.

I am not significantly smaller at this point- but I FEEL smaller- and I feel like I like more defined- so I'm pretty happy.

Started my new peaking program- thrilled about that!!!