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good for you, meg! i went to the gym today but realized i'd have to kill a half an hour for a student weights class to end so I could get in. Yeah, no. I went home :) I did slam a hoe into some ice and snow to break it up, though, and pried apart frozen logs in our wood pile so those things must count for something. I…

The body fat percentage calipers, said to be more accurate than measuring--makes sense, given how parts of my body are bigger now from working out. Hip measurement=bigger because my butt's bigger, but it's far less saggy. calf measurement is also bigger. Weight's about the same. I have this one:…

I have calipers but don't know how to use them well.

Totally mediocre workout today. I had a feeling I didn't have enough in my stomach to work with, and by 2/3 of the way through I was shaking and called it a day. Sad! I got some good lifts in, just not enough. The mister, because he attends a proper gym and has a trainer, informed me today that he's put on 3.5 lbs of…

Greetings! Glad to hear Charlie's letting you sleep, Meg! New babies are tough! I did Basic Training 4/B yesterday. It went pretty well; I didn't really up any weight, but I didn't drop much of any, either, which is sometimes the case when I do something for a second time and my muscles are fatigued. I just got back now…

YOU LIVED IN SPAIN? Hot damn, Meg!

I brought workout clothes on my vacation! I used one set to walk about, and then the warmer stuff for the time at the volcano/biking down. I wanted to walk more, but since I bit it on the bike my leg hurt the remaining full day. Bah! I did a plain plank today for only 30 seconds and my arms were a tad shaky--I haven't done…

How's the nonsmoking going, Chris? How was the run, Terrie! I did Basic Training 4B for the first time yesterday, and holy cow, my whole body aches today. Muscles groups that haven't been targeted in a while were used heavily. So my pecs are very sore, my forearms are sore, and I did front squats down pretty low, so my…

Ha! I fell asleep reading a book I have to review. Nap achieved!

So I got up this morning and it was hard; I'd gotten I thought plenty of sleep, but the damn cat tore around the house early today (4? 5?) and keep waking me up off and on. I had a cup of coffee, half a half a glass of water (i.e., 4oz), cereal with banana. Got a cup of coffee on my way in. Then, midway through my second…

Yeah, it was a total bummer. Back to work tomorrow! I hope y'all had a good day. I have 200 more calories to eat and I'm starving, so I"m going to go find a snack and start the book I promised to review for this month but have been ignoring.

I'd wait. What's the rush? My tank top (under my sweater) smells like sunscreen still. Nice run, Terrie!

Sounds like the combo I had in Hawaii--a cold that wouldn't end and a period that started early. Somehow being in paradise made it all easy to forgive, even if my pockets were full of tissues. I started Basic Training 4 today. It wasn't nearly as bad as I expected. I did three instead of four sets (you have the option) and…

I'll go to the gym tomorrow morning; I didn't do anything today :) I theoretically got some work done instead. I was on Kaanapali, Terrie. It was awesome! For us, it's 5 hours time difference. I didn't find readjusting from Europe nearly so hard as readjusting to eastern, but it's easier to go west and adjust than east, i…

mmm, i want chips, muffin and starbucks. We're trying to fully adjust to eastern time today. Bleh. We've been going to bed around 10 only to read and be awake until 12, and then sleep until 9. Back t work, so that wasn't going to fly. Went to bed around 12, up at 720. I'm feeling pretty tired now, even though 7.5 hours of…

Ride it as long as you can! I remember a friend of mine losing much of her baby weight when she breast fed. I am supposed to start Basic Training IV of supercharged tomorrow and it looks BRUTAL. Substantially longer, more sets, and cruel looking stuff like inverted rows. Oh, and stuff you're supposed to to as metabolic…

I went to the gym yesterday but didn't quite finish the workout as I was flagging pretty seriously. There just wasn't enough food in my stomach to work with and by the time I finished my next to last set of shoulder presses (near the end of the workout) I knew I was done and that pushing it would just result in injury. So…

Hi everybody!! I have returned to the mainland--it's covered in snow. WTF. I'm also not getting on the scale. Hell no. But I did wear a bikini for a week in Maui, a first since I was probably 14. I've read through what I missed last week and here are my 2c. 1. Hey, it's Clam! Welcome back! I'm totally with you re: fears. I…

Holidays were good! Busy, but good. I'm supposed to be finishing up basic training III in supercharged either today or tomorrow, but I've evidently come down with something. I'm doing my best to mend before we leave on Friday! Yesterday we helped friends move out of one house and into another for many, many hours; I think…

I eat 1800 every day, as a rule. I love me some lifting :)

How's charlie with strangers? The new baby in our family mostly sleeps, and doesn't cry a lot. Merry Christmas to you, too! I haven't been over here too often lately; my gym visits were a bit further apart than usual. I did up my deadlift weight to 70 for 2 sets of 12 yesterday; the rest I left more or less where they…

Only 48 degrees! It was in the 30s and windy here today. Brr, brr, brr. Enjoy your trip! Take care of that calf, Terrie! I found a compression sleeve helped mine heel when I injured it a year or so ago.

Woohoo! Have an awesome time! I had a decent workout today; I skipped the last set of pushups with rows (those are as awful as they sound) but was able to up my weight at least for the single-leg romanian deadlift! Work is actually only a few miles from home; it's more the mental trip ("bah, I Have to go to work!") but…

A friend of mine, when her baby was small (he's 2 now), had a similar experience--her MIL was out for two weeks and expected my friend to wait on her! She was totally exhausted by the time she left, pretty much the opposite of what she'd hoped for! I ate a ton last night--it didn't seem like a lot at the time, but little…

Woohoo, have fun! I didn't get any exercise yesterday but I did finish all my grading; today I got into the gym in the morning, submitted my grades by 10, and solved a handful of other work issues before coming home. I've got laundry going, put Christmas lights up outside to surprise my husband (we're waaaaaaay behind this…

I'm still grading. I'm down to the big guys--two 20p independent studies. I'm thinking about printing them out and heading to a pub. I have the attention span of a gnat in the house. How nice to have the visit over! I don't know where the month has gone, either. Mysterious.

hey hey, I'm glad your appt went well, and sorry you're still not sleeping, Blue. And I'm sorry your knee is poorly, Meg! We all fall apart at once. I'm still achy from supercharged the other day; I took the day off from all exercise, save some running around we did looking for these rocks local artists have been painting…

Supercharged Basic training 3 started today. Going to feel it tomorrow! It's arms and glutes-heavy. Rawr.

Yep, 18.5 isn't bad at all. I'm looking forward to your presence again as a lifting commiserator :) I'm eating a danish for no good reason except I wanted a danish. probably a bad idea as I'm going to have to inhale dinner in three hours so I can show students a movie at 7. I'll save the last .25 of this danish for…

Seriously! Today I'm hoping to get some exercise in but it's raining again; i have to draft my final exam, copy it, get some blue books, and give it from 315-615. Then I run out to grab dinner and come back to show a movie to the students from 7-10. Busy day! How's the shred? I thought about dusting it off given the…