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Whoo boy! Been busy so sorry haven't blogged for awhile! We launched our new business so it's been hectic to say the least. OK, enough of that, let's get it on! Today is the 11-week countdown 'til the cup so trying to get as much mass in certain areas as I can before I switch to my shaping and tie-in work and then the final ripping up phase into the last week of carb/sodium deplete/load. Yes, I'm a freak... sounds like I'm a walkin' talkin' lab experiment. What's a girl to do? I've had to really step up my cardio to accelerate the fat loss. My injury from my car accident is still kicking me in the glutes so going to massage, PT and chiro is quite the load when combined with business, momming, wifeing, training, yadda, yadda, yadda. I read Diane's blog and her schedule seems crazier than mine, if that's possible, so see ladies: THERE ARE NO EXCUSES!!! I think Elaine even trains super late at night to get her lift on so just make it a priority and do it for you. There is no wealth after spiritual wealth like your health and that kind of energy and confidence spills over to so many other aspects of your life that it just changes everything. So set your brain to train to the insane.
I would like to put in a word here for Pastor Mark Driscoll of Mars Hill Church in Ballard who went to Haiti and is doing so much to help there. Contact Mars Hill or www.churcheshelpingchurches.com for awesome ways that you can get involved. Mars Hill dontated over half a million dollars from their Church alone!!! What a testament of faith and love!!! The videos and news coming out with story after story of heroic people like Pastor Mark walking the Lord's talk makes me just want to shout out His name in praise. I think God gives us these chances to prove our faith in standing up for more than what we are and demonstrating our willingness to love our neighbors so c'mon y'all-do whatcha can and pray hard for our brothers and sisters. Thanks and God bless! I can't believe I complain about not getting to eat carbs when there are starving people who don't even have the choice. Makes one think don't it?
I'll be at the Bellevue Max Muscle on Jan 30th to see big Jay Cutler and Tanji's Vancouver show so if you see me please come up and say "HI". We're hoping to take our girls to Tanji's show so that should be fun! It'll be their first one. I just have to keep them from hootin' and hollerin' too much. Oh well, maybe for Diane we'll be very loud and proud!!! Go girrrrlllll!
Ok, onto training. Josh showed me how to do glute presses on the lying leg curl in front of it with a mat and my tush has been knotted up ever since. Thanks Babe! We superset these with one leg lunges on the hammer deadlift machine or one-legged presses for the ultimate butt buster. Try 'em and you'll be amazed. Really trying to bulk up my upper inner chest and lateral delts so pounding HEAVY hammer and dumbell incline presses. I touch and squeeze the dumbells together at the top of the press to concentrate the area. We do a lot of low-cable crossovers supersetted with decline pushups to failure and sometimes tri-set these with two-second hold pec-decks to really tear it up. I've put on a tremedous amount of delt size which I feel I really need in order to stand out in the lineup by doing a super old skool exercise where I take the olympic bar and clean it up to my chin, do a front press, lower it behind my neck and then press it back up, bring it back down to the front and lower to my waist and then repeat. We add weights slowly and aside from train-wrecking the bar into my chin last week have really enjoyed this grueling exercise to finish delts. Another Hubby original is to take a cambered pressdown bar and prop it between the handles on a seated bench press machine and do close grip presses supersetted with machine dips for the ultimate tricep burn. Ok, one final: do your machine shoulder presses sitting backwards to really hit a different angle. Try supersetting sitting forwards with sitting backwards on the same machine.
Allright, gotta jet. Let me leave you as always with some recent quotes that help insprire me to go beyond what everyone else thinks is possible, to the Lord's realm of the infinite that is His Kingdom and the ONLY thing worth truly striving for:
"Worthwhile goals demand effort, risk, and sacrifice. You have to persist through fear and doubt; you have to draw on inner resources and become more than you were before. Every new challenge serves as an initiation: You meet discouragement; you overcome discomfort, boredom, and frustration; and you find out what you're made of....What pulls you through the muddy paths of life is the vision that inspired you to begin the quest. It can draw you like a magnet through the muck and mire. So the first step in any process is creating a direction, choosing a goal that shines for you....Well, you won't discover it by waiting. So don't weigh ideas or wonder; don't doubt your direction or depend on others to tell you what you should or shouldn't do. Go toward what attracts or excites or inspires you--toward what touches your heart. Ask yourself what's worth the effort and the sacrifices that come with committment to any goal."
In Faith and Fitness,
Kimberly
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