11/22 - deadlifts, incline db press, Gironda swings, drag curls, 10m treadmill incline walk -- chins/gtg
ChAoS & PAIN: In Death Ground, Fight. Part 1.:
"Everyone has the occasional training setback. It could be due to a chronic, nagging pain that you can't shake, weirdness in your personal life, midnight rape by closet golems, on any other of a thousand reasons. These are without question the easiest of the three "fuck My Life" categories I've enumerated above to resolve, as it simply requires that you identify the culprit and destroy it. Closet golems fucking up your colon nightly? Burn your house down. Significant other acting like an asshole all the time and stressing you out? Kick that motherfucker off the top of a tall building. Have a niggling "injury" hampering your training? Get deep tissue massage. If I had a nickel for every time someone came to me with an "injury" that was either immediately or almost immediately resolved by Rolfing, I'd have a bunch of nickels."
Bodybuilding.com - Over 40 Amateur Of The Week: Ripped Russian At 40!:
ChAoS & PAIN: In Death Ground, Fight. Part 1.:
"Everyone has the occasional training setback. It could be due to a chronic, nagging pain that you can't shake, weirdness in your personal life, midnight rape by closet golems, on any other of a thousand reasons. These are without question the easiest of the three "fuck My Life" categories I've enumerated above to resolve, as it simply requires that you identify the culprit and destroy it. Closet golems fucking up your colon nightly? Burn your house down. Significant other acting like an asshole all the time and stressing you out? Kick that motherfucker off the top of a tall building. Have a niggling "injury" hampering your training? Get deep tissue massage. If I had a nickel for every time someone came to me with an "injury" that was either immediately or almost immediately resolved by Rolfing, I'd have a bunch of nickels."
Bodybuilding.com - Over 40 Amateur Of The Week: Ripped Russian At 40!:
"At age 33, I started to gain weight, but not enough to change my lifestyle. Two years later, I gained more weight and couldn't ignore it anymore. I tried fad diets, but still gained weight and retained water. I went to a doctor who said I have a thyroid problem and was told to take medication. A year later, nothing changed. I felt horrible: sick, tired, unhappy, and depressed. I avoided meeting friends who knew me as thin. In January 2008, I weighed my heaviest ever at 165 pounds (75 kg)..."
"There is no secret. Hard work, dedication, and will power."
"If you think a year can’t make that much of a difference, or that you’d better set an easy goal because you’re too far gone to be able to achieve a huge goal… I hope this changes your mind.
This didn’t start out as a progress photo, the one on the right was just a quick snap I took the other day (lens cap in hand) because I see myself more accurately in photos than I do in the mirror. Recently I’ve been trying on some clothes from the Town Whore spring collection, because why not, and I wanted to know if it was working for me or if it looked ridiculous. Verdict: some of both, yay! Not pictured: five-inch heels, also both amazing and ridiculous. Luckily I live in a beach resort area and everyone here dresses slutty all summer, so this year I’m going to join them BECAUSE WHY NOT.
I bought the dress as a clothing goal before many of you were born, and it’s been packed away for twenty years as I inched farther and farther away from that goal. I finally managed to get on a train going in the right direction, and now finally I can wear this dress.
Changing yourself is not easy, but it is worth it. Your other option is not to do anything and keep complaining about how hard it is and keep wishing that it’ll magically happen on its own someday. How well has that worked so far?
If we don’t already know each other and you have questions, the answers are most likely here, here, here, or in my sidebar, and if you still have questions after that, my ask is always open.
Social support is so important, and if you’re like me and don’t really have family or friends who understand, the fitblr community is such an amazing resource. You guys are my rock, and I love each and every one of you. When we all move to Fitblr Island I promise I’ll throw the best beach party ever for you guys. ♥"
"@redshredded: Transformation Tuesday: Yikes. Well, the left pic I was active (volleyball and gym/lots of cardio, some lifting) pretty much ate whatever, and drank pretty often. Thankful for how far I’ve come and where I stand today with my lifestyle. Ive also reevaluated the important things and eliminated the negative. wouldn’t change it for anything. #transformationtuesday #shittakestime #hardtobepatient #gottabepatient #putinthework"
Age 51/No Excuses - Strong Angels — Christine Lanois, 51 years. What?
"Like many girls out there, the problem started when Melissa wanted to lose weight. She was bulimic in her teens, binging then purging her food, to the point where she had to be hospitalised for a week. Her petite 1.56m frame hit an all-time low of 45kg, and she had to seek help from a psychologist and her church counsellor, to get back on track. From there, she slowly became happier and started putting on weight, but overdid it and tipped the scales at 74kg when she turned 18.
That made her feel worse all over again but this time, her mother signed her up for a gym membership and Melissa started attending group fitness classes. “I felt very intimidated because I felt so fat and I was totally unfit. Just 20 minutes into the class and I already felt like dying,” she recalled. Melissa then moved on to doing her own research and started training in the gym three times a week, with the aim of getting a flat stomach. But the more she trained, the more addicted she became and she went on lifting weights until she became a certified trainer and worked in a gym for a while...
"Everyone has different goals and I don’t expect people to be like me," she said. "If you get too concerned with what others say about you then you will never be happy.”
...Through this journey, Melissa has learnt a lot about discipline and patience. “Fitness is not something where you can see results overnight. I have learnt to wait and just keep doing it... When I first started lifting weights, I kept complaining,” she admitted. Melissa now hopes to inspire others, especially those with eating disorders, to love their bodies and not let society dictate what they should look like."
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