Squeaks' Journey to a hotter bod and other life stuff

[squeaks77]

2/7

TRAINING

Muscle Power Burn - Back, calves and abs

Daily Supps: Multi-vit, glucosamine, 2 scoops Con Cret

Pre-Workout: all out!

Intra-Workout: 1 scoop Xtend

warmup

5 minutes rowing

Deadlift - power

10 x 115
5 x 135
5 x 155
3 x 185
3 x 185

Pullups - muscle

6 x BW
6 x BW
4 x BW

BB rows - muscle

10 x 75
10 x 75
10 x 75

Cable rows - burn

Narrow grip
40 x 40

Shoulder-width grip
40 x 40

Seated Calves - muscle

12 x 80 (10 per side + 60 starting weight)
12 x 80
12 x 80

Knee ins on bench

15 x 10 (db between feet)
15 x 10
15 x 10

45 degree Calf raise

30 x sled (118 lbs) - this was supposed to be 2 sets of 40, but I was afraid I'd be crippled all weekend. I'll work up to that, lol.

Random Thoughts

I'm liking these workouts, nice change of pace. Those burn sets are crazy. I'm used to working in reps no higher than 10 for the most part, so they are killer. I was really happy with the deadlifts tonight. I only started taking creatine a few days ago, but it seems like I'm already seeing the benefits.

[squeaks77]

2/

TRAINING

Muscle Power Burn - Shoulders and triceps

Daily Supps: Multi-vit, glucosamine, 2 scoops Con Cret

Pre-Workout: all out!

Intra-Workout: 1 scoop Xtend

Standing BB press - power

10 x 30
5 x 45
5 x 45
5 x 45
5 x 45

starting out easy on these since I haven't done them in over a year.

Seated DB OH press - muscle

7 x 20s
8 x 20s
8 x 20s

DB Front Raise - muscle

12 x 12.5s
12 x 12.5s
12 x 12.5s

DB Lateral raise - burn

7.5 x 40
5 x 40

CG bench - power

5 x 30
5 x 45
5 x 50

This was my first time doing these, so it was hard to figure out the right weight. I can probably do 55 next time.

Seated OH Ext - muscle

12 x 25
12 x 25

Skullcrusher - muscle

10 x 20
10 x 20

First time doing these

Tricep Cable rope ext

12.5 x 30

lol, this was supposed to be 2 sets of 40, but I failed at 30 reps on the first set. I need to work up to that.

Random Thoughts

This has been a great workout week. I'm loving this new program!

[thehobbes]

Muscle, Burn, Power... I like it! Look at all dat shoulder work, glad you're back to it!

[mmater]

So glad to hear you have had an awesome workout week. Feels great when those times happen. Nice sessions!

[swooshie]

Hi Squeaks! You're doing Power, Muscle, Burn!!! I loved that program and made some good gains on it! Hope you have fun with it! I'll definitely run it again.

Have a great weekend

[squeaks77]

Hi guys. I realize I haven't updated in days. I'm finding it hard to get on here lately. I think I'm going to take a little hiatus from posting full workouts. Seems like we all feel this way every now and then. I'll still be in here nearly every day and will post anything noteworthy.

I will say that my deadlifts are coming along nicely. Yesterday I did 155x5 and 185 x 3 reps x 3 sets. That's the most I've done in a year (since I hurt my shoulder). The shoulder is 99%. It still feels just a bit unstable when doing BB OHP, so I'm moving really slowly on that lift. Doing higher reps with a lower weight until I feel more confident.

Anyhow, I'll be around, probably just not a whole lot of posting. It's Girl Scout cookie season here in our house, so all my free time is being spent helping my daughter with that. She would love some donations if anyone feels so inclined .

Hope you all have a great Valentines day. We're staying in and I'm making bacon wrapped filet mignon with mashed sweet potatoes and garlic green beans. For dessert I'm making chocolate cupcakes filled with cream cheese frosting and topped with strawberry cream cheese frosting and a chocolate covered strawberry and chocolate drizzle. Plus a nice bottle of red wine to accompany. Today is a cheat, lol. Actually I'll probably just eat light most of the day, so I won't be too far over.

[squeaks77]

So, yesterday was my birthday and I told my husband I just wanted to go shopping, so hubby, kids and I spent the day at the mall yesterday. I bought myself 3 pairs of Under Armour pants. I got 2 pairs of studio pants and a pair of Capri tights (which I think look awesome). In fact, I tried them on for my husband last night and he said he's not sure if I should wear them to the gym, lol. I also got an awesome new purse. All in all, a pretty good day.

[gobbles23]

Happy Belated Birthday! Glad you had a good one

[pharty]

Happy Belated Birthday, Squeaks!

[thehobbes]

B-day shopping sounds fun! I love sports pants, got the most awesome comfy Nike sweatpants online black fri, holy perpetual comfortable ass, will pick up another pair next year too!

[dreahere]

Happy birthday! Sounds like an excellent day.

[squeaks77]

Thanks for the b-day wishes.


Well, we had a snow day today. School actually got cancelled (lucky me still gets to work since I work from home now). Of course, it's 2pm now and all the snow has melted away. I was already only going to get 3 gym days this week and now that the kids are home, I'll only get 2. Bummer. I guess maybe I'll do my taxes tonight, lol

[mmater]

Thanks for the b-day wishes.


Well, we had a snow day today. School actually got cancelled (lucky me still gets to work since I work from home now). Of course, it's 2pm now and all the snow has melted away. I was already only going to get 3 gym days this week and now that the kids are home, I'll only get 2. Bummer. I guess maybe I'll do my taxes tonight, lol

Stuck inside doing work all day, AND then you want to do taxes. What is wrong with you woman?!?!?! lol. I say, have your kids do the taxes, and you go to the gym.

[squeaks77]

Hai guise! Life has been incredibly busy, but I'm still around. Haven't had time to be on here in forever. Sold our house, about to rent because we haven't found one to buy. Hopefully some day here i'll have time to write out a proper update!

[squeaks77]

Wow, I think I need to post another semi-monthly update, lol. I've been missing this place, but life has been so hectic that I had to let a few things go, this being one of them.

We sold our house and that escrow closed 5/3. We haven't found anything to buy yet, so we are renting. At least we're in a good position now with money in the bank and no lease to worry about. We are actually meeting with a builder this morning to see if we can afford to build. That would be sweet!

I'm still at the new job I took in January. I love working at home so much! It's great because I have 2 hours available to spend at the gym in the evenings, so I've been working my ass off. Not sure how that will change after the kids are out of school for the summer. The good news is that our rental house is less than 5 min from the gym.

Just so busy now with all this house stuff and 2 weddings in June, one I'm the maid of honor to my bridezilla bf. kids have had a lot of projects too.

I've started "dieting" in Feb, but had so much going on that I pretty much failed, so 2 weeks ago I said "it's on now!" And I've been working hard in the gym and keeping myself between 1100-1200 calls/day consistently. Finally seeing some change. Thrilled that my shoulder injury last year yielded a positive surprise. All that extra leg work put an inch on my legs. Woohoo!

Went to my bf's wedding dress fitting last week and the dress was too small for her, so she begged me to put her on a diet. Her typical diet is that of a 3 year old. Pretty much all she eats is chicken nuggets, fries, candy bars and sodas, so this is a challenge. You'd think she's overweight, but she 's not, about the same size as me actually. She just turned 31 and I think her bad eating habits are finally catching up with her.


Lol, well there's more than you prob wanted to know. Hopefully I can find some time to read journals and catch up. Post your cliffs here if you don't mind.

[llahhsoj]

Hi squeaks!

Nice to hear everything is going well.

[squeaks77]

Hi squeaks!

Nice to hear everything is going well.

Hi Josh, hope things are going well for you. I'll have to come check out your latest log.

[llahhsoj]

Hi Josh, hope things are going well for you. I'll have to come check out your latest log.

Things are going well. I am doing my first structured program Y3T currently. There is a link at the bottom of my signature.

[thehobbes]

Squeakssss! Wow sounds like things are a lot better job and gym wise, that's awesome! Ooo would be so cool to have someone build a house for you, would put so much custom stuff in there, brb hot tub, brb huge basement for home gym, brb giant kitchen, brb giant deck for grilling and chilling. LMAO at your friend eating chicken nuggets, soda, fries, and candy! That is seriously not good for anybody (and I thought I ate bad lol.) I do look back on how I ate when I was like 22 which was pretty much fast food, sugary drinks, and a pack of cupcakes for dinner, could only imagine what that'd do to your body if I kept doing that for years and years. Good luck to her, I hope she discovers the wonders of oatmeal.

[dreahere]

Hey Squeaks! Glad you're posting again.