Day one down, 83 to go!

Well 83 to the first of the 5 comps that is!

Today turned out to be a ripper in terms of training and diet.

Woke up, went for a pre-brekkie 30min hilly walk; ate brekkie, went to the gym. Smashed through my delts / calves session and finished it off with 30min Spin (Monday morning is a cycle/THT class - half hour of each so just did the spin component). Worked all day and had all my food pre-prepared from last night so couldn't fail! WOOT. Finished work slightly later than scheduled, and spent 30min on the stepper before the gym shut.

Big gold star today. Just need to collect another 83 of those!!

Personal front was a bit of a let down today. I had kept it out of blogger land but I recently applied for a job down in Melbourne. I seriously thought I would make the shortlist as my application was pretty damn good (and thank you to a certain friend of mine who helped me finetune it - you know who you are x) but was disappointed to check my emails tonight to find one of those generic "thank you for your application but we already have a specific person in mind for the role and only advertised as a formality" replies in my inbox. I was already having a crummy day at the time so just made me, well, shitty quite frankly. I know this sounds stupid but I really, really had a good feeling about this job...and I really, REALLY want to move down to Melbourne too...I don't really write much about my personal, non-competing life on here but for a bit of a background I have a brother who lives down there. He moved there about 6 years ago, it was only ever gonna be a temporary move, but then he fell in love, got married, and has officially set up shop down there. It is only the two of us and I miss him terribly, as we are quite close. Anyway I absolutely adore Melbourne and the lifestyle down there, and have been contemplating a move down there for a few years...and more recently have wanted to make the move more and more. Anyway, the 'thanks but no thanks' email put me in a bit of a shitty mood tonight which sucked. Oh well onwards and upwards, gotta keep looking!

Well it's 12.20am and I gotta get up and train arms/abs tomorrow for Day 2 of 84... ;) so on that note I am off to beddy-byes!

Night all,

Vic x

12 WEEKS BABY

WOO HOO!! Ok so there is a little of a panicked overtone in the WOO HOO...but also an excited one.

12 weeks til comp number one of five.

12 weeks to get rid of the bf that I have accumulated in the last 8 months!! And yes there is a bit!

I had more of a treat weekend than I planned...think it was that "I'm 12 weeks out now, this is it, home stretch" mentality. Not the best way to think of things but in the past when I have done my own diets I have made NO allowances for treats. And I think it's better mentally for me. I haven't been doing the 'cheat meal' so well because I get the sugar taste and I find it hard to stop. So this is it - home stretch...

I made myself a countdown calendar for my fridge tonight. It has every day mapped out in terms of workouts. Every cardio session (including planned amount of time for each session) and every weights session, waiting for me to cross out each day. Talk about super prepared...or trying to get into the right headspace?? lol

Trained legs/abs today in place of yesterday's missed session. Good session today. Did:
Leg press - 5 x 20
Leg extensions - 5 x 20
Single leg curls - 5 x 20
Static barbell lunges - 5 x 20
Crunches with bum on one Swissball, feet on another - 3 x 20
Roman chair leg raises (straight legs) - 3 x 20
Oblique crunches - 2 x 15
followed by 30min on the stepper. I couldn't do more than that, my legs were shot!

Tomorrow is shoulders/calves and I plan on it being a biggie. Shoulders has to be with me cos still trying to get them to catch up to my bloody arms!! And no excuses, cardio twice a day from tomorrow (except on rest day) no matter what.

Anyway better get myself off to bed...big day tomorrow! LET THE GAMES BEGIN ;-)

Til next time, train hard and be good.

Vic x

Saturday :)

Brrr what a week. Not that the week has anything to do with Brrr, except that I'm sitting here at work and freezing...and well I suppose I've been bloody freezing all week.



Been a good week training and diet wise (aside from Thursday's jelly bean attack, where I downed a 50g bag of jellybeans in an unsuccessful attempt to rid myself of my dizzy spells) and the scales had a 400g drop for it this morning. YAY for a much anticipated weight drop!!



Got to work early to train before we open today, like I do every Saturday. It's my 2nd leg day for the week and I went to start training...only to realise that my hammies didn't want to play ball today! Can't believe they are still sore from Wednesday - in saying that was a ripper of a session though. So just did an incline walk on the treaddy and am using today as my rest day instead of tomorrow. I have to come to the gym tomorrow anyway to show my mum her new program that I made for her so will do my legs tomorrow, hopefully when the "someone has replaced my tendons and muscles with a very thick piece of rope" feeling has settled a bit.



I was thinking about it this morning and I have a 6 day split program for weights, normally train Mon - Sat. I think what I might do is keep the split but train 5 days on, 1 day off - so my rest day rotates. I think it will be better for me than 6 days on, one day off. Back when I started competing I used to have 2 rest days from weights a week (with one of them being cardio only, the other being NO training at all) and it worked well.



I took myself off to the dr yesterday to get my dizziness/BP looked at. Dr made me have an ECG while I was there, all good - in fact better than that, I found out my RHR has dropped under the 50bpm mark which is fantastic :) YAY!! Last I knew it was 53bpm so my fitness has increased a little which is nice to know (see, knew I was doing all that bloody cardio for a reason!) Anyway they sent me off for a blood test for a few things so will hopefully have a better picture come Wednesday.

Having a pretty boring day so far today - so far being it's only 10.30am but the gym is pretty quiet this morning. Which has made the last 2 and a half hours feel like 4 hours. Meh, whatever!! Dying for lunchtime to come round - having a steak sambo for my free meal today I think, that's all I feel like, a nice steak sandwich on fresh turkish bread mmmmm....

K that's all from me this morning, better go do something useful...like facebook or something lol.

Til next time, train hard and be good,
Vic x

Spinny rooms

Well it appears I have finally got my mojo back once and for all. YAY!! Welcome home baby!

Training has been bloody awesome this week. I have cut down on the high intensity cardio and incorporated a better balance of steady state in and am feeling much better for it. Food has been fantastic, I haven't been eating more than planned because I haven't been overtraining.

I have had one minor issue though...dizziness. Major dizziness. I am prone to it here and there as I have fairly low blood pressure as a rule, and get some mega dizzy spells sometimes. When I say sometimes I mean maybe once ever couple of months. And they normally last say, 20mins...I can usually eat a few lollies or a spoon of honey and bingo - goes away.

Not this week. The last 3 nights I have had hour upon hour of it...on Monday I got one of my workmates to take my BP when I was feeling dizzy - it registered at 80/65. Tonight I took it after eating a few snakes and it was 90/60...ate a few more snakes, waited...still dizzy....still low....spent most of my shift tonight walking around the gym holding onto inanimate objects to stay upright...all I can say is THANK GOD it was state of origin night and I didnt have too many bookings!

I'm not quite sure what is happening or how to fix it but thinking I might get myself to the doc's on Friday if it sticks around much longer. It's only been happening of an evening though and I am wondering if it could be cos I am not having many carbs after brekkie this week.

Anyway 'side from that it's business as usual :)

So off to bed now, early training session tomorrow morning, YAY!! I love training early!

Til next time train hard and be good xx

Overtraining

Monday night and I'm feeling a whole lot better than I was during Saturday's miserable-ass post. Sorry to be such a whiney bitch but I think that most of you who commented nailed it - overtraining syndrome. I have been going at it too hard with the cardio, specially high intensity stuff, which I normally try to do in moderation. Well after having thought about it, I realised that I hadn't actually had a complete REST day in about 6 weeks. This is the first time ever I have trained 7 days a week for comp prep, not on purpose but usually doing guilt-trip make-up sessions for having missed a cardio session here or there. I normally take Sundays off completely but haven't done in some time...and I think it was doing my head in!! Which is so unlike me as I am the first person to tell my clients about the importance of having at least one training free day a week. So yesterday I did nothing, quite literally. I left the house once to go grab my mum some supplements, and spent the remainder of the day giving my butt some quality time with the couch.

I woke up fresh this morning and did a pre-brekkie walk, then after breakfast did shoulders and calves and spent half an hour on the stepper. Awesome session.

I have also re-written the diet to give things a little bit of a shake up and after 2 days on the new plan am feeling bloody fabulous. BRING ON COMP SEASON, that's what I say!

Gonna go have my pre-bed eggwhites so will leave you with this for the night...

"If you think you can do something, or if you think you can't do something...you are probably right..."

Vic x

Something's not right...?

OK I have no idea what is going on with me this year but I can't seem to budge those bloody scales, well at least not in the direction they need to be budged. This week has seen a gain of 300g. I am at my wit's end trying to work out what is going on and I just can't piece it together. I have been eating clean and cardio-ing twice a day (on a couple of occasions this week it's been 3 times), doing every weights session as planned...and can't drop the weight. I did my measurements this morning too and have not lost ANYTHING centimetre wise since last measurements 3 weeks ago. I'm not sure if this is a hormonal thing maybe but I am starting to think it might be? Has anyone else out there had this frustration before? And if so do you have any suggestions? I am thinking I might get a blood test done to see if there is something going on there.

I know I know - negative boring post but I can't get my head around this and am hoping someone might be able to throw some ideas at me??

Hungry Hungry Hippo

Phew...what a week! This week has seen me feel DOMS in a way I haven't felt in a very long time!! It has been an awesome week training-wise, I have really smashed it up in the gym every single day this week - no holds barred. My legs are aching in places I didn't know existed - I have managed to annihilate them almost every day (stairs Tues/Fri, Leg weights session Wed, 2 x spin classes on Wed as well, and have legs again tomorrow!!) and today I trained with one of my friends, an up-and-coming teen bodybuilder that I have befriended who is gonna be awesome if he sticks at it. We did a back session together today (which in itself is a change for me, I ALWAYS train alone) and I had to get dumbells out of the back room for him to do single arm rows with as they are the heaviest ones we have and we keep them out the back so that the silly boys don't get silly with extremely heavy weights!! Anyway I have never actually been requested to get these weights out in my time at the gym...I literally had to roll them across the gym floor!! hehe

Food on the other hand...well has been a bit excessive. I haven't actually eaten anything bad as such, nothing off plan, but I have eaten way more than I normally do all week. I have been logging everything in CK and have been in a pretty decent deficit every day when you factor in my exercise but I think it's just cos I have a set number in my head of how many cals etc I should be having that it does my head in! I can't figure out if the extra food has been cos of how heavy and hard this week has been (eg arriving for work Wed arvo and teaching an extra spin class after having done all my planned training - 2xcardio + 1xweights session - for the day, doing an extra half hour cardio Tues night)...but either way I am a bit scared of what the scales are gonna say tomorrow morning. Time (ie, 8 hours) will tell I guess!!

My bestie came over for dinner tonight and I made her my turkey mince concoction, which she loved. OK so we followed it with a trip to Maccas so she could have a sundae as I don't have ice cream in the house (I was well behaved and ate yoghurt with mixed berries and crushed walnuts although it was very tempting to order an Oreo McFlurry with Extra Oreo!!) but all in all was a hit, so it's not just my diet brain using reverse psychology and telling me it tastes good lol.

Working all day tomorrow and then going out with some of the guys who get coached by Mike for Teppan Yaki tomorrow night for dinner - should be good fun, I have never been to Teppan Yaki before but been dying for someone to throw food at me lol. Might be inclined to eat less as I'm not likely to be good at catching it :) Not much else to report on my front so might just go and prep my work meals for tomorrow and call it a night me thinks :)

Night y'all!

Vic x

Pyjama Spin

Last night was sooo much fun at work. We launched the new Winter Group Fitness timetable with a Pyjama Party!! It was a blast!! I got an extra tough workout in as my boss thought it would be a good PR thing to get staff to join in the classes...and I got roped into doing the Spin class, in flanny PJs. Which was fine, during the warm up. After that the next 40 mins were, hmm, like doing aerobics in a sauna!! I was dying but all good fun.

Might add for the record that I taught spin in the morning and did my 2nd cardio session of the day on the bike too, so add an extra unplanned Spin class, yeah great for the cardio and dieting factor but not so great on the old ass!! hehe

I trained shoulders and bi's yesterday and know my shoulder workout worked...cos I have never, NEVER had DOMS in the shoulders like I have today. I think it was the isometric holds I finished the workout with (unplanned...threw em in at the end, 3 x 10sec holds in the "up" position of a lat raise, BURN BABY BURN!!)

I have done my stairs session this morning and upped the intensity a little by adding another variation, so now I have 4 different ways of running up the stairs, 3 sets of 10 laps for each...so all in all I now do 120 laps of 18 stairs...and let me tell you it hurts real good!!

OK better jet...off to start work and need some caffeine first :)

Catch you all soon xx

Kitchen Creativity

And so my kitchen prowess continues (ok so ever-so-slight exaggeration there but, meh, whatever). Today's creative streak has seen me make protein bars. They are currently in the freezer waiting to set but I can confirm that they tasted bowl-licking good ;)

To make: (makes 5 bars)

5 scoops choc Evolve Fast Whey
1 cup quick oats
5g Splenda
4 egg whites + 1 yolk
1/3 cup water
50g natural peanut butter (I used crunchy)

In one bowl mix protein powder, splenda and oats.
In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites / yolk together with water.
Heat the peanut butter in microwave to melt.

Mix powder/oats and egg mixture together thoroughly. Add peanut butter in and continue to stir til mixed right through. Pour into dish lined with baking paper. Freeze til set. Cut into 5 slices.

The breakdown is: 308cal, 43.4g protein, 13.7g carbs, 7.9g fat

I am DYING to get it out and eat it!!

I was supposed to go off to World Gym yesterday after work to see Mike and have my skinfolds done, and then train legs with him. I woke up early for my weekly weigh in before going for my walk. I only dropped 100g this week despite feeling loads leaner - however in saying that, I have pretty much not "gone" for 2 weeks - so having lost 100g was fine with me when I factored that in. After my walk, had brekkie and got myself ready. As I was leaving for work, I got the most phenomenal tummy cramps...really bad. Yep, got the runs :( I spent the entire day running backwards and forwards to and from the bathroom, even had to cancel the clients I had booked in. It was horrible!! It has settled mostly today but still not back to 100%. Needless to say I called Mike and cancelled as I didn't think a) I would last a 45min drive to see him, and b) I would survive a leg training session!! Lol I couldn't think of anything worse than attempting leg press or squats in my fragile condition.

So I traded my rest day, which is normally Sunday. Got up this morning and headed to the gym after brekkie. Smashed out 5 x 20 squats, 5 x 20 leg curls, 5 x 20 extensions, 5 x 20 db deadlifts, 5 x 20 standing calf raises. Backed that up with 40 painful minutes on the bike. I say painful cos unlike last week, today my heart was not in the cardio. At all. If any of you have read Kek's post today (sorry I am still not good with the whole blog technology thing and don't know how to link it), well my cardio was pretty much in line with hers!!

Anyway program change tomorrow - YIPPEE!! I love mixing it up a bit and writing new programs. Haven't written it yet but will get onto it tonight :)

That's it from me. Hope you have all had a fab weekend. Will let you know how the bars taste too!

Til next time, train hard and be good :)

Vic x

OK - update. It (protein bar recipe) was good (well in my humble dieting brain opinion). So good that I ate 2 in a row (yes, nearly 90g protein in one hit) for my afternoon "snack". And another for dinner. I have totalled over 240g protein today. If it's possible to OD on protein...today is the day I have done it!! piggy lol

Me enjoy cardio?? What the...? ;)

This week I think I can safely say has been much better all round than any other I have had in MONTHS! I think I have been a little off the rails since my bean-baby saga and have really struggled to get back on track after pulling out of last comp season.

I have found a new passion for traninig this week, and have even been semi-enjoying cardio. Very odd for me, I normally HATE it, no matter how good the headspace has been! I have spent lots of time cycling as although my achilles is feeling truckloads better it's still not 100% and I don't want to risk making it worse. I have thrown a couple of walks in to mix it up too but all in all have been enjoying my time on the bike as it has given me some time to catch up on reading...which makes cardio fly by!

I am doing another stairs session for cardio this morning as I have the day off, and will be doing another boxing class tonight for 2nd cardio allotment. Back and abs training apart from that :)

I have also REALLY been enjoying my food this week. I have made me a new recipe and loved it so much I have had it the last 3 days for lunch, with plans to have it again today too lol. It's pretty simple but delish, haven't named it but basically it's

100g lean turkey mince
1 egg white
50g boiled basmati rice
chopped onion & garlic
pinch of salt/pepper (to taste)
50g diced tomato
50g chopped green beans
20g chopped green capsicum
1 finely diced mushroom
(veges can be changed to suit taste, I also use zucchini, chopped broccoli etc)

*Heat nonstick frypan on stove
*Mix turkey mince, egg white, rice, onion and garlic in bowl. Throw into frypan and stirfry til mince is cooked thoroughly (no need to add oils etc due to egg white)
*Add chopped veges til throroughly heated.
*Place in bowl and enjoy!

Very simple but very tasty. I took it to work yesterday and everyone was asking me to bring them some next week cos it smelt divine :)

I am feeling a lot leaner after one week, despite adding more carbs back into my diet. I don't think my body responds well to super-low carb, which is always handy to know! I am getting my skinfolds done tomorrow afternoon for the first time since pulling out of prep in March - pretty scary lol but needs to be done. What I need to remember is that last time they were done I was about 9 or 10 weeks into full on prep so it will be very normal for those figures to have gone up somewhat.

Anyway better be off, gotta go hit the stairs...just too scared to get out of my warm pj's and robe!!

Vic x

Where's the deoderant???

I'm back in the game and loving it. Did my boxing class last night, and partnered up with one of the regular boys, who was an awesome partner. He's the other one I was talking about last week, of the two hardest hitters. I got a workout even holding the pads cos he really does hit hard, so forced those delts to do some much needed-overtime, and funny enough the whole way through when I was doing the punching, and dying I might add, he kept yelling the "NO PAIN" mantra that gets me through my stairs sessions. Kept me going to the end I tell ya!!

We did one drill through the class though where you face your partner, each pair lined up next to eachother so there are 2 long lines through the room, and you alternate between straight punches and uppercuts as quick as you can for 30sec at a time, then the person wearing the gloves moves to the next partner, so it's like a continuous-moving wall. Well my last partner (lets call him B.O. Boy 1) had the worst B.O. in the history of the world...or so I thought at the time. It was horrendous, I could barely breathe!! Then I got a double dose when it was my turn to punch and got paired with him again, longest 30 second blocks of my life!!

After the class, with what little I had left, I went down to do my abs workout. That's where my opinion of B.O. Boy 1 was slightly ammended. I started doing my first lot of sit ups across 2 swiss balls. Now let me just tell you, for anyone who hasn't attempted this, it's pretty tough at the best of times. Your feet are up on one ball and your butt is on the other and you are working your abs double time by just trying to balance and stay on. Well last night I was doing this while holding a medicine ball. Got towards the end of my first set. Then I get a waft of even worse B.O. than that previously described. I finished the set off (just) and looked over to discover that a second male (let's call him B.O. Boy 2) had perched himself on the matt next to me to do crunches, and had his hands fixed behind his head, allowing the aroma to rise and drift my way. I was nearly sick!! So trying to hold my breath as much as I could (didn't want to breathe through my mouth for fear that I would actually be able to taste the stench) I perched myself back into position. I managed to get halfway through set number 2 (fell off once though) before giving up. I couldn't breathe, nor could I concentrate enough to stabilise on the balls. I hung around for a little while, chatting to the boys, waiting for B.O. Boy 2 to finish and leave the area so I could finish my ab stuff...didn't happen. After about 10mins I gave up and came home, and finished my abs here.

Must say, between the stairs and boxing yesterday - I was smashed last night!! Am starting to get the DOMS now too...traps/rear delts/neck are stiffening up and have some awesome glute cramps going on - so leg workout this morning is gonna be interesting!! lol... I have done my first cardio session already being a 30min hilly power walk, and come home for brekkie. About to take myself now for said leg session and cardio session 2 (bike today...AGAIN!!) so it's done and dusted. Start work at 1pm and working til 9 so like to get it all done before then...nothing worse than finishing work at 9pm and still having to do cardio.

K better jet. Hopefully the people at the gym this morning are avid deoderant fans and I can get through my workout with no major dramas!

Til next time, train hard and be good.

Vic x

She's BAAAACK!!

I know, I know. 2 posts in one day. Just had to jump back on cos I'm so excited that I have to blog about it - I went to do the stairs and my achilles held out!! 90 return laps up & down 20 steps :) Bit of a dull ache at some points but not enough for me to stop!!

I even did the plyo stuff after I was finished the stairs...left the sprints out though, didn't want to push it *too* much. Can tell I haven't done it in a few weeks, I started to get me some killer glute cramps during the plyos lol.

So now that's done and dusted, had some turkey mince/vege stirfry for lunch and now too sleepy to take myself anywhere!! Off for a nap me thinks lol.

Anyway that's it from me now :)

New week, new headspace, new beginning

So this week I am trying to get out of the crappy headspace that has been occupying my surroundings. Im over the negativity and dont like re-reading my blog posts - just filled with a horrible vibe.

I have re-written my diet. Clean clean clean from now til October. No cheats. I even had this conversation with Meegan last night, whose wedding is just under 8 weeks away - about whether I would make any exceptions on the wedding day and have a few drinks with her. The wedding is 7 weeks before my first comp of the season (I have all but decided that I'll also do the INBA ACT show which is a week before the NSW titles - gives me an extra shot at Olympia qualification)...my answer was that we would see how I was tracking closer to the date.

Yesterday, despite being a public holiday and me working all day on my own (dont get me started on that one), was a very positive day for me on the diet and training front. I got up nice and early and went for a powerwalk, had brekkie, toddled off to the gym at 7.20am and did my shoulders/biceps, followed by 40mins on the bike...all before starting work at 9am!! Training done for the day. I had prepared all my food on Sunday night so nutrition was absolutely spot on. I felt awesome for it.

Today I'm not working because I had to cover yesterday...it's 11am, so far I have done breakfast, been spending some time doing some research stuff on the net, had my 2nd meal about an hour ago and now that my tummy is settled I am about to scoot off and give the stairs a crack. First time doing any cardio aside from bike (and walking, which I only did yesterday for the first time) since hurting my achilles a few weeks ago...so hoping it holds up. I won't do the sprints and plyo's today, I think the 30-40 odd mins on the stairs might be enough for the first time back...the last thing I want is to overdo it. Then I am off this evening to do abs and the boxing class. CAN'T WAIT!!

Not sure how to spend the rest of the day - I will basically have about 5 hours free before gym tonight...thinking I might take myself to a movie or for a little "me" time and get a pedi or something. God knows I haven't treated myself to anything like that in, hmm, don't even know how long!

On that note I hope you are all well and rested after the long weekend.

Til next time train hard and be good :)

Vic x

Massive Unit

OK it's official. I am a massive unit.

I am having one of those horrible days...well weekends actually...where I feel like a bloody beached whale.

2 days of very little aside from bloody egg whites and a few grams of oats for brekkie, with a total of I think 3 tuna salads in that 48 hour window...and not one gram dropped. WTF. Seriously. WTF.

Haven't really been "going" all week...well since Tuesday morning to be exact, and am due for TTOM at moment (well I would be if I wasn't on Depo Provera which stops them) so don't know if it's being clogged plus carrying excess fluid but all things aside, while getting ready to go out for dinner with Fern and Claude last night I tried to put on 2 of my pairs of jeans...and couldn't get them over my massive tree trunk legs.

I have stacked on some serious size, I have never not been able to put my jeans on (OK so they have been tight before but not like this). I also tried my bridesmaid dress on today for my bestie's wedding, which is 8 weeks away. I couldn't zip the bloody thing all the way up. So I HAVE TO pull my finger out and find what the hell is going to make my body respond. I have upped the cardio to twice daily on most days already and have decided that as of right now the cheats are gone out the window.

I don't know whether to be happy or upset with the way I am looking (today I'm upset with it). I have spent the last 2 years trying to put on more size to be more competitive up in the Open divisions as I needed more fullness in my muscle bellies but it's hard to be objective on yourself as to whether you have put on more fat than muscle. It's also so hard to go from being so lean to putting on size. Given my past history of anorexia I know how distorted my body image can be, and therefore judging myself is not an easy thing to do.

Anyway enough whinging. Sorry to harp on about it I am just having a moment (also could be due to TTOM??)

Dinner last night was great, I always love catching up with the girls. We went to a really nice Greek restaurant in Brighton-Le-Sands, the food was so fresh and delish! Then went to a place called Bay Vista for dessert, which is notorious for the sweet stuff on the menu. The place makes fabulous ice cream concoctions (like sundaes but they have literally about 20 varieties to choose from), which are served in dishes that are pretty comparable in size to a goldfish bowl. That is not an exaggeration either. I had one, it was divine but it was huge. The one I got came with about 4000 Maltesers in it - I couldn't even finish them. It was awesome but I felt sooo sick for hours afterwards. I won't be going there again in a hurry, merely because it's too good and I have now sworn off the cheats from now til comp. Might have to make it a date for a post comp meal there though :)

Today I went to High Tea with Meegan (bestie), the other bridesmaids, and her mum, aunty and my mum. I've not been to High Tea before but it was really cool, something different. Unfortuately I couldn't participate in anything except the tea drinking, shame cos the scones, mini sandwiches and little cakes looked gorgeous and so fresh. Oh well - another post-comp thing to put on the list!

Am working tomorrow which sucks cos it's a public holiday but I get Tuesday off instead. Am going in early before the gym opens to get training done and dusted before work. Have prepped all my meals already so the plan is to get up a bit early, go for a walk pre-brekkie, eat then go train.

Anyway hope you are all having a fabbo weekend. Sorry bout the long and whiney post...hopefully will be in a better headspace by next one.

xx

Weekly stuff

I am bloody hopeless! Despite all my best efforts in promising to blog more often to prevent war and peace in every entry, I still don't manage to pull my finger out and do it.

I have had a ripper of a week prep wise. My weekly weigh in is tomorrow, I can't imagine any possible way the scales could have gone up this week (they did last week by 300g), so I am really looking forward to seeing the results. I have smashed through my modified program (modified only cos with this achilles injury my 2 weekly sprints/stairs/plyo sessions are out), and amped up the cardio to twice daily most days now. I have given every weights session 110%, and even put in a good effort in every cardio session on the bike, which is great for me, cos unless it's Spin or RPM I tend to slack off cos I'm not a bike fan. But I haven't slackened off once on it which is awesome. I have also managed to get in 2 boxing classes for additional cardio this week. The first one being on Tuesday when I finished work earlier than usual, so the regular boys from the class talked me into doing it with them. I paired up with one of the boys, who I later found out is one of the two hardest hitters in the class (didn't know that as I don't usually do the class), was loads of fun but I tell you what, up til last night I was in a world of pain. My traps and forearms were in agony, and my midsection felt like it had been run over by a semi trailer...might have been all the hooks we did in the class, combined with the fact I had just done an abs endurance session (3 different exercises all with weights, 3 sets of 50 for each...no bloody wonder!!) But didn't stop me from going back to the class tonight. If you don't hear from me for a few days I probably physically cannot type.

Food has been spot on this week. After my gain last week I decided on going back to the calorie/carb cycling method. So I have my average, which I stick to most days, but throw in a lower calorie/carb day and a high day or two. I am just coming off 2 low days in a row, which has seen me consume 60 (yes you read right, that's sixty) egg whites in the form of omelettes/pancakes. Both sweet (protein pancake, mmmmm yum) and savoury (vegies). Have limited carbs on these days to my breakfast, which included oats and prunes (don't want a repeat of the bean baby / alien incident!!)

So tomorrow (well today now since it's so late) is high day...am going out with Fern and Claude to celebrate Claude's back to back Sportsmodel wins at the ANB Sydneys and Asia Pacifics. Claude has requested we venture to an ice cream parlour to have pancakes and ice cream for dinner. As one does. Hey, no complaints from me - I would love nothing more than to have ice cream for dinner EVERY night, unfortunately comp diet only allows one of these kinda meals a week lol. Nobody wants to see a whale squeezed into one of Jo's fab bikinis up on stage!!

Not much else to report on. Working tomorrow day and Monday (yep got suckered into that one), going to 'high tea' on Sunday with my best friend who is getting hitched in about 6 weeks - we are having a bridesmaid/bride bonding session...and am HOPING to check out the Terminator movie at some point. I saw Frankie's review - although soz babes not a Trekkie myself so can't relate to that - but has anyone else seen it (Terminator)?? Am hoping it rocks, am imagining it will :)

Anyway gonna hop off now as only have about 6 hours before I have to be up to train before work.

So on that note, catch you all later.

Vic x