* Red² - T's Journey 2007 *

[Sassy69]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

Hey chica --- life is a journey and especially a fitness life is a constantly changing road. I wish I had the breadth & depth of knowledge I have now 20 yrs ago. Maybe I would've done different things w/ it. But given the environment of heavy training even 15 yrs ago ("girls don't lift") I guess I came out ok. Its never a bad thing to want a break and sometimes you just plain old get sick of it. Its knowledge you'll never lose, experience you will always have, muscle memory that will always be there and there's always another show. Its just another aspect of a full and fulfilling life.

And your body, life and mind are always evolving as well. There's simply no down side

 

[jpt]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

and when i said quits i didn't mean training...i meant lifitng heavy. just re-read my post

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

Wow, this is some powerful writing, Tre! But I think it's great that you're looking hard into yourself to see what you really want. And really, no one should be succumbed to aches and pains in their 20s!

I hope you find what you're looking for - I think we are all ultimately looking for "that place" but never sure where it is and then if it's a mere halt or a final destination

I know where the heck is "that place"!! Like I tell everyone I'm never lost just temporarily displaced. I always know my directions and which direction to go... but sometimes I take different roads but ultimately end up at the same place as if I had taken a different route. Sometimes it's quicker.. sometimes I get stuck behind some slow poke or obstacle.. but I always get there.. It may not be on time, and I hate being late, but will get there. I guess driving and my life go hand in hand because that whole paragraph goes two directions.

everyone gets into a rut now and again....but if your in pain and your always aching (not the good kind) then you should re-evaluate what your doing. i think playing the mind muscle conncetion and rom is the way to go and then after your sick of that train heavy again. if the training bcomes painful again i would just call it quits. don't be so tough or your body...you don't want it giving out so you cant do anything!

I know.. I've been in ruts and this doesn't feel like one. It's different. I am re-evaluating what I'm doing based off my pain, and life. I know what it takes to put muscle on and I have to be extremely tough on my body in order to do so (thanks to genetics). I know if I ease up then it's just not going to be the same. Then it's almost like I should drop the goal. I know I will miss the competing part. It seems to fit so well and is what I have been searching for for 10 plus years'. I just didn't realize the body pain obstacle in getting there. I have the mental dedication to it. It is like having a second full-time job but the payment is sucking right now. I know I'll always lift weights.. It's just the goal as to why I am lifting or how I go about it that will have to change. No other physical activity really comes to mind to take it's place. Maybe rock climbing.. but unless I plan on climbing garbage dumps that have been made into ski hills there is not much support for that type of activity here. There has to be some sort of finishing to make it complete....
Running a marathon well is an achievement in itself, competing on stage well that's all I have to say. Playing softball... is a team effort, I need some single effort that will bring me up over that edge that challeneges me. Yoga is just yoga.. You don't see a bunch of yogis on a stage to see who can bend the best. Powerlifting well I think would be fun, but the pain issue will not allow that one.
Maybe it's hiking the Applachian trail... But dang I need a shower here and there. I mean I did go through basic training but that would be, eh because I couldn't get to the gym.
So in the end I still want to compete, and there is always a new level to it... It's just figuring a way to do it that I can handle. That I will figure out this next year!!

Hey chica --- life is a journey and especially a fitness life is a constantly changing road. I wish I had the breadth & depth of knowledge I have now 20 yrs ago. Maybe I would've done different things w/ it. But given the environment of heavy training even 15 yrs ago ("girls don't lift") I guess I came out ok. Its never a bad thing to want a break and sometimes you just plain old get sick of it. Its knowledge you'll never lose, experience you will always have, muscle memory that will always be there and there's always another show. Its just another aspect of a full and fulfilling life.

And your body, life and mind are always evolving as well. There's simply no down side

I wish I had your knowledge as well
I know you know about the pains and how difficult it is to give training hard up based off of it. What do you do to quench that desire?!?

 

[HiDnGoD]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

I know how you feel tre (well a little anyways). I always have some nagging little thing, & as soon as I get one straightened up, another one takes it's place.
Maybe after this next show, if you shift your focus to something else, a different athletic endeavour, a different physique. You're way too young to be aching like that.

 

[ck2006]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

Hey you,

just caught up on your log! I can feel your frustration through your posts, I am sorry your going through all of this.

But I do know what ever decision you make will not be a wrong one.

Your in my thoughts right now

 

[sbt2082]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

DEC 28 2006


Tonight is upper body and abs... Waiting for SBT to type it all up so I can copy it in, LOL

Gotta get our @$$es to the gym before I can do that young lady

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

DEC 28 2006
Mood = O.k.... Kept waking up because I was worried I was going to miss my 6:30 PT appointment....

Weight = 162.6 (Whowho new heights reached) lol

Soreness = Rt sacroilliac joint is not happy! PT worked on it quite a bit to get it unlocked. Lower hams still a bit. First time in a long time lower hams have been achey.
Fronts of arms/shoulders tender to touch and bruised from squat bar. Glutes.

Yesterday Weights:

BB bench press (tempo 311) (6 x 95)(1 X 115)(6 X 105)(1 X 125)(11 X 95)(15 X 95)
BB bent over row (tempo 311) (6 x 65)(1 x 95)(6 x 85)(1 x 115)(12 x 90)(19 x 90)
Close grip pull down (tempo 311) (8 x 100)(8 x 115)(8 x 120)
DB Shoulder Press (tempo 311) (8 x 30)(8 x 35)(8 x 35)
Hanging leg raises (15-17-16-15)
Jack knife on swiss ball (1 x 22) (1X23) (2 x 21)
Knee in w/medicine ball (4 x 25)
Knee in w/rotation and medicine ball (4 x 25) both sides
Vacuums w/lats (3 x 2 Min) rest 15 sec
Stretch and hot tub

Today =
1 25 minute session of HIIT.
1.30 hour Deep tissue massage

Notes:
~10 min Hot tub session yesterday seemed to help.. Really made me tired but had less overall soreness. So I will be adding this in as a component to get over some of this achey stuff I'm dealing with.
~Getting goals slowly figured out for 2007. So far I have 43 Some are big, some are small, some are inbetween... Most have to deal with other aspects of my life besides my lifting and competing. Just trying to balance out the overall me, and keep progressing forward.

 

[jpt]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

baths are great for sore muscles....but you know that already...i took one last night b/c my back was killing me!

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

baths are great for sore muscles....but you know that already...i took one last night b/c my back was killing me!

Yeah it works even better if you combine stretching while you are in there. Well Hot tub anyway.. Harder to do in the bath tub. The shower though you can do some good neck stretching while hot water beats down.

 

[treilin]

Re: Treils 2006 Competition Log

DEC 29 2006

MOOD = Pretty Good
Weight = 161.4
Soreness = ABS I can't move... Having to pick myself up with arms to turn and everything they are toasted top to bottom from wed. So tonight's ab routine is getting cut.

Tonight will be lower body routine
and I'm thinking hot tub

Notes:
Yesterday was a pretty good day! I did HIIT for the first time in quite a few months. Thought I was going to have an asthma attack or my heart was going to pound out of my chest!!!
Ellyptical =
WU 5 min
Level 11 1 min
Level 7 45 seconds
I did that till I hit the 26 minute mark then finished with CD till 30 minutes.
It said I burnt 530 cals.

Then I hit the tanner, and did a massage trade. 1 hour just on my back, 30 minutes between hams and feet. I slept hard last night!!! I didn't hear both my alarms this a.m.

Today I'm straightening my desk, organizing my office, and getting my tax stuff all put together. Just getting everything straight before the diet down so I don't have to think about all this extra stuff.