The Transformation continues !

[Roxy722]

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chivas regal 12 year straight up...
im thinking that would be ok before the last photos to bring out some vascularity...

I put my rye out of sight after these messages! Hid it downstairs under the stairs. I'm not a big drinker but it was just sounding like such a good idea. Moya..I have seen wine backstage before a show. Just might work!

 

[Roxy722]

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Saturday, March 5

I had a crazy workout today. I felt really good in the gym and I am really feeling it tonight! Feels great!

I was a little weirded out with how sore I was just training back the other day, so I've taken the 10x3 and then added on a few body part specific exercises to each workout. I chose ones that seemed to fit with the core exercises of the 10x3 and still maintained a decent split. I figure if I'm going to run a cycle, I need to take advantage of it. Speaking of which, I started 10 mg/daily of var yesterday. Var agrees with me! Not just in the sense that I can manage the sides but I feel a bit like a superhero on it.

On to the workout:

10 min warm up on the treadmill, walking.

Rack pulls

50 - 12
70 - 12
90 - 12
110 - 11
130 - 10
130 - 10
140 - 6

Dips
3 sets of 5
One of the trainers in the gym came and spotted me on these...held my feet. So I was able to do 15 full dips. My arms were burning!!

Hanging Knee Raises
3 sets of 12

Skull Crushers
3 sets of 10 at 40 lbs

Leg Raises
Did these off a flat bench...butt at the end of the bench and then legs up, butt off the bench for a reverse crunch in the air.
3 sets of 10

Tri Pushdowns
60 - 12
80 - 8
80 - 8
My tris were done by this point.

Cardio....that will be in the next post. Did something a little different.

I spent a couple hours with some good friends of mine today who gave me some diet tweaking. They are a married couple in their 50's who have been in the industry for years. She is an IFBB pro and they are 2 of the most supportive people you'd ever meet. Anyway...we tweaked things a bit and gonna be dieting it up old school. It won't be too dissimilar to what PLJ is doing. I'll post more about it tomorrow.

 

[Roxy722]

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Ok....Cardio....there's 3 videos to this. Someone can't operate a camera very well so you get it in 3 parts! Just for the record...this workout kicked my butt. I still have shaky legs and will be lucky to be walking tomorrow!!

 

[Peterlumberjack]

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that looks cold!

 

[Roxy722]

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that looks cold!

I had 3 layers of clothing on so it actually wasn't bad. although, it's this point in the year where -15 c starts to feel warm. LOL My legs are still shaky today. I clearly need to change up cardio more often.

 

[zedhed]

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Daym Roxy, you are one gutsy gal. I love it chika!
Everybody take note....this chika is out for blood, thats your blood contenders!

 

[Roxy722]

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lol..thanks Zed. It felt pretty good actually...in a sick, painful sort of way! I think I'm going to do that every Saturday for cardio. It's too dark to do it at night and I have visions of slipping and falling all the way down the 260 stairs. It gives me motivation to push it a little harder in the gym...now I have a reminder of what super high intensity, can't breathe cardio feels like!!

 

[Roxy722]

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Sunday, March 6

Well...as great as yesterday felt in the gym, today was the exact opposite. I got halfway through my workout and hit the puke zone. I don't know what it was...I don't feel like I'm getting sick. Maybe it was just a carryover from yesterday. I'm feeling a bit like I got hit by a bus today. So much for feeling like a superhero! lol

So what I did get done..

10 mins on the treadmill warm up.

20 pull ups - used the top of an incline bench to rest one foot on.

DB single arm shoulder press
20 - 12
20 - 12
22.5 - 10
22.5 - 8
25 - 7
25 - 6

Upright rows/ superset with bent over rear raises

rows - 3 sets of 12 - 30 lbs
raises - 3 sets of 10 - 15 lb DBs

Then it was the mad rush to the bathroom. I sat for a few minutes and tried to shake it off but just wasn't feeling it, so went home. I may go back and do some more cardio this evening but we'll see how it goes. I'm taking a break from the weekly meal prep at the moment.

 

[Roxy722]

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On the meal prep note..my diet has changed a bit for the last 6 weeks. Not too much but enough. It's not far off from what PLJ is doing. A lot of the old school bodybuilders up here use it for the last 6 weeks before competition. They call it "fibrous".

My calories have gone up slightly to 1700.
230 g protein
99 g carbs
28 g fat

The only complex carbs come from 1/4 cup steel cut oatmeal (measured dry) in the morning. The rest of the carbs are from "fibrous" veggies..lots of broccoli, cauliflower etc. I have 2 extras in there right now. 1 TBSP of flax seed in the oatmeal and 6 oz grapefruit at night. I have done this once before, minus the grapefruit, and had amazing results so here's hoping something will actually work for me!!

 

[moya]

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stairs are my favorite cardio... i used to love the step mill at LA Fitness, and the Brenda in Modesto... but we dont have one here at my Gold's...
ya, we have an ice cream room at work that gets about that cold, but i dont spend a lot of time in there... mostly im in the deli warehouse which is just above freezing like a refrigerator, which is not bad... however, i was thinking that animals in colder climates adapt to their environment by growing thicker hair, skin or even fat... so ive been bundeling up to where i get hot when im working in there... dont know if it will make a difference or not im my fat loss... just taking all the precautions...