8-10-2011

Hello friends and lurkers! ;o), Well we had a quite a weekend!
I had planned to get my leg training in over the weekend, but everything blew up. Our oldest daughter moved back in(long story there!) and then we had this crazy storm roll in that was short but VERY powerful, with straight line winds. Jim and I stood at the window watching as the trees looked like they would break at any moment! It was scary!
At one point he told Amanda & I to run, because the tree was coming down after he had heard a crack…Amanda(my youngest) and I tore off as fast as possible running to the front of the house fully expecting to hear the tree tearing through our roof. I turned to make sure she was with me and Jim was back at the window.
No tree, it was a  false alarm. Turns out we found out the next morning it was a neighbor behind us who’s tree came down and most likely was the culprit for losing our power because as soon as that crack had happened there was a LOUD sound of the transformer going out!
Jim and I were getting close to the ending of “The Lincoln Lawyer” when all this happened LOL! It was right to when the tension was mounting too! We didn’t get to finish it until the next day!
We ended up without power for all night and didn’t get it back until around 3:30pm the next day. We managed to save all our meats but lost all the ice cream! All my Skinny Cow and Breyer’s Carb Smart and Jim’s & Mandy’s Chip’s Ahoy Breyer’s and Mandy’s M&M ice cream sandwiches! We had JUST bought both the Breyer’s too!! Of course all the frozen veggies as well as MOST of the fridge stuff was lost. All our deep freeze stuff was fine as well. I was worrying about that meat if things went any longer, but all worked out! Fortunately it wasn’t as hot as it had been and our house stayed pretty cool!

A little insight….

With all the rain we’ve had & then this big storm a certain well known phrase kept running through my mind as as things often go, I converse with God all throughout my day about pretty much everything, good, bad and ugly and so God was speaking to me about this saying and here’s where it went…..The phrase is….
“Into every life a little rain must fall”

It’s funny how i’ve heard this all my life but never given any thought to it, until now….
I look at this in a few ways. I think it originated with rain being bad as in it raining on your parade, spoiling your plans and the like. I started thinking a bit deeper and how a normal rain is pleasant, nourishing  and refreshing, but sometimes it’s a rainy season of torrential down pours, pounding away & erroding the soil. What is already strong continues to stand and isn’t harmed, but what is unhealthy or weak(not deeply rooted) is destroyed. I started thinking about this and how destruction can seem so cruel, but it isn’t. These are the parts of our lives we haven’t dealt with before the Lord and allowed Him to change in us, so when these are left, they are weaknesses that leave us vulnerable. But them being destroyed and dealt with , it exposes those weaknesses and provides an opportunity for it to establish better roots and to grow up stronger, and not left vulnerable to those crazy storms. They key is getting it before God and allowing Him to deal with it, to endure and learn what we are meant to so that these weaknesses are no longer! It needs proper nourishment to be strong or to remain strong or to get strengthened in the first place. If you neglect it, it can become a weakness again, becoming vulnerable to life’s storms! But if we endure the storm and allow God to do the strengthening of the weaknesses, when the next storm comes it too will stand strong.

2 Corinthians 12:9

New International Version (NIV)

⁹ But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

 

Here are a few storm pics I took with my phone, so they aren’t the best….

 

Monday’s Leg Session 8-8-2011

Power Squat
90 x 15 Back
90 x 12 Front
90 x 10 Back
90 x 10 Front
Went up in weight this time so those were brutal!

Full Deads
135 x 10
135 x 8
135 x 8
135 x 7
In between the 3rd & 4th sets. Jim set it up for me to try a 1 rep max. I tried and tried will all my might 3 times and couldn’t budge. Just gotta keep at it!!

Glute Isolator
40 x 10 x 3
Tried my usual 50lbs but my glutes and hams were fried from the extra deads this session!

Lying Ham Curl
20 x 10
10 x 8
10 x 8

Seated Calf Raise!
25 x 12
25 x 12
25 x 12

First time doing any kind of weighted calf work since my injury!!! I was surprised it didn’t hurt, although my right calf sure cramped up!! I did LOT’S of stretching and so far so good!!

Tuesday-
I did 45 mins of cardio. I did part HIIT, part SS and then ended with working out my foot on the treadmill for the final 10 minutes.

 

7/27/- 8/4/2011

Hi guys!

I’ve given up on staying up to date during the summer, LOL! It’s been busy and we have had bad and good days! Right now i’m waiting to hear about getting assigned a job from the temp service…hoping, hoping, hoping! I had to re-test for data entry and it’s NOT my strong point at all. I started working on a typing tutorial and I suck at it so bad, but am DETERMINED to get it! Things just never come easy to me and that is just the way it is. In the midst of all this we are trying to get my 17 year old licensed to drive so that if I get a job, she can get her and her sister to and from school. They won’t let her get her actual license because they now require you to have it 6 months before being allowed to test, soooo plan B is to go for the school permit! Let’s hope it all works out!

Well Update on that since it’s taking me 3 days to finish this! LOL! She can’t because she’s in town! I hate the DMV!! At least at this moment! I will have to leave this whole thing in Gods hands!

Also completed my entire process for the temp company to begin to be able to assign me work…now to wait! Also, get this, Jim comes up to me after my nap yesterday saying I need to call the plumbing company that i had such great interviews with because they JUST posted a CSR job opening which is what i interviewed for before. Well my phone # had changed since then so i called the HR person to find she’d left for the weekend already. I left her a VM at least, so we’ll see what happens Monday!

REHAB UPDATE!
I’m so excited with my progress right now! I am finally able to walk on my toes. It hurts and i can’t go to far/long but i can finally do it! I’m getting higher up on single calf raises as well, so i’m a happy camper! Still keeping up with all my rehab exercises as well. It’s time consuming and hurts some of the time, but it’s making a difference.
I’ve also started walking the treadmill for part of my cardio, really focusing on heel to toe with push off and even walking on my toes for part of the time. I also am doing deep lunge strides on it also really focusing on the push off. it’s helping…it hurts pretty good, but it’s helping. I’m truly looking forward to the day i am walking and there is zero pain!

 

Okay Workouts now…here we go….
Tuesday July 27th, 2011

Incline BB Bench Press
45(bar) x 15
65 x 6
55 x 6
55 x 7

DB Flyes
22.5′s x 10
22.5′s x 8
22.5′s x 8

Front Military Press
50 x 10
50 x 7
50 x 4

Straight Bar P/D
80 x 12
80 x 8
80 x 8

This was “one of those” workouts. I was NOT feeling it, could not feels strong and was wiped out. I did this much and it just kept going downhill, so called it quits. I usually feel better after a workout but this time felt so drained and like crying.
I honestly think my first deadlift session just fried and shocked my CNS to the extent it wasn’t recovered. That’s my theory anyway.

SATURDAY  JULY 30th, 2011

Power Squat
50 x 12
50 x 12
50 x 13

Deadlifts-Full
135 x 10
135 x 5
135 x 5

Unilateral Leg Extension
30 x 10/10
30 x 10/10 + 4 w/ both
30 x 8/8
30 x 6/6 + ? w/both

Glute Isolater
40 x 10/10
40 x 10/10
40 x 8/8

Lying Ham Curl
20 x 8 w/lift-off
20 x 8 w/lift-off Last 2 assisted
20 x 3 then dropped to 10 for 3 more

Stiff Leg Deads
Just to stretch out
1 set of 12 with just the bar

Military Press-BB
55 x 10
55 x 8
65 x 5

DB Sides Raises
15′s x 10 + 2 assisted
15′s x 9
15′s x 10

Face Pulls
80 x 12
80 x 10
80 x 12
80 x  8

Front Raises
BB- 20 x 10
DB- 10 x 10 x 3- Alternating

Roman Chair
12/10/10

 

THURSDAY AUGUST 2nd, 2011

Pull-Ups
8
4 + 3 assited w/ final hold & slow neg.

Wide Grip BB Rows
95 x 10
95 x 10
95 x 8

Cable Lat P/D
80 x 12
80 x 10
80 x 10
60 x 10 & 10 Front & behind the neck

HS Iso Row
90 x 10
90 x 8
90 x 8

Reverse Grip Bench
45 x 12- Too easy
65 x 10
65 x 9

BB Curls
40 x 10
50 x 6 as cheater reps
40 x 8

Cable Rope Pull Through Curls
30 x 10
30 x 10
30 x 9

DB Alt. Curls- Walk the rack
17.5 -10lbs Got quite a few reps through entire drop set
20lbs -12.5lbs Much Less reps

I was going to keep going to the 5 pounders BUT all the girls getting trained kept taking the girly weights! I was even getting ready to switch to the 10′s after my second set when I finished with the 12.5′s and this girl grabbed it right from under my nose. Fortunately I know her and she is sweet and I realized she had no idea what I was doing.  I was bummed to not get to keep going though, LOL!

 

THURSDAY AUGUST 4th, 2011

BB Bench Press
45 x 15
65 x 12
75 x 6

HS ISO Incline Bench
50 x 10
50 x 8
50 x 7

Pec Dec
40 x 10
50 x 10
50 x 10
60 x 10

Star Trac Shoulder Press
40 x 12
40 x 12
50 x 7
50 7
This machine is surprisingly great!! It really puts a bite into the delts and makes them burn!

DB Side Raises
15′s x 12
15′s x 10
15′s x 10 Last 3 assisted

Alternating Front Raises
12.5′s x 10/10
12.5′s x 11/10
12.5′s x 8/8 

Face Pulls
80 x 12
80 x 12
80 x 10

Cable Tricep Pushdown
60 x 15
80 x 10
80 x 11

Weighted Bench Dips
35 x 9
35 x 10
35 x 10

 

And that is it for now!!! I enjoyed a movie with my husband last night, we saw “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” and it was awesome!!! We really enjoyed it and was worth every penny!

Today is Leg Day once again and i’m excited for it!! ‘Till later!

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