I made the decision to scrap the running plan, in favor of focusing on being faithful with ONE aspect of working out... Gotta walk before I can run a 5k, I guess. I still think that the main factor for my weight loss is going to be getting the heck out of this moldy apartment!
Anyway, on the Friday the 29th, I slept in. No workout. BAD JOE! I realize more and more that it is my workout partner that provides me the motivation that I need. Her mere presence makes me REMEMBER to workout! I am SOOOOO thankful for her and her willingness to help me!
Saturday, January 30th, I went to my CPR instructor training course... almost done becoming a CPR instructor. I may not make that much this quarter, but it seems like this job could help me to live a little more intentionally in terms of eating better QUALITY of food... God fats, Grass-fed beef, Free-range chicken and more veggies. It seems like when I don't have much money, I tend to try to get as much as I can with the money I have... which tends to be processed food. It's amazing how attractive and accessible the devil's system has made killing yourself. MSG... Neurotoxin. High Fructose Corn Syrup... CAUSES type 2 diabetes and leptin resistance. Processed grains are just sugar in different forms, which causes an immune system response and cellular inflammation... we are eating ourselves to death and most of us don't even know it.
FOR ME, and others who are toxic like me, getting out of my current mold exposure is the biggest thing. At the end of March, I will be out of here! Then, we'll see just how fast I can detox and lose all of this weight! I am beginning to see some Heavy Metal Toxicity symptoms too... let's hope that those are just because of hypersensitivity caused by the mold toxins!!!
Sunday, Jan. 31st. - MaxFit workout #6
A little break from the new format of core - burst - core - burst - core - burst - rest a minute and repeat! Which is really hard! Workout #6 was the last of the workouts from the 2nd week, so Dr. Fred hadn't gone into that routine yet... if we had gone in order! LOL
1) Bent over rows/triceps curls
2) Half Squat to Toe Raise (good for vertical jump)
3) Chair Dips to kick backs (for which I had to use the couch... my shoulders are too wide to use ONE chair to do dips)
4) Hamstring Hip Raise (laying on your back and putting your feet on a stability ball and then raising your hips off the ground)
5) Upright Row to Arnold Press (which felt Austrian... LOL! Whatever THAT means!)
6) Iron Cross Squat
Rinse and repeat! (water break and do it again!)
Tuesday, Feb 2nd. - MaxFit workout #8
OK, back on track! This workout was back to the new format...
1) Plank to Chatarunga run (awkward and harder than it looks)
2) Prison Squats (burst... and I shouldn't have gone as fast as I did! I almost made myself throw up)
3) on/off the self lunges (I took this exercise easy, to try to recover from the prison squats)
4) Half Burpees (Burst... for which I had to figure out something else to do... people with large guts CANNOT get there legs to do that!)
5) Weighted squat runs (feels as weird as it sounds, but it really works you!)
6) Split Squats (Burst... What the heck is up with all the squats?!)
Rinse and repeat!
More catching up in the next blog...
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
ALLL out of order
MaxFit workout #7... because I forgot that we missed #6
And to be perfectly honest, we missed #6 because my partner wasn't feeling well, and to me that meant a day off. Don't know why. That's just what happened. BAD JOE!!!
Anyway, went over and we worked out tonight. A workout ahead and it was a bit different. Adding to the muscle confusion and adding the burst training element... This workout HURT!
1) Superman/Banana
2) Prison Jacks (burst)
3) V-seats (ouch)
4) Side Jumps (burst) - you would think that jumping side to side as fast as you can for a minute wouldn't hurt so much. LOL and with NO time to catch my breath...
5) Half burpees (To which I had to come up with a variation because the size of my gut makes that IMPOSSIBLE... my legs just cannot go that far - which is a little embarrassing, to be honest.)
6) Front-Back Squat jumps (which is just SICK Dr. Fred! Take people who are working hard and have them jumping and twisting at the END of a tough workout. Not a great idea, LOL!)
I got light headed and dizzy and wasn't able to do the 2nd set of exercises. And by the way, Dr. Nikki isn't a great one to be demonstrating the beginner's version of the exercises because she looks bored and that's not exactly encouraging to those of us who are STRUGGLING to do the beginner's version. I mean, it's not HER fault that she's in much better shape than I, but to be demonstrating the beginner's version, I think it would be better to have someone who is a beginner, maybe. See that real people struggle with doing that version too. I will say that watching the future Doctors Sean and Dan struggle through the intermediate and advanced versions made me feel a little better (at least I'm not the only one hurting), and it was amusing to watch them roll into each other when going from the Superman to the Banana. :-)
Well, my partner is going to be out of town for a conference this Friday, so I will work out on my own... hopefully. I need to. I could do workout number 6 since I skipped that one, LOL.
In other news, I passed the CLET Competency Exam (huge test that allows me to stay in the first CLET class, which I have to pass in order to enter student clinic next quarter). To celebrate a friend and brother in Christ is taking me out to dinner tonight! :-)
And to be perfectly honest, we missed #6 because my partner wasn't feeling well, and to me that meant a day off. Don't know why. That's just what happened. BAD JOE!!!
Anyway, went over and we worked out tonight. A workout ahead and it was a bit different. Adding to the muscle confusion and adding the burst training element... This workout HURT!
1) Superman/Banana
2) Prison Jacks (burst)
3) V-seats (ouch)
4) Side Jumps (burst) - you would think that jumping side to side as fast as you can for a minute wouldn't hurt so much. LOL and with NO time to catch my breath...
5) Half burpees (To which I had to come up with a variation because the size of my gut makes that IMPOSSIBLE... my legs just cannot go that far - which is a little embarrassing, to be honest.)
6) Front-Back Squat jumps (which is just SICK Dr. Fred! Take people who are working hard and have them jumping and twisting at the END of a tough workout. Not a great idea, LOL!)
I got light headed and dizzy and wasn't able to do the 2nd set of exercises. And by the way, Dr. Nikki isn't a great one to be demonstrating the beginner's version of the exercises because she looks bored and that's not exactly encouraging to those of us who are STRUGGLING to do the beginner's version. I mean, it's not HER fault that she's in much better shape than I, but to be demonstrating the beginner's version, I think it would be better to have someone who is a beginner, maybe. See that real people struggle with doing that version too. I will say that watching the future Doctors Sean and Dan struggle through the intermediate and advanced versions made me feel a little better (at least I'm not the only one hurting), and it was amusing to watch them roll into each other when going from the Superman to the Banana. :-)
Well, my partner is going to be out of town for a conference this Friday, so I will work out on my own... hopefully. I need to. I could do workout number 6 since I skipped that one, LOL.
In other news, I passed the CLET Competency Exam (huge test that allows me to stay in the first CLET class, which I have to pass in order to enter student clinic next quarter). To celebrate a friend and brother in Christ is taking me out to dinner tonight! :-)
Friday, January 22, 2010
1/22/10
Friday morning! MaxFit workout number 5... 34 to go!!!
After about three hours of sleep, I got up and went to my partner's place... as is the plan for Fridays and Sundays (Tuesdays are at my place).
Alternating pull ups to chin ups (normal grip vs. underhand grip)
Ball Wall Squats (leaning, with the ball in between you and the wall, and doing squats)
Biceps curl to triceps extenstions
Bentover mornings (not even going to try to describe them... they look easy... LOOK easy)
Incline to Decline push ups
Isometric Lunges
It was a good workout... I've driven back home. I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.
After about three hours of sleep, I got up and went to my partner's place... as is the plan for Fridays and Sundays (Tuesdays are at my place).
Alternating pull ups to chin ups (normal grip vs. underhand grip)
Ball Wall Squats (leaning, with the ball in between you and the wall, and doing squats)
Biceps curl to triceps extenstions
Bentover mornings (not even going to try to describe them... they look easy... LOOK easy)
Incline to Decline push ups
Isometric Lunges
It was a good workout... I've driven back home. I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.
1/21/10... plus about two
So, Life University cancelled the last day of New Student Orientation on January 8th. Because of that, they cancelled the first day of class on January 11th, so that they could make up the day. Then, the Monday of week two was, the always glorious, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Which is one of the few days in the calendar when America recognizes a real hero. A man of God who was determined to LOVE the ignorant majority into acting right! Anyway, the celebration of the day means no school at Life University. The first two Mondays of the quarter, gone... no school = no bueno.
Someone at the school had the bright idea that we should have our Monday schedule on another day of the week... Thursday. Well, to me, this STINKS because Thursdays are very light for me this quarter. Meanwhile, Mondays are 7AM-11AM straight, and then 12PM-5PM straight. NOT a fun schedule. SO, I was at school all day yesterday (Thursday).
Thursday is also supposed to be my day off from my workout plan this quarter, but since MaxFit was moved to Wednesday, I had planned on making my return to the run schedule yesterday. Didn't happen.
I came home from school and took a little break (from 6-8) and then decided to go through the American Heart Association's Core Instructor Course. Well, because of malfunctions on their part, I ended up finishing at 1:30 in the morning!!! Yeah, that's not a mis-type. 5.5 hours!!! I had to take several modules more than once and then, at the end of it all, I STILL couldn't finish! FRUSTRATING!!!! So, I emailed the technical support people. Hopefully, I will be able to print my certificate of completion today. Either way, the daggone AHA course made a direct trip to the bed necessary, with no detour to the treadmill. DAG. Saturday... I need to get back on the running!!! I am WAY behind where I hoped to be... that 5k is looking a bit daunting right now. I am going to keep pressing forward and I will do what I can. I would still like to run the whole thing. We'll see.
Someone at the school had the bright idea that we should have our Monday schedule on another day of the week... Thursday. Well, to me, this STINKS because Thursdays are very light for me this quarter. Meanwhile, Mondays are 7AM-11AM straight, and then 12PM-5PM straight. NOT a fun schedule. SO, I was at school all day yesterday (Thursday).
Thursday is also supposed to be my day off from my workout plan this quarter, but since MaxFit was moved to Wednesday, I had planned on making my return to the run schedule yesterday. Didn't happen.
I came home from school and took a little break (from 6-8) and then decided to go through the American Heart Association's Core Instructor Course. Well, because of malfunctions on their part, I ended up finishing at 1:30 in the morning!!! Yeah, that's not a mis-type. 5.5 hours!!! I had to take several modules more than once and then, at the end of it all, I STILL couldn't finish! FRUSTRATING!!!! So, I emailed the technical support people. Hopefully, I will be able to print my certificate of completion today. Either way, the daggone AHA course made a direct trip to the bed necessary, with no detour to the treadmill. DAG. Saturday... I need to get back on the running!!! I am WAY behind where I hoped to be... that 5k is looking a bit daunting right now. I am going to keep pressing forward and I will do what I can. I would still like to run the whole thing. We'll see.
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
A little rant...
OK,
I have a mold toxicity. It has a direct effect on my hypothalamus. To be general, here is a list of the things that the hypothalamus controls:
I said all of that to say this:
I spent most of the afternoon today fighting... did I mention FIGHTING with my apartment complex, Barrington Mill. Oh yeah, that's right... I'm putting their name out there! I reported the mold to them in September. What was their response? Replace a couple of tiles and try to cover it up. No testing, to confirm the presence of mold. No attempt at mold remediation. NOTHING. I was baffled, and actually said to myself, they can't seriously be thinking that they are done, right? I got busy with school and, as I mentioned, had a rough November and December.
I start calling again earlier this month (the 8th) and talked to Donna Chance, the property manager. She basically told me that it was my fault for not being a squeaky wheel. WHAT THE CRAP?! So, I report a problem. You don't take care of it. That's MY fault?! OK, you want squeaky? Watch this! SQUEAK, FREAKING SQUEAK!!!! Fast forward to Wednesday, I have the maintenance supervisor and three maintenance workers in my bathroom arguing with me as to whether there is mold in this hole that has been cut in my ceiling.
Maintenance supervisor: "No mold, look!"
I try to calmly explain that:
1. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
2. Where there is water damage, there is mold [as I point out the leaking pipe directly above where there was water damage on my ceiling]
3. It's not really the mold that causes the problem, it's the toxin that the mold releases when it grows.
Extremely dense Maintenance supervisor: "I don't see nothing."
Me, getting a little annoyed at his ignorance: "Are you serious? That's what you're going with? If you can't see it, it doesn't exist?"
"Dangerously close to angering me" Maintenance supervisor: "There no mold, look!"
Me, thankful that I have the Holy Spirit inside of me, giving me self-control: "Have you TESTED the place for mold, or are you going to stick with your eyesight as the measure of mold presence?"
Ignorant moron (he earned that name, I was trying to be respectful): "We don't have that equipment."
Me: "Are you going to GET IT?"
Ignorant moron: "You have to request at office."
Me: "What the heck do you think you're doing here, cleaning the freaking carpet?! I requested that almost two weeks ago!!!"
Ignorant Moron (Wisely changing the course of this conversation): "I tell you what we do. We put new drywall in, then we paint. Make you happy, right?"
Me: "Do what you think you should. You're not who I need to talk to."
I'm so freaking frustrated. I am moving out. I need to be able to detox and I need to get well. It's very tough to go through doctoral studies when your apartment is making it increasingly difficult to THINK!
I have a mold toxicity. It has a direct effect on my hypothalamus. To be general, here is a list of the things that the hypothalamus controls:
- Controls Autonomic Functions
- Emotions
- Endocrine Functions (hormones)
- Homeostasis
- Motor Functions
- Regulates Food and Water Intake
- Regulates Sleep/Wake Cycle
- Headaches
- Body Aches
- Hypersensitive Emotions (things hit you harder than they should... and you sometimes freak out when it's just NOT that serious!)
- Inability to find your words (VERY frustrating for someone who talks as much as I do)
- Decreased effectiveness of study time (so I study MORE and learn LESS... Grrrrr)
- Brain Fog (what a sister (in Christ) of mine calls: "losing time" This is when you "zone out" but you are cognizant of it: "I know that all I have to do is reach over and pull the handle and I could get out of my Jeep. Why am I not doing that?")
- Inability to lose weight despite steadily improving diet and exercise
- Inability to have restful sleep or to sleep for more than 5 hours consistently
I said all of that to say this:
I spent most of the afternoon today fighting... did I mention FIGHTING with my apartment complex, Barrington Mill. Oh yeah, that's right... I'm putting their name out there! I reported the mold to them in September. What was their response? Replace a couple of tiles and try to cover it up. No testing, to confirm the presence of mold. No attempt at mold remediation. NOTHING. I was baffled, and actually said to myself, they can't seriously be thinking that they are done, right? I got busy with school and, as I mentioned, had a rough November and December.
I start calling again earlier this month (the 8th) and talked to Donna Chance, the property manager. She basically told me that it was my fault for not being a squeaky wheel. WHAT THE CRAP?! So, I report a problem. You don't take care of it. That's MY fault?! OK, you want squeaky? Watch this! SQUEAK, FREAKING SQUEAK!!!! Fast forward to Wednesday, I have the maintenance supervisor and three maintenance workers in my bathroom arguing with me as to whether there is mold in this hole that has been cut in my ceiling.
Maintenance supervisor: "No mold, look!"
I try to calmly explain that:
1. Just because you can't see it, doesn't mean it's not there.
2. Where there is water damage, there is mold [as I point out the leaking pipe directly above where there was water damage on my ceiling]
3. It's not really the mold that causes the problem, it's the toxin that the mold releases when it grows.
Extremely dense Maintenance supervisor: "I don't see nothing."
Me, getting a little annoyed at his ignorance: "Are you serious? That's what you're going with? If you can't see it, it doesn't exist?"
"Dangerously close to angering me" Maintenance supervisor: "There no mold, look!"
Me, thankful that I have the Holy Spirit inside of me, giving me self-control: "Have you TESTED the place for mold, or are you going to stick with your eyesight as the measure of mold presence?"
Ignorant moron (he earned that name, I was trying to be respectful): "We don't have that equipment."
Me: "Are you going to GET IT?"
Ignorant moron: "You have to request at office."
Me: "What the heck do you think you're doing here, cleaning the freaking carpet?! I requested that almost two weeks ago!!!"
Ignorant Moron (Wisely changing the course of this conversation): "I tell you what we do. We put new drywall in, then we paint. Make you happy, right?"
Me: "Do what you think you should. You're not who I need to talk to."
I'm so freaking frustrated. I am moving out. I need to be able to detox and I need to get well. It's very tough to go through doctoral studies when your apartment is making it increasingly difficult to THINK!
aaaaaaaand we're back!
After a weekend in Asheville, NC for my friend and brother, Matthew's wedding, and the subsequent "late night swerve-fest" driving back to Atlanta, I had a bit of a time getting back on track.
Monday: 1/18/10
I got back to Atlanta early in the morning (read: 6AM) and tried to catch a nap before my client at 11AM. Got up at 10 to shower and prepare the apartment. Gave her a massage and went back to bed... Apparently, all of the festivities, and keeping the groom in line was more tiring than I thought. After all, the bride's mother DID point out that she has Aztec blood in her and WOULD rip Matthew's heart from his chest if he didn't show up. Since I was staying in the same hotel room, I was informed that my chest cavity was also in danger. LOL I liked Luisa right away!!! Anyway, all of that, plus about 12 hours of standing and dancing in rented tux shoes (with NO PADDING) didn't lend weight to my mind's reminder on Monday: "You're supposed to be running today!"
Didn't happen. It's not about perfect performance, right?
Tuesday: 1/19/10
At first, my workout partner said that she had to change the time of our workout. Either later (9pm) or the next morning at 5:45am. I chose 9. Then, about 8, she called and said that the last time we worked out late, she couldn't get to bed. I understand that is common, but I have never really had an issue with that. LOL I can go to bed just fine after a workout (and a shower), I just have to give myself about two hours between working out and going to bed. Anyway, we worked it out that we would workout Wednesday at 11, after my morning classes
Wednesday: 1/20/10
We worked out... first day back. Might as well have been the first day!
Alternating pull ups (wide grip vs. narrow grip)
lunge-squat-lunge-squat (harder than it sounds)
Standard to military push ups (shoulder width vs. elbows in to your sides)
Toe Raisers (seems like it would be a break, doesn't it)
Concentration curl with isometric lunge (didn't we already do lunges?)
Lunge and reach (What the heck? MORE lunges?)
WOW... holy burning legs! That's a good workout anyway, but to do it after being off since last Friday? That's what I get!!!
Friday, January 15, 2010
1/15/10
Well, I decided to do my Run Day with my friend Matthew on Saturday night after the rehearsal dinner... that's why there's no blog for yesterday.
THIS morning, I got up at 5AM to my cell phone alarm. Praise God I set it, because apparently the power went out in my place while I was asleep and my actual alarm clock was flashing. I stumbled around my place, gathering the resistance bands and my laptop so that we could work out at my partner's place (which is the plan for Friday mornings). I got there and we worked out... hard
Pull ups (apparently Dr. Fred has a great affinity for pull ups and pushups)
Wall Squats
kick backs to tricep extensions
Lunges
"Prison cell" pushups (harder than it looked in the demonstration)
and Frog Squats (I'm noticing that the hamstrings exercise seems to be the hardest in every workout... hmmmmm)
Anyway, after we worked out, I walked outside to the cold and realized that there was probably steam coming off of my head. LOL Soooo, I decided to take a picture and I thought the street light behind me might illuminate the steam. What do you think?
I'm travelling to Asheville, NC for the weekend. I've got Matthew's wedding this weekend and a crazy week ahead next week. Big CLET test on Tuesday, and someone had the bright idea that since we were going to be missing two Mondays this quarter (weeks 1 & 2) that they would make next Thursday function as a Monday... so now I have to take an iRAT quiz on Thursday of week 2 when I was told it would be Monday of week 3. Plus, I have my full spine 3 practical exam on Wed morning (which runs the full gamut of responsibility... look at an X-ray, determine how the vertebrae that they point out are in the wrong position - ie: the listings, decide what type of adjustment to do and then set up on them)
Monday classes on Thursday?! I hate it that the school just assumes that we have no life other than class. No, of course we didn't schedule other things on Thursday, based upon our THURSDAY schedule!!! SHEESH!!!! Life University does not care about the students, and then they wonder why they have no endowment fund. Why the heck would I give back to a school that treated me like CRAP the whole time I was there?!
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