For quite some time now, I have been keeping a daily training and supplementation journal on the bodybuilding and fitness forums [I am a member of]. But long before that, I have kept a daily training journal, detailing EVERYthing including, but not limited to: My resting heart rate; waking times; meals times and what each meal consists of re food, brand, quantities, etc.; training re what and how and duration and how felt during, etc.; sleeping times; and far, far more.
I get asked a lot about what I do and have done to get and maintain my physique. I get asked for the "secret", tips and pointers, anything that might mean that someone else can also look this way. Unfortunately, as I told someone today, there is NO "secret". For MOST people, though, it comes down to NUTRITION, with training in a secondary role. However, for ME, it comes down primarily to my TRAINING - which is ALWAYS hard and intense and as far as I can push it - and my nutrition is secondary.
I do NOT do anything conventionally, often going AGAINST what is "accepted" or what "should work" re training AND nutrition. I do things for ME, to make them the most effective for ME. I know my body so well that I know how it reacts to anything and everything, and I have learned what to do to achieve any body goal that I want to in the most effective time and manner possible.
Currently, it is Day 110 of 2010. Therefore, my "blog" will start here. If you want to review all the days that have gone before, please see http://anabolicminds.com/forum/workout-logs/142638-female-terminator-chronicles.html (days 1 to 90) and then http://rosiesmusclerevolution.webs.com/blog_the_female_terminator_chronicles_revolution_2010_rosie_scott.htm (days 85 to 110).
Briefly, last week was the first time in over 8 months that I have taken a week OFF resistance training - or any kind of training. And it was taken, not because I planned it, but because my body just said "Enough!" and would do nothing but sleep, with even the smallest exercise like a walk down the road to pick my nephews up from school exhausting me beyond belief. NOT cool. I had Chronic Fatigue in 2008, and I am not eager to repeat the experience, although I suspect it is returning if I don't start looking after myself. The main cause for my fatigue of late, however, is due more to Adrenal Fatigue, because I have been pushing my body for too hard for too long without adequate rest and recovery. My body hasn't given out . . . But is HAS slowed down. It's letting me know that I can't perpetually treat it like a machine, even though I have, and want to continue doing so.
The last 5 weeks have been quite the battle, and I have even had to postpone my debut INBF appearance to later this year - it was supposed to be THIS Saturday. But now that last week is over, I am putting it behind me. I have started training again: Two days in so far, 'easing' into it - not that I want to, but have to - so that my body doesn't just stop altogether, like it did in 2008.
Anyways, as I have been since starting a "Fitness Blog", I may also mention random other things as they arise, for something different and a break from the usual.
So, let us begin . . .
