EVOLUTION OF A PURPOSE DRIVEN WARRIOR: Christine Feehan

November 26, 2010

Day 328: Full On Full-Body

Quote of the Day

"Living life and handling adversity shapes character." - Razvan, Dark Slayer (Christine Feehan)

Training

Cardio 20 min.

Gym - Full-Body (30 sec recovery between supersets):
Superset A -
1. Behind-the-neck BB Military Press 4 x 5, 4, 4, 4
2. Hammer Raises 4 x 8, 7, 6, 5
Superset B -
3. Alternate Hammer Curls 4 x 15, 12, 10, 8
4. Incline Dips 4 x 6
Superset C -
5. Reverse Rows (feet on bench) 4 x 8, 7, 6, 5
6. Flat BB Bench Press 4 x 8, 7, 6, 5
Superset D -
7. Single-Leg Deadlifts 4 x 10 per side
8. Jump Squats 4 x 6
Superset E -
9. Weighted Crunch (feet on bench, knees at 90 degree flexion) 4 x 15
10. Bicycle 4 x 20

Post-Weights Cardio 20 min.

Stretch 20 min.

Comments

Sleep - Time and Quality: Pretty much did not sleep at all last night.

Mood/Aggression: Not the best, to put it mildly.

Energy: There.

Mental Focus and Clarity: When I get like this, I have to focus on SOMEthing and lose myself in it, or I will not focus at all . . .

Stress: Higher than ever.

Endurance: Great.

Strength: Everything was done at at least five pounds heavier than the last time I did this session, so definite improvement - and aggression driving the training.

Pump: Definitely high, especially in anterior deltoids and biceps.

Vascularity: High.

Quality of Training: Cardio was fine . . . Resistance session was pain, but I kept pushing, increasing the weights even though it was hurting, and leaving the recovery periods minimal . . .

Recovery: Still feeling hips, thighs, and glutes - maybe from the running after a week off?

Question of the Day

What happens when the one person in the world we are supposed to trust betrays us?

November 21, 2010

Day 323: So Ends the REAL Week OFF

Quote of the Day

"No one can continue without hope." - Gregori, Dark Curse (Christine Feehan)

Training

Let's take a brief look back after the last 7 weeks:

1. The week post-competition I did two resistance sessions and four cardio sessions;
2. The second week post-competition I did Maintenance training;
3. The third week post-competition I did four resistance sessions and six cardio sessions;
4. The fourth week post-competition I did Maintenance training;
5. The fifth week post-competition I did four resistance sessions and six cardio sessions;
6. The sixth week post competition I did Maintenance training;
7. This last week I have done ONE day of training, essentially making it the long needed week OFF.

That makes it 25 weeks since my last week off. On top of my terrible few days of caffeine withdrawal, this WEEK OFF has been LONG OVERDUE, and despite my stubbornness in determining never to have another COMPLETE week off ever again, because of everything over the last couple of weeks, my body has pretty much forced the issue. Now that it's done, I should be able to return to normal training from tomorrow . . .

Comments

Energy: Still exhausted.

Mental Focus and Clarity: Better today - now it's time to do everything I should have gotten done over the week when i could not concentrate!

Stress: Back above the red warning line . . .

Libido: It's been a highly demanding week . . . Pity it doesn't make one FORGET . . .

Body Composition and Look: Yes, I've gained some scale weight over this last week. However, unlike in the past when my weight fluctuates up and down like it has been, my girths have not really changed over the week from last week, staying the same, so something is doing SOMEthing - whether it's the Erase (3,7-keto DHEA IS good stuff) or the extra extracurricular activity taking the place of training, I don't know . . .

Other Notes: Last application of Eviscerate Smolder tonight . . . Second day of Recompadrol . . .

Question of the Day

Minds wander and we go with them; what would it be like to soar away with them and never come back?

Favourite Quotes

"I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me." - Philippians 4:13

"TRUST in HIM, who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think." - Ephesians 3:20

"Look back and thank God. Look forward and trust God. Look within and find God! God closes doors no man can open and God opens doors no man can close!" - Unknown

"'For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.'" - Jeremiah 29:11-13

"Impossible is not a fact. It's an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. IMPOSSIBLE is nothing. How are you going to live your life?" - U.S. Army

"I succeed because I am willing to do the things you are not. I will fight against the odds. I will sacrifice. I am not shacked by fear, insecurity or doubt. I feel those emotions but I drink them in and swallow them away to the blackness of hell. I am motivated by accomplishment, not pride. Pride consumes the weak and kills their heart from inside. If I fall... I will get up. If I am beaten... I will return. I will never give up... EVER." - Nike

"The biggest risk in life is to risk nothing at all." - Anonymous

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that frightens us. Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn’t serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence actually liberates others." - Marianne Williamson

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." - Theodore Roosevelt

"It’s not about what you’ve got; it’s about what you DO with what you’ve got.” – Andie West, Step Up 2: The Streets

"To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift." – Steve Prefontaine

"Never, never, never, never give up." - Winston Churchill

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It's a very mean and nasty place, and I don't care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit. It's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward; how much you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done! Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!...until you start believing in yourself, you ain't gonna have a life...Cause if you're willing to go through all the battling you got to go through to get where you want to get, who's got the right to stop you? I mean maybe some of you guys got something you never finished, something you really want to do, something you never said to someone, something...and you're told no, even after you paid your dues? Who's got the right to tell you that, who? Nobody! It's your right to listen to your gut, it ain't nobody's right to say no after you earned the right to be where you want to be and do what you want to do!...You know, the older I get the more things I gotta leave behind, that's life. The only thing I'm asking you guys to leave on the table...is what's right." - Rocky Balboa

"Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - Arnold Schwarzenegger

"Nothing in the world is permanent and we are foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we are still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it." – William Somerset Maughan

"There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mold. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision. When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you." - Stacey Charter

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Day 328: Full On Full-Body

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