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July 22, 2012

2012 | Day 199: Midnight Abs


MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

Magic = Believing

Magic starts with YOU. It starts WITHIN you. It starts with a DREAM, but more importantly, BELIEVING IN that dream; believing in YOURSELF and your ability to ACHIEVE that dream and make it reality before your very eyes. THAT is magic.

When you believe and you TRULY believe, with all your heart and mind and soul, everything that you are and know you can be, THAT is the key to creating and making magic in your life. It is the START of everything that can ever be or will ever be possible.

BELIEVE. One small word. One very small but very POWERFUL word.

Magic. Such a desired state that many search their entire lives for - everywhere but where it lies. WITHIN. LOOK WITHIN. Start your journey with YOURSELF and you’ll find that all the skills and tools you need to make your dreams a reality is ALREADY within YOU, just waiting to be discovered and uncovered, put to use as they were intended.

It seems like the SIMPLEST thing to do, but sometimes the simplest is the most OVERlooked, as people make things more complicated than they need to be. They look to everyone and everything else but to the one person who has the full responsibility and accountability in their lives - SELF - because sometimes the simplest thing is also the HARDEST thing to do and accept.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF. MAGIC STARTS WITH YOU.

Quote for Reflection:

TRAINING

Skip x 300 revolutions

Abs (1 min recovery between supersets/sets):
SuperSet A -
1. Deadbug (with medicine ball) 4 x 15
2. Skip 4 x 100 revolutions
SuperSet B -
3. V-Sits (on floor, with medicine ball) 2 x 15
4. Skip 2 x 100 revolutions
SuperSet C -
5. Pikes (on floor) 2 x 15
6. Skip 2 x 100 revolutions
7. Plank (alternating right arm/left leg - left arm/right leg off floor every 15 seconds) x 1 min
8. Plank x 1 min
9. Knee-In Leg Extensions 1 x 15 per leg

OTHER NOTES

Energy: Pretty tired all day, until I was closing up my shift at work at night - then was bouncing around like an excitable puppy (or small child, LOL) for about an hour afterwards (courtesy of all the chocolate I ate after work).

Quality of Training: Did this session starting at midnight. A bit fatigued doing it, but glad I did do it, since didn't end up doing anything later in the morning [before had to go to work]. Never done the Knee-In Leg Extensions before - feeling them when changed sides.

June 6, 2012

2012 | Day 155: Dream TO Live!


MOTIVATIONAL OF THE DAY

Dream BIG. MAKE your own LUCK. BELIEVE.

If you’re not DREAMING, then you’re not LIVING. NEVER be afraid to dream TOO big, for no dream is “too” big, not if it is precious to your heart and something you hold close. Dreaming gives you something to look FORWARD to, a PURPOSE to work towards, a HOPE to KEEP going, no matter what storms life throws in your path along the way. Dreaming is the first step to CREATING yourself, for as you dream and ACT on those dreams, so shall you BECOME.

“Luck” does not just HAPPEN. It is CREATED. It is created by YOU when you work HARD towards making your dreams a REALITY. It is created when you have something so STRONG in your heart that you canNOT let go. It is created when the heavens conspire WITH you to bring your dreams to FRUITION. Don’t just “wait” for luck to happen. Make it YOURSELF.

BELIEVE in YOURSELF and in your DREAMS. Believe that your dreams, the hope in your heart, that it is all POSSIBLE. Believing is an IMPORTANT step to ACHIEVING. Without believing you have no MOTIVATION to act or create. You MUST believe. When you believe, you can become ANYTHING you want to be. Believe and CREATE yourself the way you WANT to. Believe in your POWER to ACHIEVE your DREAMS and watch as they UNFOLD before you when you step out and FOLLOW them.

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TRAINING

Session 1

HIIT Treadmill:
a. 2 min @ 4.4 min/km
b. 12 x 20 sec effort @ 3.6 min/km / 10 sec rest
c. 2 min @ 4.7 min/km

Abs (30 sec recovery between supersets):
SuperSet -
1. Hanging Straight-Leg Raises (feet to touch bar) 4 x 15, 12, 10, 10
2. Skip 4 x 300 revolutions

Session 2

Run 3 miles

Stretch 20 min

OTHER NOTES

Sleep: I actually exhausted myself several ways last night, the last of which was forcing my unwanting-to-body to go for a 3-mile run, and slept for ~5 hours, which is something.

Energy: REALLY feeling it today.

Quality of Training: HIIT again on the treadmill today - feeling it in my chest and lungs, struggling to breathe at times, a knot in my medial right calf. Quite shattered by the time it came to doing anything ELSE, and was barely walking straight after finishing up Abs. Forced another 3-mile run later on.

Supplements: Used a serving of the newest formula of Assault today in Watermelon flavour. Smelt like watermelon and tasted like watermelon - pleasant and not "sickly" (as the Blue Arctic Raspberry had started becoming for me sometimes). NO beta-alanine tingles experienced today, which IS great too (I HATE them)!

WPM Women Spring/Summer 2012

The SECOND issue of WPM Women is now out and you can read it for free HERE. It's definitely an issue that sets the standard for all future issues to come. Very happy to be able to share the story of an amazing woman, Tamara Barnett (pages 58-60), as well as have a Feature (pages 72-74), and a couple of other articles in this issue.

So be sure to check it out - print issue and Kindle and NOOK editions coming!