Curling in the squat rack 🏋️

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My boss is a dick, so that makes it more difficult. It’s me, I’m my boss, I’m too hard on myself haha.

And yet this is how you’ve been so successful! I get it though. Sometimes it’s hard to let yourself rest if that’s what your body actually needs. It seems so… unproductive!!

One of my Kinesiology teachers, when I was in college, worked with the school’s sports teams, and with the women he would always track their cycles and would lessen their load during that time. I remember him saying that women simply are not able to physiologically perform as well during that time and it was doing a disservice to sports women not to take bodily changes into account.

You will get where you want to go! Just keep focusing on it!

Love the name change on the thread.

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Yes! Laruga Glaser, and she’s amazing. I cannot believe some of the things she does and she’s such a great teacher.

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What a week. I hit 90 days in remission from my eating disorder, and my sobriety from alcohol is still strong. My lady time has yet again tried to kill me. I’m basically useless during it. I can’t wait for this to be over. I’ve been peri menopausal for 12 years now. Can’t this just stop already??

My portfolio was accepted and I was approved to sit for my exam in October. I fly to Pittsburgh on October 8th, the exam is on the 10th and the evening of the 10th is the pinning ceremony. If I don’t show up for the ceremony, I feel like it’s a huge public failure. People fly in from all over the country to attend. My biggest enemy right now is my anxiety.

Anyway, here’s where I am in my recomp journey. I also had my body composition tested at my friends gym and the results were positive. My weight gain does appear to be lean body mass.

The days in blue were “rest” days. I did not lift on those days. I just stretched with flexibility and restorative videos. I’m trying to her these damn hips of mine unlocked.

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I’ll be doing an update in here shortly. I’ve still been keeping at it. The only thing reall suffering is my sleep. That’s about to come to an end on October 11th, hopefully!!!

My test anxiety is insane over this one. It was bad enough along the way. But, flying to an unfamiliar city, being away from any comfort I know (mostly my Littles who is an ESA, I’m not traumatizing her by putting her on a plane), taking a 6 hour proctored exam with ridiculous rules in a Westin conference room, and then the potential humiliation if I fail. I honestly don’t think that I will. However, they do this big pinning ceremony the evening of the exam. If you don’t show, then it’s obvious that you failed. People fly in from all over the country for this ceremony. Ayyyyyy, no pressure at all

I finished the entire review manual and all the work last night. The review course starts next Saturday. So, yah, I’m a nerd. I’m making calculation spreadsheets for everything to save on time. From my understanding, people use every second of those six hours. So, studying has kept me up late at night.

As for my workouts, I continue to do a mix of lifting and stretching/yoga. I’m doing a program called Body Beast right now and it’s geared towards gaining mass.

There is no huge difference in my physical progress from August to September, so no reason to post a pic. There has been a slight increase in muscle mass and a slight decrease in body fat, but we are talking fractions of a percent. Slow and steady my friends. Slow and steady.

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Finally catching back up after my big exam. That was a whole lot of stress and pressure. I don’t even know if I mentioned it here yet, but I did well on the exam and I was officially designated on October 10th. Thank God that’s over. Now to monetize that education:)

Anyway, I took some time off of weighing myself. It’s such a pain in the ass. I have two different scales. I have to leave them out so I don’t forget, and they look ugly sitting there haha. I have not taken time off working out and even worked out while out of town to take my exam.

My strength is gradually increasing. My shoulder is holding me back from progressing with chest and shoulders. It’s from an old injury, like over 30 years old, car accident. I don’t really know what it is, I think a pinched nerve. There are times I can’t even move my left arm, let alone lift. I guess I just have to pound Advil and Aleve before my workouts those days. I’ve tried all the holistic stuff and nothing.

I’ve officially started studying for all my CPT stuff and that’s fun so far. Both books start off Mindi of basic and boring. They focus on client relations etc., and it’s geared towards people who have never worked before, maybe? But it’s a little much, sigh. I’m looking forward to getting into the meat and potatoes of it.

I like getting the education through two separate schools. Both have very different styles which I find helpful.

I start tracking again on November 1st. It’s time consuming, so I had to break to open up more time to prepare for my exam. My challenge now is actually getting adequate sleep. My schedule fully allows it now, but I have this hang up with actually pulling the trigger and going to sleep. Like I fight it. It’s not that I can’t sleep, it’s more like I fight sleep because I’m not ready to end my day yet? I don’t know. I have got to do better there.

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Who sucks?? I suck! I feel like I can turn that into a song or like a cheer or something?

I have a really bad bum shoulder. I think it’s just a lame impingement, but it started after a car accident I got in when I was 16 or 17. I can go years without it bothering me, and then years where it’s a huge pain in the ass. I have periods of time where I cannot move my arm at all, like zero. Messes with sleep and everything else.

I’m in the very painful to move stage, but I can move my arm. I’ve been pushing through the pain when working out, but I’m wondering if I’m doing more damage. If I pound massive doses of naproxen and ibuprofen, it seems to help a bit, but then ulcers. Sigh.

So this week my workouts have shifted to compensate and I’m making some modifications. Sometimes, the pain will lesson while working out, others the gym is writing incident reports and I get embarrassed. I’m glad I workout at home now.

I’ve looked up exercises and stretches, but meh. Has anyone dealt with this? How do you overcome it without cortisone? The shot worked one time and the next time did nothing. Plus, it’s not good to get them a lot.

I can’t turn my steering wheel with my left hand. I wish I could just go in there, fish out the annoying nerve getting sqoze, and go about my day. Yes, I said sqoze, and y’all know that you know what I meant haha.

Anyway, I started back with my stats but skipped the past two days logging my weight. It’s such a pain in the ass because I just put two scales and get butt ass naked first thing in the morning and it’s freaking cold here now Yesterday I was way off too, I couldn’t even work, I slept most of the day. I never do stuff like that, but I listened to my body and my therapist was proud of me lol. I have a hang up with sleep, especially naps. I consider it lazy and sloth like to nap, grosses me out. But hey, I’m an old lady now, old people nap, right?

Anyway, I hope to post an updated set of stats mid month. My workouts are shorter and less intense due to this shoulder. Hopefully, it passes soon because my OCD is making me feel like a loser. Like I’m making excuses to not workout. So for weeks I worked through the pain which was ughhhh shitty.

Anyway, keep your curling asses out of the squat rack or I’m going to squat on your dumbbells. Try me.