Rose Twist's Training Journal

[rosetwist]

03/10/12

Weight: 137lbs
Waist: 70cm
Hips: 86cm

Today's Training:
REST DAY - 6 mile walk

MEAL ONE:
4 oatcakes with natural wholenut butter and raisins.
1/2 punnet of red and green grapes

MEAL TWO:
Pea Protein
Banana

MEAL THREE:
Pea Protein
Apple

MEAL FOUR:
Strawberries, quarter cup of oats, raisins, 1 tbsp sunflower seeds and 4 tablespoons of Soya yoghurt

MEAL FIVE:
4 oatcakes with natural wholenut butter and natural sugar free jam

[rosetwist]

03/11/12

REST DAY...complete rest needed!

MEAL ONE
5 oatcakes with natural wholenut butter and raisins
12 punnet of red and green grapes

MEAL TWO
8 strawberries
Quarter cup of oats
5 tbsp soya yoghurt
1 tbsp sunflower seeds

MEAL THREE
1 cup oats
3 tbsp agave nectar
1 tbsp soya spread
(made in to vegan flapjack mix)

MEAL FOUR
Spelt roll
Falafel
Dark green leaves
houmous
garlic
vegan cheese

MEAL FIVE
2 oatcakes with yeast extract

Last day before my leaning out plan (the warmer weather is fast approaching)...so as you can see, I made the most of it!

[C.O.]

Oatcakes with yeast extract! Do you have a recipe? PS what is a punnet? Is that like a cup full?

-Dylan

[rosetwist]

Apologies for the late reply Dylan...

a punnet: - It's a british word for plastic carton. So it's just what the grapes here are sold in- probably equates to about 4 American cups.

Oatcakes with yeast extract: No fancy recipe I'm afraid. I just spread the marmite on the oatcakes and eat them whilst pretending their twiglets!


Haven't updated on here for a while as I had a pec injury and a 4 day bout of sickness....quite frustrating as it's the 3rd time I've been ill since xmas. I have such a sturdy immune system most of the time- but I think working at a very busy gym exposes me to more germs than most!
Any other vegans who hate admitting when they're unwell to non-vegans? I'm always met with the response 'maybe you should eat some meat'....
....
....
Yes, you're right- dead decaying flesh in my colon really is the cure!


Anyway-
took my bodyfat reading with callipers at the end of last week and I'm down to 18.9%. I'm very pleased as a few monthst ago I was at about 23%- and I've only just started a leaning out program with additional cardio.

Today's workouts;

30 minutes running

Chest:
Push Ups (really trying to improve how many I can do, bodyweight strength is so impressive)
Incline Bench (Drop Sets)
Pec Dec Flyes
Decline Bench

Biceps:
EZ Barl Curls
Hammer Curls

On top of this I do my 2.5 mile walk to work in the evening and 2.5 miles back in the evening.

Food - so far:

Breakfast-

Porridge with raisins, sunflower seeds and natural sugar free blackcurrant jam (it's just like rice pudding!)

Apple

Quickest Bean Salad (Forks Over Knives recipe- tastiest bean salad I've ever had)

[veggiesasquatch]

Can't beat filling up a punnet out in the sticks that enough British in one sentence haha

[rosetwist]

^^^lol very true

Thursday 29th March
REST DAY

Oats, raisins, seeds and soya milk

Large falafel salad from Pilpel

1/2 tub raw vegan ice cream (Hunky Punky chocolate by Booja Booja)

1/2 punnet of green grapes and a raw food bar

Another raw food bar (by Nakd)

2 sweet potatoes, sweetcorn, peas, kidney beans and homemade chilli sauce

Really needed a rest today- my legs are still aching from a workout that I did at the beginning of the week.
Hopefully the DOMS has faded tomorrow before I teach Spin!

[C.O.]

Wait what? Marmite? Twiglets? There is no english to american english translator when I google searched.... Want to start one? Let's team up! We'd make millions.
Are your workouts and your punnets of fruit still bountiful?

-Dylan

[rosetwist]

^^^^

thanks for posting this-
I'd kinda stopped making time for my training journal on here. I have of course still been training- just not using the net half as much!

Punnets of fruit are stil going strong- although now I have switched to bags of grapes as the punnets sold in Tesco's have been a bit manky.

The american-english-american translation idea sounds genius!

How is your training going Dylan?

[C.O.]

Well if you check out my log you will see it is a bunch of rubbish. Ha do you say rubbish? But seriously I keep one but it can get kind of random sometimes. Feel free to check it out and poke fun at me.

-Dylan

[rosetwist]

^^^lol will do.

Last two days

Monday 7th May 2012

Spinning – 45 minutes
Walking – 80 minutes
Chest and Triceps – 60 minutes

• Broccoli, apple and pear juice
• A whole honeydew melon
• 2 bananas (pre workout)
• Apples, nuts and raisins (post workout)
• Mixed bean salad, sweetcorn and lambs lettuce
• Mixed bean salad, sweetcorn and lambs lettuce
• A whole pineapple, nuts and raisins

CHEST
 Push Ups – 4 sets of 10
 Flyes – 3 sets of 12 (7.5kg)
 Dips – 3 sets (mostly negatives)
 Incline Bench Press – 2 sets of 15 with 10kg dumbbells, 1 dropset: 10kg, 7.5kg, 5kg dumbbells
TRICEPS
 Bench Dips/Overhead Ext. Superset - 3 sets of 10-12 reps each with a 7.5kg10kg dumbbell
 Cable push downs, one arm, narrow grip pulley, 3 sets of 10 with 12.5kg
 Lying close grip press, 2 sets of 12 with 8kg dumbbells, 1 dropset: 10kg, 8kg, 6kg dumbbells

Tuesday 8th May 2012

Spinning – 45 minutes
Shoulders – 45 minutes

• 2 apples (pre workout)
• 1 banana (pre weight training)
• 1 banana, large handful of nuts and raisins
• Large falafel and houmous salad
• Raw chocolate, popped potato style crisps, whole earth ‘no junk cola’
• 2 oranges
• Lambs lettuce, red pepper, beetroot and houmous
• Apple

SHOULDERS
 Seated Shoulder Press – 2 sets of 15 with 7.5kg dumbbells, 1 dropset: 9kg, 7.5kg, 6kg
 Side Raises – 3 sets of 15 with 3kg dumbbells
 Front Raises – 3 sets of 10 with a 10kg plate
 Upright Row/Rear Delt Raise Superset – 3 supersets: 12/10, 20kg/3kg dumbbells