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Love the "Show you are not afraid" poster behind the bicep pic. Nice work

 

Haha, I love it too I didn't even notice it was in the shot when I was taking it... but it's nicely appropriate, I'm going to ask if I can keep it when I leave this flat.

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Wednesday:

 

cycled 22kms to and from acroyoga, and 2 hours of acro... mysterious blue and greens bruises now cover about half of me, thanks to acro and the bike.

 

Thursday:

 

Morning - back and biceps.

 

Bent arm dumbbell pullover: 9kg x12x10x10

Lat pulldown: 30kg x12x10x10

Machine rows: 25kg x8 20kgx12x10

Rear deltoid machine: 15kg x8x6x6 (getting tired...)

Dumbbell bent over rows: 12kgx10 10kgx10 x8ish - lots of confusion over the rows, I wasn't doing them with my back straight enough, out of practice and my bad, so a guy corrected me... but then was telling me to do them starting with my arm diagonally straight in front of my shoulder, which wasn't right... so then a girl he was with argued with him while I looked on amused. Then he started faffing around with what weight I was using... all this when it was the end of my workout, I'd already done two out of three sets, and only had one to go, and my arms/back really weren't happy about being faffed with. Ah well. Nosy people in the Gym are really only useful to a point.

 

Finished with:

 

Hammer curls: 7kg x12x10x8 on each arm

Concentration curls 5kg twice to failure.

 

Afternoon:

 

Cycled 16kms, including some hills. I found hills in Berlin!

 

Very very stiff. Very stiff. Doing lots of yoga.

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Those cookies look amazing btw! You use normal chocolate or a vegan type?

 

Was curious what people eat as their chocolate substitutes ?!

 

I used dark vegan chocolate, but when I lived at home in Ireland I would always bake without chocolate and sugar for my mum who has a lot of allergies, and I'd use carob

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You're getting through a decent amount of cycling, nice work. You have a road or mountain bike?

 

The yoga will surely help to alleviate some of the stiffnes one would hope ?! Have a great weekend MF.

 

So much yoga needed... I get very tense from stress as well. I have a great (cheap) sports masseuse in Glasgow who I miss so much right now. I'm booking one a week for about 4 weeks in a row when I get back.

 

It's a... city bike? So road bike I guess. It's very upright, with 3 gears and a coaster/back pedal brake. I don't know much about bikes but it's serving me well.

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Friday:

 

Cycled about 20kms again (in 4 goes) and did an evening of acroyoga. Based quite a bit. There weren't enough experienced bases around for me to fly as much as I wanted and my legs were refusing to base. Ho hum.

 

 

Saturday:

 

Rest day. But still had to get places. Cycled 22kms. Feeling sore. But good.

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Three gears, yeah I'm guessing it will be a commuter style bike. Kind of similar to a road bike, pretty cool!

 

I have no complaints with it - considering I've covered more distance on a bike in the past month in Berlin than I have in my entire life, I'm surprisingly unsore I'm thinking of ways I can keep this amount of biking going when I'm back in Glasgow in a month.

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Sunday -

 

Today was supposed to be acroyoga, but I wound up on a too-long walk to the only shop that's open on a Sunday (took about 2 1/2 hours to get there and back) with my flatmate I haven't seen for a while. Decided to replace acro with chest and tris, but... didn't get to the gym till 11pm, again due to my flatmate. I've been talking about veganism a lot, and she's baffled by the amount of energy I have/exercise I do. Considering I had a 40% attendance record all through my school years because I didn't have the energy to get out of bed 3 days of the week... the fact that I'm now always chirpy and bouncing around is quite something, and can be put down to my lifestyle. Living with me is definitely winning her over, she wants to give it (completely vegetarian, mainly vegan) a go but isn't totally sure how as she doesn't cook much... I seem to be responding to this by doing a lot of cooking, good for the soul

 

Chest and Triceps:

 

Weighed myself. Fully clothed, at midnight after a day of lots of food, and still came out at only 143lbs which I'm thrilled with as last time I weighed myself was 3 weeks into Berlin, and it came out as 145 first thing in the morning having not been eating much for a while. Also took measurements 10days ago and it came out as 26" 36" waist and hips, a 3" drop so far this year.

 

Dumbbell chest press: 9kg x12x11x10

Dumbbell chest press incline: 7kg x12x12x10

Chest press machine: 20kg x12x12x10

Fly machine: 20kg x10x9x7 15kgx10

 

Tricep pushdowns: 17.5kgx12x12x12

Dumbbell kickbacks - 6kg x12 x12 x10

 

Decent improvement on last week. Beginning to feel some strength again. My appetite's been slightly uncontrollable though, I thought if anything I'd have gained weight as I'm not feeling I'm looking that good... I blame all the cycling for making me hungry

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Where did I get to...

 

Monday: cycled 16kms. Was going to go to the gym in the evening but stuck in a cafe on the wrong part of the city till late waiting for the rain to go off so I could cycle home.

 

Tuesday: My birthday... obvious side affects being I cooked a lot of cookies, and a friend made a cake... and I had a few drinks for the first time in a month. Exercise wise, I did fitness blender's 1000 calorie HIIT workout as I didn't particularly feel like the gym and wanted a total body workout to get my abs and legs. And cycled 16kms.

 

Now there's a lot of cake sitting around me in tubs. At least it's vegan so sort of healthy? Ahem. Off to the gym to try and wake up, didn't go to sleep till 4. A new age, a new start...

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Wednesday 14th: cycled 22kms and did 2 hours of acroyoga

 

Thursday 15th: tried to go to the gym in the evening, did back and biceps but I made the mistake of going at 6pm when the gym was full, couldn't get near a bench. In the end gave up after just machine rows, lat pulldowns and reverse fly. And I've lost the stats for them. Left, went home, made a spinach and sweet potato dal with flatbread. It's an old favourite.

 

Friday: cycled 12kms. Really didn't feel like doing anything. Had a bit of a mood plummet since my birthday. Dragged myself out to acroyoga in the park, but didn't do much.

 

Saturday: cycled um... 30kms total, but then part of that was a 12km cycle to and from the wonderful vegan pizza place here. I went semi healthy and ordered the hemp pizza with hemp seeds all over it. Strange concept but it was excellent

 

Sunday: Wussed out of the 22km bike ride to acro because of the rain. Took the ubahn. 3 hours of acroyoga and acrobatics. I think my body's getting used to it though, because I'm fine today and always wonder if I did enough.

 

Total cycled for week of the 12th: 96kms. I thought I hadn't done as much this week, but it seems I've still managed a fair bit. Mood hasn't been great since my birthday. The end of the summer's now coming so fast and I don't feel I've done anywhere near enough, but I'll be straight into final year of uni when I get back to Glasgow. Sort of ready to go back. I miss the cat, and my friends, and my gym there.

 

Monday the 19th:

 

Because I'm getting to the gym so irregularly at the moment (and leaving Berlin in 9 days and again won't have a gym for 2 1/2 weeks) I've decided to swap my routine up into 3 full body days a week of machine lifting, partly because I feel I'm getting uneven, partly to avoid the weight benches and the staring as I know I'll be back to Glasgow soon enough. I'm looking to start up parkour there as a replacement for acroyoga, to keep building endurance strength and flexibility.

 

Machine rows: 20kgx10 25kgx12x10x8

Chest press machine: 20kg x12x12x12

Fly machine: 20kg x12x9x7

Rear delt machine: 15kg x12x10x8

Lat pulldown machine: 20kgx12 25kgx12x10

Tricep machine: 35kgx12 40kgx12 45kgx10

Abduction machine out: 35kgx12x12x12

Abduction machine in: 25kgx12 30kgx12 35kgx12

Leg Press: 55kg x12x12x12

 

Sleepy, but bouncing up to having energy again and starting to feel quicker. 9 days left. Yikes.

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Annnd I'm back. I felt weird about posting on here for quite a while after my ex let slip he'd been using this journal to keep tabs on me after I cut contact when we broke up. So, updates: still training, been back in the gym for 5 weeks, managing 4-5 training sessions almost every week despite a massive workload and at the moment a horrible cold, which has cut it down to 4 weight trainings and very little cardio. Also I've redone my split and jigged my workout about a little, the one at the moment's working very well and I'm seeing pretty fast improvements in the amount I can lift... now if only I can get rid of my cold.

 

So... I've been keeping track of all my workouts but I'll just write up the most recent ones. I've recently gone up quite a bit in the amount of weight I can lift, although it's still nowhere near decent in my opinion. Squatted in the squat rack for the first time (so addictive...) and managed 30kg, then have been knocked out of the gym for the past 3 days due to this cold still not shifting.

 

Had no strength gains over the summer, and hitchhiked round Central Europe for the three weeks before getting back to the UK (perfectly possible as a vegan it turns out, I never went hungry) so lost any muscle I had gained.

 

Also keeping track of my diet now, as my (very omni) boyfriend's pretty much moved in and after 4 weeks on the same high protein vegan diet as me has announced he's really enjoying the diet and is feeling great success!

 

On with the plan... all of these days also include 5-20mins of cardio, but I for some reason haven't been keeping track.

 

Tuesday 15th

 

Leg day (I finally have a regular leg day)

 

Leg Press: 20kgx20 35kgx20 40kgx20 45kgx20 50kgx20 55kgx20 60kgx20 65kgx12

Leg extensions: 15kgx15 17.5kgx15 20kgx15 22.5kgx15 25kgx15 30kgx12 20kgx15

Squat rack: 20kgx10 30kgx10x7

Leg Curls: 20kgx15 15kgx15 20kgx12 20kgx14 (not sure what was going on there)

 

Wednesday 16th

 

Back and Shoulders

 

Dumbbell Shoulder Press: 5kgx15 7.5kgx9x9x7

Bent Over Dumbbell Rows: 10kgx15x15x10

Side Lateral Raises: 4kgx15x9x6

Wide-Grip Lat Pulldown: 26kgx15 33kgx12 40kgx5

Dumbbell straight arm raise overhead: 3kgx15x9x9

Rear delt machine rows: 25kgx10x10x10

Assisted pull ups: 35kgx10x8x7

Ab machine: 25kgx18x13

 

Thursday 17th

 

Chest

 

Dumbbell Chest Press: 5kgx12 7.5kgx15 10kgx12x12 5kgx4

Fly machine: 25kgx15 27.5kgx10x9 25kgx7

Machine chest press: 20kgx9x10x8

Incline chest press: 5kgx10 7.5kgx12 7.5kgx10

 

Friday 18th

 

Arms

 

Hammer curls: (same time) 7kgx15 8kgx10 (Alternating) x20

Tricep pushdowns 6kgx12x9x5... 6kgx15 9.5kgx15 x15 13kgx5 6kgx15

Bicep dumbbell: (simultaneous) 8kgx10 8kgx6 7kgx11

Dumbbell lying Tricep overhead press: 5kgx11x5 then failure

Conc curls: 6kgx15 7.5kgx8x8

Tricep press: 30kgx15 35kgx12x12 40kgx8

Bicep machine: 15kgx15 20kgx5 17.5kgx10

Dumbbell kickbacks: 7.5kgx15x10x10

Ab machine: 25kgx20 35kgx12x10

 

Saturday 19th

 

Rest day

 

Sunday 20th

 

Ill

 

Monday 21st

 

Ill

 

Tuesday 22nd

 

Ill

 

Going to attempt to get in a leg day today, if my cold lets me. My workload for final year is so heavy at the moment that I do reading on the machines... convenient but I feel like a loony. I'll try and get progress photos up at some point towards the end of next week.

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Wednesday - legs

 

Elliptical 15mins 200kcals

 

Squats 20x12 30x10x10x10

Leg extensions 15kgx15 17.5x15 20kgx15 22.5x15 25kgx15 35kgx10

Leg press 30kgx11 25kgx20x15

Abs 30kgx20 35kgx15x14

 

Legs completely gave out and decided it was better not to continue.

 

Thursday - back and shoulders

 

Cardio 130kcal 11mins

Machine shoulder press 15kgx12x10x9

Lat pulldown 26kgx12 33kgx12 x12 40kgx6

Lat raise 4kgx15x12x10

Machine rows 25kgx12 30kgx12x8

The kettlebell one 12kgx12 16kgx8x8

Rear delt reverse fly 20kgx8 15kgx12x12

Front raise 4kgx12x12x10

Bent over dumbbell rows 10kgx12x10x10

Dumbbell shoulder press 7.5kg x9x8x6

Assisted Pull ups 35kgx10 25kgx5x5

Ab machine 30kgx15 35kgx8

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Ok... progress photos. I can see quite a big difference when I compare to the last photos (third page). There's still a long way to go, but I'm beginning to be really happy. I'm mainly just relieved I can see progress! Back photos are a pain to take myself... and the cat got in one of the shots.

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my traps will never grow no matter what i do whats your secret? dont say shrugs, their my least favourite exercise

 

I never do shrugs either, so I really have no idea - as far as I'm aware I do nothing to target them directly, but they've definitely got better... it's lower back I struggle to work.

 

I prefer back exercises too, despite not ever seeing any real gains there.

 

I paired back and shoulder day up together just so I'd get shoulders done, even though doing them together is bad, apparently. Takes ages too, but at least it makes an enjoyable workout.

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